The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-07 00:00:00

FRENCH PLAYS-ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
Directeur, M. Talexy.—Le9see, Mr. F. B. Chatterton.

THIS EVENING LA TENTA T lON. Comedie, en
cinq actes, de M. Octove Feuillet. Dldlle. Duverger, M. Brin
dcau, and M. Paul Devoux.
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Gallery, 15

Private Boxes, from Two Guineas.
Doors open at half-past 7.
Box-office open daily from 11 till 5.

A STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
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THIS EVENING,
The Grand Hippo-Drama, " TIIE HISTORY OF A FLAG."
Wondrous Scenes in the Cirque, supported by the most
talented Equestrian and Gymnastic Artistes in the World.
Concluding with a Laughable Farce.
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The maz.nificent Chan,teliers manufactured by Messrs. De.
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Director of the Arena—M. Felix Revolti.

CONCERTS.-

CANTERBURY HALL
THIS EVENING.
C. H. GOUNOD'S OPERA,
FAUST.
First Time in this Country.
Faust Mr. Henry Herbert.
Mephistopheles Mr. C. Bernard.
Siobel Mrs. Anderson.
Marguerite
Conductor. Mr. Jonghmans.
And selections from
Dinorah, Trovatore, Macbeth, and numerous other
Entertainments.
Balcony, is, Hall. ed.
Comic Vocalists —Messrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come
dlan and Mimic), and W. T. Critchfield.
The AFRICAN OPERA TROUPE, their first appearance
since 1852, consisting of ELEVEN STAB, PERFORMERS,
who will give the whole of their inimitable entertainment
every evening.
The gallery is open from 5 till 11 on Sunday Evening.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1860.

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The liberation, then, of Palermo is sealed. The
letter, which our readers will read with such
pleasure, though, thanks to a despot's mercenaries,
with such painful pleasure, we have every reason
to think_ authentic. It reaches us just as we go to
press, but we have full hope that its truth will soon
he corroborated by telegrams or further letters.
Our only doubt is whether " full possession" means
that the Neapolitan troops are driven out of the
castle also, since communications bearing a date so
near to that of the letter, imply that the armistice
was still existing, prolonged, some say, to the 3d of
this month, others till to day. It records, any-
how, a brave soldier's view of the position of the
liberators and patriots—and that is, that Palermo
is theirs. We cannot be long now without more

definite information.

The mercenaries of the KING have, many of them
at least, fought more fiercely than might have been
expected, but perhaps they felt that they fought
with a rope round their neck. GARIBALDI is, in-
' deed, pre-eminently, a man of mercy, but it would
not suit the Neapolitan Generals to let his men
think so ; and as to the native Sicilians, the oppres-
sors knew that their victims hated them with the
most cordial good will. After the atrocious bom-
bardment of the nonmilitary part of the city what
could the fiends hope for from the inhabitants but
the shortest passage to their " own place." The sen-
timents of the people towards Lord JOHN RUSSELL,
and the people of England, are gratifying, the
more so because we all know them to be just. And,
with Mr. PorE HENNESSY'S leave, we beg, at the
hazard of his moving that Sir RICHARD BETHELL
prosecute us for mi,demeanour, or for anything
else, to recommend the paragraphs relating to
material aid to the attention of all our countrymen.
At the same hazard we beg to add, that anything
in our power which would facilitate the obtaining
or transmission of such aid, it will give us the
greatest pleasure to do. Nor do we believe there
is a journalist in England who would not heartily
say the same. It is, as the writer remarks, huma-
nity to strengthen GARIBALDI.

Anything like wilful misrepresentation is always
as sure to recoil—after hitting the intended foul
blow—as a boomerang. Of this truth our po-
litical history is perpetually affording us
fresh illustrations. It is a truth, however,
so wholesome in its influence when recognised,
that it is worth insisting upon at every
available opportunity as though it had never pre-
viously been demonstrated. slow few of us have
forgotten the CANNING episode towards the close
of the political career of the late Sir ROBERT
PEEL. lfow few who marked it at the time
will be likely now to lose the remembrance
of it. We might enumerate a considerable
catalogue of similar incidents if we cared to
to do so, by carelessly flickering open the dusty
leaves of past volumes of _Hansard, and bringing
• to recollection again now almost forgotten inci-
dents of the like kind in the annals of Parliament.
Our doing so, however, at the present time, would
be, with a double significance in the phrase, worse
than superfluous. For during this current session
of ours for 1860, we have had the old truth here
referred to again and again signally demonstrated.
Two instances among these are especially
deserving of some cursory commemoration—in-
stances of these recoiling boomerangs of misre-
presentation. They were both of them as flagrant
in their extravagance as, in its utter absurdity, was
that minor misrepresentation indulged in the other
day by one of our Ministerial morning con-
temporaries when charging th-e right honourable

