The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-03 00:00:00

M. orANIN AND THE HUNDRED GUN

ÜBSCUIP TI ON.

The following letter has been addressed to the
Editor of the Daily News :
Sir,—One of the most influential of Italian jour-
nals, the Gazzeita del Popolo of Turin, has put for-
ward the excellent proposal of opening a national
subscription for the purpose of giving a hundred
cannon to the fortress of Alessandria. These guns
would he fur use against Austria in the next war,
which we hope is imminent.
All Italy, no doubt, will wait to take part in this
manifestation, the significance of which appears to
me to be very great. It will prove to the mostin-
credulous that the Italians, moved above all -and
before all else by the spirit of nationality, are una-
nimous in their desire to free from a shameful
foreign domination the sacred soil of their native
Italy. By this visible symptom of collective na-
tional life she will prove that unity of the Italian
mind which precedes and prepares her political

unity.
This manifestation cannot fail to receive a na'
tional impress from the co-operation of non- pied'
mon tese Italians.
Those who inhabit the provinces, and who feel
directly or indirectly tke yoke of the foreigner, will
not fail to Lend their contingent in money, but they
could not without imprudence suffer their names to
transpire.
The knowledge that vengeance of some kind maY
be wreaked on their families or on their property by
governments both cruel and perfidious, may per-
haps deter a few of the emigrants. But there will
be enough remaining for whom such considerations
will be powerless to restrain the impulse of their
patriotic devotion.
This is why I think that in. every city or tows
where a tolerable number of Italian emigrants maY
be residing, it would be desirable if some place
could be indicated for receiving subscriptions to
this great national manifestation. Contributions
also might be received there from such foreigners
as may wish to give by their signatures this most
precious testimonial of their sympathy.
With the co,usent .of the director of the Gazoeto
del Popolo I take the-initiative for Paris. At la
residence, No. 70, Rue Blanche, Italian emigrants
will find special sheets for registering their sb"
scriptions, and a separate register will be kept fer
foreigners. I hope to see this example followed in
other towns.
The office of the Daily News has already opeusic.l;
for the English a subscription at London. It"
will hold the act in grateful remembrance.
To remove all doubt and all inaccurate rumou,
that may be set afloat by our enemies, it will be s'
well to explain clearly the object and significancy
of the subscription.
It is not a demonstration of party, it is not as
act approving the policy of this or that Govern
ment ; it is purely and simply a national mania
festation. Whoever has at heart that Italy shoubi t
be freed from foreign domination, can and oug
to subscribe, however different/his opinions may b
on the other points of the Italian question. In
word, the subscriptions of the Italians meansi:
"We wish Austria to re tire ;" and those of foreigners
"We identify ourselves with this wish." It roes'
nothing more and nothing less.
The money part of the transaction is clni;t:
secondary. What is of the highest importauce4
not that the sums subscribed should be large, "'

that the subscribers should be numerous.
A man may subscribe if he will for 50 centime°,
and I don't think he ought to go beyond 5 &ant
I venture to depend, sir, upon your goodn,e7o
for the insertion of this letter in your estimro
journal, and thanking you in anticipation I be.g;
convey to you, sir, the expression of my (Ds°
guished esteem.
Paris, Sept. 1.

MANILA•

TIIE SICILIAN MANIFESTO.

