The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-13 00:00:00

SWITZERLAND.

The conclusions arrived at by the committee ap-
pointed to regulate the relations- which are henceforth
to subsist between the Swiss and German Confedera-
tions are as follJws
• " 1. The Fe&ral Council shall be invested with full
powers to take the necesary measures relative to the
employment of the troops called out on federal se,rvice;
it may increase their number, or dismiss them entirely.
according to circumstances.-2 The lull rowels which
were given to the Federal Council on 30th June last,
with regard to the extraordinary expenses, are
renewed.— 3. The Federal Council is authorised
to take the necessary measures relative to the
restitution to the proper 4.wners of the sans brought
into the Swiss territory by the refugees, the prompt re-
turn of the mass of refugees into. their country, and to
obtain positive explanations relative to the assembling ef
troops along the northern frontier of France. For this
object it will open negotiations on conditions which shall
offer the greatest advantages to Switzerland."
An animated debate toook place on the repDrt, and
the conclusions of the committee were eventually
adopted b) a large majority.

ITA L Y.

PIEDMONT AND LOMBARDY.

The draft of a treaty of peace as proposed to Pied-
mont by Austria, having been already published, we
give the following copy of the counter•project as
proposed to Austria by Fiedmont:—

DRAFT OF THE COUNTER-PROJECT OF A TREATY OF
PEACE BETWEEN AUSTRIA AND SARDINIA.

" In the name of the most Holy and IndivistbleTrinity.
" His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hun-
gary, of Bohemia, of Lombardy, arid of Venice, &c.,
and his Majesty the Kiug of Sardia, &c., having equally
at heart to put an end to the calamities of the war, and
to re•e6tablish the ancient relations of friendship and
good intelligence which have subsisted between their
respective states, ha% e resolved to proceed without
delay to the conclusion. of a definitive treaty of peace, and
have in cot.sequence named as their representatives, viz.:
" His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hun-
garg, and of Elohemia, of Lombardy, and of Venice, the
Chevalier Charles Louis de Bruck:

His Majesty the King of Sardinia, M. Charles Be-
rando, his Minister of State; Joseph Chevalier de la
Bormida, General of Artillery; and his aide-de-camp,
Charles Chevalier Buoncompagni de Montbello:
" Who, after having recognised their full powers,
which were found to be in good and due form, have
agreed to the following articles:—
" Art. 1. There will be, for the future and for ever,
peace, friendship, and good intelligence between his Ma-
jesty the Emperor of Austria and his Majesty the King
of Sardinia, their heirs and successors, their respective
states and subjects.
" Art. 2. All the treaties and conventions concluded
between his Majesty the Emperor of Austria and his
Majesty the King of Sardinia, which were in vigour on
the Ist of May, 1848, are fully revived and confirmed,
in as far as they are not derogated from by the present
treaty.
" Art. 3. The limits of his Kijesty the King of Sar-
dinia on the side of the Po and on the side of the Tes-
sin° shall be such as they were fixed by the para-
graphs 3,4, and 5, of Art. 85 of the final act of the
Congress of Vienna on the 9:h of June, 1815, &c., as
they existed before the commencement of the war
of 1848.

" Art. 4. His Majesty the King of Sardinia, as well
for himself as for his heirs and successors, renounces all
title and pretensions whatsoever to the countries situated
beyond the limits designated in the above-named para-
graphs of the precited Act of the 9th Juno, 1815 ;
nevertheless, the right of reversion of Sardinia to the
duchy of Pla►cenzia is maintained in the terms of the
treaties.

Art. 5. His Royal Highness the Archduke, Duke of
Modena, and his Royal Highness the Infant of Spain,
Duke of Parma and Placenzta, will be invited to accede
to the present treaty.
Art. 6. This treaty will be ratified, and the ratifica-
tions as well as the acts of accession and acceptance of it
will be exchanged within the period of fourteen days, or
sooner if that can be done.

"In faith of which the respective Plenipotentiaries
have signed it, and attached to it their seals and arms.
" Done at Milan, the day of —, 1849."
SEPARATE AND ADDITIONAL ARTICLES OF THE TREATY

OF FEACF..

