Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-15 00:00:00

SWITZERLAND.

Wo learn by telegraph from Berne, under date
of the 11th instant, that the National Council of
Switzerland, after examining the report of the
Committee, had unanimously decreed the ratifica-
tion of the treaty for the settlement of the Neufcha-
tel question.
The offi .131 text of the treaty is as follows:

Art. 1. His Majesty the King of Prussia consents to re-
nounce for himself, his heirs, and successors, the sovereign
rights which Art. 23 of the treaty concluded at Vienna on
the 9th of June, 1815, attributes to him over the principal-
ity of Neufchatel and the county of Valangin.
Art. 2. The State of Neufchatel, dependant henceforth
upon itself, will continue to form part of the Swiss Confede-
ration in the same manner as the other cantons, and con-
formably to Art. 75 of the above-cited treaty.
Art. 3. The Swiss Confederation will defray all the ex-
penses resulting frotia the events of September, 1856. The
canton of Neufchatel cannot be called upon to contribute
towards the payment except as in the same measure as any
other canton and at the pro rata of its money contingent.
Art. 4. The expenses which are at the charge of the
canton of Neuchatel are to be shared by all the inhabitants
according to the principle of just proportion, without being
by any exceptional tax or by any other manner, exclusively
or chiefly made to fall upon a class or category of families
or of individuals.

Art. 5. An entire and full amnesty will be granted for
all political or military offences or misdeeds connected
with late events, and in favour of all the Neufchatelese,
Swiss, or strangers, and especially in favour of the militia-
men, who, by crossing into a foreign land, escaped the
obligation of taking arms:' No action, criminal or correc-
tional, or for damages, can be instituted either by the
canton of Neufchatel or by any corporation or person
whatsoever against those who took part either directly or
indirectly in the events of September. The amnesty will
extend equally to all political offences, or offences of the
press anterior to the events of September.
Art. 6. The revenues of the Church property, which in
1848 were annexed to the State, cannot be employed other-
wise than as originally intende4.
Art. 7. The capital and the revenues of charitable in-
stitutions, of institutions of public utility, as also the
fortune left by the will of Baron de Pary to the bourgtoise
of Neufchatel shall be religiously respected ; they shall be
kept up according to the intentions of the founders and to
the acts which instituted those foundations; and can never
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signed it, and affixed thereto the seal of their arms.
Done at Paris, the 26th of May, 1857.
KERN. COWLEY.
HUBNER. C. M. DE HATZFELFT.
A. WALEWSKI. COUNT KISSELTFF.

OUTLAWING JAMES F ADLEIR.—Oa Tuesday the Sub-
sheriff held a County Court, for the purpose of declaring
James Sadleir, late of Clonacody, an outlaw, on his failing
to appear when called on, By direction of Mr. Fitzgerald,
the crier called Sadleir's name five times, with a loud voice,
in court, after which he announced that a County Court
would be held every fourth Tuesday hence, until November
next, for ttIQ sure purpose,—Tipperary Free Frees