The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-02 00:00:00

NAPLES AND SICILY.

The following notes hare passed between Mr.
T(niple, the British Minister at Naples, and M. For-
tunate, the _Neapolitan Minister for Foreign Affairs :
' TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE CHEVALIER YoRTIINA.TO.
Naples, Sept 16.

" The undersigned, her Britannic Majesty's Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, has the
honour to inform his Excellency the Chevalier Fortu-
nato, linist r, Secretary of State, President of the
ch irgA with the Portfolio of Foreign Affsirs,
that he has been iostructed by his Government to state
to his Excellency, that the part which the British Go-
vernmeot has, by various circumstances, and by the
repeated invitation of the Neapolitan Crown, and in
more recent times, taken in the affairs of Sicily, and the
sincere interest which her Majesty's Government feels
in the iveVare and prosperity of the kingdom of the Two
Sicilies, induce her Majesty's Government to address
the Government of Naples on the present occasion, in the
full c )ofidence that his Sicilian Majesty and his Govern-
ment will do justice to the friendly feelings by which this
communication is dictated.

" The diplomatic agents of the British Crown were
urgently invited last vear by his Sicilian Majesty to
employ their good offices, as reprensentatives of the
British Government, for the purpose of endeavouring
to bring about an amicable adjustment of the differences
which unhappily prevailed between his Majesty's Go-
vernment and his Sicilian subjcts, and the British
agents were authorised by her Majesty's Government to
comply with his Sicilian Majesty's request. But the
British agents and her Majesty's Government well knew
that the discontent among the Sicilians, which had given
rho to the disturbances which had then broken out in
Sicily, was deeply rooted, general, and of long standing,
and that it had been occasioned by the prevalence for a
long course of years of many practical abuses, which
owed their existence, and their continuance, to the sus-
pension of the ancient Constitution of Sicily us it had
been modified and revised in 1812, under the auspices of
the British Government, and with the Royal sanction
and VC.' ptanc?; and, therefore, the British diplomatic
agents d, c!ined to employ their good offices as requested
by his Sicilian Majesty, unless they were empowered to
assure the Sicilians that the Constitution of Sicily, as
revised in 1312, with certain prescribed modifications,
s'riould be put again into action, because they well knew
that unless this was done, the well-founded discontent
which had occasioned the disturbances could never be
expected to cease.
" A variety of circumstances, well known to the
Neapolitan Government, rendered useless the efforts by
which at diff,rent periods, in 1848 and 1849, the British
Government sought to effect, upon the bases above men-
tioned, a reconciliation between his Sicilian Majesty and
his Sicilian subjects. &Ace it to say, that upon the last
occasion, in March last, her Majesty's Government, in
conjunction ivith the Government of France, recom-
mended the Sicilians to agree to the conditions offered
to them by the King in his proclamation at Gaeta of
the 28:h of February last, although her Majesty's Go-
vernment could not but acknowledge that the arrange-
ments described in that proclamation fell short of the
provisions contained in the Constitution of 1812, to
which the sanction and assent of the Crown of Naples
had lesson solemnly given. Unfortunately at that mo-
ment the exasperation produced by the events which had
taken place at Messina in the preceding September still
prevailed in the minds of those who had the conduct of
affairs at Palermo, the arrangements proposed by the
proclamation of Gaeta were refused, and preparations
were made fur &fending Palermo to the last extremity.
It is a great satisfaction to her Majesty's Government to
know that the effusion of blood and loss of life which the
attack and defence of Palermo would have occasioned,
both to the King's troops and 'the people of Palermo, and
the grievous calamities which such a conflict would most
probably have brought down upon all the inhabitants of
the city, were averted by the friendly interposition of a
British subject, and of her Majesty's civil and naval
officers, and that by their means the authority of the King
was re established at Palermo peaceably and without the
shedding of a single drop of blood. But the people of
Palermo submitted thus peaceably to the authority of the
King because they were assured that the King would
faithfully observe the promise which on his Royal word
he bad made, that a general amnesty should be granted
to Ms Sicilian subjects ; and, considering the share
which British officers had in bringing about this peaceful
arrangement, her Majesty's Government thinks itself
entitled to express its confident hope that the Royal pro-
mise will not be broken, and that the amnesty on the
faith of which the Palernaitana submitted will be ob-
served by the Government of his Sicilian Majesty.
"Her Her Majesty's Government, moreover,
to tae.. remembering
the part which Great Britain was called
remodelling of the Sicilian Constitution of 1812, cannot
the
o
refrain from submitting to the consideration' hist
Sicilian Majesty, and of his Government, that the
Sicilian people cannot be justly deemed to have forfeited
their ancient and acknowledged right to that Constitu-
tion by reason of the efforts which they have made to
recover'the practical enjoyment of it; and her Majesty's
Goverrinleat would further beg to represent that a
continued suspension of those ancient and indisputable
rights of the Sicilian people would necessarily perpe-
tuate and arravate that evident discontent which has
of late made'Sieily the theatre of such calamitous con-
flicts, and that thus the connexion between Sicily and
Naples would be liable to be severed bj, contingencies,
either domestic or foreign, the possibility of which the
sagacity of the Neapolitan Government must render I
it eenecessary for her Majesty's Government to point
out.

