The Express.
London, England, 1860-06-09 00:00:00

SS, SATURDAY

EATEW INTELI4GENCE.
SICILY.

CAPITULATION OF THE NEAPOLITAN
TROOPS.
"TURIN, JINN 9, 6.20 A.W.
" General Leticia on his return from Naples
capitulated on the 6th to Garibaldi
" His troops are to embark with arms and
baggage.

"They are to encamp, until their embarkation,
cm Route Pellegrino.
" The fort a Castallamare has been placed in the
keeping of the English Admiral until the evacua-
tion has been effected."

The following telegrams have been received by
Mr. Reuter :

NAPLES, Joni 6.
The King has agreed to the capitulation accord-
ing to which part of the Neapolitan troops would
embark for Naples and part for Mesalna. It is not
known whether Garibaldi will accept the capitu-
lation.

TURIN, Juml 8.
Advices from Minimills' and Palermo to the 4th
state that Garibaldi had issued decrees for the or-
ganisation of the Sicilians.

The royal troops, to the number of 15,000, still
occupy their positions in Palermo. Many deser-
tions were taking place from their ranks.
Orders had been sent to all the garrisons of Sicily
to concentrate at Messina, where entrenchmenta
will be formed.

Catania had been bombarded and pillaged. A
strict blockade existed between Calabria and
Sicily.

_
PARIS, JUNE 9.
It is stated that other French vessels have been
despatched to Naples.

The following (says the Opinion Nationale) is the
principal passage of a letter addressed by Garibaldi
to the officers of the English squadron off Palermo :
"The enemies of the national independence
abound in calumny towards your great nation.
They impute to you the odious design of speculat-
ing upon our heroic enterprise ; they accuse you of
meaning one day to take possession of this field of
glory, fertilised by the sweat of so many patriots—
the blood of so many martyrs.
" If this fatal prediction should ever be accom-
plished—if Sicily, now altogether Italian at heart,
should be destined merely to exchange the despotism
of the Bourbons against an interested protectorate—
England would cease to be what she now is—the
sister of Italy, that classic land of liberty:"
The /*valid/ Raise examines at some length the
chances of success which seem to exist for the
King of Naples, and its arguments show much
impertiality.. Although it declares ho has 9,500
men in his Guard, 80,000 in the regiments of the
line, 8,000 cavalry, and 48,000 men in the reserve,
he appears in great danger of having the worst of
the contest. Although Garibaldi started at the
bead of only 1,500 men, the Russian journal does
not hesitate to declare that he it an enemy not to
be despised, and that events will soon show his
superiority.

THE STATE OF PALERMO.
The following are extracts from letters from
Palermo :

May 28.

The irregulars are decidedly improving. They are
phial, a taste for barricade and street fighting ;
they still bias away their ammunition in a frantic
scanner, bat they are beginning to keep to their
poste and even to advance, if not too much ex-
posed. This is our advantage in these street fights ; the
loam they last the more they increase the confidence of
the irregulars and distroy the discipline of the regular
troops.

Every boar brings new proofs of this in the shape of
prisoners and deserters from the Neapolitan forces. With
those taken in the hospitals there must be above 1,000.

May 29.

While I was with the general (Garibaldi) a letter arrived
from COTIOOII9 by which he was informed that the
Neapolitan colonel comraandinj the column sent there
was inclined to come over if his rank was confirmed
to him. He is surrounded on all sides by guerillas,
his road cut off, and he has a considerable force
before him. The answer was, of course, an acceptance of
his proposals, which came in en indirect way.
The proposal does not surprise me. Yesterday several
officers came in in plain clothes and gave themselves up.
I saw about sixty or seventy prisoners and deserters in one
place, who all wished to have arms and become soldiers of
Italian independence.

May 30, Morning.

