The Express.
London, England, 1859-04-08 00:00:00

LONDON. PAID/T. APRIL 6.

Titu Emotive Committee of' the Ballot Society
bare issued a very timely and neassary appeal to
the electors of the United Kingdom, pointing out
the value of the opportunity which now offers for

ensuring the attainment of that great safeguard of
fire represenlatime. As they well observe, the
Ballot belongs inseparably to the question opoo

which the constitnencies aro called by the dissolution
to pronounce. This election will turn on Reform,
_ _ .

and of Reform the Ballot is one of the three essential

elements. An attempt to introduce the use of voting
papers, by limns of which the coercion of voters

wouldh.tve been made 'shier than e‘er, has just been
defewtd. On the other hand, an extension of the

sutfrage by lowering the borough qualification is
acknowledged to be inevi.aible, so that whatever evils
now attend the system of open voting will be
magnified a 4 the ar,a of their operation ta
enlarged. Every friend of the Ballot has them new
motives to exertion, and new assurances of success.

Those Rho desire sod strive for the eel

of the working classes mast wish that the new
electors should exerci e the right of voting freely.
lf, theft fore, they are not already advocates of the
Ballot, it is becsow they have not duly considered

the facts which prove thatproteeties i;accootoryto

the TOUT. In demonstrating this troth, the Ballot
Society sod its supputers hares comparatively easy
task to pet fwm. Addressing fellow-reform.7ti, they
boa e not to convert them to new principles, for the
Ballot, indispensable se at is, is not • principle, bat

an expedient, as Mr. BRIGHT has shown. Let ito
atilitT and necessity then be affirmed, illustrated.

and in,isted on in .town nod oat of seasms, rtad

Reformm, whose aims and objcets after all are oar,
will th 2. sooner perfect that communion of opinion
on this subject to whi,:h they hive of late been
rapidly tending.
Bat the Executive Committee of the Ballot Society,

besides off.eiug ariptnenta on behalf of their nsea-

The ausruer to that inquiry in tho present coos is, that
M Nitiestea iLioistirs proposed to the !louse of Ceinemems
a bill for asses ling the laws elating to the representation of
th• peop'e is parlisment, and that the provisions and
aunts of that bill were such that they were tows or leas
condemned by almost every mamba who, on either ride el
this tv•use, during *seven digits debate, expesesei his end-
me• to on the subject.
There were, however, tee promlneat points of the bill
which, by a resolution that was proiosed praviouly to the
~road loading of the bill, were epecially refined to re
oljerticnable. The one wu the pto;earl that th owners of
fitehcl to situated Utile breongh. represented in parliament
should in fetus be deprived of their vote for their respective
etentirr. Toe other was that no provision was made in the
61;11 fur toy unmakes of the suffrage in borughe by a reduc-
tion of the bc rough qualification.
Thia reeolutiu hiring barn carried by a numbs r
oontd-
tuffsg a majority of the whole House of C.mmons, the
miniegets de ermined to coue:dar it so a mew* of their con-
duct, and t t retard it sa an iwendrd proof that they dr not
possess the r inflihnce of the Hume of Commons ; and they
hue to mawkish nc• dried her YU." to dissolve the m-
ust parlwnent, wad to recur tr the sues of her people on
t!e _ . . .

The queotioe, therefore, suMittad to the judgment el the
electors of the Veit d Kingdom is whether the bill proposed
by the govressisat was good or bad ; and whether the
government wore tight in propooleg such a bill, or whether
the majority of the Rules of COMMOCIAI wets right is dia.
approving it.
This (potion having been put to the eleeteew et the
United Kingdom, I cannot d mht what their sumer mil hs.
tkiak. however, AM the govaressast would have doss
far bits. had It yielded to dm impressed °pinioned the Noma
Of COINUMS opisiom 'spewed is debate am mew
strongly sad gessrally dui by the moieties which wee ser-
ried.

