The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-27 00:00:00

EVEN i NG, JANUARY z 7, xB4B.

been sent, although those on the spot were quite suffi-
cient for the purpose.
It was said that the insurgents had got possession
of 18 small pieces of cannon which were in the forts.
The soldiers held these forts, but the insurgents held
the town.

The latest intelligence from Naples is contained in
a letter, dated the 18th, and published in the Journal
des Debals :—" The troops dispatched on the 14th had
landed at Palermo without opposition, and took up
their position near the sea, and in the forts at that
side. General SAUQaT, the Commander, put him-
self in communication, and traversed the town with
the Duc DE AlAco, and General VIAL, who are in the
Chateau Royal. By this means they learned that
the insurgents obey three committees who have pre-
sented their demands, viz.: The Constitution of
1812, and full liberty of the press. These demands
were repelled. Before proceeding to last extremi-
ties the military authorities resolved upon consulting
the hncc, and the Count D'AQUILA returned in a
steamer to Naples on the 17th. All foreigners at
Palermo had embarked."

The following proclamation had been published at
Palermo :

" Sicilians,—The time fur entreaty has passed ;
protestations, and pacific demonstrations are useless.
Ferdinand has treated all with contempt, and we, a
people born free, and now loaded with chains and
reduced to misery, will no longer hesitate to assert
our legitimate rights. To arms, sons of Sicily ; our
strength is invincible. Our motto is union, order,
and obedience to the chiefs, and respect for property.
Robbery is declared a crime of high treason towards
the country, and will be punished as such. Heaven
cannot fail to second our just enterprise. Sicilians to
arms 1"

At Naples when the account of the outbreak
was first announced, placards were posted up contain-
ing the following short address :—" Neapolitans,
awake from your torpor, and follow the example of
your brave brethren in Sicily ; imitate them, and let
it not be said that they are worth more than you—
rouse yourselves."
The Alba of Florence states that King CHARLES
ALBERT has ordered an entrenched camp to be formed
on the heights of Valenza, on the Po, in order to
defend himself against a probable attack of the
Austrian troops, and to keep the Government of Milan
on the qui vine, for fear of an invasion of the Pied-
montese troops. _

A letter from Rome of the 18th says :—" General
GABRIZLLI, formerly an officer in the French army,
has just been named by the POP' Minister of War.
This nomination of a laic to a Ministry has pro-
duced an excellent effect. It is the best commentary
on the mote proprio relating to the organization of
the Council of Ministers. The two French bishops
lately nominated by the KING to the sees of Carcas-
sonne and Soissons (MM. DE Bormscuosn and
GARSIGNIES), were formally announced yesterday in a
sitting of the Consistory, and the choice made was
approved of. Mgr.VIZZA.RDELLI, Secretary of Eccle-
siastical Affairs Extraordinary, has been raised to the
dignity of Cardinal."
A letter from Rome, of the 16th of January, says—
" The question as to the obligation on the part of
foreigners to serve in the Civic Guard in Rome
having been raised by several British subjects, both
artists and tradesmen, it was referred to the British
Consular Agent, whose interference was claimed to
protect them from such liability. Mr. FREEBORN
submitted the matter to the consideration of the
Roman authorities, and requested that, under any
circumstances, compulsory measures might be
suspended until instructions conld be obtained from
her Britannic Majesty's Government. The Cardinal
Secretary of State, in a most courteous manner,
acceded to this request, and no person has since been
called upon to serve. The expected instructions on
the subject have just been received from England,
conveying the opinion of her Britannic Majesty's
Government, which in substance we are informed is :
—That no persona permanently residing in Boman
States, and exercising a profession or a trade, can
claim to be exempt from assisting in the defence of
the State in which they have established themselve;,
nor consequently can be exempt from serving in the
Civic Guard. In the meanwhile it is but fair to
state that, at a meeting of the British artists, it was
resolved to contribute by pecuniary aid to the institu-
tion in question, which resolution has been partially
carried into effect on a roost liberal scale.
" The evacuation of Ferrara would seem to be any-
thing but bond fide, if it is correctly stated in the
Conternporaneo, that in spite of a protestation of the•
Cardinal Legate, the Austrians continue in military
• occupation of the Piarrale of S. Benedetto, which
they are about to roof over. The situation of the town
is described as extremely critical "

The intelligence from Madrid is to the 20th.
Nothing of political importance had occurred. All
parties appear to be reduced to a state of inaction by
the influenza.

