The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-18 00:00:00

iICILY.

Accounts from Palermo state that the arbitrary
arrests continue, that many are every day shot by
orders of courts-martial, and that the prisons of Pa-
lermo being more than filled, several hundreds of un-
fortunate persons have been transferred to the citadel
_ _

of Messina. It is evident, however, that King I:3OMDA
feels himself insecure, and by his recent conduct
he shows that he is aware he is only an usurper, that
the only legitimate government of Sicily is the Par-
liament, and that, as the decree of the Parliament has
deposed him, so he can never be legally King of
SICILY so long as that decree shall subsist. He has,
therefore, endeavoured by threats and cajoleries to
induce the Members of the Sicilian Parliament, who
remain in his power, to sign individually a repeal of
the decree, forgetting that such signatures, even
although he could obtain the signatures of all, must
be without forcr,, inasmuch as none but a Parliament

solemnly assembled can repeal the acts of a Parlh-
ment. The Members of the Sicilian Parliament v%ho
are at present in ex.de in London and Paris have
published the following protest against these attempts
to surreptitiously set aside the decree of deposition :
PROTEST OF •THE SICILIAN DEPUTIES AND
REFUGEES.

‘. The Neapolitan Government having by threats of
imprisonment and of exile, endeavoured to obtain
from divers members of the Chamber of Peers, and of
that of Commons of Sicily an individual act of repeal
of the decree of the 13th April, 1848, of the General
Parliament, by which is declared the forfeiture of the
Sicilian throne by 14'erdinand of Bourbon and all his
dynasty ;

d..cree was voted spontaneously, freely, and
unanimously by the two Chambers ;
" Which also obtained the explicit adhesion of all
the Communes of the island in particular, and of the
people in general;
" Which decree is founded on the imprescript-

able rights of the people, and not alone on th,
written right of the Constitution of 1812, to b 3
found in the chlpter relating to the succession to the
throne ;

"The undersigned representatives of the Sicilian
peop' the only Sicilian representatives at present
c,
actually residing in France awl in England protest
before God and before all civilized nations

against this new act of illegality; they protest
against every species of violence which their colleagues
in Sicily may be called upon to suffer; they protest
against any force or value which the Government of
Naples may attempt to give to an act which is abs 3
lutely null and incapable of producing any effect
whatsoever, and they are persuaded that their col-
leagues of the emigration will do the like whensoever
they shall receive intelligence of this additional act of
perfidy and tyranny.
" Paris, 26th November, 1849.
(Signed) " The Prince DE GRANATELLI, Deputy.
GUISEPPE LAFARINA, Deputy of the City
of Messina.
7311cuELE ANARI, Deputy for the City of
Palermo.
MARIANo STABILE, Deputy for the City
of Palermo.
BENEDETTO VENTURELLI, Deputy.
LUIGI CALIA, Deputy.
" The undersigned composing the Sicilian emigra•
tion actually residing in Paris and in London, fully
adhere to the above protest of the representatives of the
Sicilian people.

(Signed) " The Baron DI FRIDDANI.
GIACINTO CAR/NI, Colonel in the Ist Re-
giment of Cavalry.
ALFONSO SCALIA, Major in the first Bri-
gade of Artillery of Piazza.
CARMELO AGNETTA, Captain in the 3d
Battalion.
FRANCESCO VENTIIRELLI, Captain attached
to th• General Staff.
FRANCESCO STABILE, Ist Lieutenant cf the
6th Battalion of the New Guard.

ANTONIO GRAVINA, Captain attached to
the General Staff."

AMERICAN NEWS.

ARRIVAL OF THE CALEDONIA

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY MORNING.
The British and North American Royal Milli!
Steam• ship Caledonia, which left Boston on the sth:
and Halifax on the 7th inst., has just arrived in the
Mersey with the usual weekly mails from the
western world, and a fair complement of passengers.
She reports the arrival at New York of the Canada.
The Europa, which left this port on the 24th of
November, had called at Halifax previous to the
Caledonia arriving there.

The principal item of intelligence is the meeting of
Congress on the 3d inst., at Washington.
,The Senate
was organised, after which an adjournment took place.
The House of Representatives met on the same
day, when a ballot took place for the Speakerehip
For this post there appeared Mr. Winthrop on the
Whig, and Mr. Cobbe on the Locofoco interest.
After three unsuccessful ballotings, the numbers stood
—for Winthrop, 96 ; Cobbe, 102 ; Scattering 23. In
conscquence of no decision on this point, the House
could not be organin 1, and the President did not
therefore deliver his Message.
There is nothing new of interest in our advices
from California or Canada.