The prevent !air-Were owlet took last year the government
dubs c vanity, avowing that th it sup,xe tors were a minority
of the Rouse of Colons as An sdatiohtration eo circum-
stanced holds ofbca on the condition of shaping Its down in
rooforsity with the deemed opinions of lb* coaj,.rity, anima
iu a case in which th.t cosjiwity may require tooled:ling
•Istla would ba forbidden by conailers ions of pub-
lic duty, or by • maid for the priaciplw of the
coos' itutien. But on the lancet orceeion it was
sot the HOW) of Commons that was eadoavontiog to
tiros upon the Waists.. ► seseaure inconsistent with the
setabli•heal principles of the coast to 100. On the contrary,
It wee the ministers who wore pr Toeing to the bowie of
Commons meanies which oven their own supporters ob.
Jett sl to as illijudgad renovations span ancient ant fueda-
metal arrsagstseate tf our reprauntrtiva masa, and
which two mesa ere of the Cabinet deemed It be so mad-
eleaMe that they reigned that. °Meer retie than be porgies
to se Wog suet propo ale to parliament.
The ratui•t is might, lulled of putting the oountry to
the inoieweoiance sad aspen., of • general election, hare
withdrawn their ohjectom elide bill, sad hare proposed
another fumed it e mformity sib the views of the large
majnrity of the WMIII3 of COMMIS"; tad there can be little
doubt that such a cacumre would lava ga•sod Into law in
the t meat ers•iott; and there MIMS rood rcasoa to believe
that it world hare been eatiokawy to the seaway.

sure, propound • rule of electoral tactics. They I
say—" At tl.e coming election reject every candi.
dite who is opposed to or hesitates on the Ballot."
This is such a tecnintnendatioa as might have been
expected from a Society formed to promote the
triumph of one idea. We have no fault to find with
it ; bat we may point out that its application will
demand great prudence. Reform does not consist
singly is the extension of the franchise, nor in the
more equal distribution of seats, nor yet in the adop-
tion of Vote by Ballot to the exclusion of the other
two measure., but in the whole of thee. together. The
importance of the several branches of Reform will
be felt variously by different reformers, according to
the variety or their experience and of their oppor-
tunities of ohsevvation. A householder in Finsbury
wiil naturally be struck with the anomaly of a
system which gives to a osastitneacy of 20,000
registered electors no more representatives in the

Sorb a emote weald have her; Le seemniance with that
which th•y surresefully pummel lee• year in vessel to the
India Bill ; and no vo.iitl norm has la.es assigned by them
for sot odop:iag it on tie prevent.. oocs.lon.
Her Mattery's ministers, however, have stated that is
their opinion their &otos lay berwtes advising a dissolution
of parliareeit end tendering to her *dimly the migration of
their oily • ; and that owe reason why tatty chose the Ant
el them site. natives was dad they deemed their oratlauesee
is calm ersestbal so the PROMO album negotiations 's which
the (refill is sow envied wok a view to the preeesvatias of
the pease of Europe.
But the worst wttieli they Live punned is evidently
ealoalated to weaken their hands in regard to those
negut'at one.
A government of this ommtry, to be li.tened to with defe-
rence abroad, ought to hare strength and etetality et home,
and foreign powers ought to see in the irobability of its
durarton a security for the 00TititIUSDCO 411 the policy use
which, am repreentiog the Bei cr twat, ilia antisg.
But their vent adennaisitathes exhibits Well to Europe
►t the out-et t,f .n approaching congers. as having an Ina
essicilable digtreoce with laden:omit, of whom imaktonce it
will have deprivel itself during what may be a critical mild
of the so go' bdiss, whit that madame of the country,
which, so loss se lie expressios of public opinion was alted
for, might have bees gemmed to mito, may poseltly, by the
et tutt of the clutiess, be proved no. t e belong to the pee•est

