The Express.
London, England, 1860-04-10 00:00:00

NORTH SAVOY.

The following address has been presented to the
Savoyard deputies in the Piedmontese parlia-
ment by the committees of North Savoy, represent-
ing the 12,000 signatures in favour of Swiss
annexation :

Messieurs les Dfputie,—The fate of North Savoy is in
your hands. It rests with you to satisfy her expectations
or to deceive her hopes.
Glorious events, the fruits of which free Italy is now
reaping, have carried with them political results that seem
to render the severance unavoidable of those ties which for
centuries have united Savoy to the Sardinian monarchy.
These results, which we dreaded but could not foresee, have
led us, sin, to consider closely our situation, our interest.,
our future. In these days, when the people enjoy the
happy privilege of having some influence upon their own
destiny, it was our right and our duty to study the various
prospects that opened before us.
This study has shown us that the monarchical unity
which rallied us round the constitutional throne of Victor
Emmanuel 11. once definitively broken, we became compe-
tent to choose for ourselves that which accorded best with
our sympathies, our habita, our wants, our interests. In
all these relations, sin, North Savoy has a life of her own,
quite distinct from that of Southern Savoy ; so that, unless
the wish is to make the North the slave and a sort of insig.
nificant adjunct of the South, nobody can deny her the right
to proclaim openly her preferences, and to claim loudly
that her wishes be fulfilled.

We do not attempt to judge of the preferences of the rest
of Savoy, and we do not refuse to recognise them. We are
told that they incline towards France. But, if so, lot
Southern Savoy speak in her own name and not in ours.
She has nodded no mission from us. Much lees
had they any, those men who most of them at
all time@ enemies of those liberal ideas the triumph of
which is now secure in your country, which is still ours—
seem to try to punish our constant devotion to the cause of
Italy, by smothering our free aspirations, and who,
hating taken upon themselves the sorry mission of
offering to • foreign master the hos of their
itterested desertion—cave arrogated to themselves the right
of speaking for us. We declare that far from seeing with joy
Savoy hoisting a new banner, we could not think, without
deep grief that we were going to ahandon the old Sag to
whore glory we have contributed. Your justice, sirs, will
bear us witness so far. We potent energetically against
those soealled wishes that • mock deputation has dared to
offer am the expression of the wishes of the whole of Savoy.
We may be allowed further to call to your mind that we
have acquired, and as Sardinian sublecte still hold, the
right to take an interest in the preservation of the Italian
independence. It is by this right that we dare to represent
to you the future dangers to which possession by a single
state of all the paime of our mountains must expose this
independence. From the Maritime Alpe to the Penin Alps,
from Nice to the Simplon, Italy is opened, if our wishes are
returned.
Our wishes are these :

If we must Mae to belong to • free monarchy, if we
mmt cease to be the loyal subjects of the illustrious house
of Savoy, our wish is to become independent citizens of the
noble Swiss Confederation. More than twelve thousand
signatures, which will be laid before you, attest in an un-
exceptionable way the sincerity of this wish. We sat but
for one thing, which is to be allowed to bear witness to it
in a still clearer and imposing manner.
You have yourselves. sin, just seen the political regenera-
tion of Italy brought out by universal suffrage freely con.
suited. Grant us, to manifest our opinion, the mine forms,
the same guarantees, that all the citizens of full age he
called upon, each in his own commune, to take part in this
solemn act, of each distinct province, and let them be by •
vote allowed to pronounce freely among the different alter-
natives that may offer themselves to their choice. The
suffrage already obtained in favour of an eventual union
with Switzerland renders it imperative that this union in
particular should be seriously submitted to the vote.
It rests with you, sirs, to respond to this legitimate re-
quest, by making a free voting on our part • condition of th
ratification of the treaty of ceasion laid before you for ap-
probation. The treaty stipulate= expressly that the will of
the people shall be consulted. It therefore allows you—
nay more, it obligee you—to bike care that this consulta-
tion be serious and sincere, and this can only be in the way
we have shown.

Universal suffrage in each commune, voting by province,
and a fair option among all possible preference—this alone
will enable North Bavoy to make known its wishes dis-
tinctly. This is what we claim from you, sirs—this is what
you will pant us.
Tu► PRIMIDINTS or rim Comrirrreer.

BAKU, JosaPH, advocate, Bonneville.
Betimes, TH. A., engineer, Thonon.
FACHAI, HtNat, advocate, St. Julien.
March 30, 1860.

A superior officer in the French army, who lived
in the Rue Moreau, St. Denis, committed suicide the other
day wider singularly distr.:wing circumstances. He accom-
plished his object by lying on kid hack in bed, and discharg-
ing a musket beneath his chin, by pulling the trigger by
means of a string attached to his foot. In a letter a•ldres'ed
to the colonel of his regiment, he stated that his re.i.on ass
that he had long suffered to dreadfully front woumls --not
fewer than twenty-fire in number, received in action—that
►t times his mind was affected. Just before killing himself
he sent hie wife and child to Paris.