The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-17 00:00:00

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and Parma, and Modena, and the Romagna. Yet
after all—the dream is even now far from realised.
Northwards—has not Austria still possession of
Venetia and of the strong fortresses of the
Quadrilateral ? Southwards—is there not still
a sea of blood to be passed through in that
contest which has but just commenced between
GARIBALDI'S forces and those of the Neapolitan
Government ? And there, too, in central Italy—
in the very heart of the Roman Peninsula—there,
too, has not the French EMPEROR his little army
under General GOYON, and the Papal Government
its army, too, under General DE LAILORICIERE.
From Venice to the Abruzzi, from the borders of
Savoy to the coast of Sicily—all Italy is still like
a cauldron seething. It is another crucible of the
political alchemists. We will yet hope, and be-
lieve, and pray, that out of it may still come in the
fullness of time the aurum potabile of liberty.
And in the meantime—while we are hoping, and
believing, and praying—the tidings coming to us
from (what is again in truth) the seat of war are
still—

feature.

" News of battle I News of battle I "
as stirring in the mere echoes thrilling through the
submarine wires of the electric telegraph as those
chanted by the Tyrteean voice of WILLIAM AYTOUN
in his Lays of the Cavaliers.
GARIBALDI—it is now known for the last day or
two—has landed in Sicily at the head of his
strongly-armed Expedition. CASAR burnt his
ships when he landed on the shores of Britain.
GARIBALDI has had the work of destruction done
for him by the Neapolitans. There is conse-
quently before him but one immediate alterna-
tive—to " do or die !" BONAPARTE, when he
had effected the disembarkation of his troops at
Alexandria, had Ms fleet destroyed or captured off
Aboukir by the thundering broadsides of NELSON'S
men-of-war. There was no looking back for the
Egyptian expedition. There is no looking back
now for the little Sicilian expedition of GARIBALDI.
With them the word of command is " forward"—
and they are obeying it. As a matter of course, the
intelligence as yet is somewhat confused, and occa-
sionally even contradictory. It is easy, however,
to note that it receives a colouring from the medium
through which it passes in coming to us. For ex-
ample, we hear from Naples simply—" GARIBALDI
is in Sicily at the head of the Filibusters. The Royal
troops are marching to meet them. No movement
whatever has taken place in the provinces." All
this (via Naples !) being couleur de rose—all
full of confidence! But then we hear from
France that the intelligence brought by telegraph
(via Paris—it is the Patric that gives it publicity)
is " grave ;" it being added—" The expedition of
GARIBALDI is said to have succeeded in raising
Sicily, and the royal troops occupy the fortresses
of Messina and Palermo only. An insurrection is
said to have broken out in Calabria. A third
insurrection in connexion with the two former is
likewise said to have broken out in the Abruzzi."
Very different this from the Neapolitan account of
there being no rising whatever in the pro-
vinces ! Again, while the first news (via
Turin) was some forty-eight hours ago to the
effect that four persons had been killed among
GARIBALDI'S band at the time of their disembar-
kation, the statement now coming to hand (via
Rome) says, " Many of GARIBALDI'S volunteers
were killed by the Royal troops." One while,
too, we hear from Madrid (under date the 16th
inst.), that, " A despatch has been received here from
Naples, stating that, the state of affairs being preca-
rious, theXINo has requested foreign intervention."
While almost at the same moment we receive tid-
ings from Munich (also under date the 16th instant !)
--tidings published in the Neue Munehener
Zeitung, which says :—" Russia has remitted to
Turin a decided protest against any attack on the
kingdom of the Two Sieilies by the Piedmontese."

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THE SUN.

LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1860.

And so the thunderclouds of war seem gathering

from all parts of the political horizon. The neu-
trals evidencing here and there a disposition to
break away at last from their policy of neutrality.
And the advocates and the champions of the two
groat opposing parties in Italy itself, and now also
in Sicily, being brought :distinctly face to face—
armed and excited—led on by practised warriors.
Great Captains known to fame—soldiers worthy of
each other's steel—on the one side GARIBALDI—on
the other LAMORICIERE.
It is qaite manifest at last to all—what was
visible at first to some—that the struggle of last
year was but preliminary. The meeting of the
EMPERORS at Villafranca led to nothing more than.

