The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-22 00:00:00

TUSCANY AND PIEDMONT.

We are enabled to place before our readers the
following official despatch, which the Piedmontese
Government has addressed to that of the Grand
Duke of Tuscany. Austrian influence at Florence
has for some time past inspired the Tuscan Govern-
ment with a marked hostility to that of Piedmont,
and a number of vexatious and petty insults have
been imposed on Sardinian subjects, to which M.
Cavour thus replies :

" ToRIN, Sept. 5, 1856.

"Although the Tuscan Government has for some time
past accustomed his Majesty's Government to that dis-
play of scant courtesy, not to use stronger language,
which they exhibit towards those Piedmontese subjects
who visit the Grand Duchy, nevertheless, I admit that I
heard with surprise from your confidential de:patches of
the date of the 2d inst. the abrupt expulsion from the
Tuscan territory of the director and the scholars of the
Commercial College of Genoa, who arrived at Florence,
having been allowed to disembark at Leghorn, and after
having presented their papers duly signed by the Grand
Ducal consent at Genoa. Aud my astonishment was
increased by the unusual language held to you in this
affair by his Excellency Signor Baldasseroni, President
of the Council of the Ministry, who, instead of justifying
an act which cannot be qualified, addresses complaints
and reproaches as inopportune as ill•founded, and which
the Government of the King considers it their duty
and their right to repudiate by all means within their
power. The Tuscan Covernment has the right of
refusing an entry into their State to any one who is not
their subject. The Tuscan Government may avail itself
of this right towards Sardinian subjects as frequently as
it chooses. For such acts his Majesty's Government
will not make vague complaints, and will willingly leave
them to be judged by Europe. But what his Majes-
ty's Government complains of, and with reason, is that
Sardinian subjects provided with the proper permission
from the competent Tascan authorities in the Sardinian
territory are either refused or turned out of the Grand
Duchy, without their having given a legitimate cause of
complaint by their conduct. Let the Tuscan Govern-
ment give its agents accredited to us those instructions
as it may deem to harmonise with its policy, but not re.
pudiate them at every moment by sending out from the
frontier or interior—and thus doil., manifest wrong to
their legitimate interests—those who went to Tuscany
relying on the assurance of the persons who act and
speak legally in the name of the Tuscan Government.
"The President of the Grand Ducal Government is
not satisfied with the voluntary subscription which is ac-
tually going on in the Sardinian States for the purpose of
making the present to his Majesty's Government of 100
cannons, intended for the fortifications of Alessandria.
We regret that a demonstration, whose object is to
testify and to in crease the confidence that the Piedmontese
people puts in their King and in their Government, should
not meet with the sympathy of him who holds the first
place in the Council of a frieedly State. We regret that
the spontaneous and universal co•operation'of the whole
people to secure one of the bulwarks of the independence
of Piedmont— and we may say also of Italy—should
provoke remsrke which are riot friendly from an Italian
Government. But not on that account can we grant to
the Tuscan, any more than to other Governments, the
right of demanding explanations relative to an act which
does not concern it, and which injures no one, least of
all Tuscany, who has nothing to do with the frontiers,
for the defence of which the fortifications of Alessandria
are destined.

"As for the subscription of the 10,000 musketry, you
have already made the opportune remark to the Presi-
dent of the Government of the Grand Duke, that his Ma-
jesty's Government has stopped that subscription, and
that legal proceedings have been begun to act against the
promoters of it. But Chevalier Baldasseroni seems to
have manifested a fear that the steps taken by the Sardi-
Dian Government were too mild, I.nd that our laws are
inadequate to punish the authors of the offence with the
deserved penalty. We are of a different opinion. We
believe that our laws provide sufficiently for our internal
safety, as well as for our international duties.

