The Express.
London, England, 1860-03-22 00:00:00

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LONDON', nrozapa If ; MARCH II

Tem Emperor of the Fftsircet is fad completing
the annellition of Savoy and Nice. Yesterday he
received a deputation from the Duchy, and, as we
read the telegram, he is already taking possession
of it. The march of the 80th Regiment of the
Line from Milan by way of Sum, and that of the
2nd by way of Nice, implies at least a military
occupation of the two provinces, however it may
be connected with the evacuation of Lombardy.
We must suppose it was in order to set his
auditors at ease in their anomalous position as
subjects of another monarch that Loris NarotaOlt
informed them that the annexation of Savoy and
Nice had been resolved on, since for any other
purpose the amurence was quite unnecessary. It
would have been as well if he had stopped therm
The transfer of Savoy and Nice is a business
which should be got over am quietly as possible.
From a French point of view the ElOll2Ol, had a
perfect right to speak of it as a " rectileation of
" the frontier," since it augments the territory of
the Empire, opens the great Simplon road to Francs,
and, better still, gives her *hat he has himself
described as "la libertil des Alpes, et en cas de
" guerre un magnifique champ de bataille pour
" une lutte offensive et dicfensive." In any other
sense the transfer of Upper Savoy by France is no
more a " rectification" than would be the sruiexa-
bun of the department of the Lower Alps to Pied-
mont. It is the advancement of the French
border into a country separated from France as
much by geography as by interest, and will require
the annexation of Western Switzerland to make it
either regular or rational. But this violent de-
rangement of territory having been resolved on, and
the assent of Piedmont having been by whatever
means acquired, the Esirmion should in common
decency have abstained from pretending that be
was about to take possession of those territories
with the smut of the populations. If this were
s..—if the Savoyards and Nizards were anxious or
even willing to become French, or the &MMUS
had shown the slightest regard for their opinions
and sentiments in the matter—all that would now

remit would be

to the interests
Switzerland. But

nothing undone
right el being heard

The Piedmonteee
hoped to be able '
wad Nies by ea appeal

well known that the announcement of an intention
of that kind in Count Civoca's published circu- ,
lar brought down on the Cabinet of Turin amani-
festation of Imperial displeasure. M. Tnoovemr.r.'s
despatch and its intimation, "The Earinos
" requests the regulation of the question of Savoy
" by a ample cession, to be settled by mutual
" consent and without recourse to universal
saffrage." is too recent to be forgotten. The
Immo' had good reason to fear a reference to the
wishes of the inhabitants either at Savoy or Nice.
We appeal to facts.

In the early part of February the following de-
claration was circulated among the towns, villages,
amid hamlets of Faucigny, Chableia, and Ginevoia:

We, the andenigned, *Labe•bitant• . . anxious about
the current rumours, wording to which Savoy would eerie
to form a part of the date' of his Banlinian Majesty, do
baby wish to express our loyalty to our Bing, sad our
' Arise to see no change be our allegiance to the Sardinian
aliliarchy. But, on tbr other hand, and in came political
EMMY about which sea do not presume to give an opinion
obeedd seder separatism' 'writable, we feel persuaded that
ow wow*, will not Magma of his faithful subject• with.
out porseitting ae M super our wishes on • subject so im-
portant be sew Mow seadition. Conseqoastly, and not•
withoWsillog lhogyupsthies due to • pest and glorious
empleq w id& topeclaim our desire to be united to the
Swiss Owledsradsr, to which we are wedded by common
latoessb as well as by the close friendship which has always
exited between as.

Nothing could be more moderate than this peti-
tion in every respect. The petitioners express
their wish to remain faithful to their legitimate
sovereign, but they demand that they should be
consulted respecting their own fate, should this
sovereign be called upon to separate himself from
them. This petition was on no account the work
of • party. It was the spontaneous work of the
national Savoyard'. The federal and central
Swiss Governments carefully abstained from taking
any part in the movement. The Swiss press
limited itself to an expression of sympathy.
Up to the 13th inst. the signatures of the elec-
tors attached to the above declaration reached ten
thousand three hundred and seventeen. These
figures were carefully certified and verified
by • Central Committee, called "des In-
" "terPta Savoisiens," composed of strictly honour-
able and well known men of the three districts.

