The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-14 00:00:00

TILE INSURRECTION IN SICILI.

The following letter has been received by a friend
of Garibaldi in Newcastle-on-Tyne. It was written
by one of the band of volunteers who left Genoa
-with that-renowned chief to the relief 'of 'Si, cilyt--`
" Genoa, May 5 (midnight).—After a . desperate
effort we have got everything in order, ,and in an
hour or two -we will, I hope, be all safe on board.
The three steamers are waiting for us at a short
way from the shore, and our band leaves in small
boats at several different places. The embarkation
covers a distance of nearly five miles along the
coast. This has caused us endless inconvenience,
but it was necessary; for, although the Govern-
ment half winked at our proceedings, they could
not permit us openly to embark without incurring
the accusation of complicity. There are upwards
of 2,000 of us, and we are all in high spirits and
full of hope. A number of the band are just youths,
many under 20 years of age, but fully 500 are tried
and trustworthy fellows, who have seen many a
campaign. Better marksmen are not to be found
in Europe than we have with us. We have money,
arms, and ammunition in abundance. Uniforms we
also have got on board—the famous red frocks that
we had at Rome, and at the sight of which the
miserable mercenaries of Bomba fled horror-sticken
from the field of Velletri. I pant to measure swords
with the myrmidons of the wretched monster who
now bestrides our Neapolitan brothers. Tell our
English subscribers that the swords purchased by
their generous contributions shall do good service
in the holy cause of liberty before they are thrown
away. None of us know exactly where we will go
to, but we have absolute faith in our dear General,
and shall follow with pleasure wherever he leads.
The scene around reminds me of the departure
of poor Pisacanc and Nicotera, when they went
to seize the Cagliari. Medici follows us in
a few days with a force of 2,000 more men ; and
before long you will hear of us all from another
quarter of the Peninsula. We are resolved, what-
ever the issue, to s? 11 our lives dearly, and to avenge
the wrongs of our poor suffering fellow-country-
men. If I am lost, M— and B-- are here, and
you will hear from them. Farewell ! May God
defend the right! Long live Italy !

TEE STATE OF AUSTRIA.

A letter in a contemporary, dated Vienna, May

6th, says :
"In answer to your letter of the 27th of April,
and your request that without prejudice I should
tell you my opinion of the state of things, I must
say that the fate of Austria in the present moment
depends upon whether those, Hungarians who are
chosen for. the Council of the Empire accept or
decline the proffered dignity.
" I hope they will accept, and take the lead in
the sense of progress, as bearers of the principles of
liberty, as the means of establishing betwren-
Monarch and subject a covenant of right and tole-
ration. Austria will follow them with hand and

heart ; Sclave and German will love and esteem the
Hungarian if he succeeds in inducing the Govern-
ment to concede- to the necessities of the age,and

break with §l;;ishacofai ism and Roman 6101.1E-
cism.- Unfortunately, the Court is in the hands' of
a party at the head of which stands a modern
Granvella, a lady who favoured the Constitution of
March, 1848, to effect the change in the succession
of the Throne, and then hastened on the reaction
by means of that political adventurer Bach. If
the Hungarians are only struggling for their Con-
stitution of 1847, then the clerical aristocratic
party alone will gain ; the State itself will be a
loser. ,This apprehension is rife here ; it is believed
that the whole movement, which in the main
emanates from the aristocracy, is only meant for the
benefit of the nobility in Hungary, and in the other
provinces, and is intended, under the aegis of liberty
and progress, to be a means of coercing the Go-
vernment to establish 'an aristocratic oligarchy,
which would be gratefully accepted by the Ger-
man, Bohemian, Polish, and Croatian nobility,
where hollow heads and empty hearts constitute
the majority. The Hungarian party of progress,
if it be really such, must tranquillise the German
provinces, particularly Vienna, on this point.
"We hope that the Hungarian councillors may
accept to act for the entire monarchy ; they are
the only men of political and Parliamentary edu-
cation.

" The Emperor has gained immensely in public,
opinion since the beginning of the prosecution in-
stituted against Eynatten, in consequence of which
Richter, Biaseri, Perugia, Mondolfo, Brambilla,
and Rivoltella have been arrested, and Bruck has
committed suicide. This impartial justice, sparing
no one in its crushing march, is the only way to
rehabilitate a monarch who has to make his people
forget the treaty of December 2, 1854, and the Con-
cordat (two of Bach's expedients to keep his port-
folio), the choice of his organs in the military and
civil Administrations which led to so many blun-
ders, and principally that war, supported by the
whole nation with great sacrifices, begun in the
pride of self-deception, and concluded in faint-
hearted helplessness. The humiliation of his crown
before the tiara, the ridiculous superstitions and
ecclesiastical mummeries forced on the highest
Court nobility, as well as on the lowest mob, by the
priests; who quite demoralise the servant class by
means of the confession, will hardly be forgiven by,
the sound sense of the people.
" Bruck was physically and intellectually a richly
endowed man. So much the worse, in my opinion,
for him in his position as Minister and chief of an
Administration which exacts the highest sense of
honour to have forgotten tluiiboundary line between
the merchant and his business, and the Minister,
statesman, and public character. His inconsiderate
management, the swindling character of all under-
takings favoured by him, the low esteem in which
his satellites were held, his system of drawing all
classes,- princes and field-marshal-lieutenants, mer-
chants and bankers, manufacturers and landed
proprietors, porters and valets, Jews and Christians,
lieutenants and shopkeepers, into the net of his spe-
culations, to let them taste of riches without labour,
have demoralised society, unfortunately, to such a de-
gree that there are people in Vienna, well dressed,
and considering themselves socially and politically
highly cultivated, in whom the sense of honour is so
lost as to think it quite natural that a Minister
should enrich himself like a common speculator,
and who abuse all who condemn Bruck. Tills moral
degradation is spread far and wide, the Emperor
is blamed for having caused their darling to cut
his'throat, and they try to spread the report in all
the papers, t;itlt the exception of The Pressc, that
the motive of his suicide was mortified amtotion.
This is sophistical, and, besides being untrue, the
accusations which prompted the Emperor to pen-
sion Bruck, in order to deliver him up to justice,
were to be found in the papers of Rivoltella, where
the key to the telegraphic cipher of the Ministry of
Finance was found, and Bruck's own despatches; as
well as in the transactions of the well-known de-
falcation case, and gave him, now nu longer a
Minister, sufficient reason to be filed with the
gloomiest apprehensions. He cut his throat, and
well for him he did so. But sad indeed for the
middle class to which he belonged, ,disheartening
to the hopes of progress which he represented,
that the stain of dishonesty and vulgar greed rests
on Bruck, as the stain of political cusniug and
treason to the cause of freedom rests on Bach.
" To cure Austria thoroughly there exists but
one remedy—publicity, but nobility, clergy, the
civil and military bureaucracy, as well as the Court,
are we to look if oppose it. Where, then,
Hun-
garians, the men of progress and of constitutional
liberty, who ought to accept their mission in its

