The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-02 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

The folAowing telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reute r's office :

" NAPLES, JUNE 1.
An armistice has been concluded between the
Royal troops and the trcops of Garibaldi.

The armitistice still continues to be observed, and
will end au Sunday next at noon.
The town of Agrigent has risen.

FLORENCE, JUNE 1.

Letters from Naples to the 28th ult., state that
a grand manifestation had taken place there.
Shouts of "Emmanuel !" " Garibaldi !" " Sicily !"

were raised.

GENOA, JUNE 2.

The report of Bixio's death is unfounded, as the
journal of the expedition, written by Bixio him-
self, up to the 26th May, has just been published.

NAPLES, MAT 31.
The bombardment of Palermo was still being

continued.

PARIS, JUNE 2.

The Moniteur of this morning announces that
he health of Prince Jerome again shows a slight

improvement.

LYONS, JUNE 1.
The Dowager Empress of Russia arrived here
to-day at 6.30 p.m.
The Emperor and Empress also arrived at 8.30
p.m , and were enthusiastically received.
The city was decorated with flags, and at night
was illuminated.

PARIS, JUNE 2.

The Constitutionnel publishes an article, signed
by M. Grandguillot, paraphrasing the speech of M.
Fould at Tarbes, with the object of proving that
the French are loyal neighbours to all frontier
powers.

VIENNA, FRIDAY.

The members of the Counciltf the Empire were
to-day received in the Throne-room by the Em-
peror, who read a speech, mentioning important
projects to be submitted to the Council, by which
provincial autonomy will be granted to the dif-
ferent parts of the Empire without disturbing the
unity of the State, and without specially favouring
any single province.

Counts Apponyi and Adrossy, in their speeches
yesterday, both declared that the political pro-
gramme of the Hungarians does not tend in any
way to a separation from, but to an intimate union
with the Austrian monarchy, on the basis of com-
mon liberal institutions.

VIENNA, JUNE 1

According to the most recent explanations of
Prince Gortschakoff to the great Powers of Europe,
Russia has only proposed the assembling of a
congress on the subject of the situation of the
Christians in the East, in case an inquiry should
confirm the justice of the complaints against the
Porte.

The inquiry, as proposed by Russia, was to be
conducted by the consuls of the great Powers, with
the aid of commissioners appointed by Turkey.
The Porte having itself taken the initiative in
the inquiry, by nominating three commissioners ad
hoc, over each of which a member of the Ottoman
Cabinet presides, the great Powers have agreed to
await the result before entering into ulterior nego-
tiations on the Russian proposition.

BERLIN, JUNE

The news published by the Austrian Gazette that
the Porte had conceded the appointment of mixed
commissions of inquiry, to be partly composed of
commissioners of the great Powers, is totally un-
founded. Should the inquiry of the Powers be con-
trolled by the great Powers, it would only be
through the normal action of their different consuls.

CONSTANTINOPLE, MAY 3

The Grand Vizier having left for Roumelia on
account of the inquiry which has been instituted in
that province relative to the complaints of the
Christian inhabisants, Ali Pacha has been appointed
to replace the Grand Vizier during his absence.

INSULT TO THE BRITISH FLAG AT
SYRACUSE.

The Femapliore of Marseilles contains a letter
from Malta, of the 24th ult., which says that on the
Queen's birthday the English vice•consul at Syra-
cuse having displayed the British flag, four Neapoli-

tan soldiers tired on it, and wounded the wife of the
vice-consu:, who died in consequence the following
day.

Another despatch says :—" Tile English flag
having been hoisted, on the Queen's birth-day, at
the consulate, some Neapolitan soldiers took it into
their heads that it was meant as a demonstration
in favour of republicanism, and fired through the
door of the house, whereby they shot the vice-con-
sul's wife through the arm. The vice-consul tele-
graphed to Malta, and the Caradoc was sent thence
to demand explanations. The governor made the
most ample apologies, and for the present the affair
is ended."

THE CAPTURE OF PALERMO

A letter from Genoa, dated May 30, says :—At
two o'clock yesterday morning the patriotic feelings
of the Genoese were gratified by the news that an
official telegram had -been received from Cagliari
by Count Porri, the Governor-General of this city,
announcing that Garibaldi had entered Palermo,
and that part of its population had risen against
the royal troops. .This telegram had been sent by
Captain D'Aste, of the Sardinian navy, who had
left the Sicilian capital whilst the roar of cannon
and the rattling of musketry were still going on.
From what I can gather from Sicilian refugees
and citizens of this town, it seems that the storm-
ing of Palermo was begun by Garibaldi at four
o'clock on Sunday morning. The Italian leader
having concentrated all the forces he had at his
disposal on the northern side of the city during the
preceding night, he boldly attacked the town at a
place called Peperito, which runs on the left hand
side of the royal palace. Although General Lanza
had placed a strong body of troops to defend that
important position, it was carried by Garibaldi's
troops, after a tremendous struggle of two hours.
Peperito once in the power of Garibaldi, the popu-
lation of Palermo, which crowds the lanes and
streets of that locality, rose to a man, and began to
throw flower pots, stones, furniture, anything they
could lay hold of, upon the retiring columns of the
Neapolitans. The royal vessels then opened their
fire upon the town, and a shower of shells began to
fall over it, a shower which lasted more than eight
hours. The bombardment did not, however, pro-
duce any great effect on the population, and when
the Sardinian steamer left Palermo three Neapo-
litan regiments had determined to join the ranks of
the insurgents. It seems that Colonel Sirtori, the
chief of Garibaldi's staff, was severely wounded in
the bloody engagement of the 16th, and this is con-
sidered a great loss ; for Colonel Sirtori, and poor
Colonel Nino Bixio, whose death is now confirmed,
were the two best officers of Garibaldi's army. By
this time, perhaps, General Lanza has left Palermo
in the hands of his illustrious adversary, for it is
scarcely to be believed he could hold his ground in
a city which numbers a population of 200,000 souls,