The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-20 00:00:00

INDIA.

INDIA OFFICE, APRIL 20, 1860.
The following telegrams have been this day re-
ceived from Brigadier Coghlan at Aden :

FEROZEPORE, MARCH 25.

Quiet prevails in India.
A serious fire broke out in Dacca, which de-
stroyed half the town. 6,000 families have been
reduced to destitution. Subscriptions have been
commenced to relieve the sufferers.

There have been some agrarian riots among the
indigo cultivators at Vererhuago (?) and the neigh-
bourhood.

The Governor-General was at Holy (!). He will
join his camp at Hoshiapoor, via Sjopwepor (?)
and Moduon (?).
Funds.—Government Five per Cent. Loan at
5 to 51 per cent. discount. Five-and-a-Half per
Cent. Loan at par to 1 per cent. premium.

BEADON.

In two districts of Lower Bengal much excite-
ment has arisen, connected with the cultivation of
indigo ; we apprehend no disturbance which will
not be promptly suppressed by military police.
The magistrates' powers have been enlarged by a
temporary law, and a special commission of inquiry
will be issued.

The Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal reports that
he has every reason to believe that the excitement
in the indigo districts is passing off, and that he
has no apprehension of serious disturbances any-
where. PRESIDENT IN COUNCIL.
Calcutta, April 1.

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

PASS, FRIDAY.

The Constitutionnel, in an article signed by M.
Boniface, relative to the reforms introduced in
Hungary by Austria, says " France views with
satisfaction those acts which bring peoples nearer
to their Governments, and which, by assuring the
internal tranquillity of States are a token for peace

ror Europe."
Abbe Sisson has been pardoned.

PARIS, THURSDAY.
The Paris papers contain the following message

from Nice:—

" Nearly all the communes of the mountains
have voted unanimously for annexation to France.
The number of voters will exceed 20,000. The
voting of 70 communes is known. Up to the pre-
sent time only 100 negatives have been registered."

~ 3.25 P.M.

" A better tendency has prevailed to-day on the
Bourse, and prices have improved. The final quo-
tation of Rentes was 70f. 20c., being a recovery of
I per cent. since yesterday."

PALERMO, APRIL 11, via MARSEILLES.
The insurrection was suppressed ' through
treachery in the Con-tent Gaucia.
The city is tranquil. Nevertheless the principal
roads are daily patrolled by a column of 3,000 men,
consisting of cavalry, infantry, and artillery. The
members of a revolutionary committee, amongst
whom are several eminent persons, have been con-
demned to death. The King has ordered their
execution to be delayed.

MESSINA (via MARSEILLES), APRIL 16,

Tranquillity is restored, and commerce resumed.
Several 3 oung men compromised in the late events
have fled the country.

The emigration of the inhabitants is consider-
able. During the insurrection the citadel was
obliged to cannonade four large Calabrian barques,
which attempted to pillage.

FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, APRIL 19.
In to-day's sitting of the Federal Diet, Electoral
Hesse declared her readiness to conform to the re-
solutions taken by the Federal Diet on the 24th oi
March.

The protest of the Grand Duke of Tuscany
against the annexation of Tuscany to Piedmont has
been laid before the Federal Diet.

VIENNA, ArtlL 20,

The Donau Zeitung says :—" We learn that the
Government has prohibited the circulation of the
Straesburger Correspondenten in Austria."

VIENNA, APRIL 19,

Archduke Albert retires provisionally from his
functions as Civil and Military Governor of Hungary,
and is replaced by General Benedek, who is com-
missioned to regulate the municipal laws, to reor-
ganize the comitats on the basis of the old institu-
tions, to submit his propositions for a central re-
pre entation (Diet) in Hungary, and to unite the
five administrative sections into one single adminis-
tration (Statthalterie) at Buda.
The Emperor has resolved to abolish the five
great subdivisions of Hungary, which have existed
since 1848, and to ro-establish the comitats, which
will be called upon to make propositions destined
to bring about the assembling of a Diet, composed
according to ancient custom.
Orders have been given to settle immediately the
question of the communes.
The appointment of General Benedek will be
very popular in Hungary, and the Imperial decrees
will, it is hoped, be well received by the Hunga-

rians.

The rumours of Ministerial modifications are un-

founded.

ROME, APRIL 19.

The Pope has appointed Monsignor Count
Merode, of Belgium, as Minister of War, which
Ministry was provisionally directed by Cardinal
Antonelli.

