The Express.
London, England, 1847-12-13 00:00:00

GENERAL INSURRECTION IN SICILY.

The SEmaphore, of Marseilles, of Wednesday, gives
a letter from its correspondent at Naples, of the 2nd,
announcing the important intelligence of a general
insurrection in Sicily. The excessive rigour of the
government in its measures against the former insur-
gents, the wholesale incarcerations, and the numerous
and indiscriminate executions, have produced their
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neesseary consequences. The entire - has risen
u one man, and the soldiers have refused to act
• at the exasperated population. The constitution
ot 1812, guaranteed by England, has been everywhere
proclaimed. The communications between Sicily and
Naples are suspended. The regular steam-boats were
stopped. The correspondent of the Semaphore says
that it was remarked with surprise that a large Eng-
lish steam-frigate, suppreed to be the Terrible, had
approached the Gulf of Naples, and was engaged in
taking soundings off Castelinare. It returned to sea
without communicating with the shore.

Accounts from other parts of Italy continue to be
favourable. From Turin we learn that great festivities
are reported as having taken place there on the return
of the King from Genoa to that capital. All the shops
were closed, and business suspended; the streets
through which the royal core ye passed being literally
lined with the entire population, decorated with flags,
adorned with triumphal arches, and all the devices by
which the public is wont to manifest its approbation.
King Charles Albert has decidedly become the most
popular of Italiar ~overeigns, not even yielding to the
Pope in public favour.
Letters from Rome of the 2nd say that all wits per-
fectly tranquil in that capital, sad that the work of
administrative and organic reform was proceeding in
the most satisfactory manner. The new council of
state and the municipality had entered on their re-
spective functions, and all hope of effecting any re-
action had been given up by the retrograde and
Austrian party. The people contribute much (say
these letters), by their admirable conduct, by their
intelligence, and their attachment to the sovereign
pontiff, to the maintenance of order and the due and
safe development of the glorious work which has been
so auspiciously begun.
It is stated that the King of Naples had accepted
theresignation of all his ministers, and that the acces-
sion of the kingdom of the Two Sicilies to the Italian
league might be immediately expected.

ROME, Nov. 29.

With respect to the arrest of a British subject
domiciled here, for refusal to shoulder his firelock in
the civic guard, I have to inform you that Mr.
Consul Freeborn has tried to stay proceedings on the
part of the Secretary of State, and by the maange-
ment of the gentleman's Roman wife, he is " oat of
the way." The colonel of the battalion Aldobrandini
is, however, determined to enforce the law; and Lord
Mint*, as well as the Hon. Edward Petre, do not
read " Vatel" in the same sense as Pslr. Freeborn,
who is backed, however, by the opinion of Mr. Hood,
long consul in South America.
The question excites the greatest interest here
among the British artistes. The sculptors, Wyat,
MiDonnel, Theed, and John Gibson are all recalci-
trant, especially the last celebrated 6rtillt, who thinks
soldiering. infra dig,. though the equally celebrated
John Gilpin, of credit aA
tram band feu he,
but then it was in famous London town.

FRANCE.—PiIus, DEC. 11.—TEE PRABLIN
Deluzy-Desportes has just presented a de-
mand against Marshal Sebastiani for the delivery of the
legacy of 3,000 f. in lientes which the Duke de Pr is made
her, ae governess of his daughters, by his will of 1843.
Mlle. Doing further demands that different articles which
were given to her by her pupils,and which are at present under
seal, shad be restored to her ; and finally, she demands the
restitution of a sum of money which, she says, ahe confided
to M. de Prulin to invest.

Sam orr Fisz.—ln oar paper of Friday we gave
the intelligence brought by ths Tagus, Captain Evans, of
that vessel-having, on Deeember 9, passed a Alsip on tire off
the Bill of Portland, and we have since ascertained that the
unfortunate vowel was the American ship Roberts, Captain
G. Shawmaster, belonging to Boston. She was bound to
Havre, from New Orleans, and was laden with a cargo of
cotton, the overheating of which was no doubt the cause of
the catastrophe. The crew are supposed to have taken to
the boats, and have probably been picked up.

DEArn OF Da. WIGAN.—This gentleman expired
lout week, at his residence, Queen-street, Camden-town,
after a very short illness. Dr. Wigan was well known as a
writer for the periodical press, and as the author of a work
"On the Duality of the Mind." The deceased attributed his
fatal illness to having stood over an open drain in the neigh-
bourhood of Regent-street, when be felt suddenly Ili, and
was obliged to go into an hotel, where he nearly fainted.
From that moment his naturally robust constitution ap-
pasted to tectirt a shock f 1203 wl'.ich ho Itertr rallied.

the court.
The Duchess of Beni, attended by Lady Fanny
Howard and Sir G. Couper, le, Osborne at 11 o'clock on
Saturday morning, crossed in the Fairy steam-packet to
Gosport, and took her departure by the .Landon and South
I Wasters Railway, on her return to her resiamee, Frogmore
00010, Windsor.
The Duke of Cambridge attended a meeting of the
Trustees of the British Museum on Saturday. His Royal
Highness returned us Hatfield House, Herta, the seat of the
Marquis of Salisbury in the afternoon.

A Cabinet Council was held at half-past three
o'clock on Saturday afternoon et the private residence of
Lord J. Russell, in C b esham place. The ministers present were
Lord J. Russell, the Marque of Lansdowne, Sir G. Grey,
Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grcy, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, the Earl of Auckland, Lord Campbell, Right Hon.
H. S. Labouchere, Viscount Morpeth, and the Right Hoc.
T. B. Macaulay. The council sat two hours.
Lord J. Russell was much better on Saturday.
The Duke of Wellington attended the early ser-
vice in the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday. The Mar-
quis of Winchester, Lords Granville, Farnham, Bbrington,
and Sydney, were among the nobility present. The Hon.
and Rev. Baptist Noel will preach on Sunday next, the 19th
inst., in the chapel royal.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council eat on
Saturday, and resumed the hearing of an appeal from New
South Wales, " The Bank of Alstralasia v. Breillat." Mr.
Bethell, Q.C., and Sir Fitzroy Kelly were heard. The cue
was adjourned.