It is like a seething cauldron that poor Italy.
and where we can little better get than—

" Bubble, bubble,
Toil and trouble.
Fighting in Sicily. Fighting or an imminent
certainty of fighting in the Abruzzi and Calabria.
Preparations for attack and defence in the Eternal
City and the Romagna. An abortive counter-
revolutionary movement once more in Tuscany—
hard upon the completion of the late successful re-
volution. Sullen anguish for the time being in
Venice herself and throughout the Venetian terri-
tories. Anguish, too, of another kind along the
frontiers at the 'heart of the ancient kingdom of
Savoy. Even King VICTOR EMMANUEL himself
cannot in his heart be satisfied. Italy is still, at
the best, but in a transition state. Her ambition
has been baulked. The vision held out to her was
one of absolute emancipation. The goal towards
which the race was to be run was that, in one word,
of Unity. Italy was to be for the Italians, and for
none but Italians. No German Viceroy was
thenceforth to rule south of the range of the Car-
pathians. The Roman peninsula was to be free
from the base of that great range southwards to the
extremest point of Cape Spartivento. Italy—to
echo the famous pledge put forward in the Entrz-
Roß's Milan proclamation—was to be free " from the
Alps to the Adriatic." The world now knows how
the promise was broken—how the halcyon vision
proved illusory—how the dream was dissipated. It
is long since—as the phrase runs—matter of his-
tory. The annalist who has to recount the progress
of the war of Italian emancipation in 1859, after
describing Montebello, and Magenta, and Solferino,
will have to finish off with the anticlimax of
Villafranca. There were the fair and beautiful
plains of Lombardy, it is true, emancipated then
from Austrian rule ; handed over by FRANCIS
JOSEPH to NAPOLEON 111., and by NAPOLEON 111.

a truce or armistice. Italy seemed to decide, a

Landed again, with an air of Imperial magnani-
mity and magnificence, to VICTOR EMMANUEL.
The consolatory cup was then put to the lips of
the Soldier-King of PIEDMONT, and he quaffed from
it with a sense at first of the delightful intoxica-
tion of victory, even though the victory was only
partial. But he came at last to the dregs ! There
was that lamentable quid pro quo of Savoy and its
Secession ! If Sardinia gained to the right she lost
to the left ; and with that loss (in the face of
Europe) suffered. degradation. Since then, of
caurse, there have ,come to King VICTOR EMMANUEL
the gradual abser,ot ion southwards of province upon
province, of principality upon principality. The
boundaries of the. new kingdom of Northern Italy
have been expan ding and expanding like circles in
water into whi, a. pebble has been cast. The
pebble that has done this was that worthless pro-
mise in the Mila: 2 proclamation—since the throw-
ing forth of whic h the frontiers of the dominions
ruled by VICTOR .14/MANUEL have widened gradually
until they coml line within them now Lombardy,

the period of the signing of the treaty at
Zurich, upon adopting the wisest polio),
within her reach at the moment, the old
astute policy whose motto is receuillsr pour
mieux sauter. And the hour pour mieux sauter
has now struck. The sound of its striking is but
now passing with an electric thrill through
Christendom. What we have to do here, hence-
forth, is simply to watch with profound emotion
the course of the great events now again, and
let us hope finally for the interests of Italy, be-
ginning to unfold themselves: and to record them
faithfully.

Lord SHAFTESBURY has a bill before the Lords
on the " Bites and Ceremonies of the Church of
England and Ireland."—A subject which more
cogently demands attention than even Lord
EBURY'S tone of Liturgical Revision. We can en-
dure the too great length and repetitions of ser-
♦ices yet awhile, even as we have done. But, these
new squabbles and brawls in which clergymen are,
beyond doubt, tke chief offenders, are not to be en-
dured. One Saint Barnabas, and one St. George's-
in-the-East, are quite enough to bring discredit on
the system of public worship peculiar to all the
Established Churches in the metropolis. The
Bishop is powerless ; the magistrate, Mr. SELFE, is
powerless ; the Ecclesiastical Court is powerless, its
victim becoming a popular martyr ; even Sir
RICHARD MAYNE, and the police, and the Home
Secretary himself are all powerless, and powerless
before what—or whom Before the wilfulness of
one or two parish clergymen about Bites and Cere-
monies. That is at the root of all. Mr. BRYAN
KING, and Mr. LIDDELL cannot pretend that their
personal and their altar millinery, their intonations,
their choirs are necessary to the soul's health of
their flocks. And the pretence that it all ought to
do them good, is met by the plain fact that it does
them harm; that it rouses passions, which it is
rather the object of Divine worship to quell than to
kindle.