baronet.the member for Hertfordshire (indirectly,
through some Vestry meeting report) with having
designated the people of this country, those humble
and toil-worn classes making up the bulk of our
population as " boors"—or with having applied to
them some other epithet equally supercilious and
contumelious in its significance. Than which
charge nothing, we believe, could be more abso-
lutely groundless or more entirely preposterous,
Not a spoken word from that month, not a written
word
.from that hand being anywhere adduceable
to bear out this unfair and foolish accusation. The
accused orator in truth might rest satisfied with
retorting simply to the author of the misrepresenta-
tion, the very words addressed by HAMLET to the
Players, though with more literal force
in their application " Speak the speech I
gave you as I pronounced it to you" and
so forth. And vainly would " boors" be looked for
as applied to our English peasantry-, by one like
Sir EDWARD LITTON, of whom, it is remembered,
among many other kindred incidents, that his
famous " Letters to John Bull," for example,
were signed as forcibly as significantly A
Landlord and a Labourer ! Enough now,
however, if in commemoration of the two
most recent and striking illustrations of the whole-
some truth which we would fain thrust at every
available opportunity upon general recognition—
if we here remind our readers of the instances in
which misrepresentations recoiled of late succes-
sively from the noble lord the Secretary to the Ad-
miralty, and from the honourable gentleman the
member for the borough of Nottingham. Mr.
HORSMAN'S knuckles for one, we should eonjecture,
must yet be tingling from the return of his swing-
ing boomerang.

Not many years ago we heard strange stories
from China of the leaders of the rebels there; they
took the names of Princes—Eastern, Northern,
Western Princes, and professed to have communi-
cations from Heaven itself. Having begun with
some rude ill-adjusted ideas and facts derived from
the Scriptures, they went on till the Eastern Prince,
we believe, asserted himself to be the Holy Ghost,
and the first inspired leader of the rebellion, after
due investigation, acknowledged his claim. Of
course the blasphemy seemed to us very shocking,
yet we naturally pitied the delusions of both leaders
and followers on the ground of their profound
ignorance of Christianity. With the complacencf.of
a people who know all about it, we smiled at the
credulity of the previous worshippers of BLDIIA and
of idols. We did not much wonder that they
thought their leaders inspired, who taught them
to smash their porcelain or paper idols, or one of
them even a person of the sacred Trinity.

There is now, however, before the Vice-Chancel-
lor's Court a case which may subtract a little from
the national superciliousness with which we regard
those numerous natives of the flowery empire, who
regard the Eastern Prince as an incarnation of the
Holy Ghost. We, too, have, it seems, a PRINCE
who is honoured yet more highly—a WESTERN
PRINCE— for his palace, of which we have heard
before under the name of the Agapemone (abode of
love), is at Spinxton, near Bridgewater, and
we ought to drop in such a case the common-
place Christian name of HENRY JAMES. Our
WESTERN • PRINCE, according to the explicit
statements of his followers, is the Tabernacle of
GOD on earth. The spirit of what was HENRY
JAMES PRINCE is extinct in the mortal vehicle in
which it once dwelt, and the Spirit of GOD occupies
its place. In the palace of our WESTERN PRINCE
worship is considered superfluous, for the day of
grace is past, and the day of judgment and of
the resurrection came in the person of the WESTERN
PRINCE. His teaching, in brief, was this : that
every previous dispensation or covenant had been
terminated by bringing forth its perfect person ;
the first covenant of all brought forth ADAM, the
next NOAH, the next ABRAHAM, ancl the fourth JESUS'
CHRIST ; but here we had better use the ipsissima
cerba of the WESTERN PRINCE :—" GoD, in JESUS
CHRIST, has again entered into covenant with man
at the resurrection of mankind. This is the first ie-
surrection, and now lam His witness. This one
man, myself, has JESUS CHRIST selected and ap-
pointed his witness to his counsel and purpose, to con-
clude the day of grace, and to introduce the day of
judgment to close the dispensations of the spirit—
the Gospel, and to enter into covenant with flesh.
. . . . The dispensation of the law closed so
soon as one was found perfect therein—the Lord
JESUS CHRIST; and in like manner the dispensa-
tion under which the spiritual seed of JESUS CHRIST
lived, that is the Gospel, closed so soon as one u'as
found perfect therein—Brother Prince. As it has
been GoD's way in the history of mankind to open
a new dispensation by means of him as His witness,
in whom He had made perfect the former one, so
now He has introduced the day or dispensation of
judgment and the first resurrection through Brother
PRINCE, His witness, in whom he had by His spirit
fulfilled the dispensation of the Gospel, and so
closed it."

The reader will hardly credit the statement that
these are the words concerning himself of a man in
Holy orders in the Church of England, who had been
duly educated in one of her theological institutions ;
and that several gentlemen of property, one of them
a lawyer, have been believers in this PRINCE, re-
sidents in his Agapemone, and contributors to his
institution of sums varying in amount from £l,OOO

to 1:10,000. That four maiden ladies of property
should believe in the incarnation of the Holy Spirit
in a clergyman, may not surprise so much. We
are accustomed to the caprices of religious imagina-
tion amongst unoccupied single ladies ; but the
gullibility of men and lawyers, and in the matter
of hard cash too, would seem to leave us no
very flattering grounds of national :comparison
with the Chinese believers in the EASTERN PRINCE.

