The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-15 00:00:00

TILE TWO SICILLES.

NAPLES, Afitncir 9.
In spite of the mystery which surrounds the
King, it is generally believed that his Majesty's
illness becomes more serious. The chamber of the
royal invalid is closed with care, and no one enters
it but the Queen, the Physicians Leone and Ramag-
lia, and the four sailors and quartermasters of the
royal yacht, who act as nurses.
A feeling of insecurity continues, and every one
sells his Rentes. lam informed on good authority
that even the royal family sell. At all events it is
certain that a person named Morelli, who is em-
ployed at the great book, in the beginning of the
week carried the book of the public debt iu which
the Rentes are entered to the palace, in order that
the administrators of the Bursillo particolare
of the younger sons of the King might sign
the sale of the Rente which they had pre-
viously bought ' with the money of the young
princes. The bank is in great agitation, the
agents being embarrassed by the numerous sales,
and the threats of the police. The news of
Lord Cowley's mission, however, has produced a
certain amount of confidence. Public affairs are in
suspense ; everything is at a standstill. The here-
ditary Prince is permitted to take no part. The
Ministers Bianchino and Murena are not admitted
to the King. To lessen his sufferings he is obliged
to have recourse to opiates. The police exercise the
utmost rigour towards all who speak of his illness.
Two days ago a gentleman in the cafe under the
Palazzo Angri, in the Toledo, ventured to express
his regret at the silence of the official journals on
the subject. On his way out he was arrested.
Miserable people ! Even the solicitude of the people
for their sovereign's health is construed into a crime.
The festoons and preparations for the marriage fetes
dangle in the winds, faded and weather-beaten, the
subjects of epigrams and mockery. Arrests con-
stantly take place. Carlo Capuano, a political pri-
soner recently liberated, has again been arrested.
Yet in the midst of this misery and desolation, with
laws of more than Draconian severity, the people
are gay, and sing about the streets, 1‘ E morto co
lumi—Carnevale !" How is this ? The fact is, that
public opinion against the Government, and in
favour of the rights of the people, has made
gigantic strides. The attitude of Piedmont has
elated the people, and given them firm confidence
in the future. It is at Naples as at Rome, they
have resolved to remain in a state of solemn calm ;
not to disturb the progress of events by petty agi-
tations about things of little moment, but to wait
and assist the great operations begun at the head
of the peninsula, in Lombardy. The Austrian
princes returned some days since from Bari by way
of Avellino, where they informed the intendente
that there was no probability of the King's return
for some weeks ; that functionary, however, for the
public good, thought fit to give out that he would
return in a week. It is said that the princes are
going to leave the kingdom, having obtained three
millions from the King, and another million from
the Grand Duke of Tuscany, but I cannot vouch
for the truth of these reports. Yesterday a monk,
in the ardour of sanctity, left for Ban, to inter-
cede with the Almighty for the King's health.