The Express.
London, England, 1856-12-29 00:00:00

ITALY.

THE TWO BICILIES.
(IRON OU/L OWN COILAZIPOWDZI

NAPL/38, D5c..22.

If we ate not iu the midst of a miter's!, we
are :a the midst of a moral revolutios. The people
Sr. watched by a vigilant police, threatened
by foreign bayonets, surroooded by a cordon
of
cannon. reduced to a state of misery and
einnoraluiation awful to contemplate; sad
notwithstanding all the precautions taken, the
Lag is assaulted in the centre of his court and
army one day, • magazine of powder is blown'
op leader his nose another, and a frightful attempt is
alleged to have been made to send the royal palace
into the air—an attempt which, if swoesatul, would
bare involved the destruction of half the city. The
position is torsi alarming, and if ever intervention
appeared to be of doubtful policy there can be little
besitatitin in urging the Dectssiiy of it now to save
the country trout impending disasters. The people
generally have long been discontented, it is well
bionn—it is now equally well known that the army
is disaffected. The last support of the King has
tailed him—only his foreign troops can be hlited
upoo. The address of the Swiss congratulating his
Majesty on his escape was published in the Journal of
Pridcy night; it draws, se it were, a line between
them and the army, as though they were beings of
another clam, and promises devotion to his Msjesty.
All the powder in the magesine beneath the palace
is being removed. On Saturday DO one WY per-
flitted to eater the arsenal, and doting the whole of
the day and the following night people were at work
in shipping it off to Nisids, Beim—anywhere, in fact.
The people, it would appear, have become desperate
us well ae discontented.

In addition to the proofs already mentioned show-
ing the state of the army, I may mention that the
prominent court-martial for the city has its hands
All of asses; wispy are for desertion, others are
capital curs. The &madame invited in coupon"),
of certain allusions found is a letter upon the person
of Agrailao Milano hes been tried and condemned to
24 years of imprisonment. Ors dif, that arrests are
being continually made amongst civilians, and the
Calabrese generally have ben sent away from the
laity. Be assured that we go from worse to worse,
mad that, whether In the capital, the provinces, or
Sicily, society is in a state of diaorpointion and
nothing can ever restore order but the strong hand of
• foreign power.
It is but little that we hear from Sidi', bat on the
following you may rely. A Te Deus had been sung at
Palermo and Messina, bat the utmost indifference had
been manifested by the people. At Catania the
latendente bad ordered an address to begot up, bet
most of the inhabitants had objected to sign it, upon
which the Intendents declared that it mattered little
whether they signed it or not, for that it still would
be sent off as theirs, and he recommended them
*eificantly to witbdraw their objections. The leader
sf the bands, said to have been suppressed at Cefalo,
bas sot been taken , but has increased his
Mess sad retired witLuiicttairinterior. Of course, we
W know that the Sicilians are ripe for any !biog.
The Wanderer has been up here this week from
Malta, and left anti, on Friday.
Field Marshal Killer has arrived in Naples to
rt the congratulation' of the Emperor of
umhl a
to his Majesty on his preservation. The Prior
Comendatove °ovum has arrived also on a
similar mission from Toseany. I regret to my that
Certain o.lllwey,R.N., so many years British Cooed
at Naples, was struck with paralysis on Friday after-
noon.