The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-15 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FRO3I PARIS.

(FRO3I OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Friday Evening.
The latest accounts received iu Paris from Sicily
are satisfactory. Tranquillity had been completely
re-established at Palermo, and the insurgent bands
had dispersed. All the persons accused of being
concerned in these troubles, whose signatures are

attached to the insurrectionary proclamations, in-
cluding the Prince de Linguaglossa, protest their
innocence. They all declare that they were dragged

to the Hotel de Ville, under a threat of being assas-
sinated, and that their names were affixed to the
placards without their knowledge or consent. The
above prince is the president of the pretended Di-
rectory Committee. The Italian troops engaged in
quelling thes e disturbances suffered less than was
at first imagined. Their loss in killed and wounded
was 366 men.

The official proclamation of the incorporation o:
,he free city of Frankfort with the kingdom o:

Prussia took place on the 7th inst. The writer of
one account of the ceremony says that during the
reading of the Royal letters patent, the citizens of
all classes exhibited their profound and unanimous
regret at the loss of their independence. In re-
ference to this annexation the Siecle says:—
" Of all the annexations effected by Prussia none
is less justifiable than that of Frankfort. To a cer-
tain extent a defence might be found for that of
Hanover and Cassel, the geographical situation of
those States, cutting Prussia in two, made their
union a sort of material necessity. We have pro-
tested against the manner in which the incorpora-
tion was affected, in violation of all popular right,
without denying the strong reasons which rendered

it difficult to maintain those countries as distinct
States. In regard to Frankfort, however, none of

these reasons exist. A small territory, at the ex-
treme limit of the Confederation of the North, des-
titute of all military strength, with importance in a
strategic point of view, incapable of opposing the
slightest obstacle to the national aspirations towards
Germanic unity, what powerful interest required

the sacrifice of her independence ?
" If the whole of Germany pronounced in favour
of unification, if all the private sovereignties had
evinced the desire to merge into the great Germanic
country, we could understand that Frankfort should
renounce her local independence. But when they
preserve Saxony, Grand Ducal Hesse, Brunswick,
Lippe-Lippe, and other similar States, without
counting Baden, Wurtemberg, and Bavaria, when
the feudal sovereignty of Mecklenburg is respected,
what serious reason can be alleged in support of
the suppression of the Republic of Frankfort? In
Hanover, in Hesse, at Nassau, a great portion of
the population accepts with joy the union with
Prussia, but at Frankfort the violation of the
national will is flagrant. There is even no attempt
to deny it. Never was the abuse of strength more
patent and more brutal. Never did it merit more
energetic reprobation."
The four sailor ruffians—Lenard, Corbuccio,
011ie, and Thepault—who committed the terrible
murders on board the Fedcaris-Arca, have at length
expiated their crimes. They have bee❑ executed at
Brest, where they were condemned by the Maritime
Tribunal. For three years they have been able to
take advantage of the " law's delay" by appeals and
technicalities of various kinds connected with mari-
time jurisdiction. On a cold, gloomy autumnal
morning these sailors, accustomed to the free
breezes of " the open sea," after suffering remorse
for three years in narrow loathsome cells, were again
led forth into the air only to breathe it for a few
minutes. The crowd before the prison was im-
mense. The sailors on board the vessels in har-
bour, which commanded a view of the scaffold,
thronged the decks to witness the fatal scene.
There were shouts, cries, and tumult, but when the
culprits appeared, all was as silent as the grave.
The axe of the guillotine fell, and was raised four
times successively, and each time the head of a
murderer was severed from his body, and in a few
moments human justice was satisfied.
There has been au execution at Nantes for a