, 1865-04-18

would be considered as the frontier OF
France The protocol bears the sigma
ture of the Minister Visconti Venosta and
another person. None will require, [
presume, that I should reveal the source
of my certain information. But | ask
Italians to recoliect that I revealed. a
year before the fact, the cession of Savoy
and Nice, and that transmitted to the
Unitd UaLan0 the substance of the con-
v@ention of the 18th of September before
1t was even so much as suspected in Italy.
In a nation educaL d like England 10 IL
berry, such a protocol-and it has not
been destroyed by the present Ministry
would involve a charge of high treason,
and death on the gallows for the men who
signedit. Opposed as am 10 the penal
ty of death, | only see one reply worthy
Of Italy, and particularly Of the little
country at the foot Of the AIps-and that
is, to tell the foreign Emperor ,-'Sire,
you are mistaken; we shall have Venice
and you shall not have Piedmont
Yours, ''GUIsEPPE MAzzINI.
"March 49,"
The alleged secret treaty has been the
subject of explanations in the Turin
Chamber. Siguor Massari asked the Pre-
sident of the Council if the treaty really
existed, and General La Marmora replied
in the most emphatic terms that it did not.
Had not the House abolished the punish
ment of death he would, he said, answer
for the truth of this denial with his head;
as it was, he would answer for it with
something he priced even more highly,
viz, his honour. Signor Visconti Venos-
ia, the late Minister of Foreign Affairs,
by whom Sjgnor Mazzina declares the
treaty was signed, was equally emphatic
in his deniaIs. Public opinion, he said,
had already done Justice to these pretend
ed revelations, respecting which, the
only thing true was the creduIity with
which they had been listened to. In
answer to a suggestion from Signor Girls
pl, he denied, moreover, that any couver-
sation upon the sGbje of such treaty
had ever taken place at the time when
the convention was being discussed. The
Opjnl0ne In al article upon the subject,
says, that a protocol was added to the
convention, but that it related to the
transfer Of the capital, and that, like the
convention itself, it was signed by Signors
NiSid duu tPOII, anu uOI ny Ol9DOf WIS.,
cont Venosta. 'It is truly incompre-
hensible," it adds chow the convention
could be signed in Paris and the protocol
annexed to it in Turin by other PIenipo-
tentiaries; nor is it easier to understand
how General La Marmora, who was at
first opposed to the convention, could
have become favourable to it when he
had found upon the shelves of the Foreign
Office the treaty denounced by Mazzini."
The Malone of Florence writes upon
the subject in very strong terms. Signor
Mazzini, it says, now that the Piedmon-
tese population are depressed and agita-
ted by recent events, announces to them
that their provinces are to be annexed to
France, just AS he announced the ~cession
of Genoa in 1860, and afterwards that of
Sardinia and Naples. "The Piedmontese
population," it adds, "will do Justice to
his inventions, as the Ligurian, Sandman
and Neapolitan populations did"
RUSSIA.
The Russian Government has extend
ed the electric telegraph eastward to-
wards the frontiers of China $500 miles