FRANCE.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 6, 28 November 1862, Page 3

FRANCE.

IFrencHi>fesß gen«™»y .«*«& the eofOarat«Mias removing the last forcontinnin* the occupation of 'The * Opinion Nationale ' en presses ew with brevity and clearness:— capture of Gajal.aldi destroys the » of» point *»f honour by wh'cn the kation of our«tay in R«mc i* Mill J If Victor Emmnnuel has been o reduce Garibaldi,. he mtght a^« ourselves protect the Pope at Home luncil of ministers was held on the ntenibvr at «hich Mgr. Morlot, an«l other m-mbersmf the privy c.»uncrl resent. M . Thou venel had prepared to Vouched to Rome in «a«e rerment deci<Kd on the immediate >n of Ihe occupaiion of that city by I'trows. This no««. althouah not t«<]> jejected by the council, *a« *red Snopperttine, and its fjespatoh ned The resolutions understood b been takcu wetetiiat tlie4fo<«* quo ie be nnHorngfUJor some ii«io.Bnd ibat no modification should take > we in the military occupation A des]l it b hasbeen sent ioTuriii^oirgratii 'atine |: » lalian government ©n i«i triumph j er the party «»f action, and » copy of tlie .Jj ipatrh *as' ; been ic(n«niuntcated t» the ■i ipMPcaleovernTnent. 2 Tbtcircular of General Durand hasbeen Idly received bv the French government ,i d it Js even affirmed that n» rep y will be !, uchsAfed to if. This looks unfivour- _ ile to the Palian cause: but, on the other ind. the departure of Prince Napoleon r Turin to be present at th« marriage of J e Princess Pia, w regarded as afovourni ilesipn , it M. de l^gaerronnieTe proposes the J Howing .«olution of the Koman ouestion I the empress's j-iurna',' La Fiar.ce. .Ae means .if conciliation being e*hausted ,1 asks for a congrt-ss to settle the matter kftun the following bases: — JfThe divison of Italy into three Mates, e liited by a federal bond. iJThe Kuwantee by Etirope of the Ponti,l»l ter«u»ry farmed by Rome and the . rWriniony of St Peter. il'i'he reservation for the benefit of the |A|y father «f the sovereignty of tlie .linhes and Umbria. with the payment of o| tribute by the sovereign who should Xjiia the administration <»T tJvose flistrlcis. XMititarv, 'liplomitic, legal, citstoms Jd tinaacial taaion between all the Italian 'My da Lagu?rroueiere concludes by (clariui lhat he does not pretend to be ie,V»outhpeice of the French government >oii the queslion. The French press eats these proposals with an indifference noiinting to cpniempi. In Italy they openly ridiculed jDuiins themonUithe Emperor Napoleon isbeenr*f«eshiM|r himself with such reunion* as sea-bathing at Biarritz, and ie .spectacle of hurl-tighting «t B lyonnc, which amusement tke Jim|>re3s, with it child, partakes.