The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-12 00:00:00

LATEST NEWS.

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

PARIS, APRIL 12.
An official decree in the Moniteur of today not

MARSEILLES, APRIL

The packet arriving here brings news from
Naples to the 7th inst. The official Giornale di
Napoli of the 6th instant confirms the repression of
the insurrection at Palermo on the 4th. Letters
received add that the rebels attacked the Royal
troops at 5 o'clock in the morning, then re-
formed and shut themselves up in the convent,
which they barricaded.

A battalion of the 6th regiment of the line made
a sudden assault upon the insurgents, but were
driven back with considerable loss. The Royal
Artillery then opened a breach and the convent was
taken by assault. The insurgents and their arms
were captured.

Several bands of rebels having risen in the
environs in order to create a diversion were beaten
and pursued in all directions.

The Official Journal does not speak of an insur-
rection in Messina, but announces that General
Salzano has placed Palermo in a state of siege, and
also adds a telegraphic despatch received on the
afternoon of the 6th inst., which affirms that all
the other provinces of Sicily have been tranquil,
and that the inhabitants of Palermo had not taken
part in the combat of the 4th. Letters state that
on the evening of the 6th an immense crowd, esti-
mated to number 80,000, blocked up the Rue Tolede
at Naples, and raised numerous shouts of " Viva la
Constituzione," before the residence of the Papal
Nuncio. The street was quickly cleared by the
patrols.

VIENNA, Tiluns DAY.
The answer of Austria to the circular note of M.
Thouvenel, of the 13th March, on the annexation
of Savoy and the district of Nice to France, has
been sent to Paris. This answer is very similar to
the despatch of Russia on the same subject. The
Austrian Cabinet, like that of Russia, does not
raise any objection to the fact of annexation, as
long as this annexation is represented as being
the result of a cession freely consented to by Pied-
mont, and not as the effect of an. appeal to univer-
sal suffrage. As regards the neutrality of Switzer-
land and the neutralised districts of Chablais
and Faucigny, Count Reehberg expresses, a desire
that the French Government, in accordance with
the promise given by M. Thouvenel in his de-
spatches, should maintain the guarantees stipulated
by the treaties.

TURIN, APRIL 10,

Signor Lonza has been elected President of the
Chamber of Deputies by 129 against 90 votes on
the second ballot.

APRIL 1

According to news from Naples to the 10th, the
insurgents, numbering about 10,030 well-armed
men, are concentrated in the Sicilian Islands, and
have interrupted the canals communicating with
Palermo. The troops quartered in that city are
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eovnegry night. The Neapolitan fleet is
the coast.

The Opinion° publishes the following telegram,
dated Naples, April 10 :

" The insurrection in Sicily appears to be spread.
ing. The despatch of troops continues. Great
agitation prevails at Naples."

NAPLES, APRIL 9,

The following is official :
" Order reigns at Palermo and in Sicily.
" The inhabitants are tranquil. The landowners
offer to co-operate with the Government.
prevails among the
"An excellent feeling

,roops."

MADRID, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
General Ortega will arrive to-morrow at Tortosa,
where his trial will take place.

Great efforts are being made to capture Coun
; a successful resul
Mentemolin and his brothers

is anticipated.
Perfect tranquillity prevails.
The boundaries of Ceuta have been amicably
arranged.

The value of the territory ceded to Spain is
estimated at 300 millions of reels.
The news that Count Montemolin and his brother
had been captured has not been confirmed.

CONS I'ANTINOPLE, APRIL 10.

The Duke de Brabant arrived here yesterday,
and was received by the Sultan at the Tophane
Palace. To•day the Duke visited the British Am-
bassador, Sir Henry Bulwer.

moral, and the best means of ascertaining on
whom the blame should rest would beta thorough
investigation into the case. Blame, and inhu-
manity too, despite our correspondent's anger at the
term, must rest heavily somewhere, and it is not too
much to expect that the attention of the proper
authorities will be turned to this painful case.
May we ask why in an Union capable of contain-
ing over two hundred people there is not a ward
set apart for dangerous or infectious diseases ? As
to our worthy correspondent's view of the Poor-law
and its administration in former days, the less said
the better. Bad as it may have been in those
" good old times" we cannot help thinking that the
present example is not one to be copied by any set
of Guardians professing humanity to their fellow-
men, however poor or miserable.

fies that the Superior Council of Commerce, Agri-
culture, and Industry will proceed to an enquiry
for the purpose of investigating the average prices
of the obj€cts admitted into France by the Treaty
of Commerce with England, and in order to fix an
ad valorem duty upon them.