Italy. July 8, 1848
Italy.
Turin, June 29. Jubilation has reigned since yesterday in Turin, though not among the philistines and reactionaries of every sort. In yesterday’s sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, at last, after long and stormy debates such as we have never yet experienced here, a vote was taken on the law concerning the union of Lombardy and the four Venetian provinces with Piedmont. The royalist plans and manoeuvres of the ministers collapsed (among them Pareto, Minister of Foreign Affairs, forms a commendable exception). The Chamber decided by 127 votes to 7 for the commission’s proposal, that is, for the union on the conditions put forward by the Lombards and the four Venetian provinces. Thus the constituent assembly, to be formed by means of universal suffrage and direct elections, will not merely have to ‘deliberate’ on a new constitution, as the ministerial gentlemen, with the exception of Pareto, wanted, but will ‘discuss and determine the foundations and forms of a new constitutional monarchy.’
* Milan, June 27. The provisional government has instructed a commission of engineers to draw up a plan for the construction of a telegraph line between Milan and the seat of war as well as between Milan and Pavia, and to see to its early execution. (Il 22. Marzo.)