ITALY.
The Minister of Finance has made his statement. He reckons upon a deficit up to the end of 1867 of 425,000,000 f., which he proposes to meet principally by a loan. I his deficit is made up of the accumulated deficiences of several years, beginning with the year 1862. The King has signed a decree granting a fall amnesty for all political offences, including those connected with the Aspromonte affair. In the Chamber of Deputies the clauses of the bill for the abolition of the punishment of death for crimes against the common law were voted by a very considerable majority. The rumors which have lately been in circulation relative to the existence of a secret article in the September Convention are daily becoming more credited at Turin. It is believed that this secret article makes provisions for the cess 1 on of Sardinia to France in the event of Home becoming the capital of Italy. A new paper, entitled ' L'Alpi,' has been brought out in Turin by a political party, who maintain that the arrangement above mentioned forms the basis of the Franco-Italian treaty. This journal violently attacks the transfer of the capital to Florence, and condemns the policy which dictated the conclusion of the Convention.
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Bruce Herald, Volume III, Issue 59, 25 May 1865, Page 9
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208ITALY. Bruce Herald, Volume III, Issue 59, 25 May 1865, Page 9
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