Boise of Commons than are allowed to the 350
electors of liontingdoo. A tenant-at-will of Sir
Hater, DRYDIM. the Northamptonshire baronet,
who bouts that he " comes down upon" the occupier
of his farm who presumes to call his vote his ewe,
ie equally struck with the importance and iirgemoy
of the Ballot. And again, the industrious artless,
who helps on the progress of the age by his skill and
morality, but has given too many hostages to suety
to afford a 101. house or pusess his county freehold,
thinks the first want of the time is a reduction of the
electoral qualification.
Now it is too much to hope that all these
aims can be attained at once, while it is certain
that each one, as it is gained, will help on the other.
Ao extension cf the suffrage would inevitably
hasten on the enaetm.nt of the Ballot, and the
Ballot would as certainly lead to a fairer re-allot-
ment of Parliamentary scats. Bat will the progrim
of Reform be accelerated if constituencies disintegrate
the question, and, raising one of its elements into ex-
clusive importance, deprive the country of the services
of men wheats render great aid tothe common cause?
We are seru'ithst the able and zealous Chairman of the
Executive Committee would instantly answer, No. We
heartily egret with what we be believe tobe the inten-
tion of the Committee, because, cateria paribau, can-
didate who is right as all points will make a better re-
presentative than one who is only right upon two, but
we should consider their advice most pernicious could
we believe that they were countenancing a policy of
proscription to be enforced against tried and veteran
reformers. It is not thus that great causes are to be
won in the fans of an unscrupulous and compact
opposition; and we will not do the Ballot Society the
ifiju. ice of supposing that they would abet the
senseless eatery which has been raised against emi-
nent Liberal watesmen, because their opinions on this
one subject are lea. advanced than that of the great
body of the party which they strengthen and adorn.
To the cast majority, however, of the candidates
who will appear at the bustiogs soliciting Liberal
voter, the Ballot Society's test may be applied with
wholesome tit ct,ani without the least danger that it
will exclude either great ability or signal patriotism.
Aspiring young candidates omit commence by emu-
lating the virtues, not by copying the mistakes, of
their seniors ; and electors may reasonably distrust
the qualifications of men who, without the excuse of
traditional feeling and confirmed habits of thought,
lack the disownment to see the fact which eves Sir
GILUIAN admits—the fact that the Baliut is
the most earnest and progressive political demand of
the time. We take leave to echo the exhortation of
the Committee—By every vegans in your power, aid
us to gain the Ballet Muses sled ter ever.

Tbe course, tter.f as, which ter Dl.jert)'n gererment
have determin4 to pursue dove n swat to be berme est
by any of tae meow which hare Leee put (emu] f r its
juradeation.-1 bete the brow to be, aettkakee, your
obediect sad dereted rennet, PALMERSTON.
91, Piccadilly, April 7, 1869.

Ymterday a magnificent data ornament, emu.
t•••• 1, Aire ty of arrrli•n•o f t►e drat satire sit of /costa-
lowa, woe seicaitted t public oospetities ar the soles
r 116besbats, Store. aced Sea, ii.ser-atzerie,
rudra. Th. jeltri4 were seamed l• soli as •
aia..ru•e I dirt .134 ot.toschsr, a•d wen ori`i•ally pre-
ern•.•l by I .131. XIV. to • disttalryiah•d imotesbtr of his
voot. Att.( • libee•l ^Vilipsfiths the bums fall at 1,0004,
sod the lot yea .1-cleis.l erdd.

LORD PALMARSTON'S ADDJB4I. to. mokeouraelitie WO' sequoias& we haves:wino the re.
minden of earneadyneeonamtndia. to yam, contbanod stop-
TO THE 1111.11CTOR3 OF TIT IigTON. 'port, Lonl Jobs Hamoll, Baron Railssetsild, Mr Jams Dyke
Gyritaxelv,—Her Majesty's minivan laving ism, Icy/. cravat, Esq."
assonaned that parliament le about to be dimadvel, I beg to
solicit a ear insane@ of that en:diatom with whic4, daring
aK rueertedve perliamento, you hove bees pl:rtral to honour
me; and the voles of which has bass touch 'sham), 1 by that
pereosal kindness of shah I have had the hal:min.'s to re-
ceive from you so many and such pro, ifying proof*.
When a Horse of Commons, of only two pan' mantling,
Is to b 3 suddenly dissolved I. an tarty put of a meoion, and
Wore all tha supplies of the par have been voted, the in-
vide, sisonrstly arima,—What Is the imp art int goeation on
shiett bee Majwty's ministers sat the Home of Commons)
ne dig: to 1, on I upon which the ministers inoen 1 t ) appeal
from th • dertrion t f that house ti that of the elation of the
tralei Kind, °

Cbe Court.

Hcr Majesty the Queen guise a javeoile ball yea-
terday (.be birthday of Prince Leopold), at Buckingham
Palace.

_
The juveniles honoured with invitations were between as
ant 14 years old, sod spewed is fumy drams. The
parents accemp toying the children were in evening deem.
The c imprny began to arrive at half-past 8 o'clock ; the
hall commencing at nine. The invititionr amounted to 234.
The Duchess of Kent arrived at the Palace atteradtd by
Leidy Sus in Melville and Sir George Cooper. The Duchess
of Cambridge, the Princess Mary, and the Duke of Caw
bridg,, elm arrived shortly before 9 o'clock.
The mambas of the royal family, upon their arrival, wen
conducted to the White Drawing-room where the Qum
an 4 Prince Consort receivel their illoatiiona guests. Rs
Majmity was accompanied by Prince Arthur, Prince Leo-
pold, the Prbic.mee Alice, Relent, end Lo • end elm by
the Priem and Prince:. Augustus of Sam Co ,Peiaos
Plappe, Prince Augustus, the Primeseas Ciotti& and
AaMla of Sae Coteurg, the Duke and Dubois of Aumale
sad the Prince of Condi. The uvenile visitors and their
',lettuce were conducted to the -Picture Gallery, through
which her Majesty and the royal circle primed about nine
o'clock to the Banquetting Room, which was prepared for
dancing, and in which was stationed her Majesty's private
bind.

