The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 5, 1860.

THE SUN.

LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1860.

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If there be " reason in madness," there surely
ought to be reason in Parliamentary opposition.
The country will not, however, think there is even
the shadow of reason for the wanton waste of time
of which the Opposition are guilty in regard to the
Reform Bill; and it is the more to be regretted, there-
fore, that some Liberals should needlessly, by their
own crotchets, aid them in the discreditable course
Nvhich is now pursued. The country began to be
utterly disgusted with the six days' debate, by
which the time of its Parliament was frittered
away by third and fourth rate talkers on the
motion for the second reading, on which there was
to be no division. We do not remember that any
speech added one idea or one fact worth preserving
to all we knew before ; it was, as the talkers well
knew, merrly- wasting time to get rid of the bill,
if po,sible, by a side wind. And now the same
unmanly tactics are renewed on the proposal to go
into committee. A score nearly of instructions
and other proposals are moved, not for their own
sake, but to delay business. We must denounce
cuela a proceeding as undignified and un-English.
The bill ought at once to go into committee, and the
combatants to fight a manly straightforward battle
against the clauses they object to, and for those
which they wish to insert. That we could respect.
This fictions prating against time is really
intolerable.

We adverted to the formidable list of motions,
obstrut;tive of going into committee, on Saturday,
and need not repeat what we then said. Four of
them went off on the ground of form, but Mr.
BENTINCK, who seemed to threaten the Speaker
with an appeal to the House on his decision, was
permitted to instruct the committee to make better
provision for the prevention of bribery. We should
have given Mr. BENTINCK credit for sincerity,
but for his gross misstatement as to the
relative corruption of counties and b'oroughs. We
quite agree with him that the addition of-numerous
and poorer voters will in2rease the field for bribery,
and we have always demanded that the only known
remedy should form part of any bill which ex-
tended largely the franchise among the working
classes. But we deny entirely that the boroughs
are the more corrupt of the two. The corrup
tipn is different, but incomparably greater in
the counties. We speak what we know
when we say that the constituency of West Nor-
folk is one of the most corrupt in the United King-
dom. Very probably not half a dozen voters, if so
in case of a Contest, there get any-
many, would
thing beyond their travelling expenses, and not
many would need even those. But will even the
member for West Norfolk pretend that votes are
bought with sovereigns and beer only ? We beg
to ask him one plain question—How many of the
farmers, and even of the tradesmen, who have votes
in any part of the county darn Tote again their

landlords or the landlords of those who employ them.
Bribery in the towns is carried on by the hope of
getting money—in the counties by the fear of losing
it. The bribee in the borough wants to get more
than his right ; the bribee in the county fears to
lose his right. In the borough the briber makes
some sacrifice ; in the county the briber sacrifices
the man he bribes. The bribers in West Norfolk
are infinitely meaner men than the CHARLES-
WORTHS and the LEATHAMS. The latter put gold
into the bribee's hand. The landlords of West
Norfolk elect Mr. BENTINCK by driving the iron
into the voter's soul.

Mr. WYLD, indeed, would have added to Mr.
BENTINCK'S instruction on the prevention of bri-
bery, " and that for that purpose the votes of elec-
tors should be taken by Ballot." But the discus-
sion on that subject was shut out by the Speaker
deciding that the committee had power already to
introduce a clause to that effect. No doubt they have,
and if Mr. BENTINOK be sincere he will as certainly
support Mr. WYLD'S proposal, when it is made.
We deny that even in boroughs any other means
would do half so much to check, if not almost to
extirpate bribery, especially if the constituencies
were large ; but for the county corruption it is the
cure, as much a specific, as quinine for ague. In a
very few elections, under the ballot, the counties
would become as politically alive and intelligent
as the large boroughs ; their voters as independent,
arid Mr. BENTINCK and Mr. DISRAELI might then
fairly claim for them representation in propor-
tion to number of electors and the rateable
value of property. To give the counties
more members now, would simply be to give more
members to the 30,000 landlords of the kingdom ;
and we submit that between the counties and the
agricultural boroughs, they already enjoy a most
unfair monopoly of electoral power. In the slave
states the slaveholders vote for two-fifths of their
slaves ; but in the counties of England the landlords
vote for the whole of their tenants; for, what is
the same thing, they compel them all to vote for
their candidate.

