The Sun. — 1866-10-15 (London, England)

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, including the Prince de Linguaglossa, protest their innocence. They all declare that they were dragged  to the Hotel de Ville, under a threat of being assassinated, and that their names were affixed to the placards without their knowledge or consent. The above prince is the president of the pretended Directory 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 reference to this annexation the Siecle says:— " Of all the annexations effected by Prussia none is less justifiable than that of Frankfort. To a certain 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 protested against the manner in which the incorporation 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 extreme limit of the Confederation of the North, destitute 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 maritime 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 immense. The sailors on board the vessels in harbour, 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