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London, England, 1847-10-30 00:00:00

maintain liberal institutions, or oppose any wish of
the CZAR, who could in a moment ruin half our
merchants ? This alone would be a sufficient reason
for the change, if no other existed. We may, on a
future day, trace more fully the possible consequences
of this investment to the country in general.

At the meeting of the Swiss Diet, on the 25th, a
dispatch from the Government of St. Gall was corn
municated to the assembly, announcing that the re-
volt had been suppressed in that canton, but that the
Governments of Zurich, Argau, and Thurgau, had
nevertheless thought proper to call out the entire of
their first contingents. Colonel Durotra, the Com-
mander-in-Chief of the Federal army, took the oath
in the presence of the Diet, by which it was decided
that orders should be forwarded that night for the
levy of 50,000 men. The Diet was informed on that
day that Switzerland would be surrounded by a
military cordon on the side of Austria, Bavaria, Wir-
temberg, and France. The Grand Duke of BADEN
had refused to participate in the blockade, saying that
he felt no apprehensions from Switzerland. The
Deputy of Lucerne having asked if the levy of
50,000 men was a commencement of execution of the
coercive measures, the President replied that the Diet
would give its attention later to that object.
M. ANERUYN, the Federal Chancellor, a native of
Lucerne, has resigned his office.
It was rumoured at Berne that the first expedition
would be against Friburg.
The following is the letter of apology written by
the President of the Swiss Directory to Mr. PEEL,
the English Charge d'Affaires :

" The President and the Council of State of the
Federal Directory have hastened to lay before the
Government of Berne the complaint that Mr. Peel,
the Chargé d'Affaires of her Majesty the Queen of
Great Britain, addressed to them on the 21st of this
month, on the subject of the deplorable incident
which occurred to him during the preceding night,
and to invite that Government to give him an expla-
nation on the subject. The Government of the can-
ton of Berne immediately commanded an inquiry to
be instituted, from which it appears that the sentinel
on duty at the gate of Morat, after midnight of the
20th to the 21st inst., as soon as he saw a person ap-
proaching, called out three times in the German lan-
guage, " Who goes there ?" a question prescribed by
the military regulations, and arrested the person
unknown, who wished to pass. The guard
having taking arms, brought the person, whom
it pretends it did not know, into the guard-house.
But as soon as the guard perceived by the card
which the person unknown presented, that it had to
de with a person of a high position in society, it
awakened the gendarme attached to the guard-
house, who recognised the British Minister. Mr.
Peel was no longer 'prevented from returning to his
hotel. The Government of the canton of Berne, in
transmitting this information to the Federal Direc-
tory, expresses its most earnest and sincere regret on
the subject of this deplorable incident, and the Fe-
deral Directory, on its side, considers it an act of
duty to repeat to the Charge d'Affaires of Great Bri-
tain the same sentiments, expressing to him at the
same time how much distressed it is that Mr. Peel
should have had to endure anything so disagreeable
as the circumstance above stated. The President
and the Council of State of the Federal Directory
have the honour to renew to the Charge d'Affaires of
her Britannic Majesty the assurances of their most
distinguished consideration.

- " The President and the Council of State ol
the canton of Berne, Federal Directory,
and in their name,
" The President OCHSENBEIN.
" Berne, Oct. 22, 1847."

Madrid papers of the 23d have arrived.
The Gaveta publishes the following :
" ROYAL DECREE.

" In conformity with the advice of the Council of
Ministers, and in consideration of the reasons mani-
fested to me by my Minister of Finance, I hereby
order the suspension, until the Cortes shall have de-
termined on what is most convenient, of the execution
of my Royal decree of the 11th of June last, relative
to the sale of the property of the four military orders,
and that of St. John of Jerusalem.

" Given at the Palace this 20th of October, 1847,
" Signed by the Royal hand.
(Countersigned) " FRANCISCO ORLANDO,
Minister of Finance."

