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

NORTH SAVOY.

I The following address has been presented to the
Savoyard deputies in the Piedmontese Parliament
by the committees of North Savoy, representing the
12,000 signatures in favour of Swiss annexation
" Messieurs les Deputes,—The fate of North
Savoy is in your hands. It rests with you to sa-
tisfy her expectations or to deceive her hopes.
" Glorious events, the fruits of which free Italy
is now reaping, have carried with them political re-
sults that seem to render the severance unavoid-
able 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, sirs, to consider closely our situation, our inte-
rests, 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 competent to choose for our-
selves that which accorded best with our symPa'
thies, our habits, our wants, our interests. In all
these relations, sirs, 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 insignificant 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 recog-
nise them. We are told that they incline towards
France. But, if so, let Southern Savoy speak in
her own name and not in ours. She has received
no mission from us. Much less 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, having taken_ upon
themselves the sorry mission of offering to

a foreign master the homage of their Inte-
rested desertion—have 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 abandon the old flag to whose glory we
have contributed. Your justice, sirs, will bear us
witness so far. We protest energetically against
those so-called wishes that a mock deputation has
dared to offer as 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 subjects
still hold, the right to take an interest in the pre•
servation 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 stato
of all the passes of our mountains must expose this
independence. From the Maritime Alps to the
Penin Alps, from Nice to the Simplon, Italy iA
opened, if our wishes are returned.
" Our wishes are these :

" If we must cease to belong to a free monarchy,
if we must cease to be the loyal subjects of the il-
lustrious house of Savoy, our wish is to become in-
dependent citizens of the noble Swiss Confederation.
More than twelve thousand signatures, which will
be laid before you, attest in an unexceptionable vial
the sincerity of this wish. We ask but for one
thing, which is to be allowed to bear witness to it
in a still clearer and imposing manner.
" You have yourselves, sirs, just seen the political
regeneration of Italy brought out by universal suf-
frage freely consulted. Grant us, to manifest out
opinion, the same forms, the same guarantees, that
all the citizens of full age be called upon, each in
his own commune, to take part in this solemn act,
of each distant province, and let them be by a vote
allowed to pronounce freely among the different
alternatives that may offer themselves to their choice.
The suffrage already obtained in favour of an even-
tual 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 legiti-
mate request, by making a free voting on our part'
condition of the ratification of the treaty of cession laid
before you for approbation. The treaty stipulates
expressly the will of the people shall be consulted.
It therefore allows you—nay more, it obliges you
—to take care that this consultation be serious
and sincere, and this can only be in the way ifs
have shown.

" Universal suffrage in each commune, voting 11
province, and a fair option among all possible pre-
ference—this alone will enable North Savoy to
make known its wishes distinctly. This is what
we claim from you, sirs—this is what you will
grant us.

" THE PRESIDENTS OF THE COMMITTEES.
" BARD, JosEPrt, advocate, Bonneville.
BETEMPS, TH. A., engineer, Thonon.
FATJRAX, HENRI, advocate, St. Julien.
" March 30, 1860."
The following address to the people has been
issued :

" Savoyards of the North,—The question of North
Savoy has just entered upon a new phasis.
" In the treaty of the 24th March the Emperor of
the French has promised to come to an understand-
ing about the neutralised provinces with the Powers
represented at the Congress of Vienna and with
the Helvetic Confederation.

" In the same treaty Victor Emmanuel has re-
served to us the power of manifesting freely our
wishes. The same assurances were given to us in e
still more formal way in the proclamation which
releases us from our oaths of loyalty, and in the
speech of the 2d of April.
" In the presence of such positive stipulations the
men who without authority had gone to offer us t°
France have felt ill at ease. What are worth, 10
fact, all those fine promises which they hall
brought ?

" They now resort to fresh manoeuvres ; they
know that their schemes will be baffled if the peopi°
are allowed to express their wishes in a free wai'
These men, who call themselves the party of order,
try by every possible means to create agitation for
the purpose of bringing on a foreign intervention.
" No other object can be assigned to the hoisting
of French flags in various places before Parliament'
the palladium of our liberties, has spoken. History
will tell us whether the expedition to Thonon had
any other origin.
" Citizens,—ln the name of liberty, in the name
of your dearest interests, we beseech you look with,
scorn on all the provocations addressed to you.
you find it sometimes hard to keep down the throbs
of your hearts, think of the object we all are ail!
ing at. An imprudent step may compromise the
most sacred cause. Order, and confidence in our
right, must be our motto, we want no other flag.

THE PRESIDENTS OF THE COMMITTEES.
" BARD, JOSEPH, advocate, Bonneville.
BETEMPS, TH. A., engineer, Thonon.
FAURAX, HENRI, advocate, St. Julien•

THE CONDEMNED SPANIARD AT DEVIZES.--The
execution of the Spaniard, Serafin Manzano, who was con,
dernned to death at Devizes Assizes, last' week, for th_
barbarous murder of a poor woman named Anastatia Trolve
bridge, at Ashcombe, has been definitively fixed to tr,
place in front of the New Prison, Devizes, on liredneou%;,
at twelve o'clock at noon. An endeavour has be
made by several persons in Devizes to get the exqaj,
tion carried out privately, and the following nienliss
signed by the niaylr, and about eighty inhabitants, the
been forwarded to Mr. Ewart, M.P., for presentation
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to be publicly executed by hanging, on the 11th of Anne
next. Your memorialists believethat public ex.elg.
are attend attended with the most degrading and deniciaisi. thst
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Devizes, in view only of such persons as you. shallerisMe're•
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volting spectacle of a public ex ecution.' t Wester
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The weekly traffic return of the Great crease
£1,145 sterling ; and that of the Grand Trunk itui
increase of £4,797.