The Express.
London, England, 1860-08-02 00:00:00

SICILY.

The following extract le from a War addressed
by an Italian untlelaaa, Dr. Albert Mosmstier, to
a friend in Eiburgh. It is dated "Palermo,
July 19, 1800" :
After unsay disappoistneests and anneyenem I have at
hat been able to trend the Palerii..t.in ea far ever memo-
rable both for the heroic acts°. and the ..trocitise of which
tithes en lately been the scene. Y4ince I left Edinburgh, as
yen know by the werstierrs,
.nothing has occurred in the
tight* way, the dictator • poi., being to form a powortm
mom. null ingsmeed and disriplored, so as to enable him to
ester Naples elmmt without bbn.laMd. bloodshed, how-
ever, them will he ; hut it will be short work, pa everyone is
mink disgusted with the Pathos°. as they call the
goorbons, to stand by them if they have • chance of me-
Every two or throe tl.O s battalions formed and
pretty well drilled leave l'alerns,t.. make mom for new
They are directed towards Messina or Warne,
st▪
ation by stature, end are perfo.ted in their drill as they
proeeed
It ti now believed that between Sicilians arid other Ita-
lanr are about 30,000 men directs...al towards Sophie
or Meeoe.t. To my precaely whet will be done tint is
impresible, for the orders for starting always arrive sud-
denly, and no one but the coesmanibmg otflarr knows when
the atom are directed or which rood they are to take.
I left Genoa on the 9th at twelve o'clock p.m., on pas-
mere direct to Palermo, where we landed with too men 43
hours afterwards .

Av we were not expected so soon, we were disembarked
on the pier and enclosed in • set of iron rails, when we
wen- left to wait for daylight, when it wee Paid the dictator
would CUILO and receive s. About nee o'clock the General
made his appearance at the heal if his staff. He mu in
his usual simple costume and looked rather stern. His
heard has grown slightly since I saw him last, but he has
List nothing of the tire of that keen grey eve and of that
simplicity of manner which iliatinguivlies him from the mob
of the sal-calla' ruerals. The men were drawn up ia four
limes, before which he walked &ambit, the cries and shore
of '• Viva Garibaldi." He then catered his small
fortification, which iscluiles the lighthouse, and we made
oar way towards Palermo, paring through the Brio.
Although it was early in the inornitg there were marers
speetators at the I/ iudows- old men, children, and woman,
in an undressed state, cheering " like bricks ' and clapping
their lands a. our young fellows loose t, especially elan a
Roble or pries can,. in the way, wheal the waving of hats and
shouting were redoubled. Last night the town of Palermo
preeent..l the ame appearance it displayed on the estrance
.4 the first allied troops into the harbour. The oreesicia
was this--a Neapolitan corvette, the Veloce, was
ailing towards Palermo with two other small 1.411•110.
titan etearners in tow. The Values was purchased
by the Palermitan government in ISM, and was
then called the !tidal-sodium. Taken by the Boar.
home, after the fall of Palermo at that time, the old
slup has reclaimed true to her traditional fame, and has
bees, it appears, the nisinapring id a conspiracy in the
Nsitiolitan navy. to induce them to change sides Ito soon
se the Veloce with the two steamers in tow entered the
harbour they were surrounded be a thousand small boats,
and the shouting, noise, and gesticulation which followed
mar be imagined but cannot be described. Garibaldi was
on the spot Aniougst the first, and so was I, and he took
advanta:m of a boat which I had hired to board the
steamer, which lair about fifty yards off. He came to the
pier in • simple state carriage demo by a pair of bleak
buries, but he had made no preparrAimi for the ara—eo
humbug about Lim. While writing I am informed the
Vetoes captured the two steamer, whi,b she had in tow,
end that they del notgive themselves up, as was formerly
mid. The town of Palermo is illuminated every night, and
presents a most animated appearance. Towards sunset there
i a aptendel panne:lade, where all the beauties of the tows
Wrier in their carriages. I was really a-ten:shod at the
member of liveries ; and though previo•aily aware that the
Blau Debility were very sumerouv, did not suppose that
they poured milkiest mere to enable them to support
seek expeneive estahilialimenta I am it.torn.nl, however,
Yoe they live very parsimoniously at home The exteriors
ef their palaces are
furl
of spleedid Architecture, but
the Merton are full of cobwebs and dirt. This place is
teeny beautiful. and the vegetation is the country /rood
whet you raid con,eive. Peaches, figs, at., are all ripe,
eed tree is plenty of good wise very cheap.
P.M. A. the poet does met lease tall to-merrow, I take
this opportunity of making a postscript to my letter.
The news of • sharp tat %law, in the Mo-
rey ef Milltilla, is e.ia6rs,ld The Garilablians remained !
deberious, with a low of 900 We.' arid woundoL It is
ale mid that the town of Nair is in the bands af the
the royal troops having retired into the .Nadel.Mt!: fall of the Bomber then is not a shadow of •
dada. To-.1.v. spin. • regiment of old and wellelle-
eiplisied Kildare arrived at Palermo. They will be for.
warded to Nowise without delay. The Nstioaal Guard,
which I.oks wonderfully well for the short time it
las been formed. has also %tea lartia'Jy mobilised,
led the first battalion left Palermo lad night. There is
reel eirriassa here at primed, and the military spirit is
be pliant ground anmegst Ise Italians of all ciao. To-
ti ts. /I', of FA. Demilia, th, greet petrores el
Pt tea horsier, been kept with►the seed
milemeity art no doal.:, to the print
der of again. A grand eseL,lltowever, was mid, at which
themnnieigisl body Misname la state. Caribaldi, otte
lu r
• red shirt mid $1 haft, reared the place of
ITI allotted to the IC or vinery. He Iris
fillella with wore the itrehtirop. It ittetheltdata=
and Paiermitan pri that on fedi or...ssions the bead et
the reeniesemt it. wi hie had covens' ; sad it meet be
admitted that daribalib's aid het eat tither • emoted ape
parser an the preme eormiset.