The Express.
London, England, 1860-07-10 00:00:00

SICILY.

The Official Journal of Sicily of the 30th contains
the royal proclamation of the 25th nit., granting a
constitution for Naples ; the document, however,
is preceded by a leading article, in which we find
the following passages :

King Friend; il. of kepis* faithfully follows the example
of his predecessors. Overcome by the irresistible torrent of
events, he feigns to yield, talks of granting political Erma-
Aims, and appears to recollect that he governs an
Italian people. The earns thing was done by Ferdinand
111. in Sicily in 1812 ; by the same Ferdinand and
Francis L at Naples in 1820, and Ferdinand 11. in
1848 ; joyful promises on their lips, but in their hearts the
hatred of all civil liberty, treachery,and perjury, which are
hereditary and domestic traditions among that race. The
sovereign benevolence has waited to rouse itself after the
city of Palermo had been half reduced to ruins, and the
lemons of all Europe had intimated a speedy death to
that iniquitous dynasty. As to Sicily, all legal
connexion ceased between her and the Bourbons
trim the year 1815, when old Ferdinand broke
his oath to the country ; and on that principle was
founded the decree of April :3, 1848, by which the two
chambers of the parliament proclaimed the downfall of
Ferdinand IL and of his dynasty. Eleven year. of violent
occupation have not in the slightest degree altered the
legal relation of the country to the race (the Italian word
is Sekiatta, meaning brood) of its late masters ; and now
there stands between them the new and the eternal barrier
of heaps of slain of the maxillae. of Palermo. Could there
exist, by way of argument, any possible relation between
Sicily and the Bourbon■? Is it not from the pleasure of
the King the country would have to receive a coustitution?
Sicily possesses them of her own secular right. But the
vote of the island is now solemnly recorded by her cry in
this glorious revolution, and by the unanimous resolutions
of all her municipalities that have proclaimed the annexation
of the island to the other free provinces of Italy, under the
sceptre of the magnanimous King Victor Emmanuel 11.

The Genoa correspondence of the Prase con-
firms the melancholy fact that General Turr is too
ill to remain at the head of his column in Sicily.
When unable to ride on horseback he went
on for a long while in a carriage, but was ulti-
mately obliged to stop at Aoqui. It also states
that the climate of Sicily is very unfavourable to
the wounded, and that young Maniu, whose hurts
were but alight, does not recover.
Four steamers purchased by Garibaldi in Eng-
land, and which are to form the nucleus of his fleet,
Are daily expected at Genoa.
The Washington, the Cagliari, and the Oregon,
on the 2nd, at night, embarked 3,500 volunteers at
Genoa, mostly young men, from all parts of
North Italy, making up the third expedition,
bound for Sicily under the orders of the
Neapolitan Comm ; they set out in the best
order, and with admirable silence. The sea
was smooth as oil, and the broad moon lent them
the aid of her almost meridian light. Genoa poured
out all her people, and accompanied them with
loud cheers. These " evvivaa" were not answered
from the vessels, whence only occasional strains of
national songs broke through the stillness of the
air, long after the last farewell had been spoken,
and when the dimness of the receding shore made
the adventurers aware that the pang of separation
was over.

NAPLES.

NAPLES, JULY 7 (vu MAIMEILLIS).

It is asserted that the ministry has obtained the
royal assent to the removal of General Nunziante
and the court cainarilla of the former reign.

TOULON, JULY 9.
Yesterday two men-of-war left this port to rein-
force the French squadron at Naples.

THE PAPAL STATES.
ROME, Jinx 7.

The Irish volunteers are leaving Rome for Spo-
leti, where a corps of 10,000 men is to be concen-
trated before the fortress.

The total number of Irish who have arrived, or
are expected, amounts to 400.
The army is being paid at the same rate as when
on service in the field.