The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-27 00:00:00

VOTE OF ANNEXATION TO PIEDMONT.

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FLORENCE, AUG. 21.—Yesterday Florence „
again witness of a grand public act indicative ot
that true and universal feeling of the country which
so many have questioned, not a few denied; On
the 16th August the representatives of TuscanY
met in the old Hall of the Cinquecento, and there,
without one dissentient voice, proclaimed the dy-
nasty of the House of Lorraine incompatible with,
the true interests and happiness of Tuscany: ls
was on this occasion that the Marchese Manzi pro-
posed the annexation of the Grand DuchLot
he
kingdom of Sardinia, and it was to vote upon hi
motion that the Assembly was yesterday convoked.
At 1 o'clock precisely the chair was taken by the
president, Signor Coppi, and shortly after the 1)1'0"
lessor Giorgini proceeded to read the report of the
sections on the motion of the Marchese Manzi'
After showing that the eiclusion of the Austro;
Lorraine dynasty from the throne of TascanY, Anti
the union of Tuscany with as many Italian states
as possible under the sceptre of Victor Bal;
manuel, were two inseparable consequences of
premise, he proceeded—There was at the present
moment one universalbelief prevailing in Tuseal3l;.
viz., that the aggregation of the smaller state
under the sceptre of Savoy was the political fates
most adapted to the demands of nationality. Is'
was the new order of things, courted by all nuguij
the object of all wishes, the only end which c°,
finally bring about the quiet and repose of Rag;
How this idea of a great monarchy illiderf late
sceptre of Savoy had sprung up and become° tldi.,.
years identified with and inseparable from the
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:ollu
ment of nationality was known to all. ge -ie de.
only remind them that the idea of Italian Cen,: re_
ration, so prevalent in '49, would be univerasal ii
jected were it now ,brought forward —a fact veed,
remarkable, but notorious to all who had obsery
and meditated on the events of the last ten le
..,.:
This change was doubtless brought about by the
perience of '4B, when the idea of a confederatiq
though enthusiastically received by the people LW
rocs"
openly professed by Italian princes,
pable of adapting itself or giving a form to trt~
national movement. Nor could this idea be reP._.
duced under better auseices, since the mutaakdis_
trust and aversion of the princes who would be thsr,°.
brought together had led to a positive incompati.nolo
lity, the more so that the peace allowed the Austri 0
was ibund .e,
domination in Italy to continue, and held out nolleP!
of seeing corrected the abuses of the clerical govern*
ment and the theocratic regime of the Papal Sta.
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The princes of the House of Lorraine,
avowed an anti-national, policy, and rejected.tl
love of people who now refuse to permit Then,their
return under any possible contingeneY• _
too, the pious and noble example of Charles Albe_T.
the warrior and martyr of independence, he. e,ten
pired on the Douro dreaming of Italy ;
acted
the
of
years of the new reign ; and, lastly, the 'figure of
the King exulting in the dangers he so generomar,_
encountered on the fields of Palestro an,d, S'naiety
tine, had so worked upon the hearts
.and A°3-s'vey
tion of the people, had won for the princes of
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so entire a confidence, that the idea of a confeac4.l;
tion, in itself too complex and at the same Utile '.,..
abstract and refined an idea ever to be truly
.PS'e
lar, had day by day become less prominent 11
opinion of Tuscany, while the name of 'Victor 111:
manuel was bound up in the minds of all with that
of Italy. 4.fter a digression to show that this tie
between Italy and the House of Savoy was n° new•o
bond, but the inevitable conclusion of three centurie
of Italian history, he continued—The comraissiti
which had sat on this motion came before to '''''
interpreters of the prevailing sentiment of Tuscal!
not conceiving themselves called upon to examine '
or when, in the present condition of Europe, the
desire of the country would be listened to. Thel
were there united to depose to present facts, not
t°
events future and uncertain ; to tell what Tuscan,'
wished and what they themselves most unquestion-
ably knew ; not what Europe desired, which they
neither did nor could know, and which possibly
Europe did not know herself. No ! They stood
not there to divine sagaciously the wishes of other*
stance
bitt, uhantenocvt nothing frankly
itonerg
in
wt
