ITALY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume X, Issue 627, 10 November 1858, Page 5

ITALY.

Count Cavour had recently an interview with the Emperor of the. French at Plombieres, This interview is regarded by the ministerial journal of Turin in the light of a great political event:—

In the present condition of the general polities of Europe it not only confirms the bonds of alliance and friendship between France and Piedmont, but it attests, moreover, that the relation between the two states, and political matters, rendered convenient an interview of the President of the Piedmontese council with the man who holds in his hands the destinies of France and Europe. Count Cavour went to Plombieres not only to offer his homage to the Emperor .Napoleon, but a political reason must have called him on the eve of the Cherbourg meeting, whilst the conference of Paris has not yet arranged the question of the Principalities, whilst Austria adopts in Italy precautions every^ day more anxious and energetic, and the aversion of her Lombardo-Venetian subjects grows every day more invincible, and more solid the alliance between Piedmont and France.

In addition to this, which is pretty plain in its meaning, the Piedmontese journal adds:— " The demonstrations offered to Count Cavour, at Geneva, will please Piedmont, as the manifestations of the ties which exist between two free nations, and the reciprocal affection which unites constitutional Piedmont with republican Switzerland."

The King of Naples has pardoned seven of the convicts of Sapri lately sentenced to die. The capital punishment of-Nicotera and two others has been transmuted into one of penal servitude for life, that of fuur others into twentyfive years' compulsory labour in chains.