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

THE 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 been 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 csnstitution, 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-
dependence, but can it, when keeping foreigners in
the service, love the nation ? 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 on 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 Debats,

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 foolish 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 whole kingdom--that is to say,
a line from Naples to Brindisi, another which, by
Salerno and Basilicata, will place in communica-

tion the two seas at Toronto, a line for the
Abruzze, going to Rome, and branches for
Calabria. It is calculated that the cost will be
450,000,000 fr., and it is proposed that they shall be
completed in four years. The municipalities are
slowly preparing the electoral lists ; the Minister
of the Interior presses them to be more active, but
they are checked by fear of the reaction. The
clergy of Naples, headed by the Archbishop, are
spreading all sorts of rumours in order to
alarm the population, who, however, are much
more liberal than had been believed. A per-
sonage so high placed as to be well informed says,
that the following are pretty nearly the terms of the
reply of Garibaldi to the letter of the King of Sar-
dinia :---‘ Sire, I thank your Majesty for the honour
you have done me in sending me a letter. I receive
with respect the counsels of your Majesty, and I re-
serve to myself to reply categorically to them from
Rome.' M. Manna writes in great discouragement
from Turin—at least to his friends ; it appears, from
what he says, that the envoys of Francis 11. will
return without having concluded anything."

Another letter from Naples, of the same date,
contains the following :
" The conquered of Milazzo, after their return
to the fort of that place, raised shouts of Vive
Garibaldi !' The King of Naples, notwithstanding
all that has passed, continues to use the old for-
mula at the head of his decrees : Francis 11.
by the grace of God, King of the kingdom of the
Two Sicilies, of Jerusalem, &c. ; Duke of Parma,
Piacenza, Castro, &c., &c. ; Hereditary Grand
Prince of Tuscany, &c.' Is it not ludicrous ?
The steamer of the Messageries Imperiales, which
arrived yesterday, brought more of the old exiles ;
among them was M. Petrucelli de la Gattina, mem-
ber of the Neapolitan Parliament in 1848. With
the exception of Poerio, who is coming soon, and
Settembrini, and Dragonetti—who are also ex-
pected—l think all the surviving victims of the
Bourbon Kings have returned to their country.
The Government, as if it seriously believed in the
working of the new institutions, is preparing a
place for the sittings of the national representa-
tives. The site chosen for the new edifice, which is
constructed of iron, wood, and glass, is the Largo
Spiriti Santo, or, more properly, the Fosse del
Grano."

THE QUEEN'S ARRIVAL IN BDIN-
BURGH.

EDINBURGH, TUESDAY, 9 A.M.

The Queen arrived in Edinburgh this morning
at a few minutes past 8 o'clock. As this is the day
appointed for the review of the Volunteers in Scot-
land in Holyrood Park, to the number of above
20,000 men, there was an immense assemblage
awaiting her arrival. The morning is dull and
somewhat chilly, but gives promise of a beautiful,
or at least a favourable day for the grand display.

The " Queen's Drive," from the station to the
Palace, was kept by the 13th Light Dragoons, from
Piershill, who were posted at either end, and by the
78th Highlanders, from the Castle, and the Ist
battery of the 9th Brigade, Royal Artillery, from
Leith Fort, carrying with them their new battery of
Armstrong guns. The spectators massed them-
selves on either side of the military cordon which
protected the drive, and great numbers of them
were gathered on the slopes of the hill, which is to
form the great amphitheatre for the day's spectacle,
The military took up their posts in the Park at 7
o'clock, and from 6 o'clock till 8 there was a cease-
less tide of spectators flowing into the Park. On
the summit of Arthur's Seat waved " the ruddy
lion ramp't in gold," and other preparations for
commemorating the great event of the day were to
be seen in the infinite variety and profuse display
of flags hung from the steeples of the city churches,
the facades of the public buildings, and from the
tops and windows of private dwellings, and in the
splendid floral decorations that everywhere met the
eye.

St. Margaret's station was, as usual, neatly fitted
up for the Queen's arrival with carpet of the green
Stuart tartan and a mat of heather, on which to
alight on Scottish ground, the sides of the staircase
and awning being decorated with flowers. Within
the station was a splendid assemblage of General
officers, including Lieutenant-General Sir G. A.
Wetherall, Major-General Lord Rokeby, Major-
General Scarlett, Adjutant-General; Major-Gene-
ral Sir Richard Airey, Major-General Cameron,
commanding in North Britain ; the Duke of Buc-
clench, in his uniform of lord lieutenant of the
county ; Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Douglas,
Captain Jeffery, R,N., the Lord Provost of the city,
the Sheriff of Midlothian, Captain J. R. Johnstone,
Lanarkshire Engineers ; Col. Kinloch, her Ma-
jesty's Inspector of Police ; Messrs. Sprott, Kinloch,
Bowman, and other directors of the North British
Railway, and a considerable number of ladies.
The royal train was telegraphed from Dunbar at
7 27 a.m., and from Inveresk at 7 53, and came into
the station at a minute or two past 8, seven or eight
minutes in advance of the time table. As the train
drew up the signal was given, and a royal salute
was immediately fired from the batteries of the
castle. As her Majesty left the State carriage she
was saluted by all the general officers and others
present. The Queen was accompanied by the Prince
Consort, Prince Arthur, the Princesses Alice,
Louisa, Helena, and the members of the Court. In
attendance on her Majesty were the Right Hon.
Sidney Herbert, Secretary of State for War; Col.
Sir C. Phipps, K.C.8., Major-General the Hon. C.
Grey, the Countess of Desart, Lady-in-Waiting ;
the Hon. Beatrice Byng, Maid of Honour; Lieu-
tenant-Colonel de Ros, Life Guards, Equerry to the
Prince Consort; and Major Elphinstone, tutor to
Prince Arthur, &c.

