Our Paris correspondent reports the effect of the debates in
Parliament on the Savoy question.
"Path, Thursday _Evening.
"The recent discussions in the House of Commons have created intense excitement here. No wonder at that, as the annexation of Savoy, which was a simple newspaper topic a few weeks ago, has already grown into a national question, in which every Frenchman thinks himself bound by honour to feel interested. In support of these feelings, the money market has become very buoyant, and a steady and continuous advance in funds is taking place. The Government Agent de Change, M. Gouin, has, it appears, begun the purchase for some 30,000,000 francs, probably for the Treasury's account; then the speculators have come in for large amounts, and the pub- lic itself now contributes its full share of the operations.
"The protest of Switzerland will, it is said today, be settled in a Con- gress to be held in London. "A fact, hardly fit for publication, though the source from which I have it is most reliable, is this, that 50,000 muskets and rifles, have been shipped at Marseilles, on their way to the Danubian Principalities, and for French account. I am much inclined to think that the next question to be settled will be an Oriental one. If Austria and France do not oppose Russian po- licy, what will become of Turkey ? "
The Moniteur of yesterday states that the Senate has rejected, by passing to the order of the day, and with 116 against 16 votes several petitions requesting the intervention of the Senate in favour of tem- poral power of the Pope. From Rome we hear that on Thursday a pro- clamation, dated March 26, was posted up in five different quarters of Rome, by which the Pope hurls the major excommunication and other ecclesiastical penalties against all actors, promoters, coadjutors, coun- cillors, and supporters of the rebellion, usurpation, and invasion of the States of the Church.
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