A telegram from Turin, dated Thursday, states that King Victor
Emmanuel, in consequence of a very urgent representation received from the French Government, has refused to grant permission to the ' Prince de Carignan to accept the Regency of Central Italy, which has been offered to him.
The Moniteur of yesterday, in noticing the signature of the treaties of Zurich, informs us that the Governments of France and Austria have agreed to promote the meeting of a Congress, which will receive com-
munication of the treaties of Zurich, and deliberate on the means most adapted to establish the pacification of Daly on solid and durable bases. The Imperial organ also publishes a circular, issued on the 5th of No- vember last, by Count Walewski, Minister of Foreign Affairs, to the di- plomatic agents of the French Government abroad, explaining tee ad- vantages of the different clauses of the Treaty of Peace signed at Zurich, and stating that France will not have to advance the amount of the debt due by Piedmont to Austria, but will cooperate with Piedmont in making the stipulated payment, by certain arrangements which have been agreed upon between France and Sardinia. France has demanded from Sardinia the payment of sixty millions for the expenses of the late war. The circular further announces that the Government of France had received assurances that the Pope was only waiting an opportune moment to make public certain reforms by which the government of the clergy would be replaced by a government generally composed of the laity, and which would give to the country better guarantees for the administration of justice, and for the control of the public finances by means of an as- sembly elected by the people.
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