The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-10 00:00:00

SWITZERLAND.

ZURICH, Oct. 4.—The entire Swiss nation has declared
against M. de Montebello. It is said that the Council of
State, after mature deliberation, has resolved on appoint-
ing the British Cabinet the arbitrator of the difference be-
tween France and Switzerland. Should the French Go-
vernment refuse to agree to that mode of adjusting the
affair, Switzerland will then repel force by force.—Repub-
lican Suisse.

BERNE, Oct. 4.—lt is believed that the affair of Conseil
will be tried by the tribunals. The police of Berne may
in that case, be found guilty of participation in his crime,
since his passport was legalized and delivered to hid] by the
office, after he had been denounced by the authorities.
Conseil, it is true, did not make use of that passport,
which was forcibly taken from him by miscreants armed with
daggers. The Berne police lost no time in sending those
wretches out of the way.—Gazette Universelle de Suisse.
This expression of the note, " The people is not with
you," which betrays its real tendency, is indecorous in the
extreme. France wishes to deceive the population ; but
we know for a certainty that the affair respecting the spies
is a mere pretext, and that it is only meant to cover a plan
the object of which is to ruin the vital principle of the Go-
vernment of Switzerland. All condescension would be fatal,
inasmuch as it would favour occult designs. Switzerland
has now only one alternative left to save her independence
—that is, to turn on him who thought to inflict a death-
blow on her liberal institutions.—Oeservateur Suisse.
The 2:2 cantons of Switzerland form in reality 24 dif-
ferent states, not even taking into calculation the three
leagues of the Grisons, and the 13 decuries of the Valais,
which, strictly speaking, might be regarded as so many
different states. With regard to the Government, these
04 states may be classed in the following way :—Eight
democratic republics—viz., Uri, Schweitz, Glaris, Zug,
Appenzell Exterior, Appenzell Interior, Bas•Underwald,
and Haut-Underwald. The two republics of the cantons
of Appenzell and of Uri have the alternate right of voting
at the Federal Diet. Two democratic representative re-
publics—viz., the leagues of the Grisons, and the decuries
of the Valais ; six representative republics—viz., St. Gall,
Argovia, Thurgovia, Vaud, Geneva, and Tessin. The last,
in consequence of the constitutional reform which has lately
been effected, enjoys the advantage of a Constitution, the
bases of which are more liberal than those of the other
cantons. Three representative republics, the respective
capitals of which, however, enjoy great privileges with re-
gard to the representation, in comparison with the rest of
their territory ; these republics are Zurich, Basle, and
Schafbausen. Four aristocratic republics—viz„ Berne,
Lucerne, Friburg, and Soleure. A constitutional monarchi-
cal state—viz., the Canton of Neufchatel, of which the
King of Prussia is the head.—National.
The authorities of the department of the Ain received on
the 3d instructions relative to the suspension of all inter-
course between France and Switzerland. Letters from
Geneva state that the consequences of the measures adopted
by France were already beginning to be felt in Canton.
Swiss travellers who had left for France had been obliged
to retrograde. Austria, on the other hand, is concentrat-
ing troops in the anticipation of a blockade. She has re-
called all the soldiers absent on, furloughs, and augmented
her army. It appears also that the Austrian forces in the
Milanese are to be increased to 120,000 men.—La Pair.