The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-12-27 00:00:00

ITALY.

TURIN, DEC. 20.

The Monitore Toscano gives a florid description
of the fetes in honour of the arrival of the Heredi-
tary Prince and his bride at Florence, and the
consequent gratuitous distribution of counterpanes
and blankets, and other pledges from the Monte di
Pieta, as a mark of Royal benificence. My own
correspondence from there states that tho Prince
and Princess passed through the town in dead
silence on the day of their entry (the 15th), but
that the illumination in the evening was more
successful, and, on the whole, brilliant. I have
received to day from Tuscany two circulars,
emanating from secret presses, both repudiating
the idea of rejoicing on the Hereditary Prince's
marriage, as the writers consider all attempts to
perpetuate the rule of the House of Hapsburg-
Bourbon as a misfortune for the country, and
stigmatise by very hard names all who shall pre-
sume to make merry on this occasion.
Further dissensions are said to have occurred
lately in the Tuscan Cabinet, arising from the over
solicitude of M. Landucci to justify the excessive
rigour of his police measures towards persons of
liberal politics, and an attempt on his part to prove
M. Baldassaroni wrong in advocating milder means.
It seems that some months ago a petition was
forwarded to the Government through the Minister
of the Interior, signed by Baron Ricasoli, and
several other large proprietors, many of whom be-
long to the Liberal party, calling its attention to
the frequency of agrarian offences, and pointing
out the inefficiency of the magistracy and police
in the agricultural districts. This petition brought
forward so many incontrovertible facts, that M.
Landucci dared not suppress it, thongh they told
against his own administration. So he at length
laid it before the Council of Ministers, and tried to
make it appear as a proof of the audacity of the
Liberal party, and his own prudence in tie sting
them with severity. But M. Baldassaroni and the
other Ministers recognised the perfect legality of the
remonstance, as well as its justness, and M. Lan-
dueci had further to bear the reproaches of M.
Lami, the Minister of Grace and Justice, who
indignantly denied any blame being attributable to
the magistracy, but said it was all due to M. Lan-
ducci's police. The report of these differences
caused people at Florence to say that there was
even less gladness at the Palazzo Vecchio than
elsewhere.

The Gazzetta di Modena continues to furnish evi
deuce from time to time of the state of the Govern-
ment of that little Duchy in relation to the popu-
lation. In its number of the 15th the Gazzetta
publishes several sentences pronounced lately by
the Imperial and Royal military commission for the
state of seise of the city and commune of Carrara,
whereby Carlo Guerra, Battista Giusti, and Gui-
seppe Carassali, were found guilty of participation
in secret societies, and condemned, the first to the
Ergastola (imprisonment with hard labour) for life,
the second to the same for twenty years, and the
third for five, and all three to pay the expenses of
their trial. Guiseppe Ginesi was declared a maniac,
and therefore ordered to be placed in a Govern-
ment madhouse, and ten other persons were
acquitted for want of evidence. The above severe
sentences, which are only a fair specimen of what
has been occurring every week almost for some
time past, are passed, it must be recollected, by a
permanent court martial, named by the Duke of
Modena of his own officers, assisted by a remark-
ably smart Austrian officer, of great experience in
the office of advocate general, and who is lent to
the Duke by Marshal Radetzsky on account of this
special qualification.
A letter from Palermo of the 18th states that a
Royal rescript had just been received from Naples
relative to the system to be adopted for the more
complete lighting of the coasts of Sicily-
-14 new lighthouses are to be erected without delay,
which will increase the total number to 28.
The Parma Gazette of the 20th announces that
the Duchess Regent, who had been for some days
slightly indisposed, was then perfectly recovered