The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 29, 1860,

L TEST NEWS.

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The following telegrams have been received at
Mr. Reuter's office :

PARIS, MAY 29.

The Moniteur of this morning publishes the
speech delivered by M. Fould, Minister of State, at
an agricultural meeting at Tarles.
After having shown the material progress which
has been obtained, the Minister Fould said :
" The economical course which has recently been
inaugurated will create a fruitful era of wealth
and prosperity." M. Fould recalls the moderation
of the Emperor shown after the late war, and said
—" The moderation in the past is a certain gua-
rantee for the future. The Emperor has several
times proclaimed that he only wished to ensure to
France the rank which belonged to her." M.
Fould advises people not to be led away by the
feeling of uneasiness which parties are strenuously
endeavouring to spread. " Notwithstanding the
events which disturb some States, notwithstanding
the agitation and mistrust which those parties at-
tempt to excite in the public mind, France, quiet
and prosperous, can devote herself with safety to
public works. She knows the Emperor to be strong
enough to inspire all with respect for her rights,
and to be too loyal a neighbour and too faithful an
ally to menace the rights of others."

PARIS, MAY 28.
In Skily everything is going on well for Gari
baldi.

A service of small steamers, French and English,
has been established between Naples and Palermo.
The Patric of this evening says :
" The despatches received from Sicily are very
contradictory. One of them again asserts that
Bixio has been killed."
The Patric adds :

" The insurrection is being organised to such an
extent that its definitive result is no longer doubt-
ful. The fall of Palermo is inevitable, being only a
question of time. As soon as the insurrection
becomes mistress of Palermo, Garibaldi will declare
Sicily annexed to the Italian kingdom, reserving
the ratification of his resolution to universal suf-
frage. A provisional government, under the
presidency of Garibaldi, would then direct the
insurrection."

VIENNA, MAY 28.

A telegram from the Austrian Embassy at Naples
has been received here, which asserts that Gari-
baldi and his volunteers had been completely
routed.

TURIN, MAY 29.

The discussion on the treaty of cession was re-
sumed yesterday in the Sardinian Chambers.
Signor Biancheri (of the opposition) said he
feared that the line of demarcation would be pre-
judicial to the defence of the country, that it
wounded the national sentiment, and gave France
the valley of Roja, which was incontestably Italian.
Signor Annelli attacked the treaty as immoral,
and said—Traffic in humanity is not a venal thing.
It is not 'possible to sell peoples without being
guilty of immorality.
The orator was interrupted by the President for
the extreme vehemence of his language, and the
liberty of speech was finally withirawn from
Signor Annelli by the vote of the Chamber.
Signor Berti declared that he abstained from
discussion, but nothing proved that the Government
had been obliged to cede Savoy and Nice in order
to effect a French alliance, and afterwards said—
The peace of Villafranca has changed the policy of
Sardinia. The thought of Italian independence is
superseded by that of natural boundaries.
The Chevalier Buoncompagni defended the
treaty from a legal point of view, and contested the
opinion of Signor Ratazzi, who said that Count
Cavour had substituted the aggrandisement of the
kingdom of Sardinia in place of the independence
of Italy. He explained that the Tuscan autonomy
is not in opposition to the unity of Italy, and fur-
ther proved that Nice is not Italian.
The Minister Farini, in reply to Signor Berti,
contended that the policy of France had notchanged
since the peace of Yillafranca, and stated that the
annexation had been made since then. The Mini-
ster also said—ln signing the treaty I have the
profound conviction of performing a most useful
act in favour of Italian independence.

GARIBALDI'S EXPEDITION

MALTA, MAY 22.

Her Majesty's ship Caradoc, which arrived in
port on the 20th brought the following intelli-

gence :

The Royal troops, consisting of 5,000 men, have
been defeated at Alcamo by Garibaldi with the loss
of 2,300 men.

The whole garrison of Palermo afterwards wen
out to meet the enemy.

The Royal troops are beaten in every village.

Garibaldi is marching towards Palermo, accom-
panied by 15,000 men.
The English families were to embark this day
on board the Hannibal.
The merchants have embarked all their pro-
perty on board the English corvette Amphion.
Another defeat of the Royal troops was hourly
expected to take place at Monreale.
Her Majesty's ship Assurance, arrived yesterday
from Catania and Messina, brought the following
news from Sicily :

A detachment of the royal troops, which had left
Catania to meet the insurgents who were outside
Catania, were made prisoners by the insurgents.
This detachment consisted of 500 men.

