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t a 111.—The news from the Italian peninsula is full of interest. The Morning Chronicle of Monday published the following statement :- " We have received a despatch from Naples, announcing the following most important facts. The letter addressed by the Emperor Napoleon to the King of Naples was read on the 22d to the King's Council. Francis H., being indisposed, was not present. After the contents of the Emperor's letter were made known, the following resolutions were voted by the Coun- cil. 1. The adoption of a Constitution ; 2. A general amnesty to be granted ; 3. A total change of Ministry ; 4. Italian Alliance with Pied- mont ; 5. The Italian flag, with the arms of Naples, to be adopted. We are assured that these resolutions were voted by a majority of nine against three. These prepositions may, however, be adjourned, as the King has not yet (22d June) given his definitive answer. All that his Majesty has done was to consult with M. Manna, who was occupied last year perfecting the pro- ject of a constitution abandoned by Prince Filangieri. The result of this interview has not yet transpired."

Next we were informed that the King had acceded to the recom- mendations of the Council ; and then the l'inies correspondent forwarded the following statement ; confirming the preceding adyices :—

" Naples, June 26.—" By a sovereign act, under date of the 26th of June, constitutional and representative institutions, on national and Italian prin- ciples, are granted to the Kingdom of Naples.

"A general amnesty is granted to all political offenders.

" Spinelli is to form a Government and the constitution directly. "An agreement is to be made with the King of Sardinia for the adoption of the tri-coloured flag.

" Analogous institutions for Sicily, with a Royal Prince as Viceroy."

At same time the Government had sent columns into the Ba- :Micas, towards Salerno, and into the Abruzzi, and the fortifications of Naples were strengthened. The King was ill.

Further advises from Naples make these statements. " It is officially stated that the Commander de Martino has received from the Emperor of the French the formal assurance that France will not recog- nize the annexation of Sicily to Piedmont. " It is also officially asserted that the Emperor, as well as M. Thouvenel, have drawn particular attention to the fact that the Court of the Tuileries has not recognized the annexation of Tuscany and the Romagna to Pied- mont.

" It is further stated, in official quarters, that the Ring of Naples, yield- ing to the counsels of the Emperor of the French, has declared himself ready to enter frankly on the path of reform by granting a liberal constitution, to be placed under the guarantee of France and England. In exchange for this, the King of Naples demands the guarantee of his possessions by the Western Powers. This, however, has been refused."

The following telegrams admirably illustrate the astounding state of things in Naples :- " Naples, June 26.—In execution of the orders of the King, the consti- tutional Neapolitan tricolour flag has been hoisted at Fort St. Elmo, and was saluted by the whole artillery of the forts."

" Paris, Thurday.—Despatches from Naples, dated yesterday, the 27th instant, state that deplorable events had occurred there. The French Ambassador, Baron Brenier, while passing through the Strada di Toledo, where much agitation was prevailing, received several blows on the head with a loaded cane. He fell senseless and was carried to the palace of the Legation, where he received the necessary attention.

`Baron Brenier having counselled liberal reforms, the attempt on his life was attributed to the anti-reform party. It was hoped that his wounds would not prove serious."

The Central Committee at Naples has issued a spirited appeal to the troops and the people calling upon the former not to fight against their countrymen, and invoking the latter to prepare silently for a general insurrection againet the Bourbons. The style of the document may be appreciated by the following specimen :- " For a long time, Neapolitans, we have tolerated that which could not be avenged without shedding the blood of our fellow citizens. Let the mask be dropped ! Let every man select his course ; between honour and infamy traitors only can hesitate, and cowards only remain undecided. Let everything within our reach become a terrible weapon, from the deadly rifle to the sharpened-lava of Vesuvius ; let us rather be crushed under the ruins of Parthenope than tolerate the tyranny of the Bourbon, and, if he needs must reign, let him reign in a churchyard."

