The Express.
London, England, 1860-06-29 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS,

ITALY.

SARDINIA.

(meu OCS OWN

TURIN, 'luxe
The news that a ship of war had left Naples for
dime with urgent despatches was true 111 part
only The ship was the Monanibano, belonging
to the Santini:in navy, and she brought the son of
Marquis Pcs .h Villamarina, as bearer of wine
€6„l,,,tches firm' his father to Count Cavour. All
the c:,ujectures, however, about her bringing an
envoy from the King of Naples with a message of
war ur peace were without foundation. As yet,
the greatest secrecy prevails as to our represents-
fives tissues for choosing so confidential a
messenger a. his own son. If we may be-
brve letters which have just come from
Maple*, the thing may be to some extent
eaplaiussl. Thews letters state that the King is
seriously ill, and that there is some suspicion of
pitein The Austrian party hopes to save the
dynasty by placing on the throne the Count of
grant, ehleft eon of Yerdinand's widow, the daughter
of the Austrian Archduke Charles. The young
King is not disposed to abdicate in his relative s
favour ; but the family which formerly urged him
to resistance, since the slaughter in Sicily thinks
Nat to save the throne it is umemary to transfer it
to the Count of Trani, who, as be has not yet
bombarded any city or brought down popular in-
diostiou us himself, it is hoped may be accepted
as a osustitutiosal king. Such an illusire substi-
tution would be a great triumph fur the Austrian
party. The constitution would have the
er ~t .4 quieting the people for a moment,
awl as soup as the danger was over could
be abolished without scruple, in the manner so
familiar to Itourboes and Austrians. So you see,
if this lie.* is true, and there is at any rate some
foii:,.lation for it, our government has matter for
servius consideration. Accordingly the King and

the Milli•ter4 hold long and In...pieta councia., and
COMA CM4tUr lipoids whole houn alone with the
Kin , or in conference with Sir Jams thiliaoll sad
the French Mutkter.

The Neay.litan government, convinced that the
capture of the two vtasrla was illegal, intimates its
dim...motion to restore them and their passengers,
but, with characteristic dislike of performing au act
of justice, it is striving io turn the restoration to
its own im.fit, by makinkr it conditional on its re-
wiring 11.014 C anti-revolutionary aid from us. If I am
well informed the Sardinian government has replied
that it is not cow-vernal one wry ur the other with
the revolution that has broken out in Wetly, and
may break out at Naples ; that if volunteers go
from our territory, they go also from Trieste and
horn Naples itself to serve under De Merude and
launoricWre ; lot there be equal liberty of going
and coming fur all—only let maritime law be re-
apocted. The Sardinian government knows that
Au-trian men-of-war have carried Austrian sub-
ject. to ; whereas no vessel belonging to
the Sardinian goverruueut Lae carried volunteers to
Sicily, much less Sardinian robbers. Therefore
the restitution of the captured vessels and their
paaiwtiger. must not be made conditional on any
isetictssion nor Nuivalent on the part of the Sardi-
nian peensment

Cui'itnbutiona in aid of Garibaldi's enterprise are
wuring in On all Odra. Of the generous help it
rei7lrol from England I need nut speak;
France, Belgium, and Switzerland are mending
Newry and arm.. A Swedish foundry has sent nix
wino.., and America sends many mure. In Italy
millions are being subscribed, and there are about
80,000 roluutecrs anxious to join. I believe Vora
in a low days a regular line of steamers will run
between (tutu and Sicily. The undertaking it
projected by a company consisting partly of French
awl partly of Genoese.
Count Dann, sine of the very few Hnnprians
who line raugsvl thentaelvc. on the side of abso-
lutoon, has just shut himself at Viterbo. He was
there ormniiing a regiment of cavalry out of
Austrian -oilier. who had been discharged or sent
U cries The ridicule which 11/114 been thrown upo
theft wildiers of the Pope has already driven awry
many officers ; others are on the point of taking
thenowlves off ; and the few who remain through
punctilio or nemwsity are so constantly meeting
with aunoyancea and disappointments, that they
lure heart and spirit ; so it is no wonder if one of
Vein has committed suicide. To serve the Pope
voluntarily is at this time of day a sort of moral
suicide, and that is only a step removed from ma-
terial suicnle.

GarilKildi h.►s iumed two proclamations, one to
his urging them to prepare fur fresh
emnhats, which may point equally to an attack on
K. seam or a di.e.mliarkation on the mainland : and
th•• other to the hands of Sicilian peasants, thank-
ing them, commending them, and setting them at
liberty to follow their ordinary pursuits. The fact
iM these bumi,, are no longer of any use to him. For
this kind .4 ratetupore warfare, so to speak, town
volunterra are much butter.

