New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-14
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BERLIN, May d, 1860.

exeyywhere all over Europe, IL, vi cV"o0, ""A'
A.Ni's adventures in Sicily. Now, you are aware
,hat never before has the telegraph been put to
.ucb impudent work as in the present instance,
hath on the part of Naples and Genoa or Turin
recusts have never poured upon Europe in such
multitude as do now the electric eanards. 1t
seems, therefore, worth while to state, in few
words. the views here entertained Of Sicilian az
hirs in the most competent military circles. In
the FIRST instance the insurrection as is generally
known, was kept up for whole month before the
arrival Of Garibaldi; but, of paramount Importance
as this fact s, it may be overyalued, as shown Dy
the Paris Constitutional The military forces Ma
raes disposed Of in Sicily before Gen. LAMA was
sent over with fresh troops could hardly amount 10
10000 men, the far greater part OF whom had 10
h. concentrated in the fortresses Of Palermo aud
Nessina 90 that the flying corps left available FOR
the pursuit of the insurgents might boast of several
successful enc unters, dispense the enemy on GER
tain points, and harass him IN different directions,
but must prove altogether insufficient to thoroughly
sfi6e the instruction. AZ the present moment,
there seem to b. about sc, 200 NeapoEtan troops
patbered at Palermo, two-thirds of them holding
The fortress, while One-tbird encamp beyond its
precincts Fifteen thousand Neapslitans are said
10 hold Messna. Now Garibaldi had, according to
The Atttt news, not pusutu ptgohu 1ontolt. rvs
true that this place is situated on bills which COM
mand Palermo from the land side, but to improve
the opportunities offered by this position Garibadi
ne Vet lacks the principal requsite--siege artillery
The immediate chances of Gari5aldi, whose army
musters about II, 600 men, will consequently depend
mon two main circumstances-the rapid spread of
the instruction throughout the island and the att
tude of the Neapoltan soldiers at Palermo. If the
latter wayer and get into quarrels with the foreign
mercenaries intermingled with them, Lanzas means
Of defense may break up in his own hands. If the
instruction deyeopes much vital power, Garlbaldls
army will be sweed Ia more formidable dimensions.
Garibaldi should get into Palermo, he will sweep
everything before him Messina, where the diff
6cnlt task will again begin. You remember that
in IS4s-49 the Neapotans had lost everything save
Messna, serving tets-de-pom between Sicily
and Naples; but Messina then sufced 10 regain
1he whole island. The fall Of Palermo, and the
military hold by the patriots of the whole island
except Messina would however, this time prove
more decisive than in 1888, because of the
altered political conjmctlres. lfGarfbaldi masters
Palermo, he will be- officially supported by the
I" King of Italy" IL he fails, his invasion will be
disayowed as private adventure. There is some
thing of ronical pathos in the words addressed to
Victor Emanuel by Ganbaldi who tells the King
tflat he viii conquer for him new province, winch
be- hopes the King will not again bargain away, like
Nice, Garibaldi's birthplace.
Among the topics of Prussian politics. the first
the Prince of Prssias private letter TO the Prince
Consort OF England, of which the Prince de Ia Tour
dAuvergne louis Bonapartes ambassador at the
Court Of Berlin, had not only the Impotence to
present copy to Herr Won Schleinitz the Prussian
Foreign Minister, but went the length of asking
explanations on some Gifts passages rejecting
the character and plans0f the great Paris sGimbsR
que. This incident reminds one OF a similar accident
that happened shortly before the ratification of the
treaty of Unkiar Skelessn, 1873 The Grand Vizier
having at that time communicated copy OF the secret
treaty, drawn up by Count OrlOf to the British
Embassy at COnstantnOpe, was much Devil.
dered when day later to his not agreeable sur
prise, Count OrlOf returned him the identical copy
with the spitefu advice, to find better cOnfdants
for the future. At Berlin everybody feels that
the Prince Regents letter, having been transmitted
by post via 0Send not via Calais, was tempered
with at the English Post Office, where numerous
PERSONAL is VIGOROUSLY employed in prying into sus-
pectcd letters-a practice carried TO such a de-
gree that at the time OF the CoaltiOn-Cabinet
the Earl of Aberdeen confessed that he dared not
eon6de TO the post his letters addressed TO his
metropolitan friends Lord PalmerstOn having thus
got copy of the Prince Regents letter, is supposed,
out Of spite against Prince Albert and In the interest
of the Anglo French Russian alliance, to have
placed copy of that letter into the hands of the
French ambassador at London. At all events the
course of the intended and much talked-of Anglo
Prussian alliance runs anything but smooth
Some months ago, when Lord John Russell one
fine morning discovered that England must go IN
search of new alliances, and when that intimatOn
was received with much childish enthusiasm In the
official circles of Berlin, out came all at once III the
form of an English Parliamentary paper, dispatch
addressed by Lord Bloomfield tO the Foreign Office
at Downing street, narrating private conversation
he had held during the last Italian with Herr
Won Sehleinitz, and sadly compromising the good
faith of Prusslan foreign policy. Lord John at
the time pleaded guilty of most strange indlscre-
ton, but the first blow TO the new alliance was dealt.
The second blow has been given by the mis-
carriage of the Prince Regents letter.
You will have that in his speech from the
throne the Prince speaks very emphatically Of the
maintenance of treaty rights and the united front
Germany is ready to show against any encroach-
meDt upon the independence and integrity of the
common fstherland. The unpleasant impression
produced upon the Paris stock exchange by the APP
parent menace has been allayed through the Rus
sian journal lie NOrd, which, in a tone of ironically
cOndescendng bOnhOnpnie, dvests the Princes
speech Of all serious meaning calls 10 mind similar
phrases uttered by him during the Italian war, and
IN conclusion, characterizes the whole passage as a
mere compliment paid to popular feeling. As to
be rest Of the Princes speech II is, in fact bat
summary of legislative failures. The only import
ant projects debated by the Characteristic pro-
Ijected laws on marriage, municipal administration,
and reform OF the land tax, from which the nobility
in the greater part of the monarchy still remain
ampt have all proved abOrtiye The Prince, more
over complains Of his pet measures relating to the
army reform not having yet received legislative
sanction
Though the Government has proved unable, even
with the present Chamber Of Representative
whose large majority consists of Mnisterialists-tO
carry its proposed army REFORM 1t has at last got an