The Express.
London, England, 1858-01-29 00:00:00

TUSCANY.

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The Council of the Prefecture of Leghorn has just
passed sentence upon 227 persons tried for having
takes part in the attempted insurrection and street
fighting in that city at the end of June last. Of
these prisms 47 have been condemned to three years'
imprisonment, which is the maximum punishment,
whilst 11 are sentenced to two years, 23 to eighteen
months, and 17 to one year's imprisonment. The
others, to the number of more than 120, have been
released after six months of " preventive detention,"
there not being sufficient evidence to convict them.
It should be observed that although the Council
of the Prefecture, sitting as a special tribunal for
the trial of extraordinary cases, is not authorised to
impose a heavier sentence than three years' impri-
sonment, the Minister of the Interior has power to
commute this sentence to six years' exile hem the
Grand Ducal territory. This " administrative juris-
diction,* as it is called to distinguish it from the
ordinary criminal courts, was sbolished is 1817 sad
revived by the Grand Duke's ordinance in 1862.
There are 23 prisoners to be tried by the Court of
Loom upon a similar indictment.

Tne Rescoee QVIsTION.—A Pail, letter,itt the
Nerd of Brussels says :—" The document which the French
gosernmant has draws up oat the subject of the tagegees is
not • ' note; properly as called, but merely • inks of direc-
tion to i's representatives et Loudon, Brenda. Turin, and
Berne, to Anent obernation to the governments of those
places on the subject. in wading this. directions, the ca-
binet of the Tuileries tuts ceded to the widen of all the
European Powers, and enitmially the Oxman is.. The
ministers accredited in Paris, and the prisoners, anti than
to congratidate the Emperor. have all iwieted on some mea-
sure. being adopted. The King of Sardinia, like all other
sovereigns, has manifested • erns determintka to lard
from his States in agents of • criminal propagsudions
against ter ''go governments, and there is reran
to believe that the revolutionary press in Pied.
remit will be for the future entj,cled to • more severe ear_
Mlles. The King of %I/number', though cm • Web bed,
has written to the Emperor of the French to say that he
well take pert in any measures that mar be adopted by the
powers, to protect the Contineat against attempts of the
. addition to the communication, made by Lord
Cowley,iis the Queen and l'tiooe Albert, who are frequently is
servespondence with the Emperor, have written to lila
Majesty letters full of touching interest. There was at one
moment • questioa of lending the Dube of Cambridge to
Paris, but the Queen and rho ministers thought it minces-
the extremely cordial understanding
two cabinets Lettere from London
of Prussia, in the name of all Ow-
lb. English government the neeenity
e and Europe some rauantees against the
plots which are organised under the protec-
hopitality."
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