The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-18 00:00:00

Several Jesuits have taken refuge in Neufchatel.

On the 13th the Federal Directory received infor-
mation from Argau, by courier, that four battalions
of infantry and several companies of cavalry and
artillery made an attempt to invade the Freiant of the
canton of Argau. They endeavoured to force the
passage of Reuss between Dietwyl and Mar, but
some companies of artillery from Zurich, supported
by detachments of militia, oppesed so vigorous a re-
sistance to them that they were obliged to retrace

their steps.
The Papal Nuncio at Lucerne is taking an active
part in encouraging the fanaticism of the Sonder-
bund. He has installed himself high priest of the
Jesuit League, and passes his time in blessing ban-
ners and blunderbusses, and exciting the fanaticism
of the ignorant peasantry of the mountain cantons.
This worthy Nuncio was appointed by LAMBRUS-
cIIin during the pontificate of GREGORY XVI., and
considering the known retrograde tendency of his
ideas, it is surprising that Pius IX. should have so
long suffered him to misrepresent the now liberal
Court of Rome.

We read in the Patria of Florence of the 9th :
" Blood flows at Fivizzano ! The Modenese are
the aggressors I Pietra Santa has risen up in arms !
An express from Fivizzano has just arrived bringing
us these tidings. The Modenese arrested, without
knowing why, the sergeant-major of the Tuscan
carabineers. The people took his part. The Mode-
nese fired upon the people, killed one, and wounied
several. Upon this all the citizens flew to arms, and
skirmish ensued, which was going on at the departure
of the courier, who, in passing by Pietra Santa,
found that town in arms, and on the point of going
to the rescue of their brethren. May God protect
justice and liberty ! Courage !"
The Tuscan Government has published an official
statement of the occupation of Fivizzano, ending with
the following paragraph :
" Thus an act was perpetrated which the Tuscan
Government could neither foresee nor prevent, and
which, with respect to the rights and the dignity of
the Sovereign and the State, must be the subject of
grave and serious consideration."
Considerable excitement prevails in Rome in con-
sequence of the removal of BOTTI from the office of
Censor of the Press, and the appointment in his place
of SBA&EETTI, whose tendencies are towards the re-
trograde party. The conductors of the various
Roman journals had an interview with SBAILIIETTI on
the 6th, which was of a nature anything but satis-
factory.
On the same day a deputation of citizens waited
on Cardinal FERRETTI to obtain permission to hold a
celebration on the 15th, the day on which the pro-
vincial deputies were to assemble. The Cardinal
Secretary acceded most readily to this request, and
seized the opportunity of referring to the proceedings
of M. SBARIUTTI in relation to the press, of whose
conduct he spoke in terms of disapprobation, adding
that the POPE had resolved to grant the utmost prac•
ticable freedom to the press, and with that view had
named a commission, under the presidency of M.
AMId He concluded his observations by the fol-
lowing words :—" When I shall see a good and

liberal law upon the press brought into operation—
when the Council of State shall have been organized—
when the municipality shall have commenced its
functions—l shall then return to the ranks of the
people, and I will be in relation to the Holy Father
the interpreter of the wishes and the supporter of the
rights of his subjects." These words were received
with the most lively satisfaction.
A letter from Rome of the ith says—
" I have the pain of announcing to you the defini-
tive retirement of Cardinal Ferretti. He has just
again offered his resignation to the Pope, which has
been accepted by his Holiness. The successor of the
Cardinal is not yet known. It will be, it is said,
Cardinal Baluffi, Archbishop of Imola, or Cardinal
Amat, Apostolic Legate at Bologna. Both are wor-
thy servants of Pius IX."
A Roman journal states that, on the conference
between the POPE and the Austrian Amba,sador on

the 3d, the question c,f Ferrara was discussed in a
conciliatory manner.
There was a fresh outbreak at Messina on the Bth,
and several conflicts took place between the troops
and the populace, which, however, led to no definitive
results. The horrible cruelties practised by Den-
CARETTO, the Minister of Police, have driven the
people to despair, and at this moment probably the
whole of Sicily is in insurrection.

The Madrid mail of the 11 th had not arrived in
Paris at the hour at which the post left.

The Paris papers of Tuesday contain no decisive
intelligence from Switzerland. The Federal army
had arrived before Friburg, but had as yet com-
menced no, attack on the city. According to the
ConBtitutionnei, an understanding has been come to
between General DUFOUR and the Friburg autho-
rities for the surrender of the city so soon as the
Federal troops shall be in possession of a convent so
situated as to command the place. This prudent
resolve on the part of the authorities, will no doubt,
be strenuously opposed on the part of the Jesuits,
who have kept the greater number of the French
students in the college at Friburg (while the Irish
and the other students have been sent away) ex-
posed to all the horrors of the siege, and encou-
raged by these " ministers of peace " to place them-
selves in the front of the fight, in order to give
France an opportunity of interfering should any of
these students be killed.

The Count DE MONTALEMBERT, the friend, the
patron, and the champion of the Jesuits in France,
has opened a subscription in behalf of the Sonderbund,