The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-05-25 00:00:00

ITALY AND SICILY.

The Papal Government has seized important
documents, containing instructions for hastening
an insurrection in the States of the Church, in
the Abruzzi, and in Calabria.
It is said that General Lamoriciere is finding
out that, under the French protectorate at _Dome,
his hands are as tightly bound as they would be
in France. The French Commander-in-Chief will
not allow him to attack the Piedmontese, or to
assist the King of Naples.
A letter from Florence states that the party of
the Grand Duke of Tuscany is busily employed in
agitating that city. Seditious writings are posted
up every night. Many of the noblest families in
Tuscany do not disguise the fact, that they are
conspiring to accomplish a restoration.
ROME, May 23.

An official despatch dated Naples, 22nd, states
that the insurgents in Sicily were attacked and
dispersed on the 21st instant by the 9th Battalion
of Royal Chasseurs. 128 of the rebels were
killed. The insurrection was making no progress.
(Official.) NAPLES, May 23.

The rebels encamped at San Martino, near
Monreale, have been beaten twice, driven from
their positions, and pursued t') Partinico with
very considerable losses. One of their leaders,
Rosolino Pilo, was killed. The heights which
were occupied by the rebels have been taken by
the Royal troops.
The Post's Paris correspondent telegraphs that
a proclamation had been issued by Garibaldi, in
which he took upon himself all the responsibilities
of the Dictatorship of Sicily.
The Paris correspondent of the Times says,
whatever fresh intelligence may have been received
from Naples, none of a kind favourable to that
Government has transpired. It may therefore be
inferred that the movement in Sicily is making
progress.

The Vienna correspondent of the Times says
the prevalent opinion in that capital is that
Sicily is lost to the Bourbons.
A report transmitted from Brussels, that
Garibaldi had entered Palermo, is considered
premature.

The jiloviernento, a journal of Genoa, in its
number of Wednesday, alleges that Garibaldi has
entered Palermo with 9,000 infantry and a
squadron of cavalry. The Neapolitan troops, it
is stated, had laid down their arms. The most
extraordinary enthusiasm prevailed at Palermo.
The Paris correspondent of the Daily News has
special instructions for believing that Garibaldi has
really entered Palermo, and that he has issued a
stirring proclamation, dated from that city,
declaring that he assumes the provisional Dicta-
torship of Sicily. It is said that Garibaldi has
determined to make himself undisputed master of
Sicily before making any attempt on the main-
land. He will afterwards form a navy, vastly
superior to any forces which the King of Naples
can command, and make a formidable descent
upon Calabria, by means of which he does not
doubt :being able to dethrone the King.
The insurrectional committee in Sicily has, it is
said, sent a note to the Foreign Consuls,
announcing that the nation will be consulted, and
that the Sicilian Parliament will be convoked.
PARIS, May 24.

The Patrie of this evening, after giving the
Neapolitan despatch announcing the defeat of Gari-
baldi, says a second despatch states that Garibaldi
is said to have attacked the royal troops, who
were strongly entrenched, and to have completely
beaten them. According to the same despatch,
that combat would lead to the immediate evacu-
tion by the royal troops of Palermo, Messina,
Trapani, Catania, and Syracuse. The Opinion
Nationde publishes the following despatch, dated
Messina, 22nd instant:—There is a great panic
among the authorities. The inhabitants are
joining Garibaldi in crowds. Great numbers of
strangers are quitting the towns. The soldiers
have taken refuge in the forts.