The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-28 00:00:00

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an the evening of the 31at January.
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LONDON, FRIDAY, JAN. 28.

Tae amount of nonsense which continues to be in-
dited about Switzerland is quite wonderful. The
Times would have the world believe that the Diet, in
driving the Swiss Father M'HALES out of Swit-
zerland, have committed a dreadful act of persecution
and intolerance. The Times sympathises with the
Swiss Jesuits, who, when rooted out, fled to their
patron, METTERNICH, and the English journal ar-
dently adopts the Catholic religious frenzy of the
Lucernese and of their great, champion, Count
MonrstEksear. And this is done by the Times,
at the very moment when Count MONTALEMBERT
invites Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL over to Paris
to receive homage and glorification from this
very hyper-Catholic and Jesuit party, which
the rimes takes under its wing. We would
recommend our contemporary to put some kind
of harmony between its Swiss and its Irish
policy, and cease to castigate in one country the very
cane and the very monks which it idolises in the
other.
Whilst an amicable contest is thus going on be-
tween different columns of the same journal, another
one, equally absurd, is started, as to whether Lord
PALMERSTON'S language with respect to Switzerland in
1832 is consistent with his lordship's language in
1847. The carriers on of this controversy take it for
granted, that Switzerland is in the same position at
present as in 1832, and of coarse that oar policy
towards it should be the same. But why did Lord
PALMERSTON insist on the inviolability of the Pact
in 1832, and why did ho object to the federal
being then absorbed in a central government?
The reason was, that at that time, immediately after
the revolution of 1830, the melting of the Swiss cantonal
governments into one republican mass would have at
once created a large democratic ally and vanguard for
French democracy in the midst of Europe, alarming
to Austria, to Germany, and to Italy, in the midst of
which Switzerland advances like a wedge, and which,
both in • military and propagandist sense, she had
rye means and position to disturb and revolutionise.
But these fears, which weighed upon a British minis-
ter in 1832, cannot possibly weigh upon him in 1847.