The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-23 00:00:00

-- MM. PILLET, ROBARDEY, KAISER, BROGL,
Colonel VITRI, and two refugee% from Berne, MM.

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There is no intelligence from Lucerne.

Mr. CHARLES VGELKER, one of the Members of
the canton of St. Gall, has addressed a letter to the
papers defending the Federalists from the calumniese
that have been heaped upon them by the French and
Austrian Ministerialists. He says :
" Without the promise of aid and assistance from
foreign powers, such as Austria and France, the
Sonderbund would scarce have ventured upon their
hazardous undertaking. And if we now ask what is
the chief end and aim of the Conservative leaders, I
answer (and of this all the Liberals are as convinced
as of their own existence) that their end and aim is
no other than to sever Switzerland into two political
parts—into a Catholic and a Protestant league; to
preserve in the Catholic cantons the mock democracy,
where certain patrician families have since time un-
keown wielded the sword of power and the sceptre,
and to restore in the Protestant cantons the power
and privileges of the aristocracy, and upset the true
democratic Governments of the Protestant cantons.
Hence the close though apparently unnatural alliance
of the Protestant aristocracy with ultramontane and
Jesuitical clergy, and hence the promised support of
the foreign despotic Governments. In a late article
of the Allgemeine Augsburg Zeitung it has even been
asserted that the Conservative leaders of the Catholic
cantons had entered into a plan which France and
Austria had formed for dividing Switzerland as
Poland has been divided—viz., France to take the
whole of the French portion of Switzerland,
together with Bale and Soleure, and Austria
to take the Italian and eastern portions, and
then to leave the little cantons, Uri, Schwyzt, Un-
terwalden, Lucerne, Sec., as the Swiss confederacy
under the protection of France. That either of those
treacherous plans for the splitting or the dividing
Switzerland was and is to this moment the object of
the Sonderbund there is not the least doubt in the
minds of the immense mass of the liberal population.
Hence the enthusiasm, the energy of the Liberals—
hence the resolve to stake life and property in this
contest—and hence the vanquished reluctance to fight
against fellow-citizens, which was the only motive
that so long delayed the resolve for the use of arms.
Burnow, after all other means have failed to convince
the Conservative population of the purity and disin-
terestedness of our intentions—after the possibility
has been denied us to explain to them the actual state
of matters, and while we are convinced that our
country and our true democratic liberty, all the pro-
gress and advance that we have made and obtained
with great exertions and sacrifices—in fact, that
everything that is dear and sacred to a free citizen and
an enlightened,disinterested, benevolent, and Christian
mind is at stake, or rather is undoubtedly advancing
towards its ruin and destruction, we have ventured
on the decision by arms. God will assist those who
are in the right, who have the purest intentions. I
feel myself clear of any malice, and of every wrong.
I consider the struggle as one for the highest and
holiest objects of humanity, and have therefore re
solved to partake in it. I value my life very high, I
do not like dying in the vigour of my life, but I value
the goods for which I stake my life higher than this
life. Wort and That dem Vaterland' is the
motto of every true republican, and I will not desert
from it."

It is said that the question of the occupation of
Ferrara has been settled. The Austrians are to re-
tain possession of the citadel, and the town is to be
given up to the POPE.

The Madrid mail had not arrived at the time the
post left Paris.

Letters from Barcelona stated that the army of Ca•
talonia is much discontented in consequence of the
removal of General MANUEL CONCHA from the com-
mand. They consiC,er that this removal is not the
spontaneous act of the QUEEN, who, they scruple not
to proclaim, is a prisoner in her ow•n palace.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.

The Presse gives the text of the letter addressed
by M. BOIS LE COMTE to General DUFOUR, announc-
ing his intention of withdrawing from Berne, in con-
sequence of a safe conduct to Lucerne having been
refused to one of his attaches. The Debuts attempts
to justify this conduct of M. Bois LE COMTE, by say-
ing that he was accredited not to the Federation, but
to each of the twenty -two sovereign cantons. This
doctrine is certainly a novel one, and it behoves all
federal republics to come to some understanding with
France on the subject. The Ambassador to the
United States, for instance—is he accredited to the
Federation, or to each of the States separately ?
The fact is that M. BOIS LE COMTE, in obedience
to the orders of M. 6' UIZOT, abused the sacred cha-
racter of an ambassador, by acting the part of a

spy, and communicating to the rebels of Lucerne

everything that was going on in the camp of the
Federation. In proof of this we quote the following
from the Constitutionnel :

