The Express. — 1860-04-10 (London, England)

NORTH SAVOY.  The following address has been presented to the Savoyard deputies in the Piedmontese parliament by the committees of North Savoy, representing the 12,000 signatures in favour of Swiss annexation :  Messieurs les Dfputie,—The fate of North Savoy is in your hands. It rests with you to satisfy her expectations or to deceive her hopes. Glorious events, the fruits of which free Italy is now reaping, have carried with them political results that seem to render the severance unavoidable of those ties which for centuries have united Savoy to the Sardinian monarchy. These results, which we dreaded but could not foresee, have led us, sin, to consider closely our situation, our interest., our future. In these days, when the people enjoy the happy privilege of having some influence upon their own destiny, it was our right and our duty to study the various prospects that opened before us. This study has shown us that the monarchical unity which rallied us round the constitutional throne of Victor Emmanuel 11. once definitively broken, we became competent to choose for ourselves that which accorded best with our sympathies, our habita, our wants, our interests. In all these relations, sin, North Savoy has a life of her own, quite distinct from that of Southern Savoy ; so that, unless the wish is to make the North the slave and a sort of insig. nificant adjunct of the South, nobody can deny her the right to proclaim openly her preferences, and to claim loudly that her wishes be fulfilled.  We do not attempt to judge of the preferences of the rest of Savoy, and we do not refuse to recognise them. We are told that they incline towards France. But, if so, lot Southern Savoy speak in her own name and not in ours. She has nodded no mission from us. Much lees had they any, those men who most of them at all time@ enemies of those liberal ideas the triumph of which is now secure in your country, which is still ours— seem to try to punish our constant devotion to the cause of Italy, by smothering our free aspirations, and who, hating taken upon themselves the sorry mission of offering to • foreign master the hos of their itterested desertion—cave arrogated to themselves the right of speaking for us. We declare that far from seeing with joy Savoy hoisting a new banner, we could not think, without deep grief that we were going to ahandon the old Sag to whore glory we have contributed. Your justice, sirs, will bear us witness so far. We potent energetically against those soealled wishes that • mock deputation has dared to offer am the expression of the wishes of the whole of Savoy. We may be allowed further to call to your mind that we have acquired, and as Sardinian sublecte still hold, the right to take an interest in the preservation of the Italian independence. It is by this right that we dare to represent to you the future dangers to which possession by a single state of all the paime of our mountains must expose this independence. From the Maritime Alpe to the Penin Alps, from Nice to the Simplon, Italy is opened, if our wishes are returned. Our wishes are these :  If we must Mae to belong to • free monarchy, if we mmt cease to be the loyal subjects of the illustrious house of Savoy, our wish is to become independent citizens of the noble Swiss Confederation. More than twelve thousand signatures, which will be laid before you, attest in an unexceptionable way the sincerity of this wish. We sat but for one thing, which is to be allowed to bear witness to it in a still clearer and imposing manner. You have yourselves. sin, just seen the political regeneration of Italy brought out by universal suffrage freely con. suited. Grant us, to manifest our opinion, the mine forms, the same guarantees, that all the citizens of full age he called upon, each in his own commune, to take part in this solemn act, of each distinct province, and let them be by • vote allowed to pronounce freely among the different alternatives that may offer themselves to their choice. The suffrage already obtained in favour of an eventual union with Switzerland renders it imperative that this union in particular should be seriously submitted to the vote. It rests with you, sirs, to respond to this legitimate request, by making a free voting on our part • condition of th ratification of the treaty of ceasion laid before you for approbation. The treaty stipulate= expressly that the will of the people shall be consulted. It therefore allows you— nay more, it obligee you—to bike care that this consultation be serious and sincere, and this can only be in the way we have shown.  Universal suffrage in each commune, voting by province, and a fair option among all possible preference—this alone will enable North Bavoy to make known its wishes distinctly. This is what we claim from you, sirs—this is what you will pant us. Tu► PRIMIDINTS or rim Comrirrreer.  BAKU, JosaPH, advocate, Bonneville. Betimes, TH. A., engineer, Thonon. FACHAI, HtNat, advocate, St. Julien. March 30, 1860.  A superior officer in the French army, who lived in the Rue Moreau, St. Denis, committed suicide the other day wider singularly distr.:wing circumstances. He accomplished his object by lying on kid hack in bed, and discharging a musket beneath his chin, by pulling the trigger by means of a string attached to his foot. In a letter a•ldres'ed to the colonel of his regiment, he stated that his re.i.on ass that he had long suffered to dreadfully front woumls --not fewer than twenty-fire in number, received in action—that ►t times his mind was affected. Just before killing himself he sent hie wife and child to Paris.