Another detachment, consisting of 1,000 men,
left Girgenti on Friday last for Palermo ; the royal
troops met with the insurgents, who made 500 of
them prisoners, and the other 500 returned to Gir-
genti with the loss of their officers.
A letter dated Palermo, May 18, says :—" Since
Saturday last, the 12th inst., when the landing of
Garibaldi was known here, we have been in a regu-
lar fix—the squad,i showed themselves close down
to the town in very great numbers, and we are in
a state of siege again, not knowing whether we are
to be sacked and pillaged by the soldiers, or bom-
barded and fired upon by the Castle and ships of
war. All the mails from this of Saturday last were
stopped and, it is said, destroyed. Since this day
week no letters have come in from any pal t of the
interior by land. I enclose our Marsala account
of Garibaldi's landing, brought up bj the Argus,
and in addition to which the officers told us they
were a fine set of fellows. They spoke and
shook hands with Garibaldi, so that there is no
mistake about his being in Sicily ; but his exact
whereabouts at this moment no one here seems to
know. Some say he has taken Trapani, others that
he is organising his forces, having been joined
by thousands. However, wherever he may be,
yesterday several beaten regiments came into town
in a terribly shattered state, belonging to Colonel
Donati's Colonna Mobile, which was attacked be-
twixt Alcamo and Calataficni, and totally dispersed,
with the loss of more than 2,000 out of about 3,000
men, three cannons, and lots of officers, amongst
them Colonel Donati, and, strange to say, he was
the only officer whom I knew, as ho started from
our port, where he kept his horsepro tern, his men
being those stationed at the Gancia convent. All
the troops look beaten and discouraged, and as for
the police, they have in great part been cut off, and
the rest have become as mild as milk.
" The name of Garibaldi seems to have struck
terror into the entire Neapolitan army. The /u 0,90

tenente, Castelcicala, went away for good yesterday
to Naples, bag and baggage, and has been replaced
by General Lanza, who was formerly a colonel of
cavalry here in 1848. Government business and
everything else seems to be at a dead lock, and, for
my part, I feel persuaded that the Government must
succumb, the entire island being in arms and
against them. It is believed that the above Colonna
was destroyed by the country squadt i alone, and
without any assistance from Garibaldi's band,
amongst whom there are some English and French
chaps, and a lot of students from Pavia. Altogether
the English officers said they were a brave set, and
managed their landing like chaps that knew what
they were about. The English steamers Argus
and Intrepid, at a distance they took for Neapolitan
cruisers, or they would have been in and landed two
hours sooner, and the steamers would have got
away again. Yesterday there was a si dice that
Lanza was going to make aprenunziamento with the
troops and tri-coloured flags, and to cry out, 'Viva
Francesco, 11. Viva la Constituzione del 1812 !'
But it is all bosh.

" There are steamers going to and coming from
Naples daily, but we have had only one letter so
far, and that was kept at the Post-office 24 hours
after arrival; and as to sending away letters, we
never can know when the steamer is to leave, or
which is the one to go, and at the Post-office they
know nothing at all.
" The Argus having returned to remain at
Marsala for a time, the Neptune is the only British
man-of-war here.

"The Marsala folks were anxious to get a
steamer to keep them company, not, however, that
they are in the least danger within their baglios,
which are like little fortresses ; besides, they took
good care to keep plenty of arms to defend them-
selves from any attack (by no means probable), and
the Argus ought to have remained here, as her
presence is much more likely to be needed here
when Garibaldi comes to the rescue.

" The people are not allowed to go out or come
in at the gates after a certain hour. Nearly all the
gates except the four chief ones at right angles have
been barricaded by the troops to form breastworks.
One Colonna has been stationed at the end of the
Madina these two days, and the poor devils have
had to sleep for two nights and days on the ban-
chetta, without any covering except the clothes
they stand in. Another larger lot is out at the
Barazzi, just beyond the madhouse, but all the
troops in this direction—except what there may be at
Girgenti and Trapani, if this last place has not given
in—have come back to Palermo, so that all the
island, save perhaps Catania and Messina, may be
said to be in the hands of the people, who will now
no longer accept anything Francesco 11. may offer
them, constitution or anything else.
" The Colonna Disfatta is, as that of Garibaldi,
composed of carabinieri, Bth and 10th regiments of
the line, cavalry and artillery ; and besides the
great number of killed and wounded, four cannon,
the military chest, and a lot of muskets were taken.
Several of the inhabitants who have landed, I hear,
have already come into Palermo to see their rela-
tions, but have gone out again. Garibaldi, I am
told, is to sleep at Partinico to-night. On Sunday
most likely Monreale will be attacked, and after
that we might look out at Palermo, which will be
the -scene of the great fight if the Neapolitans
intend to fight at all. The poor fellows most cer-
tainly appear to be very much discouraged, and
with good reasons, because it is impossible they can
withstand the fury of the entire island. The
squadri are beyond numbers; all round Palermo
every night they light their fires on the Monetrim
by way of showing that they are in the neighbour-
hood.

