The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-05 00:00:00

THE REVOLUTION IN TUSCANY.

The following is an extract from a private letter
just received from an English lady resident ill

Florence :

" FLORENCE, APRIL 28.
" I fear newspaper accounts may arrive and
make you unnecessarily anxious about me, but
there is no ground for fear. On the contrary, tlll3
movement of yesterday is one of which Italy may:
be proud ; a movement of force, not of violence, of
earnestness, not of fury. The Grand Duke, bean
an Austrian by family and in sympathy, w°11!
consent only to a neutrality of the troops here ill
the cause of Piedmont. These troops—ten thou"
sand men—being Tuscans and Italians, fraternis.ed
and agreed with the people that this neutral subnili
siou to Austrian foreign power could not and she' not be. The result was a demonstration, magnificent
in its unity, in which, with one voice, on one day,
the people and the troops asserted their freedoms'
The Grand Duke was forced either to consent t:
oppose Austria, or to abdicate. He preferred
latter, and yesterday escaped with all his family'
ministers, and generals.
" This is a movement that has been organised
,
quietly for a long time, and by the best men of it!4lP
It has broken out, not only in Florence, but, as I (1,7;:n
say you by this time know, in Rome, Bologna, 14*
small towns of Tuscany, &c. It was a grand (1,,1
which I think it a privilege to have seen ! The Thu'
in endeavouring to reduce to discipline the tree's'
had, it is said, declared that the first soldier that
made a declaration of revolt should be eht.
But the united hearts of men are not to re
silenced by one foreigner. The troops and t..11+,
people, sure of one another, met at the great fort'
ress yesterday morning, and hoisted the tricolour
Imagine the sun shining, the bands playing, 542,0
diers and people replying to one another from t"
heights of the fortress with patriotism, courafT
and cheers, yet no violence, not a drop of blood she;
not a shot fired, not an insolent word threlna
out the whole of Florence—imagine orgall"1:1
bands of 30 or 50 men coming marching in from
parts of the country with the tricolour banner'
almost every man, woman, and child with w
colour on their shoulders ; from the houses
streamers of silk proclaiming the same story
there was not a voice against Poor sick son
Biers in the hospitals were carried to the °liri
windows, with bright eyes lighting up thee'
pallid faces, and with feeble cheers and gestures
making one with the rest. All yesterday
was passed in the assertion of this princi% 0
Placards were posted at all hours of the day in t
streets, enabling all to comprehend the movement
The Podesta takes the government for the womencrn
with three other gentlemen. Order was begged :
and earnestly granted by every person in Florence,
and to-day all are at their usual occupations. 'I,PLI
Austrian general is gone, but the appel was sound
for the soldiers last night,and every man answer',
with the same regularity as when obedience 17_717
servitude. Last night the streets were thronged,
for who would remain indifferently in the houseivo"
such a time? but no quarrls. The thing is
true, universal and profound for petty riots."

Specie payments have been suspended in Pied:wont bk Royal decree. The National Bank are to lend
th
Government £1,200,000.