The Sun.
London, England, 1860-04-25 00:00:00

TIIE INSURRECTION IN SICILY.

Sound.

A letter from Naples, dated April 17, says :
The Etna left last night at 8 o'clock with cavalry
for Messina. At present 18,000 soldiers are con-
centrated in Palermo. General Cataldi left the
city with 6,000 men on Saturday, but the insur-
gents, of course, retired. It is not their plan to
risk any general engagement. Cataldi returned
without results. The artillery have destroyed the
villas under Monte Pellegrino, especially near the
barracks Borgognone. Near this spot the cavalry
were much cut up by the insurgents.
We have no steamer in from, Palermo to-day,
but one from Messina gives the following intelli-
gence :—The troops seem to have acted with the
greatest caprice, and to have themselves done every-
thing to promote a revolution. On the night of
the 10th and morning of the 12th they began firing
without any apparent necessity with both musketry
and cannon. Many people were killed in their
houses. The soldiers fired right and left as if for
amusement, or as if under a panic. The British
and French Consuls in the first place remonstrated
against a bombardment of the town, but were reas-
sured. However, as a cannonade took place they
went to the commandant with a strong protest,
couched in very severe terms. They were informed
that if they chose they might enter the arsenal,
but that the commandant had no alternative than
to fire if the necessity occurred. A Swiss gentle-
man had been arrested as he was leaving a
monastery, where he had been visiting one of the
fathers, and who had been imprisoned three days
without any cause. An officer had been shot by
one of his own soldiers, and another soldier had shot
himself in his sleep whilst acting as sentinel. Such
was the disorder which existed. With all this the
town seemed to be somewhat reassured, and people
were returning.
General Viglia, it was said in the morning, had
been shot with a ramrod, and now again 1 hear
that it was a shot fired accidentally ; but it is ob-
served that several rounds had been already fired.
The ball entered the right shoulder. He suffers
much, but I am not aware that the wound is dan-
gerous. General Viglia served as major in the 10th,
in Lombardy, in 1848, was decorated by Victor
Emmanuel, and is much esteemed.

The Ladies Cornwallis have arrived in Charles,
street for the season.

Lord and Lady Proby have arrived at their rea
donee in llalkin street 'West for the season.

Captain the Hon. Robert and Mrs. Lawley hale•
arrived at their house in Berkeley-square for the season,

Lord and Lady I)igby come to Belgravc-square
to-day, from Mintern House, Dorset, for the season.
NERRUDDA COAL AND IRON COMPANY.—It ap-
pima that the directors of this company have received in-
timation from the Secretary of State for India that instruc-
tions have been given to the Government of India to grant
them their lease.

BETTING HOUSES IN MANCHESTER.—Yesterday
51 men, the keepers of betting-houses and persons found in
them, who had been captured on the previous evening by
the police, were brought before the magistrates of Man-
chester, under the Act of Parliament lately passed for sup-
pressing such places. John Turton and 15 others were
.barged with being found in the house of Aaron Worsley,
licensed victualler, Thomas-street. The police proved that
Turton was employed entering bets and taking money, but
he said the landlord had nothing to do with them—he was
engaged in the transactions for his own benefit. Mr. Maude
fined him £lOO, but he gave notice of appeal, and entered
into the required securities. The other cases were adjourned
till Friday.
HER MAJESTY'S TIIEATRE.—The Queen's box
last evening was occupied by Sir Charles-Phipps and party.
Amongst the many distinguislaed personages who visited
this' fashionable Opera-house we observed :—His Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Duchess of Welling-
ton, the Duke of Hamilton, the Duke of Rutland, the Duke
of Cleveland, Earl Dudley, Earl of Malmesbury, Marquis of
Clanricarde, Marchioness of Ailesbury, Baron and Baroness
Brunnow, Lord Mountcharles, Lord Bath, Lord De Tabley,
Lord Sydney, Load Sefton, Lady Beaumont, Lady Monson,
Lady J ano Repton and party, Lady Bradford, Lady Emily
Peel, Lady Clifford, Lady Mary Craven, Lord and Lady
Trinilestnwn, Sir John Lowther, Sir George Bowles, Sir.
Ralph Howard, Sir Alexander Frazer, Sir George Womb-
well, the Countess of Waldegrare, Count Batthyany, the
lion. Mr. and Mrs..Vickress, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Chi-
chester, the Hon. Otway Toler, Sir R. Throckmorton, Sir
Proby Cautley, Sir W. Frazer, Countess of Harringlee,
Colonel assd Mrs. Freestun, Colonel P. M'Donald, Major
Blake, Major Pole, Captain Atherley, Mdme. Ralli, Mr.
F. Cooper, Mr. Hlbert de Burgh, Sergeant Ballantine,
Mr. and. Mrs. Julian Pauncefote, Mr. Packe Reading, Mr.
Danby Seymour, Mr. Riggis, Mr. Perry, Mr. Stewart, Mr.
Shoolbred, Mr. Stone, Major Locke, &c.