The town and all around it since Saturday last
has been as silent as the grave, and that alone tends
to damp the ardour of the troops—put out of the
question the name of Garibaldi, who must certainly
be a generous fellow to have undertaken his present
enterprise.
" All the English are still in town."

MAY 23.
The subjoined telgraphic despatch has just been
received :

" MODICA, MAY 22.
" Catania rose in insurrection yesterday at 6

a.m.
"A very large number of the movable column of
all the communes of the valley of Catania and of
the neighbouring valleys have moved forward to
attack the royal forces.
"A strong body from this place is now setting
out in aid of its brethren of Catania."
It is reported that the Neapolitan troops are
quitting Palermo for Naples in their vessels of war.
All Sicily is in arms.

A correspondent from Sicily writes as follows :
" Accidental circumstances led to my being an
eye witness of events of the highest interest which
occurred on the 11th at Marsala. It was a most
beautiful day, bright sun and perfectly calm sea.
Her Britannic Majesty's ships Argus and Intrepid
were lying at anchor off the town, having arrived
about 10 o'clock that morning from Palermo, in
consequence of some complaints that had been made
by the English residents here against the Neapoli-
tan authorities. Two paddlewheel vessels, which
had been observed cruising in the offing most of the
morning, at 1 o'clock steamed rapidly towards the
breakwater. As they approached the shore they
hoisted Sardinian colours, and were seen to be
crowded with armed men, while field pieces were
distinctly discernible on the deck of the larger one.
The men were not clothed in uniform, but a large
number wore bright red woollen shirts, without
any jackets, and felt hats. On the bridge of the
first steamer stood an individual, also in red,
whose identity was then little suspected, but
who turned out to be the illustrious General
Garibaldi himself. The steamers came on at full
speed through the shallow water, and stopped, one
inside the mole, the other a few yards from it. The
work of debarkation commenced immediately. Of
course, there are various accounts as to the number
of men, but, from my own observation, and from
the statement of the new comers themselves, I
should say 1,400 was about the mark. Every man
was armed with a revolver, Minie rifle, and sabre,
and many carried two rifles. They had four field
howitzers and several ammunition carts. Nothing
could excel the able way in which the landing
was effected. In two hours and a half not a man
was left on board either vessel. Almost imme-
diately after their arrival the smoke of two or
three steamers and the canvass of a large frigate
were seen in the horizon. The steamers proved to
he a Lix-gun sloop and two Palermitan tugboats
chartered by the Neapolitan Government. The fri-
gate was the Parthenope, 53 guns. Just as the
last batch of men were landing the Neapolitan
steamers came creeping along shore, and the sloop,
which was first, hovered about for a long time,
apparently in a state of extreme perplexity and
incertitude. After the exchange of many signals
with the Parthenope, which had hauled her wind,
and was rapidly nearing the harbour, the sloop
steamed along the beach and opened fire on the little
army that was marching in detachments along the
road from the mole to the town. She did not, how-
ever, do any homage to the patriots, but some •f
her shells went right over their heads and burst
among the houses. By this time the frigate
had arrived, and sailing under reduced canvass
about 800 yards from shore, she fired a whole broad-
side of round shot, with the only effect of splashing
water and scattering mud. She then went about and
lay to in the offing. The sloop continued firing shell
at intervals till dusk. I only saw one man struck
and I think that was the extent of the execution.
Shell after shell, however, dropped in the town and
the Parthenope, with her 8-inch guns, made ono or
two holes in the walls. The patriots behaved with
the utmost coolness. As each puff of smoke appeared
from the ports of the steamer they fell flat on the
ground, and when the danger had passed went on,
lustily dragging their guns across the open space
between the mole and the town. The frigate mean-
while sent her boats to take possession of the aban-
doned steamers which were aground and aboard
which the tricolour was still flouting. By 8 o'clock
next morning one of them, in tow of a tugboat, was
out of sight, the other was scuttled and plundered,
Garibaldi and his men in full march, te;t