THE REVOLUTION IN SICILY.

(MOM Ola OW

NAPLES, Jr.. rd.
I eau icies. ion no adequate idea of the apprelieu-
see which L 5.. Liken bun of the minds of all
glows of the pupolitam. It is hot oi a struggle
.4 iarties, when a principle is supported and fought
for on either aide ; nor is it iudeeil Of a bonibur.l-
- hornt.le as it would be ; but it is the fear of
the ferisitno may be execute' by that snob
of vstothonds whom the government of Naples has
always o..ln:bumf to honour, melon whose assistance
it oaten:at..., .11100 the victim. of it,
turn agruusi it All wtbn can, Live secured villas
1/1 tib." country for the seas..,,, and 1110 At are ilia-
pant to extend the nilbggiotooi of May through
the 11/11114t17 ; in humble eireuitistarnes are
airaining a pow In got away ; foreigners we have
100 n.... I have already AAVII
"domiciles written, and the French
firs dileg the mane ; flow,, who have property
N inahlag inventories, and sending them in
thaw rove. !lye conouls, and the fear is Justified
by the histoncal antecedents the Bourbons, and
by the probability, ~ow not doubted, of what might
lave takes ace, awl what ~..oldhave taken place
on the lab, but for the presence of the British
and Freud. deem I believe that the city was
saved from serum of greet atrocity on that slay
by the general impression that each vessel wou'd
hare landed • certain number of men in the event
of disorders eseurrieg similar t.. than which hare •
eccurred and here easetiosel on several occasions
linen& the last twenty or thirty year& it is earn-
godly to be bored that aa imprission so wbulmeme
may continue to exist, and may be confirmed by
Ile fart if the city even for a moment is in the
bonds of licensed rakes.
Thu 'onomowiatore Martino returned from Paris
ate Weducylsy evening, the 711th inst., awl. As '
aseerted anal generally believed, without pnalu..iug
any results. Nu Jubilate* are sung ; but, 011 the
wontrary, like • disparate maii, the go-
vernment at the last moment seems preparing
to take a step which it has drooled, cad refused to
take, but to which it is driven at last. De Martino,
whom I know, and whom I highly as an
/MOW and a liberal man, was witi: thr:Vtg till a
late hour on Thursday night ; so was the Count ri
kivila, until after midnight ; and yesterday
thore was a faintly council, to be present •
at winch the ("unit of Aquila passed through
Naples at lull-past 7 in the morning. The conae-
gnome is that a rumour is spread abroad of an in-
tention to great a constitution—the Piedmontese
etnatitution ; but it is appassitly too late. Vows
mute in pain are nut beheveil in. All intelligent
own with whom I have spoken on such possibili-
ties have no faith in the veracity of a prince who
is. resoled all apPrearhee to reform until ruin
stare., him in the face. The same thing will
happen, they feel persuaded, that has happen.l,,„
former occasions • and • gift made with a had
will, will be rendered a ease by all kiwis of under-
bead trickery. If the people are firm in their pre-
seat opinions they will dy free the e.T.itionto
be made, t.ir they me now tiersuadeo that, at in
1846, thole who embrace the mostitutiou to be
gives by the present sovereign will be marked out

for future persecution. It is to be regretted that it
should be so, yet any one who knows Naples earl-
not but my that such 'distrust is here only another
name for prudence. In fact, the position cannot be
more embroiled than it is ; and in whatever direc-
tion I look it is difficult to see what escape there
remains from the difficulties which surround us.
On Wednesday night the Prefect of Police was
replaced by a 81g. Mantuan, ex-Attorney-General
in the province of Lucera, and you may judge of
the characters of those who administer the law
from the general observation which is made—"lt is
impossible that Mensurati can be a good choice, for
all attorney-generals are villains." The facts are
that the old prefect wee connected with the old
cl and fell ;,the new Prefect in one of the party
at Maw., formerly director of police, whose influ-
ence i% now all in aIL A change has been made,
bat no improvement, for there is no name more
odious in the police records of Naples than that of
Musa, who virtually directs that power.
With the exception of Btanislao Gatti, who has
tenninatcd his imprisonment by a long exile in
Ischia, I have not heard of any other release than
that. Capriciously arrested, and as capriciously
liberated, his treatment is a type of our Police pro-
cedure.

