The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-28 00:00:00

Tilt -SLIM, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 28, 1865.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This Day,

INDIA AND CHINA•

,--Q

By the arrival of the Calcutta mail we have re-
ceived our private correspondence and files of papers
from Calcutta to the 22d of September; and Hong-
kong to the 11th of September.

Ronan and seized three cities in the prefecture of
Kwei-te. They will probably remain unmolested
until they have recovered from their late defeat
near Pekin.

"We hear nothing of interest from the three
Northern Ports (Newehwang, Tien-tsin, and
Chefoo).

"At Shanghai the chief item of interest appears
to have been a meeting of the Chamber of Com-
merce. The chamber has been at some pains to set
clearly before the authorities generally numerous
causes of dissatisfaction with the working of the
treaty of Tien-tsin, and it will be seen from the
various resolutions passed that there is much room
for still further progress in the satisfactory conduct
of our relations with China.

" Burgevine has been officially reported by the
Mandarins as having perished while crossing a
stream during the rainy season.
" The British bark Dispatch, from Shanghai to
Foochow, was totally wrecked in the Yang-tsze, not
far from the wreck of the Ocean Mail, on the 18th
ult.

" From the South Coast ports there is no news of
importance. All is quiet at Canton and Macao.
The nefarious traffic in coolies for shipment to the
Guano Islands is still brisk in both places. Portu-
guese conduct it chiefly.
" All is quiet in the ports at Japan, and the resi-
dents at the different settlements were engaged as
much in pleasure.as in business, according to the
latest advices, which are to the 26th ult.

" The London mail of July 26th is now overdue,
but nothing has as yet been heard of her, either
here or by last dates at Singapore. Some of the
annual breaksdown between this port and Suez is
conjectured a, the cause of the mail steamer's deten-
tion. The London mail of July 17th arrived here
on the 28th uIC by the French line of steamers."

The Swiss Constitution.

(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)
BERNE, OCT. 24.

The National Council of the Swiss Confederation
assembled yesterday, in extraordinary session, to
deliberate upon the revision of the constitution. The
sitting was opened by a long speech from the Pre-
sident, M. Planta, in which he expressed his indi-
vidual opinions upon the revision, the budget for
1866, and the Alpine railway, which last was not
one of the subjects upon the paper. He dwelt upon
the surprise with which the revision question had
been received by the people, which had taken up an
observant rather than an active position. lie then
alluded to the many apprehensions and fears the
revision occasioned, and concluded with the warning
to be careful, considering the material tendencies of
the age, lest Switzerland should sink entirely into a
commercial republic, and suffer the same fate as
formerly had overtaken Venice.
Previous to entering upon the order of the day
Dr. A. Escher, of Zurich, the reporter of the com-
mission, moved that the question should first be
decided whether a revision of the constitution were
required. Two members, Messrs. Legesser, of
Lucerne, and Acklen, of Aargan, spoke against the
measure. Revision of the constitution, they con-
tended, must always proceed from the generally
,-etpressed ',popular will; bnt-in the present-instance
this was not the case. The question was only
brought forward on account of the French com-
mercial treaty, in order to grant a few Aargan Jews
the same right of settlement as the French. For
the Bernese the matter was not pressing enough to
require a more extensive reform.