That there is, therefore, a necessity for so me en-
actment on the subject of Lord SHAFTESBURY'S
Bill must be ackuowleged by all sober and common
sense Englishmen. To nothing are we more averse
than to anything bordering on theological discus•
sion in a daily newspaper ; such discussions have
their legitimate organs ;—but the general charac-
ter and length of the Liturgy which we
hear read every Sunday has become a public ques-
tion ; and much more so, has that of the infraction
of the public peace—and, where it does not go so
far as that, the annoyance of entire congregations
by the whims of crotchety " clerks." What can be
done ? Lord SHAFTESBURY'S proposal is moderate
enough. If the heads of the Church, for the time
being, are not the proper persons to say ►hat ought

to be its rites and ceremonies, who are ? At least,
on the assumption that our Church is to be a

hierarchy, in which government, and not liberty,
as in some, Dissenting sects, is to be the principal

What is it which Lord SHAFTESBURY proposes
to intrust to the discretion of th© Archbishops of
England and Ireland, as advisers of her MAJESTY—
" Orders and regulations—regulating, prescribing,
and limiting the ornaments, furniture, and fittings
to be used in such churches ; as well as ornaments,
vestments, and habits, to be worn or allowed" by
all clergymen when using the service of the Church
of England ; " and also all the ceremonies and
rites to be observed" by them.

888 MAJEVT'S STATE BALL.

Her Majesty the Queen gave last evening a State Ball, to
which a party of 1,811 were invited.
The company began to arrive at Buckingham Palace
soon after 9 o'clock.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cambridge and the
Princess Mary arrived at 20 minutes before 10 o'clock, at-
tended by Lady G. Somerset and Colonel Home Purves.
The Duke of Cambridge was attended by his Equerry in

Waiting.
The Queen and Prince Consort were conducted to the
ball and concert room by Viscount Sydney, Lord Chamber-
lain, the Earl of St. Germans, Lord Steward, and other
principal officers of the Royal Household.
The Queen wore a dress of white crape over white silk,
two flounces, the upper ons looped up with bouquets of
white lilacs and chrysanthemums ornamented with dia-
monds.

Her Majesty's headdress was formed of a wreath of white
lilacs and chrysanthemums ornamented with diamonds.
The Princess Alice wore a white crape dress over rich
glace silk, trimmed with bugles and white roses.
Her Royal Highness wore a wreath of white roses to
correspond.
The Duchess of Cambridge wore a black glace silk dress,
trimmed with black tulle, and an over skirt of deep black
lace ; a stomacher, necklace, and earrings of pearls and
diamonds.