It was in connection with the four ladies just
mentioned that the facts of this marvellous case
have come before the public—and facts they are, as
it is often remarked, stranger than any fiction.
iln 1840, PRINCE became curate of a Mr. STARKEY,
at Charlwich, in Somersetshire; for intermeddling
with other parishes he was deprived by the Bishop
of his license. But even at Charlwich he showed
his power of gaining ascendancy over the minds of
others—for Mr, STARKEY figures as a donor of
£l,OOO to Agapemene. He soon found ano-
ther curacy at Stoke, in Suffolk, where he formed
acquaintance with Mr. JOSTAS NOTTIDGE and his
four daughters, LOUISA JANE (whose gift to him of
£5,728 Three per Cent. Annuities, just before her
death, was the occasion of the present suit by her
brother, who most righteously seeks, as her admini-
strator, to set aside the gift), HARRIET, CLARA, and
AGNES. He then went to Brighton and opened a
chapel there, keeping up, through servants, clan-
destine correspondence with tire girls. Mr. NOT-
TIDGE died, leaving his daughters between £5,000
and £6,000 each. And now, of course, he had the
ladies entirely in his power.
They are soon all got down to Taunton; there
we find Mr. and Mrs. PRINCE, the Misses NOT-
TIDGE, and Mrs. STARKEY. They lodge at inns,
but by Mr. PRINCE'S especial direction,
the Misses NOTTIDGE pay the expenses of the
whole party. And here occurs the scene which
shows the complete subjection of these
_finnalt e' i

minds to the inspired PRINCE. On the morning
of June 10, 1845, the party being still at Taunton,
PRINCE sent a message from his own inn to Miss
HARRIET NOTTIDGE requiring her presence, and
upon her entering the room in which he and Mrs.
PRINCE and STARKEY were sitting he informed
her that she would give great glory to GOD
by marrying his friend, Mr. LEWIS PRICE,
and such consent having been obtained,
he directed Miss NOTTIDGE to withdraw, and
to keep entirely secret what had passed at their
interview. A second message of similar import was
immediately after received by Miss AGNES NOT-
TIDGE, and when she got into PRINCE'S pre-
senee he told her that GOD was about to con-
fer on her an especial blessing, which the
Spirit directed him to make known to her,
but that, before hearing what that bless-
ing was, she must make a solemn promise to
do whatever was required of her. After some
reluctance on her part Miss AGNES NOTTIDGE
gave such promise, and was thereupon in-
formed that the blessing in question was that
she would be marrie I to Brother Thomas in a
a few days. Miss NOTTIDGE objected to the mar-
riage taking place before a settlement should
have been made for the purpose of providing
for any family which she might have have. PRINCE
and STARKEY immediately replied, "There will be
no need of anything of that kink. You will have
no family. It will not be in accordance with your
present calling. Your marriage will be purely
spiritual, to carry out the purposes of God." Miss
AGNES NOTTIGE then withdrew. On the same day
PRINCE dined with the young ladies, in company
with Messrs. PRICE and THOMAS, toil during
dinner informed those gentlemen that HARRIET
AGNES NOTTIGE had, in obedience to the will
of GoD, consented to become their wives."
He afterwards married a third sister in the same
manner to persons of whom they knew nothing
before; the marriages were solemnised immedi-
ately at Swansea, because, he said, "it was the
will of GoD," though the young ladies demurred
through fear of causing " great sorrow" to their
mother. PRINCE, however, referred them to the
book of" Jonah," to show them the consequences
of disobeying GOD by keeping the fourth command-
ment. They were consequently married, in black
dresses—for so the spirit directed—on the 9th of
July, to the three husbands, two of them penniless
men, we believe, previously, and third with but
£l,OOO of his own. It is not for us to anticipate
the legal decision of the judge. But, set-
ting aside the blasphemous extravagances
these poor girls were led to believe, we
imagine that any jury of English fathers—
certainly any jury of mothers—would decide that
the spiritual influence over female minds must be
" u ndue" in the highest degree, if it could enforce
their consent on the spot, to marriage with strange
"brethren"—to marriage without a settlement,
when even the woman urged its importance, and
to marriage in a way to cause great sorrow to a
widowed mother, while the poor girls retained so
strongly amidst these spiritual aberrations, their
instinctive filial sentiment. Had most of us been
their brothers, we much fear we should have in-
curred the penalties of taking the law into our
own hands in regard to the inspired gentleman.
In the case of Miss NOTTIDGE, who, by Divine
command, became Mrs. Thomas, and who, as above
narrated, was guaranteed against needing a settle-
ment of her money, it became in due time apparent
that the guarantee was not fulfilled. Thereupon
and in consequence thereof, PRINCE expressed great
anger with her," and her husband, who was away
from her at the time, writes, " The servant
of the Lord' told me that you would not be in
your present state unless you had rebelled months
ago; and thus you will suffer for it in not being
able to go about with her as you otherwise would ;
but when I see you I will tell you all about it."
THOMAS endeavoured to get the child at one time
away from her, but Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT
BRUCE was appealed to, and appointed Mrs.
THOMAS and her mother guardians of the child.
Such are the principal facts of this extraordinary
case. As to the Agapemonists, they seem to enjoy
all the possible comforts which a good mansion,
extensive grounds surrounding it, conservatories,
excellent horses, carriages, and such like comforts
can minister to the " children of the resurrec-
tion," but, while persecution of Mormonists, Joanna
Scottians, and Agapemonists is folly only second
to that of the victims, we trust the law will yet
prove to be on the side protecting property from
the attacks of religious insanity.

LETTER FROM PALERIIIO.