So the Scotch and Irish Bills go by the board
for the session, and the Tory press, chuckles with
the confidence that the English Bill will follow
them. It may be so. But, if it be, it will be the
disgrace equally of both the Ministry and the
Opposition. The latter must bear the opprobrium
of doing what any man can do, of obstructing
your way when he dare not resist you. The
foruier, of not assuming a tone which should
compel Parliament to do its duty, and
save the credit of our House of Commons
in the eyes of Europe. Lord JOHN has justly
said that if Parliament has serious business to do,
there is no reason why it should not sit—Lords
and Commons, too—till the business is ended. We
hear enough declamation against Americanising
our institutions ; it would be so, indeed, if we fixed
any day for the termination of the sittings of our
Congress. We boast of greater freedom. Let
Ministers use what they boast of. We
may be quite sure that if the Cabinet
announced that both houses should sit until the
Reform Bill and the Bankruptcy Bill had both
been fully considered and decided on by them
—every man who spoke against time would be
put down as a bore, and business would.move on.
The Ministry which could submit to have a money
bill thrown out by the Lords, and a Reform Bill
talked out by the vulgus of the Commons, had
better resign at once. They would only live on
a humiliated Cabinet life.

Is the bombardment of the city of Palermo to be
tolerated by the civilised nations of Christendom ?
The question comes home even to the Neutrals !
Here is a populous town, the capital of the island
of Sicily, brutally subjected by the war ships of
the King of NAPLES to a bombardment and a re-
bombardment. And under what circumstances ?
Let the facts which have been patent to the world
but so very recently answer. Let it be borne
in remembrance that there at Palermo, there
in Sicily, is the Royal Neapolitan Army
25,000 strong—assailed by a band of nearly 2,000
volunteers, landed only the other day and marched
against them by GARIBALDI. Two thousand against
twenty-five thousand! Certainly GARIBALDI and
his followers have the nation, the people them-
selves, at his back. That is their reliance—that is
what they counted upon when setting forth upon
this apparently rash, but, as the event is proving,
perfectly rational expedition, But equally certain
is it—that when the soldiers of GARIBALDI first put
foot upon Sicilian soil they mustered actually under
" two thousand." So formidable, however, was that
little band under the leadership of their famous
Captain, that the war ships from Naples at
their approach wisely kept aloof—allowed them
to effect a landing uninterruptedly—they, the
volunteers, together with their arms and accoutre-
ments, and then—but not till then—opened fire
upon the two empty and deserted vessels that had
brought over the expedition! Precisely in the same
safe and cautious manner are they acting now, with
a view to inflict as much damage as possible upon
_their antagonists, with as small danger as may be of
any injury being inflicted in return upon themselves.
The army of 25,000 men being unable to defend
Palermo against the 2,000 volunteers under GARI-
BALDI, the Neapolitan fleet begins determinedly
opening fire upon the defenceless city—an act of
desperation happily but seldom adventured
upon in modern warfare, and then only.
until now, under circumstances of the utmost ex-
tremity. Where large masses of unarmed people—
civPians—men, women, and children—are crowded
together, there the artillery of true warriors will
be found (when looking retrospectively down the
long vista of history), but rarely, indeed, to have
directed their fire, a fire that so directed is felt in-
stinctively by brave men to be little less than
literally murderous ! The Neapolitans are open•
ing a new era in warfare. They are
giving the world a precedent, in regard to which
it will have to be remembered that a royal army
25,000 strong laving been driven to an extremity
by a little band of two thousand, have conceived it
to be only reasonable, nuy,the merest matter of course,
that they, the vast defeated majority, should be
avenged by the brutal bombardment of a defenceless
city crowded with civilians of both sexes and of all
ages ! Again, we ask, is the continuance of this
act of unexampled brutality, of unparalleled in-
humanity, to be tolerated by the nations, even by
the neutral powers of Christendom ? The act itself
is one of such peculiar atrocity as to afford even
the most peace-loving advocates of non-interven-
tion the opportunity, the right, (might we not
rather say, the solcmn and imperative duly ?) of
interference. The bombardment of Palermo caps
the climax of everything that has ever been
charged against the Neapolitan Government.
Will it not serve, toe, most effectually, to brim up
the cup—there in Sicily, there also in Naples itself
—of the popular indignation?

