POSTSCRIPT. SATURDAY.
"A private telegraphic despatch from Marseilles, dated today, announees that the movement in Sicily broke out in different districts of the provinces of Palermo and of Caltanisetta. It commenced on the 22d of November by the stopping of a diligence which runs between Palermo, Catania, and Mes- sina. The insurgents numbered 60. In the night between the 22d and 23d of November the Government sent two battalions of ehasseurs-A-pied, com- manded by General Guion, against the insurgents. On the morning of the 23d two squadrons of chasseurs-A-cheval, with a field-battery, were also sent against them. The insurgents fled, and withdrew to Cefala, leaving some prisoners. The troops, 800 strong, immediately followed in pursuit, surrounded the town, and took possession of it. At Catania placards were posted up, but were immediately torn down by the police. On these pla- cards were the words—' Long live the Hereditary Prince ! Long live the Constitution of 1812 ! ' A movement has also taken place in the island of Marsala."
According to a later telegraphic message, no insurrection had broken out in Messina up to the 29th ultimo.
The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post intimates that it is the resident Ministers who will meet at Paris, under the presidency of Count WIdewski, to form the second Congress, " for the purpose of adjusting certain difficulties which have grown out of the execution of the treaty of peace signed at Paris." The composition of the Conferences will be as follows—M. Walewski, President ; Lord Cowley, her Britannic Ma- jesty's Representative ; M. Hubner, the Austrian Ambassador ; M. Hi seleff, the Russian Ambassador ; M. Hatzfeldt, the Prussian Minister ; Djemil Bey, the Turkish Ambassador ; and the Marquis Villamarina, the Piedmontese Minister. This statement, however, must not be received for more than it is worth.
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