TO TILE EDITOR OF TILE SUN.

SlR,—The following letter from the battle-ground of
Palermo, to a member of the Garibaldi Testimonial Com-
mittee, written with the abrupt emphasis of a soldier, "hot
with rage" in a noble war, may have interest at this hour,
and show the friends of Garibaldi the kind of aid he most
wishes. The writer bears five wounds, fighting under
Garibaldi before. He was in London on May 22d, but left
to express that sympathy which his arm could give.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,

T. D. P. HODGE,
Hon. Sec. to the Garibaldi Testimonial Committee.
The -Union, Anderton's Hotel, June 6, 1860.

Palermo, May 28.
Dear Sir,—Just time to say that we are in full posses-
sion after streams of blood have flowed. Fights 'twist
brothers are deadly.
We want money; we want, as I told you, a British
steamer, chartered with revolving rifles and pistols of
Colt's (17, Pall Mall) ; also some cannon raye. But,
for the sake of humanity and liberty, do hurry up the
subscriptions. The sooner we are strong, the less the
chance of more fighting. We muster now some 30,000,
all told, though not all armed. We want arms and am-
munition, and caps—Minie rifles—or the rifle corps pat-
tern the General would as soon have. He is well, and
radiant with joy and hope, though sighing over the neces-
sity to shed blood. Oh ! will the world never learn to value
the really great men of earth until the grave has closed
over them I Garibaldi has written only one or two of all the
things published over his name ; the rest are the inventions
of enemies or over-zealous friends.

Messina must capitulate. If the King grant a Consti •
tution, all will be lost. The Bourbons must be driven
from Italy, for it will never be quiet without. Warn
the papers against trusting the so-called letters, &c., from
Garibaldi. He writes little or none, and. dislikes to be
made prominent.
Do try and urge on the subscriptions. The English ad-
miral here has behaved bravely, and Lord John Russell's
praises are in every one's mouth, but he must not falter
nor hesitate.

The Royal Palace is burned down, and the fighting was
desperate indeed.
Of all the defeats imputed to the " insurgents," not one
has really taken place. The General was obliged at times
to sacrifice some lives for strategical purposes.
Now, pray use your influence for England not to allow
Naples to patch up a peace, for I tell you it is useless.
Garibaldi and his friends will never consent to anything
short of " Italy for the Italians."
You may communicate this as "official," if you wi§h, to
the newspapers, reserving my name.
Yours truly, in great haste,
G. J. Holyeake, Esq.
P.S.—I need hardly say this will have to take its chance
of getting to you. I trust it to a captain whom I have
given the money to pay the postage in Genoa, where he is
going. Will you let me hear from you.

MR. AGUILAR'S CONCERT.—On Monday Mr.
Aguilar, one of our most eminent professors of the piano-
forte, and a composer of great ability, gave a concert on
Monday afternoon, at the Hanover-square Rooms, which
was numerously and fashionably attended. With few ex-
ceptions, the special pieces were compositions by Mr.
Aguilar, of m hich a Sestot for pianoforte, flute, oboe, clari-
net, horn, and bassoon, and Trio for pianoforte, violin, and
violincello, were the most important. The Sestet was
played for the first time in public, and the Trio for the
second time,. Both compositions are emanations from a
skilful and clever musician. The Sestet is by far the most
ambitious work, and betokens not only great readiness in
treatment and development, and an undeniable feeling for
harmony, but much felicity of thought and conception. It
was played to perfection by Mr. Aguilar (pianoforte), Mr.
Pratten, Mr. Nicholson, Mr. Lazarus, Mr. C. Harper, and
Mr. Hausser. In the Trio Mr. Aguilar enjoyed the co-
operation of Mr. Alfred Holmes and Herr Lidel. Mr.
Aguilar's other performances comprised Beethoven's sonata,
an arrangement of \Veber's last Waltz, and a Bolero of his
own composition, All were admirably played. The
singers were Miss Lindo, Miss Parepa, and Signor Belletti.
Altogether Mr Aguilar's.concert was one of the most in-
teresting or the tiseason.

LATEST NEWS.

MARSEILLES, JUNE 6.
The direct steamer from Messina brings news to
;he 3d inst.

The city was deserted. All merchandise had
been embarked. All the consuls had left excepting
M. Boulard, the French consul, who was transport-
ing his effects to the Descartes, on board of which
he would retire as soon as the city should be be-
sieged or become the theatre of fighting.
The Supreme Committee of Palermo had an-
nounced in the name of the Dictator that a vote
will be taken on the question of annexation to Sar-
dinia.

The inhabitants of the towns in insurrection had
requested the neighbouring communes to seed in
provisions.

The whole of Palermo was barricaded and forti-
fied. Garibaldi bad a great number of grenades at
his disposal.

Other royal troops stationed in the neighbour-
hood of the custom-house had gone over to Gari-
baldi with arms and ammunition. Influence was
also exercised by Garibaldi's agents in the other
portions of the Neapolitan army.
It was said that there were 2,000 sick and wounded
among the royal troops.

One thousand volunteers from Cagliari had dic-
embarked at Marsala.

The English admiral had announced the signa-
ture of an armistice.

In the affair at Catania the peasants fought well,
but were ultimately repulsed. The Neapolitans
lost 200 men.

