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LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 1.

WE hope and believe that tile long series of
confused, false, and " official " telegraphic accounts
of affairs in Sicily which we have had to publish
during the last ten days has come to an end, or
at least to a long pause. The fall of Palermo
befi,re the patriot Sicilian bands, erroneously
announced last week, may now, we believe, be re-
garded as an ascertained fact. All the recent
telegrams, even those from Naples, have tended
to make that event probable, and for the last
two days all the reports have converged still
more closely towards it. It now appears that
the announcement of the Patric of Tuesday
evening, published by us on Wednesday, was
in substance correct. The patriots attacked the
royal forces in Palermo on the morning of Sunday
lad—fit day for that veritable work of charity
and mercy, the extinction of BOCILDON tyranny.
The advance was made, according to the telegram,
at four in the morning on the south side, and the
fight, which must have been for the most part a
hand to hand encounter, lasted until ten o'clock.
As soon as the people had made themselves
maate•rs of the whole of that part of the city which
lies to the south of the Strada di Toledo
a tremendous fire was opened on it from the
arsenal, the citadel, and the seaward forte,
which still remained in the hands of the Boueisom
troops, and from the shipping in the harbour ;
but in the midst of this dreadful bombardment the
people persevered in their great work, until the royal
troops retired within the Royal Palace, the Custom-
house, and the Castle. After a respite of two hours,
the fighting was resumed at noon. Of the result we
are only informed that the Royal Palace was
taken by the insurgents and burnt down. It may
be that the Bontsoes have still a footing in that
part of Palermo which is commanded by their ships
of war, but their position there will not long be
tenable after GAILIZALDI has had time to employ the
artillery which the taking of the southern defences
of the city must have placed at his disposaL
Moreover, as soon as the recapture of the place
is seen to be hopeless, the retention of these poai-
tions by the Royalists will be a useless waste of
force, such as the BOURBON Government cannot
afford, seeing that the success at Palermo must
give life and vigour to the insurrection throughout
the island. It is stated that other towns, which
were known to be waiting only for this signal, are
now up in arms; and if accounts from Naples
are to be relied on, the loss of Palermo has para-
lyzed the Government and led to the fall of the
Ministry.

Fl'lllllll2 correspondence with Mr. Bruce, our
Plenipotentiary in China, was laid on the table of
the House of Commons last night. Its purport
may be briefly stated. Mr. Bruce, whose first
despatches had conveyed the impreesion that the
Chinese government would be glad of a fair and
reasonable accommodation, writing in February
last, reports that that impression was incorrect,
and that he is convinced, that the war party being
in the ascendant, there is at Pekin a deliberate in-
tention to set aside the treaty engagements entered
into by the Emperor, and that nothing but
the complete defeat of this hostile party, and
the destruction of their power and credit,
together with " a lesson which will teach the
Chinese that perfidy and bad faith necessarily lead
to signal punishment," will enable us to place our
relations with China on a secure basis. These are
Mr. Bruce's reasons for proposing to demand abso-
lutely, in the ultimatum he was about to present to
the Chinese, au indemnity for the expenses of our
new expedition to China, instead of making that
demand contingent on the rejection of his ulti-
matum by the Court of Pekin. A demand in this
uneoielitional form had been made on the part
of the French, and it was important that
the two Western Powers should not appear
to be divided in interest. By the Bth of March
Mr. Bruce had pr•paredd his ultimatum, of which
these papers coutain a copy. In the preparation
of this document his first intentions with regard to
an indemnity do not appear to have been rigidly
adhered to, as will be seen in the paragraph of that
document textually quoted below. Mr. Bruce's
despatch to the Chinese government was addremed
to the senior Secretary of State at Pekin and the
members of the Great Council of the Emperor of
China. The plenipotentiary begins by stating that
he has brought to the knowledge (4 his government
all the facts relating to his journey to the mouth of
thertien-twin river last UM', his oorrtspoudence with
the authorities on that subject, and also the
version of these occurrences contained in the Im-
perial decree of August 9, pointing out to his own
government how much his Imperial Majesty had
been misled by his servants, Mr. Bruce then pro-
ceeds to relate, fur the information of the Em-
peror of Chios, what happened last summer at
Rtiangluie and Taku. He denies in the mint pad.
tive terms that it had been signified to him by