The royal party having ascended the staircase,
entered a procession of open carriages and four,
which were in waiting to convey them to Holy-
rood. An escort of the 13th Light Dragoons was
in attendance, and also the band of the regiment,
which played the royal anthem. As her Majesty
drove at an easy pace through the park, she was
loudly cheered by the multitudes on the ground.
Her Majesty reached Holyrood Palace at about
20 minutes past 8. A detachment of the 78th
Highlanders, under the command of Lieutenant-
Colonel Lockhart, was drawn up in front as a guard

of honour, and the band of the regiment played the
Royal Anthem as her Majesty entered the Palace.
The beautiful fountain in front of the Palace was
put into play for the occasion.
The run from London to Edinburgh was as usual
under the personal superintendence of Mr. Seymour
Clarke, general manager of the Great Northern
Railway, who received at St. Margaret's, through
Sir Charles Phipps, the acknowledgments of the
Queen for the admirable regularity preserved
throughout the journey.

THE VOLUNTEER REVIEW.
EDINBURGH, TUESDAY EVENING

The great review by the Queen of the Scottish
Volunteers in Holyrood Park this day has passed
off with the utmost success. The weather was dull
in the morning and showery about noon, but after
two the day was fine, with warm sunshine and a
light breeze from the west, and, excepting immense
clouds of dust that swept over the review ground,
there was nothing to mar the comfort of those en-
gaged. It was half-past three before the entire line
was formed, nearly three-fourths of the Volunteers
having had to make the journey from home that
morning, and, owing to the immense pressure on the
railways, several of the arrivals were very late, It
is believed that the Volunteers under arms conside-
rably exceeded the returns previously made, and
numbered from 21,000 to 22,000 men, besides from
2,000 to 3,000 that were present as spectators, the
latter including numerous men of the London Scot-
tish. Her Majesty left Holyrood at half-past three,
attended by a most brilliant retinue. The Duchess
of Kent, at present residing at Cramond-
e" with
The Prince
occupied the carriage with her Majesty,along
Princess Alice and Prince Arthur. house,
Consort and the Duke of Buccleuch rode on either
side of the carriage. In attendance on her
Majesty were Generals Scarlett, Airey, and C. Grey,
the Marquis of Tweedale, and other military officers,
of high rank ; and in the suite were observed Mr.
Sidney Herbert, the Earl of Weinyss, the Marquis
of Stafford, M.P., Lord Polworth, Lord Belhaven,
the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, &c. The Marquis of
Breadalbane, the Earl of Rosslyn, and other noble-
men were in the ranks of the Volunteers, and Lord
Elcho, in the uniform of the London Scottish, was
also upon the field. Behind the saluting flag was a
splendidly decorated gallery, containing about 4,000
spectators ; but it was upon the hills opposite that
the great concourse took place, The vast and varied

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gathering coultinot be estimated at less than 200,000
persons. The Volunteer army was commanded in
chief by General Sir George Wetherall, and thetwo
divisions respectively by Lord Rokeby and General
Cameron. There were about 150 different corps on

the ground, marshalled into 35 battalions—one of
Mounted Rifles, six of Artillery, one of Engineers,
and 27 of Rifles. There was the utmost variety of
uniform, from dark gray—which a large proportion
of the earliest formed corps, including the Edin-
burgh battalions, had adopted—to the light gray,
approved by Government, and in which many of the
more recently formed corps were clothed. The
marching past of this immense body of Volunteers
occupied exactly an hour and 20 minutes, having
commenced at 4 o'clock. Towards the close and
throughout the passing of the second division, the
clouds of dust continued to increase, and 'to a consi-
derable extent marred the beauty of the display.
The marching past being conclUded, a lengthened
pause took place, during which the whole line was
put in order to advance. At length General
Wetherall gave the command, which was repeated
by the commanders throughout the line, and com-
municated still more instantaneously by the sound
of the bugle. The whole army then simultaneously
moved forward until the bugle called a halt. The
officers then saluted with their swords and the
whole line presented arms. The final command
given was three cheers for the Queen, and instan-
taneously was the command responded to and echoed
from one end of the line to the other. The cheer,
which was caught up with still louder acclamation
by the spectators on the hill side, was tremendous
and overpowering, and continued almost without
intermission for several minutes. At a quarter be-
fore 6 her Majesty left the ground, followed by the
renewed acclamations of the entire multitude.

The following shows the total number of officers
and men of the various corps that were to be re-
viewed by her Majesty yesterday, according to the
returns published by Colonel M‘Murdo, Inspector-
General of Volunteers :