• The latest news from Sicily is of a nature
to feed the excitement oc- casioned by Garibaldi's expedition. Our Paris correspondent reports as follows :-- "Paris, Thursday evening.
"Garibaldi's safe landing and success in Sicily are now fully confirmed, and if we may rely on the latest advices, the news that the enterprising patriot had reached the shore, have been sufficient to cause revolutionary movements in Calabria and in the Abruzzi, on the very limit of the Papal States. The events will now rapidly follow each other, and, as far as can be judged, the last hour of despotism is at hand in the kingdom of Sicily, though surely not without more bloodshed and desperate struggle. "It was rumoured today that the French fleet had left Toulon for Sicily, and that the Neapolitan ambassador at Turin had taken his passports. There nray be some appearance of truth in these rumours, though the former is not official, as no orders, I am assured, have yet been despatched. With reference to the latter, Originated at the Bourse, it requires confirma- tion. "I need not repeat that thekrecent events have caused intense xcite- meat here, a depression in the ninney market, and a general uncertainty as to the issue of the complications now arising mainly from Garibaldi's move- ments. Such feelings are natural enough under the circumstances, but need not be exaggerated as they are in some quarters, where a general con- flagration is announced.
"There are no grounds at present for such expectations ; whatever may be the ultimate result of Garibaldi's proceedings, no exclusive intervention of one power is to take place in the affairs of Sicily, and if any be found necessary, we have every reason to hope that it will be concerted between the two maritime powers most directly interested in the question.
"Very little light has been thrown of late on Lamoriciare's movements. It is, however, expected that some plan of action has been adopted by the General. And the announcement of a reactionary movement in Florence, coincident with the departure of Garibaldi from Genoa, gives some apparent foundation to the rumour, that Lamoriciere is ready to take active steps to- wards the recovery of the Romagna. The events in the South, may how- ever suspend for awhile the execution of the plan. I may add, that Lame- riciere has sent positive instructions to Paris, with a view to suspend the enlistment of French officers en retraite ; the number of which was in- creasing beyond the necessary proportion. "The question d'Orient, which was not expected to make a fresh appear- ance before the settlement of the occidental difficulties, is egain put on the tapis,' and contributes to increase the general uneasiness, as many incline i to see n the recent attitude of Russia, supposed to be backed by 1 ranee, a new source of complication. The recent communications of Lord John Rus- sell on this subject in the House of Commons tend to lessen the apprehen- sions too easily felt among speculators and moneyed people.
"In recent advices from Spain, the general amnesty is attributed to the difficulties which would have been caused to the Government by high per- sonages being implicated in Ortega's conspiracy. Changes are announced among the religious and other dignitaries at the court ; El Padre Cyrillo and the Nun Patrocinio will have, it is said, a residence assigned to them; something equivalent to an exile.
"Count de Dlontemolin, and his brother Fernando, have returned to London. It is repeatedly asserted that their other brother, Don Juan, who has always Cabrera by his side, will shortly protest against the renun- ciation of his eldest brother.
"The unsettled state of the affairs in South Italy does not prevent capitalists from looking to industrial schemes in that country. 'A fusion has just taken place between the companies who have obtained the concession of the Roman railways. The general contractor is again Seiler Jose de Salamanca, whose connexion with Spanish, Portuguese, and American railways is already a public fact. "The same capitalist, whose resources are said to have largely increased, owing to the disposal of the Pampeluna railway, and the successful sub- scription of shares in the Portuguese contracts, has also recently invested in the enterprise of the Opera Comique, of which he is now the sole comruanditaire."
The news of Garibaldi both from our Turin correspondent and from other sources, is very encouraging. He has beaten one body of royal troops, and has compelled the Neapolitan generals to shut themselves up in Palermo and Messina. The report of a second disembarkation of sym- pathizers is revived. Our Turin correspondent :confirms a report that the Russian Ambassador had made an energetic and not very courteous protest against the Garibaldi expedition.
Then we hear that the Sardinian Government has ordered the Leghorn garrison to the Papal frontier, and has sent a reinforcement of 5000 men
from Genoa into Papal by sea. It is stated that the French are to quit Rome immediately. The Austrians have ordered their war-ships in the Adriatic to steer for Sicily.
An order of the day, published at Rome, orders all officers to recognize General Lamoriciere's Chief of the Organization of the troops, but denies the commanders authority to obey any orders of General Lamoriciere, relative to the administration, which rest with the Ministry.
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