The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-26 00:00:00

The details which we gave yenterday of the general
insurrection in Sicily, are corroborated and confirmed
by the journals and correspondence of the chief
cities on the coast of Italy received to-day. The
Genoa papers say that Palermo, Monteleone, Trapani,
Bari, and several other cities, were in successful
revolt ; that at Palermo, in particular,, the system of
barricades had been practised with success, and
the troops, cavalry and infantry, were foiled ;
that, boiling water, stones, slates, and furniture were
flung from the windows of the homes on
the troops, a large number of which were left dead In
the streets. Priests and monks, holding up crucifies
before the people, and fired with the enthusiasm of
the moment, led them, exclaiming, " As Christ died
for you, it is for you to die-for yourcountry." A popu-
lar chief, Scordata, reported by the police to be dead,
re-appeared from the mountains, followed by several
thousand partisans, and pledged himself to take by
assault, the fort of Castelmare, near Palermo, on the
23rd. .
Letters from Civita Vecchia, after giving similar
details, say that a provisional government had been
appointed at Palermo. Lord Napier, the British
laiajoUr at Nollidl‘bad rat orders," Pais to.
Cagliari to send two frigates to Palermo, and two to
Naples, for the protection of British subjects.
A revolutionary proclamation is reported to have
been circulated at Rome. It was ascribed to a plot of
the retrograde party, and produced no effect. It wee
said that the council of ministers had approved of the
publicity of the debates of the council of state.

A letter from Turin, under the date of Jan. 19,
states that, in consequence of the events of Leghorn,
the avocata Pellegrini, Cantle, and Bisio, had been
arrested at Genoa. The correspondence seized upon
at the residence of the accused proves, it is said, that
that they acted in concert with the avocot Guerrazzi,
promoter of the recent disturbances at Leghorn, and
with :the leaders of Jawed Italie residing in: foreign
countries. Our correspondent adds, that intelligence
had just reached Turin, by a traveller, of an insurrec-
tion at Palermo, and that it was reported the Neapo-
litan troops had lost 160 men. This report is pro-
bably greatly exaggerated.
We read in the Patria of Florence, of the 16th :
The funeraPpf Giovanni Bachiega took place to-day,
in the church of St. Ambrosio, and was attended by
an immense crowd. On the catafalque was the follow-
ing laconic but eloquent inscription—' To Giovanni
Bachiega, who fought for Italy, and suffered during
many long years in the Spielberg.' The mortal re-
mains of the Italian martyr were transported to the
cloister of the church of Santa-Cruce. The advocate
Vincent Salvagnoli delivered an oration, which thus ,
concluded: 'Over this tomb we come to seek inspira-
tions against the foreigner. Let us renew our oaths to
deliver Italy. This is not the place of mortals, but of
immortals ! Viva Bachiega, the martyr of Austria !
Viva the independence of Italy!'"
The King of Sardinia has decided that the small
village of. Lans-le-Bourg, at the foot of Mount Cenis,
on the Savoy side, shall be fortified. The same deter-
mination has already been come to with respect to
Suze, at the foot of the mountain, towards Turin, so
that the passage over the mountain, which is the key
to Piedmont, will be in a formidable state of defence.
A letter from Milan states that the Scala theatre,
which is usually so well attended, has been of late
completely deserted by the people of the city. At
- last representation of " Norma" there were only
15 persons in the pit, and two in the boxes, and thew
were foreigners.