The affair of the " capture" is for the moment
in abeyance, no answer hawing as yet been returned.
Tim Marchese Villaniarina, after having made his
verbal protest, oommun'eated last Tuesday with his
~orerement, and he could not receive an answer
bdon last evening or this morning. The action of
the United States minister has of course been
more prompt, as he is at a distance
from his government. The Sardinians dare not
seraneunicate by wire, as the cypher is not secure,
aid every kind of trick and obstacle is thrown in
tie way of communication.
Since I wrote an Austrian steam frigate has
arrived, as also a Sardinian war steamer. The
latter left for Leghorn and Genoa on Thursday.
The Neptune, Renown, and Diadem went on a
short cruise round the Bey on Wednesday, and
return probably to-day. At all events, their long
absence is undesirable. The Agamemnon came in
yesterday.
I am told that telegraphic information has been
received of the disembarcation of sone patriots
in Giulia Nimes, in the Abruzzi, and that
in an encounter with General Pianelli's foram they
were worsted ; but I wait for further intelligence.
The troops are still encamped between Badnoli
and Baia-, and malaria fever is doing its work
among them. All who know Naples will remember
the drive up the Strada Nuova, and so on round
:Ay Bagnoli This " round" is now interrupted.
After sunset sentinels prohibit your descending on
the other .ide.

And now leaving Naples, let me give some Intel.
ligeuce of Sicily. lam preceded, it to said, by two
wen, one called Risciotti, who revealed the Bapri
expedition to the government, and the other Role,
a follower of Garibaldi's in Rome, in 1848. They
are said to have left on a secret mission from
government, and that Garibaldi may hear of it. I
receive all such reports with caution, still they axe
by no means improbable.
Again, I am stopped at starting by the arrival
of boat onds of police and soldiers' wives and other
fugitives from Messina. The open apace in front
GI the Immacolatella is strewed with boxes, chairs,
and bedding. The complete evacuation of Palehno
thee place, as you will by this time have heard,
last Sunday, and the seven prisoner's who were laid
Fold of in the beginning of the revolut'on were
liberated, and taken in triumph through the Toledo
with their families, whited flowers were sho sewed
down upon them in profusion from t'oe windows.
Their reappearance is like a resurrection, for the
wonder is that they were not shot.
On the following day a Garibaldi force marched
south, I believe for Catania, where I hear in-
trigues ..have been going on against the provisional
government. Garibaldi has three vessels which he
EtaA purchased of a Marseille' company ; and, as he
is arming them, we may expect to hear shortly of
captures. I have before me • letter written by a
person in Palermo to a military man in this city,
and it l'a'sses a moat painful interest :

Palermo, June lit.
Dear Friewl,—l answer your. of the 10th Met., which
arrivod yesterday. I am alive by a great miracle, for my
drawing room has been beaten down into the court, and
after 19 days of suffering lam still iIL My house was com-
pletely burnt by the ferocious shells. I have lost my two
dearest friends, and my mil is bleeding ; two other dear
friends are in great danger. An "ordinance" promised to
protect peaceable citizens who remained in their bowies ;
and we, whilst obeying the law., were assassinated in our
beds.

Yes would not believe the thefts on thefts and the
aseassioauons which have been committed by the sohliery,
um is their Nth*. They robbed without restraint, mur.
tiered without merry, burnt, and then fled without fight.
isg, despising the orders of their colutnanders. This is an
infamous page in history. They ought to be tried and shot.
Enough, enough. My heart bleeds. I feel as If I could not
survive such numfortunee

Your house was burnt. I shall endeavour to make a de-
mand for the verification and valuation of the loss. The
Hamm is well, and had no losses : he saved himself on board.
We, miserable, remained victims. Addio, dear friends ;
mime all yours, sad weep for me.
A marine officer just arrived says that his vessel
fired 3Uo rounds of grape shot and four shells, not-
withirtauiling the prideete of the British admiral
against such ferocity ; but the instructions were to
do the greatest damage pumible.
As to Catania, a lady writing to her friends here
says the engagement was over by one o'clock p.m.,
and peaceable citizens began to walk out, when the
sillier. appeared and fired at then, like birds, the
officers ordering them to burn this or sack that
" palace" (house). Such horrors will never be for-
gotten to tl•e end of tune, and I believe that no
power on earth would ever induce the Sicilians to
unite thrum:Free to the Neapolitans, however free
Right be their institutions, so lung am the Bour-
bon.' lilted ores• thew. A report mu; been indus-
triously circulated here that the Sicilians are indis-
posed tosnortustiotimml discontented with Garibaldi
Tim truth is just the contrary, for oil every house is
written " Voglianto l'anneesione al rev° ceetitu-
sionale di Vittorio Emmanuele ;" and as to Gari-
baldi, he us the idol of the Sicilians. No active
enterprise is on Lind at the present moment, but
the work of urgauiAing and arming is going on
vigorously, and if I mistake not, we shall hear of
startling events shortly. A minister extraordinary
bas been appointed by Garibaldi to the court of
St. J 111111.38 and to that of Piedmont : in the first
case it is the Print* Belmoute—in the latter, the
Cuent Aniari

