The New York herald., 1848-12-20
THE DEMOCRATIC REVOLU TON AT ROME.
Abdication of the Pope,
&c. &c. &c.
OUR ITALIAN CORRESPONDENCE.

FLORENCE Nov. 81, 1846.
Count Rossi, the well known economist and exam
bassador Of Louis Philippe In Rome, and the Popes
principal minister of the leaders of the doctrinar
ian school Of Guxot and Metternich, undertook the
establishment Of tionary principles and of des-
potic pewer in Italy. The task scarcely undertaken
has met the result that to be expected and Ross
tragical and melancholy fate has been followed by
democratic revolution in Rome Plus the 9th WI. pro-
badly abdcse and the report Of bis intended emgra-
ton to Spain was current in that city the day be.
fore yesterday.
This extraordinary and important revolution will
have an echo In Naples and Turin. I entertain no
doubt of it, from what and hear in this central
part of the Penineule and from what observed dur
ing mont e residence In the FIRST named city.
encoee 10 you the acts Of the Federal Congress OF
the Italian States the ratification and carrying into
execution Of which have been Of the demands o
the Roman people.
TRANsLArrp PROM THE ITALIAN FOR THE n. y HERALD
PROJECT or AN ELECTORAL LAW, BY THE coNvEN
TON or THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY OF THE
ITALIAN STATES.
Anti A Constituent Assembly shall be called to-
gebsr by all the italian States Of which assembly the
fole business and task shall be to complete federal
compact and union, which, while it shall respect the
exittence Of each individual State, and leave undis
turbed to esch Of the States its form of govern
ment shalt sm to secure the liberty union and the
1u02peDdence
property ofvhe whole nation.
Art q beCon.titueut Assembly shall be bound to
maintain unaltered, aud to secure firmly, the basis
laid down in the plan Of federal union annexed to
the present law.
Art g. Each state shall send an equal number Of
repres entatives to the Coneti uent Assembly.
Art. A. The entire number of representatives from
oil the States shall be three hundred.
Art. 6. The representatives from each State shall
be elected by the respective chambers of deputies OF
each one and sad chambers shall be at liberty to elect
any citizen of the confederation.
A~k Nh nhounh nhaH nf damn fiQa nj INV StatQ ahon
be at liberty to elect from among them more than the
quota OF representatives apportioned to the State.
Art. 7. Each State shall assign an adequate COM
peneation for its own represe natives
Art. g. The Constituent Assembly shall meet at
Rome month after the approval of the present law
by three Italian parliaments.
popularity OF her condition and in the event that her
condition, as aforesaid, shall not have beeE changed
at the tine Of the meeny of the Constituent Assem-
bly,, they shall have the right to distinct and sepa-
rate equal to that of any other State Of
the confederation The number of said representa-
tives shall be apportioned between Lombsrdy and
Venice, In respect to the population. Those from
Lombardy shall be elected by the Lombardan Assem-
bly,, called the Consulta Those from Venice shall be
equally divided between the four provinces of Padua
Vicenya, Trevisa and Rorigo, in proportion to the
population and the four Others from Venice Verona
Udine, and Bellsno The representatives of the
former shall be elected by the members Of the respec
tive committees those of the latter by the Assembly Of
Venice.
Art 10 As relates 70 the Province Of Modena and
Reggie, and their situation should not
be a. 'ns time OF meeting sn % 0i sns
Sardinia. the Chamber of DEPUTIES Of each State
will provide that the said States be properly repre-
sented In the said Assembly.
MAMIANI TERENZIo,
GioBERTI VINcENZo, Presidents.
ROMEO GIOVANNI ANDREA.
PEREZ FRAxcEsco,
BoNAPARrn Dow CARLo ~. Presidents
LEoPARDI PIErRo,
FRks0HI FRANCEsCo,
BoRsANi GIUSEPPE, See. General
BRIeNoHE GIOVANNI EpoARDo.)