Now, we dare say, our ecclesiastical dandies will
be distressed enough at the idea of sober and re-
sponsible persons making regulations in reference
to their personal finery, and their articles of Eccle-
siastical mediaeval vertu—but this is just the thing
which we laymen want to have done. In their own
houses let clergymen do as they please ; but, surely,
if they accept the status and emoluments of the
National Church, the nation has a right to require
conformity to its wishes in its own places
of worship. Whether these gentry like it
or not, they must either submit to
national control, or quit the National Church.
Dissenters and Catholics purchase their liberty,
and at a heavy price too ; and no one would dream
of proposing to " regulate, prescribe, or limit their
ecclesiastical proceedings ," the injustice would be
resented throughout the land. If our disturbers of
their congregations want the liberty, let them,
like Dissenters, honourably pay the price, and like
Dissenters and Catholics they would have the
sincere respect of those who differ from them. But
to take all the privileges of a National Church, and
then to drive into insurreetion, or greatly
annoy, the portion of the nation entrusted to their
charge, is in truth no longer to be borne. It is, in
plain English, dishonourable.
Whether Lord SHAPTESBURY'S Bill proposes the
best possible tribunal to decide on these questions,
we are not prepared to say, but we are prepared to
say this, that in the theory of our Episcopacy it
ought to be so, The Archbishops ought at least
to be the ultimate court of appeal. What are they
Archbishops for And why does the Primate rank
next to the Crown or Princes of the blood ? And
why is the QUEEN supreme judge in all things
Ecclesiastical as well as civil. The constitution of
our Church clearly places lay authority at the head
of all, but that authority is to be advised by the
few High Eccesiastics, who are virtually constituted
her Ecclesiastical Privy Council. Some of our
High Churchmen seem to forget their origin—to
forget that HENRY VIII., EDWARD VI., ELIZA-
BETH, JAMES 1., and CHARLES 11., made their
Church what it is, most of them perhaps taking the
consent of the states of the realm. But the de-
ciding authority was lay, not ecclesiastical authority.
The Church of England and Ireland is historically,
and as every educated person must well
know, a Church which owes its present form and its
very creeds too, to its lay element—to our king's
and Parliaments.
It should be noticed, moreover, that the subjects
proposed to be placedat the discretion of the heads
of the Church, and the Supreme Head both of
Church and State, are just those on which laymen
are the best judges. Indeed, the defect of the Bill,
so far as it strikes us on a first consideration of it,
is, that it does not recognise the lay rights of each
congregation. On matters which do not belong to
theology, and doctrine, and interpretation of Scrip-
ture,—matters of which the eye chiefly takes cog-
nisance, we should be inclined to refer to the wishes
of individual parishes. To perfect our church•
warden system, to give to the parish the choice of
a majority of those officers, allowing the clergyman
still to be represented by one, and then to authorise
the churchwardens to carry out the wishes of the
parish in vestry assembled, on all the matters re-
ferred to in this bill. The service is for the good of
the parishioners, they form the real Church in each
place, and with them ought to rest the power to get
rid of what they find to be nuisances in their public
worship. Even if the Archbishops and QUEEN
were the ultimate appeal, we can see no reason why
the parish should not take the initiative.
Something, however, must be done. Lord
SHAFTESBURY has done good service by breaking
the ice on the subject. It will, we trust, be now
honestly and fairly discussed, and not burked
through the cunning of Romanising Bishops. If a
better and more effectual plan can be devised let us
have-it. If not, let us have the plan now proposed.
Some plan—any plan—that will put down clerical
disorders.

CURE FOR WIFE-BEATIZYG.

(From a Correspondent.)

Her Royal Highness's head-dross was composed of a
pearl tiara, black feathers, and black lappets.
The Princess Mary of Cambridge wore a white tulle dross,

festooned with large bows of mauve riband and fringe, and
covered with a silver tulle veil, the body to correspond; a
stomacher of pearls and diamonds, necklace and earrings
pearls and diamonds.
Her Royal Highness wore as a head-dress a wreath of
lilies of the valley and mauve velvet leaves, with diamond
ornaments.