ROME, APRIL 18.

Cardinal Antoe2lli has addressed a note to all
the foreign representatives accredited to the Papal
Government, protesting against the incorporation
of the Legations with Piedmont. England having
no official representative at Rome. Cardinal An-
tonelli has sent a copy of the protest to Mr. Odo
Russell.

The Papal protest expresses a hops that the
Powers of Europe will not only refuse to recognise
the annexation of the Legations to Piedmont, but
that they will also co-operate to put an end to this
iniquitous spoliation.

CONSTANTINOPLE (via MARSEILLES),
APRIL 11.

The deputation from Servia has not been well
received. The Porte has resolved on resisting its
demands, and is about to concentrate 30,000 men at
Schumla. Baron Prokesch will shortly leave for
Vienna, to receive instructions upon this grave
affair. The calling out of the Rediffs is difficult,
the population, excited by foreigners, resisting
their departure. Disturbances had taken place in
the Greek and Catholic Churches, caused by an in-
vasion •f Gendarmes. The Christians have pro-
tested against this breach of their privileges.
Austria has interfered as protrectress of the

Church. The Duke de Brabant has been bril-
liantly feted.

SARDINIA.

A letter from Turin, dated April 16, says,—

General Garibaldi, seeing that the Italians of
Nice have resolved to adopt the policy of absten-
tion, has given up his design of revisiting his na-
tive town, and gone to Genoa, where he yesterday
took part in the meeting of the political society La
Nazione, and accepted the chairmanship of the com-
mittee for giving assistance to the insurgents of
Sicily. This Sicilian movement excites here the
most intense interest, and it is believed that though
the great towns on the northern coast are undoubt-
edly in the hands of the Neapolitan government,
the interior of the island and southern maritime
towns have been occupiedby the insurgents who have
established a government at Corteone. At Palermo
the number of arrests is incredible, even the Prince
of Niscami could not escape prison, though his
political opinions were not suspected, for having
spoken some bold words against the indiscriminate
persecutions of Signor Maniscalchi, the director of
police. The fight of the 4th instant was begun by
the soldiery, who surprised the conspirators when
they had assembled in the monastery della Gancia
—a friend, Fra Michele di Sant Antonio, having
betrayed their meeting. Whilst the struggle con-
tinued round the monastery, the Neapolitan frigates
and steamers bombarded and destroyed the village
of Ficarizai, in the neighbourhood of the capital, to
keep the inhabitants, known for their revolutionary
tendency, off from Palermo. After the defeat of
the insurgents, the venerable abbess of the nunnery
della Sante Croci was arrested for having granted
an asylum to two flying insurgents in the cloisters
of the building.

It seems now to be certain that that illustrious
condottiere, General de Lamoriciere, in turn legiti-
mist, Orleanist, republican, and pontifical, has
received permission from the Imperial Government
to serve a foreign prince, and to command the papal
bands of Croats, Austrians, Bavarians, Swiss, and
Irish, a motley crowd of hirelings such as has not
been seen in Europe for the last three hundred
years. Napoleon sees that a revolution is nearly
inevitable in the Neapolitan States, and wishes to
prevent the annexation of Southern Italy to the
northern kingdom, and Lamoriciere has to keep
separate the two movements which agitate the
peninsula. The inheritance of the Bourbons is
not to devolve upon Victor Emmanuel, but upon
Murat. Still, if such is the wish of the Tuileries,
Poerio, Scialoja, and all the other Neapolitan re-
fugees at Turin, take a different view, and agitate
in favour of Italian unity under Victor Emmanuel,
in the hope that " the logic of events" will, as in
Central Italy, prove stronger than the wishes of the
Tuileries.

THE INSURRECTION IN
SICILY.
A letter from Naples, dated April 14, says :

A steamer has come in from Palermo just in time
to allow of my giving the reports of two consuls.
They say that the city was quiet ; the shops not
open ; and they write, on the 12th, the insurgents
were in occupation of all the neighbouring places
except Monreale. Engagements occurred daily, in
which losses were incurred on either side. The
troops were expecting reinforcements, when they
could advance, but not till then. At the last
moment the intelligence arrived that Miselmeri,
the headquarters of the insurgents, had been re-
taken by the troops, who occupied it. The insur-
gents, on the approach of the troops, fired and then
retired. Castelcicala had sent up to urge that the
coast be watched. It is reported that bodies of
volunteers have landed, some say at Cape Passaro,
others in some part of the island.