"The Government of the King repels every interpreta-
tion which might lead to excite the belief that it disturbs
abroad, by direct and indirect means, that order and t bat
tranquillity which it has always known how to maintain
at home. It is not by the reasonable and temperate eye
of moderate liberty that disorders and insurrections are
produced. The history of Piedmont in these last years
sufficiently proves this.
" The Grand Ducal Government knows by expel ience
in how many circumstances Sardinia has assisted effica-
c7ously in preventing disturbances at home and abroad ;
and it is certainly not at a moment when just emerging
from a bloody and costly war, undertaken for the defence
of order, that she can be accused of fomenting distuth-
ances in her neighbourhood. The Government of the
King is well acquainted with the international duties
which lied it to the neighbouring States, and it scrupu-
lously fulfils them. But the Government of the King is
not disposed to sacrifice to the demands of others, found-
ed on exaggerated fears, those liberties which the citi-
zens of its Ste.te enjoy.

If I rightly understand your account of your conversa•
Lion with the President of the Tuscan Cabinet, it would
appear that his excellency expressed himself as meaning
to hint to an appeal either to the Cabinets or to the public
opinion of Europe. I know not if, having well meditated
their case, the Cabinet of Florence still adheres to this in-
, tention. Should such be the case, you will inform the Pre-
sident of the Tuscan Ministry that the Government of his
Majesty, strong in their'rights, conscious of having loyally
fulfilled all their duties, and mindful of wrongs unre-
dressed—does not fe_a• an examination of their actt,
which are usually done in broad day. You will inform
his Excellency that the opinion of the Cabinets and of
the people of Earope is a judge whose competency will
never be contrasAd by the men who have the honour to
sit in the councils of the King of Sardinia.

" I charge you to Lend this despatch to his Excellency
Chevalier Baldasseroni, and to give him a copy thereof
if demanded.

(Signed) "C. CAVOUR.
"To Chevalier GlantAti,
Charge d'Affaires of Sardinia, Florence."

WITHSTOOD FOREST FAZE.—This delightful holiday
to thousands of the inhabitants of Oxfordehire and neigh-
bouring counties was held on Wednesday, on the beau-
tiful Newhill Plain. The company numbered upwards
of forty thousand, and included the Dowager Countess
of Macclesfield and family, the Earl and Countess of
Abngdon and family, the Countess of Antrim, the
Dowager Lady Churchill and party, Lord Alfred
Churchill, Lord Dillon and family, the Hon. Spencer
and family, the President of Trinity College, Oxford,
&c. The fair was the largest ever known.
LISM
ORE CASTLE.—The Duke of Devonshire is about
to receive the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland and a distin-
guished circle at Lismore Castle. The noble earl, accom-
panied by Lady Dover and the Earl and Countess o
Bessboruugh, is expected to arrive early in the present
week. In addition to the guests whom we recently
mentioned as enjoying; the hospitality of the duke, the
Earl of Burlington and Lady Louisa Cavendish are stay-
, Lase pr e
begun
ra -
gat the castle. His grace purposes to give a grand
bail to celebrate the visit of the Lord-Lieutenant.'
BAURACKS IN KENSINGTON,—The
e i or:tqounisate
tions for the construction of barreeks for the Life
Guards and Foot Guards, a
in right earnest. Excavations are being made,
and
large blocks of stones deposited in the space
intended for the barracks, beteen Church-street and
the palace g.,:rdens. Sheds for tl e workmen are erected,
and everything wears the appearance of activity. The
barracks will probably be ready for occupation in 18
months from the present time.—United Serrice Gazette.
The Atkencrum, announces that Sir William Harpur's
charity at Bedford is freed at leneth from legal quarrels,
and the princely income, 13,0061. a-year, is to be ap-
l'roPrieted to a uew scheme sett:ed by the Court of
Chancery. Every friend of education must rejoice to
hear of this termivation of a dispute which has almost
paralysed a noble charity, and kept alive the fires of
sectarian and local strife, and the close of which haves
Bedford endowed with free, grammar and commercial
schools sufficient to educate all of the children of the
town and neighbourhood.