LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 297, 24 August 1860, Page 2

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

REVOLUTION IN SICILY.

Home News office, Tuesday afternoon, June 26, 1860.

The Paine of June 23 states that Garibaldi held a council of war on the evening of the 21st of June, at which it wastmanimously decided that the insurrectional army,' after having collected all the necessary military forces, should march on Messina. The volunteers brought by Colonel Medici are, all picked men; among them are officers and sub-officers of engineers. One report is' that the march on Messina .will commence on the 28th of June. Another (from Turin) states that Garibaldi was on June 23 actually on' the march. :It is believed in Paris that these announcements are merely a ruse de gurre. ; . We allude elsewhere to the capture by the Neapolitans of two vessels bound for Palermo, containing about 900 volunteers. The Sardinian and United' States ministers have taken the matter up, and protested, ■, against the capture.- We jearh'from: Turin; that the protest is backed by Count Cavour;. " Garibaldis Englishman-?';,. is ;said to be one of the prisoners. ."It was 5 reported that Madame Jessie White Mario and her husband were also, amongst .the number; but it has now been/ascertained that they af-. rived safely in Sicily With Colonel Medici.; A telegram from Genoa says that the Nea-j; politan government intends to restore'the; two captured vessels; but that the, Am'erir> can minister desires reparation for the .in--' suit offered to his national flag.. The Sardinian minister at' Naples, who lodged the the protest, arrived; at Turin on June 25—an event which though not accompanied by the announcement of a positive, rupture, is yet" ; of grave import. ■■ , /■ : I Naples continues to be in a very uneasy ;-cohdition. '^l despatch- from Vienna says that Signor Petrullo has been summoned* by King Bomba to carry out " the necessary reforms." ' The ministry having recently resigned in a body,-we do not know exactly how the government is carried on. It is "asserted that the king has dismissed" Lanza,' Letizia, and three other generals of Sicily, and has exiled them to' the Island' of Ischia. His .majesty is seriously ill and, is staying at Portici. As'to preparations for the future, 20,000 are being despatched' to Sicily. One column of troops is being', i moved to.Basilicajia,: another towards Sa-t Jerno, and a third to Abruzzi. J ■ A letter from Turin dated June 21 says: ;•—" General Garibaldi, as dictator, at the [head of the Sicilian government, as accreidited as his - envoy extraordinary with the court of Turin Count Amari, a Sicilian' exile, long a resident in Genoa*- He pre-^ sented his credentials to Count Cavour yesterday, and was by him received in an official capacity." . ; All the. communes in Sicily have pre.eented addresses requesting annexation to 'Piedmont. The clergy.and aristocracy are ■at the head of the movement. Garibaldi has re-established the property-tax on" its anterior ioqting. Prince• Torrearsa hadbeen appointed president of the council and deputy of the dictator at Palermo. An event which is not a little significant, if true, is reported in a despatch from St, Petercburgb, dated June 23 ;^"Xt is sai4

that by order of his majesty, Count Stackelberg, the Russian minister at Taring hap been instructed to declare to the Sardinian Cabinet that should the Sardinian government not henceforth prevent the departure , for Sicily of the expeditions in course of organisation in different potts of Sardinia, Count Stakelbergh, with the whole of the legation, would quit Piedmont." From Madrid we have a despatch, dated yesterday, June 25, acoording to which the Spanish "government has' adopted the same policy as the Russian with regard to Sicily : «The Spanish government, by the medium of its charg6' d'affaires at Turin, has presented a protest to Count' Cavour against the assistance indirectly/ given by Sardinia to the Sicilian revolutionary party. Should the remonstrance' of "Spain remain without any effect the Spanish legation will be ordered to quit Turin. ,

The Morning Post of June 25 published the following:—-" We understand, that the British Government have received a communication from the "French Foreign-office, of which the object is to initiate a negotiation that may result in reconciling the stipulations of the treaty' of Zurich with those of the final act of the Congress of Vienna. It is proposed to effect this by means of a Conference, or by an exchange of notes among the Powers, or by a direct arrangement, between France :; It remains to be seen which of these. three courses will be pursued. It is not unlikely thatthe.first way be considered most expedient, and that a Conference,will assemble." ;; . .';:.' \

•The; interview of .the ; sovereigns at Baden has, according to a Vienna telegram of yesterday, June 25, brought about an understanding between Austria and Prussia as regards the reorganisation of the military constitution of the Confederation. The Prince Regent of Prussia has invited the Austrian Cabinet to; send a military, representative to a Conference on the question which will take place at Baden. Austria has sent a colonel of the general staff. ; The Morning Chronicle says that while, at Baden the Emperor Napoleon made the following assertion to the; assembled kings and princes :—" ! sincerely desire peace with all Europe. The French journals have ever asserted this; I,repeat it to your majesties arid highnesses. Those foreign journals which at all times atcus3 me of wishing to aggrandise my territories^ and of wishing to make war against my neighbors, are in the interests of my adversaries, and are, therefore, not worthy of serious considerations ;;

The Grand. Duke of Baden arrived at Paris on June 24, and left again for London on the following morning. ;

The last surviving brother of Napoleon the First, Jerome Bonaparte, once King of Westphalia, "then for .long years an exile, and finally the honored farm'ly adviser of his nephew, Napoleon the "Third, died on June 24.