The undersigned avails himself of this opportunity
to rc-new to his Ext.:4?Honey the assurance of his most
distirgaiihecl consideration.

WILLIAM TEMPLE."

received the note
has dune me the
the performince

" Naples, Sept. 20.
of the 16th inst. which
honour to address to
Of my duty, submitted

it to the consideration of my august Sovereign. His ►
Majesty has charged me to recut to the memory of your
Excellency, in a brief resume, the circumstances which
have produced the actual state of things.
" So far as regards the good offices of the Engli,h
diplomacy, employed for the purpose of terminating the
rebellion in Sicily, as well as for procuring changes in
the Government founded on the Constitution of 1812,
I have the honour to state to your Excellency, that this
subject, and everything connected with it, have been
already discussed at great length, fully argued, and
finally recognised to have no weight or value ; and at
the same time, I must be permitted to remind you, that
the generous concessions made by his Majesty in his
sovereign act dated at Gaeta, the 28th of February,
were wound up by the following conditions:—
" ' All such concessions must be considered as not
promised, nor made, in case Sicily does not imme-
diately submit to the authority of its legitimate Sove-
reign; and that in case the royal army shall be com-
pelled to act in a military manner for the purpose of re
occupying that part of the royal dominions, the island
shall suffer all the consequences of war, and forfeit the
advantages offered to it iu the present act of concession.'
" Your Excellency cannot be ignorant of the unpro-
ductive steps taken by the two Admirals—Parker and
Baudin—in Sicily, nor leave out of consideration the
exertions, which immediately followed, of your Excel-
lency and of the • Count de Rayneval, when you both
went to Palermo for the purpose of persuading the in-
surgents to accept the benevolent concessions and gene-
rous pardon of their Sovereign.
" Neither can your Excellency cease to remember the
insolent ensile rs, and the cries of war with which you
and those distinguished persons were persecuted, raised
' by a few hundred men, paid for that purpose by those
who had so long disturbed the peace of unfortunate Si-
cily; and you cannot attach any value to those expres-
sions, save as the best evidence that can now be offered
of an erroneous impression which produced so many illegal
and ill-advised proceedings. Indeed, your Excellency
and the Count de Rayneval, full of sorrow at the non-
success of your joint efforts to bring about the pacifica-
tion of Sicily, did, the one on the 28th, and the other
on the 30th of March last, convey in writing to the Go-
vernment of his Majesty, your heartfelt regrets that
your exertions had proved fruitless and of no avail.
" Finally, your Excellency, so wise and enlightened,
cannot doubt that, according to the principles established
by all Governments of the world, the Government of his
Majesty, an independent Sovereign, has the right to
regulate the internal administration of its own country
according to the inspiration of itsjustice, without creating
any prejudice to other nations.
" In fine, after having had the honour to establish the
principles which regulate the condition of all nations,
and shown that the efforts of the Sicilian insurgents
yielded before the victorious arms of my august
Sovereign, and the loyalty of the majority of the
population, I have the satisfaction to add that his
Majesty is still well disposed of his own free will
to establish su•h forms of administration as
are suitable to that part of the kingdom,
and are desired by the inhabitants themselves. Alt the
measures taken by the wisdom of Prince Satriano since
the submission of Palermo have had always in view the
spirit of humanity and a complete oblivion of the past.
No idea of vengeance has occupied the mind of the Go-
vernment of his Majesty in the island, and your Excel-
lency must be informed that up to this hour no execu-
tion has taken place for political offences, and that the
severity of the law has been used alone against assassins
and disturbers of public order.
" Although his Majesty insists fully on the principle
that no foreign Government has a right to interfere in
the internal administration of other countries, I cannot
deprive myself of the pleasure of explaining to the Govern-
ment of an allied and friendly power that Sicily at this
moment enjoys perfect tranquillity, that the inhabitants
are happy in being restored to the protection of their
legitimate Sovereign, and if no foreign agent attempts
to disturb the peace now actually prevailing in the
island, his Majesty is certain that all his subjects will
be united in an indissoluble bond of love and loyalty to
their legitimate Sovereign.—l have the honour, &c.,
" FORTUNATO."