. - -
The news from the country could not be better. Every-
where the people are rising and the troops withdrawing.
On the evening of the 23rd General Alfsn di Halals *ban-
boned Girgenti, leaving the civil authorities to their own
devices. As soon aa the troops leftthepopulation hoisted the
Italian flag. A committee was formed, and a national guard.
The cries were, as everywhere else, " Viva Middle," " Viva
Vittorio Emmanuele," and "Viva Garibaldi." The civil
authorities were respected, and although the prisoners,
200 in number, were let out, no disturbance
occurred. The whole province there, as every-
where else, is following the example, rising, in-
stituting a committee, and arming itself. The pro.
vince of Catania has risen, with the exception of the
town, which is still held by the military as well as that of
Trapani. And all this occurred before the taking of Pa-
lermo, the news of which event has not yet had time to
produce its full effect. If the Neapolitans ever again get
possession of Sicily, the Sicilians deserve to be ruled for
ever by King Bombino.

The Neapolitan fleet has not fired • shot since the morn-
ing before yesterday, when Admiral Mundy spoke his
mind on the subject to the Commandore, so that one-half
of the misery has been spared to the Palermitaus. But
the Castello is incorrigible ; whenever it hears • notes
est sews • movement in any ,part of the town down comes
• shall If it were possible to miss I dare my they
would, but this cannot be expected in these narrow streets.
The houses ►re, for the moat part, so badly built that one
shell is sufficient to make them • heap of ruins and bury
the inmates. Whole families have thus disappeared, and
hundreds of inoffensive people been killed and wounded.
The fleet fired about 80 or 90 shells the first day ; as for
the Castello, it most have thrown more than 300.

The first day Garibaldi addressed • protest to the sons
somders of the foreign men•of•war against this oommdly
inhumanity ; but they °moot interfere directly without
instructions. It is to public opinion in Europe that the
appeal must be made. Let it decide whether • government
which resorts to such means is worthy to mist.
The parliament of Great Britain is assembled, let it take
the matter in its hands. If • convict who los committed
smasisinghler or burglary becomes an opprobrium in the
siyse of sea, sandy the bigoted idiot who massacres in this
way hundreds of &foamless people to revenge himself of
kis own impoteses, deserves to be branded with infamy !

gam

Jest at this momenta flog of truce has come in from the
Royal Palace, with the following letter directed to General
Garibaldi :

" The Commend•in•Chief of the Artnies end Navel Statious

beyond the Fare, Palermo, May 30, 1860.

" General, —As the British admiral let me know that la
would receive with pleasure on bowl of his vessel two of my
generals to open a conference with you, of which he would
be the mediator, if you allowed them to pass through the
bass, I beg you to let me know whether you assent, and if
10 to indicate to me the hour at which the armistice is to
begin. It would be likewise advantageous that you allowed
the two generals to Ir, accompanied from the Royal Palace
to the Smith, where they would embark.—Waiting for your
answer, I have the honour to be. " Lam.
"To his Excellency General Garibaldi."

To this the answer was, that General Libel&
would have no obisellon to meet the two generals in
the admiral's vend ; that he would send round orders tie
ail the line to misfiring ; that the armistice was to begin
at noon, and that at 1 p.m. they should meet on
board the admiral's ship Neither
party can hold much longer. An epic poem could
be written about what the 1,062 Italians and fire Hunga-
rians did in Sicily during these last twenty days ; how they
fought, how they marched, how they bore fatigue. If
every Sicilian was ready to do the thousandth part of
what they did, there would be no more fighting re-
quired. AA for pay, the very word is unknown most al
those who osme havemeans of their own, never ask for any-
thing atcept ammunition, live on what they osa buy, sad
simmainsoetto bare forgotten what deep it. Iles only &w-
-ho& is that they were only 1,062 at landing, sad tbattbose
who think themselves great in the Italian cause thought it
their duty this time to impede most eirectually in rein-
forcements. If one was ill natured, Mb might almost =P-
pm that they thought it a good opportunity to get rid el
Garibaldi, bat they find themselves mistaken.