The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-29 00:00:00

THE REVOLUTION IN SICILY.

A letter from Naples, dated June 23, says :—" I
can give you no adequate idea of the apprehension
which has taken hold of the minds of all classes of
the population. It is not of a struggle of parties,
when a principle is supported and fought for on
either side ; nor is it indeed of a lsombardment,hor-
rible as it would be ; but it is the fear. of the fermi-
ties which may be executed by that mob of vaga-
bonds whom the Government of Naples has always
delighted to honour, and on whose assistance it cal-
culates, when the victims of its oppression turn
against it. All who can have secured villas in the
country for the season, and most are disposed to ex-
tend the villeggiatura of May through the summer ;
persons in humble circumstances are straining a
point to get away; foreigners we have none. On
some houses I have already seen " demicilio In-
glese" written, and the French are doing the same ;
those who have property are making inventories,
and sending them in to their respective consuls, and
the fear is justified by the historical antecedents of
the Bourbons, and by the probability, now not
doubted, of what might have taken place, and what
would have taken place on the 13th, but for the
presence of the British and French fleets. I believe
that the city was saved from scenes of great atro-
city on that day by the general impression that each
vessel would have landed a certain number of men
in the event of disorders occurring similar to those
which have occurred and been sanctioned on several
occasions within the last twenty or thirty years. It
is earnestly to be hoped that an impression so
wholesome may continue to exist, and may be con-
firmed by the fact if the city even for a moment is
in the hands of licensed ruffians.
" The Commendatore Martino returned fiom Paris
on Wednesday evening, the 20th inst., and, as is
asserted and generally believed, without producing
any results. No Jubilates are sung; but, on the
contrary, like a desperate man, the Govern-
ment at the last moment seems preparing to
take a step which it has dreaded, and refused to
take, but to which it is driven at last. De Martino,
whom I know, and whom I highly respect as an
honest and a liberal man, was with the King till a
late hour on Thursday night ; so was the Count of
Aquila, indeed, until after midnight; and yester-
day morning there was a family council, to be pre-
sent at which the Count of Aquila passed through
Naples at half-past 7in the morning. The conse-
quence is that a rumour is spread abroad of an in•
tcntion to grant a constitution—the Piedmontese
constitution ; but it is apparently too late. Vows
made in pain are not believed in. All intelligent
men with whom I have spoken on such possibilities
have no faith in the veracity of a prince who has
resisted all approaches to reform until ruin stares
him. in the face. The same thing will happen, they
feel persuaded, that has happened on former occa-
sions ; and the gift made with a bad will, will be
rendered a curse by all kinds of underhand trickery.
If the people are firm in their present opinions
they will fly from the proposition to be made, for
they are now persuaded that, as in 1848, those who
embrace the constitution to be given by the present
sovereign will be marked out for future persecu-
tion. It is to be regretted that it should be so, yet
any one who knows Naples cannot but say that
such distrust is here only another name for pru-
dence. In fact, the position cannot be more em-
broiled than it is; and in whatever direction I look
it is difficult to see what escape there remains from
the difficulties which surround us.
" On Wednesday night the Prefect of Police was
replaced by a Sig. Mensurati, ex-Attorney-General
in the province of Lucera, and you may judge of
the characters of those who administer the law from
the general observation which is made—' It is im-
possible that Mensurati can be a good choice, for
all attorney-generals are villains.' The facts are
that the old Prefect was connected with the old
clique, and fell; the new Prefect is one of the party
of Mazza, formerly director of police, whose infie.
ence is now all in all. A change has been made,
but no improvement, for there is no name more
odious in the police records of Naples than that of
Mazza, who virtually directs that power.
" With the exception of Stanislao Gatti, who has
terminated his imprisonment by a long exile in
Ischia, I have not heard of any other release than
I that. Capriciously arrested, and as capriciously

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The Marchese Villamarina, arterlaving made his
verbal protest, communicated last Tuesday with his
government, and he could not receive an answer
befcre last evening or this morning. The action of
the United States minister has of course been more
prompt, as he is at a distance from his government.
The Sardinians dare not communicate by wire, as .
the cypher is not secure, and every kind of trick
and obstacle is thrown in the way of communication.
" Since I wrote an Austrian steam frigate has
arrived, as also a Sardinian war steamer. The latter
left for Leghorn and Genoa on Thursday. The Nep-
tune, Renown, and Diadem went on a short cruise
round the Bay on Wednesday, and return probably
to-day. At all events, their long absence is unde-
sirable. The Agamemnon came in yesterday.
"I am told that telegraphic information has been
received of the disembarcation of some patriots in
Giulia Nuova, in the Abruzzi, and that in an en-
counter With General Pianelli's forces they were
worsted; but I wait for further intelligence.
"The troops are still encamped between Bagnoli
and Baiie, and malaria fever is doing its worst
among them. All who know Naples will remember
the drive up the Strada Nuova, and so on round
by Bagnoli. This 'round' is now interrupted.
After sunset sentinels prohibit your desQending to
the other side.