...
The Prisons Bekaa and the Primes Lodes wore the
connote of pelmets of the centnt of Bern.. Drees of gvw
Lka rlk edged with *band of owlet velvet, the b;d7 trimmed
with bunk velvet end steel ornaments; chenneette end
sleeve. to whits cambric, black velvet round the throat with
steel ornaments ; !lack lace mittens ; head dreg% hair dons
In long plaits with red ribbons, a attaw hat trimmed with
red roes.

............
Pinson Attar sod Peace leo_pild wore the costume of the I
eons of Henry the Felltal of Sineand . white satin tank, i
with • light blue velvet err, in points, trimmed on the right i
side with gold braid; the lett with tiler braid; the tunic I
trimmed to catespood ; flours de lin on the ride with slyer;
one &hoe in blue satin trimmed with silver; the other white, !
with gold; white silk hose; blue velvet bonnet trimmed
with silver and a gold triage.
Prime Philippe of late Cobearg were the uniform of a
&non Greasdier of the 18th antroy. i
Prince Augustan of Ben Coboarg, the uniform of is:
Austrian Breather of the l&h osatury.
Prisons Clotelde of Saxe Coboarg wore the costume of in
B peasant.
ls= Amalie al Saxe Cobalt', the costume of a Can-
Mare from the opera La Fah du Regiment. I
The Prince of Condi wore the uniform of a Servant In
the Cowie Infantry, 1746.
r=
coonsineed antandistaly at titer the entrance of the
Queen the idasteloa. party.
We have antheni to stag that, is addition to the Drew-
tag-seam auweoed for the lab inst., the Queen will hold
enatter presentation Drawing-roam before the one to bo held
he bower of Me Mejenty's blethdity. The raise date will
be asarienoed LW.
Has Ileifecty will hold a Privy Council on Tuesday, the
12th inst., at Buckingham-palace.
The Duchess of Kent visited the Quietly eiterday at Buck..
inchantisalaor
The Prince Coaaort, !attended by Captain Da Flo, nest
yesterday maniacs to the New Palace at Westminster.
The Prince and Princess Ananias of Sane Cobourg visited
the Bakibidon of the Frank Halsey, to Pal-mall. His
=Whams paid a visit to the Hake of Cambridge, at his
la St. lama'si-palaon
The Dachas of Cambridge and the Princess Mary visited
the Prioress Augustus of &le Coboarg.
The Princes Alba and the Priam and Feiner. Augustus
of Saul Coboarg visited the Dachau of Kent on %Veda-day
at Clarence-house, ft-. James's.

Colmel Baker had ea beterview with the Earl of Derby
yesterday. 84r Fiterey Katy had also as lat4rviee a i.h the
safe sal et his omelet residence to Downino-etreet.
Moot 140 members of the Bosse of Common* 11‘,1 a
meeting yesterday ebb the Karl of Derby at his aleia
residence in Dowsing-street.
Despa•ches were received yesterday at do Colonial-dire
fact the °oversaw of Heligoland.

It is believed (says the Plymouth Journal) that
W Royal Rithares Prism Albert will be tresest at the
sprain of the Royal Albert Bridge, on the Comma Ra-
mey, ea Iffeaday, the led of May, and that, after the epee-
ist, tram for the public sill run between Plymouth and
It. Germans.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, as
General Commanding in Chief, held a laves yoAerday, at the
Iltr.s Guards, which was very numerously 'wended.

The Earl and Countess of Stamford and Warring-
ton hays arrived in WA-street, from 13radgate l'erkt Leber
lanthire, for the ettesen.

The Hon. Philip and Mrs. Pierepoint toot pol-
emics of their residence in Scaraorrplaca yesterday, fur
101111011.

M. A. de Varnhagen, Minister Plenipotentiary
from the Emperor of 'ha Brazils at Madrid, has arrived at
the Brunswick Hotel, Jormyn-street, en routc for Bb
Janeiro.