Orders had been given to the various bands of
insurgents to concentrate for the final combats.

BERLIN, JUNE 6.

It is said that an understanding between Prussia
and the middle States of Germany will be brought
about by an interview at Baden-Baden between
the Prince Regent of Prussia and several German
sovereigns.

HANOVER, JUNE 6.

The official Gazette announces that Minister Ton
Borries has been raised to the dignity of Count in
consideration of his services.

CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNE 5.

Muchtar Pacha, Minister of the Civil List, has
been appointed Minister of Finance, replacing
ETassib

Chefik Pacha, hitherto Minister without port-
folio, replaces Muchtar Pacha.
Theodor Baltazzi is dead.

THE INSURRECTION IN SICILY.

A letter from Turin;:dated June 3, says :—" 'We
have rqceived from Sicily news which the telegraph
has confirmed, that the little steamer Utile bas
successfully landed 500 volunteers and 2,000 mus-
kets on that island. The arms sent from America
must also have reached their destination, since
Garibaldi himself sends word that he no longer
requires any. It is true that his principle of sup-
plying one's self with weapons at the enemy's ex-
pense has been pretty fairly carried out this time,
and this is possibly the reason why he wants no
more. I have seen the brief letter in which he
says this ; in it he also praises the courage of the
Sicilians who joined his colours, and I have like-
wise seen a note written by his Aide-de-Camp Turr,
who communicates the sad tidings that Menotto,
Garibaldi's son, had been seriously wounded. The
death of this gallant youth would be a heavy loss
indeed ; he has been the pride of his father, whose
gallantry and simple habits he inherits. Among
the wounded there is also the son of Manin, who
was the dictator of Venice in 1848."

Another letter of the same date says :—" The
telegraph this morning informs us that the King
of Naples first applied to Austria for assistance,
and that the Cabinet of Vienna replied that it
would have been glad to afford aid to its faithful
ally were it not that the principle of non-interven-
tion had been established. It was then that the
King determined to apply to the diplomatic repro.
sentatives to interfere. It is said that at Palermo
the inhabitants threw down on the troops, stones,
furniture, boiling oil, trunks, china, anything."
The following are some further particulars from
Palermo :

Except the Castle, the Treasury, and the Palace,
the whole of Palermo was in the hands of Garibaldi,
and the Neapolitan troops at these points were com-
pletely hemmed in. Medical attendance had been
asked of Garibaldi by the Neapolitan general, and
granted. Provisions had also been applied for and
refused. On containing possession of the city he
opened the prison, liberated the prisoners, and took
the gaolers and as many of the police as he could
find. After exhibiting these for a day in the mar-
ket-place, he hanged them, in the presence
of the people. A good many of the townspeople
were killed by the Neapolitan soldiers during Gari-
baldi's assault, and by the shot and shell from the
ships. The Neapolitan troops who had been de-
ceived and led into the country by Garibaldi's
feigned retreat had re-entered the town by sea, the
steamers having picked them up on the coast.
Those in the Castle were completely cut off from
those in the Palace.

The _Neapolitan ti oops, who still held these points,
were greatly discouraged, and it was thought would
not fight.

The streets, barricaded and protected by cannon,
Were in the hands of Garibaldi and the towns-
people. The first truce asked for by the Neapoli
tans was broken by them, but Garibaldi appeared-
to take no notice of this breach of faith.

On the 30th of May, on the day the conference
was agreed on, a shot was fired from a Neapolitan
steamer at Garibaldi's carriage, as he was descend-
ing to the mole, to proceed on board the Hannibal,
but fortunately did no harm.
On the 31st, many of the officers of the ships in
port went on shore, at which time a good many
dead bodies of the inhabitants were still lying in
the streets.

The Neapolitans suffered immense losses in killed
and wounded during the assault. Garibaldi's loss
was small.

An official despatch says :
"The attack on Palermo began at four a.m. on
Sunday morning, at all points. An aide-de-camp
of Garibaldi arrived at six o'clock with a mass of in-
surgents and Corps Francs. An infernal fire then
began from (Jastellamarc, and continued till one
p.m., with two shells to the minute; it then varied
from two to three minutes till six p.m., and after
that continued at intervals of five minutes. The
ships of war also threw a great quantity of shot
and shell. Frightful conflagrations have been the
consequence, but the insurgents pushed on
vigorously. The bombardment continued all the
night, at wide intervals, till 4 a.m. on the 28th,
when the troops abandoned the prisons. About
6,000 prisoners have been liberated, of whom 1,600
to 1,800 were political, 1,200 galley slaves, and the
rest for correctional offences. The troops have
abandoned the barracks of Quattroventi, near the
port; a portion have gone on board the vessels. A
great number were found this morning (the 28th)
among the rocks of the Mole, waiting for boats to
be carried to Castellamare, or to embark on board
the vessels. The fort, which had ceased firing, be-
gan again at 10 a.m. of the 28th, and it was an in-
fernal fire. Garibaldi entered the city late on the
27th with fresh reinforcements. They fought all
night near the Palace and St. Giacomo, once the
Swiss barracks. There was fighting also with the
troops who had been drawn off by a ruse, and who
were returning from Monreale, Parco, and Piana
dei Greci. All the foreign ships observed the most
jealous abstinence, though the commanders were
indignant at the bombardment. The Neapolitan ,

troops fought well, and seem determined to do
all the harm they can before leaving Sicily. Gari-
baldi is said to have threatened to shoot 200 of the
most distinguished of his prisoners it Lanzi does
not discontinue the bombardment. All sensible per-
sons regard the affair as virtually over, and resist-
ance on the part of the troops useless."
The following letter, dated the 30th of May, gives
some new details respecting the cruelties committed
by the Neapolitan soldiery during the bombard-
ment of Palermo :