The Government had yielded to the strong protests of Mr. Chandler and the Marquis of Villamarina, and had agreed to give up the two ships captured on the high seas. Nothing is said about the men. As to the expeditions from Genoa to Sicily, the Times correspondent at Naples avers he was in a position to state -

" That the Marchese Villamarina, in a recent conversation with Com- raendatore Carafe, informed him that, for the future, the Sardinian Govern. ment would not interfere to prevent the formation of hostile expeditions for the South of Italy. The reasons which he assigned for such a resolution were, that twice a week, open and avowedly, Austrians, Bavarians, and Hungarians, were being imported into the Two Sicilies via Trieste, Bari, or Brindisi, to Avellino or Nocera ; that everything was organized for their convenience, and that Prince Petrulla, the Neapolitan Minister in Vienna, *supplied the funds, while Captain Hess, in the same service, directed the kecruiting department. Now, this German element,' observes the Mar- :Ouse, was directed against the liberties of Italy in general, and in sup- port of a ferocious despotism ; and, though the Sardinian Government would not make open war on the Neapolitan Government, it would not prevent any efforts on the part of the Italians to defend their liberties.' "

On the other hand, it is stated, that Spain and Russia have afforded moral support to the King. The Marquis of Villamarina arrived in 7urin on,the 25th.

Ialdi has sent Count Amen to Turin as his ambassador. He has been esented to the King and to Count Cavour, and has had long in- terviews with them. Filippo Cordova, Emerico and Michele Amen, Vito Beltrani, Giovanni and Andrea Ondes Reggio, and other highly- distinguished Sicilian exiles, all known for the active part they took in the revolution of 1848, at the head of the Sicilian Government. have left Genoa for Palermo. Cordova had frequent and long interviews with Count Cavour, and takes out with him positive instructions to show the greatest regard and deference to Garibaldi, and second his views in the civil and military administration of the island. In the meantime it is as difficult as ever to learn what is actually doing in Sicily. It is known that Medici's expedition, minus the sol- diers in the captured ships, had arrived safely at Palermo. Garibaldi had selectedPrince Torrearaa as his substitute at Palermo. The bands of Sicilians had been sent home, and the army was in course of organiza- tion on sound military principles. Garibaldi has bought four steamers and two tugs, quite a fleet, and a regular communication with Genoa has been established. The Americans are very ready to engage in his service. Garibaldi's force is stated to be as follows:—" 4000 Italians, 20,000 Sicilians, and not less than 3000 deserters from the King's army under anns." Medici brought quantities of arms and ammunition. The Patric states that Garibaldi held a council of war on the evening of the 21st inatant, at which it was unanimously decided that the insur- rectionary army, after having collected all the necessary military forces, should march on Messina. The volunteers brought by Colonel Medici had been chosen with great care; among them were officers and sub- officers of engineers.

A telegram from Genoa, June 26, says :— " News has been received here that the Dictator of Sicily has decreed the demolition of Fort Castellamare. The first division of the revolutionary forces had been directed towards Catania. Another division had been directed towards Syracuse. "The Municipality of Palermo had sent an address to the Dictator, re- questing the immediate annexation of Sicily to the Italian kingdom. The Dictator replied that such annexation was his wish, that he was a great ad- mirer of King Victor Emmanuel, and he believed the annexation would be accomplished by him, and with him; but that at present the annexation of Sicily alone would not be advisable; besides, in the event of immediate an- nexation, be would then be under the necessity of retiring." It is reported that the people have not given a friendly reception to the decree of conscription. The garrison of Messina is strictly confined to the citadel lest it should desert. ■

The Neapolitans did not embark until the 19th of June. Two days afterwards, Colonel Turr, at the head of this brigade, marched forCa- tania. The squadri have been dismissed to their 11011108. Garibaldi was busily engaged in organizing a regular army.