" And now, leaving Naples, let me give some Intel -
.igence of Sicily. lam preceded, it is said, by two
men, one called Risciotti, who revealed the Sspri
expedition to the government, and the other Roxas,
a follower of Garibaldi's in Rome, in 1848. They
are said to have left on a secret mission from
Government, and that Garibaldi may hear of it. I
receive all such reports with caution, still they
are by no means improbable.
Again, I am stopped at starting by the arrival of
boat loads of police and soldiers' wives and other
fugitives from Messina. The open space in front
of the Immacolatella is strewed with boxes, chairs,
and bedding. The complete evacuation of Palermo
took place, as you will by this time have heard
last Sunday, and the seven prisoners who were
laid hold of in the beginning of the revolution
were liberated, and taken in triumph through the
Toledo with their families, whilst flowers were
showered down upon them in profusion from the
windows. Their reappearance is like a resurrec-
tion, for the wonder is that they were not shot.
On the following day a Garibaldi force marched
south, I believe for Catania, where I hear in-
trigues have been going on against the provisional
government. Garibaldi has three vessels which he
has purchased of a Marseilles company ; and, as he
is arming them, we may expect to hear shortly of
captures. I have before mo a letter written by a
person in Palermo to a military man in this city,
and it possesses a most painful interest :
" Palermo, June 15.
"Dear Friend,—l answer yours of the 10th inst.,
which arrived yesterday. lam alive by a great
miracle, for my drawing room has been beaten down
into the court, and after 19 days of suffering I am
still ill. My house was completely burnt by the
ferocious shells. I have lost my two dearest friends,
and my soul is bleeding; two other dear friends are
in great danger. An ordinance' promised to pro-
tect peaceable citizens who remained' in their
houses, and we, whilst obeying the laws, were as-
sassinated in our beds.

" You would not believe the thefts on thefts and
the assassinations which have been committed by
the soldiers nor in their vilta. They robbed with-
out restraint, murdered without mercy, and then
fled without fighting, despising the orders of their
commanders. This is an infamous page in history.
They ought to be tried and shot. Enough, enough,
My heart bleeds. I feel as if I could not survive
such misfortunes.

" Your house was burnt. I shall endeavour to
make a demand for the verification and valuation
of the loss. The Baron is well, and had no losses
he saved himself on board. We, miserable, re-
mained victims. Addio, dear friend, we salute all
yours, and weep for me."
A marine officer just arrived says that his vessel
fired 300 rounds of grape shots and four shells, not-
withstanding the protests of the British Admiral
against such ferocity; but the instructions were to
do the greatest damage possible.
As to Catania, a lady writing to her friends here
says the engagement was over by one o'clock p.m.,
and peaceable citizens began to walk out, when the
soldiers appeared and fired at them like birds, the
officers ordering them to burn this or sack that
" palace" (house). Such horrors will never be for-
gotten to the end of time, and I believe that no
power on earth would ever induce the Sicilians to
unite themselves to the Neapolitans, however free
might be their institutions, so long as the Bour-
bons ruled over them. A report has been indus-
triously circulated here that the Sicilians are indis-
posed to annexation, and discontented with Gari-
baldi. The truth is just the contrary, for on every
house is written, " Vogliamo Pannessione al •regno
costituzionale di Vittorio Emmanuele ;" and as to
Garibaldi, he is the idol of the Sicilians. No active
enterprise is on hand at the present moment, but
the work of organising and arming is going on
vigorously, and, if I mistake not, we shall hear of
startling events shortly. A minister extraordinary
has been appointed by Garibaldi to the Court of
St. ,Tames and to that of Piedmont : in the first
case it is the Prince Belmonte—in the latter, the
Count Amari.

I return to Naples, where a family council was
held on Thursday and a constitution discussed. The
decision of the Court, whatever it may have been,
has led to the resignation of the Ministers, who
held office ad interim. Troja and Murena, the old
reactionary elements and partisans of the Queen-
Mother, have been charged with the formation of
the new Ministry. If a constitution is proclaimed,
as is generally reported will be the case, it may
probably be on the basis of that of Piedmont.
Eight months ago Baron Brenier recommended one
on a French basis, but I think that in that quarter
such an arrangement would not be deemed sufficient.
My opinion is, however, that the golden opportu-
nity has passed; the sole question is now of the
dynasty, the nation will have none of it, it is irri-
tated beyond the possibility of reconciliation, and
has lost all faith in it. A constitution now will only
load to a dynastic crisis. Orders have been given
by the intendenti to all the royal judges to call in
the notes against the attendibili troppo tardi; they
had asked for further instructions, as the decree
which liberated the attendibili (and was secretly
violated) provided also for the liberation of the con-
finati, and of those detained at the pleasure of the
police.

There was yesterday a great panic in the gold-
smith's quarter, and the shops were hastily shut at
mid-day.
Exchange, 604 ; Five per Cents., 1031.
The United States war steamer has just arrived
from Palermo.

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