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London, England, 1860-03-17 00:00:00

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THE SUN.
LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1860.

The Morning Post—no bad authority in French
matters—publishes the following with regard to
what it heads—

" FRANCE AND SAVOY.

" This question, if we are not misinformed, stands
thus at present :
" Sardinia is about to cede Savoy and Nice by

treaty to France.
" France will then consult the populations as
to whether they choose annexation to France, or a
separate independence.
«' If they select the latter, then Savoy will be
constituted an independent State. If the former,
the result will he communicated to the great
Powers.

" In the case of serious disapproval and opposi-
tion on the part of the European States—which,
however, is not anticipated—then France would
probably consent to the establishment of Savoy as
an independent State ; but these are, as the French
say, the eventualities of the future.

" ' What is positive is, that France will never
consent, under any circumstances, to the retention
of what are called 'the French slopes of tho Alps'
by Sardinia, enlarged, as she will be; to a Power
inferior only to Prussia'

Now, if this be the true, or even probable, solu-
tion of the matter, it looks as if the disapproval of
hour Government, backed its it has been by the strong
remonstrance
expressed in both Houses of Parlia-
ment, may have made NAPOLEON rather hesitate
in his design. We infer this the more from the
feeler held out to make Savoy an independent State
in the event of the populations not choosing annexa-
tion to France. But tiiis is only the beginning of
the end, and the Emperor NAPOLEON may soon find
that in his over-haste to secure a trifle he has risked
-too much, and in the end precipitated, if he have
not missed, his destiny. PROVIDENCE has ordered
these things benevolently—that the-strong may
provoke a retribution which the weak look upon,
in their despair, as beyond the bounds of hope.
Mr. KIN GLARE brought the subject before the
House last night by. asking the Foreign Secretary
whether there was any objection to lay upon the
table of the House his answer to Lord Bloomfield's
despatch of the 3d day of March, respecting the
proposed annexation of Savoy and Nice. He ex-
pressed a hope that the noble lord would be able to
state that the sinister rumours of the last few days
were not true, and that it was not the fact that the
Emperor of the FRENCH was proceeding to an-
nexation without consulting the great Powers of
Europe, and
contrary to the promise which he had
made, and which was recorded in the correspon-
dence upon the table.

Nor was Sir Rap
EET PEEL mute on the subject.
The hon. baronet denounced the policy of the
French Government in terms which drew, down
the cheers of the house. The
annexation of Savoy,
he observed, was fraught with danger to the neu-
trality and independence of Switzerland. He had
that day received a, telegraphic message from
Annecy, assuring him that the country Was
agitated from one end to the other, and that the
municiralities were perfectly ready to vote in
favour of annexation with France, for the simple
reason that all' kinds of terrorism were being re-
sorted to, as in the first Trench Revolution, to excite