First, we are going to say a few words for ourselves,
and, secondly, we wish our readers to bear in mind that
when a man comes out of the ranks to speak, it is, or
ought to be, that other people may think for themselves.
There are two points necessary to bear in mind while consi-
dering this question; first, avoiding to do evil that good may
come; and, secondly, the homcoopathic system applied to
words similia similibas curantur (like cures like), and how
far it is likely to be successful in this case. Let us trans-
late the Latin into plain English on this question—
Brutality cures brutality ! That is a striking way of put-
ting it; but it is not one whit the less true on that
account, any more than it is untrue that if
this measure be carried it will in all probability increase
assaults on the person fivefold. Do not let us wait for
such a striking proof of the bad policy of immorality, of in-
troducing into the House of Commons the odious principle (?)
that the end justifies the means when the object is a good
one. " Oh! no," some one will say, "it is only the lex
talionis (law of tit for tat) but if a Latin quotation will do
for an argument on one side of the question it will on the
other—" Dat veniam corals, vexat eensura eolumbas." The
words are generally applied in mockery. There is no nega-
tive in the Latin. We put in the negative, and say what
we mean : Do not mete out one measure to the crows,
another to the doves.
Moreover, the lex talionis is not, and cannot, be applied
with perfect fairness by any man in a case of this kind, or
indeed any other. How is it possible for any one to dis-
cover the exact amount of mental and bodily suffering un-
dergone by the victim of an aggravated assault, and then
decide whether it ought to be considered a provoked or un-
provoked one. And, lastly, how can any man breathing
suppose for a moment that he can inflict exactly the same
amount of torture of mind and body on the guilty party.
It is utter nonsense—flat blasphemy—to suppose anything
of the kind.
Do not pursue the lex talionis argument, my readers ; if
you can follow it logically, it will bring you to a dead-
lock sooner or later. It is immoral as well as absurd.
God only can thoroughly understand the workings of the
human mind—" Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord."
Nay, it is not attempted in our laws. What would the
lex talionis gentlemen have done with Redpath, the Bri-
tish Bank directors, or Paul, Strahan, and Co. ? The
only ease in which it appears to be attempted is in the
punishment of death for murder. To say it is attempted
would be an insult to every judge and every legislator in
the land. It is not necessary to remind you of the diffe-
rence between a protracted and yet unexpected death,
which is often the lot of a murdered man, and a swift,
almost instantaneous one, after the preparation with the aid
of a chaplain.
In ne A, countries something like it is practised, and called
" Lynching "—but is lynching always lex talionis? Not to
waste time in more talk, a man of common sense, after half
an hour's deliberation, can tear the argument to shreds,
and watch the blaze of the fragments while he smokes his
pipe.
Repton, May 7, 1860.

The Princess of Leiningen wore a white taraltane dress
over white silk, trimmed with wild convolvulus.
Her Royal Highness wore in her hair a wreath of wild
convolvulus entwined with diamonds.
Weippert's band of thirty-six musicians, conducted by
Mr. John Weippert, was in attendance in the orchestra,
and soon after the entrance of her Majesty and the distin-
guished company, commenced a valse, " Floriana. (Tin-
ney).

LATEST

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Sicily.

FUNERAL OF SIR CHARLES BARRY.—The Dean
of Westminster, on the application of the President of the
Royal Institute of British Architects, having bees pleased
to grant permission that the remains of the late Sir Charles
Barry, R.A., be interred in Westminster Abbey, the funeral
will take place in that sacred edifice on Tuesday next, at
one o'clock precisely.
ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S INN-ROAD.—
The number of patients relieved at this hospital, during
the week ending May 12, is 2,599; of which 688 were new
cases.

THE' 'SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 17, 1860.

(Official.)

NEWS.

GARIBALDI'S EXPEDITION.

The Times' correspondent, under date of the 12th
May, announces the arrival on that morning of
her Majesty's steamer Intrepid from Marsala, with
intelligence of the landing thereat on the 11th of
a band of 2,000 Italians, under Garibaldi, who im-
mediately pushed on to Calata Fimi and Alcomo,
where the insurgents are concentrated, and will, it
is hoped, hold their ground.

These Italians had no sooner landed than three
Neapolitan steamers of war, and another private
vessel chartered by Government, proceeded,without
any previous notice or warning whatsoever, to bom-
bard the unarmed and defenceless town of Marsala,
and when the Intrepid left to communicate the fact
to the British Admiral at Malta, shot and shell
were falling over the Baglios or wine factories of
Messrs. Woodhouse, Ingham, and other British sub-
jects, to protect whom another English steamer of
war (supposed to be the Scylla), had just arrived.
Oa the Bth of May the Neapolitan gunboat Eolo
arrived at Malta in 40 hours from Palermo, re-
ported to have been despatched to overtake and
arrest some political fugitives, and to ascertain
whether there be any truth in the reported fitting
out of a private expedition at Malta against
Sicily. After communication with her Consul
she put to sea on the same night. The result,
adds our correspondent, of this visit, will
scarcely be worth the fuel consumed. Only two
individuals, and these of no note, have recently
left Malta with a view of joining the insurgents;
whilst the only fugitive who has reached these
shores is a lady, who landed clandestinely on the
night of the 7th of May, from whom the Neapoli-
tan Government can scarcely have had much cause
of alarm.

Accounts from Palermo to the 6th, and from Mes-
sina to the Bth of May, report the insurgents as
concentrating near Marsala.

