The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-22 00:00:00

BANK OF ENGLAND.

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 19th day
of Dec., 1860 :

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
Notes issued .......X27,044,595i Government Debt £11,015,100
Other Securities .. 3,459,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 11,455,828
!Silver Bullion .... 1,113,767

£27,014,505;

£27,014,595

BANKING D:

Proprietors' Ca
tal £14,553,000
Rest
Public Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commia-
missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-

i:PARTMENT.
Government Secu-
rities (including
Dead Weight A-
nnuity)
Other Securities 19,885,590
Notes ~ 7,340,500
Gold and Silver
Coin 761.075

counts) 7,384,841
Other Deposits 11,759,820
Seven Day and
other Bills 652,051

£37,534,038
M. I

£37,534,038
[ARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated Dec. 20,1860.

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.

The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from Returns made in the week ending the 18th day
of Dec., 1860, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or
payable thereon on tho importation thereof into Great
Britain

Muscovado, the produce of the British pos- PER CWT.
sessions in America
Muscovado, the produce of the East.lndies...73oB 7FI
Average price of the foregoing . 29s 11d

STATE OF ITALY.

(From the Times' Correspondent.)
TURIN, DEc. 18.

The news from the Two Sicilies is in the same
melancholy strain ; all public and private intelli-
gence from the South seems calculated to cast a
gloomier cloud on the thinking minds of the North.
This latter will deserve no little credit, if it ulti-
mately succeeds in bringing to reason the more
senseless parts of the Peninsula. By an official
statement in to-day's Opinions we learn that Farini
is ill at Naples, and that his son-in-law and private
secretary, Cavaliere Riccardi, is prostrate with a
mortal complaint. The news last evening was that
he was dead. The young bride of this amiable
and accomplished youth, Ada Farini, had just em-
barked at Genoa, together with her mother, on
Wednesdayevening last. She can only have reached
Naples in time to receive his parting breath. This
is an awkward moment for the King's Lieutenant
in the Southern Kingdom to be afflicted either
with personal indisposition or with family calami-
ties, and the worst is that Farini has always been
in the enjoyment of strong health, and is still in
the prime of manhood. His present illness, from
which he has been suffering almost since his arri-
val in Naples, must be either the result of worry-
ing cares and harassing difficulties, or a pretext to
rid himself of them in a plausible manner, and a
hint for Count Cavour to remove him from his
unenviable post.
Matters bear an even more ominous look in
Sicily. A gentleman who had accompanied the
Royal Lieutenant Montezemolo to Palermo, and
has just returned, describes the state of the island
in very dark hues. Murder stalks abroad, and the
police is utterly powerless. At Palermo an officer
in the Customs was shot dead on the Bth as he was
walking home in the evening :
„

" In Monreale, on the evening of the Bth, as Michele
Polizzi was talking with one Lamantio in the street, ho was
struck by a bullet, which went through him and his com-
panion, and killed them on the spot. Polizzi was a bold,
violent, bad man. He had been a bad subject in past times,
but upon the rising of Sicily he lent his stalwart arm to
the cause of freedom, and, because he loved much, much
was forgiven him by Garibaldi, always so generous to those
who fight for their country."
I copy the above from the private correspondence
of an ultra-Liberal and Garibaldian, because the
writer unwittingly lays the anger on the sore point.
Garibaldi, engaged in an almost desperate struggle,
had neither leisure nor power to be very particular
as to the means he employed. The most generous
patriot and the most abandoned ruffian equally
crowded under his banner. He had no knowledge
of their characters, no means of discriminating
between good and bad. There are hundreds and
thousands like Polizzi strutting about the streets
of Palermo in the much abused Garibaldian red
shirt. These did not, for the most part, fight in
Sicily, for Calatafimi, Palermo, and Melazzo were
won almost exclusively by the handful of primitive
adventurers who landed with the Liberator at Mar-
sala; they did not fight in Calabria, or at Capua,
because they never crossed the Straits. There are
2,500 officers at Palermo, and not one soldier. 66
idle " gents" in glancing uniforms make the Staff
of a cavalry regiment, of which not one man nor
°Re horse is forthcoming. These worthies are the
leaders of those Picciotti bands of which your cor-
respondent from Garibaldi's head-quarters made
such capital fun four months ago. They have
given themselves ranks and epaulettes, and their
claims have possibly been acknowledged by Gari-
baldi, who at the time would have been fain to
grant them any terms so he might be rid of them.
The whole mass of these ill-sorted bands were left
in the island. The men went home to their own
houses ; the officers received their pay, and cum-
bered the streets of the capital. Only a small
number of Sicilians followed the tide of invasion
on the main-land, and a sample of their valour we
have in the dastard who shot Colonel Dunne, their
commander, because, in the sifting of the self-
awarded titles and brevets of these mushroom offi-
cers, he urged his particular objections to this one,
because he had not only turned his back upon the
enemy at Santa Maria, but actually bidden his sol-
diers to run away with him. These 2,500 epauletted
blackguards at Palermo are now savage against
Fanti, because "he struck down all the employes of
the Sicilian Minister of War en masse ; and with the
same decree he:put off all the officers with onemonth's
to six month's pay, by way of a dismissal. The
King's provisions for the Garibaldians at Naples do
not apply to the Garibaldians south of the Faro ! "
Unendurable hardships!
The very worst feature in all the ugliness of this
Neapolitan and Sicilian disorder is the shocking bad
faith of the writers on both sides, but especially on
that of the Mazzinians who usurp the name of Gari-
baldians. It is only yesterday I read the diatribe
of one who charged Farini with the appointment to
high offices of men of notoriously bad character, and
scarcelyinstanced one who, to my very certain
knowledge, for I was in the country at the time,
did not owe his nomination to the too facile Gari-
baldi, or rather to the reckless partisans who
availed themselves of the carte blanche which he,
engrossed by his warlike operations, was compelled
to allow them, to throw discredit on his Gevern-
ment, and to make sad havoc of his fair name. It is
difficult to decide whether all these misstatements
are'more attributable to wilful malice or to blind
infatuation, for certainly all men in Naples have
not lost the remembrance of things and dates, nor
have they laid aside the horror with which, not
Garibaldi's, but Bertani's dictatorship had filled all
honest men. It can be no blame to Garibaldi if
he left the Two Sicilies in the same utter disorder
as he found them. His was the work of demoli-
tion ; that of reconstruction devolved on other
hands. Wherever he advanced the Intendenti, the
magistrates, and other Royal officials, for the most
part, fled before him ; the gendarmes and other
i
guardians of public order followed n their foot-
steps, if they had the good luck to escape popu-
lar vengeance. Municipal authorities there were
none in the Two Sicilies, and for three or four
months nearly all the towns and provinces, and
most certainly all the remote districts, were left
without government of any kind. The result of the
universal anarchy among
a population which long
iron tyranny had converted into herds of chained
wild beasts may be easily imagined. Something
Mizilit"V hoped from tbeir native supineness
and ;pusillanimity. But since Garibaldi's depar-
ture unprincipled appeals have been and are being
The swages are un-
made to their worst passions,