Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-09-03
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HE TUSCAN ELECTIoYs-Tbe F,oropce
correspondent Of the London Times datino
August y gives this account of the elections
held In tuscany =
NO armed force, and perfect TRANQUILITY
such are certainly the most favorable circum-
stanGes unuer winch general political election
could be ushered in. | have been assured ON
the very best authority, that the electors who
met at the ballot-bOxes ON Sunday last were at
least three times as numerous as those who as
senlDled az any OF the popular elections of
loto-9' Inc people, country as well as towns
people, marched to the polling booths in the
very best order with an expression of great
earnestness, but with hardly an cutlery, or even
look OF triumph towards one party, or of
luminosity or derision towards the other.
The result of the elections, may venture to
say, will bring to the House of Assembly a
number of men, the majority of whom will
vote agreeahly to the views of the present gov
ernment. The present Governor, or dictator.
Rlcasoli, together with Peruzzi, Cempini. and
Busaca, have been elected to the various con-
stltuencies of the capital. Salvagnoli was re-
turned for Empol, his native place, for which
he preferred to stand. Ridolt has been. of
course, successful for Castel Fiorentino, where
he has large property, and has done a vast
zeal OF real good all her lifetime. The Secre-
tary General, Celestina Bianchi, comes in for
Marradi, for reasons analogous to those which
actuated his colleagues in their choice of con-
stltuency. The Henry Dandolo of TUSCANY
the Marquis Gino Capponi-will represent San
inmate; and the public spirited Gonfaoniere
or Mayor OF Florence, the Marquis of Bartolo
mel, comes in for the Lucchese town of Monte.
catlnl Thus, nearly every district in the
country managed to give hand towards bring
ing into the National Assembly the yery men
who have hitherto welded the destinies of the
and LODI - Al
manifestation of its wishes
In running over the list of the other suc-
cessful candidates my eye is attracted by the
names OF various personages well known as
pubic benetactors OF their country. see the
town OF Figline is still faithful to the some
what old, alas but still active and ALWAYS
working Raffaele Lambruschini. a priest who
best understood the true mission of Chris
Tan minister, and dedicated himself to the
cause OF popular edueatiOn with zeal and n
success unequalled in this or any other coun-
Try. see his tellow-aborer, Pietro Thouar.
has been returned for the capital: and have
no doubt, their friend, the excellent Enrico
Mayer, is not among the elected members
solely because his private engagements and
hite private Dereavements prevented him from
aiioWlhg ms name to appear among the can
uldates' Ihe promoters of public welfare by
the spread OF trade and industry will also mus
Ter strong IN the new Assembly We shall
have Bartolomeo Cini, the manufacturer; the
brothers Fenz Charles and Sebastian the
bankers, whose names are as well known in
England as they are popular in their own
country. The representatives of science will
not be wanting, as | read amongst the foremost
as returned by one of the Florence constitu.
encies, Professor Zanetti, the physician-a
man who In mature age left his manifold home
avoeations and home comforts, to share the
hardships and expected perils of the Tuscan
division on its expedition to Lombardy. Mat
teucci,s name is not yet among the successful
candidates, probably because he is now doing
good work for his country in Piedmont But |
we have the veteran patriot and celebrated
kterGteur Montanelli among the elected, and | |
have no doubt not a few Of the rising genera.
tion of scholars and saUants whose names are
known to fame, though as yet unfamiliar to a
stranger like myself.
The old nobility of Tuscany-the Strozzi
the Ginori, Altoriti, Manelli, Torrigiani, Rus
chi, &c.-make a long array Some of them
are conspicuous for great wealth Others as
the Marquis Don Neri Corsini of Laiatico
CounU ue Caufiufay'1 s;fkSss az ,d y n;