The Express.
London, England, 1848-02-02 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY, Four o'Clock.
EXPRESS FROM PARIS.
IMPORTANT FROM NAPLES

(From the Seoond Edition of the Doily News.)

We have accounts from Palermo to the 21st, and
Naples to the 24th ult.
The reforms announced by ordonnancee of the 18th,
were received at Palermo with disdain, and rejected.
The insurrection was general in Sicily. Garrisons on
the coast and in the interior were yielding. succes-
sively. Insurgents in Palermo were being reinforced
from the interior. The people demand the con-
stitution of 1812, and the convocation of
parliament All classes are unanimous. The
nobles, bourgeoisie, priests, monks, peasants, fisher-
men, women, and children, are united, calling
for Sicilian independence. The provisional govern-
ment organised in Palermo is headed by Prince Pan-
tellaria, Marquis Rudini , Marqu is Spedalotto, Marshal
Ruggero, and other Sicilians of high position. The
losses suyained in the conflicts were not considerable ;
about 200 of the troops and 50 of the people. A
convent of Benedictines took arms, and attacked and
captured the garrison of Montereale, near Palermo.
A British frigate arrived at Palermo on the 21st.
When the reform ordonnances were posted on the
walls in Naples, they were torn down and trampled
on. Naples was in the greatest agitation. An incur-
sion of insurgents from the provinces was appre-
hended. Pietra Catella and Serra Capriole besought
the king to make promptly larger concessions.
Salerno was reported to be in insurrection. A con-
stitution was demanded there. Pressed by these
menaces the king published on the 23rd an amnesty
to the insurgents now under accusation, including
the Romeo family. The dismissal of Del Canetto
was demanded. Report says that the king
asked the governor of St. Elmo if he could rely ou
the fidelity of the garrison, and the governor answered
by resigning.
The King of Sardinia convoked his council of state
for 15th March.

Since the foregoing appeared in a second edition of
the Daily News tkis morning, we have had our Paris
express, with letters and papers to yesterday at noon.
Monday was a grand field-day in the Chamber.
With Italy still for theme, all the notabilities of the
Tribune were in the lists. Thiers, Guizot, and Bar-
rot were the champions. Thiers, conscious of having
the sympathies of the country with him, delivered a
glowing oration on Italian regeneration, and stigma-
tised the passive complicity of the Guizot cabinet
with Austria. Guizot, too wise to oppose himself to
the shock of such an opponent on each a theme,
performed one of his characteristic gyrations, faced
round, and, turning his back on his reply of Saturday
to Lamartine, fairly placed himself beside his
adversary, and gravely declared that their sentiments
were identical, toe only difference being that the re-
sponsibilities of office imposed a reserve upon the
language of the one from which the other was exempt!
Barret rose and brought the question from the mist
of obstructions, which Guizot had dexterously raised,
down to the ground of practical actualities, and mer-
cilessly exposed the contrast between the language of
Guizot in the tribune and the policy of Guizot in the
cabinet. After this passage of arms the day closed
with the adoption of the paragraph of the address
without division.
The Prince and Princess de Joinville left Paris on
Monday, for Toulon, en route for Algiers, where they
are to pass some time with the Duke and Duchess
D'Aumale.

Advices have been received from Naples to the '
24th instan', by the steamer Castor, arrived at Mar-
seilles. According to these reports, the insurgents at
Palermo had utterly rejected the programme of reform
put forth in the royal ordonnances of the 18th and
19th. These decrees, when posted on the walls of
Naples were, it is reported, instantly torn down. In
the province of Salerno and in the Calabria'', the in-
surrection became from hour to hour more formidable.
The king had published an ordonnance, declaring an
amnesty in favour of all persons in the kingdom de-
tained for political offences, including all the members
of the celebrated family of Romeo. It was, however,
thought that these measures were too late to be useful
in tranquillising the country. The population of
Naples appeared calm, but it was a calm which tilled
the mind of King Ferdinand with alarm.
A correspondent of the Nouvelliste, reports that the
royal garrisons in the interior and along the coast of
Sicily successively laid down their arms before the ineur-
gents. Detachments of the latter were sent to Palermo,
which presented, therefore, a formidable mass of armed
population. The troops which remained still in the
fortresses are represented as passive and indifferent
spectators of the general defeat of the royal forces.
The following details of the proceedings at Palermo
on the days succeeding that of the king's fete, are
selected from the correspondence of the Paris journals:
On the 13th, at seven in the morning, the tocsin
called the population to arms. From time to time,
in the direction of the place, discharges of artillery
were heard; groups of from 15 to 20 individuals,
armed with sporting guns, sabres, swords, and headed
by well-dressed young men, were seen in every part
of the town, marching to the cries of " Long life to
Ferdinand II.! The Constitution of 1812 for ever!"
From that day the insurrection has speedily gained
ground. After a series of combats, often deadly,
the authority of the government having en-
tirely ceased to be recognised throughout
the town, a kind of organisation was
established from the very force of things. On
the 15th several committees were established,
which have been obeyed ever since by the insurgents.
lit. The Committee for the Defence of the City,
presided over by, the Prince of Pantellaria. 2nd. The
mmittee of the Finances, by the Marquis of Ruderic.
3rd. The Committee for Provisions', by the primer of i
the city, Marquis of Spedalotto. 4th. Committee for
all the Affairs of the State, by the general officer, on
retired pay, Don Roggero Settimo, a very. able and
a very popular character. Among the moot influential
of those members are M.M. Stabile and &sea, the
first a merchant, the second an avocet.
Sine. the commencement of the insurrection, the
royal temps hays constantly occupied the following
positions: the royal palace, where is the lieutenant
of the king, in Sicily ; the fort of Cestelmare • the
Invade of the mole; the prison, situated between
the mole and the town ; the palace of the flnanoes, and
the barracks in the neighbourhood of the 'eye] palace.
As we have already stated, these troops were reinforced
by a corps of 8,000 men, brought by nine steam
frigates, which the king sent off at a minute's warning
from Naples, and which arrived off Palermo on the
16th, at 4 p.m. After a stay of four and twenty
hours the Count d'Aquila set off immediately for
Naples with two of these vessels ; two more of these
frigates left on the 17th, and the other tire remaiA off