The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-10 00:00:00

SICILY.

The following royal proclamation has been issued
by the Neapolitan Government, having reference, as
will be seen, to the affairs of Sicily :
.‘ ROYAL PROCLAMATION.
" Ferdinand, by the Grace of God King of the Two
Sicilies, of Jerusalem, Duke of Parma, Piacenza, Castro,
&c., Grand Hereditary Prince of Tuscany, &c.
" Wishing to arrange the affairs of Sicily, we have
resolved to decree, and do decree as follows:
" Article 1. There shall be a Minister, Secretary of
State, for the affairs of Sicily, residing at Naples, near
our Royal person, when our residence shall not be in
Sicily.
"2. We name Minister, Secretary of State for the
Affairs of Sicily in Naples, the Councillor of State, Don
Giovanni Cassisi.

‘;3. The new service with which he will be charged
by this appointment shall in no wise interfere with his
former employment.
"4. Our Minister, Secretary of State, President of
the Council of Ministers, is charged with the execution
of this decree. "FERDINAND.
A true copy of the original.
" Prince CARIATI, Minister, Secretary of State,
President of the Council of Ministers.
"Prince of SATRIANO, Duke of TAOMINA, the
Lieutenant-General, Commander-in-Chief."

SA PE LUDWIG KOSSUTH !
Englishmen !—Need you be told who is Ludwig
Kossuth ? If we may judge men by their acts, his
prove him as pure a patriot as ever breathed heaven's
air. While his country lived, there was no sacrifice
too great for his heroic soul. He was the beacon
of her darkest hour—the shield under which
she so gallantly battled ; and you, Englishmen,
during the eventful struggle, shouted your
sympathy with a generous enthusiasm. But his coun-
try has Callen, not in the manly conflict of war, but
by the blackest act of treachery that ever defiled the
pages of history. Bloody treason now flourishes over
her fair fields. The gallant Magyar is a hunted
fugitive, and the hearts of millions beat with a
trembling anxiety for his fate. The Austrian blood
hounds are close upon his track. He has crossed
the Danube, and found a temporary asylum
under the week hand of Turkish protection ;
but from the other side of the stream gleams the re-
vengeful sword of the double despot ; and the red
hand of the Russian shakes its menace in the face of
the wavering Moslem. Should he be given up, it is
well known the fate that awaits him. A short shrift
will be his, indeed. Englishmen, a word
from you may yet save him! A bold word
from Lord Palmerston to Sir Stratford Can-
ning, and the Russian may threaten in vain.
We have another interest in speaking that word—a
national interest. The fate of Kossuth will be the
fate of our brave countryman—the gallant Guyon.
They will live or die together. And Bern, and Dem-
binski, and Perczel, and Messaros—a hecatomb of
heroes ! Englishmen ! look not coldly on such a
sacrifice! Speak, ere it be too late, and save this
patriot band from a ferocious vengeance. Save
Ludwig Kossuth, the greatest of mankind !
PHILANTHROPE.

YORK, NEWCASTLE, AND BERWICK RAILWAY.—
The directors of this company have just made some im-
portant reductions in their fares, to the effect that the
first-class fares between York and Newcastle, by all
trains except express, shall be reduced one-fifth part ;
and by the express one-tenth part of the previous
charges. Return tickets are to be issued by certain
trains at one fare and a half, as well as by market trains.
—Harrogate Advertiser.
BELGIAN Hors.—Several arrivals of some bales of
hops have taken place by a steam-ship from Ostend, the
produce of Belgium, consigned to a firm in the metro-
Polls. These continued arrivals of this article of Belgian
growth are of interest, as evincing a regularity in the
Supply of
this article of merchandise from a country
which has not hitherto furnished us with hops during
any previous year.
On Saturday Mr. H. M. Wakley held an inquest
at the Devonshire Arms, Howley-crescent, Kentish-
town, on Mr. John Medley, a retired tradesman, aged
62, who dropped suddenly dead. The body became so
offensive within two hours after death that it had to be
confined and screwed down. The coroner, addressing
the medical witness, said—" I have lately observed the
bodies, no matter what the disease might have been of
which deceased died, become putrid and offensive imme-
diately after death. Can you assign any cause for it?"
The medical gentleman replied—" I have observed a
similar change in dead bodies, which I attribute to the
state of the atmosphere, and the diseased condition of
the blood before death." The jury returned a verdict of
" Natural death."
HANSEATIC PRODUCE.—The vessel Neptune, ar
rived from the port of Bremen, has brought 162 oxen
and cows, 51 bales of bacon, 32 casks of butter, and
several of lard and hams; and the John Bull, from Ham
burgh, 182 bales of bacon, 50 of hams, 18 of lard; 31, of
pork, 76 casks of batter, 39 oxen, and IQO sheep, the
production of the Hanseatic States,