" Art. 1. His Majesty the King of Sardinia binds
himself to pay to his Majesty the Emperor of Austria
the sum of seventy-five millions of francs, by way of in-
demnity for the expenses of the war of every kind, and
for the damages suffered during the war by the Austrian
Government and its subjects, towns, or corporations,
without any exception, as well as for the claims which
had been raised for the same causes by their Royal
Highnesses the Archduke, Duke of Modena, and the
Infant of Spain, Duke of Purina and Placeuzia.
" Art. 2. The payment of the seventy-five millions of
francs, stipulated by the preceding article, shall be dis-
posed of in the following manner:—
" Fifteen millions of francs shall be paid in ready
money, by means of a mandate, payable at Vienna
or at Paris, at the end of the mouth of October
next, without interest, which will be delivered to
the Plenipotentiary- of his Majesty the Emperor,
at the moment of exchanging the ratifications of
the present treaty. The payment of the remaining sixty
millions must be made in ten successive instalments, to
be effected from two months to, two months, at the rate
of six millions each, to commence at the end of De-
cember next, with interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per
annum on the amouLt of the term to be paid. For each
term the interest will he calculated to date from the one
in which the ratifications of the present treaty shall be
exchanged.
"To guarantee the exactitude of the payments, the
Sardinian Government will deliver as a deposit to that
of his Imperial and Royal Majesty at the moment of the
exchange 01 the ratification of the present treaty, sixty
inscriptions of a million of francs each in capital, or of
50,000 f. of rente each on the grand liere of the public
debt of Sardinia.

" The inscriptions will be restored to the Government
of his Sardinian Majesty, in proportion to the instal.
ments which shall be paid at Vienna, in ready money,
or in bills of exchange on Paris, at each term, and to
the amount of six million of francs, as is above stipulated.
" It' the Sardinian Government for any reasons, what-
ever they may be, should fail to retire these inscriptions,
and to make the stipulated payments, it is understood,
that two months atter the expiry of the term, if not
paid, the Government of his Imperial and Royal Ma-
jesty should be authorised, by that very fact, to cause
to be sold each time, at the Paris Bourse, renter to the
amount of the six millions fallen due, and the deficit
which might result from the transaction, compared with
the nominal value, will be at the expense of the Govern,
ment of his Majesty the King of Sardinia, which will be
bound to pay it, with the least possible delay, in ready
money, together with the interest which may have fallen
due till that payment shall have actually taken place.
" Art. 3. His Majt sty the Emperor of Austria binds
himself, on his side, to cause to be exacuated by the
Austrian troops, within the delay of eight days after
the ratification of the present treaty, the States of his
Majesty the King of Sardinia, or the Sardinian terri-
tory, in the limits established by Article 3 of the treaty
of peace of this day. _ _ _

"'Art. 4. As there exists for a long time between Sar•
dinia and Austria a contest with respect to the line of
demarcation near the city of Pavia, it is agreed upon
that the limit at that place shall be formed by the thal-
weg of the canal called Grave Hong, and that a bridge
shall be built by common accord at the common expense
over the said canal, on which no portage will be levied.
" Art. 5. The two high cnntracting Powers, desirous
of giving more extension to the commercial relations of
the two countries, bind themselves to negotiate hereafter
a treaty of commerce and navigation on bases of the
strictest reciprocity, and by w hich their respective sub-
jects shall be placed on the footing of the most favoured
nation; on that occasion the question of the mixed sub-
jects will also be taken into consideration, and the prin-
ciples will be laid down which ought to regulate their
ciprocal treatment ; and, with the object of facilitat-
ing and favouring the legi.imate commerce to the fron-
tiers of their territories, they both declare that they wish
mutually to employ all the mans in their power to
suppress smuggling. In order the more effectually to
attain this object they revive and restore to vigour the
convention concluded between Austria ,land Sardinia on
the 4th of December, 1834, for two years, to commence
on the Ist of October next, with the condition laid down
in the 24th article of the said convention, and determine
that it shall be considered as renewed from two years to
two years, unless the one or other of the parties declare
to the other, three months at least before the expiry of
the period of two years, that it must cease to have effect.
The two contracting parties bind thtret•elves to introduce
successively in the said convention all the ameliorations
which circumstances may render necessary for the attain-
ment of the end which they have in view.
"Art. 6. The Austrian Government, in return for the
advantage which the renewal of that convention will
procure for its commerce, consents to the revocation
of the -one concluded on the 11th of March,
1751, between the Sardinian Government and that of
Lombardy, and declares in consequence that it will
have no force for the future; it consents besides to revoke
immediately after the ratification of the present couven-
lion the decree of the Aulic Chamber, which has im-
posed, from the date of the lit of May, an additional tax
on the wines of Piedmont.
4t Art., 7. The present separate and additional arti-
cles will have the same force and value as if they had
thisbee day.insertedn
They
will be
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ratified,in thea n
dp rtihneciirp
"In faith of which, the respective Plenipotentiaries
have signed and sealed with their arms. al
ratificationtreaty o
will take place at the same time.
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" .Done at Milan, the day of
It will be seen from the above counter-project that
the sKW offered by Sordiaig 18 seventy-five millions