The Express.
London, England, 1847-11-27 00:00:00

scientific farming is his remedy for a _. supply
of produce, and sterility his cure for starvation. Nay,
wore ; he exhibited as much alarm at the innovation
of improved processes as the confederates of Kil-
kenny, just two centuries ago, when, in their treaty
with the government, they insisted that the laws
against the good old customs of ploughing by the
tail and burning oats in the straw, to save the trouble
of threahing, should be repealed.
A gentleman present, Mr. BLAND, who is himself
an improver, and therefore an encourager of prac-
tical improvement, made a very sensible and ju-
dicious appeal to the sense of the meeting, bat
the nonsense of the assembly was on the side
of Mr. SHINE LALOR. A resolution condemnatory
of instruction was carried by an overwhelming ma-
jority, and it was entirely owing to the forbearance
of the victors that this was not followed by a vote of
censure on the Earl of CLARENDON and the Irish
Agricultural Society, for indulging in so wild a belief
as that knowledge of any kind would be acceptable
to a board of guardians in Kerry.
Thoroughly ridiculous as such an exhibition of
spiteful faction must be in the eyes of all sane and
rational men. its melancholy import suppresses every
movement of the risible faculties. How can we be
surprised at the obstinacy, the folly, and the perver-
sity of the Irish peasants, when men holding
the rank of gentlemen, and making pretensions
to sense and education, will venture to play such
pranks in the face of an excitable nation? Mr. SHINE
LALOR has already been permitted to play such
a number of " fantastic tricks before high heaven,"
that on him remonstrance would be thrown away,
and censure wasted. His declaration, that any
recognition of the proffered services of a gentleman,
such as Mr. SINNOTT, would give currency to hum-
bug, is quite sufficient to place him beyond the pale
of those with whom an argument can be legitimately
maintained. It was in vain that he was told that Mr.
Srasorr's tour of three months would not involve one
farthing of expense to the union ; Mr. SiNsorr's
lectures were not a parliamentary grant, to be dis-
tributed according to the discretion or indiscretion of
Mr. SHINE LALOR and his compeers, and nothing
but public money would go down in Kerry.
Here, then, is a board of guardians pro-
tailing their purpose to keep their union
impoverished by refusing to accept means of increasing
the produce of the soil when tendered to them gra-
tuitously. No wonder that there are peasants who
prefer mendicancy to industry, when they can fortify
themselves by such examples of the conduct of their
superiors in station.

The Queen's speech, and more particularly the
paragraph announcing the intended mediation for the
pacification of Switzerland, was the prevailing topic
in Paris on Thursday. A conference between the
ministers of England, Austria, Pressia, and France,
on this subject, was held at the hotel of the Minister
of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday, immediately on the
close of which a cabinet courier was despatched for
Switzerland. The answer of the court of St. Peters.
burg to the invitation to join in this diplomatic
mediation not being yet returned the Russian
chargi' d'affaires did not attend the conference, but
no doubt is entertained that that power will co-
operate in the measure.
A report was current in Paris that an internal
malady, by which the Prince de Joinville is afflicted,
will force him to quit the naval service.
There was a report circulated at the Rowse on
Thursday that Austria had intervened by armed
force in Switzerland. Our correspondent says he
could not trace it to any source worthy of credit, and
believed that it was altogether without foundation.

The Madrid mails of the 19th have arrived, but
their contents aro uninteresting. The letter of our
own correspondent will be found below. There was
a general holiday in celebration of the Queen's file.

A statement is circulated that a league, offensive
and defensive, has been concluded between Rome,
Tuscany, and Sardinia. This is given by the Aix la
Cliapelle Gazelle, on the authority of an alleged letter
from Turin, dated the 15th. It is probable, however,
that the report has no other foundation than the
customs league, announced long since.
The Palria, of Florence, of the 18th, says that the
Duke of Lucca has placed his rights over Pun-
tremoli in the bands of Austria, either to seize that
city, or resign it to Tuscany. Several arrests have
taken place at Massa. The Modenese troops were
evacuating the province of Limigiana, and collecting
round Masse. The French fleet had sailed from the
Gulf of Spezzia for Genoa.

The advices from Switzerland received to-day add
nothing important to the intelligence we published
yesterday. The reported success of the troops of the
Sonderbund in Teseino is represented by the partisans
of the league as having seriously damped the spirits
of the party of the Diet in Berne. The letters from
Berne are to the evening of the 21st. The federal
troops had advanced about three leagues into the
canton of Lucerne without encountering any opposi-
tion. The attack on the external lines of defence
of the Sonderbund was to have taken place on
Monday (the 22nd). Of the success of that attack
no doubt was entertained. It would necessarily be
followed by the advance of the federal army to
the line of inner defence—that is to say, those
which were raised on the heights immediately over-
hanging the city of Lucerne. This point would have
been reached on the evening of Monday. On Tues-
day morntag the fate of the campaign would be settled
by a general engagement on the entrenchments round
Lucerne. As we explained on a former day, the cap-
ture of the heights would be virtually that of the
city itself, of which they have a complete command.
Intelligence of the result of these movements could
not be received in Paris before this day (Saturday).
The courier despatched from the ministry of Foreign
Affairs on Wednesday would not reach Berne before
Saturday, so that according to all probability the
question will be settled between the Diet and the
Sonderbund by force of arms before the news of the
friendly mediation of the five powers shall have
reached the Vorort
Since writing the above we have advices from
Mims to the 21st, to the effect that the canton of
Zug had capitulated. The capitulation had been
signed by envoys sent by the canton to the bead
quarters of General Dufour, but was subject to ratifi-
cation by the cantonal authorities. The conditions
were the renouncement of the Sonderbund, the occu-
pation of the canton by the federal troops, the dis-
bmding and disarming of the cantonal troops, the ex-
pulsion of the troops of the Sonderbund from the
canton, the disarming of the Landaturm, and the re-
establishment of the communications, and the resto-
ration of the bridges which had been destroyed under
the orders of the Sonderbund. Order was to be main-
tained in the canton by the federal troops. Farther
advices bad arrived later, that this capitulation had
been ratified by the Landreth.
Farther letters dated the 23rd say that the entire
federal army had on that day crossed the frontiers of
Lucerne, Schwytz, and Zug, and that the head-quarters
of General Dufour were advanced to Mari. The head-
quarters of the other superior officers were as follows
Ochsenbein at Eutlibach, Douat at Willesen, Burk-
hart at Sureee, Ziegler at Wumster, and Gmur at
Zug, forming a circle close round Lucerne.
A letter from Berne, dated in the evening of the
21st, says: " We are assured that the Grand Council
of Lucerne has just decided, by the feeble majority of
three votes, to reject all proceedings to bring about a
capitulation and submission to the decree of the
Diet"
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