"Garibaldi really entered Palermo at break of
day on the 27th, with about 1,000 followers. He
penetrated into the city by the gate nearest to the
palace of the Old Kings, and overthrew all the
Neapolitan soldiers who attempted to stop his pro-
gress. Having been supported by 4,000 men who
came down from the mountains and the inhabi-
tants of the city, he soon made himself master
of Palermo. The troops opposed but a feeble
resistance, and fled into the citadel or on board
the ships of war in the port. It was the
military commander who apprised the foreign Ad-
mirals and Consuls that he was about to commence
a bombardment. The Consuls retired on board the
ships of war of their respective nations, and bomb•
shells and every description of incendiary missile
were fired against the town. The bombardment
lasted more than two days, and, terrible to relate,
the soldiers who had fled without fighting uttered
shouts of joy from the citadel at every house set on
fire. Cries of 'God save the King !' from the sol-
diers were mingled with the screams of the women
and the groans of the wounded. The Neapolitan
monarchy has buried itself under a heap of ruins
and of dead bodies. I am told that 1,000 of the
inhabitants of Palermo have perished during the
bombardment. Let us hope that the number is
exaggerated. An American ship which has just
arrived brings the news that the Neapolitan sol-
diers in their retreat committed all kinds of atro-
cities. Having met the wife of a Sicilian leader of
insurgents who was flying from Palermo, they
covered her with tar and then burnt her to death,"

Her Majesty's ship Intrepid arrived at Malta on
the 2d, bringing news from Palermo to the 31st ult.
After the city of Palermo had been bombarded
by the royal troops for half a day the Neapolitan
General asked an armistice in order to bury the
dead, and General Garibaldi and his Adjutant Turr
proceeded, on board her Majesty's ship Hannibal,
where-a conference of all the superior officers was
held, and an armistice of 24 hours was agreed on.
Subsequently the Neapolitan General asked that it
should be extended to three days, which Garibaldi
not only accorded, but offered to prolong it for three
weeks.

The royal troops still occupied the royal palace,
the treasury, and the citadel. The Convent of St.
Catherine and many other buildings were destroyed,
but Garibaldi was certain of success, all the people
being with him.
An English steamer had arrived at Marsala from
Queenstown, conveying 60 volunteers, 4,000 rifles,
and £l,OOO for Garibaldi. Also, a Sardinian
steamer, which landed 80 volunteers, 2,000 rifles,
and 100,000 cartridges. A reinforcement of 2,000
Italians was hourly expected at Marsala yester-
day.

Garibaldi had erected barricades in different parts
of Palermo, and was well supplied with ammunition
and projectiles of war.
The population of Girgenti, on the 23d of May,
voted for a provisional Government, and to the
Advocate Bertolini the reins of Government have
been confided, since confirmed by General Gari-
baldi. The Royalist force, which left Girgenti on
the 15th of May, and were said to have been sur-
rounded by the insurgents on the road to Palermo,
returned to Girgenti on fhe 20th of May. The
Neapolitan garrison of Girgenti, 2,000 strong, left
that town on the 23d of May for Messina, and
stopped short on their way near Catania. They
were badly off for provisions, and helped them-
selves from the peasantry. Many have since d. -
serted. The Provisional Government has already
abolished several taxes imposed by the King.
The Nazione, of Florence, positively states that
Orsini, stated by the Giornale di Roma to have been
killed in the late attempt of a band of insurgents
to enter the Roman territory, is alive and well.

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY.

Both the Patrie and the Pays states that the last
despatches from Sicily positively announce that the
armistice had been indefinitely prolonged.
This resolution has given rise to the supposition
that the Sicilian revolution has become a matter of
diplomatic negotiations.
The Emperor has just decided that the members
of his Privy Council shall for the future have the
rank of Ministers ; they arc to take place after the
Ministers as regards functions, and among them-
selves according to the order of their nomination.
M. Edouard Fould has been appointed Chef du
Cabinet of the Minister of State, and M. Pelletier,
Secretary-General of the Ministry of State, has
been named Secretary of the Imperial Family
Council.

BOURSE, June 6.—The market has been heavy,
with very little business doing. Threes, after
having been done at 70f, are now at 69f 90e ;
Mobilier varied from 670 f to 665 f ; Lyons, 873 f 75c
to 871 f 25c; Orleans, 1,332 f 50c to 1,330 f; Northern
980 f to 977 f 50c; Southern, 517 f 50c to 515 f; Aus-
trian, 515 f to 516 f 25c ; Lombard, 501 f 25c to 500 f;
Saragossa, 526 f 25c to 522 f 50c. The following
are the last quotations :

4f per Cents..... 96 10
Do. end month .. t

3 per Cents. - 70
Do. end month 70 —;
Bank Shares
Credit
Do. Account

CrMit Fonder 882 50
Belgian 4i 96 7.5
Piedmontese (5)
Roman SO
Austrian
Spanish Threes
llome Debt 46a -

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern
New ditto
Lyons and Miditorranean 872 50 .. 873 75
Geneva — .. 410
Southern
Western 568 75 .. 570
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard

Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 121 c. - money,
25f. 12c.; three months, paper, 241. 90c. ; money, 24f 871 c.

