Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-07-16
Translated from the Opinione Rationale,


Among the men of note who go to Sicily
to second the work of Garibaldi, we must men
ton in the first rank Saliceti, Torrearsa Prince
de Butera, Prince de Niscemi, Santo.O onofrio
! Count Manzoni and the Marquis de Procoforte
! belonging to one of the first families Of Paler
| mo. Saliceti is the son of one OF the minis
tiers of king Murat, and has been deputy to
the parliament of Naples and secretary OF JUS
tice during the short regime OF the statute OF
1S4S His incorruptibility and the unrelent-
ing energy of his character did not win TOR
him the friendship of the late king. He was
the partisan and promoter of reforms in the
magistracy and many other grievances, which
however, continued, Notwithstanding all his
efforts. He was very popular III Naples,
where his name was the synonym OF all lber-
al ideas, and he was obliged to leave that
| city at the time of the antiparliamen'
tary coup d'etat of the 18th of March, 1S49
since then he has lived in France in retirement
and in a mediocrity OF fortune, which he bore
with the most laudable resignation
| Torrearsa was secretary of finances and
prime minister of the first Sicilian ministry,
formed in 1848 by the venerable Settimo, pres
ident and chief of the executive power. He
was afterwards elected speaker of the house
of commons in the parliament of Palermo
and left to fill that office, OF the ministry of
which he was the directing member, and
which has since preserved his name
Prince de Butera has been under the presi-
dency of Settimo, the chief of the cabinet
which succeeded to that of Torrearsa Stable,
and Calvi. He represented the aristocratc
side of the nation and of the parliament, but
Notwithstanding gave proofs of energy during
the great struggle which was going to place
Sicily again under the yoke of ferdinand ii.
His presence in Palermo and his name are the
pledges of the union of all parties under the
dictator of Sicily and of the solution proposed
by him.
We can with more reason say of the depart
ure OF Prince Niscemi for Palermo, that he is
the son-in-law of the present president of the
Neapolitan cabinet-the old Statella, Prince de
Cassaro, eighty years of age. This old gen
tieman was chosen few weeks ago to that
high office because he is Sicilian, in the hope
of pacifying the leaders of the instruction
but he did not deceive himself for a moment
on hearing of the occurrence, and he did not
from that moment conceal from his friends and
relatives that he entered the ministry without
hope, and that in his opinion Sicily was lost to
the kingdom of Naples.
The dictator of Sicily who for the present
is on footing of equality with the Sandman
cabinet, has sent Mr.. Michael Amarl as am
bassador at Turin.
Count Michael Amari is one of the most
learned and distinguished writers and hsto-
rans Of Sicily. The series of his political
struggles commences at the time of the pub
LEGATION of the History of the Sicilan Yes
pers, in which the suspicious government of
ferdinand IL. thought that it was bitter allu-
sions to its own tyranny and to the frightful
future which those pictures of the past pre-
dicted. The book was seized and its author
summoned to Naples but understanding the
meaning OF such an order he embarked for
France.
He returned to Sicily on the first news of
the grave events of 1S49, when he was elected
deputy, and succeeded Torrearsa as secretary
of finances when the latter was elected speaker
of the house of commons. Afterwards he
| filled important missions in Paris and London,
the object Of which was to obtain the recogri
| ton and support Of the French and English
| governments in favor of the new autonomy
| Of Sicily. Nobody, therefore, is better quail
fed than Count Michael Amari worthily to
represent at Turin the provisional government
of his native island.
Among the distinguished officers who are
to accompany General Colenz to Sicily, or per-
| haps to Calabria, we must quote the Neapoli-
| tan colonel Assault, one of those who, with
| Pope and Ulloa, crossed the Pc in 1848, not
withsianding the objections of the king of Ma
| pies, and went to the defence of Venice. AT.
|. ter having made himself famous at the battle
Of Mestre, and during all that memorable seige,
| Col. Assault became and remained the faithful
companion in exile of Gen, Pope, one of the
most illuStrous heroes Of Italian independence.
Finally we learn with great pleasure that
Gen. UllOa, another renowned defender of Ven
ice, formerly chief commander of the Tuscan
troops, rallies the common movement and in
tends also to take his part in the Neapolitan
| struggle.