ITALY.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 206, 30 August 1860, Page 3

ITALY.

Tho Sardinian Chamber 5 of Deputies approveil the- treaty of cession of Nice and Savoy on 29th May by an overwhelming majority. At Rome the organization of troops for the protection of the Pope is continued by Lamoriciere, but the great difficulty is the want of money. The Irish brigade have begun to grumble at their small pay and want oif comfortable accommodation. -

Garibaldi is master of Sicily, and has organised a Provisional Government. Being aided by the populace, lie took the city of Palermo. fPhile he; and his troops were engaged In.battle outside the city, the inhabitants rose against the king’s authority within, ami, after several hours’ hard fighting, de feated the Royalist troops ; after which Garibaldi, at. the head of his followers, and bearing aloft the tricolor of Italy/appeared suddenly in the streets, and drove the Neapolitan leaders into the council chamber, where they shut themselves up. '

• • The king’s ships then opened a merciless fire for eight hours upon the town, but without defeating; .the object of Garibaldi and his army.;".-: v : - r ■ ■ ' ■ : ■ \

: The royal troops had to make a - formal capitulation, and Garibaldi consented to their departure from Sicily. He reorganised all the departments of the Government, and directed active measures of defence, besides paying due regard to fiscal arrangements. ' A * ? ” The local councils, and the old government functionaries of Sicily, have been restored,all over the? country. The public communal lands are to be disr tributed amongst persons who have taken up arms in defence of thenational independence of Sicily ; aiid all taxes imposed by the present dynasty are to be repealed. 1 ’ : As the town of Messina, though very strong towards the sea, is comparatively open towards the land side/ we may safely consider it as only held on sufferance, and expect to see the General march into it at his convenience. The Neapolitan troops are, in fact, no match for the Piedmontese, or indeed for the Sicilians themselves, and the name of Garibaldi had such an effect that one of the king’s officers has declared that his men i fought well as long as they thought they were only opposed to the inhabitants of the island, but when they heard the great chief was in the fields they threw d()wn their arms. The king’s troops must have been' fearfully cut up, as every night vessels full of wounded arrive at Naples, /and the enormous hospitals are not large enough to contain them,- . After the, affair, at Alcamo.out* of five • thousand; meq only 500 marched outof.. : the /action.; ,It ! is probable that all idea-of holding Sicily will be at once relinquished.- u .;. ? &•-» i: ■ - Garibaldi is, organising the insurrection-in both its i civil and 4ta. military s departments, He has ordered a levy which, in the courseof t|ifo months, . will give Sicily an army of 50,000 men. , Bixio is casting esnnon and

at »<b~o)wnt\ rnakirig b^mba.; at.: tfie foundries of brikridi.' . 1. ‘.1*?! . .S) ’;i|The:Sicjlian campaign lias.'-/*!? ■ R* the present .time; about 3700 lives . wounded amount to about d»uble ; that number. . ; Garibaldi exercises an irtpaistible attraction oyer-the Neapolitan troops//He ; entertained several of jrlie royalistbflScerato dinner duringthe armistice.; aud all tliem iiaye become converts to the cause -of -Ifaliaq/ liberty;- C?f his 1500 >;prisone! , p, few are disposed to avail themselves of thq privilege offexohange. Desertions are frequent aud numerous.; and, more important still, a/gerjU has/been planted in the ranks of the Neapolitan Army which cannot fail, to produce-marvellous results. The officers afe now aware: th.lt, v by enrolling themseLves In the Italian army, they may retain their; existing, rank, and at the same time ameliorate their condition; the' privates, too, have-had an opportunity of learning by abservationiiha xiatnrQ -of the,/ enjoyed by their Itali an comrades.- Consequently orders have been given not to allow the troops who, have been fighting-against the insurgents to come in contact with those: who have remained on the continent. Great dread; is entertained of the effect-which might be produced by such intercourse; and, therefore, the men who,came from Sicily are: kept apart at Gaeta. and at Castellamaie, near to Naples. Captains Acton and Caracciolo, of the two Neapolitan frigates > Which failed to' prevent Garabaldi’s landing "at Marsala, been tried by court-martial at Naples* and acquitted. : ' Franee and Sardinia have both declared their intention to leave Naples. to the fate which she has so obstinately provoked ; and Lord Palmerston has spared the Neapolitan ambassador the trouble of coming to London, by announcing in - the nature* of the; reception* that • would; bfr gjyenj his mission.