en route to Palermo, and the Intrepid gone to
Malta with the news. These men came from Genoa,
having pressed the steamers into their service. I
know that an English screw steamer, two or three
weeks back, landed 1,000 rifles at Leghorn for Gari-
baldi. The strangest part of the affair is the won-
derful luck of the General in jug escaping the
Neapolitan cruisers, and the utter absence of troops
in Marsala, which was so likely a place for a land-
ing. Perhaps Quem Deus vul t perdere is applicable
in this case.

" Sunday, 13th.—One thousand armed men have
joined Garibaldi to-day from Trapani and district."

NAPLES, MAY 22 (AFTER POST).

The following important information I copy from
official despatches, dated Messina, May 19. From
want of time I must give it in brief :
" On the 19th a proclamation, posted on the walls,
saying that the troops had dispersed the Garibaldini
with the bayonet ; many dead and wounded ; one
chief and a banner taken. An English steamer
arrived directly after this public lie. The authori-
ties greatly put out. The open letter from the
British Consul at Palermo to Mr. Elliot was com-
municated to us, saying, in substance that Gari-
baldi had beaten the Royal troops near Calata Fimi,
dispersed them, and made a number of prisoners ;
that the authorities at Palermo were much dis-
heartened, and serious consequences were expected
to follow. A few minutes after merchants received
letters with a proclamation, saying that Garibaldi
had destroyed a column of 4,000 men between
Calata Fimi and Alcamo. Chase given to 1,000
fugitives many prisoners. A new landing of
'sympathisers' at Sante Stefano di Camastre. Luigi
Laporte occupies Termini. Soldiers shut up.
Royalists defeated again yesterday at Robuttone,
near Parco. Enthusiasm everywhere. Armed
squadrons moved to the spot where waves the stan-
dard of Italy in great numbers. Francesco di
Terro, a famous inspector of police (whom we
name at his wish), has placed himself under the
protection of the Cemitato ; others promise the same
thing, and we shall publish their names.

" THE COMITATO."
" Palermo, May 17.

The following is an extract of a letter from an
English resident at Palermo, dated May 18, received
in Liverpool yesterday :—" Our posts with the in-
terior of the island have quite stopped, and all the
telegraph wires have been cat. Garibaldi is march.
ing towards Palermo. The first batch of troops have
been well thrashed, not by Garibaldi's men, but by
Sicilian bands. A columna mobile, of 4,000 men,
came back yesterday from Calatafimi. More than
two-thirds of them were either killed or taken
prisoners; only about half a dozen brought back
their muskets. A great many were naked, and one
dressed as a woman. Another column, of some
three thousand men, has also returned from the
Parco, having shared pretty much the same fate.
Every day proclamations
.are issued by the com-
mittee of the insurgents. Some 800 Swiss troops
have arrived from Naples ; they have been sent
twice into the country, and returned. They are
now stationed in the town. When Garibaldi gets
near us the people will all come out and attack the
troops, so that between the people inside, and Gari•
baldi outside, they will play Old Harry with the
Neapolitans and the police. All goes right.
Francis 11. may now bid good-bye to Sicily for ever.
You cannot imagine the enthusiasm in the town ;
every man is waiting joyfully for the signal to
come out and fight, and the police, in the mean-
time, are all evaporating. The soldiers have not
the courage to look at the Palermitans in the face.
The next tme I write to you, no doubt Garibaldi
will be here with us."

(From the Times' Correspondent.)
NAPLES, MAY 20.

