communes, public establishments, and religious corporations, who have deposited sums of money as caution-money, deposits, or consignments, in the banks of Lombardy, will be punctually reimbursed by the Sardinian Go

vernment.

X. The Government of His Majesty the King of Sardinia acknowledges and confirms the concessions of railways granted by the Austrian Government upon the territory ceded, in all their clauses, and during the whole duration of the concessions, and in particular the concessions made by contracts dated March 14, 1856, April 8, 1857, and September 23, 1858.

From the day of the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the present Treaty, the Sardinian Government is invested with all the rights and subjected to all the obligations appertaining to the Austrian Government in respect of the said concessions in all that relates to the railway lines situate on the territory ceded.

In consequence, the right of devolution which belonged to the Austrian Government in regard to these railways is transferred to the Sardinian Government.

The payments which remain to be made on the sum due to the State by the grantees by virtue of the Contract of March 14, 1856, by way of equivalent for the expenses of making the said railways, will be paid in their entirety to the Austrian Treasury.

The credits of the building contractors and tradesmen, and also the compensation money for land taken, so far as they may appertain respectively to the time when the railways in question

were administered for the account of the State, and which have not hitherto been paid, will be borne by the Austrian Government, and, in so far as they may be due from them by virtue of the concession, by the grantees in the name of the Austrian Government.

A special Convention will regulate, with as little delay as possible, the international service of the railways between Sardinia and Austria.

XI. It is understood that the recovery of the credits under Paragraphs 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16 of the Contract of March 14, 1856, shall not confer upon Austria any right of control or, surveillance in the construction and working of the railways in the territories ceded. The Sardinian Government undertakes, for its part, to furnish the Austrian Government with all the information which it may require on this head.

XII. The Lombard subjects domiciled on the ceded territory shall enjoy for the space of one year, commencing with the day of the exchange of the ratifications, and conditionally on a prévious declaration before the competent authorities, full and entire permission to export their movables, free of duty, and to withdraw with their families into the States of His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, in which case their quality of Austrian subjects shall be retained by them. They shall be free to preserve their immovable property, situated on the territory of Lombardy. The same permission is accorded reciprocally to individuals, natives of the ceded territory of Lombardy, established in the States

of His Majesty the Emperor of Austria.

The Lombards who shall profit by the present arrangements shall not be, on account of their choice, disturbed on one side or on the other, in their persons or in their properties situated in the respective States.

The delay of one year is extended to two years for the subjects, natives of the ceded territory of Lombardy, who, at the time of the exchange of the ratifications of the present Treaty, shall be beyond the territory of the Austrian monarchy.

Their declaration may be received by the nearest Austrian Mission, or by the superior authorities of any province of the Monarchy.

XIII. The Lombard subjects forming part of the Austrian army, with the exception of those who are natives of the part of the Lombard territory retained by His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, shall be immediately set free from military service and sent back to their homes.

It is understood that those who shall declare their wish to remain in the service of His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, shall not be disturbed on that account, either in their persons or in their properties.

The same guarantees are given to persons in civil employments, natives of Lombardy, who shall manifest their intention of retaining the offices which they hold in the service of Austria.

XIV. Pensions, civil as well as military, regularly paid, and which were charged on the public revenue of Lombardy, remain in the possession of those who are entitled to them, and when there

is occasion, to their widows and their children, and shall be paid in future by the Government of His Sardinian Majesty.

This stipulation extends to the holders of pensions, civil as well as military, as well as to their widows and children, without distinction of origin, who shall retain their domicile in the ceded territory, and whose claims, paid up to 1814 by the ci-devant Kingdom of Italy, then fell to the charge of the Austrian Treasury.

XV. The archives containing the titles of property, and documents connected with administration and civil justice, whether they relate to the part of Lombardy whose possession is reserved to His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, or to the Venetian Provinces, shall be handed over to the Commissioners of His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty as soon as possible.

Reciprocally the titles of property, and documents connected with administration and civil justice, concerning the ceded territory, which may be found in the archives of the Emperor of Austria, shall be handed over to the Commissioners of His Majesty the King of Sardinia.

The Governments of Sardinia and Austria bind themselves to communicate reciprocally, on the demand of the higher administrative authorities, all the documents and information relative to matters concerning at once Lombardy and Venetia.

XVI. The religious corporations established in Lombardy, whose existence the Sardinian laws would not authorize, shall be free to dispose of their pro

XVII. All the Treaties and Conventions concluded between His Majesty the King of Sardinia and His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, which were in force before the 1st of April, 1859, are confirmed, in as far they are not modified by the present Treaty. At the same time, the two High Contracting Parties bind themselves to submit, within the term of a year, these Treaties and Conventions to a general revision, in order to introduce into them, by common agreement, such modifications as shall be considered in accordance with the interests of the two countries.

In the meanwhile these Treaties and Conventions are extended to the territory recently acquired by His Majesty the King of Sardinia.

XVIII. The navigation of the Lake of Garda is free, except as regards the special regulations of the ports and the water police. The liberty of navigation of the Po and its affluents is maintained in accordance with the Treaties.