On the 22d, a deputation of the municipality presented an address to Garibaldi, expressing its thanks to the Liberator of Sicily. The address contains the resolution that the. Porta Termini, by which the forces of Garibaldi entered, is to be called henceforth Porta Garibaldi, and the Tierra Vecchia the Piazza di Vittorio Emmanuel. A statue has been likewise decreed to Garibaldi. It is to be erected by subscription. Garibaldi answered the deputation by one of those heart-stirring speeches that he knows how to make, reminding them that all was not done, and that every effort must be concentrated to complete the work. He gave them good advice about their duty to organize the people ; that there was but one choice between the Neapolitans and a general armament ; that Sicily could only be free as part of Italy. He told them that they ought to work for this, but that the time for annexation bed not come. It would lead to foreign interference, which emglit to be avoided. When the time came he would be the first to lead in this matter, to which he had devoted his life. Cheering and an enthusiastic expression of thorough confidence was the answer.

pain.—It is stated that the Spanish Government, through the me- dium of its Chargé 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.

jtIUtp.—The death of Prince Jerome, ex-King of Westphalia has thrown the French court into mourning for twenty-one days. All the guests left Fontainebleau, and the court removed to St. Cloud.- •On Tuesday the corpse of Jerome was brought to the Palais Royal froin Villegenis where he died, and arrayed in state there. •He is to be buiied on Monday, at the Invalides, say some, at St. Denis' as others suppose. The Morning Post correspondent at Paris has heard that at the same time, and with great pomp, the body of Napoleon I., with that of his brother Prince Jerome, will be conveyed to St. Denis. All France will be represented at this important ceremony by means of deputations. The heart of Napoleon I. will remain at the Invalides. On the other ..hand, it is said that Jerome by his will desired to be buried at the In- valid.esM. Prevost Paradol was' tried on the 22d by the Judge of the Com- mon Police Court, for the offence of saying among other things in his pamphlet on Old Parties, that " despotism is the alloy, liberty the virgin gold." M. Chaix d'Est Ange was the government prosecutor, and he amused his English hearers by the utter ignorance of English law on the press to which he made frequent allusion. He showed a strong animus against the prisoner. M. Dufaure defended the accused, delivering a speech of great eloquence and point, courageously defending Parliamen- tary government and the freedom of the press, and vindicating the cha- racter of the Liberal as opposed to the Imperialist party. But the dis- play of eloquence, fact, and argument was vain. M. Paradol was sen- tenced to be imprisoned for one month, and to pay a fine of 1000 franca; his publisher and printer were also fined 3000 francs and 500-francs res- pectively, without imprisonment. The judgment declared that the object of the pamphlet was to "form a league of all the partisans of the fallen regimes against the present Govern- ment," and that the author did not treitible himself to examine in his pamphlet whether coalitions formed only for attack, and too often pro, ducing nothing but ruins, ought not to impute to themselves alone the necessity imposed on the Government of restricting public liberties in order to reestablish the respect due to authority and the law, which dis- appears in days of anarchy, and without which no society can exist; but that, on the contrary, he affected, in order to unite the old Monarchical end Republican parties under the same flag, notwithstanding the profound decisions which separate them, to consider the form of government as only a matter of little importance, which might be diacussed hereefter, and con- voked them to concert together to obtain one single object—the overthrow of despotism and the conquest of liberty." The judgment next said that at page 17 of his work, " the author, repudiating for the parties, be wished to unite the designation of Old parties, described as the oldest of all the alliance ancient as the world,' of the demagogical element and despotism— the iniquitous desire of absolute power entering into a compact with the blind instinct of equality," adding that "it was this party which founded the vast tyranny of the. Creme, amid the acclamations of the Roman populace, and that it had still on its hands the blood of Cato ?" And.the judgment declared that his intention evidently was, by that and a subse- quent passage, to designate the present Government as renewing the despo- tism of the Crofters. The judgment then declared that atpage 27 he "excited the union of the most opposite parties," in order to destroy the present Government ; and that in several other passages, particularly at pages 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 40 and 41, he " represented France as reduced to a condition entirely passive, and as being the plaything of a superior will, both as m- gerded her political interests in war, and her manufacturing and commer- cial interests in peace" ; also, "he described bitterly the inferior condition in which the constitution of the Empire maintained*France,sompared with other nations, though she was worthy of the same degree of liberty ;" and represented her as "absorbed by events abroad, and as given up without her consent to adventures which succeeded each other, just as the curiosity of an auditory was kept alive by dramatic representations which were re- newed without any interval." The judgment held that " all these acts constituted the offence of exciting to hatred and contempt of the Govern- ment."

