The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-25 00:00:00

THE INSURRECTION IN SICILY.

A letter from Naples, dated April 17, says :
The Etna left last night at 8 o'clock with cavalry
for Messina. At present 18,000 soldiers are con-
centrated in Palermo. General Cataldi left the
city with 6,000 men on Saturday, but the insur-
gents, of course, retired. It is not their plan to
risk any, general engagement. Cataldi returned
without results. The artillery have destroyed the
villas under Monte Pellegrino, especially near the
barracks Borgognone. Near this spot the cavalry
were much cut up by the insurgents.
We have no steamer in from Palermo to-day,
but one from Messina gives the following intelli-
gence :—The troops seem to have acted with the
greatest caprice, andto have themselves done every-
thing to promote a revolution. On the night of
the 10th and morning of the 12th they began firing
without any apparent necessity with both musketry
and cannon. Many people were killed in their
houses. The soldiers fired right and left as if for
amusement, or as if under a panic. The British
and French Consuls in the first place remonstrated
against a bombardment of the town, but were reas-
sured. However, as a cannonade took place they
went to the commandant with a strong protest,
couched in very severe terms. They were informed
that if they chose they might enter the arsenal,
but that the commandant had no alternative than
to fire if the necessity occurred. A Swiss gentle-
man had ' been arrested as he was leaving a
monastery, where he lad been visiting one of the
fathers, and who had been imprisoned three days
without any cause. An officer had been shot by
one of his own soldiers, t.nd another soldier had shot
himself in his sleep whilst acting as sentinel. Such
was the disorder which existed. With all this the
town seemed to be somewhat reassured, and people
were returning.
General Viglia, it was said in the morning, had
been shot with a ramrod, and now again I hear
that it was a shot fired accidentally ; but it is ob-
served that several rounds had been already fired.
The ball entered the right shoulder. He suffers
much, but I am not aware that the wound is dan-
gerous. General Viglia served as major in the 10th,
in Lombardy, in 1848, was decorated by Victor
Emmanuel, and is much esteemed.

The Ladies Cornwallis have arrived in Charles•
street for the season. _ _ .

Lord and Lady Proby have arrived at their resi•
dence in Halkin -street West for the season._
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Captain the Hon. Robert and Mrs. Lawley hare
arrived at their house in Berkeley-square for the season.
Lord and Lady Digby come to Belgrave-square
to-day, from Mintern House, Dorset, for the season.
NERBUDDA COAL AND IRON COMPANY.—It ap-
pears that the directors of this company have received in-
timation from the Secretary of State for India that instruc-
tions have been given to the Government of India to grant
them their lease. .

BETTING HOUSES IN MANCIIESTER.—Yesterday
51 men, the keepers of betting-houses and persons found in
them, who had been captured on the previous evening by
the police, were brought before the magistrates of Man-
chester, under the Act of Parliament lately passed for sup-
pressing such places. John Turton and 15 others wore
*barged with being found in the house of Aaron Woreley,
licensed victualler, Thomas-street. The police proved that
Turton was employed entering bets and taking money, but
he said the landlord had nothing to do with them—he was
engaged in the transactions for his own benefit. Mr. Maude
fined him £lOO, but he gave notice of appeal, and entered
into the required securities. The other cases were adjourned
till Friday.
HER 'MAJESTY'S TIIEATRE.—The Queen's box
last evening was occupied by Sir Charles Phipps and party.
Amongst the many distinguished personages who visited
this fashionable Opera-house we observed :—His Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Duchess of Welling..
ton, the Duke of Hamilton, the Duke of Rutland, the Duke
of Cleveland, Earl Dudley, Earl of Malniesbury, Marquis of
Clanricarde, Marchioness of Ailesbury, Baron and Baroness
Brunnow, Lord Mountcharles, Lord Bath, Lord De Tabley,
Lord Sydney, Loid Sefton, Lady Beaumont, Lady Monson,
Lady Jane Repton and party, Lady Bradford, Lady Emily
Peel, Lady Clillord, Lady Mary Craven, Lord and Lady
Trimlestown, Sir John Lowther, Sir George Bowles, Sir
Ralph Howard, Sir Alexander Frazer, Sir George Womb-
well, the Countess of Waldegrave' Count Batthyany, the
Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Vickress, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Chi-
chester, the Hon. Otway Toler, Sir R. Throckmorton, Sir
Proby Cautley, Sir W. Frazer, Countess of Harrington,
Colonel aid Mrs. Freestun, Colonel P. M'Donald, Major
Blake, Major Pole, Captain Atherley, Mdme. Ralli, Mr.
F. Cooper Mr. Hubert de Burgh, Sergeant Ballantine,
Mr. and Mrs.' Julian Pauncefote, Mr. Packo Reading, Mr.
Danby Seymour, Mr. Riggis, Mr. Perry, Mr. Stewart, Mr.
Shoolbred, Mr. Stone, Major Locke, &c.
LIVERPOOL TESTIMONIALS TO SAYERS AND
HEENAN.—A rumour is current in Liverpool that Tern
Sayers will in a few days pay a visit there to receive the
testimonial now being raised in acknowledgment of his cou-
rage and endurance in the late contest with Heenan. The
amount subscribed has reached nearly £2OO, and there is
little doubt it will be auamented should the champion ap-
pear in propria persona to receive the gift. We understand
the subject of a presentation to Heenan has also been taken
up by some of his admirers in Liverpool, and that the Ame-
rican captains at this port have intimated their inten-
tion of making him a handsome and substantial acknow-
ledgment. It is said that the amount already collected
reaches about £l5O. Some of the admirers of the pugilistic
art have gone so far as to get up a requisition inviting
Sayers and Heenan to come down to Liverpool together and
receive their respective testimonials personally.—Liverpool
Mercury.
SABBATH EVENING READINGS.—Since the dis*
continuance of the Sabbath evening sermons for the season,
the directors of the Glasgow Abstainers' Union have been
trying a series of Sabbath evening readings in the Lesser
City Hall. Readings for the working classes were com-
menced in Glasgow two years ago by Mr. Wm. Logan, and
since then several country districts have adopted the same
plan, which tends to elevate those upon whom it is brought
to bear, imparting both moral and spiritual instruction.
After devotional exercises on Sabbath evening, the second
reading of the series was given by Mr. Wm. Logan, who
read selections of deep interest from the Rev Dr. Guthrie's
new work, "Pleas for Ragged Schools." The work em-
braces three pleas—and eloquent and noble pleas they are.
—for the furtherance of that cause projected by the noble
cobbler, John Pounds. The work should be scattered over
the country in thousands. It places the Doctor in the
front rank of social reformers,—Glasgow Daily Mail,
April 24.-