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SAMSBDAY MOENING.
Our 'Paris correspondent, it will be seen, repeats, with some slight modifications, his statements of last week on the future of Italy. There its very little, if any, ground for doubting the entente eordiale between France and Austria.
" Thursday evening. " It is confidently expected that the treaty of peace will be signed this week at Zurich by France, Austria, and Sardinia.
" The question relating to the Duchies will be submitted to a Con- gress which is proposed to be held at Brussels. France and Austria are d'accord on the Italian question, and will act together. This policy is, as I stated last week, to give back, the Legations to the Pope, to restore the Grand Duke of Tuscany, and to concede the strong places of Pes- ehiera and Mantua to Piedmont. There is also, I believe, reason to think that the Duke of Modena will not be reinstated, and that his territory will be divided between Parma and Tuscany. That all the details are settled I will not assert; but France and Austria. are agreed on the prin. oiple of opposing in a Congress the annexation of the Duchies to Pied- mont.
"It is thought that England may be brought over to take the same view of the question, notwithstanding the positive assertions to the con- trary of some of the London journals. It has even been said that Eng- lanctwould-not sit in any Congress, and that consequently no Congress will take place : this policy is improbable and perhaps undesirable.
"'The troops of the Italian League are within.,a short distance of the Papal Army, and.should the latter be defeated, France and Austria will become far more intractable. Already the Bishop of Arras hassent forth the watchword that the Church is in danger, and it is an absolute ne-. cessity with the present Government to keep on good terms with the clergy.
'-You willremember that last week I' refused any credit to the report, so confidently put forward, that the Emperor wished to- place his cousin on an Italian throne; the Ifoniteur has scattered these idle tales to the winds. The rumours relating to the Count of Flanders, Duke of Oporto, &c., are equally absurd."
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