Our Turin oorrespondent, it will be seen, does not take
a sanguine view of- the progress of the Sicilian insurrection :— " Turin, May 1.
" The Sicilian attempt, which, as I have already told you, was hopeless by its nature, is regarded as completely quashed ; and, despite sundry unifi- cation societies, the sad tale meets with but indifferent attention. I am far from being inclined to sneer or detract, but I must say the solemness with which the said societies set about sending aid to the Sicilians, as also the atomic contributions of the sympathizers at large, is overflovringly me- lancholy. When shall we see real living symptoms of Italian unity ? The cost entailed merely in the ceremony of the surrender of a broken rusty chain by Genoa to the town of Pisa, might have been turned to some tan- gible purpose near Palermo-and Messina.
" Garibaldi, who had his reasons for keeping aloof, was quite ready to send to the Sicilians part of his guns deposited in Milan, had they bees able to hold out. The Piedmontese Government, too, is known for its good will towards the Sicilians, and would have put no obstacle in the way of private aid being sent to them i though I must tell you that the French Emperor is rather too jealous of that quarter.
Apropos of want of sympathy, some degree of surprise has been raised within the last few days by the utter want of compassion of the public to- wards the literary men, as exemplified in the state of destitution in which Bianci Giovini, the editor of the Unione, is allowed to remain. Signor Bianci is one of those few literary men in Italy who, by their persevering, conscientious, and bold efforts, know how to awaken the nation, to make it blush at its time-honoured prejudices and superstitious tenets, and to pre- pare it for the dawn of regeneration. Poor man ! An apoplectic fit snatches him from his editorial desk to his bed ; a large family wails round the sick conch of him who while healthy gave bread to them, and whole- some instruction and amusement to thousands ; and the public very ele- gantly prefer thinking only of themselves; prating of Italian unity, illu- minations, and annexations."
The Paris bar has just held a meeting to elect two benchers in place of the two distinguished forensic luminaries just extinct, Do Bethmont and Lioville. There are considerably over a thousand barristers here, but, as practitioners alone enjoy right of voting, only 373 mustered in that cha- racter, and their suffrages were so split among a dozen candidates, that none had the requisite majority of 187. Emile Olivier, however, the fearless and independent leader of opposition (with Jules Fevre) in the Corps Legislatif, headed the 011. The Paris bar is quite as independent of Governmental influence as the French Academy, yet unlike the latter, which is swayed by an exclusively Orleanist clique.—Globe Paris Cor- respondent.
Our Paris Correspondent's letter had not arrived when we went to press.
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