AMERICA.

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

SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 7.

The United States Mail steamship Fulton, Cap-
tain Wotton, arrived off Cowes early, this morning
with the French and English mails, and dates from
New York to the 26th ult.

The Persia, from Liverpool the 12th, arrived out
on the 23d, at three p.m.
Advices from Vera Cruz contain the important
intelligence that Zuloaga had issued a decree on the
Ist deposing Miramon and assuming the Presi-
dency of Mexico himself. It is stated that this
movement had caused great alarm, Uraga, at the
head of 6,000 Liberal troops, was at Guanaguato
on the sth inst., preparing to attack the capital.

In Congress, on the 25th, the Senate resumed the
consideration of the so-called Davis resolutions,
relative to the protection of slavery in the terri-
tories, and, after some discussion, the balance of the
series was adopted by a strict party vote. These
resolutions were adopted by a caucus of 300 Demo-
cratic Senators on the 25th of February last, and
they have now received an official endorsement.
".They derive," says the Herald," additional import-
ance from the circumstance that they will in all pro-
bability form the basis of the Southern Secession
Democratic Convention, which Meets at Richmond
on the 11th of June.

The Senate Bill providing for the return of cap-
tured negroes to Africa has been referred to the
Judiciary Committee.
The Japanese were engaged on the 25th in re-
ceiving members of Congress and their wives, in
accordance with previous arrangement. The Am-
bassadors also dined with the President.

Intelligence from Salt Lake says the investiga-
tion into the affairs of Dr. Forney, the Superinten-
dent of Indian Affairs, charged with malfeasance in
office, was progreSsing and creating considerable

excitement among the Gentiles. Twelve days had
been exhausted in the investigation, but nothing, it
was alleged, had been elicited to sustain the
charges.
The news of the organization of the new Mor-
mon Church by young Joe Smith had reached
Utah, and did not cause any considerable excite-
ment among the elders ; they contend that young
Smith's mother is at the head of the movement.

A heavy snow storm had occurred at Salt Lake
and vicinity, causing several hundred thousand
dollars' damage to the fruit trees and crops.
The Indians of the northern part of the territory
in the Bear River region, who have been for a long
time troublesome to the whites, have sent in a dele-
gation to propose terms of peace.
In Congress the Senate Bill, providing for a line
of telegraph from the Atlantic to the Pacific, was
discussed. A motion to lay the bill on the table was
defeated by a vote of 80 to 91.
The bill providing for the shipment of negroes
captured on board slavers to their homes in Africa
was passed. The President has,ecntered into an
arrangment with the Colonisation Society for the
return of the Africans captured by the Mohawk and
Wyandotte. The sum of 50,000 is to be paid to
the society for the service.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, MAY 25, EVENING, 6 P.m.

The money-market remains in the same dull, in•
animate condition. There is a marked scarcity of
paper. Many acceptances would go readily at 41
per cent. if they could be had. Business is not
active ; merchants have more money and need less
accommodation than usual. If our trade were as
actively proportionate as that of England, money
would be worth 7 to 8 per cent. on short paper.
There has been a moderate business done in foreign
exchange to-day for the Fulton. The current rate
for bankers' bills ranges from 1091 to 4, some un•
doubted bills being in the market at -a ; for francs
5.13 i to 121 are asked. The supply of commercial
bills is very limited, and bankers are somewhat
embarrassed to cover their exchange. The Ful-
ton takes about 1,000,000 dols. in specie for France
and England, about 100,000 dols. of which will be
silver.

The market was stronger. to-day, and nearly
every stock on the list higher, closing firm, at—
Virginia Sixes, 921 to 93 ; Missouri Sixes, 841 to
84t- ; Canton, 21 to 211 ; Pacific Mail, 891 to 90 ;
New York Central, 82f.,' to 821 ; Erie, 22 to 22-,7 ;
Hudson River, 49Z. to 50; Harlem, 131 to 131 ;
ditto Preferred, 41k to 411; Reading, 42-2 to 427- ;
Michigan Central, 53 to 531; ditto Southern and
Northern Indiana, 12 to 121 ; ditto Guaranteed,
241 to 251 ; Panama, 1341 to 136 ; Illinois Central,
641 to 641 ; Galena and Chicago, 65 to 651
Cleveland and Toledo, 31 to 311 ; Chicago and
Rock Island, 70a to 70'4.
The cotton market steady. Sales embraced 600
to 800 bales.

Flour opened with more appearance of firm-
ness, but large receipts, especially for State and
western, prevented an advance, and the market
closed at former quotations.

Wheat firm ; sales to a fair extent, including
parcels for export.
Corn was heavy, and lower for some descriptions
Pork was firmer, with rather mere doing.
Sugars firm and active, with sales of 1,900 hhds.
60 boxes, and 210 hhds.
Melado coffee unchanged, sales moderate.
Freights firm, and room rather scarce. Grain to
Liverpool,,in bulk and bags was taken at Bd. to 81d.