It is not in our own Church alone that there are
Churches within a Church, or at least great diver-
sities, doctrinal and ecclesiastical, among those who
hear, religiously, the same name. As we have our
Mei and Low, our Broad and Moderate Church-
, men, so the other great Christian bodies of our

country contain each of them numerous sections.
There are, we know not how many sects of Metho-
dists, all claiming their descent from the renowned
JOHN WESLEY, and each proud of the asserted
purity of its ecclesiastical blood. And we learned,
but a short time ago, that amongst the large and
influential body of the Baptists, the sect which our
seceding clergymen, the Hon. and Rev. BAPTIST
NOEL for instance, are so prone to join, there is a
very remarkable difference of opinion on a point of
ecclesiastical order.

We happened to be in the Rolls Court about a
month ago, when Sir HUGH CAIRNS was pleading
in a cause arising out of this difference ; and his
remarkably lucid and eloquent statement and illus-
tration of the case created no little interest in our
minds, as it evidently did in those of a number of
individuals present, whom we judged to be persons
belonging to the denomination. It would seem
that the Baptists also have among them their
Puseyites and their Broad Churchmen ; the
men of ritual tendency and the men of expan-
sive Christian charity. Our readers should,
however, be aware, that the peculiarity from
which the denomination takes its name, is
their opinion and practice in regard to the ordi-
nance of Christian baptism. They do not, like all
the rest of Christendom, baptise the child at a con-
venient time, and, as a matter of course, generally in
very early infancy, much less do they admit spon-
sorial pledges. They maintain that infant baptism
is a nullity; that it wants the essential feature of
scriptural baptism, which they place in the indivi-
dual's intelligent profession of his own faith prior
to baptism. Hence they baptise only those who
are of age to make, and who do make, a credible
profession of their personal belief, and whose visible
conduct does not belie that profession, By their
adversaries in early times they were designated
Ana-baptists, from their baptising those who had
been previously baptised in infancy ;—a term, how-
ever, always, and fairly, repudiated by them, since
the baptism in infancy being, in their view, a nul-
lity, they could not be charged with repeating the
performance of the ordinance; We should add
that, besides baptising believers only, they baptise
them by immersion only—a practice which many
also of our High Churchmen desire to resuscitate.
The difference of opinion amongst Baptists them-
selves, which we heard so ably illustrated, relates
not to baptism but to communion in the Lord's
Supper. Some of the body restrict their fellow-
ship in this sacrament to those who have been bap-
tised according to their own practice ; others are
willing to receive to their communion all who
agree with them in the fundamentals of Christian
faith and practice. The Baptists, like most other
Protestant Dissenters, accept, generally, the doc-
trinal articles of the Church of England, and the
more liberal of them would consider accordance
in these weightier matters as sufficient ground for
fellowship with those who, preferring their Ivor-
.
ship in other respects, do not accept their views on
the ordinance of baptism. The more rigid Bap-
tists—the Puseyites of the body—refuse communion
to all who have not been baptised on their own
profession of faith, although they would at the
same time by no means deny that they were
Christians, but freely own that they might be even
exemplary Christians. They insist on their view
of the rite as essential, not to salvation, but to
communion; just as a High Church clergyman
would not deny that an unbaptised person might
be saved, but would set the whole parish in com-
motion rather than bury him as a Christian.
In the suit, of which we heard part of the plead-
ings, and gave, briefly, the judgment of Sir JOHN
ROMILLY on Monday week, the Baptist Puseyites
showed themselves wonderfully hard indeed to
please. In the old city of Norwich there is a /asap
and handsome chapel, occupying the place of an
older one more of the conventicle class, which by
its deeds places the building in trust simply for the
use of "particular Baptists." It was explained,
and agreed to on all heads, that the term " par-
ticular" was an ecclesiastical and technical
word, not relating, as but for the explanation
we should have supposed, to particularity
in regard to the point in dispute—Communion—
but to the point on which diversity of opinion has
always existed, the application of the Christian
Redemption. It is opposed to general Baptist—
the two words really meaning, respectively, Cal-
vinistic and AI minian. On the face of the deed,