Tho recruiting goes on merrily, and Doctor Cul-
len's object in raising a money tribute for the Pope
is now patent to the meanest understanding. A
despatch dated Cork, Friday, and published in ono
of the local papers, thus reports :
" One hundrzd and fiftlfroung, men arrivtd in I his
city this n3orning,' by filial from Killarney, ley the
purpose of joining the Pope's ormy. They are.fine
young men, belonging chiefly to the farming class,
and appear filled with enthusiasm for the cause
which they have espoused. They were accompani. d
by two-pricsts from the district 'whence they bud
come; and we understand that large additional re-
inforcements may be expected from Kerry."
In Dublin, too, the recruiting sergeant—whether
in black or. scarlet—has met, it is said, with some
success. One account states that 200 drapers' assist-
ants had volunteered for'. the Papal army, while
another represents the number as high as 350, and
it is stated that the houses .thus denuded of their
hands have been compelled to supply their places
with women. In the adjacent counties of Meath
and Louth the new crusade is being carried on with
conSiderable vigour. The following communication
appears in Situnders's News Letter of this morn-
ing :
" DROGHEDA, Friday, May 11.—For some two
clays past a rumour has been prevalent in this town
and neighbouring districts that inducements were
being actively held out to young men to enlist under
the banner of the Pope, and undertake to serve in a
brigade about being raised in Ireland for that pur-
pose. It was also reported thata number of young
,men had already been sent oyei to Rome who were
considered eligible for the purpoSe. Much atten-
tion, however, was not paid to the rumour until a
few days ago—the early part of this week—when
it was confidently asserted that some people in com-
fortable circumstances had volunteered to go, who
were previously known to express an anxious de-
sire to become soldiers under Pius the Ninth., I
have made inquiries, and find that a number of
young men from the precincts of the town were sent
away yesterday, leaving their parents in distress
and grief, they being their principal support.
Many express a desire in the rural districts to join
the brigade, but the parents of those who have al-
ready been despatched say that they have been
wheedled or decoyed to leave their homes. On the
disembodiment of the militia regiments ther6 is
little doubt a large accession to the brigade wilt
take place. I also understand that numerous young
men who offered their services were rejected, as
persons canvassing are particular in selecting the
most healthy and athletic. I have got the names
of half a dozen who were sent away yesterday
morning, but up to this the canvass has not become
general here, at least in the central parts of the
town."

The Irishman, nearly the last surviving war
journal, speaking of the composition of the Irish
Contingent, says:—
"Many of them—most of them are the sons of
comfortable farmers in Tipperary, Cork, and other
counties. Others are drapers' assistants of Dublin
and Cork—stout, tall, strapping fellows, who con-
sider (with their genuine Irish instincts) that fight-
ing for the Pope is much pleasanter work than.
measuring tape behind a counter. But, farmers'
sons or counter jumpers,' the gallant fellows arc,
we believe, ' paying their own way.' Some six
months ago more than one of these adventurous
young Celts came to consult ourselves on the pro-
priety of going out to help the Holy Father to hold
his ground against his foes. We confess that at the
time we were opposed to the proceeding. We said
to them There is a fine French army in Rome, and
these, your Celtic brethren of France, who have
been drilled on the battle-fields of Africa, are well
able to defend and protect the Pope. But here at
home British rule is trying to starve out and ex-
patriate all the fresh, hot, earnest manhood of
Ireland. This thing cannot always continue; per-
haps you had. better stay at home and help us to
retain Ireland for the Irish.' They went away,
not over-satisfied. For our own part, we bethought
us afterwards that our counsel was hardly the best.
It occurred to us, on consideration, that Ireland's
opportunity might not come so very soon that our
youni; braves might not have time to see a little
practice abroad meanwhile. After all, we thought
an Italian campaign or two might be of immense
service to them; and, if they should come home
after some nice practice there, would they not be
all the more competent to drill their fellow-coun-
rymun..to tiolsl our own dear land against All

- The same authority, alluding to the report
brought by the telegraph, that many of the Irish
recruits have been pronounced unfit for service,
wrathfully exclaims :
" This is a scandal and reproach to Ireland, the
nurse of the grandest and bravest soldiers on God's
earth. Ireland could supply to the Pope 100,000
meu Wtose like could not be found in the world.

It is said that the proprietor of a Dublin news-
paper has acted as recruiting sergeant. If he has
degraded his country by sending unfit men, mere
boys, sickly and feeble, to Rome, he deserves the
triangle and cat-o'-nine-tails."