The Express.
London, England, 1860-04-24 00:00:00

THE KING OF SARDINIA'S PROGRESS.

Moat on anew,

FLORF,NCE, Aran 18.
As the royal train was leaving Lmhorn his
Majesty noticed a very large and magnificent
bouquet of flowers, which had been placed on the
table of the royal carriage. On inquiring where
they came from, he was informed by Baron Ricasoli
that they had been lent by the agent of the Russian
Prince Demidoff, who two days before had received
from his master, now at Vienna, orders to this effect.
Although trivial in itself, this fact seems to show
that the Czar hag not looked upon the annexation
of Tuscany to Piedmont as some other crowned
heads have. As soon as the King alighted from
the royal train at the Porto Prato station, in this
city, his Majesty, as I have told you already, was
received by Marquis Bartolomei, the gonfaloniere of
Florence, and by the town councillors. After re-
plying to the noble marquis's address, his Majesty
started on horseback, followed by his brilliant
staff, towards the Duomo. The royal carriages,
which were in waiting at the entrance of the sta-
tion? soon followed the royal cavalcade, with the
ministers and the high dignitaries of the state.
They drove between a double row of the national
guard and of the deputations sent by
the Maeatranze, or guilds, which, since the times of
the Florentine republic, have never ceased to exist.
What moved me most was the deputation of the
Neapolitan, Roman, and Lombardo-Venetian poli-
tical refugees. They were all dressed in black, and
one gentleman in each group held up the banner of
his country covered with a black veil. The winged
lion of Venice, the trinacria of Sicily, the cross of
Naples, and the Romulus and Remus nursing-
wolf of Rome, indeed, on this solemn occasion,
appeared in mourning, as a protest against the
t governments of those Italian states.
concourse everywhere was immense ; in fact,
the population of Florence has been more than
doubled by the people who have poured in here
from all parts of the provinces. A great many
subjects of his Holiness living on the borders of
Tuscany have oome to Florence to see and to cheer
the gallant King, upon whom they look as their
future sovereign. I have been told that more than
300 citizens of Perugia found the means of crossing
the Papal frontier for the same object.
Yesterday the King was in the saddle between
five and six o'clock, and, accompanied by the
Governor General Ricasoli and his staff, rode first
to the church of S. Ministo. It occupies the
crest of a hill to the east of Florence, a short half-
mile outside the gate of the same name. From
there is obtained the most beautiful view of the
city that any of the lovely sites in the environs—
and their name is Legion—presents ; though the
most artistic view on this side is gained in front
of a church belonging to a Franciscan convent, a
very short distance below Florence; which, with its
palaces and towers, is spread out like a map at your
feet.

Passing thence by the road which follows the
crest of the bills the royal cortege proceeded to the
Poggio Fteale„ a noble palace, situated about a mile
outside the Porta Romans,. Descending through
the noble avenue of cypressee and cedars which
reaches to the city gate, it continued its route to
the Cascini, and about nine o'clock returned to the
palace. Loiter in them • the Archbishop of
Florence was received by the .
His Majesty in the afternoon visited the Spedale
Maggiore, where he remained nearly two hours.
Some of the nobility were also honoured by a
reception ; amongst them was Count Glierardo
Gherardesca, now a deputy to the national parlia-
ment. The count is the descendant of the illus-
trious Pisan family of this name whose ancestor,
Count Ugolino, was imprisoned, as you remember,
lathe tower, or, as Dante sails it, titres, where
he was starved to death, together with his son and
nephew. The King, on hearing the name an-
nounced by the master of the ceremonies, •
and remembering the heartrending description
which the Florentine poet makes Count Ugolino
himself give of the horrible scene, turned to one
of the court, and said : " Why, I thought Count
Ugolino had eaten up all his family, or at all events
that they had been starved to death with him in the
tower."

The secretary of Marchese de Breme, his
Majesty's master of the ceremonies, has kindly fur-
nished me with the plan of the proceedings for the
remainder of the week. To-morrow, chariot races
in the square of Santa Maria Novella ; Friday,
royal visit to Leghorn ; Saturday, royal visit to
Pisa, a hunting party, and in the evening lumi-
naria ; Sunday, state ball at the palace.
Ann 19.

Yesterday his Majesty was present atl.l;;;;Ces.
He arrived at the royal stand at 3 p.m., and was
enthusiastically received. The road from the palace
was filled with a denim crowd, which followed the
open carriage in which he was seated, and which
was obliged to move at a foot pace. Victor
Emmanuel frequently expressed his delight at
the warm reception he everywhere met with
from his newly acquired subjects. It is not
alone the inhabitants of the capital that
throng to welcome him ; the city is filled
to overflowing by Tuscans from every part, Arezzo,
Cortoua, Chiusi,Montepulciano' &c., whilst
the railway trains are crowded with the inhabitants
of the central and northern districts, and people
coming from the Emilia, Marches, and Umbria.
Extra trains have been set running on the different
lines, but they are not even now sufficient to meet
the requirements of the occasion.
It was feared at one time that the weather would
atop the sport, but though dense clouds hung over
the noble ridges of Pistoia and Vallombrosa, not a
drop of rain fell till the last race had been run.
But in the night, as on the previous one, the rain
came down in torrents. . .

To-day chariot races, in imitation of the ancient
races of the circus, are to come off in the Piazza
Santa Maria Novella, which is converted into an
amphitheatre for the occasion. Count Cavour re-
mains here till to-morrow, when, after accompany-
ing the King to Pisa, he will return to Thrin.
Farini will arrive the day after to-morrow to take
his place, and then the late governor-general of the
/Emilia will accompany his Majesty to Bologna.

Taz EXLCITITON Of GENZEAL OSTIOA.—M. John
Lemoinne writes in the Deals:—" General Ortega, the ap.
parent chief of the insurrection which has just failed in Spain,
has been shot ; he has paid the penalty of his want of suc-
cess. This execution was brought about quickly, before the
public voice had had time to raw itself in behalf of mercy.
If the Spanish government thought to strengthen itself by
this act of pitiless justice, we believe that it has deceived
itself ; and if we are forted to admit that it was only exer-
cising a right in C01X10111121134, we believe that it would have
acted according to its conscience as well as humanely in
pardoning. That pardon would not have been difficult to
obtain from the Queen herself. Queen Isabella is not cruel.
The „severity which has been displayed can, then,
only be attributed to reasons of state. Now the
public conscience, while forced to admit the legality of this
sentence of death, asks itself at the same time by whom it
is applied. It cannot forget that the heed of the Spanish
ministry only arrived at power by a military revolt like that
which General Ortega has just attempted, and that his very
mass should have made made him commiserate, to some
extent, the failure of the unhappy man who had followed
his example. It cannot any more forget that the general
whose duty it was to countersign the sentence and see it
serried out is the General Dulce who, in 1864, when com-
manding the cavalry in the Queen's name, went secretly
and delivered it up to General O'Donnell, and mareliekl with
him against the Queen, whose ministers they have become.
We are well aware of the difference which there is between
the attempt of General O'Donnell and that of General
Ortega ; the one succeeded and the other failed. But this
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