The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-18 00:00:00

MALTA.

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A letter from Malta, of the 2d, in the .Riforma of
Lucca, states that the three Sicilians who pad been
ordered to depart by the Government of the island,
have been allowed a respite, in consequence of an ex-
planation given by M. RUGGIERO SETTIMO to the
Governor, at his request. It appeared that the ac-
counts received from Naples, and which had been the
cause of the order above alluded to, were extremely
exaggerated.

ITALY.
ARRIVAL OF THE POPE IN ROME.
The Paris Ilioniteur of yesterday publishes the fol-
lowing telegraphic dispatch :
" TILE MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY OF FRANCE TO
THE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

" ROME, Aram 13.
" The Pope entered Rome last evening at four
o'clock. He was received with the most lively ac-
clamations."

The Apostolic Nuncio at the Court of Turin has
demanded his passports and quitted the city.

SICILY.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
PALERMO, MARCH 20.—The KING Of NAPLES, who
ever since the interchange of notes between England
and Tuscany on the subject of the indemnity claimed
by the former for the injuries inflicted on British sub-
jects at Leghorn, has been a prey to the greatest
anxiety, has recalled his Paladin General FILANGIERI
from Sicily, in order to have his advice on the claims
which Great Britain has a right to make for indem-
nity for losses and injuries inflicted on British sub-
jects by the Neapolitan troops in Sicily. Before
leaving Sicily FILANGIERI ordered the military com-
manders of the island not to permit more than three
foreign ships of war to remain in any of the
ports, apparently for the purpose of preserving the
neutrality, but in reality for fear of the
effect that the appearance of an English squadron
might produce in the island. The acts of violence
are still continued here. The property of the Prince
DE GRANATELLI has been sequestered, because he
will not deliver up to the King of NAPLES a steamer
which is in England, and which had been confided to
him by the Sicilian Parliament. The King of
NAPLES, at the same time that he is asking the
English Chancery, by virtue of his pretended rights
as a conqueror, to adjudge the Bombay to him, without
waiting the decision of a tribunal that he himself in-
voked, decides the question himself, and seizes the
goods of an honest and innocent citizen, only because
he acts as a faithful trustee. This, in other words,
means that the King of NAPLES wishes to take the
same thing twice aver.

At Trapani, a mad prefect, after having provoked
the people at the theatre, by showing himself in his
box and crying out " Long live the King !" and the
people having answered, " Long live the Constitution
of 1812, reformed in 1848 !" filled the theatre with the
gendarmerie, and arrested fifty-two gentlemen and
confined them in the fortress of the Colombara.
At Palermo, also, the Government, with the same
good grace, endeavoured to obtain from the communal
representation (Decurionato) of Palermo a declara-
tion in favour of the present political situation of
affairs in Sicily. This was a homage the Prince
DE SATRIANO and the Prince DB MANGANELLI,
mayor (Pretore) and chief of the municipal
representation, and who has always been the de-
voted adherent of the Neapolitan Government,
wished to render to the King of NAPLES. They
hoped to have obtained a declaration which would
have been worth almost as much as that extorted by
force at Naples against the Constitution, but the plan
, failed. It was at first impossible to assemble the
Decurionato for this object, but at last, after threatening
the principal members with imprisonment, it met.
The Prince DE MANGANELLI proposed the address.
The Advocate SANTOCANALE, a man highly re-
spected for his fortune, his talent, and his eloquence,
who had been a member of the House of Commons in
1848, eloquently opposed it, and it was rEjected by
the Decurionato. The next day, as SANTOCANALE
was riding in his carriage in the Rue de Cassaro, he
was arrested by the gendarmes. Every one visited
him in prison, and he mils afterwards taken to the
fortress of the Colombara, near Trapani.
After these things had taken place the two Direc-
tors of the Ministry, BIJONGIA.RDINO for the Finances,
and LEROYARI fur the Interior, sent, in their resig-
nations,

A Kure TO CALIFORNIA.—We Snd from a notice
to the public, that the Post-office authorities have started a
mail to California. 'We should like to see the vehicle se-
lected for the service. We have a strange suspicion that the
old Hounslow cab has been fitted up with a new pair of
shafts to supply the place of those which we dashed to pieces
some time ago in a fearful collision with our shafts of ridicule,
and that this precious set.out has been ordered to set out on
the first stage towards the diggings. We used to find fault
with the rate of travelling by this concern, but the rate
of postage is satisfactory. Half-an-ounce is to be 2s. 5p.,
an ounce 4s. 11d., and it will scaroely require an ounce to
announce anything to one's friends in California. We think
the Post-office authorities might venture to charge higher,
and declare that every letter should be charged with its
weight in gold, which the Californians, with their embarras
des richesses, could make no objection to.—Punch.
LORD CAMPBELL AND SPECIAL PLEADING.—
Lord Campbell's Bill to 'enable the judges of the courts of
common law at Westminster to alter the forms of pleading
has just been printed. It is proposed by the Bill to give
power to the judges of the superior courts to make rules or
orders for altering the mode of pleading, Sce., in action at
law. Such rules or orders are not to be valid until three
months after being laid before Parliament, and may pre-
viously be declared suspended by a Royal proclamation, or
by a resolution of Parliament.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—At one of those dangerous
sports called steeplechases, an unfortunate jockey was
thrown from his hot se on Wednesday last, in the county of
Waterford, and killed on the spot.

SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY, TEN P.M. - The
United States mail steamer Washington, Captain Floyd, has
just arrived off this port from Bremen, on her way to New
York. She brings 80 passengers, and has been delayed by
most boisterous weather since leaving the Weser. She
brings no news.

IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.-An important discovery,
is said to have been made in Oregon, which, in conse-
quence of the great increase of commerce between that place
and San Francisco will have a material influence on trade.
A new and fine entrance to the mouth of the Columbia River
had been discovered by accident. The Southern Pass, as it
is called, has hitherto been deemed impracticable, but two
vessels, it seems, had passed through it into the open sea, and
the least water found was about six fathoms. It was in-
tended to be immediately sure eyed.
The Marquis of Northampton, the Earl er,,Aiford,
and their party, who have been travelling in Upper Egypt
for the last three months, have taken their passage to Mar-
seilles by the French steamer: . _ _

A GOOD EXAMPLE.—In consequence of the great
decrease in the number of poor in the parish of St. Maryle-
bone, combined with the low price of provisions, the vestry
of St. Marxlebone yesterday decided to lower the rates 9d.
ill the 1/.