The Express.
London, England, 1856-07-11 00:00:00

TO TEI EDITOR OP THE DAILY NEWS.

Sta,—M. Martin, whoee patriotism entitles him to
the respect of politicians, still continues in his letters to the
English and French journals, to lay down rules of action
for the next Itilian movement. This time he addressee
himself to Southern Italy, as appears by his letter published
in the Daily News on the 7th of July.
M. Mania completely ignores the history of the latter timer
and the laws in force in the Two Sicilia. Had he bees
acquainted with that history and those laws he would not
have believed in those castles in the air, nor,would he have
planted his batteries on them.

The constitution of 18t2 never had force on the conti-
nental portion c( the kingdom—being framed for Sicily
alone, at a time when Naples wail under King Murat. That
constitution proclaimed the political independence of the
island and pronounced the forfeiture of the throne by the
King, wto had abandoned the island and bad extinguished
its independence.

The constitution of 1818 has been promulgated at Naples
alone. Moreover, the 87th article of that constitution de-
clares that the King, then a coostitutht power, bad sanc-
tioned other laws or Sicily. Those law, were sanctioned
on the 6th of March, 1818, but the of the court
sufficed to p t their being accepted by the Sicilians. Soon
after the Sicilian parliament met at Palermo, and after hav-
ing decreed the fall of the Bourbons, it made a new coital:lth.
Lion, which wu received with enthusiasm by all the towns
in the island, and which thenceforth became the funda-
mental law of the state.

In Sicily the monarchical party is separatist ; at Naples it
is despotic, and hat always treated the is!and as a conquered
country. Since 1839 we made every exertion to unite the
intelligent portions of these two parties, and to make them
accept a common plan of action. The principle was settled
that, if the revolution succeeded, the Sicilian monarchy
should be maintila.ed to that of Sweden and Norway,
with two parliaments, two admiaistr►tione, and two armies.
Unfortunately the Neapolitan Id. J. &multi, who
had been one of the conspirators, as soon as he
attained to power, was iniquitous enough to be the first to
deny the agreement which he had made, and plunged both
parties in the kingdom into ell the disorders of civil war.
In ttse Two &Cale', according to the laws now io force,
those citizens who might petition for the rc-establishment
of a eonstitution would be punished in the lame way es if
they took up arms and went to the barricades. Of a truth,
if the people if this i Gantry were agreed uron the plan of
action, it would not be worth risking life for the tint of
these means, which has no chance of SUCCI
. . .

The refusal to pay tax. e, and the publication of the declo.
ration proposed by M. Mania would have the same effecL
It has never been possible to organise any plan of taming
to pay taxes at a time when Power was shout is tread
under foot public liberty—and when amongst the people
the remembru.a of the constitution wag still fresh. In
1815, one man alone in Sicily bad the courage to
refuse to pay the taxes because they had not been voted
by the parliament. This man was the Prince of Castel-
nuovo, formerly minister, of whose popularity the govern-
ment stood in awe, and who therefore escaped punienineatr,
bat nobody d►red t, follow his example.
You see, therefore, that in the Two Sicilies a general
constitution hes never existed, and that, besides, there are
no lawful means for compelling King Ferdinand to
yield. Unheppily, there are but two way. of ar-
riving at thie consurnmati,n in that no happy land:
either the cannon of the Western Powers or a revolution.
For the cannon of the Western Powers we need not hope.
The revolution will come, and it will be coloured by tbei
same feelings which showed in 1848 that there is no
municipal hatred between the inhabitants of the Two
&cities. Then these inhabitants, al well as throe of the
other provicore of the Peninsula, will, I tenet, have dons
with kings.—Believe me, Sir, your humble servant,
A DEPUTY IN THE LAST SICILIAN
PARLIAMENT.
London, July 10.