LIVERPOOL TESTIMONIALS TO SAYERS AND
HEENAN.—A rumour is current in Liverpool that Tom
Sayers will in a few days pay a visit there to receive the
testimonial now being raised in acknowledgment of his cou-
rage and endurance in the late contest with Ileenan. The
amount subscribed has reached nearly £2OO, and there is
little doubt it will be augmented should the champion ap-
pear in propriapersona to receive the gift. We understand
the subject of a presentation to Heenan has also been taken
up by some of his admirers in Liverpool, and that the Ame-
rican captains at this port have intimated their inten-
tion of making him a handsome and substantial acknow-
ledgment, It is said that the amount already collected
reaches about £l5O. Some of the admirers of the pugilistic
art have gone so far as to get up a requisition inviting
Sayers and Heenan to come down to Liverpool together and
ieceive their respective testimonivls personally.—Liverpool
Mercury.
SABBATH EVENING READINGS.—Since the dis-
continuance of the Sabbath evening sermons for the season,
the directors of the Glasgow Abstainers' Union have been
trying a series of Sabbath evening readings in the Lesser
City Hall. Readings for the working classes were com-
menced in Glasgow two years ago by Mr. Wm. Logan, and
since then several country districts hay" adopted the same
pl9n, which tends to elevate those upon whom it is brought
to bear, imparting both moral and spiritual instruction.
After devotional exercises on Sabbath evening, the second
reading of the series was given by Mr. Wm. Logan, who
read selections of deep interest from the Rev Dr. Guthrie's
new work, " Pleas for Ragged Schools." The work em-
braces three picas—and eloquent and noble pleas they are
—for the furtherance of that cause projected by the noble
cobbler, John Pounds. The work should be scattered over
the country in thousands. It places the Doctor in the
front rank of social reformers.—Glasgow Daily Mail,
April 21.

2HE EA VY.

The screw steamship Hero, 91, Captain George
H Seymour, was taken into the lock at Keyham

steamyard on Monday, and was appointed to be
placed in No. 1 dock yesterday to be cleaned and

overhauled.

The screw steamship Conqueror, 101, Captain
Sotheby, C.B , was appointed to leave Hamoaze

yesterday to make a trial of her machinery outside

the Breakwater, and return to the Sound.

The screw steamer Rodney, 91, which was towed
from Chatham on Monday by the African and

Adder steamers, brought up at Folly Point, where

she now lies at anchor.

The paddlewheel steam sloop Virago, 6, Com-
mander M. B. Dunn, having coaled in Hamoaze, got
up steam on Monday, and proceeded into Plymouth

, The screw steam-vessel Arrow, 4, was transported
on Monday from Keyham to her moorings off
Devonport dockyard.
The paddlewheel steam-frigate Terrible, 21, Cap-
tain Glasse, C. 8., received coal on Monday in Ply-
mouth Sound.

The crews of the Surprise and the Atalanta at
Plymouth were appointed to be paid off yesterday.
The Torch, 5, screw steamer, having completed
fitting at Chatham, was yesterday put out of No. 1
dock.

Several important alterations have been ordered
by the Lords of the Admiralty to be effected at No.
1 dock at Chatham dockyard, in order to provide
accommodation for the largest line-of-battle ships
required to be docked at that establishment. Among
the other improvements ordered to be effected, a
new entrance is to be built to the dock from the
river, and some important alterations carried out in
the interior, the whole of which will occupy several
months.

A serious accident, and one which might have
been of a very fatal character, occurred last Satur-
day evening on board the screw steamship Royal
Albert, 121, Capt. H. I. Lemon, now in the basin at
Keyham steamyard, Plymouth. It having become
necessary to remove her four old boilers, great exer-
tions were used to attain that object, so as to get
the ship ready again for sea speedily. The Royal
Albert entered the lock on Tuesday, the
17th instant, and, after discharging coal,
was placed alongside the crane in the
basin. On Saturday morning the men commenced
getting out the boilers; three, weighing each
28 tons, were removed before 5 o'clock in the after-
noon, and the remaining one, equally pondeious,
was hoisted out of the hold the required height,
but just as preparations were being made to raise
the shears for the purpose of conveying the beiler