therefore, there was no restriction on the subject
of Communion. The Hyper-Baptists, however,
appeared chiefly to contend that if other acknow-
ledged Christians, not Baptists, were admitted to
fellowship, the building could no longer be said to be
for the use of Baptists. It was acknowledged that
the "Broad-Church" Baptists, as we might desig-
nate them, had consulted most liberally the scruples
of their rigid brethren. As the latter could not
conscientiously receive the Sacrament of the LORD
with those whom they regarded as unbaptized, the
more liberal had provided a separate communion
for them, to which only those were admitted who
had been baptised in the mode held by the strict
brethren to be orthodox. This, however, was not
enough. The strict brethren seem to have thought
the building would be desecrated, if their more
liberal brethren admitted to Christian fellowship
within it any who had not passed the Baptist
Rubicon. Interested as we all get in an able dis-
cussion on any point, we confess we hoped, while
listening to Sir IruGn CAIRNS pleading so ably for
the liberal side of the case, that the Liberals might
have it. His legal argument appeared to Its also
to be complete.
We were pleased, therefore,' to see that Sir
JOHN ROMILLY accapted decidedly Sir HUGH
CaiuNs' representation of the law. His Honour, in
a long and able judgment, was decidedly of opinion
that the absence of limitation in the deed left the
znijority of the members free to exercise their
judgment as they pleased on this matter hI held
that it was amply proved by the evidence, that
from the earliest accounts of Baptists, down to the
present time, two things were clear. One that
they jealously maintained the supreme and indepen-
dent authority of each Baptist Church over its own
affairs—even when Baptists met together by dele-
gates as a class of churches, they were always care-
ful to note that such a meeting had no authority
whatever beyond that of brotherly advice. The
second point was that from the earliest days there
had been among the Baptists this difference of opi-
nion on the subject of communion with persons not
baptized after their own manner—a liberal party
and a strict party in the same church frequently.
None had pretended, however, that the liberal view
deprived those who held and acted on it of their
title to be considered Baptists. Hence it was, as
Sir Ilercat CAIRNS exi ressed it, intra vines, of any
Baptist Church to adOpt the liberal or the strict
practice, at the discretion of a majority of the mem-
bers, at any time ; and no long continuance of one
practice or the other could debar the church of a
right to change its practice either way.
Our sympathies can but be with the liberal side
in everything; indeed liberals in religion are gene-
rally the same in politics and in social life. As abode-,
the Baptists, in politics, are almost sternlyliberal ;
we believe that a Baptist Tory is a rara avis in-
deed. We were struck with another circum-
stance; all the genius and education among

Baptists seemed to be on the ecclesiastically
liberal side. We judged from the affidavits
referred to, that all the tutors of the Baptist
ministerial colleges, and all their ablest ministers
at the present day, were Free Communionists. Sir
JOHN ROMILLY seemed much impressed with the
fact, as we also should have been, that the immortal
author of the Pilgrim's Progress was a Baptist, and
argued earnestly in his day for the liberal practice ;
and that his arguments were distinguished from
those of his opponents, as much by their gentleness
of tone as by their vigour and genius. ROBERT
HALL also, the unrivalled pulpit orator of mo-
dern times, the college companion and friend through
life of Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH, defended with
all the force of his eloquence the liberal
views on communion of JOHN BUNYAN.
Men of considerable learning, generally self-
acquired learning, were, indeed, to be found
on the other side ; but we know in our own Church
that liberal views are commonly associated with
genius and scholarship combined, while narrower
views :Jo not unfrequent amongst the merely
learned. As we understood it, the legal decLion of
Sir JOHN ROMILLY will enable the greater part of
the Baptist congregations of the country to carry
out liberal views if they entertain them, and we
certainly cannot but feel gratified that law should
be on the side of liberty. It seems to us, also, that
the Free Communion Baptists furnish an unusual
exemplification of Christian charity in secta-
rianism ; since they professedly admit to their
fellowship all Christians who differ from them on
their distinctive tenet. If the Christian churches
generally adopted such a practice, how much might
it do towards appeasing the most bitter and un-
lovely of strifes—those which disgrace religion.

