New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-31
FRANCE.
From Our Own Correspon4ent.

From Our Own ConespoD1ent
PARIS, March l5 1860.
Your London CORE spondence, Eog6sh flies, aud
last photographic words from Liverpool, viii give you
one and two days later news of the Central Italian
elections than has reached us up to this morning;
but returns have already reacbedus sufficiently COM
pete to show that the people of the DuchieS and the
| Romsgra lave voted to join themselves to SARDINIA
not by large majority, as every one expected
but such msioIites as surpass all expectation and
all precedent. don't speak of the Bologna district
where the voters for "separate kingdom" were in
! minority of something less Than one in thousand
or of the districts provinces, not cities merely OF
| Parma al Nodena where it was a poor fraction
| greater, but Of Tuscany, where the reaction was
strongest; Of Florence where its force was concen-
trated of - 600 inscribed voters, q 900 went to
the ptlIs depositing there over $4,000 votes for
union with Sardinia But the majorities in favor of
unen or annexation sgsnst the fractional minority
| in favor of "sepaIate Kingdom" in an election
where in fact the most advanced aud the most
retrograde the partsans of the Dukes and the par
tifaps of Mszzini could not express by vote their
proper Opinons-are less TO be wondered at and less
10 be- hoped from in themselves than the more pro-
ioundly important fact OF the overwhelming proper
ton of active voters to abstainDg voters In the first
trial ofuniyeral suffrage. There, rather than in the
surprising returns of ma Ortes and min0rtles on the
two limited questions presented to the Central Ital
ians last Sunday and Monday, lies the sound base of
| hope for the future of Italy
| The vote as il stands, however, is full of varied
significance. Ii is an irreutable answer TO the cry
raised and dwelt upon with uLwse persistence by
all partisans of the reaction for the past months,
that the preceding expressions of the national Will
| in the Duches and the Romagnas were but the
voice of revolutionary faction uttered by packed
assemblies and unpopular leaders Now, of course,
they will cry that the vote has been forced fabrca
| ted, &c They will make the same mistake, and
maintain, Willingly unwittiDgly, the same falsity
| that has been so long made and maintained by
equally prejudiced partlsans OF widely different
cause, in reference TO the election of Louis Napo
leon. Government pressure has its influence; fear,
private interest, ignorance and other accidents,
have their influence; but none of these influences,
nor all Of these influences combined seriously
add to or take from the volume of the grand cur
rent of the pOpes will and instinct through the broad
| channel of universal suffrage
To return TO the Italian election: Essentially il is
undoubtedly the great honest spoken voice of the
people. All Europe is listening to it. Victor Eman-
uel hears it gladly, and will answer to its call;
though there is q possibility yet left that, while
Palma and M0dena are annertd, Tuscany may be
Joined with some reservation Of autonOmic forms,
and the Romagnas attached with some reservation
of Papal suzerainty in principle. Louis Napoleon
has heard il, and will be- like to heed it, though it
seems to pronounce condemnation on bis iayorlte
scheme of an Italian Confederation. To renOunce
that is real sacrifice; but he has grown somewhat
wonted TO sacrifices il is to be hoped, by the sue
cessne Illustration within a tweyemonth of four
posted plans or programmes Of performances on the
II Italian stage.
There has been going on here in Paris for the past
fortnight very active ins cn0us, idle discussion,
whether he is really or only apparently vexed at
the Turn which things ana Count Cavour have
taken in Italy The arguments pro and con are
we'll balanced. cannot arrive ut decisive opin-
ion. That matters little, however; practically, it
matters nothing. Vexed or pleased, his Maestys
passions have slight sway over his policy.
IL has been said within the week, with tolerable
likelihood, that he had issued orders for the return
OF Marshal Valiant ftom Italy, apropOs Of Sardin-
ian military occupation of Central Italy. Was the
order meant for Francis JoSephs perusal, as a
consolation; for Victor Emanuel's, as a menace or,
honestly, for valiant AZ an Orderi Either one,
any two, or all these meanings possible, nay
natural enough. II might have been worth while
10 act on Francis and on Victor. Louis himself is
not OmniscleDt, and needs 10 experiment sometimes
like another. The comfortable fact is that whether
Francis Joseph be flattered or not, Camille Cayour
- not at aI scared, and the order, if il we're ever
issued, il cOunternanded.
Without presuming 10 fath0m diplomatic mys-
teres let us look nj the plain facts and fair hkel-
hoods. II the French troops were withdrawn and
the Trapcosardipan alliance we're dissolved,