On the 20th a Ministerial crisis had existed in con-
sequence of the attempts of MARIA CHRISTINA and
NARVAEZ to coerce the unfortunate QUEEN into the
dismissal from her service of the Aya Doxe. CATA-
LINA and the Count of SANTA COLONNA, who are
personal friends of the QUEEN. CHRISTINA coaxed
and NAR VA EZ bullied in vain. The QUEEN declared
that she would, if the attempt were persevered
in, instantly dismiss her Ministers, and the
attempt was for the time abandoned. The
odds, however, against the unfortunate young
QUEEN were too strong; she was alone against
CHRISTINA, NAaveEz, and the Ministry, and, after
two days' struggle, she was forced to yield to their
threats, and her friends are consequently dismissed.
The QUEEN is now a captive in her own Palace, all
her friends have been driven from her presence, and
no person, diplomatist, or otherwise, is permitted to
have access to, or to hold communication, with her
MAJESTY save known and sworn Afrancesados.
The whole of the medical attendants of the Court
have resigned, and a certain NUNEZ has been ap-
pointed physician to her MAJESTY. Contempo-
raneously with this change in the medical staff
reports were industriously circulated in Madrid
by the paid agents of the Afrancesados that
the QUEEN'S health was suffering, and that
a voyage to Italy had been recommended.
Other agents of the same party, and paid from the
same purse, are circulating the most atrocious reports
against the character of the QUEEN, and, although
these wretches have been denounced to the police,
to NARVAEZ, and to MARIA CHRISTINA, they are still
permitted to proceed in their dirty work unmolested.
The all but openly avowed object of these atrocious
intrigues is to get the QUEEN out of the country,
under pretence of ill health, and to inaugurate a
regency, composed of CHRISTINA, NARVAEZ, and the
Duchess of MONTPENSIER, whose French education
has, it is supposed, by this time, eradicated every
spark of patriotism or feeling for Spanish nationality
which she may have once possessed.

A lett. r from Olot, in the district of Gerona, states
that a small band of Montemolinists marched into it
on the evening of the 15th, uttering shouts in favour
of the Count DE MoNTEmor.l3.;, and that they re-
mained there for some hours, notwithstanding there
was a garrison of 200 men.

Lord CAN3ING has left Madrid for London.

MADRID BOLSA, OCT. 23.—Three per Cents. were
done at 26 5-16 for ea:.ll, and 2G4 at 50 days; the
Five per Cents. at 161 for paper ; the Debt without
interest at 53-; and the Coupons at 13.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.
A Cabinet Council was held on that day at St.
Cloud, at which the KING presided. The affairs of
Switzerland were discussed, and M. DUCIIATEL and
M. GUIZOT warmly advocated an armed intervention
in the affairs of that country. The Minister of War
is, it is said, opposed to an armed intervention, and
the KING is in favour of exhausting every means of
settling affairs amicably before having recourse to
such a measure.

The measures adopted by the English Government
to relieve the pressure are the subject of comment in
all these papers. The Bullionist Debats says—
" We would willingly define the hardy measure
adopted by the British Government, not as a Govern-
ment illegality (coup d'etat), but a cast of the dice
(coup de de). It is possible that the measure may
succeed, and that the Bank may win the game. It is
possible that the Bank may lose. It must win if the
increase of its paper in circulation does not slacken
the movement of gold, which was beginning to flow
into England from different points of the commercial
world, and if it does not rather occasion a fresh ex-
port of that metal—if, in fine, the Bank, in order to
maintain sufficient gold in its coffers with which to
change its notes, should not be obliged to adopt a new
restriction, which would become more dangereus
after the expansion of credit which is about to take
place. We do not wish to predict, but we find it im-
possible to contemplate this unknown future without
a certain apprehension. We have seen by the Bank
returns with what rapidity bullion left its coffers, and
what a feeble reserve remained. What would be the
consequence if this movement should still continue, or
if it should recommence after having ceased—the
certain consequence of a return of confidence induced
by the decision of the Bank ? It is certain that
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The National, celebrated for its hatred of banks,
bankers, and capitalists, against whom it wages " war
to the knife," is of opinion that the distress will be