THE PRETENDERS TO THE SPANISH

CROIVA:

The following important document has been
forwarded to us for publication :

(Translation.)
" To THE CORTES.

" The abdication of my brother Charles Louis of his
rights to the Crown of Spain, contained in his manifesto,
dated in Tortosa, on the 23d of April this year, compels me
to claim the rights of my family, and those which I have
personally, to the throne of my ancestors.

" Decided to maintain them, as well as the principle of
legality upon which they are based, I will not permit an
appeal to arms to obtain the triumph, nor that the noble
blood of Spaniards shall again be shed in the cause.
" I place my faith in Divine Providence, in the rectitude
and patriotism of the Spaniards, and in the force of circum-
stances.

" I desire not to ascend the throne by encountering vic-
tims on the steps of it ; I desire to ascend it supported by
the general conviction that by legality order will be esta-
blished, and with it the country will prosper and progress,
in conformity with the enlighte2ment of the age.

" I issue this manifesto to the Cortes in order that the
nation may thereby be informed of it.
"London, June 2, 1860."

" Copia de la ,Manifestation que haco ele Principe Don
Juan de Borbon a la nacion Espanola, y que dirige per
conducto de los Presidentes de los Cuerpos Colegisla-
dores.

" A LAS CORTES.

" La renancia de los derechos que tenia a la Corona de
Espana mi hermano Carlos Luis, consignada en su mani-
fiesto fecho en Tortosa a 23 de Abril de este ano, me obliga
a reclamar les derechos de mi familia y los que personal-
mente lengo al Trono de mis mayores.
" Desidido a sostenerlos, asi como el principio de legali-
dad en que descansan, no permitire que pars obtener el
triumfo se apele a las arenas, y corra una vez mas la noble
sangre de los Espanoles.

" Espero todo de la Divina Providencia, de la reetitud y
patriotismo de los Espanoles, y de la fuerza de las cireum-
stanciaa.

" No quiero subir al trono encontrando cadaveres en las
gradas; quiero ascenderlas apoyado por la conviction gene-
ral de que con la legalidad see: tablece el dr den y con el el
pais prosperara y marchara de acuerdo con los progresos y
la ilustracion de siglo.

" Y hago 6sta manifestation 5. las Cartes para que asi lo
engo entendido la nation.

" JUAN DE BORBON.
" Londres, 2 de Junio de 1860."

WASHINGTON FRIEND'S CANADIAN AND

41.1C.E.TeZai -V IL

An entertainment, not merely of an amusing but of an
instructive nature, was commenced at St. James's•hall last
evening, by Mr. Washington Friend, a gentleman who has
for some weeks past caused his advent to be very generally
known by a very extensive system of large posters and other
means of attracting attention. The entertainment is a corn •
bination of vocal music and descriptions of the principal
scenes and objects of interest in Canada and the United
States, illustrated by some very vigorously-painted dioramic
views. Starting from New York, the lecturer takes the
spectator by the Trenton Falls and city of Rochester to
Genessee, and thence to the constantly depicted, but never
thoroughly appreciated, Niagara falls. The views at this
point afford as good representations of this stupendous natural
fall as can be expected by the aid of the pencil, and it is no
discredit to the artist to say that they fail to convey an ade-
quate idea of the magnitude of the scenery. The Niagara
River, the lake scenery, and the principal towns of Canada
along the shores of the St. Lawrence, are next visited, and
many of the views, especially a camp meeting and a Cana-
dian farm, exhibit considerable power and ability on the
part of the artist. The Victoria Bridge at Montreal is very
cleverly illustrated, and the difficulty of presenting this ex-
traordinary structure in such a manner as to convey an idea
of its colossal proportions have been very successfully over-
come. Mr. Friend introduced several songs in his enter-
tainment, and accompanies himself upon a val iety of instru-
ments. His volubility is amazing, and his descriptions are
like " patter songs." He is lively in the extreme, and if
not always intelligible is at least amusing. The introduc-
tion of moving figures in the dioramic pictures, such as the
paddles of the steamers, the oars of the boats, &c., is a
novelty, and the wagging of the horses' tails in the farm-
yard has a very comical and laughable effect. An hour
may be very pleasantly and profitably spent at this enter-
tainment.

LATEST NEWS.

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

PARIS, JUNE 4.
A rumour is current here that the bombardment
of Palermo recommenced yesterday.
Letters state that the first bombardment caused
enormous damage to the town.

GENOA, JUNE 4.

According to advices received here from Naples
to the 3d inst., the King is said to have refused the
conditions of the capitulation, and hostilities were
to recommence at noon yesterday.
The city of Palermo is barricaded, and part of
the royal troops are surrounded by the insurgents.
A Neapolitan general is said to have gone over
to the insurgents.

PARIS, JUNE 4.
The Gazette de France publishes the following
message, dated Naples, Sunday evening :
" 4,000 insurgents, having several pieces of can-
non, had attacked Catania on Friday. They were
bravely repulsed by General Clary, with the sth
Chasseurs, one regiment of Lancers, and some pieces
of artillery.
" After a combat of eight hours the insurgents
were dispersed, losing three cannon and two flags.
" The city has since been declared in a state of

siege.
" Marshal lElfan's column did not participate in
the action."

ROME, JUNE 2.

The Commendatore Martino, the Neapolitan
Minister at the Court of the Holy See, left yester-
day evening for Naples, having been summoned
hither by the King.
The ambassador, before taking his departure, had
a long conference with the Pope.
Rome is tranquil, but the inhabitants are agita-
ted by the grave news from Palermo. Strong
patrols traversed the town yesterday evening.
His Holiness is said to have expressed his opinion
that the Emperor Napoleon and the King of Sar-
dinia had resolved upon the execution of the pro-
gramme contained in the pamphlet " Le Pape et le
Congres."

Signor Castellain, the Roman patriot, has been
exiled.

MARSEILLES, JUNE 4.

Some commercial houses of Marseilles are said
to have received fresh news by a supplementary
mail from Hong Kong to the 25th April, according
to which it was rumoured that the ultimatum had
not been absolutely rejected, and that the Plenipo-
tentiaries had remitted a second ultimatum modi-
fied in its stipulations, to which theywere going to
await the answer of the Chinese Court.

PARIS, JUNE 5.

The Moniteur of to-day contains a bulletin stating
that the improvement in Prince Jerome's health is

improving.

MADRID, JUNE 4.

The treaty with Morocco has been published.
The first payment of the indemnity by Morocco
will be effected by the Ist July next.

The following telegrams have also been received :
THE EXPEDITION OF GARIBALDI.
" TURIN, JUNE 3.
" The Movimento publishes two letters from
Garibaldi, one dated from Salemi, the other from
Calata Fimi.
" In these letters Garibaldi praises the zeal and
enthusiasm displayed by the Sicilian insurgents in
the fight at Calati Fimi.
" The General also renders just homage to the
valour of the Neapolitan troops, who were more
determined in their resistance than the Austrians
last year in Lombardy.
" Garibaldi asks for arms and ammunition.
"A despatch from Cagliari, dated the evening of
the 2d inst., announces the safe arrival at Marsala
of the steamer Utile with volunteers, arms, and
ammunition."

"MARSEILLES, EVENING, JUNE 3.

"The Levant steamer, which arrived here yester-
day from Genoa, has landed a number of strangers
who have fled from Messina. Whole families of
that city had gone on board the vessels in the
roads, which were converted into floating hotels.
On the 29th of May the streets were quite deserted,
" The Corriere Mercantile says that the defec-
tions in the Neapolitan army are not numerous,
but under the double attacks of Garibaldi and the
population they showed hesitation."

JOURNAL OF OPERATIONS.

" The following is the journal of Garibaldi's
operations up to the 26th May :
" May B.—Arrival and departure from Talamone
for ammunition and coal.

" May 9.—Arrival and departure from San Ste-
fano for coal.

" May 10.—Arrival and landing at Marsala, with
all and everything, ammunition, and four pieces of
artillery.

"May 12.—Bivouac at Gran-Pancardo, near

Salemi.

" May 13 and 14.—Bivouac at Salami ; and con-
centration of insurrectional forces to the number of
about 4,000.
" May 15.—Advance and combat outside Calata
Fimi, at Monte di Pianto-Romano, against 3,500
Neapolitans, under the orders of Landi. 128
wounded and 18 killed on our side. Capture of a
mountain gun. The Royalists driven from five
well-defended terrible positions.
" May 16.—Landi abandons Calata Fimi, which
we occupy. Landi, in his retreat, is terribly cut up
at Partenico and Borghetto by the insurgents.
" May 17. Departure for Alcamo.
" May 18.—Departure for Partenico. On the
same day the march is continued towards Palermo.
" May 19.—Incessant rain. The troops bivouac.

" May 20.—March on Poppio, to draw the Royal
forces from Monreale, and manoeuvres to entice
the troops out of Palermo. This partially suc-
ceeds. During the night march on Perrio. The
artillery carried by hand, amidst torrents of rain,
through horrible paths.
" May 2].—lii the morning arrival at Parco,
return to Monreale, dispositions to march on
Palermo.

" May 22 and 23.—The enemy concentrates a
large force ; the General still wishes to get more
troops away from Palermo.

" May 24.—Threatening attack by a force of
more than 10,000 men ; dispositions of resistance
to draw theta on; commencement of attack; retreat
on our side to draw them towards Corleone and
bring them in range of cur artillery. While taking
a flank movement our troops could appear before
Palermo.

" May 25.—Arrival at Marnico. We succeed in
bringing the Royalists opposite our artillery in the
direction of Corleone. In the evening march on
Misiltneri; arrival at midnight; bivouac.
" May 25 and 26.—A great day ! The wounded
are doing well.
" ilTisilmeri, 26th."

A Paris letter in the .21Tordgives some further de-

tails of an incident already mentioned connected
with the struggle in Sicily :

" A serious and unexpected incident has just
arisen at Naples, in connection with affairs in
Sicily. M. Carafa assembled all the members of
the Diplomatic Body, and communicated to them
a note to the effect that the King of Naples, ' from
feelings of humanity,' called fcr the intervention
of the Powers who had any naval forces stationed
on the coast of Sicily, in order to pat an end to
the conflict between -his Majesty and a part of his
subjects. The note laid it down as a condition
that the territory of Sicily should be guaranteed
to the King, who, on his part, engaged to grant
the most extensive reforms. You may imagine
the astonishment produced on the Diplomatic
Body by this communication ; it found them quite
unprepared, and they were obliged to refer the
matter to their respective Governments. It is
doubtless that circumstance which led to the armis-
tice bet ween the royal troops and those of Garibaldi.
The Marquis de Villamarina has received instruc-
tions from Count Cavour not to adhere to the re-
quest of the Neapolitan Government, as Piedmont
wishes to remain faithful to the principle of non-
intervention. The Cabinet of the Tuileries has
not yet made known its reply, -but there is no doubt
that France will also maintain the same principle.
The announcement of this proceeding on the part
of the King of Naples has produced a great im-
pression in the official world, in Paris, and among
diplomatists generally, and has been interpreted as
an evident sign of the weakness of the Neapolitan
Government, which, with an army of 150,000 men,
cannot defend itself against what has been described
as a handful of Italian patriots and Sicilian insur-
gents."
A Paris letter in the Independance says :
" The fact of a capitulation between the repre-
sentative of the Neapolitan Government, and the
man who was only recently called a filibuster' by
the official journals of Naples, is an extremely sig-
nificant fact. It is considered certain that the Eng-
lish and French Governments intervened, on the
one hand, to stop the resistance of the Near olitan
army, which might, in the fortified positions it occu-
pied, have long continued to fill the town with
ruins and bloodshed, without advantage to its cause ;
and, on the other, to assure to the army of General
Lanza acceptable conditions; Garibaldi having
been at first, I am assured, disposed not to let
General Lanza and his army withdraw until after
having laid down their arms, and even, it is said,
restored 5,000,000 f. The French and British Go-
vernments cannot be too highly praised, if it be
true, that they stopped a barbarous and unneces-
sary effusion of blood."
A letter from Naples of the 28th ult., in the
Siecle, adds some details to those already known
relative to the attack on Palermo :

