The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-08 00:00:00

TILE INSURRECTION IN SICILY.

Letters from Palermo, in the Nazione of
Florence, state that Bourbonist intrigues are going
on in the former capital, and that the procession
del Carmine has bean in consequence prohibited
by the Government, in order to prevent disturb-
ances. On the 31st ult. several persons were
arrested, including a functionary of the financial
department, who was taken in the fact of exciting
the citizens to arm and overthrow the existing Go-
vernment. Patrols of the National Guard and
Carbineers are constantly marching through the
streets, and have already arrested several instiga-
tors to disorder. The opinion in favour of imme-
diate annexation is gaining ground daily in Sicily,
notwithstanding the efforts of the Mazzinian press.
The Central Committee at Naples, which con-
tinues its secret sittings, mysteriously distributed
to the army last week the following proclamation,
dated 29th July :
"If you are told that the Government has been
generous in granting the statuto, and that it is
sincere in maintaining it, answer that the perma-
nence of the foreign corps is a manifest violation of
the constitution, which they have made you swear
to observe. Admitting that we may have to pro-
ceed to the election of deputies, can it be done under
the menace of foreign bayonets ? The Government
declares itself favourable to the war of Italian in-
der endence, but can it, when keeping foreigners in
the service, love the nation P The Government says
it respects the army, but can it respect you when it
has no confidence in you ? And do you not see
that it ,dishonours you, and makes you perjure
yourselves by calling on you to swear to what it
purposes maintaining by the help of foreign troops ?
The only way, therefore, fellow-citizens, is to take
your resolution at once, and set yourselves right
with the people, who are anxious to escape from
the present state of uncertainty, and will do so ere
long. General Garibaldi has affirmed that you are
brave, that he will lead you to glory, and secure
your wellbeing. Take courage and join the peo-
ple ; let us sweep away the foreigners who suck our
blood, and we shall then all be free sons of our
beloved country.

" THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE."
A correspondent, writing from Naples, states
that on the 31st ult. a rumour prevailed in that city
of the landing of a body of Garibaldi's troops on the
coast of Calabria. Letters from Sicily spoke of
provisions being excessively dear, so much so as to
remind one of a time of scarcity. A duty 012 salt,
imposed by the Dictator's Government, was said
to be exceedingly unpopular. The King of
Naples has just given his uncle, the Count de
Trapani, a striking mark of confidence—having
made him Colonel-General-Inspector-Commander of
the Royal Guard, a post which has been vacant
since the death of the Prince of Palermo ten years
ago, and which the late King was about to confer
on his son the present sovereign, when death cut
short his career. The is the highest in the Neapoli-
tan army. _ _

A letter from Naples of the Ist, in the Debuts,

says :
" We are in the midst of an armed truce, and ad-
vantage is taken of it to complete our warlike pre-
parations. The King, to use his own expression,
has thrown himself into the arms of God,' and he
confines himself to opposing a resistance full of sus-
picions or foclish inertness to the Ministry, or
rather to a Minister who would wish him so to act
as to insure his own safety. The Queen-Mother,
who is at Gaeta, surrounded by all the chiefs of the
reaction, and is the head of the absolutist monar-
chical party, is preparing throughout the kingdom,
and principally at Naples, a general rising in order
to instal on the Throne her son, the Count de Trani,
and sweep away the constitution and the Liberals.
In the midst of such political difficulties, there is a
serious question of coming to a resolution on the
project for establishing a network of railways ex-
tending over the wholo kingdom—that is to say,
a line from Naples to Brindisi, another which, by
M
I Salerno and Basilicate, will place in COMMUCa-