The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-28 00:00:00

PRICE 4D. STAMPED, SD.

THE INSURRECTION IN SICILY.

The Central Revolutionary Committee at Naples
has issued the following appeal to the inhabitants
of Naples. It is dated the 15th of June:—

" Inhabitants of the City of Naples.—Too long
already have your silent tears watered the land
of Samnium, too long have Italian brows been bent
before crime and infamy.
" Incessantly menaced in your persons, in your
property, in your honour, for 40 years you have
been the playthings of the ambition and of the
tyranny of a handful of men. With us you have
deplored the ruin of the national finances ; you
have seen taxes levied to provide for the pleasures
of an imbecile Bourbon, and become the booty of a
few nobles who ostentatiously displayed their
luxury before you as if it were a patent of nobility.
" You behold daily your fathers, mothers, wives,
sisters, subject to cynical tortures and immolated
by a barbarous police. Blood asks for blood, and
that of your relations and defenders of your rights
cries aloud for vengeance.
" Slaves bought by money in South America
did not tolerate such odious treatment, and we,
Neapolitans, born free men to live where our
fathers lived as rulers, how could we have sub-
mitted to such exactions, have endured such san-
guinary outrages ?

"But let us bid a truce to timid regrets; let us
leave lamentations to the tyrant; the future does
not rest in bis complaints. Hitherto knocked down
by the cowardice and villany of example, taken by
the contagion, our brains were confounded like those
of slaves.

" At the sight of victorious Sicily, at the magna-
nimous example of Piedmont, at the powerful voico
of Garibaldi, let our hearts throw off a shameful
torpor, let us seize weapons to conquer, chastise,
and liberate. Let Vesuvius respond to Etna, and
the Appennines be the conducting wire of deliver-
ance to our brothers of the North.

" For a long time, Neapolitans, we have tolerated
that which could not be avenged without shedaing
the blood of our fellow-citizens. For a long time
we hesitated to commence an impious struggle with
our brethren led astray by pretorian uniforms.
" But by the side of the duties of the citizen are
also those of the father ; the hour has come to cast
aside as unjust sensibility, to escape from the curse
which weighs upon bad fathers and slaves !
" Let the mask be dropped ! Let every man select
his course ; between honour and infamy traitors
only can hesitate, and cowards only remain unde-
cided. Let everything within our reach become a
terrible weapon, from the deadly rifle to the shar-
pened lava of Vesuvius ; let us rather be crushed
under the ruins of Parthenope than tolerate the
tyranny of the Bourbon, and, if he needs must reign,
let him reign in a churchyard.
" Brothers, await the orders of your committee ;
distrust bad news, and especially silly manifesta-
tions only suited to encourage the oppressor, to in-
timidate the weak, and to delay the day of redemp-
tion.

" Sons of the Samnites, invoke the courage of
your ancestors ; sharpen your swords and prepare
silently, for, we swear it unto you, the struggle is
near at hand.

" Neapolitans, you are sons of Italy. Italy ex-
tends from Mont Cenis to the blood-stained waters
of Sicily. Rise in the name of Italy and of liberty !
" Those who shed their blood for your sakes come
courageously to you and you fight against them !
" God said to Cain,—' Unhappy man, what have
you done with your brother ? ' Italy will say to
you,—' Cursed brothers, what have you done with
your brothers ?'

" Each drop of blood shed in Sicily is a maledic-
tion on your heads, on the heads of your children,
and of your children's children.

" Neapolitans ! Italy forgives you ; but you
must rise like the flames of your volcanoes against
those who do not wish to allow Italy to exist !"

R.4ILIVAY INTELLIGENCE.

GREAT NORTHERN.

A special general meeting of this company was
held on Tuesday at the station, King's-cross ; Mr.
E. Denison in the chair.

Mr. LEECH, the solicitor, read the heads of a bill
for enabling the London, Chatham, and Dover
Railway Company to extend their railway commu-
nications to the metropolis, and for other purposes
connected with their undertaking. The clauses
from 88 to 96 in the bill authorised traffic and
other arrangements with the Great Northern Rail-
way Company.
The CHAIRMAN moved a formal resolution ap-
proving the bill, and it was carried unanimously.
The SOLICITOR read the heads of a bill for
making an improved communication between the
Great Northern Railway and the Metropolitan Rail-
way, near the King's•cross railway station, and for
authorising certain arrangements between the Great
Northern and Metropolitan Railway Companies
with reference thereto. The object of the bill was
to empower the Great Northern Company to con-
struct a short junction line between their railway
and the main line of the Metropolitan Railway at
King's-cross. The bill authorised the company to
raise any sum not exceeding £30,000, and by mort•
gage or debenture any sum not exceeding £lO,OOO.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving a formal resolution
approving the bill, stated that in the promotion of
the measure some doubt had arisen as to the pro-
priety of proceeding with the bill; but, having been
fortunate enough to make an agreement with some
one who had opposod it, they were now induced to
go on with it in Parliament.

- The motion approving the bill was then carried
unanimously, and the meeting separated.

CHARING-CROSS.

A special general meeting of this company was
held on Tuesday at the London-bridge Station of
the South-Eastern Railway Company—the Hon. J.
Byng in the chair.
The SOLICITOR read the agreement between the
Charing-cross-bridge Company and the Hunger-
ford-market Company, on the one part, and the
Charing-cross Railway Company on the other
part, for the purchase by the latter company of the
Charing- cross-bridge and Hungerford-market pro-
perty, tolls, &c.
On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, a formal reso-
lution, confirming the agreement for the purchase
of the bridge and market, and authorising the
directors to carry the same into effect, was carried
unanimously.
The SOLICITOR then read the heads of a bill autho-
rising the Charing-cross Railway Company to pur-
chase the whole of the rights of the Charing-cross-
bridge Company, and also those of the Hungerford-
market Company, and for that purpose to use the
the funds of the company or to raise additional
capital to the extent of £150,000, and to borrow
£40,000. The bill authorised the company to grant
a rent-charge in lieu of paying the purchase-money,
if agreed upon by the parties to the agreement.
The CHAIRMAN moved a formal resolution ap-
proving the bill, and it was carried unanimously.
The meeting then separated.