Martino, in order jointly to fight against the ene-
mite of Italy ! " G. GARIBALDI."
The following is to the inhabitants of Naples :
"It is time for you to imitate the magnanimous
example of Sicily, by rising against the most im-
pious of tyrannies. To the perjured and blood-
thirsty race that has so long tortured and trampled
upon you, let the free government succeed which
eleven millions of Italians now enjoy ; and substi-
tute for the foul Bourbonic flag and glorious tri-
colour, the happy symbol of national independence
and unity, without which true and durable liberty
are impossible. Your brethren of the North desire
nothing more than to see you join the Italian
family.
" G. GARIBALDI, G. RICCIARDI, Baron STOCCO."
One to the Sicilians follows
" Sicilians !—I have brought you a body of
brave men, who have hastened to respond to the
heroic cry of Sicily. We, the remains of the
battles of Lombardy, are with you—all we ask is
the freedom of our land. United, the work will
be easy and short. To arms, then ! he who does
not snatch up a weapon is a coward, or a traitor
to his country. Want of arms is no excuse. We
shall get muskets, but for the present any weapon
will do in the hands of a brave man. The muni-
cipalities shall provide for the children, women,
and old men deprived of their support. To arms,
all of you! Sicily shall once more teach the world
how a country can be freed from its oppressors by
the powerful will of a united people.
" G. GARIBALDI."
From the following one it would appear that it was
Garibaldi's intention to have commenced operations
in the Roman States, a plan which must have been
frustrated by the vigilance of the Sardinian Go-
vernment :

The Constitutiminel publishes the following de-
spatch from Malta, dated the 12th :—" Six hours
after Garibaldi had lanled at Marsala, 2,000 Ita-
lian volunteers, well armed and well organised,
took possession of the town without resistance.
The steamers which brought them were under the
Sardinian flag, and were then abandoned, A Nea-
politan steamer and frigate opened fire upon the
town, but without the least result."

The following telegrams were receired at Mr,
Reuter's office :

MADRID, MAY 16.

It is reported that a despatch has been received
here from Naples stating that, the state of affairs
being precarious, the King has requested foreign
intervention.

NAPLES, MAY 15.

Garibaldi is in Sicily at the head of the filibus-
ters. The royal troops are marching to meet them.
No movement whatever has taken place in the

NAPLES, (via Marseilles) MAY 12.

The mere rumour of Garibaldi having attempted
to raise the people in Calabria has caused a panic. It
is even reported that the Court has packed up articles
of value in order to be prepared for all contingen-

A steamer with 200 fugitives has arrived from
Palermo. Ten of the police having killed and
wounded six individuals on the occasion of the
late manifestation at Palermo, four police agents
were poignarded on the following day.
The Neapolitan soldiers are discouraged, as for
38 days they have been fighting on the same
ground.

PARIS, MAY 16.

The Pattie of this evening says :
" The telegraph brings grave intelligence from

" The expedition of Garibaldi is said to have suc-
ceeded in raising Sicily, and the royal troops occupy
the fortresses of Messina and Palermo only. An in-
surrection is said to have broken out in Calabria.
A third insurrection in connection with the two
former is likewise said to have broken out in the
Abruzzi.

A rumour is current in Paris that the French
squadron (escadre d'evolutions) will leave for Naples
to protect the French inhabitants in the kingdom of
the Two Sicilies.

The Opinione Nationale announces t—" In com-
pliance with the invitation of the Ministry of the
Interior we suspend the publication of any state-
ments relative to the subscription opened for the
benefit of the defenders of Italian independence."

MARSEILLES, MAY 16.

The Levant steamer has arrived. She touched
at Messina on the 13th. The city was still quiet.
The captain of the Syria, which arrived yesterday,
has declared that on passing Marsala he noticed
red flags on the town. He is not certain whether
they were flags hoisted by the insurgents or by the
inhabitants.

The persons on board the steamer Syria, when
coasting off Marsala on Sunday last, the 13th inst.,
observed red flags upon the town.
News brought by the steamer Italia announces
that after the receipt of a despatch from the Emilia,
500 men precipitately quitted Milan, and embarked
yesterday at Genoa. A movement by General La-
moriciere is spoken of.