From private information with which we have been
favoured, we learn that the arrangements for raising the
gigantic Britannia Tube are now again complete. The
large new hydraulic press is ready; and on Saturday it
was tested with the required pressure preparatory to
being employed in the great work which it will be re-
quired to perform.—Liverpool Albion.
ALLEGED MURDE R.—PRESTON, SAT URDA r.—Yes-
terday, Henry Glover, son of a respectable farmer,
of Lea House, Lea, near Leagate Railway Station,
was charged before the Mayor and several other
Magis:ratrs sitting in the Council Chamber of the
Town Hall, with the wilful murder of Edward La-
tham, a gardener, employed by Mrs. Podder, at
Ashton Lodge, in this parish. The deceased was
found on Monday last, by the police-constable Hindle,
lying under one of the arches of the Wyre Railway.
Life was extinct, but the body was quite warm, blood
was flowing from his nose and ears. The body was forth-
with removed to the Rawstone Arms public-house. Mr.
R. Palmer, the district coroner, having been apprised of
he finding of the body, held an inquest on the same,
when it appeared that the prisoner and the deceased left
the Water Trough public house on the previous Sunday
night in company with other men; the latter left them,
and shortly after a person named Charles Billington saw
the prisoner standing up and the deceased on the ground,
when the former said " Rest thou had enough?" Wit-
ness went towards the one on the ground, when the first
one run away a few paces, but returned directly, and
seeing wi,ness, he said, " Holloa, Chat ley, is that thou?"
Ha proceeded along the road in company of the pri-
soner, when the prisoner said " Shall I turn back and
finish him?" Witness replied " No." He afterwards
said it was a bad job, and witness must not mention
what he had done. The case assuming such a serious
complexion against the prisoner, he declined say ing
anything in his defence, and he was remanded.
NOVEL MODE OF CHEATING THE RAILWAY.—
A few days ago a woman got into a second-class rail-
way carriage attached to a down train for Nottingham.
In her arms she carriedaponderous-looking babe, dressed
in long clothes, and with its head entirely concealed be-
neath her shawl. Several times during her journey the
half-smothered child made a noise very much like the
barking of a dog. The repetition of these unnatural

