The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-29 00:00:00

We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday.

The Constitutionnel has an admirable article on the
affairs of Switzerland, and on the conduct of M.
GUIzoT in lending himself to a reactionary policy in
support of the Jesuits and the Serviles in that coun-
try, and thus not only repudiating, but stamping as
a crime the revolution of 1830. The following is
the article from the Constitutionnel

" The struggle is becoming more and more desperate
in Switzerland between the Diet and the League. The
Diet pronounces the dissolution of the League, whilst
the League replies by a protest and a threat of civil
war. To this challenge the Diet responds in its turn by
a note which forbids the Federal officers to have any
intercourse with the Sonderbund, and threatens to
cashier such as should persist in accepting employment
in the troops of the separated cantons. This decision
is the forced consequence of the former one. After
having declared the alliance to be incompatible with
the compact, it was inevitable that the incompatibility
of the service in the army of the confederation, with that
in the insurgent troops should be formally announced.
It is the practical application of the purely theoretical
decision which was taken first. It is evident that this
struggle, which since the opening of the debates has
remained within a circle, in a certain measure abstract,
is tending to occupy the ground of facts and application;
it is more and more to be feared that to the war of inter-
pretations and speeches may succeed a real war—that in
which musket-shots will decide the differences. We do
not hesitate to declare, that if blood is to be shed in
Switzerland, that blood must be justly attributed to the
powers who encourage an illegal revolt against the estab-
lished government, and hold out a premium to civil
war in the hope of assistance coming from abroad—
thus casting into the scales, where are at present balanc-
ing the destinies of Switzerland, the weight of the sword
of a new holy alliance. It is truly impossible to com-
prehend how these same Powers which, in 1815, in their
declarations to Switzerland, laid down in the most pre-
cise and peremptory manner the principle of the neces-
sary submission of the minority of the states to the ma-
jority, should now come forward and support a principle
diametrically opposite, by demanding, under the menace
of a coming intervention, that the majority should pass
under the Caudine forks of the minority—that the law
should bend before revolt ! It is easy to comprehend
that they will always be ready to sacrifice all their ideas
of justice and the truest principles to their egotism and
reactionary policy, but that the Government of July
should make itself against Switzerland, in the name of
the treaties of 1815, the accomplice of the Powers which
have just destroyed Cracow in contempt of these same
treaties ; that it should support in the confederation the
same Jesuits that it was forced to expel from France ;
that for such results it should not fear to repudiate at
the same time in a single act its revolutionary origin,
its interests, and its duties against an allied people, is
what cannot but excite the utmost indignation and as
tonishment, if anything on the part of the Cabinet
could call forth such feelings."

Certainly the policy of the Court of France in sup-
porting this reactionary movement in Switzerland, is
very short-sighted. Is it to be imagined that if the
Austro-Jesuit reaction should be successful in Swit-
zerland, it will stop short at the Jura ? Has M.
GUIZOT forgotten the alliances recently contracted
between the Princes of the elder house of Bourbon
and those of Hapshurgh, and does he imagine that
for the sake of the beaux yeux of the Orleans branch,
Austria will sacrifice those principles of legitimacy
s,‘ hich are so dear to her ? It may be true that
Austria makes the most devoted professions of friend-
ship to the reigning dynasty of France, but she did
the same to NapoLroN, and betrayed him. An in-
tervention by France in.aid of the Sonderbund would
be treason to the Orleans dynasty in any Minister
who should counsel it, and in any Sovereign of that
branch who should consent to it, political suicide.
. We learn from these papers that the Vorort of
the Swiss Diet,' M. OCIISENHEIM, having com-
municated to M. Boss LE COMTE, the French
Minister in Switzerland, a letter which he had
received from M. - JEINY, the gentleman accused
of having decorated his dog with the Legion
of Honour, denying that the dog had been so decorated,
and stating that nothing but a powerful imagination
could have traced any resemblance between the de-
coration in question and the pieces of tin attached to
dogs' collars, M. Boss LE COMTE had expressed him-
self satisfied with the explanation, and M. GUIZOT
was satisfied with the satisfaction of M. Bois LE
COMTE.

It was rumoured in Paris that Austria and France
were, in the affairs of Switzerland, to act the part
which Austria and the Northern Powers have acted
in the affairs of Poland, and that in the event of in-
tervention, an attempt would he made to partition
the republic. We cannot credit this rumour.

The illoniteur publishes the returns of the impor-
tation of grain and flour into France, from which it
appears that the quantity amounted, from tie Ist of
July, 1846, to the 15th of July, 1847, to 9,403,028
hectolitres. The average price of wheat throughout
France during the first six months of 1847 was—in
January, 30f. 16c, per hectolitre ; in February, 33f.
50c ; March, 37f. 69c.; April, 37f. 54c. ; May, 37f.
98c. ; June, 33f. 52c.

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is general.
In commenting on the reception of Lord Joni;
RUSSELL by the citizens of London at the great meet-
ing at the London,; Tavern, the Courrier Francais
makes the following pithy observations :
"If we were told that one of the King's Ministers had
come f,rward to solicit the votes of the electors of Paris,
and that he was received with enthusiastic acclamations,
we should exclaim—this is strange. Why does the re-
ck:..ption given to Lord John Russell, the first Minister of
the Queen of England, by the electors of the city of
London, appear strange to us? How it is that neither
of our Ministers, since Casimir Perier and Laffitte, has
ever thought of soliciting the votes of the electors of
Paris? Would the Government be in danger if 6,000
citizens should receive M. Guizot or M. Duchatel as
6,000 of the electors of London have received Lord John
Russell? Would a French Ministt r who should present
hitioselt thus before the electors of the capital think it
necesarmye,,,inttopgut the police on foot, and thstribute cart
ridges to the garrison every the citizens should
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