I return to Naples, where& family council was
held on Thursday and a constitution discussed. The
decision of the court, whatever it may have been,
has led to the resignation of the minis:era, who
hold other ad interims. Truja and Murena, the old
reactionary elements and partisans of the Queen
Mother, have been charged with the formation of
the new ministry. If a constitution is proclaimed,
an is generally reported will be the case, it may
probably he on the basis of that of Piedmont.
Eight mouths ago Baron Brenier recom-
mended one on a French basis, but I
think that in that quarter such an arrange-
ment would nut be deemed sufficient. My
opinion is, however, that the g..hlen opportunity
has passel ; the sole question is now of the dynast, ;
the nation will have none of it, it is irritated
beyond the possibility of reconciliation, and has
het all faith in it. A constitution now will only
lead to a dynastic crisis. Orders have been given
by the intemienti to all the royal judges to call in
the notes against the attetelibih truppu tardi ; they
had asked for farther instructions, as the decree
which liberated the attnidibili (and was secretly
violated) provided also for the liberation of the
eminent% and of those detained at the pleasure of
the
TC:swaa. yesterday a great panic in the gold-
smiluid da ' quarter, and the shops were hastily shut at
thsExcLage, tM ; Five per Cents., 104.
The United States war steamer Las just arrived
from Palermo.

The Naples correspondent of the Pre's, comma-
nitates to that journal an trial statement of the
furore which the Neapolitan government intended
to mind against the insurrection in Calabria and
Kelly. He guarantees its asthmittirity :
istlsurrar AID SOLMSTAIWINTP or STATE
_PDX WAS.

It Nspkt, Joao 111.
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_frank'. 111.111
Mallathie Imam the ••••••011 of Aoki 11•116111 Ada

NunsMak, eompoeed as follows, lad of which the eine=
of troops sameadog by Major Negri, who is at present in
theasteLff IMkinggam beyond the Straits, is to Woe part.
.—Twelms miffmenta of charm= .reed with
.mg7s, rasimmis et the Sae alai with rims.
Camary.—'hoe war- at booms, kw regiments of
lammarydalaahaiwat al Ogiis• for is crams* service.
.—Ons battery of position, two 6dd-batteries,
awe bawds,. bewitaws, • battery of rifted howitzers,
12-pannims, a election of fumes attached to the demilait-
11,01,14=1D:_Two:eamgaaies of sappers, two companies of
ptaaeete trbrae 4 ollatrbe v°Bl6°lminc:erl.niPa2Y and
half
of
The foram dull be divided into three
diviimas, 01 two beigades. Two of these divisions
are for moodain servlce, sad the third for that of the rs-
raiz mates. A proportionate park of artillery shall fol-
low the' Weer. Two haspiteh are to be established on
board two ships, and eight paronselli or trabocoli (different 1
kinds al eaffing vensh), am to carry storm, measures
fee fred&bg them baring been already taken. Bich of
the three diAises shall have a ambits mid two aide-de-
camp of the staff, two subaltern engineer officers, a subal-
tern Ftillery officer, a commissioner of war, with their re-
spective staff of subordinatas. oh of the six brigades
shall have two aides-ds-camp.

Name, Joel 1&
It is the will that the three divisions indicated
in the margin should be immediately furnished with aim
balances, munitions, and provisions, so as to set out for
Apulia, Calabria, and Client° (province of Salerno), im-
mediately on reeeiving orders for anba.ling or marching.
The following are the three divisions indicated in the
814.Division.—Bripda Barbakags : Three regiment' of
Orman ; derni-ba“ery Loosecio ; two squsdrons of 2nd
HamraDrip& Von Yeehel : Three foreign regiments ;
third held battery.
fleeced Divielon.—Bripidos at Gaeta : Four regiments at
Gaeta, one mountain battery, one regiment of liustan.
ThirdDiviska. —Brigades at Mauna: Three regiments
of Chrome (the fith, Bth, and 9th), two other regiments
to he afterwards specified, one regiment of Chasseurs, 13th
and 14th mountain batteries two companies of pioneers: