The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-12 00:00:00

JtiNE 12, 1860.
THE SUN, LONDON, ITESDAY EVENING,

THE INSURRECTION IN bleiLl.

We receive through Genoa some numbers of the
Unita ltaliana of Palermo, publishing various
documents connected with the insurrection. One
is a proclamation announcing the armistice. It
runs thus :

" Sicilians—The enemy has proposed an armis-
tice to us, which in a generous war like that in
which we are engaged, I have thought it reason-
able not to refuse. The interment of the dead, the
care of the wounded; in a word, all that is called
for by the laws of humanity, has always honoured
the valour of the Italian soldier. Besides, the
wounded Neapolitans are also our brothers,
although they act with cruel enmity, and are
now plunged in the darkness of political error ;
it will not, however, be long before the light
of the national flag will lead them to swell
the ranks of the Italian army. In order that the
terms of the stipulated convention shall be main-
tained with good faith, we publish the following
article of convention between the undersigned at
Palermo, 31st May 1. The suspension of hosti-
lities shall be prolonged for three days from the
present time (noon of the 31st May), at the expi-
ration of which the General-in-Chief shall scud one
of his aides-de-camp in order to fix, by common
accord, the hour for the resumption of hostilities.
2. The Royal Bank shall be handed over to the
Representative Crispi, Secretary of State, in re-
turn for a proper discharge, and the detach-
ment which now guards it shall go to Castella-
mare with their arms and baggage' 3. The
embarkation of the wounded and of families
shall be continued, no means being neglected to
prevent abuses of any kind. 4. The transport of
provisions shall be free for the two belligerent'
parties at all hours of the day, every proper ar-
rangement being made that the measure shall re-
ceive full effect. 5. Permission is given to exchange
the prisoners Mosto and Revilsa, for the first lieu-
tenant-colonel and another officer—for instance
Captain Grasso. _ _

" FRANCISCO CRISFI, Secretary of State of
the Provitiorml Government of Sicily;

66 6 FERDINAND° LANZA, General-ill-Chid:"
The same journal, in its number of the 3d, pub-
lishes the following proclamation :
" Sicilians—A tempest almost always follows a
calm, and we ought to prepare ourselves for the
storm, although the desired object be not attained
The conditions of the national cause were brilliant ;
triumph was secure from the moment when a
generous people, trampling under foot humiliating
propositions, resolved to conquer or to die. Un-
doubtedly, our situations is every moment improv-
ing, but that must not prevent us from doing our
duty and securing the triumph of our sacred cause.
Get arms and arm yourselves; sharpen your steel,
and prepare every means of offence and defence.
-v-- - -

To shall have time enough for enthusiasm and
cheers when the country shall have been cleared of
our enemies. Get arms and arm youselves;l repeat.
He who does not think of procuring some arm
during these three days is a traitor or a coward ' •
but the people who fight among the ruins of thetr
burnt houses for liberty and for the lives of their
wives and children can be neither cowards nor
traitors. " GA RIBALDI."

Some of the Genoese journals publish the 'following
letter from Garibaldi :

"My dear Bertani—l authorize you not only to
make any advance or any loan on account of Sicily,
but also to contract any debt, becausQ we have here
immense means to satisfy every one. •
" Yours ever, " GARIBALDI."
A private letter adds that Garibaldi's officers and
those of Lanza's corps entertained each other rcci-
procally, and that the Neapolitan troops at Palermo
certainly inclined to the cause of insurrection,

It is stated in a letter from Palermo that ,Gari-
baldi has placed the Duke do Verdura at the head
of the new municipality he has formed in that city.
The bombardment did considerable injury to the
town, and many houses were in such a dangerous
state that the Duke de Verdura has given orders
for pulling them down, in order to prevent acci-
dents. The duke is said to be very popular in Pa-
lermo, as well as Baron. Pisana, the Minister of
Foreign Affairs.
The following proclamation has, says the Gazette
du Midi, been circulated in Venetia, and may, that
journal remarks, explain the military precautions
Austria is taking in the province
:
"Brethren—The signal of redemption will not

be long delayed. Austria is endeavouring to
crush you, but be of good heart ; let your pa-
triotic efforts be employed with great firmness in
the approaching reawakening of Italy. The un-
fortunate men who are groaning in the prisons of
I'eterwardcin are not only your sons and brothers,
but ours; but those who, led on by the brave Gari-
baldi, and animated by the love of their country,
have gone to deliver Sicily, arc they less your
brothers than ours ? If you suffer the outrages of
servitude, display the pride of martyrs. Dispersed
in all the territories of Italy, the raugces of Venice,
by sacrifices and courage, have already added to
our history its most glorious page ; on the day of
insurrection they will know to add to it a second
one. That day approaches ! Keep alive in your
hearts hatred of the abhorred enemy, and faith in
the future of Italy' The magnanimous King
who vanquished at Palestro has not ceased to feel
his heart beat for you. His hand still holds his
sword, and that sword protects our cause !"

A Country l; once.—Our home at St. Leonard's
was a nondescript sort of d..nicile—half an English
farm-house, half a Gothic villa—situated in the neigh-
bourhood of a vabbit-warren, amid a vast range of
hilly and woody country, intersected with gurgling
streams and large patches of cultivated land ; sheets
of golden wheat fla-bing out between dark brushwood
slopes, and emerald fields of turnips, spreading at the
feet of the tall, frowning forest monarchs. A noble espalier
pear-tree, and a luxuriant vine, trailed all over the white
fronts, and many a clustering bunch of luscious purple
fruit might be seen in the autumn sunshine, ripening on
the gabled roof, resting its juicy weight on the patches of
stonecrop, and causing divers speculations among the
juniors of the household as to whether there was a passi-
bility of reaching them from the top casements; and occa-
sionally they did disappear in a most miraculous manner.
There was a rude sort of garden spreading round, where
carnations and cabbages, laburnums and lettuces, scarlet
beans and sweet-williams, brocoli and black currants, rose-
trees and radishes, sprang up in plentiful and brilliant con-
tiguity ; and there was one little corner where some moss-
coyered flints, a spontaneous profusion of dock-leaves, and
an overhanging elder, afforded an asylum for a couple of
pet frogs,' to the dismay of certain boarding-school. bred
cousins who visited us in the midsummer holidays.
One side of this Eden wilderness was bounded by a rip-
pling stream of lucid water, known as " Miller's Brook,"
across which, close by the frogs' hermitage, were a couple of
rough planks, forming a bridge, leading on to a fresh,
grassy bank, where flags, and rushes, and forget-me-nots,
grew thick and odorous, under the shadow of poplars and
older s ; and beyond lay the "Long Water Meadows," with
Dives's farm in the distance: On the other side was an
ancient rambling sort of orchard, inclosed with old grey
paling, all covered with yellow lichens, and wefted with:
wiry ivy, with an occasional azure periwinkle and red dog-,
rose peeping out, reminding one of Infancy's blue eyes and
ruddy cheeks playing with the wrinkled brow and silver
hair of a grandfather. Ay, that was an orchard I where
bouncing cats-head apples shook their fists in the nigger
faces of muscle-plums ; where green-gages bursting with
sugary juice tumbled into the cool grass, and gipsy filberts
rattled down about our ears with very gentle assistance
then the mulberries and the "swans-egg" pears, and the
damsons and the cherries—oh, such cherries!—may-dukes
and bigaroons, and black hearts and morellos, hanging like
coral and jasperwreaths from the drooping boughs, propped
up here and there by a broken rail. Ah, what mouths,
what pinafores, what hands, used to be seen in that old
orchard during the cherry season; whatmorning gluttony,
what evening excesses, were carried on in defiance of all
paternal authority and serious prognostications of cholera
and sudden death. We taught the very sheep-dog to
mumble the delicious food, and old " Watch" was often
seen with his grizzled muzzle deeply stained with the for-
bidden fruit—to say nothing of the pony having real non-
pareils handed to him, by dozens, through a gap in the
paling, and whole capfuls of the finest "Orleans," or melting
" swans-eggs," being bestowed in munificent generosity on
any ragged wayfarer who looked with longing eycs on our de-
predations. This paradise of an orchard led through a 'rate
into a lengthy sort of copse, the copse led into a cloverfield,
and the cloverfield skirted a lane with luxuriant hedge-rows,
where bees, butterflies, and grasshoppers, made assigna-
tions with the honeysuckle and sweet •woodruff; where the
infant stragglers half hid themselves among the wild briefly
and tall foxgloves, and sat threading "cheeses"
from the
mallow, or flinging ox-eye daisies at each other by the hour
together. About a quarter of a mile down this lane, just at
the commencement of the village, was the blacksmith's
rustic forge and thatched cottage, where the ringing ham-
mer made cheerful music, and as happy a family dwelt as
pmedighant neineetntneiniasatiedaayn'sd
onesera
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2 LIB 1V A VI.

Vice-Admiral W. J. Hope Johnstone has been
apPointed to succeed Vice-Admiral Edward Harvey
as Commander-in-Chief at Sheerness. He has ap-
pointed Capt. W. G. Luard as his flag-captain, and
Mr. Arthur Jones as his secretary. no Admiral,
with his flag-captain and seewtary, arrived at
Sheerness yesterday in the Wildfire, on a visit to
Admiral Harvey, to make the necessary arrange-
ments for taking up the appointment, &c. Admiral
Harvey's commission expires on the 30th inst.
Vice-Admiral Sir Arthur Fanshawe, K.C.8., ar-
rived at Plymouth yesterday afternoon in the paddle.
wheel steam-frigate Terrible, 21, Capt. Frederick
H. G lasse, which exchanged the customary salutes.
The Terrible left Malta on the 31st of May, arrived
in Gibraltar on the sth of June, and sailed there-
from on the 6th. She spoke at sea on the 3d of
June the screw steamship Queen, 86, Capt. Charles
F. Hillyar, and the gunboat Mohawk.. The Ter-
rible left at Malta her Majesty's screw steamships
Marlborough, 131, Capt. Lord Frederick H. Kerr ;
Renown, 91, Capt. Arthur Forbes; London, 90,
Capt. Henry Chads ; Agamemnon, 91, Capt. Thomas
Hope ; James Watt, 91, Capt. Edward Codd ; and
Exmouth, 90, Capt. James .1. Stopford ; the paddle-
wheel steam sarveying vessel Medina, 4, Capt.
Thomas A. B. Sprat, C. 13.., and the gunboat Boxer,
and at Gibraltar the steam-frigate Doris, 32, Capt.
Edmund Heathcote ; paddlewheel steamship
Scourge, 6, Commander W. G. Jones; and the screw
steam-sloop Lapwing, 4, Commander Montagu F.
O'Reilly. The Melpomene arrived at Gibraltar on
the 6th inst. Vice-Admiral Fanshawc, succeeds to
the command at Plymouth, in pla6o of Vice-Admi-•
ral Sir 'Barrington Reynolds, K:C.B.; whose term
of service expired in May.
Her Majesty's paddlewheel steam-sloop Hecate,
Commander Hosken, under orders for survey in the
Pacific, yesterday left Woolwich basin for Green-
hithe, to be adjusted for sea.. Her pinnace Was
brought up from Portsmouth by the Dee, and de-
livered on Saturday......
The new despatch boat Lee, built at Deptford,
was yesterday taken into basin at Woolwich, to be
fitted for service.

The two contract-built screw gun•vessels, Cor-
morant, 4, and Racehorse, 4, having been approved
by the Admiralty, are ordered to be fitted for the
second-class steam reserve at Chatham.

The Firebrand, 6, paddle, Commander J. M.
B nice, sailed from Spithead yesterday morning,
under sealed orders.

The Diligence, naval storeship, sailed from Spit
head yesterday morning for Devonport.
The Bacchante, 51, screw, Capt. McKenzie, fit-
ting at Portsmouth as the flagship of Rear-Admiral
Sir T. Maitland, K.C.8., the future Commander-
in-Chief on the Pacific Station, will be ready for
sea in a week's time. _ _

The—Fire Queen paddle steamer, Master Com-
mander Paul, was yesterday undocked from No. 6
dock at Portsmouth, on the completion of the re-
pairs to her hull. She was berthed alongside the
north wall of the dockyard to receive her boilers
and complete other repairs.
Her Majesty's Royal screw-steam yacht Fairy
has been placed in No. 6 dock at Portsmouth to
undergo her annual embellishment and necessary
repairs. -
The Ranger screw steam gun-vessel, Commander
Wratislaw, arrived at Spithead on Saturday from
a cruise, and not the " Wrangler," as incorrectly
reported yesterday.
The Immortalitie, 51, screw, receiving her ma-
chinery in the steam basin at Portsmouth, will be
ready to get up steam by Monday next.
The Eagle, 50, sailing Coastguard vessel, Capt.
E. Tatham, was towed into Portsmouth harbour
yesterday from Spithead.
The Princess Royal, 91, screw, completed mut-
ing yesterday at I'orlsmouth, and is in the hands
of the master rigger, to be brought forward for the
first-class steam reserve or for commission, as may
be ordered. .

• The Hermes, 6 paddle steam stoop, 220 horse-
power, Commander W. E. A. Gordon, from the
Cape of Good Hope station, was paid off on Friday
lastat Sheerness, under the superintendence of
Capt. Rundell. B. Watson, C.D. (Capt. Superinten-
dent of her Majesty's dockyard).
The Virago, 6, paddle steam sloop, 300-horse
power, Commander Montagu It. Dunn; was paid
otf on Saturday, under the superintendence of
Capt. It. B. Watson, C.B.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. ])'Arty S. Preston,
Promoted to be commander ; Lieut. E. H. L. Ray,
Lieut. C. It. F. Boxer, Lieut. W. H. Gould, Lieut.
Maquay, Lieut. C. G. bane, and Lieut. A. H.
Alston to the St. George ; Lieut. C. G. M'Grigor,
Lieut. J. B. Grove, and Lieut. F. 11. Blair to the
Colossus ; William J. Aldrich, master, to the
George; William H. Crane, master, to the Colossus;
James A. Miller, surg., to the Colossus ; Charles J.
Fennell, assist.-surg., to the Colossus; the Rev.
John Jenkins, Chaplain, to the Colossus ; George
Ramsdell, paymaster, to the St. George ; John
Millard, Beresford Scott, :James Ray, and John
Pooling, paymasters, to the Colossus; Edward W.
Goldson and Nicholas B. Dennys, assist.-pay-
masters, to the St. George ; John Chambers and
F. A. Keogh, assist: paymasters, to the Colossus.

PARLIADIENTARF COMAIPITEE.

THAMES. TUNNEL RAILWAY BILL.

The committee to whom was referred the Lon-
don, Chatham, and Dover Railway Bill (Metropo-
litan Extensions), yesterday proceeded to consider
the proposed bill for converting the Thames
Tunnel to railway purposes—Mr. Ridley in the
chair.

Mr, Hope Scott, Q.C., and Mr. RodsVell appeared
for the promoters or the bill; the only opposition
came from the London Docks Company, who were
represented by Mr. Sergeant Wraugham and Mr.
Murphy.
Mr. IL Scott, QC., briefly opened the case for
the promoters of the bill, who he stated had agreed
with the Thames Tunnel Company for the purchase
of the Thames Tunnel for £150,000, and the expense
of the works, including the purchase of the tunnel,
would amount to £BOO,OOO. It was proposed to
make a railway, commencing at Deptford by a
junction with the main line of the Brighton and
South-Eastern Company, passing through the
Thames Tunnel, and terminating in the parish of
St. George-in-the-East by a junction with the
Blackwall Railway where-it crosses Cannon-street-
road. A railway would then commence from this
point to the Fenchurch-street Station of the London
and Blackwall Railway. • It was then proposed to
make a line from Deptford to the Commercial Dock
station of the Greenwich line, and terminating in
Deptford by a junction with the main lines of rail.
way belonging to the Brighton and South-Eastern
Company ; and a railway commencing in the parish
of St. Mary, Rotherhithe, and terminating at a
point immediately adjoining to, and on the eastern
side of, the general offices of the Commercial Dock
Company, with the appropriation, alteration, and
discontinuance, either wholly or partially, of its
present use by the public as a passenger thorough-
fare. The learned counsel then recapitulated the
advantages which must necessarily be derived by
the public in having a railway commuuic9tion
directly between the railways on the north and
south sides of the Thames, and at the same time
convert a national work, which was now altogether
unproductive, into a very desirable means for com-
pleting that railway system The scheme was a
most valuable one, and was only opposed by the
London Dock Company.
Mr. D. Pollock, engineer, was examined by Mr.
Redwell, and he said he had had it in contempla-
tion for some time to adapt the Thames Tunnel to
railway purposes, about which there could be no
difficulty whatever. It would be the means of re-
lieving greatly the street traffic. It was originally
intended by Mr. Brunel to be used for street traffic,
but that had never been done, and as the tunnel had
not been used by the public to the extent antici-
pated by Mr. Brunel, the work had proved an en-
tire failure, as the shareholders had never received
a farthing dividend, and there was a large debt due
to the Government.

Mr. Mason, clerk to the Thames Tunnel Com-
pany, said he had been so for 24 years, and was
engaged in the construction of the Thames Tunnel
under Mr. Brunel. There is three feet of limestone
rock under the tunnel. It could be safely used for
a railway as it is perfectly dry. • The tunnel is ap-
proached by a spiral staircase, and is only available
now for foot passengers. In round numbers the
tunnel cost £468,000. The masonry of the Thames
Tunnel is three feet in the thinnest part, and is the
strongest masonry in the world, and when some
works were required to be done Sir I. Brunel
offered the men one shilling for every inch they
could get out, whole. It was so solid that it ap-
peared like rock work.
Mr. Jennings, engineer to the Grand Surrey
Canal Docks, was examined by Mr. Rod well, and
said he considered the conversion of the Thames
Tunnel would be attended with great advantage
to the public. It would also be of great benefit to
the Surrey docks, as it would give them a commu-
nication for their timber trade With all the railways
in the north of London. This bill had the entire
assent of the Grand Surrey Dock Company.
Mr. (1, 11.11nisch secretary to the Grand Surrey '
Docks Company, said he had examined the plans of
this company. The acreage of the Surrey docks
was about 160 acres, and they were looking; for-
ward to a great increase in the timber trade. If
this line waslormed, it Would relieve London-bridge
of the timber traffic which now passes veer it.
Mr. Gaussen, a provisional director of the Thames
Tunnel Company, said he had directed his attention
to the subject of railway communication by means
of the Thames Tunnel. There had been an objec-
tion raised toothe formation of the railway under
the London docks, but he had no doubt that it could
be executed without damage to' their property.
There would be no danger whatever, nor would it
he antagonistic to the interests of the London Dock
Company. It would tend greatly to relieve the
streets of traffic, both of passengers and goods. If
this line were made he believed it would be a paying
line, and a good investment.
After some further evidence of a similar nature
had been taken, the committee adjourned.

SOCIEIY F 01? PROJIOnwo THE

AMENDMENT OF THE LA IV.

The usual fortnightly meeting of the members
of this society was last night held at their rooms,
Waterloo-place; Lord Broughant in the chair.