The Earl and Countess of EgUnto= leave Dublin
MI **day text for London, whore 'hey purpose remelting
Ike a few weeks.

A rend full diem ball will take place is the St.
Jaime. Hall, on Witless.ley next, is aid of the If‘apol.tan
aim. The IsAiss patrosetest are—Ha Gest e the Dueller
of
Montrose, the Right Hon. Counter of Yarborough, Lady
Kim Lady Maclaine. Lady Pantos, Mrs. foam of Pant-
ewe, Mts. Wilmer Gibson, Mrs. Bishop Culpeper, Mrs.
Maus.

THE ROYAL ACADEMY.

Lut Tuesday was "eaudiag-la day" at the Royal
♦ademy, sad gowip makes already free with the exhibition.
The subject, of Kr. Millais' two picture, are known. Mr.
Frith'. potrait of Mr. Mahn Dickens la excellent.
Mr. Aerostat, Bag ►as a picture this year, the subject al
wide& is "Cromwell before the Battle of Naseby." Them&
the loopel•up side of his tent the Poet us leader barren !meal-
fag, eagagsd In prayer, his face upturned, end his halide
clasped In earneatnese. Before him an open bible rests upon
his mad. ♦ strong lamplight prevails in the tent, con-
treating with the rays of • fall moon which light up the rat-
mundlng plan and show the other tents where He Crom-
wslPe in dark reqcf.

Xe. O'Neill pressats • companion picture to his
N Seethe d, Ho!" entitled "The Rehire." Of the new
mat the illestreded Timm says The concerti n is
array goad, the sentiment equally healthy and touching
(Iseitheit i d too 'War). Here Is the old ship back at lest!
beck, lying se Orsvemod, and down her side, Instead of
tearful WORMS awl ehildrea, 011014tbe rettunei soldiers—some
woondei, some triumphant, some anxious, some despairing.
See how tenderly the crippled Ulcer, with his swathed and
bandaged legs, with hie large yellow beard end moustecheand
with the tees metals swinging from his emaciated chest, is be-
teg bonded iD,O the shore-boat by the sturdy sail v! Seethe
young Ind h. If swinging bye rest e, who trSurophently holdsout
his Victoria cross to his father, the old Chelsea pensioner,
who dismissed him with his bl toeing ht the former picture,
end wits sow wares him a salute with feeble joy I See this
red-bearded Pont, bendieg forward with hurried eagerness,
and looking ILO the girl's ere almost with ferocity
to read whether she sill loves him, or whether
aught has 'Apposed M home! An elderly men with grizzled
hair and beard, round whose neck a young girl In deep
021111111itUr hasten enlaciog arm. has an epee r fn his hand
from which be terns with puckered lips and watery eyes; it
does not need much amen, to read that history. The mass's
wife, the girl's mo her, has died during hie absence; this
is her 1610181 hr, traced with ambling band, and this is
his welcome home. Me grief I. probably rot more poignant
than that of the poor ghl la the Maw-bonnet with the faded
gr. es riband, in the left-heal comer of the pleturs, who is
giving sarestrained way is her ecerow, end seems but little
comfortA by the well-meant consolation of the mark sailor,
who is patting ber shoulder, and bidding bee ' sheer cep r
Those are a few episodes in this glorious picture—a Ocean
which really ma best be described in the wards used by
tap-room orators, se doing • equal credit to Kr. O'Nrilre
heal and heart;' meet sweetly eoneeirel aid inset admira-
bly executed."
lb. Eobmm, who two yeses ego painted ea admirable
platers called Widths; for the Verdict," now sends in •
oampanion, "The Acquittal." Theater:a Is the same—the
outer-room is the smise-court. la the centre of a group of
figures Is the sewirsoquitted ran. elating his wife to
his heart with ens ens, while he deviates the other to his
yousgest child, who is being held out for his caresses. Be-
lied hies Meade his old father, with shamming eyes, cleepies
ties bead of the barrister who has brought his son eddy
throttle the trial ; the elder boy is is the left-band cow
bdeg dressed by the wife' s young sister; and the has;
mead shows ea awe side two terrine re chewing—em the
ether, poop of emery emle threatening a wham for
the prasseefe.
. . . . . .

dir. Philip his only one picture, a quarrel botwass tea
Spade lovers In a grove sear Seville.
Mr. @flag Cooper has three Vetures, two of kris dr.
Plta seihjasts are " A Sonny Mormon is Autumn." "Daisy
Term In the Marshes," and "An Effitut at &wet."

