The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-28 00:00:00


NAPLES AND SICILY.

Important accounts have been received from
Naples to the 18th inst., Lord MINTO having ar-
ranged conditions of peace with Sicily, which, at
that date, were under the consideration of the Nea-
politan Cabinet. The following are the conditions
:
"The King of Naples to be King of Sicily with the
title of King of the Two Sicilies, not King of the King-
dom of the Two Sicilies.*

" The representative of the King in Sicily, when not
a member of the Royal Family, to be a Sicilian, and to
have the title of Viceroy, to be invested irrevocablY
with a perfect alter ego with all the powers that the COW
stitution annexes to the Executive.

" All the acts and appointments of the Provisional
Government to be confirmed.

" The convocation of Parliament to be considered an
integral part of the Constitution until the Legislative
power shall have adapted to the present times the Cun•
stitution of 1812.

" Offices of every nature, civil, military, diplomatic,
and ecclesiastical, to be conferred by the Executive
power in Sicily and on Sicilians only.
" The National Guard to be continued.

" All fortresses to be evacuated in eight days from the
conclusion of the agreement, and such parts as command
the city to be demolished.

" Sicily to coin its own money.
" The present tricolour flag and cockade to be se.
knowle.dged.
" The fourth part of tho fleet, with arms and materials
of war now existing, to be given up to Sicily, or the
equivalent in money.
" No claim to be made on either side for the expense!
of the war.

" Damages to property and to the Porto Franco at
Messina to be paid by Naples.
" The Ministers of War, of Marine, of Foreign Affairs,
and all other Siclian Ministers, to be in Sicily attached
to the Viceroy, and responsible,. according to the C 00"
stitution.

" Sicily not to recognise any Minister for the affairii
of Sicily resident in Naples.
" The Porto Franco at Messina to be re-established ia
the state it was in before the law of 1826.
" All matters of mutual interest between the two
countries of Naples and Sicily to be determined by the
two Parliaments.

" In the event of a commercial or political league of
the Italian people, Sicily to be represented separatelh
like any other state of Italy, by persons named by the
Executive Power residing iu Sicily.
" The approval of these terms to be given formally
to the Provisional Government before the opening of
the Sicilian Parliament, otherwise the treaty to be Dull
and void.

" The Post office and Cuitom-honse steam-boats pur-
chased at the expense and for the service of Sicily to be
restored."

* King of the Two Sicilies is the true title confirmed
by the Treaty of Vienna, and in conformity with the
constitution of 1812.

ROME.

The Gazetta di Roma of the 14th contains the fol-
lowing additional proclamation of Pius IX. to the
people of Rome :

" PROCLAMATION.
" Romans, and as many as are sons and subjects of
the Pontiff, hearken once more unto the voice of a father
who tenderly loves you, and who is desirous of seei'`g
you beloved and esteemed by the whole world. Roo'°
is the seat of religion—where its ministers, who, under
various forms, constitute that admirable variety which
adorns the Cnurch of Jesus Christ, have always found •
place. We invite and enjoin you all to respect religi?o,
and never to provoke the terrible anathema at an lair
nant God, who would assuredly fulminate His sacivi
vengeance against the assailants of his anointed. Avoid
a scandal by which the whole world would be astounded,
and the greatest portion of our subjects filled with grief
and affliction. Spare the last drop of the cup of bitter'
ness which the Pontiff has already been compellekto
taste, in consequence of the occurrences of a similar chi!.
racter which have happened elsewhere. For remensh er
that, if amongst the men who, in what institution
soever, belong to the Church of God, there should be
found any who, by their misconduct, merit distrust and
contempt, the channel is always open to legal re-
monstrances and representations, which, when they
are just, we, as Supreme Pontiff, shall always be
ready to receive and to act upon. We are per'
suaded that these our words will suffice to convert
to the right way all those (we hope they are few)
who may have formed any nefarious design, the execu-
tion of which, whilst it would deeply wound our ria-
ternal heart, would call down upon their heads the judg-
ment which God reserves for the punishment of the
ungrateful ! And if these our expectations should un-
fortunately fail to recal our erring subjects to the right
path, we intend to test the fidelity of the Civic Guard,
and all the forces destined by us for the maintenance
of public order. We are filled vvitit confidence when
we witness the good effect of these our arrangementS,
and behold the agitation of the public mind everywhere
yielding to tranquillity, and those practical sentiments
of religion which ought to be professed by a nation pre-
eminently Catholic, and which other nations have a right
to regard as a model.
" We will not embitter our soul—we will not distress
the hearts of good men by anticipating the resolutions
which we should be compelled to adopt in order to avert
the dreadful chastisements with which God is accus-
tomed to recall nations from the errors of their ways ;
we rather cherish a hope that the apostolic benediction
which we freely scatter on all will banish every fatal
pressage.
" Datum Roane, apud Sanctum Mariam Majorera, die
XIV. Martii, MDCCCXLVILL, Pontificatus nostri
anno 11. " PIUS PAPA IV'