I have heard many in Naples express their righte-
ous indignation at the invasion of Garibaldi as an
infamous violation of international law, and I know
not what else ; but I never heard these persons
utter one word of censure against a family who,
assuming themselves to be the Divine proprietors
of the soil, have, for half a century, broken every
law both divine and human, and revelled in the
miseries of many millions of human beings. Out
on such inconsistent cant ! Let no man who has
defended or viewed in silence the infamies of the
Government of the Two Sicilies, as even men
calling themselves English have done, dare to
lift their voices for a single moment against
Giuseppe Garibaldi. No post boat has been per-
mitted as yet to come up from Palermo, and con-
sequently all who have friends or commercial re-
lations with that city are in the greatest anxiety. A
French steamer came in this morning with despatches
for Baron Brenier, and from these I derive ample
confirmation of the general statement I gave you in
my letter of yesterday. The Neapolitan troops were
well licked. They fled in a marvellously short time
back to Palermo. They lost two cannons; and Gari-
baldi, with at the smallest computation 6,000, and at
the highest 12,000 men, was on the confines of
Monreale, preparing to follow up his success. An
attack was expected to be made last night or this
morning, and little doubt existed that Palermo
would be taken, so utterly demoralised and dis-
couraged were the troops.
A letter from Marsala says that in the encounter
with Garibaldi the Carabineers took off their shoes
and ran for it—perfectly credible for the peasantry,
from whom the troops are mostly recruited, wear
no shoes; while the Chasseurs stood the attack not
more than half an hour. The Saetea went off today
with a great quantity of shoes among other things.
The Etna, the Government steamer, has come up
from Palermo with a load of persons, but it is im-
possible to extract anything from them, for every-
one speaks with bated breath, as if a policeman
were taking notes. By the bye, a report is going
about that the Electrice post-boat had been taken
by the insurgents. It appears she was sent down
from Palermo to Messina with despatches, and that
somewhere between these places she was met, and
taken possession of by another body of immigrants.
The following is the proclamation of General
Salzano, reimposing the state of siege on the 16th :

" The Marshal-Commander of Arms in the Province and
Place of Palermo.—The greatest violation of the rights of
nations has again renewed the dangers of this island and
this city. 800 adventurers, coming from Piedmont in two
Sardinian steamers, the Lombardo and the Piemonte,
dressed in uniform, and armed, with a Staff and a General,
landed in Marsala on the 11th inst., with the design of
creating a revolt and throwing the country into anarchy.
The city having been threatened to be invested by the in-
vaders, assisted by the bands of the factious who rise upon
their road, the Marshal Commander-in-Chief orders as
follows :

"Art. 1. The city of Palermo, and its district, arc from
this moment in a state of siege.

" Art. 2. Rebels taken with arms in their hands, as also
those who assist the insurrection, shall be tried immediately
by a Council of War, according to the decree of the 27th of
December, 1848.

"Art. 3. During the day the inhabitants shall walk one
by one in the streets. At night, after 24 o'clock (7 o'clock)
it is forbidden to any one to walk in the city. In case of
seditious meetings the public force shall disperse them with
arms.

"Art. 4. Private persons are forbidden to receive strangers
into their houses without the permission of the police.
"Art. 5. The sound of bells is forbidden by day and by
night, as it is also forbidden to affix any paper or seditious
proclamation whatever on the walls. The violators of this
order shall be tried by a Council of War. During the state
of siege the printing-offices shall be closed.
" Art. 6. 'Whenever an insurrection shall take place in
the city, the inhabitants shall keep their doors and windows
shut. The troops will occupy those houses from which
there is any firing.

" Palermo, May 16, 1860.
" The Field. Marshal Commander of Arms,
" GIOVANNI SALZANO."
MAY 22.

No post boat has come in yet, though it was due
on the 18th, nor has the Intrepid yet made her ap-
pearance, from which I infer that no decisive fact
has taken place. The Government steamer, the
Etna, which came in on Sunday at mid-day,
brought up letters privately for official persons, and
from these I gather that the political position was
worse and worse—doors and windows shut up, com-
merce annihilated. The troops had been repulsed,
and had returned to Palermo in small groups tho-
roughly beaten. The 13th Chasseurs had been sent
to Castellamare, thence to be forwarded to the scene
of action; but on arriving found it too late, and
returned discouraged to Palermo, The sbirri go

about and give up their arms to the people, asking
that their lives may be saved. The officers of the
defeated brigade have done something similar, and
many of them, it is added, have joined Garibaldi.
We apprehend an attack from day to day. The
Jesuits are preparing to start, and a vast number
of families have alrea done so.
The monks of the Guancia have been liberated az
innocent, and so have been a great number of those
who were arrested at the beginning of the revolu-
tion. One of the custodes of the principal prisons
said that there were now more exits than entries,
and that only 1,800 persons were in confinement.
The nobles in prison—as Montelani, Niscani,
Giardini, Trebia, and others—have been transferred
to the fortress of Castellamare. Such is the state
of Palermo. A letter from Marsala speaks of the
number of the Garibaldians who landed as having
not been 800, but 1,800. The people, says the
writer, are flocking en masse to the standards of
Garibaldi.