witirrlank.—A telegram. from Berne reports that, on the 22d of June, the Federal Council received a despatch from M. Kern, the Minis- ter of Switzerland at Paris, in which M. Kern gives an account of' the conference he had on the 19th instant with M. Thouvenel in reference to the accomplished annexation of Savoy to France. The French Minister for Foreign Affairs declared that his Government would not object to this question being brought before a European conference at, which

Switzerland should take part. M. Thouvenel added :— •

" Switzerland having, by her note of the 23d of May last, Mj' ected the French proposals, the Court of the Tuileries entirely withdraws them, and France will henceforth merely place herself in the position formerly otou- pied by Sardinia, in reference to the obligations resulting from the neu- tralization of Faucigny and Chablais. M. Thouvenel is said to have furthet

declared that the Enipercir Napoleon Would' not give up any portion of the territory of Savoy."

ft CZ al 4.—Several abstracts of the speech made by the Prince Regent of Prussia to his federal allies on the 18th instant, have appeared in the German and French papers, but the analysis of it which is contained in the last number of the Carlsruke Zeitung shows that all of them are more or less incorrect. The Regent invited his federal allies to call on him at lour o'clock in the afternoon of Monday, the 18th, and at the appointed hour the Kings of Saxony, Bavaria, Hanover, and Wurtemberg, the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar, and the Dukes of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Nassau met his Royal Highness and the Grand Duke of Baden in a room in the Grand Duke's castle.

" The Regent," says the official writer, " warmly thanked the illustrious -persons present for having taken part in the meeting with the Emperor of -the French, as by so doing they had shown to the world that they approved the reasons which had induced him (the Regent) to agree to the proposed interview. A proof bad also been given that the German Sovereigns would be united if ever the common fatherland should be in danger. After having mentioned the reasons which had induced the Emperor of the French to propose an interview, the Regent said, We have all heard the pacific assurances of the Emperor, and our candid and straightforward reply must have convinced him that we are inclined to place confidence in his pro- fessions.' The Prince then stated that he had not accepted the proposal of the French Monarch to meet him ' until it had been settled that the perfect integrity of Germany should in no way be called in question. The appearance of the Emperor at Baden after such a condition had been made was a kind of acknowledgment of the rights of the Con- federation, and as such was calculated to make a good impression.

By making such a condition,' continued the Regent, I clearly proved that Prussia in her foreign policy never loses sight of the interests of Germany.' The Regent further said that he considered it the duty of Prussia, both as a German and a European Power, to uphold the integrity of Germany, and to protect her Sovereign Princes.' His Royal Highness will never lose sight of his teak, although his opinions on several matters connected with

the internal policy of Germany do not tally with those which are enter- tained by some of his illustrious confederates. Prussia has no wish to loosen the ties which hold the German States together. She considers the reform of the Bund necessary, but she desires that the rights and interests of all parties may be strictly maintained. She does not consider the present mo- ment opportune for such a thorough reform as is requisite, but there are some points on which he must, even now, insist. Prussia will make no change either in her internal or in her German policy; but she has not ceased to hope' that she will soon find more of the German Governments in the same path with her. I hope an understanding will be established between Prussia and Austria,' said the Regent, as I consider the matter one of the highest importance. Should there recently have been a rap- prochement between the two Powers, I will not fail to make known to the different German Cabinets the progress made.' His Royal Highness brought his speech to a close by saying that the meeting of the Sovereigns in Baden would not only show to the foreign world that unity prevailed among them, but would raise the spirits of all German patriots. The speech appeared to make a good impression on the Sovereign. Princes."