over the side, the fall of the chain broke, and the
cumbrous machine fell on the deck in the waist,
smashing to pieces the plank, one of the beams, and
several of the " carlings," but fortunately without
dropping further. Having been canted, as is the
custom when clear of the hatchway, it jammed it-
self against the fragments of the carlings and beams
in such a manner as to be completely suspended
over the hatchway through which it had been just
raised. At the moment 20 or more shipwrights
were employed directly below " spotting " over the
bed on which the boiler had rested, and had it gone
down the probability is that the greater number, if
not the whole of them, besides the enginemen and
a portion of the crew, would have been crushed to
death, the height being more than 50ft. Some
double balks of timber were promptly placed under
the boiler, to prevent the possibility of its falling
further, and, as the smiths were fortunately in the
yard, two of them, with Littleton, the man in charge
of the shop, went down at once, and repaired the
chain. The small purchase and the repaired pur-
chase were then applied together, and the boiler
was removed from its dangerous position. By this
time the decks were fully shored up under the balks,
and the boiler was then lowered on them, and left
there until Monday, when, a new eight-inch hemp
hawser having been substituted for the treacherous
chain, the fourth boiler was ultimately taken out
of the ship, Some five or six beams, besides car-
lings, will have to be replaced, and it will be nece-
sary to repair 20 feet of the deck. The defective
chain is about five-eighths of an inch thick ; the
broken link appears imperfect in the welding,
it is now in the possession of Mr.' Trickett,
chief engineer of the yard. The link broke on
the drum of the steam-engine machinery, which
is in a shed 50 feet fro .n the ship, communi-
cation being obtained through a trunk way
under the surface of the yard. The engine was
promptly stopped or thrown out of gear by one
of the men in charge. The new boilers are manu-
factured by Mr. Yale, foreman of the boiler depart-
ment at Keyham. It was expected that they would
be put in yesterday, and that the engines would be
ready to get up steam in about eight days.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Commander F. N. K. Wasey,
and Commander J. B. Ballard, to be Inspecting
Commanders of the Coastguard ; Lieut. Charles R.
Scott, to the Wellington ; Richard Munday, to be
Secretary to Rear-Admiral Sir William Codring-
ton ; George P. Martin, to be Secretary to Vice-
Admiral William F. Martin; Frederick Cleeve,
C 8., to be Secretary to Rear-Admiral Talbot ;
John Moysey, Second-class Assistant Engineer to
the Asia, for charge of the Rainbow ; Richard
Oliver, Third-class Assistant-Engineer, to the Cum-
berland, for service in the Cochin; John Watson,
Leopold N. Green, and Peter Murray, Acting
Third-class Assistant-Engineers, to the Arrogant,
as supernumeraries for disposal.

THE ARMY.

His Royal Highness the General Commanding-
in-Chief will hold a levee at one o'clock on Monday
next, the 30th inst.

The Duke of Cambridge has issued a general
order, directing that any soldier who, on the com.
pletion of his limited term of service, is desirous 01
re-enlisting, is to be granted three months' leave o,
absence, for the .purpose of visiting hie friends be•
fore he re-engages himself.

INSUBORDINATION ON BOARD THE

EDGAR.

A court martial, composed of the same members
who sat on the previous day, assembled on board
her Majesty's ship Victory yesterday, in Portsmouth
harbour, for the trial of William Mathews, Thomas
Doidge, Alfred Gunston, William Parker, Francis
Trickey, Daniel Mooney, Alfred Fry, Charles
Cannon, William Harvey, and Charles Lucas,
privates, Royal Marines ; and Henry Dawson,
gunner, Royal Marine Artillery, belonging to her
Majesty's ship Edgar, at Spithead, on two charges
of not coming on deck when the starboard watch
was piped to fall in, and disobedience of orders, &c.
A number of formal documents having been read
over, the court was sworn, and proceeded to examine
witnesses, the first called being the prosecutor,
Capt. Katon.
Capt. J. E. Katon, commanding her Majesty's
ship Edgar, being sworn, deposed to the same facts
which he had already done at the trial of Clarke on
the previous day—the granting of leave to 50 of
the ship's seamen and marines on the sth inst. ; the
extending of the leave to 12 per cent. of seamen; but
not marines, as there were 12 per cent. of the latter
on shore, and several of them at that time breaking.
their leave ; the insubordination subsepently dis-
played by the marines on the afternoon of the 10th
inst., on which day, at 4 p.m., the starboard watch
was ordered to fall in, and almost all the marines
of the watch disobeyed the order. Soon afterwards
the men were piped to supper, and after supper
" quarters" were piped, when every ono obeyed in
an orderly manner, and were mustered at their
guns. After " quarters" I again ordered the star-
board watch to fall in. The seamen obeyed. The
marines did not obey the order. I then ordered
Captain Louis, commanding the marines, to have
them mustered singly and brought on deck. On
his reporting that they were present, they were
marched aft, and each man separately asked his
on deck in answer to
reason for not cOming
pipe to do so. Those who gave sufficient reasen fo
not being up were dismissed. The others (the
prisoners) were afterwards, by order of Admit 8,1