The Express.
London, England, 1852-09-20 00:00:00

STATE TRIALS IN TUSCANY.

The Opinione of Turin, of the 14th, publishes the
following letter, which was read in the sitting of
the 9th of the Royal Court of Florence, in the matter
of Guerrard and others. It had been addressed by
the Grand Duke of Tuscany, when at Santo Stefano,
to the diplomatic body, and the public prosecutor
had obtained nappy of it from the British embassy.
The letter is as Mows:—

"The amber sf the Monitore Hweae, of the Bth of
February, only mashed me last night. I have learnt from
that amber that ea the above. meatless& da a Tuscan
parelleirmel gerammemmg. oesaposed of , Ouernai,
and Xrass4was Behed ; being lest proclaimed
the plight is the Chamber of Deputise, and then pro s
to and uaselleseuely approved by both Chambers. n the
GSM parte that paper there are several things which I
emir* fain ee inneeroot. What I acknowledge as true is
the Win sea dmisistica I seat to Montanelli on the night
MMe 7th, Weigh the Silas poet-Alec After what is
ramtined is theft Assimmemb, It is useless to repeat here
that the mem whisk homed ate to have Florence and
Siena resulted from the seemeity I was in of defending the
liberty of my vote in a matter of the highest importance,
and front my desire set to leave the way open to fatal
reactions. It I. twee Mss evident that I could not ex-
plicitly paint et the moment of my departure, the
place of may without endangering the safety
of my Wag eid kr from comfortable journey. But my
formal intention not to leave Tuscany evidently multi
from the letter I wrote to Montanelli; and, in fact, es
long as I mom= at Santo Stefano, I outset be said to'
have absta lay seantry. This locality appeared
to me, on hada/
_Man, es being the moot eligible in point
of security and beedma, which were guaranteed to me by a
semi of H. B. M. navy, which, having been amiably
offered to me, was anchored in this port. I have thought it
my duty to inform the diplomatic body accredited in Tus-
cany, or which you are a member, of them circumstances,
that you may communicate it, as I request you to do, to
your government. lam convinced you will not enter into
diplomatic relations with the provisional government esta-
blished at Florence, but that you will prefer keeping up
year relations with me and my legitimate government, as
yen have done hitherto to my great lathfaction. The pre-
sent letter shall be followed by an sot of retest, which I
intend to publish shortly. I shall be to send you
a copy of it.
" Porto San Stefano, Feb. 11, 1849.
(Signed) " Lioroxn."
At the sitting of the 11th of the Ronal Omit of Flereses,
in the case of Gasman' and others, the mosikeee while wee
addressed to Europe in 1849 by the peer*lscall meverasteat
of Tuscany was read ; after wbish Chinreisl woes and
observed, that eines the prosecutor had ibeiled the margi-
sal notes to he read, shish occurred pieris be the demo-
nists relaMmte Me gem it was but right ChM theiambi enjoy the eine vilege ;he theauhre
that the ogle *Sal be glad whieh wasisrrahe
esergin of Me desument now Indere the wart.
The sleek Mingled, and reed the weeds : ap-
fat the handwriting of hlnelsealli" The
sinkslsla, mined la the As mo. es ankle of the
Minas Ifessilen of the 216 of March, let 9, was read, in
Oldish the government adverted in severe terms
lean nUmb beasisi is the this existing paps galled the
Rappi•lsn, awl written , against the
gemminses, awl ser lair It
owed it " to hisvhrws=ear, mad to theisetho_blighlyglbsi
writer " la goalies, ee men that °Maud had remand
the expressiess eigested I. be Ms week entilMl liastoes-
moo& Chao or Italia. This _..,.ties assleed some inte-
rest arson/ tho hearers. No father iseibmt 41 WAS oc-
curred daring the remainder of the sitting.

• GERMANY.
ZOLLVEREIN.
BERLIN, Bare. 17.
The splitting d the Zoilvorein is here regarded by
many people as accompli.. On the 15th inst.
the tern ast ia the last Prussian declaration for re-
ceiving the sedition's reply, as sitting of the confer-
aise inn • seovened, the representatives of the
scathes sides deelared that they had received no
instruct:lam bat hoped to be furnished with such in
a week's the. The ministers of the coalition go-
vernments are now assembled at Munich for the
purpose of preparing their reply, having deferred, as
it seems designedly, their deliberations till after the
lath. Thepdoin government, however, knowing
that the coalition has received instructions
feta Austria again to give an evasive re-
ply, and to renew its demand for negotia-
Wm with Austria simultaneous with the ne-
=for renewal of the Zollyerein, and seeing,
, that no approach to a desirable settlement
is being made, has resolved no longer to be a party
to negotiations equally derogatory and futile. The
Pruden government, oonsecrently, convoked this
menu( only the representatives of Hanover, Olden-
amoserkk, and the Thuringian duchies, and
deehrod to them that it will henceforth confer only
with them on the formation of the &tare customs'
union, and of course rigidly adhere to the sti-
pulations of the September treaty. This is,
indeed, a momentous step. But its success
mainly depends on the measures which may
have been taken for securing the firm adherence of
Hanover. It is to be hoped that M. von Mantouffel
has given the Hanoverian government, as be has
been repeatedly urged to do, a full guaranty that it
shall not suffer any loss of revenue by the secession
of the southern states, or, in other words, that he will
waive the impolitic secret clause of the September
treaty, whereby the bonus to Hanover of 75 per cent.
in the sharing of the common customs' revenue was
to be reduced, in the event of such secession, to about
25 per cent. The next step for Prussia is, however,l
at once to come forward with a very considerably
reduced tariff, which would secure the adherence of
the Hanoverian people and counterbalance any appre-
hensions on the part of the court of Hanover about