MADRID BOLSA, JAN. 20.—Threes, 21t, ; Fives,
17*; Exchange on London, 48.

We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.

The accusation of corruption brought against M.
GUIZOT, in connexion with the sale of a Receiver-
Generalship of Finances to M. PETIT, still occupies
the public attention, and the more the matter is in-
vestigated the more clearly does a guilty knowledge
appear to be brought home to M. GUIZOT—the
austere, the virtuous GUIZOT—the Tartuffe of pro-
bity—as he was not inaptly designated the other day
by M. GARNIER PAGES. In the course of the debate
on this affair M. GUIZOT, it will be recollected, ex-
pressly said, " I declare, with the utmost sincerity,
that the particular facts to which allusion has been
made (the bargain for the sale of the place between
M. GENIE, the secretary of M. Gutzor, and M.
PETIT) did not occur in my cabinet." Hereupon M.
Entine DE GIRARDIN interrupted M. GUIZOT by call-
ing out—" In the next cabinet—no equivocations."
Whereupon, assuming a solemnity of manner, and an
appearance of candour out-Peeling PEEL even when
most Peelish, the French Prime Minister replied—
" When I say they did not occur in my cabinet, I
mean that they were not managed or brought about
by me in any manner whatever." M. EMILE DE
GIRARDIN, still unsatisfied, again exclaimed, " But
that does not mean to say," and was proceeding
when he was interrupted by loud cries of " Order ;'
and M. GUIZOT continued, "'recommended, I sup-
ported the nomination of M. Peran to the office of
Re(erendary. I recommended, I supported the no-
mination of M. PETIT to the Receivership of
Corbeil. I was a complete stranger to
every other part of the transaction."
Here, then, we have a distinct denial, forced it must
be confessed, from DI. GUIZOT, and evidently made
with the greatest reluctance, but at all events a dis-
tinct denial on the part of M. GUIZOT, of any guilty
knowledge of these corrupt practices. This direct
denial, however, brings M. PETIT again into the field,
who has addressed a letter to the editors of the
different papers which throws some light upon M.
Gutzor's juggle of the two cabinets. M. PETIT
says :—" N. GUIZOT admits the principal fact and
denies the little facts. Does he wish that these little
facts should be proved ? Nothing is more easy. There
were witnesses to my numerous visits to M. GENIE.
They are still alive. I will call them from within
the Foreign•office and from without. The function-
aries by whom he is surrounded know me, and I know
them. There are, no doubt, certain circumstances,
which it would be more difficult to prove, as
M. GENIE and myself were alone in our interviews,
but from time to time, when difficulties arose between
us, M. GENIE would leave me for a single instant
only to go into the adjoining cabinet, and he imme-
diately returned with the difficulties resolved. The
little facts' affirmed by me are then true, as well as
the great ones. I could even produce certain
written proofs (which I have reserved) of their truth,
should I be obliged to do so."
It is the general opinion in the political talons of
Paris that this affair cannot pcosibly rest here—a
simple denial of all cotnpl;city en the part of M.
GUIZOT is not enough ; those who remember his
equivocations on various recent occasions can place
no reliance on his mere assertions, more especially
when the truth of those assertions is so distilictly de-
nied. If M. Gutzor be innocent in this affair he
should, for his own sake, demand a public investigation
of the charges made against him. If no investigation
takes place, then is M. TESTE the most injured man in
all France. _ _ _

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M. SALADROUZE has given notice of his inten-
tion to ?move the following addition to the