• The interview of the Sovereigns at Baden has brought about an un- derstanding between Austria and Prussia as regards the reorganisation of the military constitution of the Confederation. The Prince Regent of Pnisaia has invited the Austrian Cabinet to send a military repre- sentative to the Conference on that question, which will take place at Baden. Austria has sent a Colonel of the General Staff.—Telegram from Vienna.

The Wanderer announces that Brambilla and Mandolfo, supposed to have been implicated in army peculations, have been released from prison.

As will be seen from the following telegram, the talk of a Conference on Savoy is renewed:—

" Vienna, June 28.—The Marquis de Moustier remitted yesterday to Count Rechberg a note from M. Thouvenel, dated 21st instant, and of which a copy has been simultaneously addressed to all the Powers who signed the final Act of Vienna, in order to claim from them the official recognition of the accomplished annexation of Savoy and Nice to the French empire. Not only from this note, bat from verbal explanations added by the Marquis de Mouatier, it results that France maintains, without variation, the pro- gTamme arranged by her about two months ago. She accepts a European conference, in order to examine, in common, the modus of reconciling Article 92 of the final Act of Vienna with the Treaty of Turin. At the same time the Marquis de Moustier stated that the French Government Would be opposed to any cession of territory of Savoy."

*11 r It t 11.—Advicefi from Constantinople to the 20th of June via Mar- seilles, contain some items of interesting news:-

" Yesterday, 2000 soldiers were sent to Beyrout. The Governors of Da- mascus, Aleppo, and Smyrna have been deprived of office. The Christians received with joy the intelligence that the Porte was instituting an inquiry into the recent disturbances. The troops which have been sent to restore order are, however, insufficient; and massacres are feared. The Christian inhabitants of Cyprus are emigrating en masse to Greece. Hassan Bey has been sent on a tour through the empire, in order to institute inquiries. " The Marquis de Lavalette has given 3000 francs to the sufferers from the late fire. Today the fire recommenced, for the eleventh time since its first breaking out, but now shows signs of subsiding:" COilt .--Advices from Shanghai to the 28th of April State that the allied forces occupied Chrism on the 21st of April without opposition from the Chinese. No answer had been received from the Chinese Go- vernment to the aecond communication from the British Minister. The Chinese were making extensive preparations for resistance. The rebel disturbances at Canton were over; but near Shanghai they caused some alit llf fat 111:.—News from Cape Town to the 22d of

May informs us that "much gratification was expressed at the Cape at the coming return of Sir George Grey and the expected visit of Prince Alfred. Preparations were being made to give the Prince a loyal wet- come. A Parliamentary Finance Committee had been appointed, to con- sider whether the government of the colony can be carried on with the present revenue- Some method of direct taxation was expected. A mo- tion had been made in the. House of Assembly for instituting a respon- sible Government The dissolution of the House was expected to take place at the close of the session. The Convict Exclusion Bill had passed both Houses.

" The population on the Caffre border was very unsettled."

otitis J tlitteilia•Intelligence from Vancouver's Island;dated May 9, informs us of the extraordinary doings of General Harney. When. General Scott proposed a joint military occupation, Governer Douglas Said he had no authority to agree to the proposal. He sug- gested the withdrawal of all the troops, but to this General Scott de- murred. The General, however, "being perfectly persuaded that, from the very cordial relations which now happily subsist between the 'Unit( d States and Great Britain, no instructions need be expected from the Eng- lish Government of a hostile character," reduced the American force to one company, under Captain Hunt. Subsequently, Mr. Douglas sent a 'force of Marines to occupy the other end of. the island. Matters went on quietly, and the two forces and their officers were on the best terms, when General Barney, of his own motion, replaced Captain Hunt by Captain Pickett, a thoroughgoing partisan of Harney, and bitterly hostile to England. Harney protests that he has no authority to offer or accept a joint occupation, or to treat the English forces on that basis. He as- sumes the absolute sovereignty of the island as part of Washington ter- ritory, and sets the conciliatory policy of General Scott at nought. This grave step evidently perils the peace of the two countries. It is asto- nishing that an officer of Barney's unscrupulous temper has not been re- moved.