A telegram from Paris, dated yesterday, mentions, as a report,
that the Cabinet of the Tuileries is about to address a memorandum to the Powers who signed the final act of Vienna. The aim of this memoran- dum is said to be to establish, by strategical considerations, the unim- peachable proof that, if France ever had an intention of menacing the neutrality of Switzerland; she could do so notwithstanding all the gua- rantees stipulated in the treaties of 1815, since the military road leading from France to Germany through Switzerland now no longer exists, neither in the territory of Faucigny nor of Chaublais, but at another point not included in the neutralized districts. The Cabinet of the Tuileries hopes by that to show that the annexation of Savoy to France does not virtually deprive Switzerland of her strategical positions, neither does it involve any of the dangers put forward beforehand by the Fede- ral Council of Berne.
General Garibaldi, in a speech on the Thursday's sitting of the Cham- her of Deputies, affirmed that the voting of Nice will be effected under French pressure. He censured the action of the Provisional Govern- ment of Nice, as attacking the liberty of the vote, and concluded by pro- posing the adjournment of the vote in that province. After the rejection of several orders of the day implying disapprobation of the conduct of the Government, the following order of the day was adopted by a great majority :—The Chamber, hoping that Government will maintain the constitutional guarantees, and efficaciously provide for the liberty of the vote in Savoy, passes to the order of the day.
The Duke of Rochefaucauld has given twelve rifled cannons to the Pope.
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