LATEST INTELLIGEN OE,

THE ITALIAN QUESTION,-MEMORANDUM
OF THE SARDINIAN GOVERNMENT.

The Word of to-day and the Morning Post pub-
lish the memorandum presented by the Sardinian
.

government to that of her Britannic Majesty, on
the condition of Italy. It would appear that some
time prior to the Ist of last March our own
government requested the cabinet of Sardinia
to state in express terms what were the par-
dealers of the general complaint against Austria
it respect of Italy. Count Caveat, responding to
the invitation, shows first that Austria abuses
bar power within the territories which she
i. acknowledged to hold legally by treaty i
sad secondly, that she exercises an encroaching,
=due, and dangerous domination in other
States within which she has no legal right. Piedmont
acknowledges the title of Austria to Venetian Lom-
bardy, but she asserts that the treaties which are the
foundation of that title are bad, since they contain
no provision for the good government of Ans-
i trio,. They hand over a great part of
Northern Italy to a great German Power,
I without security or stipulation. This unconditional
possession of absolute power has resulted in an
exaggerated form of bad government and "has led
to a state of things which has no analogy in modern
history." It is added :
This spectacle would, however, becoose lees afflictinx, and
the sate of the Lombardo-Venetians more tolerable, If
Austria would show herself faithful to the promieee which
she made to the Italians when, In 1814, she excited them
to rise against French domination, and if, in oteformity
with the proclamation of the commander-in-thief cif bar

manes, deneral Bellagarde, sbe were to establish beyond
the Alps, if not a; government, at least an administra-
tion entirely national, with a active army quartered In Italy
and comtosaded by Italian ofecerr, and institutions on the
raprotentative prineipl% This would be a palliative which
would inspire a feeling of patience in the minds of people
accustomed to suffer and Toulon, to a distanoe the dangers
which now Do Justly excite the attention of public opinion
in Europe -

In passing to the second question, as to the effects
of Austrian policy is Central Italy, Sardinia claims
the right to point out the illegal acts of Austria, and
will demand of Europe the fulfilment of Austria's
broken pledgee, and the execution of the measures
necessary to remedy the evils which have been the
consequence of their violation. By that violation
Piedmont finds herself everywhere surrounded
by Austrian influence and Austrian armies. Not
only does Austria command her whole eastern
frontier, but her domination in the adjacent states
of Parma and Modena give her other advantages
inconsistent withthe safety of Sardinia, and make
it necessary for her to maintain her army on a war
footing at an expense that is fast ruining the nation.

The duchies have become mere fiefs of Austria.
The Emperor is frequently making conventions
with them unfavourable to Piedmont. These states
are so bound to Austri► that they can always mecum
the usistance of her troops to maintain their govern-
ment, while in return they afford to the Austrian
army several most important strategical positions.
Nor is the occupation of the Papal states less an
evil to Italy. The presence of foreign troops in
them is the chief bar to those reforms which would
establish the happiness of the people. In short,
I every way, the intervention of Austria in all the
concerns of Italy hu become of so permanent a
character that Italian independence is altogether
destroyed.

With regard to the cure, the danger of a war or
revolution would, in the opinion of the Sardinian
government. be warded off, and the Italian question,
at keg temporarily, solved by the following
changes :
By obtaining from Auttria—not In virtue of treaties, but
In the name of the principles of humanity and of eternal
justice—a national and separate government for Lombardy
and Venetia.

By requiring, in contyreally with the letter and spirit
of the Treaty of Virus., that the domination of Mattis over
the States of Central Italy eliould cease, and, conseonently,
that the &teased forts constructed °Weide the walla of Pla-
centia should be destroyed ; that the Convention of the 24th
of December, 1847, should be annulled ; that the occupation
tithe Romagna should as e; end that the principle of non.
intern aims should be procliireed and relented.
By inviting the Cakes of Modena and Parma to give to
their people innitutiets similar to those °sieving in Pied-
moot, and that the Grand Duke of Tuscany should re-
eatatAi•h the constitution to which he had freely cemented
In 1848.
By obtaining from the kl.ivereign Pontiff the adminis-
traUve stuaration of the provinces beyond the Appenines,
in conformity with the proposittens communicated in 1866
to the cabinets of London end Park.
Kay England obtain the realisation of these conditions!
Italy, rolkvod and pacified, will bless h- r ; and Sardinia,
who hu es often invoked her 00-operation and assistance in
favour of her unfortunate fellow-countrymen, will vow lobar
an imperishable gratitude.