The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-20 00:00:00

TUSCANY.

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The GRAND DUKE is still at St. Stefano. He has
brmally forbidden the publication of the proclama-
tions of the Provisional Government.
By a decree of the 10th the Provisional Govern-
ment of Tuscany has instituted a military commis.
sion for the defence of Tuscany, composed of seven
persons, among
whom we remark the name of Ge-
neral D'APICE, who made the last stand last year
in the Tyrol against Austria. Engineer CAaTINELLI
is especially appointed for the defence of the Appe-
nines of Lunigiana and Garfagnana.
They have likewise published the following de-
cree convoking the Legislative Assembly :
" The Provisional Government of Tuscany, consider-
ing that the form of government of Tuscany, as a part
of Italy, is to be determined by the Italian Constituent
Assembly ; that meantime Tuscany cannot be left with-
out a Legislative Assembly really representing the
country, decrees :-1, The General Council and the
Senate are abolished. 2. The legislative powers are

concentrated in a single Assembly, composed of
representatives of the people elected by direct
universal suffrage, and in the Provisional Go-
vernment. 3. Laws may be proposed both by the
Legislative Assembly and by the Ministry. 4. The As-
sembly shall be composed of 120 representatives, elected
by departments in proportion to population. 5. The elec-
tion shall take place in the communes, and the votes
shall be cast up in in every department. 6. Candidates
for the representation must be 25 years old or upwards;
electors must be 21 years and upwards. 7. Women,
persons declared by the tribunals incapable of managing
their own affairs, strangers, or persons sentenced to
punishments not within the competency of the tribunals
of first instance, or to any punishment for fraud, rob-
bery, and similar crimes against property, are neither eli-
gible nor electors. 8. The Assembly is convoked for the
15th of March, 1849. 9. A Bill for the immediate
organization of the Italian Constituent Assembly shall
be speedily presented to the Assembly. 10. The
Minister Secretary of State for the Department of the
Interior is charged with the execution of the present
decree.—Given in Florence, Feb. 10.
" The President of the Provisional Government,

" GUERRAZZI:

" The Secretary for the Interior,
" MARMOCCHI."

TURKEY.

Advices have been received from Constantinople
of the 4th by the Levant Mail. The Journal de Con-
stantinople of the above date says :
"In consequence of the gravity which the affairs of
the Moldavian-Wallachian principalities appear to as-
sume, a great activity has reigned in the Divan for some
days past. The meetings of the members of the Otto-
man Cabinet are more frequent than usual, and the
communications between the Porte and the representa-
tives of the great Powers receive fron► this state of things
an unaccustomed movement. It results, from letters
received at Constantinople by the last mail from Bu-
charest, that arrests continue to be effected in the prin-
cipality of Wallachia. These arrests, the letters state,
take place at night, and terror is the order of the day at
Bucharest. All the men suspected of being well with
the party of the old Boyards will tremble for their
liberty and their fortune. The same communications
declare that these acts are effected independently of the
will and authority of the Commissioner of the Porte,
Fuad Effendi, and of the Caimacan, Prince Constantine
Cantacuzene."