bhfaiaoontrhdmc consistentlyto:buielnyd ospffu rbeonsptdoa snEe
substance,
or,
Europe,
affirmosp ien,eeeieither
hht
declarehee
r.
their
irno
hadt
,aini
was solely the vindication of their own sacred An"r
incontestable rights, not the usurpation of those 0".
another ; in form, since their earnest solicitatr
eing, in fact, nought but the expression o
iin
desire recognised and respected that suPret
arbitration whereby Europe would finally dec4,-
upon their lot. This brought him to what he bad
most desirous of doing, and what the motion ha.
already done—viz., to the recommendation of their
cause to the wisdom and justice of Europe, t°,nthnef
England,
liberal sentiments of the Government and pe01":„.
ngland, and in an especial manner to the
NapoleonEgnPenfr.e-
111., that whom Italy never had a 11-n- 0
advantage his patronage might powerfuli or generous protector. His sword ig„-0
athed, not broken ; nor was it possible to ell the
councils of Europe. Nay, even if the justice 4,°:,
obtaintheir the immediate effects they proposeut,;.nd
e deliberation would remain a great national oil and
be to thew in the
afford an additional reason for not despairing ti..
Italy, being a solemn manifestation of that
mutualsen
m. ent whereby the Italians after ages of
other as
ignorance and bloodshed recognised each ,ve,
brethren ; of that sentiment which was blooo,
„,„
and new youth infused into Italy, and cast by the
hand of God as a germ for a new structure, of
ages and ages ei in
• After a few words from the Avvocato, l‘lasc 'O3
portaieur
which he reminded the Assembly of the ini
of an unanimity of opinion, and instituted
aat the
parison between the condition of Tuscany a
__a
present moment and that of England in 1689; !fr.,
France in 1830 and 1848, it wasp roposed and I!,i.
vied that the secret vote by ballot should be dop.teu_
An hour passed by before the representatives had e:
When. the last name
posited theirvotes in the urns.
• and after a mo-
the President rose from his chair,
ed that the niotion —the well-known one of Zanetti—had been
mentary examination pronounc
One hundred and
had been unanimously carried. ea
esent ; one hundr
sixty-three delegates were pr
ed the atanimitl
and sixty-three black balls announc
enthusiastic
of their opinions. The applause and .minute
calico,
cheers which ensued were checked in a few Inin,%d.
and the white and black balls counted and veru_..a.,
The President then proposed a vote et c...,,u5s
fidence in the Government, and the assembly v
prorogued.the
The moment the President quitted his chair,
_4l,
joyand enthusiasm, so long restrained, burst
.101;
in all its force. The signal was given by the Ilell'eir
tics, who sprang from the benches, waving 'live
hats, with loud cries of "Viva Mafia!" "1.01„ oe.
the King!" In a moment the vast crowd Wiwstal
cupied the other end of the hall replied with,i6tbes
louder shout that made the old roof ring, and
..„er-
t he numerous throng without gave back an ans"
n As
ing cheer that was heard far along the Arn-' afes
the news spread, the streets and squares, the c.O-00,
and market places broke out into ace
while the banner of Italy and the cross of .03ciew
were in ten minutes waving from eve*" wilirowd
and parapet in the city. The feelings of theieto to
who thronged the old hall had been wake," ;oh
such a pitch that men were seen sobbing may to
other's arms, while others were gng W"
every sign of extravagant joy.

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A T. --_
_OST MAN FOUND.—In the month of cti9behr'
1853, Mr. Charles Green, a small farmer, completeivd6t of
sale of his farm and farming stock, and on the even sr.
receiving the money called at his brotherin-law's,,,tie
Anker, a retired farmer, living in his own house at Wili,itst
end, and deposited with him the money, save Xl5: de tat
he left March without informing any, ono of lid!
_, he
nation. In April, 1855, rumours were circulated
,tntoi.
was murdered, and his body buried in Mr• Anker no.
The police were called upon to make the search, and s
Lee, the superintendent, and another policeman, made
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search there, and the result was noticed in this RaL4. no
April 6of that year. They were perfectly satisfied tiro,' as
one had been buried there. Afterwards an old searecrovy
~,,t
ploughed up in a farm near the banks of the river, Green,
og.,
was reported to be the remains ot Mr. Charles Green• ,_-it'
health at
Wednesdaythe 17th inst., about 9 o'clock in the elfenwg.
the very identical Charles Green arrived in good
where b°
Mr. Anker's house, from New York, in America,
had been sojourning.—Stanifordilfercury.
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