The Express.
London, England, 1853-06-06 00:00:00

SWITZERLAND.

The Yew Zurich Gazette of the 31st nit. has the
following statement oa the withdrawal of the Aus-
trian Chine d'Affaires from Berne :
The Swiss Chargé d'Affaires at Viatica mamma by
telegraph that M. de Duel, Minister of Foreign Affairs, has
astified to him that the reed of M. Kennett hen not the
character of a rupture of international relations. If, then,
Switzerland desires such a rupture, she must bear the em-
sequences. Accordingly K. Steiger has thought proper to
demand new inetructioss al the Fedora Oman i& The
Council has resolved to :histrutt him to esetlase
matie relations, and net make we of the instrastisee
celled a few days before. At Bence, the veebal seta pre;
sented by M. Hamlett, is which he announced hie meal,
has been generally understood as announcing a diplomatic,
rupture. The Federal Council and the foreign ministers at
Berne were also of this opinion. Thus we are left to con-
, chide, either that M. Karnicki has interpreted his instruc-
tions in too large a wow, or M. de Beal has changed hie
mind. In either cue, it is evident that Austria does not
wish to push things to extremities.
This paragraph removes all doubt respecting the
relative positions of Austria and Switzerland. By the
recal of M. Karnicki diplomatic intercourse is actually,
broken off. A certain " relation" still subeists, but
this I. purely formal in its character. A diplomatic
basis for new negotiations is left standing, bat the
political basis remains to be discovered. The remark
of M. de Buol, that " if Switzerland desires a rupture
she must bear the consequences," is hardly intelli-
gible. M. de Buol is an intelligent and experienced
diplomatist, if no great statesman, and knows very
well that the Swiss desire to find no offence where
none is intended. The recal of their chage d'affaires
was duo to a misapprehension, for which M. de Kar-
nicki is to blame. The following is a copy of the
note of Hie Federal Council to its minister at Vienna.
You will find enclosed a copy of the reply which the
Austrian Ambusador addressed to us on the 21st inst. is
answer to the note of the 4th. You will see that the
ambassador has received from his court an order to quit
Berne temporarily, and repair to Vienna, as under exist-
ing circumstances discussion cannel lead to the desired
result. We in consequence thought it our duty (in refer-
ring to our Leinreptile despatch of this day) to withdraw
the powers with which we had invested you in quality of
Swiss Charge d'Affaires to the Austrian government, and
to enjoin you to cease on your aids official relations with
the Imperial authorities, and to inform the Austrian autho-
rities of It, according to the customary forms. A% how-
ever, Coupt Karnicki has left his chancellor Whiled him in
order that no impediments may arise with regard to pom-
poms, we think that in the interest of our fellow-citizens,
you should also leave your chancellor at Vienna, and re-
commend him to manage the passports as before, to
exercise surveillance over oar fellow-citizens, but in a
non-official manner, and in ease of need to assist them
with his advice.

As M. Steiger, the Swiss Ch arp d'Affaires, is es-
tablished .at Vienna as a merchant, the Council
simply divested him of his official character; his resi-
dence in the Austrian capital, after the supposed
rupture, is thus explained.
Count de Salignac Fenelon, Minister of France to
the Swiss Confederation, has returned to Berne after
an absence of several mouths.
The blockade of Ticino is maintained with in-
creased rigour. The inhabitants of the Ticinese
valley Val Maggie have been in thehabit of wintering
their cattle in Lombardy. The Ticinese cattle were
not included in the great expulsion of February, and
many hundred Swiss cows are still in Lombardy.
The season has arrived for driving the animals up to
the rich pastures of the Alpe, but the Austrian com-
mander has 'forbidden the Lombards to restore a
single beast to its owner under a penalty of 200
livtes.

• FRANCE.
PARIS, SUNDAY EVIININO.
The Emperor received a letter yesterday from the
President of the Republic of Paraguay, announcing
the conclusion of a treaty of commerce and navigation
between France and Paraguay.
A decree in the dfoniteur of today contains the
rules for the execution of the sanitary convention
concluded between France and various maritime
powers.
gen'Despatches from St. Petersburg state that several
eerr had recently left for the military colonies in
the western part of the empire, and also for the
south-western governments.
The Airtime de Lawastine, the general command-
ing the National Guard of Paris, has published an
order of the day relieving the force from the neces-
sity of furnishing guards to the mairies of the let,
2nd, 3rd, 4th, 10th. and 11th arrondissements,
where alone their services have been required, and
that only very recently, since their re-organisation
after the,eoup Vint. This order is a virtual dimo-
lution of the National Guard. The only reason for
the mealiere given in the order is that the occupation
of those parts originally determined upon with a view
to relieve the army is no longer " considered
useful for the present." In thus sending the civic
force about their business, Generan Lawmstine tells
them that he is satisfied with the zeal and punctu-
ality with which they have performed a service ren-
dered very onerous by the weakness of their effective.
This compliment is singularly at variance with noto-
rious facts. The National Guard having no political
or social importance, its officers being no longer
elected, but chosen among men distinguished for
servility to power, has no longer any attractions for
citizens. The service has been felt painful, petitions
have been presented to relieve the force from
guards, and General Lawmatine's order has been anti-
cipated by an almost systematic absence from roll
call. _

A correspondent writes to me from Toulouse: "Se-
veral of the French southern journals; Le ifessager
de Bayonne, La (Mutts du Languedoc, Le Journal
de Toulouse, (the provincial corollary of the
Paris Palrie), have taken up the subject, recently
broached in the Madrid journals, of the propriety and
urgency at the present moment of putting an end to
the exile of the Infante Don Enrique, Duke
of Seville, brother of the King-consort. The press
of all shades of opinion is unanimous in rendering
justice to the dignity and noble resignation with
which this exile has been borne. I extract a few
words from the Gazette du Languedoc, which prove
that even party spirit acknowledges the merits of the
most ' liberal ' of the present race of Bourbons.l
The language of the Aigle is still more remarkable,
as the expreesion of opinion of an accredited organ
of the present government of France, whose sympa-
th7 is that which the Prince could least expect to
elicit, and least desire. It is well known to all who