This is not the first time that Northern Savoy has
seed to be united to the Swiss Confederation.

In 1648, at the Congress of Westphalia, it was
then proposed. It was renewed in 1713, and
mein at Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748 ; and lastly in
1814, two Savoyard magistrates went to Zurich to
ask, in the name of the three provinces, repre-
sented by 577 signatures (nearly the whole oleo-
torsi body of that period), that they might be
united to Switzerland as the twentieth canton.
We may easily understand the desire of
the people of Northern Savoy to be united
to Switzerland. Both their political and
their national interests point to this union.
In becoming one of the Swiss Cantons the
Savoyard' would belong to themselves, and be
called to form a distinct State, with its own laws
and its own government. In bacons* Swiss, the
Savoyard' would partake of all the privileges to the
fullest extent of that precious and honourable neu-
trality for which Switzerland is envied by so many
minor States. With the Federal banner full
liberty of thought, of speech, of the press, of com-
merce, of industry, would enter the remotest
valleys. Who will deny that this prospect is
worth as much u the barren satidaction of becom-
ing the 87th department of a military Empire 1
Let us glance at the material advantages. It has
been calculated that the taxes levied by the cen-
tral government reach 265. per head in Sardinia
and 38a. in France. In Switzerland they only
amount to 6s. per head for the federal, and to
15s. for the cantonal taxes. The French debt
amounts to 111. per head ; that of Sardinia amounted
before the last war to 6/. Bs. Switzerland has
no public debt. The conscription, which has been
called the "blood tax," exists in Savoy as in
France, and keeps nearly 2,000 young men of
Chablais and Faucigny under arms and away
from their homes. In Switzerland conscription is
unknown ; there is no standing army—merely a
militia. The annexation of the neutral territory
to Switzerland would cause an immediate consi-
derable increase in the value of land, and conse-
quently an improvement in the general condition of
the people.

The French Estruunt intimates that s feeling of
friandahip for Switssrland had led him to think of
eensenting to an arrangement of this kind. He
—not the King of Saannua and Duke of Savor,
but he—had contemplated a maim of part of
Savoy to Switzerland, and had " almost pro-
"mimed " it, bat his desire to protect the intermits of
Switzerland was defeated. "As soon as it was
" known that the population infused that Savoy

" should be dismembered Franoe renounced the
" cession." He had intended to renounce the
territory, but the Savoyard& compelled him to do
violence to himself and renounce instead the Cellalofl.
Surely the Earazoa's story is the perfection of
cynical contempt for the understanding and con-
science
of mankind. A people whose nationality is
aboutto disappear and be absorbed in that of Pianos
is represented as sticking out for the preservation
of its integrity. The self-will 6f a people who are
snatched into the pale of French empire as if they
were no more than mere mouton& browsing upon
lee versants Prenspois des Afpes are to bear the re-
proach of a violation of those rights of Switzerland
which they would much rather uphold. Loos
Narotzox may fancy that he is practising on the
credulity of mankind ; but he is only trying erpe-
meets on the patience of the world—an ezperi-
riment that bee often been tried before, but which
has never succeeded in the long run.

