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 Federal Guncil shall be invested with full
powers to take the necessary measures relative to the
employment of the troops called out on federal service;
it may increase their number, or dismiss them entirely,
according to circumstances.—a. Tht, full powers which
were given to the Federal Council on 30th June last,
wiih 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 owners of the arms 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 cf
troops along the northern frontkr 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 rep')rt, and
the conclusions of the committee were eventually
adopted by a large majority.

ITALY.

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 Piedmont:—

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

" In the name of the most Holy and IndivlsibieTrinity.

" His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hun-
gary, of Bohemia, of Lombardy, and of Venice, &c.,
and his Majesty the King of Sardia, &c., having equally
at heart to put an end to the calamities of the war, and
to re-establish the ancient relations of friendship and
good intelligence which have subsisted between their
respective states, hate resolved to proceed without
delay to the conclusion of a definitive treaty of peace, and
have in consequence named as their representatives, viz :
"His Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Hun-
pug, and of Hohemia, of Lombardy, and of Venice, the
Chevalier Charles Louis de Bruck:

- 66 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-decamp,
Charles Chevalier Buoncompagni de Month Ale:
" 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 Majesty the King of Sar-
dinia on the side of the Po and on the side of the Tes-
sino 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 Fara-
graphs of the precited Act of the 9th June, 1815 ;
nevertheless, the right of reversion of Sardinia to the
duchy of Placenzia is maintained in the terms of the
treaties.

Art. 5. His Royal Highness the Archduke, Duke of
Modena, and his Royal Highness the Iniant of Spain,
Duke of Parma and Ylacenzta, will ba 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