A Convention designed to regulate the measures necessary to prevent and repress smuggling in these waters, will be concluded between Sardinia and Austria, in the term of one year, to date from the exchange of the ratifications of the present Treaty. In the meanwhile the arrangements stipulated in the Convention of the 22nd November, 1851, for the repression of smuggling on the Lake Maggiore, the Po, and the Ticino, shall be applied to the navigation; and during the same interval no innovation shall be made in the regulations and the rights of navigation in

XIX. The Sardinian Government and the Austrian Government bind themselves to regulate, by a special Act, all that relates to the ownership of and the maintenance of the bridges and passages on the Mincio, where it forms the frontier, and to such new buildings as may be made in that respect, the expenses which may result from them, and the taking of the tolls.

XX. Where the Valley of the Mincio shall henceforth mark the frontier between Sardinia and Austria, the buildings intended for the rectification of the bed and the damming up of that river, or which shall be of a nature to alter its current, shall be made by common agreement between the two adjoining States An ulterior arrangement will regulate this matter.

XXI. The inhabitants of the adjoining districts shall enjoy reciprocally the facilities which were formerly assured to the dwellers on the banks of the Ticino.

XXII. In order to contribute, with all their efforts, to the pacification of men's minds, His Majesty the King of Sardinia and His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, declare and promise that, in their respective territories, and in the countries restored or ceded, no individual compromised on the occasion of the late events in the Peninsula, of whatever class or condition he may be, shall be prosecuted, disturbed, or troubled in his person or in his property, on account of his political conduct and opinions.

XXIII. The present Treaty shall be ratified, and its ratifica.

tions exchanged at Zurich in the

In faith of which the respective

EARL COWLEY TO THE EARL OF MALMESBURY.-(Received Jan. 2.)-(Extract.)

Paris, January 1, 1859.

It is the custom of the Emperor, when the Diplomatic Body wait upon His Majesty on the occasion of the new year, to say a word or two to each of them individually. This afternoon, when His Majesty approached the Austrian Ambassador, he said, with some severity of tone," that although the relations between the two empires were not such as he could desire, he begged to assure the Emperor of Austria that his personal feelings towards His Majesty remained unaltered."

EARL COWLEY TO THE EARL OF MALMESBURY.-(Received Jan. 4.)-(Extract.)

Paris, January 3, 1859. The words spoken by the Emperor to the Austrian Ambassador during the reception of the Diplomatic Body by His Majesty on New Year's-day, to which I had the honour to call your Lordship's attention in my de

spatch of the 1st instant, have of course been commented upon, with the usual additions and exaggerations that accompany the repetition of verbal statements, and have occasioned considerable disquietude in the public mind.

Yesterday evening, at the Empress' reception, the Emperor accosted M. de Hübner with his usual affability, and it may be hoped, therefore, that this incident will be forgotten.

EARL COWLEY TO THE EARL OF MALMESBURY.-(Received Jan. 8.)-(Extract.)

Paris, January 7, 1859.

I had some conversation yesterday with Count Walewski relative to the panic which has been caused by the Emperor's speech to M. de Hübner on New Year'sday. His Excellency, in admitting and lamenting the fact, said that the sense of His Majesty's words had been greatly exaggerated, and that His Majesty had no other intention in addressing M. de Hübner as he had done, than to express regret at the present state of the relations

between Austria and France, while giving the Emperor of Austria the assurance that that state did not interfere with the personal sentiments of friendship and esteem which the Emperor felt to His Imperial Majesty.

Count Walewski added that, in order to allay the apprehension which I had noticed, an article would be inserted in the Moniteur to reassure the public mind.

the Tuileries, and the Moniteur has attempted to reassure the public mind, the agitation is not diminished.

Her Majesty's Government have such entire confidence in your Excellency's tact and judgment that they feel that no given instructions can be so useful as a full liberty left to your Excellency to take advantage of the most fitting occasions to urge upon the Emperor, and upon his Ministers, the paramount importance of pre

Paris, January 6, 1859. Public opinion has been agitated for some days past by alarming reports, to which it is a duty of the Government to put an end by declaring that nothing in our diplomatic relations authorizes the fears to which these reports tend to give birth.

any circumstances in which the vital interests of France itself are not imperilled.

Her Majesty's Government received and hailed with sincere satisfaction the assurances with which, in 1852, the Emperor of the French consecrated his election to the throne. Those assurances were, that His Imperial Majesty would observe and maintain the treaties which were then the law of Europe, and Her

Foreign Office, Jan. 10, 1859. My Lord,-Her Majesty's Government have heard from your Excellency with deep concern that the state of the relations between the French and Austrian Courts is of a nature so unsatisfactory that in your own opinion, and that of the public of France, it might at any moment lead to a still further and more fatal estrangement. The speech of the Emperor to M. Hübner on New Year's-day increased the general alarm, which has extended to this country; and although, subsequently, a more courteous treatment of the Austrian Minister was displayed at

to say that no pledge was ever more faithfully and loyally kept.

The European benefit of an unbroken alliance between England and France has been the result of that honourable policy, and Her Majesty's Government, who believe that the peace of Europe is ever in the hands of those two great empires, feel the deepest anxiety whenever France appears likely to be in hostility with any of the great Powers of the Continent.

Her Majesty's Government must state to your Excellency that, in the evident ill-humour displayed reciprocally between France and Austria at this moment, they can conceive no great national question or interest in