The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-11 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

By a despatch from St. Petersburg, dated the
2d, we learn that 50,000 Russians, commanded
by General Beruloff, are ready to march over the
Persian frontier at the first call of the Shah.
Moreover, two complete corps d'armee are ready
to march for the Austrian frontier.

Le Nord, of Wednesday, publishes a telegra-
phic despatch relative to the wound of the King
of Naples ; the whole affair is, however, denied
by a message received from another source.

The following despatch has been received in

PArisi :

NAPLES, BTH.

This day an attempt was made to assassinate
the King of Naples, at a review held in honour of
the fete of the Immaculate Conception. His Ma-
jesty received a stab with a bayonet from a sol-
dier. The wound was slight, and the King was
able to continue the review. The population
manifested on the occasion the greatest horror of
the regicide.

A telegraphio clasp:ltch from Friburg, Switzer-
land, dated yesterday, says on the subject of the
elections now taking place for the renewal of the
Grand Council—" The Conservatives are full of
hope. Yesterday, at mid•day, there were gaining
ground in the town of Friburg. It was appre-
hended that disorders would break out. DiE-
turbances had taken place at Estavayer."

A letter from Berlin of the 7th, in the Post-
ampt Gazette, says :—" It appears most probable
that the Eastern question alone will be brought
forward before the second congress of Paris. The
governments of Austria and England will come
to an understanding before the meeting of the
conferences on the question of the precise period
for the evacuation of the principalities and of the
Black Sea. The two cabinets have declared to
France and Russia that they will be ready to
carry out this evacuation as soon as the Porte
shall demand it."

It is not true, as was stated, that the Swiss
Government are pressing on the trial of thb Neu-
chatel prisoners before the meeting of the Congress
in Paris. The voluminous report of the Attor-
ney-General will be laid before the Chamber de
la Mise en Accusation next week, and it is not
probable that the jury will be summoned for the
trial before the middle of January. Prussia
would wish to have the matter brought before
the Paris Conference ; the Confederation take no
steps of the kind ; but it is likely that, the Pleni-
potentiaries who signed the Protocol of 1852 will
again have the subject brought before them in
London.

THE STATE OF NAPLES.
NAPLES, DEC. 5.

We have received a list of the names of those who
were amnestied at the last Council of State of Nov.
27, though up to the morning of the 2d December
no notice of them had been received at the offices
of the Minister of Grace and Justice ; whether,
therefore, mercy, is suspended I cannot tell. The
names of those fully pardoned are—
Landadio, Passaro, Lettieri, Gogliucci, Rodio,
Riccliutti, two brothers Costa, Oliva, Carfora, Leo-
nardo Porta (a long time in concealment and para-
lytic; he is a literary man), Maningolo, Frischillo,
Dorsa, Degennara (a prisoner in Montefusco), Vis-
cione, Sannuzzi.
Punishment commuted to exile from the kingdom.
—Leanza, knuphew of Lieut. Col. Lean?;%, 'who was
I arrested on the 19th of May, 1849, and died in

prison on the 10th of August, 1854) and Bonelli, a
rich landholder of Barletta. Contrary to what I

stated in my last, these are not all political prisoners,
but intermixed with them are ordinary criminals.
The names are not to be published in Naples where
their antecedents are well known, but probably
they will be made known abroad, and as political
offenders, thus furnishing arguments for the defence
of this Government to those who wish to acquire
the character of heroes in the next session of Par-
liament.

I regret to say that the obstinate resistance
to advice, and the refusal to admit any changes
in the Government, have produced their necessary
consequences in Sicily. I have not later news
than that which I have already communicated to
you, but fuller news of the same date I have re-
ceived. Everything tended to show that it was a
guerilla warfare. which was entered upon, for
reports have been unable to fix upon any one place
as the site of the disturbance—„,many being men-
tioned. The plan seems to be to take possession of
the money of the Communes, leaving a receipt for
the amount. I shall now give you such reports as
have been brought to me :--"By the steamer of
Sunday,"
says one, " it is known that the colonna
mobile
of the 7th battalion of Chasseurs, and half
a squadron of cavalry are now at Villapatri, with-
out having been able to effect any operation. The
armed sands increase ar.d run through the com-
munes Without shedding blood, and distributing
tri-coloured cockades.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING

ptls:e suburbs, questioning all whom of gensdarmes, and of police
The police of Palermo have made numerous
arrests of persons of all ranks. During the night
ag e patrolsnts t
roafv =co
they meet. The city is tranquil ; the theatres are
open and frequented. On the 28th November 800
soldiers were sent from Palermo by sea ; the Chas-
seurs had previously been sent by land. At
Palermo some discontent had been created by"the
refusal on the part of the bank to receive some sil-
ver, and a proprietor called Bencivenga and a dis-
tinguished advocate called De Marco had left Pa-
lermo, and gone to Mezznjussa, about 20 miles
distant, where they began a movement. The
Baron Aceto, of whom I spoke in my last, is well
known in Palermo for his passion for English
horses and carriages. He was amnestied, I believe,
two or three months since, and is a proof in his
own person of the truth of what I have always
stated, that an amnesty without justice is fraught
with danger ; the amnestied will become nuclei of
revolution, unless the necessary changes and re-
forms are introduced. I now quote letters from
military men, or from members of their families :
—" All the families of the officers have left or are
leaving. I am thinking of doing the same, and
shall leave for Naples, with my father, by the first
steamer." A military man writes, " Now that 1
am writing to you the Ist battalion of the 9th
Chasseurs is leaving, and the Ist battalion of
the line for Palermo. The Bth Regiment has
left Girgenti, and perhaps also the 13th of the
line. The fleet is about to leave. From some
other point I will write to you." The fact appears
to be, that certain emigrants have disembarked in
Sicily,
circulates that some English vessels of war are off
Sicily, and have formed guerilla bands. A report
and that the Sannita, Neapolitan Govern-
ment steamer, was to have left on Tuesday morning
for Palermo, but was put off. Ido not, however,
place any confidence in the report, and with regard
to the Sicilian movement I do not venture to say
anything more •than what is contained in the reports
and extracts I have given you above.
FRANCE.

It is rum.oured that, as France will be repre-
sented in the person of Count Walewski at the
forthcoming Conference, England, Sardinia, and
Turkey intend to be represented, not by their
second, but by their first Plenipotentiaries, viz.,
Lord Clarendon, M. de Cavour, and Aali Pacha.
The Moniteur publishes a decree authorising the
Bank of Algeria to form a branch establishment at
Constantine.
A letter from Cayenne of the sth ult., in the
Journal du Havre, says :—" The gold fever gains
on us seriously ; we herewith send you home
30,000 f. worth, the produce of a month's labour of
35 miners on the banks of the Arataya, not far from
the mountain which bears the name of the Empress
Eugenie. Gold is discovered every day and in
every direction, but it is the basin of the Approu-
ague which produces the most brilliant results. Not
a single foreign workman has arrived here, and
the rich placers are left to the colony, the strength
of which was previously insufficient for other pur-
poses. The governor left this morning for the
Approuague, accompanied by M. Fayard, director
of the interior, and by the chief engineer. He has
gone to inspect personally the principal placers.
It is a journey of 12 days, which, we hope, will
secure to France the possession of a real California