The Levant steamer, with news from Sicily, is
still expected.

ROME, MAY 14.
(Official.)

The Neapolitan frigates have sunk the steamer
Lombardo, off Marsala, and have captured the
Piemonte.

Many of Garibaldi's volunteers were killed by the
royal troops.
Rome is tranquil.

- " April 30.
"Romans !—To-morrow you will hear the priests
of Lamoriciere say that some Musulmans have in-
vaded your territory. Well, these Musulmans are
the rime who fought for Italy at Montevideo, at
Rome, and in Lombardy !—the same whom you
will mention to your children with pride when the
day shall come which, by freeing you from the
tyranny of the stranger and the priest, will leave
you free to enjoy recollections. The same who for
a moment yielded to the namerous and warlike sol-
diers of Bonaparte, but who yielded only with their
brows turned towards the enemy, and pledging
themselves to return to the fight, and not to leave
their children any other legacy but that of hatred
to oppressors. Yes, these companions of mine fought
outside your walls, by the side of Manara, Melana,
Marina, Mameli, Daverio, Peralla, Panizzi, Ramo-
rini, Daniell, Montaldi, and so many other brave
Romans who now sleep near your catacombs, and
whom you buried yourselves, because wounded in
front. Our enemies are both astute and powerful,
but we tread the land of the Scvevolas, the Horaces,
and the Ferruccios : our cause is the cause of all
Italians. Our war-cry is the same which was heard
at Varese and Como—' Italy and Victor Emmanuel!'
—and you know that with us, whether fallen or
conquerors, Italian honour is safe !
" G. GARIBALDI,
" General of the Romans, appointed by a Govern-
ment elected by Universal Suffrage."
The Italian National Society has also issued from
Turin a circular to its friends in foreign countries.
The following is a translation :
" Sicily has risen against her young tyrant, who,
directed by the Jesuits, consents to massacre his
subjects in the most atrocious manner, sparing
neither women, nor children, nor old men. The
Italian National Society would belie its past his-
tory if it did not endeavour by every possible
means to aid the numerous victims of the Bourbon
of Naples. It has, consequently, opened a sub-
scription in all its committees, and on the first day
it succeeded in collecting a sum of fifty thousand
francs ; but to enable the Sicilians to continue the
struggle against a regular army, excited to car-
nage by all sorts of bribes, they must have arms,
munitions, and provisions. With this object the
society makes an appeal to the liberals of all coun-
tries; it begs them to found committees for soliciting
and receiving subscriptions in favour of a people
which has been driven to insurrection by the severest
and most abject absolutism, and which desires to
form part of a free and independent Italy. The
faithful of the different States of Europe, at the
instigation of their bishops, are sending money to
Rome for the purpose of subduiag by cannon and
musket, and bringing again under the Papal yoke,
the Legations, which have succeeded in freeing
themselves. Liberals ought to imitate this example
by coming to the aid of the Sicilian insurgents.
The central committee at Turin undertakes to con-
vey to them the succours thus obtained; and the
weekly paper of the society will record the names
of the generous donors. A beginning has already
been made at Glasgow ; but the liberals of France,
of Belgium, of Germany, and of Sweden ought not
to be behind those of England in work which highly
concerns the liberty of all peoples, for the fall of the
despotic Government of Sicily will involve that of
many others ; and the Sicilians, when they have
broken their own chains, will not fail to acquit them-
selves of their debt of gratitude, to the benefit of
other peoples who may have risen in a cause similar
to their own. " VEGEZZI RITSCALLA."

MUNICH, MAY 16.

