The Express.
London, England, 1847-11-19 00:00:00

SURRENDER OF FRIBURG.

Our foreign express arrived this morning, with
Paris letters and papers of Wednesday. The Journal
des Mbats announces the receipt by the French go-
vernment of the following dispatch :
" A sanguinary. combat took place on the 13th,
in the afternoon, in front of Friburg. The town
demanded a suspension of arms for twelve hours, to
deliberate.
" The following day, the 14th, Friburg surrendered,
and at half-past ten o'clock in the morning the town
was occupied by the radical troop.
" General de Salis-Soglio (the Sonderbund Gene-
rat) has penetrated into Argau, and, as we are as-
sured, has taken possession of the important position
of Zofingen."
Intelligence of a decisive and important character,
says our Paris correspondent, has at length arrived
from Switzerland. The city of Fribnrg, the second city
of the Sonderbund, surrendered to the army of the
League, at 8 o'clock on the morning of Sunday last,
the 14th: Some trifling conflicts on the intrench-
ments which were raised round the town had taken
place on Saturday, and on the evening of that day the
cantonal authorities in the town demanded a truce of
twelve hours for deliberation, which was granted ;
and at 8 o'clock on Sunday morning a capitulation was
signed by the federal commander-in-chief, Dufour,
and the authorities of the town, the conditions of
which were, first, that the canton of Friburg should
immediately renounce the Sonderbund ; secondly,
that the town should be occupied by the federal troops,
to be lodged and provisioned therein ; thirdly, that
the cantonal troops of Friburg should be disbanded,
and that the arms of the Landsturm should beideposited
in the arsenal, that the federal troops should occupy
the gates, afford protection to personal property, and
assist the cantonal government in maintaining order.
The journals and correspondence are filled with
lengthy reports of the movements and conflicts on
Friday and Saturday, the interest of which, however,
is extinguished by the important fact just reported.
The Diet were about to send commissioners to
Friburg to superintend the faithful execution
of the terms of the capitulation From the
importance of' Frihurg it was, however, expected
that the moral effect of its surrender and its
renouncement of the league would be immense, and
would n.aterially influence the future course of the
inter-cantonal war, but it would have also a still
greater and more important effect by enabling the
federal commander-in-chief to direct the undivided
force of the army under his command against Lucerne,
the fall of which must necessarily bring the war to a
close.

While the above events were in progress, a diver-
sion was made by General Solis Soglio, the com-
mander-in-chief of the forces of the league, who made
an incursion into the territory of Argau, where, after
some opposition, he is reported to have established
an advantageous position at Zofingen.
The conductor of the Zurich diligecce on the 13th
brought the intelligence that the troops of the Son-
derbund had assumed the offensive on the side of the 11
Freiamt of Argau, and had even succeeded in seizing
on Mori, the chief town of that district. This news
has been confirmed to a certain point by despatches
which have been received by the Vorort. The re-
sult is, that in the night of the 11th, four battalions
of infantry, two companies of carbiniers, and two
batteries of artillery penetrated into the Argan ter-
ritory by seizing first on Diewyl, where were
taken prisoners the imprudent soldiers of the
battalion Fosi ; but half a league farther on,
this whole force was held in check for several hours
by three battalions of Zurich infantry and a company
or St. Gall carbiniers, until the arrival of two de-
tached battalions from Wohlen and a company of
earbiniers. A battery of artillery happened to be