NAPLES, Aug. 28.—The following address 11-95
been issued by the Sicilians to the Neapolitans
THE SICILIANS TO THEIR BROTHERS OF NAPLES'
In this solemn moment—when, bound to the saner
yoke, the iron cowardly hand of the common execution
weighs upon us, opening old wounds and deriding igla
let us !sok one another steadfastly in the face, brothel
and with the sublime truthfulness of free men Pliri%o
by martyrdom, let is confess in the sight of Europe the
or
mutual wounds whence our slavery has sprung, i 2
to destroy it for ever ; let us likewise unveil the salli
tuary of our hopes, fruit of a long experience, of detected
delusions and misfortunes, and of a profound knowle
of the abject, calculating, and perjured genius of 0;
tyrants. We people of Sicily have been for manY°,.ebe
writs divided among ourselves, from the days 0'
divine vengeance of the Vespers, to the immortal Ye:fia
which initiated the Italian resurrection. Messina
Palermo surveyed one another eagerly and suspicion ,•';
envying one .another the . miserable displity the
lascivious pomp of despotism; but as in the time 0'
Vespers, and in 1148, Palermo first rose and consitterief
Messina redeemed the island once by offering berse';o,
terrible holocaust to the brutal fury of the Aagi°lfil
and, in the last fatal disasters, by immolating berg
spontaneous and silent victim. If she did not
liberty, she sanctified the name of Sicily by her
w
tyrdom. Europe now knows that one harnsolio
thought dominates the whole island, which palpitates.. ie
with one heart, for deeds sealed with blood are lode of
and sacred. Up to this time, however, Europe hpss;r:a ;
the same faith in the peoples of Naples and of Sie'vf:
and what is worse, in the very midst of ourselre;
amongst the deluded and the ignorant, cowers a ghwitilbe
suspicion, which is awakened and kept alive 14 b 0
poisoned breath of our oppressors. Unfortunately the
one people have long permitted themselves to be
the instrument of death to the other, and the tiongiach
less multitude look upon and curse the axe Is'7ol
flashes and is bathed with blood, and not the hariu,a
the unjust judge who signs without seeing the It)-050
()dal sentence. Our only real executioners are all t',4
retie,
from Charles of Anjou to Ferdinand 11. Fe
our mutual wrongs, brothers, under the various d°1311:8
nations which have urged us on to the slaughter of
11 to
another, and tc uniform slavery, it is well to cello
mind the faults committed by us under the dynastY°l,rtsi9
Bourbons, that they may never again be renewed., -nor
ingenuous confession, made with a loud voice, with
hands in yours, hound by the same chain along v°,,'",;06
our hearts transmit the electric flame of love, of
and of vengeance, will produce infamy and extern3l4
tion to the monster who crushes us, to us the rede-ia
tion of repentance. Our fathers s;nued when theY .cd
ceived Ferdinand 111. and Caroline of Austria 09'03
from Naples laden with your curses, with open arras nhei,
joyous cries of mad exultation. Unhappy men, toes
it
did not know that the experience of misfortune,
~'
chastens the people, makes the tyrant worse, all'ee
doubles with his scar the fury of his crimes ;
of
every sign of life in the people, even though it hew
the joy of adulation, awakens in them a thirst of
blood. Accustomed to exult in the contemplati°%,
man as a lifeless body, after having galvanised is to
they throw themselves upon him with a daggery
transfix a senseless moving piece of mechanism; II
doubly did they sin when followed by the blood
had shed they received them a second time on the isle of
whilst the monsters had left behind them the boolof
Carracciolo dangling from the yard•arm, the headsre
Cerillo and Pagano, consecrated by genius and grey ba,!is
hanging by a rope life the skulls of assassins, and 91'." of
they dragged along with them the beautiful persoabo
San Felice in order to expose it on a scaffold whilstol
murmured the names of country and of love. But °A-
to the crime was the terrible repentance ; too quic--„to
those deluded men discovered that the touch of tyrn''
is consuming, in the lascivious ambition of Caroline nii3o
in the coarse superstitions and cowardly nature °f to
beastly husband ; the fruits of hospitality awardeo,„
them were a fratricidal' war, the destruction of libel
the sanctification of espionage and assassinatioat 1190
shame that Ferdinand 11., the parricide, was born
Palermo. In 1820, when Sicily was panting t°
lease herself from the chains of the Bourbon dyol4°"',,'
and the plains of Palermo were hot with broth of
blood, liberty was entrusted by you to the oath aoyr
an impious King, who returned surrounded -ea
Croats, to break his vows on the altar of a ruin
country, and to join together Naples and Sicily in
common shame of the same slavery. Taught bY.'":,";
experience, it is well known to you that in 1848 8'97;
anticipating the movements of Naples, offered herssi,Lor
voluntary victim to the ferocious and implacable Op%
of the tyrant, and to the cunning arts of his sly and `13,1'
like mind. Nevertheless, she confronted the martyrcl°-;
hoping that the savage destroyer of Calabria, of S,,,Y„rso
cuse, and of Catania, the executioner of the bro"",-ea
Baudiers, livid still with the recent crimes consunin3a:ga
in Messina and in Reggio, could not assume th 3
of liberty without branding his face, and without ono
ing the world to shuddtr at the sacrilege. But 1°;:i
brothers—and this is your error—you trusted rather,lio
the grandson of a perjured king, who inherited even•
infamy of his name in the man who offered you an °,701r
eons charter as the profaned gospel, rather than in Y"
brothers, who were the first to raise the tracolored
flag, the emblem of Italian nationality, who had batti_leir
in their blood, crying out, in the agony of
.toot
heart, "That man, 0 brothers, dissevers us ; 'here in (1,0
band ; but first drive away the phantom which betr'ife.
you." If, on the 29th of January, instead of being "he
ceived by you with acclamations as the King Benefactor, t
had been stigmatised as the King Judas, we should Dot
had
have wept together, either as the 15th of May °' of
Naples burned and stormed, or over the sacred ashes (1
Messina and Catania, or over Italy contaminated she
sold by him. The bandage has now fallen. F?,;','
idols of clay, under the forms of Pius IX., of
e e
nand 11., of Leopold of Lorraine, now is substituted ',-
holy image of Italy. The satellites of our oppress°';;
whether born in Sicily, in Naples, or in Lombardft,.9.ll
our common enemies. Whoever shall rise first sil,„A
run to the assistance of his fallen brother, to raise liat,'"'e;
and unite himself with him, in order to combat OW: re
the execrated stranger. When our country sha'',lbr
liberated from every tyrant, then, but then only, nn-aea
the standard of liberty, we will discuss, brothers,
love the conditions of common family.

AT LAST ! —On Monday, by command of Colonel Lora
Enfield, the volunteers to the 2d Middlesex, or Edica9l/.
ton Rifle Militia, were summoned to muster for trainug
at Barnet on the 9Lh. All who absent themselves
to be treated as deserters.