The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-02 00:00:00

Madrid journals of the 26th ult. have arrived. The
Gaceta publishes a royal ordinance addressed by
the Minister of Finance to the Director of Customs
in which it was declared that neither merchandise
nor goods of any description smuggled into Spain
should be allowed to pass from one part of the king-
dom to the other, but are to be seized wherever
found ; that, further, any offence against the existing
laws prohibiting the introduction of contraband goods
is to be punished with the utmost severity.
The KING and QUEEN, attended by the Court,
went on a hunting party to the Pardo on the 26th.
PENA AGUAYO has been dismissed from the office
of Intendiente to the Royal Household.
CORDOVA will, it is said, retire from the Ministry,
and the portfolio of the War Department will be
transferred to NAIVAEZ. ORLANDO and. Ros DE
OLANo will also retire to make way for MON and
PIDAL. The Government have dispatched an order
for MIRALL, the singer, to return to Madrid.
Letters from Barcelona state that General CONCHA
had left that city for the mountain districts, in con-
sequence of the defeat of a column of the QUEEN'S
troops at Mont Seine by several united bands of
Carl ists.

MADRID BOLSA, OCT. 26.—The Three per Cents.
closed at 26 5-16 for cash ; tae Five per Cents. at 16
for cash ; the Passives at 5i ; and the Coupons at 12i
paper.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.
At the meeting of the Boilogne and Amiens Rail-
way Company, on Saturday, the accounts of the
directors were approved by a majority of 99. The
English shareholders who attempted to speak or to
ask any questions, were grossly insulted by the
French shareholders, and prevented from uttering
their sentiments.
The Journal des Debats has the following on the
affairs of Switzerland :
" If military operations have' not yet com-
menced, it is owing to a plan and circumstances
which it is easy b understand. The Radical army is
not yet ready to take the field, and it has even every
interest to delay sperations, at least for some days.
The Sonderbund has quite a contrary interest, its re-
sources being linited, and its finances anything but
prosperous. It could not stand a blockade of a few
months. The present situation ruins and-exhausts it;
its people are in an excitement that doubles its
strength, but that cannot last for ever. The Ra-
dicals are aware of all this, and, therefore, does
it suit them to adjourn hostilities. Meanwhile
they are concluding their preparations, and
seizing upon the most important positions, such
as &the Catholic districts of Argau and St.
Gall, which would have been powerful auxiliaries
to the League, if the Radicals had not taken care to
check them before they began the struggle. Thus
they give themselves airs of moderation, and, with
their usual hypocrisy, ascribe this useful and calcu-
lated slowness to pacific sentiments ; but when their
preparations shall be csmpleted, and they shall deem
Lucerne and the small cantons sufficiently exhausted
of money and supplies, they will fall on them like an
avalanche, and war will commence. Such is the plan
at this moment pursued. To the motives that have
inspired it must be added the circumstance that the
Vorort has not much asore money than the Sonder-
bund, and that it is endeavouring to procure some. It
has applied for it at Paris. One of its agents is now
searching for some at Frankfort, where he is trying
to raise a loan. If the war depended on the success
of this negotiation, some hopes of the maintenance of
peace might remain. Unfortunately, such is not the
case. That the Vorort will be able to pursue to the
end this plan of temporisation is very doubtful. The
clubs are more impatient; already do the Berne
journals ask whether it be intended to await the falls
of snow to bury in it their battalions; and, if the
word treachery' has not yet been uttered, something
like it is already to be detected in their language.
The Sonderbund Deputies are fully aware of the
dangerous situation they are placed in. It has behoved
them to think of quitting Berne and returning to their
cantons. Perhaps they have deliberated as to whe-
ther they should reply to the Radicals' declaration
of war by some bold —T-,----y--o
5,.....5y5z into St. Gan; tne League s in-
terest evidently counselled the measure, but they
have wished to remove from themselves the appear-
ance of playing the part of aggressors. They have
done more still ; if the information transmitted to us
be correct, on the 28th or 29th they were to have
addressed to the Directory.a proposition that might
lead to a compromise, if the Radicals were not re-
solved on war,
at any cost. They were to have re-
newed, in the name of all the cantons of the League,
uo v
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the proposition which Zug had made in its own indi-
vidual name, to dissolve the separate alliance, on
condition of the Jesuit affair being no more talked
o
of the cantons being duly
respected tgenetdy. It cannot be denied that
s
ithout discussing its terms, is an
a
and an offer of reconciliation.
We shall see how the Radicals will receive it, but we
should be greatly surprised if it were not rejected.
c ha o naf d
p or
of andptoh
condescension
proposition, si
sovereignty ra er
In every case, the Sonderbund-Deputies will demand
a clear and positive answer, and, if it be not satis-
factory, there is reason to believe that they will re-
turn to their cantons, where they will defend with
their blood the cause of order and legal liberty which
they have been for three months past defending in
the Diet. Will they be suffered to go ? Will they
not, by the violation of the most sacred character, be
declared prisoners of war? This is possible; but
supposing that they be permitted to go to the assist-
ance of their cantons, what perils they must encounter
before they reach them! But let us await events I
The Minister of Russia has left Switzerland. The
Austrian Ambassador has been ordered by his Go-
vernment also to quit Zurich, where he will leave a
Secretary of Legation, who will be officially accre-
dited but to the burgomaster for his own personal
safety. The Minister of Prussia has received similar
orders."