SOUTHWARK.—(THIS DAY.)
Richard Best was charged with creating a disturbance
in the Victoria Theatre, and assaulting the police.
It appeared that on the preceding night, during the
performance, the defendant, who occupied a seat in the
boxes, caused considerable annoyance to the audience
by his extraordinary conduct. A shrill sound was
heard to proceed from the spot where he sat, and it
was first supposed that he made it himself, but upon
being watched it was discovered that he had
a large monkey concealed underneath hia
coat, which he pinched until lie made it squeak
in the mast discordant manner. A gentleman
requested the defendant to desist, but he refused, and
after an angry altercation on the subject struck the
former. The police were now called in, when the de-
fendant refused to stir, and the monkey, on finding ti
struggle take place between his owner and the police-
man commenced squeaking out more lustily than ever,
and continued the uproar until he and his master were
taken to the station-house, the hitter resisting most
violently, and assaulting a policeman.
The defendant complained that his view of the pro-
ceedings on the stage was interrupted by a gentleman
who stood before him, and that an altercation having
taken place, the monkey which he was taking home
began to make a noise, which he would have silenced,
had he not encountered such opposition from the police.
Mr. SECKER said the defendant's conduct was highly
reprehensible in taking a monkey to a public theatre,
and that he should fine him 20s. for the assault on the
policeman.

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TUE HAGUE, AIARCH. 24.—CHANGE OF MINISTRY.
—lt has been officially announced that the new Provi-
sional Ministry is composed as follows:—Count G.
Schimmelpenninck, President of the Council, and Minis-
ter of Foreign Affairs and Finance; M.'l4. C. Lugac,
Minister of the Interior and of the Reformed Religion; ,
M. L. A. Lightenvelt, Minister of the Roman Catholic
Religion; M. Diek Donker Curtius, Minister of Justice; t
General Nepvell, Minister of War; and M. J. C. Ryk,
Minister of the Marine and of the Colonies.—Nieuwe
Rotterdanischc Courant, March 25.
We earnestly recommend the attention of the public
to a little volume put out this morning by Bentley,
" Louis Blanc, on the Working Classes, with a Refute- t 1
tion of his Destructive Plan." This volume cannot ba
too widely disseminated at this moment, to dispel the Ti
mischievous tendency of the plan of this member of the
Provisional Government of France, and disabuse the
English people of the wild notions of our neighbours,
which only require to be submitted to the sober common
sense of our countrymen to prove their hollowness and
fallacy. The volume is sold for 45., and should bo read
by every English artizau who wishes to be well informed
on a subject so important to himself and to society ge-
nerally.

BIRTH. .
On the 22d inst., at Chapmore-End, near Ware, the wife
of John B. Brandram, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 23d inst., at Cheltenham, the wife of George Ford
Copeland, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 24th hist., at the Grove, East Dulwich, Surrey,
Hrs. Henry H. Piper, of a son.
On the 24th inst., at Cheshunt, Herts, the wife of Alex-
ander Lorent Grant, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 25th inst., in Hyde-park-street, Mrs. William
Gibbs, of a son.