MIAOWING AND DYNAN° WONIA BILL —ll/01
following 30 inemben voted against Hr. Crook's tal yenta.
day afternoon —Hr. & Mambas, BirW. Athena, Hoene.
C. Bailey, W. & "hater, T. ashy, & Beale, 0. & Bee-
aeft, J. W. WO. Seed. J. body, Mr H. K.
01111714, lbw& G. Cies, X. C. Clem% T. Cosolly,
H. L. Corp, Z. H. J. Cooked, J. am* H.
reenriek, Coked lord% M. W. 0. Feder, J. Oreeso,
Mk* Heathees, Many deal Hortiostes, Lard It SiD,
lbw& T. B. Hargial, W. Hoek Sir J. C. Arnim,
Tajo, C. Lock limn. W. & Liadmay, J. Haiti; C.
book Miami Palumbo" Mesas. 3. H. ReLeesd. G.
Ithasy, F. W. avasell, it Tomes, Genera Uptea, Sr W.
Terser, Moms. H. W. Width," H. Woode.—Tellere, '
Xmas. Itlehardbon sad Tinier. The Ayes MOP 'minded
nesebers of all shades A political opinion, the liberals
Wag in the majority. Hr. Brigid was anent.
TAX Vora ox TB. EN DOWIID BcuooLa BILL..—.
Hd. Werra's bill yesterday &Stemma received the votes et
Maws. Z. HO, C. alley, W. H. Ore ary (toneervatives) ;
sad of C. Oliple (Secretary to the Peor.law Board), sad W.
N. Wary fChairmsa of CaminutWes). The Noes madded
elms* ezakeively of the supporters of the bile mesereettee
pereminset. We And, however, amoogst the list theorise,
at Sr James Orshash sod two Irish Roman eathobss,
Deady and Mr. J. Pope Hennessy. The Wait Mlaktaie
Imre almest.

Leopold, the Priamnise Mina, Lanka. end Beatrice, left
Osborne at a quirter wiles ecioth ye try morning, at-
tended by the Mardian= of By, Hon. Hands Stopford,
Major-General the Hon. Orrin Grey, Lord Alfred Paget,
Colohel the Hon. A. Ilardinge, the Ifseter of the House-
hold, Major Cowell, B.R, and Major Flphinstone, R.R.,
embarked at Osborne pier on the Fairy royal steam yacht,
crowed to Portsmouth Dockyard, end left by a special train
on the Direct Portsmouth Railway. The royal
party proceeded from the private station at Vann.
hall of the South Western Railway in several of
her Majesty's carriage. and escorted by a detachment
of Light Dragoons to Buckligham Palace, where the
Queen and Prince arrived at 25 minutes before 3 o'clock, and
were received by Vimount Sydney, the Marquis of Atlas-
bury, Viscount Castle Roam, Lord Cremorne, Lord Water-
park, and Colonel Francis Seymour, C.B.
The Queen held a court in the afternoon et Buckingham
Palace ; Vice-Admiral Van Dockum had aa audienoe, and

delivered to her Mateety his letters of recall se the Danish
ndniater at the British court.
Mr. Thorben de Rille had his first manage at the Queen,
emd delivered to her Majesty his eradiation am javoy Ex-
traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary tram his Majesty
the King of Denmark.
Their Excellencies were introduced by Lord John Bum%
the Queen's principal Secretary of State for Foreirm'Affairs.
Lord Cremona was the Lord in Welting.
Lord Creutorne and Lieutenant-Colonel Eingsoote have
eneeseded Viscount Torrington 'and Sir Edward Bowater
as the Lard and Groom in Waiting to her Majesty.

A Cabinet Council wee held yeaterda_ yat the
• residence of the First Lord of the Treasury,
in Downing-street. The ministers present were
Viscount Pahniestory the Lord Chancellor, the
Duke of Argyll, Lord John Russell, the Duke
of Newest* the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert,
Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Kx-
chequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon.
T. Milner (Moon, Sir George Grey, the Right
Hon. C. Y. Villiers, and the Right Hon. K Card-
well

A deputation from the Windsor Local Board of Health.
consisting of Alderman Blunt, Aitiarvms Adrara, Ur. Coun-
cillor Minim, and Mr. Charles Want Verdes (clerk), had an
interview with the Right Hon. W. P. Cowper, at her Ma-
jesty's 011 lire of Works, Whitehall-plaoe, with reference to
the crown roads through the park. The deputation was
introduced by the borough member, Mr. W. Vansittart and
Mr. 0. W. Hope.

Mr. Whitel;e sd, Comadesioner of the Mexican bond-
holders, transacted business at the Foreiga•cifice, yesterday.
Dispatches were sent pelesday fres the Colonial-06os to
the Governor of Canada.

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ale to cover its surrender of Savoy H. Majesty the Qum sad Mass Osesert,Msoomanied
a appeal to the people, and it is by ths Moms Mies, Priam Alfred, Wass Arthur, Prime
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