The _National and the Constitutionnel both state
that the Austrian Ambassador, on asking for his
passport, declared to the Government of Zurich that
Austria would not interfere in any war which might
arise between the Federal Government and the .Son-
derbund. In consequence of this, the deputies of the
Sonderbund have proposed that the Diet shall be con-
voked for the 28th, when they would renew as a body
the proposition made a few days since by Zug. The
Vorort replied that there could be no objection to
convoking the Diet, but that the other propositions
were inadmissible, whereupon it was determined that
the Diet should assemble on the 28th, when the de-
puties of the Sonderbund would be prepared to pro-
pose other terms. The French Minister, M. Bose

LE COMTE, has advised the Sonderbund deputies to
make concessions. He has, it is said, received orders

to retire to France immediately on the breaking out
of hostilities.

The Three per Cents. were done in the Passage
of the Opera on Sunday at 75f. 80c.
MARSEILLES, OCT. 27.—Marseilles and Avignon,
5181. Mc.; Northern, 522 f. 50e.
LYONS, OCT. 29.—Paris and Rouen, 908 f. 75c.;
Avignon and Marseilles, 528 f. 75c. ; Vierzon, 5381.
75e.; Northern, 535 f.; Paris and Lyons, f 901.; Or-
leans, 1,170 f.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Novxmaim 1.
Boulogne and Amiens IV/I—Northern of France, 11--
Orleans and Bordeaux, 4
—Paris and Lyons, 514—Paris
and Strasbourg, 31A—Rouen and Havre, 20—West Flan-
ders,

The Queen's Speech upon the opening of Parlia-
ment will be delivered upon Tuesday, the 23d instant.
PRESENTATION OF THE LORD MAYOR ELECT TO
THE LORD CHANCELLOR.—(THIS DAY.)—This morn-
ing Mr. Alderman Hooper, the Lord Mayor elect, ac-
companied by Mr. Alderman Challis, the Recorder, the
Chamberlain, the Under Sheriffs, and Secondaries, pro-
ceeded to the private residence of the Lord Chancellor,
for. the purpose of receiving the approbation of the ap-
pointment of Mr. Alderman Hooper as Lord Mayor for
the year ensuing. The Recorder, in presenting the
worthy Alderman, proceeded to. inform his Lordship
that Mr. Alderman Hooper had been for many years
known to his fellow citizens, whose good opinion he en-
joyed ; that he had filled the various offices connected
with the Corporation. while, as a magistrate, he had
stexhibited
of
satisfaction
hn;e
tabcpartitmit
huiadnveailng for
law, which had given universal
business, and in the adminis-
fulfilled the duties of the va-
rious offices with the highest satisfaction, he was elected
by the unanimous voice of his fellow citizens to the high
and important office of Chief Magistrate of the city of
London ; that he would follow in the footsteps of his
predecessors, in maintaining the dignity and privilege of
the City. The Lord Chancellor said it gave him great
pleasure in being commanded by her Majesty to express
her Majesty's approbation of the choice which the citi-
zens had made, and congratulated Mr. Alderman Hooper
upon his eleotion. The Lord Mayor elect /min waken
hands with the Lord Chancellor, retired.

who were attacked by the fatal disease belong mostly
to the poorer classes ; and the greater number have
suffered previously of diarrhcea and -intermittent
fevers. These complaints suddenly changed into the
real Asiatic cholera, after eating abundance of fruit
and of other indigestible food, or after exposure to the
damp air and cold weather. Of these fifteen persons
nine died, and a week previous to the period that the
epidemic could be said to have broken out, a traveller
from Woronesh fell sick at a tavern in the town of
Superchoff, in the government of Moscow, and died
in a very short time. This case, however, appeared
to be entirely single, and had no consequences what-
ever, either in the surrounding country or the town."