The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-12 00:00:00

THE ITALIAN QUESTION

[The following app;ared in our third edition of Saturday
evening :—]
The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. lteuter's office :

TURIN, MARCH 10.
A despatch of Count Cavour to Baron Ricasoli,
dated Feb. 29, communicates the French ideas re-
lative to the settlement of Central Italy. Count
Cavour says:—
" France manifests no preference relative to the
choice of the future Sovereign, but the verbal and
authentic assurances of the Freneh Government
show that the election of a Prince of the House of
Savoy would be opposed by France. I am cer-
tain that your Excellency will take into con-
sideration the counsels given to Tuscany by our
generous ally, to whom Italy is indebted for her
destiny. The Government of Tuscany will not
take the responsibility of the final deliharations
without again consulting the nation. The Govern-

ment, in acknowledging the opportunity for the

new vote, 'hopes that the Cabinet of Tuscany will
act in such a manner that the election will take
place with loyalty and sincerity. Whatever may be
the result, the Government of the King accepts it
beforehand."

A despatch of Baron Ricasoli to Count Cavour,
dated the 4th March, denies the pretence that Tus-
cany aspires without reflection to uniom with Pied-
mont.

Baron Ricasoli says :—Tuscany is intelligent
enoughto easily understand that the time for muni-
cipalism has passed, and that the national idea has
replaced it. The Government mandate of the 27th
April was to free the country from Austrian slavery
by moans of a war, and to find a guarantee for the
future in union with Piedmont. The attitude of the
Tuscan people during the last few months confirms
this mandate, and proves that if union to Sardinia
is a manifestation against Austria it is nevertheless
not an aspiration unthinkingly manifested towards
Sardinia.

Baron Riess°ll explains the motives by which,
in concert with the Governor Farini, he has
decided on the new vote being taken at the
period fixed for the assembling of the Sardinian
Parliament, and says—Everything confirms the
opinion that we were right in freeing ourselves
from a dangerous constitution. I have received
your Excellency's despatch of Feb. 29, and I con-
sider it the duty of my loyalty to promulgate the
French ideas among the Tuscans.
It suffices to say that universal suffrage is not in
contradiction with the wishes of the Emperor,
who has many and important titles to the gratitude
of the population of Central Italy. The Cabinet of
Turin would not take the responsibility of the de-
finitive resolution, but I guarantee that the vote
shall be given in free and absolute liberty.
The Opinione of to-day asserts that the Govern-
ments of Chambery, Annery, and Nice are about
to publish a proclamation to their provinces in ac-
cordance with the views contained in Count Cavour's
note of the 2d March.

RIMINI, MARCH 7.

The agitation and manifestations in Ancona and
Jessi continue. After the refusal of the popula-
tion to pay the taxes, a military council has been
assembled in Ancona, at which General Rabber-
matten presided. A resolution was adopted to act
in all cases energetically against the town, and to
resist all further assaults, if any should take place.
The equipage of the troops, including the munition
and the baggage of the officers and the delegates has
left Pesaro.

TURIN, MARCH 9.

The Official Gazette of to-day publishes a mes-
sage of M. Farini, dated Bologna, March 2, and
addressed to Count Cavour, in reply to the message
of the latter, dated Feb. 29. M. Farini says :
According to the English proposals, the whole of
the populations of Central Italy were without dis-
tinction to be called to a fresh vote before the oc-
cupation by Sardinian troops took place. The
state of things seemed to indicate the advisability
of accepting any form of the vote which the
mediating Powers should propose. If the form is
not decided upon he should choose that of univer-
sal suffrage. The most favourable moment for the
vote appeared to be at the time of the convocation
of the Sardinian Parliament, as it was then to be
decided whether or not these populations should
participate in the assembly, or, at all events to dis-
cover a method of adjusting the precarious and
dangerous state of affairs.

The reading of the last diplomatic documents,
and especially M. Thouvenel's note of the 31st
January, confirmed my opinions. I therefore re-
solved upon publishing my decree of the Ist March,
summoning the people of the Emilian provinces to
a new vote. At the same time I received your mes-
sage communicating to me your ideas upon the
French proposals. I received them with that re-
spect and deference due to his Majesty, who has
done so much for our independence, and who has
not prohibited the publication of these proposals to
the people. I could never have taken any resolu-
tion without consulting the national will. My de-
cree is not in contradiction with the desires of the
Emperor. If at the first view some difference
seemed to exist relative to the Romagna, in reality
there is none. It would have been contrary to the
public law to establish a distinction between these
provinces and the others. Since France is dis-
posed to approve of the annexation of the Ro-
magna to Piedmont, with the recommendation
that the Sardinian Government ia their provinces
should be subordinate to the high authority of the
Pope, the proposed vicariate refers rather to the
relations between the King and the Pope, than to
the inhabitants. I could not have submitted to the
people this abstract and delicate question which
would have required complicated explanations on
the nature of the limits to the authority of the Pope.
The acts of Rome had destroyed any possibility
of such a combination, which, were it estab-
lished in these provinces, would have produced
disturbances, nothing being more averse to the in-
habitants than Papal interference. M. Farini con-
cludes, "In case the party voting in favour of a
separate kingdom should obtain a majority in the
Romagna, this party would very easily consent to
any arrangement which the Government of his
Majesty, in accordance with European politics,
might think proper to adopt. My duty .and my
honour oblige, me not to leave
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PARIS, SATURDAY.
The Constitutionnel publishes an article, signed
by M. Grandguillot, headed, "Universal suffrage
and public order in Europe."
M. Grandguillot thinks it necessary to explain
the limits of the doctrine of national sovereignty
now invoked against the Imperial policy, to the
advantage of the combinations which his Majesty
cannot protest against, although prepared without
his inspirations. It is necessary to show how a false
extension of those:prineiples may become anincessant
source of troubles and dangers to Europe. Univer-
sal suffrage can only be applied to the internal af-
fairs of a country, and cannot serve to modify the
exercise of the sovereign power in relation with
policy
from e ol icy
foreign affairs for the aggrandisement of a ter-
ritory. M. Grandguillot frees thenh
from the charge of being identified with acts
e as
little conformable to the counsels given of France
as to public rights in Europe.

BERLIN, Minn 10.
It is stated that the English Government will
not protest against the annexation of Savoy and
Nice to France, but will support Switzerland in
her claims concerning the neutralised districts of
S ivoy.

ROYAL
NAVAL RESERVE.—ABEIMEEN.-"-Mr.
Batten Captain Warren, R.N. Captain crock, and Mr.
K ello
s; secretary to the Marine Board, attended a meeting
of the seamen of this port last week to explain to them the
advantages of enrolling. themselves. Mr. Batten, on being
called to the chair, said that if 1,000 seamen joined from
that port, at least £7,000 or am() would be distributed
annually among their wives and children, which would be
a most acceptable boon, while the seamen themselves would
also have two months' keep and exercise in gunnery like
the Volunteer Artillery practice. There was very' little
chance of their ever being called out, which would only be
at times of national emergency. As to the fear of flogging,
which was only inflicted on bad men now, men who dreaded
that were not wanted in the service. With 30,000 seamen
trained to naval gunnery we might defytain the world. The
objections made were answered by Cap Warren, and,
after three cheers for Messrs. Batten and Warren, tb.e
meeting, which was most successful, tyklainated,