.EX,I.IIINATIONS A7' 2'IIE STAFF

COLLEGE.

The following General Order was promulgated
yesterday by the authorities at head-quarters :
"Horse Guards, S.W., May 23.
" With reference to paragraph 13 of the Regula-
tions for the Staff College, published with the Gene-
ral Order, dated the 23d of Jan., 1860, No. 743, his
Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-Chief
is pleased to direct that this General Order be is-
sued for the information and guidance of those
officers who may be desirous to compete at the next
final examination at. the Staff College, without hay-
ing previously undergone the course of instruction
at that institution.

" The examination will be held at the college in
December next, and those officers who, having served
the regulated period, can produce the necessary
certificates—(see paragraph 3 of the regulations for
the Staff College)—should send in their names to
the Adjutant-General, through their commanding
officer, not later than the Ist of October.

" As it is important thoroughly to test the know-
ledge of candidates as regards the practical subjects
taught at the Staff College, such as reconnoitring,
field engineering, military equitation, &c., they will,
for this purpose, be required to join the college at
least one month before final examination, i.e., on
the Ist of November next.

" The following are the subjects for examinations,
in accordance with paragraphs 8 and 12, of the Staff
College Regulations, to which candidates aro re-
ferred.

" MATHEMATICS.

" The candidates will be examined to the extent
stated in paragraph 8 of the Staff College Regula•
tions.

"Candidates desirous to obtain a syllabus of the
college course should apply to the Secretary to the
Council of Military Education, 1, Whitehall-yard,
Londou, S.W.

" MODERN LANGUAGES.

" The candidate will be examined both orally
and in writing, the latter including grammar and
composition, as well as translation.

" FORTIFICATION AND ARTILLERY.

" The candidate will be examined as to his
knowledge of these subjects, and will, in addition,
be required to produce a plan either of one of the
bastioned systems, or of the modern German sys-
tem, or of any existing fortress, and also a plan of
attack of a fortress. _ _

" The candidates must certify that these and any
other plans which he may produce have been exe-
cuted by himself. lie will also be required during
the month he is at the college, prior to the exami-
nation, to draw some profiles and a field trace from
given conditions.

TOPOGRAPHICAL DRAWING, MILITARY SURVEYING

AND SKETCHING.

" The candidate will be required to produce a
plan of not less than six square miles of country,
which also he must certify to be his own work.

" RECONNAISSANCE.

" To be executed while at the college, during the
month previous to the examination, as already
stated.

"MILITARY ART AND HISTORY.

" The course of lectures at the Staff' College is
shown in the accompanying paper. As, however,
the campaigns there stated may not in all instances
have been studied by candidates who have not
passed through the college, they will be given an
opportunity to show their knowledge of those por-
tions of military history which they may have
actually studied ; and for this purpose they should
send a statement of the campaigns in which they
desire to be examined when applying for permission
to compete.
" MILITARY ADMINISTRATION AND LAW.
" A synopsis of the lectures on this subject is en-
closed.

tt CHYMISTRY AND GEOLOGY.
"Principally as applied to military science.
" By order of his Royal Highness the
General Commanding-in-Chief,
" JAMES YORKE SCARLETT, Adjutant• General."
(ENCLOSURE.)—SYNOESIS OF THE LECTURES AT THE

STAFF COLLEGE.

ON MILITARY ORGANISATION AND ADMINISTRA-

TI ON.

" Recruiting--System of.
" Organisation of the Throe Arms—Principles to
be observed, combinations for field service.
" Organisation of Departments--Commissariat,
medical, and military train in time of peace and in
the field.
Equipments—Arms add clothing, present regu-
lations and warrants relating to; effect of equip-
ment upon organisation and tactical manoeuvres;
clothing, tents, tools, &c., for field service ; weight
of ; means of conveyance ; reserve stores.
" Ammunition—Preparation for infantry,cavalry,
and artillery, carried in the field and reserve.
"Departments—Respective duties and principles
of action of each ; proportion of military staff for
an army in the field.
" Finance—Pay, allowances, and pensions.
" Subsistence—Food, forage, and allowance in
kind; in field; best description and supply ot.
" Medical Arrangements—Formation of and
supplies for hospitals ; ambulances.
" Transport—Proportion in the field; best dc-
vription; distribution.
" The respective duties of the different depart-
ments illustrated in considering the following sub-
jects, viz, :

" Embarkation—Arrangements for; estimate of

time ; tonnage required for infantry, cavalry, and
artillery.
" Duties on board ship.
" Disembarkation—Arrangements for; estimate
of time.

" March—Order of; extent; time.
"Encampment—Selection and formation."
" MILITARY LAW.

" The lectures on military legislation have com-
prised the following subjects :—Necessity of a dis-
tinct code from that of Civil Law; considerations
of the Mutiny Act and Articles of War ; persons
subject to the Act ; convention, jurisdiction, and
powers of court-martial ; appointments and duties
of president, members, and officiating Judge Advo-
cate; framing charge; preliminaries to trial; form
and proceedings of trial ; duties of prosecution ;
nature of evidence ; defence ; finding and sentence.