" The statements made here respecting what oc-
curred yesterday at Palermo are very confused, but
in substance they are to this effect :—The insur-
gents advanced very rapidly in two columns,
Garibaldi, sword in hand, at their head. Colonel
Orsini, of the Artillery, succeeded in dismounting
several of the guns of the royalists. The royal artil-
lerymen, after a while, became demoralised, and
ceased to serve their guns, so that the officers them-
selves had to work them. The company of Airoli
(so the name is given) of the insurgents took some
of the guns and killed the officers. Garibaldi and
his 15,000 men then rushed on the royal troops in
their entrenchments, and drove them back in disorder;
on which 8 vessels of war and the forts commenced a
bombardment. The consuls, and the commanders of
the foreign vessels in the roadstead, made protests
against that act ; and this led to communications
between Admiral Solazar and the Consuls, who
were collected on board the English vessel Hanni-
bal, bearing the flag of Admiral Mundy. The re-
sult of these communications was that at five o'clock
the Neapolitan fire ceased, and the Italian flag was
hoisted on the plateau called the Favorite, which
commands part of Palermo and a great portion of
the roadstead."

The following details respecting Messina may
prove of interest at the present moment :

" Messina, at once a mercantile port and a
fortress, was formerly called Zancle, from the
shape of its port, which then presented a curve
resembling that of a scythe. It was taken by the
Messenians under the conduct of Anaxilas, and
from them received its present name. Opposite
Messina stands Reggio, the last town in Calabria,
and so near that the two coasts appear to have
been separated by some grand convulsion of
nature which opened a passage for the Tyrrhenian
Sea to mix its waters with the lonian. At Mes-
sina and Reggio, in summer, when the sun rises
or sets in cloudless splendour, the singular pheno-
menon called the Fatu Morgan a is sometimes sae'',
which consists in a wonderfully perfect reflection
of each of those towns in the sky over the opposite
coast. The citadel of Messina stands on a curved
promontory, and offers great advantages in a
military point of view. In 1848 it proved more
powerful than the whole island beside, and,
as has been already stated, was the means of re-
storing Sicily to the Neapolitan Government. The
fortifications are very extensive, and the batteries
are almost on a level with the water. Having the
command of the sea, the citadel can always re-
ceive reinforcements and provisions. Indeed for
its strength and commanding position, it has been
styled the Tyrrhenian Gibraltar. Messina is well
built, and the streets paved with flags of lava.
Many of its squares and public places are orna-
mented with fountains and statues, the more re-
markable of which are the Neptune on the Marina
and the fountain of the Piazza del Duomo, both by
the sculptor Montorsoli. The fine Palazzo Sena-
torio, the cathedral, built by Count Roger, and de-
corated with 26 columns of Egyptian granite, and
the Storpi Hospital, are not the only remarkable
edifices in Messina. If Palermo has the fete of St.
_Rosana, Messina, its rival, has the Centenaria,
which is kept only once in a century; but thousands
of persons flock to Messina to witness the yearly
ceremony of the Madonna of the Letter, so called
from a letter attributed to the Holy Virgin. The
free port of Messina contains a population which is
a singular mixture of all nations. Before the great
earthquake of 1783, it had aboveloo,ooo inhabitants,
but so many people were then driven away that it
has never attained that number since."