The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-01-31 00:00:00

ITALIAN AFFAIRS.

The Belgium journals assert that the two Northern
Powers— Russia and Prussia—in their reply to the note
in which France has expressed • wish to reopen the
negotiations about • European Congress, have stated
that they, too, do not think that the project should be
wholly abandoned.
The other day some explosive shells were thrown
among the ladies who were alighting at the Chevalier
Buoncorupagni's ball, On the evening of the 17th three
similar but more powerful shells exploded at the houses
of the Baron Ricasoli, President of the Tuscan Govern-
ment; of Signor Salvagnoli, oneof the Ministers ;and of
Signor Peruzzi, a member of the late Provisional
Government. The news of the attempt brought the
inhabitants into the street, when Baron Ricasoli, ad-
dressed them from his balcony :—" It cannot," he said,
" have been intended to assassinate me, for nothing
would be easier. Igo about alone day and night. What
is intended is to alarm the city, and, perhaps, to give the
signal for some desperate coup de main. But, as you see,
you may judge of these men by their works. They throw
a bomb in the dark, not knowing or caring who may be
the victims. Their conduct is as cowardly as it is infa-
mous." Several persons have been arrested. They seem
all to be of • low position in life, such as subaltern func-
tionaries who have been dismissed by the Provisional
Government, and fieldguards, and watchmen. One is a
Venetian refugee who had received a cot 1111 l i/ll4iOD in the
Tuscan army, and who seems to be under suspicion of
being an agent of the Grand Duke.—The Provisional
Government has intenlicted the Archbishop of Pisa
from having prayer offered in the churches for the Grand
Duke. In the public reprimand which lie has received
it is said that it is not the clergy's business to decide who
is the rightful owner of the States, and that Tuscany has
not any longer • Grand Duke, but a King.
The Sardinian electoral law has been proclaimed in the ,
Lmnilian provinces—that is to say, in the Legatione, in
Modena, arid in Panna—and the country has been
divided into electoral districts. The electoral writs have
been issued for an early day next month. The number
of deputies for the provinces is to be seventy :—Bologna,
12; Ferrara, 7; Forli, 7 ; 51usa and Carrara, 4 ; Mo-
dena, 10; Parma, 8 ; Piacenza, 7; Ravenna, 7; Reggio,
8. The Governor of the Xanilian provinces also orders •
new coinage on the decimal systein to be struck ; the
silver coins to have the effigy of King Victor Emmanuel
on one side, and the Royal arms of Savoy on the reverse,
with the following inscription :—" Dio protegge l'ltalia."
A letter of the 15th from Venice says :—" The Square
of St. Mark was crowded to-day at two o'clock; but
but when the military band made its appearance every
one withdrew and went towards the Zattere. At half-
past two, on the bridge Della Calcina, fifty Austrian
officers, rattling their sabres, advanced towaads the pe-
destrians. A hissing was instantly heard, and cries re-
sounded from all sides, ' Go to Solferino, to Magenta;
this is not your place !' These gentlemen, finding their
further progress impeded, retired by the same way they
had come, but in • much less triuuiphant manner."