soundiarousedthe sympathy of an old lady travelling in

the same carriage, who remarked, " What a dreadful
cold that child's got, to be sure." The distressed baby's
nurse replied that the poor thing had got a severe attack
of the influenza, and she was afraid it would turn to the
hooping cough. When they arrived at Nottingham, the
active ticket collector opened the door of the carriage,
and exclaimed rather abruptly, "Tickets, please." This
awakened the slumbering object in the woman's
arms, and an angry, but this time unmistakeable bark
burst forth, to the astonishment of the official, who,
however, lifted up the woman's shawl, and exposed the
head of one of the canine species, ludicrously wrapped in
an infant's long dress. Extra fare was immediately de-
manded, which the woman reluctantly paid, amidst the
jeers and laughter of the passengers.—Nottingham
Guardian.
SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF BODIES SUPPOSED TO
HAVE BEEN MURDERED. —Throughout Friday and
Saturday great sensation prevailed in the vicinity of
high-street, Borough, in consequence of the following
discovery. Sara,) children who were playing in the
lofts of the Old White ILrt Inu (celebrated by Dickens
in the " Pickwick Papers," but which is now chidly let
out in lodgings), threw down into the yard what proved
to be a human skull. This led to inquiry, and by the
aid of the police and Mr. Thwaits, churchwarden of St.
Saviour's, search was made, when various bones, form-
ing three perfect skeletons were found, one that of a
young female, and evidently deposited there very re-
cently. In the same portion of the loft was discovered
a heap of arsenic, which had fallen from a rotten paper
bag. In an upper loft, ccmmunicating with the former
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by a hole in the ceiling, were found Three stockings, a
female's cap, and part of a chemise, a portion of a man's
shirt, a leather glove, and a cotton cravat, apparently
saturated with blood. The White Hart Inn is situated
not more than a quarter of a mile from Minver-place,
the scene of the recent Bermondsey murder, which cir-
cumstance has not a little tended to increase the excite.
ment. By the direction of Mr. Thwaits, the beadle of
St. Saviour's has taken charge of the premises and con-
tents, and a communication has been forwarded to Mr.
Payne, the City coroner, who has appointed Monday
for holding the inquest thereon.—Sunday Paper.
OPENING OF THE RAILWAY FROM CILLI TO LAI-
BAOH.—A letter from Laibach, of the 17th instant,
announces the opening of the line of railway from Cilli
to Laibach with great ceremony. The Emperor having
been prevented from attending by the meeting of his
Generals at Vienna, he was represented by the Arch-
duke Albrecht. On the arrival of the train at Laibach,
where some 40,000 spectators were assembled, the
bishop
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pronounced
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theht hee station. A grand
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accompanied his Imperial Highness the Archduke, made
an appropriate speech, and concluded by„proPosing
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of the
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Archduke City
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returned
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to Vienna. Passengers and goods trains
eoanneeecratpTeiteenza with herin
commenced running. Thus another important alreadylin'
the great line which ishatsobec
richest sea port, Trieste,
FOREIGN SUGAR.—The following numerous ar-
rivals of foreign snor have taken place. The Mary,
from Pernambuco and Paraiba, has brought 2,000 bags
from the former and 3,700 bags from the latter place;
the Brothers, from Havannah, 863 boxes; the Louisa
and Caroline, from Trinidad de Cuba, 1,636 boxes; the
452 barrels;and
8 6
and
tOhreacLuilm, finroam,
frSetcs. hogsheadsCprooirxt,o26nliehoo,g2sh,e2ads
barrels; the Laura, from Bahai,
163 cases, 6 barrels, and
28 bags; the Rowallan, from Arcilia, 427 hogsheads and
50 barrels; the Senhora, from Porto Rico, 249 hogsheads
and 150 barrels; the Intellect, from Rotterdam, 285
90 tierces; the Adonis, from Amsterdam, 407 barrels and
4 tierces; the Presto, from Laguayra and Porto
Cabello, 681 barrels and 300 bags; the Desire, from
Porto Rico, 466 hogsheads and 197 barrels; the Orkney
Lass, from Havannah, 1,903 boxes; the Margaret Poyn•
ter, from Porto Rico, 327
the
and 163 barrels,
60
omohs Patten, of the
end also 167 casks of molassee
United States, from Matanzas, le
i;igealti2o-nooao
entered to be warehoused for exportation only, (ntiinsgwas
in-
admissible for home use under the laws of n
present in force); the Medora, from Havannah,
boxes; the Perla, from Havannah, 1,883 boxes; the
Cordelia, from Paraiba, 1,400 bags; the Seraphina, from
Pernambuco, 3,272 bags ; and the Maria Elizabeth,
from Amsterdam, 171 tierces and 329 barrels oF crushed

sugar.
The Wanderer of Vienna states that the house of
Hop, of Amsterdam, have subscribed for 20,000,000
florins in the new loan. Letters say that it was being
rewhly subscribed for, and it was even expected that
the subscriptions would exceed the amount required.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Oct. 1.
(Before Mr. Commissioner HARRIS.)
IN RE JAMES GREEN PEACOCK.

This insolvent, who had figured some years in the
same character, and had likewise been a bankrupt,
was opposed by Mr. Caarten, for a creditor named
Everett. Mr. Cooke supported.
The point was a vexatious defence on a bill of
exchange for 1001. The costs were 491., and would
have been under 121. bad there been no plea. The
Learned Judge who tried the cause certified for
speedy execution. The insolvent bad paid 101.
Mr. Commissioner HARMS held that the certificate
for speedy execution showed the character of the
defence, and adjudged the insolvent to three months'
imprisonment from the vesting order for a vexatious
defence.