The Madrid mails of the 19th have arrived. Our
correspondent writes that the queen, who has been
on several occasions attaked with fainting fits, has
lately had a consultation of sixteen physicians upon
her situation. Many of these were of opinion, says
our correspondent, that the queen's state was such as
called imperatively for change of air. The political
inconvenience, in one point of view, of the removal of
her majesty from Madrid is too obvious to be dwelt
upon. Thecourt habit in Spain, of the sovereign appear-
ing in public as much as possible ; the extreme suspicion
with which the people would regard the disappear-
since of Isabella 11. from the capital, and:her prolonged
absence at a distant point, say in Andalusia; the
horror and alarm which the masses feel of plots, real
or imaginary, for making Spain a province of France ;
all these considerations would make the ministers
naturally pause before advising so embarrassing a re-
medy. But, in the case of the Queen being detained by
political motives at Madrid. while her medicaladvisers
recommend change of air, the responsibility of minis-
ters becomes equally grave. Under these circum-,
stance* it would become their duty to make extra-
ordinary efforts to control, as far ae possible, all devia-
tions of the royal will from strict prudence in matters
where a health so precious is concerned. In this the
ministers dO not appear to have succeeded so well as
the authority of men like Narvaez and Miraflores
(who, as governor of the palace, is the aptest instru-
ment of the government for this effhcO would have
led one to expect. The Queen goes out hunt-
ing, with a cough, on the bleakest day of the
year. She rides exactly at the most =whole-
some hours of the day—towards nightfall; and
no change, sines the critical turn which her health
has takes, has been effected in domestic habits, which
would rein the soundest constitution,—l allude to the
royal practice, so well-known, of turning night into
day, as we say, and rice reran, The difficulty of
treating a royal patient, particularly one so mutinous
against formal prescription of All kind as Isabella, is
obvious; neither perhaps does the jerky energy of
the Duke of Valencia qualify him well for a task in
which tact and persuasion are required as much as
firmness. But while the life of the present Queen of
Spain is one of the branches from which the peace of
Europe may be said to hang, it is deplorable that so
little pains should be taken to keep that branch sound
and vigorous, and to fence it by due care from
calamitous contingencies.
An incredible number of people are laid up with
grippe, and the frequent funeral processions betoken
that the most grim of physicians is not idle in the
hospital and mck chamber.

A letter of the 12th, from Lisbon, states that the
Count of Thomar declined being a member of the
new ministry, and 'was appointed ambassador to
Paris. But he has no idea of setting ont yet for that
destination, or, in all probability, of setting out at
all. His motive for not being eager to assume the
power to which the triumph of his party calls him, is
said by his friends to be, that he may show to Europe
that his ambition is not personal, and that his only
desire is to save the throne, and consolidate the peace
of the country. The Duke of Terceira was appointed
ambass►dor to Vienna. The ministry is complete,
and consists of Saldanha, Albano, Folcao, Quiroz,
Gorjao, and Baron de Franco&

A postscript to the letter of our Roman correspon-
dent, dated the 12th, one o'clock, says:
I have just come from witnessing a most solemn scene.
This morning, as if by some instinctive impulse, the whole
population seemed to have caught up simultaneously the
idea of honouring, by the most inipreuive act of their re-
ligion, the memory of the men who fell in the streets of
Milan, butchered by the foreign Vandals. The tide of people
flowed through he Corso to the magnificent church of the
Milanese saint and philanthropist, St. Carlo Borromeo. Up-
wards of 5,000 Romans were inside the church, and as many
I could find no entrance. Monseignor Berremeo, canoe red-
dentiary and chaplain to the Pope, was summoned to officiate.
He communicated the demand of thy people to his holiness,
who told him to go to the altar and beg the mercies of God
on the souls of the slain. Then rose the plaintive dirge,
aad the dies ire, and the pealing organ, responded to by the
lament of a whole people over their slaughtered fellow-
citizens. All the deputies of the provinces were round the
altar. The Sardinian ambassador was oonspicuous, and I ,
also observed the gallant veteran Sir Frederick Adam, aad
near him the (Milanese) Princess Beigioiose, Italy's Joan
of Arc.
Since the foregoing was written, our Paris letters
of last eveaing have arrived, but they add nothing
important to the despatches of the morning.
The Cbistempormus of Rome of the 15th, mentions
a report that the Neapolitan General Lindy, who is
at Messina, bad opened a despatch of the Fmglish
Embamy at Naples, and that the ambamador was
about to demand reparation, and the dismissal of
General Landy.
We learn that the Princess Royal of Sardinia, who