A letter from Naples, dated May 12, says :—We
have no positive facts as yet from the provinces,
but I believe that everything is arranged for an
outbreak in more places than one, and that a word,
the raising of a finger, would be sufficient to rouse
them. Should Garibaldi land in Sicily, count it as
certain that the provinces will be up.
No boat came in from Palermo yesterday, though
the Electrica was expected, and the weather was
splendid. It is imagined, therefore, that some ob-
stacle has been thrown in the way of its departure
by the Government. A strong demonstration is
said to have taken place in Palermo this week,
when the troops fired, and several people wer e
shot. That the citizens are always on the alert,
and never give the troops a moment's repose, is
evident from the statement of General —, who,
writing to his brother says, "I have not taken off
my clothes for 22 days." In fact, it was impossible
to restore order and tranquillity to Palermo ; and,
though the state of siege was taken off and the
cannon removed, and the shops were opened with
policemen stationed by the doors, " I Was in the
city from half-past ten till half-past 2 of the sth,"
said a friend, " and I saw the shops again all closed
and the cannon again in the street." During the week
the increased activity in the arsenal has indicated
alarm. On the nights of Sunday and Monday the
Fulminante and Aquila, Government boats, were
sent off hastily by direct order of the King. Other
Government vessels were made ready, and furnished
with horse stalls. Several commercial vessels also
were put in requisition, and the Vesuvius,
which has been pierced for cannon, received four
six-pounders on board, stalls for horses, and a great
quantity of water. She is still in the military port,
so are the Tancredi, the Veloce (just repaired), the
Teresa, the Saetta, the Vesuvio, and the Fieramosca,
arrived from Toulon, all of which are kept in readi-
ness to leave, but what is their destination no one
knows. The general supposition is that they are in-
tended to prevent some disembarcation, and certain
is it for some days the Government has been in a
state of great apprehension regarding the move-
ments of Garibaldi. The report which it gives out
indeed is that the expedition is still at Spezzia, and
that the chief is at Florence, and there must be
some ground for it, as so many vessels would not
otherwise be lying here on the alert.
From Messina I have letters dated the 7th, which
say that confidence was not returning, and that the
public opinion was just the same; none of those
who were imprisoned had been liberated, and unless
ample concessions were made tranquillity could not
be restored. Commerce was at a stand still. A
steamer went over from Messina to Reggio three
times a day with letters and telegrams. A British
merchant steamer has, it is understood, been
searched this week on suspicion of having arms on
board ; but there was no ground for it. A Swiss
tradesman, M. Comte, was arrested on the Ist of
May on a charge of bringing ashore from a steamer
four pistols. His assistant and the mate were
arrested with him, and all thrte are in the Vicaria.
The Saetta, Government steamer, came in from
Palermo yesterday disabled by a shot, which she
received from some vessel unknown to me. She
brings intelligence that on the 9th there was a de-
monstration of the great mass of the population
which the police were unable to put down. The
military were then called in, and fired, killing
three and wounding eight. Ten persons were
arrested. The letter which I quote is from a Gene
ral Officer, and adds, " I begin to think that the
revolution will have a more tragic termination than
we imagined."

The Neueillunchener Zeitung says :—" Russia has
remitted to Turin a decided protest against any attack
on the kingdom of the Two Sicilies by the Pied-
MOla tese."

TURIN, MAY 16.

The Sardinian fleet has received orders to con-
centrate itself so as to be prepared for all contin-
gencies. The rumour that new expeditions had set
out for Sicily is unfounded. It is reported that the
Piemonte has, not been captured. The dispatch of
troops from Naples still continues.

The Corriere Mercantile publishes the following
proclamation to the Neapolitan army issued by
Garibaldi :

The Siecle publishes a second letter from M. Ric-
ciardi, dated Genoa, 13th, respecting Garibaldi's
expedition. The following is an extract :
" The Piemonte and Lombardo were compelled
to put in at Talamona for water and provisions,
as they had nothing on board but biscuit and
cheese. A hundred of the most resolute men were
landed, with a view to take part in a powerful diver-
sion, of which you will soon hear. Six pieces
of cannon were taken on board, which may be of
great use either against the Neapolitan cruisers,
or to cover the landing. The expedition left
Talamona on the evening of the Bth, but stopped
again on the Tuscan coast, probably to embark
more ammunition and arms. Volunteers keep
flocking to Genoa from all quarters, and if there
were steamers and money at command, it would be
easy to send legions of determined men to Sicily.

" Foreign insolence reigns over Italian ground
in consequence of Italian discord. But on the day
that the sons of the Samnites and Martii, united
with the brethren of Sicily, shall join the Italians
of the North, on that day our nation, of which )4:m
are the finest part, shalt resume its place, as ln
former times, among the first nations of Europe. ll'
an Italian soldier, only aspire to see you drawn up
side by side with these soldiers of Varese and San