The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-08-16 00:00:00

TUSCANY.

An official message, dated Florence, the fith, stages
that the elections were concluded with perfect order,
and that a large number of voters attended to give their
suffrages. The elected belong to all CIIIMINS of the
country. The Araombly ia convoked for Thursday next,
and the inhabitants are full of confidence.

'There was a talk at Paris on Tuesday night of •
memorial said to have been subuiitted to the English
and French Governments by the envoys from Florence.
It may be termed an exposition of possibilities in
Tuscany u regards the restoration of the Grand Duke
Lionel& of his son's replacing him, or of the choice of
some other Prince. The questions the document treats
are mainly these two.—Can the Archdocal dynasty be
restored; and what Government could be substituted
for it without incurring at least • portion of the
evils to which its restoration would assuredly give rise?
The first thing to consider is, how the Archdukes could
be brought back. There are but three ways of doing it
—either by a reactionary movement in Tuscany, by the
intervention of foreign Powers, or by a vote of the
National Assembly . It is seemly necessary to insist
on the improbability of the find and last of these two
plans. Whatever fresh direction popular feeling and
opinion might take in Tuscany, all recent manifesta-
tions forbid our supposing that it would be in that of
bringing back the expelled Princes. That they should
mums their station by • vow of the Assembly is
still more unlikely, especially if, as we have no reason to
doubt, the eceount be correct which the telegraph has
brought us of the way in which the elections have
gone. That the Chamber may be under no misconcep-
tion, the Provisional Government proposes to inform
it, immediately on its assembling, of the facts (already
sufficiently known) of Leopold's abdication, and of the
pledges offered by the son in whose favour he resigns
his throne. It is not believed, however, that any pro-
visions will induce the Chamber to show itself favour-
able to the pretensions of the Archduke Ferdinand—
of the A.itstnan-Colonel who, had Magenta proved a
reverse for the French, was prepared to invade Tus.
cony at the head of the Austrian troops, with
which, in the cluing battle of the campaign, he fought
against the Franco-Piedinontese. The opportunity for
such • compromise was suffered to escape. That
which was practicable before the war—and proposed
in April by the very men who now govern in Tus-
cany—has become, it iv fully believed, impossible at
the present time. There remains then, but one other
way of restoring the dynasty—nainely, by foreign inter-
vention, and that this shall not be exerted Napoleon
111., so say the Tuscans, has pledged his word. The
delegates of the Provisional Government having, as
they consider, satisfactorily established in their note or
memorial to the Cabinets of London and Paris the
impracticability of the restoration of the expelled
dynasty—impracticable at any rate, and in any
manner, without a certainty of future revolutions—
express their opinions as to what would best content
and please their countrymen, with the wishes of the
vast majority of whom they believe themselves to be
perfectly acquainted. The lot to which they are Con-
vinced that their country most earnestly aspires is that
of annexation to Piedmont. That plan, they believe,
would be supported by a vast majority of votes,
whether in the National Assembly or if submitted to
that universal suffrage for which the French Emperor
hal as often professed his respect. The idea of union
with Piedummt has, they may, gained much ground •
the Convention of Villafranca.

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