"We cannot, in fact comprehend the conduct
which M. Bois Le Comte is made to exhibit in
Switzerland. What had he to do with a Govern-
ment which the organs of our Ministry do not cease
to load with the grossest insults and the most odious
calumnies ? What relations was he keeping up with
the Vorort and the Diet, since M. Guizot, violating
the law of nations, fraudulently introduced arms and
ammunition into the canton Friburg, when in revolt
against the Vorort and the Diet ? What attitude
could M. Bois-le-Comte assume in a country into
which the French Government has just flung civil
war, by a support given to a powerless and rebellious
minority? In order to be consistent, it was to Lu•
cerne that our Ministry ought to have sent an ambas-
sador, in place of keeping him at Berne. We know
well that that the cannon were furnished to Friburg in
order to please Austria, and that M. Bois-le-Comte
was kept at Berne in order not to offend too much
the opinion of the Chambers. But what was the ap.
pearance which the double game of his Government
gave to M. Bois-le-Cornte ? lie appeared to be a
spy in the enemy's camp, an agent of division and
discord in the midst of an independent nation, a
foreign conspirator invested with inviolability. Be-
sides, is not the avowcd cause of his withdrawal a
truly extraordinary one ? lie, the ambassador of the
Government which sent muskets to Friburg, wanted
to send a secretary of embassy to Lucerne 1 General
Dufour, a very moderate Liberal, but an honest man
and devoted to his duty and his country, found the
proceeding suspicious, and refused the safe conduct
demanded. We ask, what man of common sense,
what French general in his place would have
acted otherwise ? Was it not the duty of our ambas..
sador, since he remained at Berne, to abstain abso-
lutely from any step that might compromise him, and
to await the termination of the civil war in the most
complete neutrality ? We may add, the cause al-
leged for the refusal was not the only one. 'We
believe that we are perfectly well informed, when we
say that amongst the letters seized by the agents of
the Government of Berne on the agents of the Son-
derbund, there were several which proved the dis-
loyalty of the French Minister towards Switzerland,
or which at least gravely compromised the legation ;
and this was precisely the reason given by General
Dufour to M. Bois-le-Comte as a motive for refusing
the safe conduct. The Vorort certainly has not
failed to complain to the French Ministry of the
proceedings of the Government and embassy of
France towards Switzerland. There was, therefore,
in the situation of Bois-le-Comte every possible mo-
tive for his withdrawing. Thus we have made two
parts of the Swiss cantons ; we have :urged on the
one part, consisting of those which are the staunch
friends of the Powers hostile to France, to revolt and
subsequent defeat; and we have separated ourselves
for a long time to come from the others, who were our
natural friends and the defenders of our frontiers.
Such is the patriotic and intelligent work which M.
Guizot has just concluded."
It was rumoured in Paris that Lord PALMERSTON
had proposed that a congress of the representatives
of the five great Powers should be held in London

(instead of at Baden, as proposed by M. GuizoT), on
the subject cf the affairs of Switzerland, to which the
Federalists and the Sonderbund should each send
two Deputies. This proposition has, it is said, been
favourably entertained by the French Government.
The following are the particulars of the accident
on the Orleans Railway, the occurrence of which we
mentioned in The Sun of yesterday :
" The train, which had left Paris late on Friday
night, had arrived at the Pont de la Bourie, the point
of junction of the line with that of Bordeaux and
Vierzon, and was taking in passengers, when a loco-
motive, which had been employed in pushing on a
heavy train from Orleans to Paris, returned at full
speed, and, valout perceiving the signal displayed
that a train was stopping at the station, dashed on,
and came with the utmost force against the carriages
lying last. The passengers were dreadfully hurt to
tfthohreet
unrneust
tuber of sixteen, and three so badly as not to
hold out much hope of ultimate recovery. The num-
ber ofatpeyalssengers in the train was about 150, but
only three of the carriages were crushed
yielding to the shock,
and running on along'
the line. The men who were on the locomotive suf-
feredbeen ordioaf them,
it is said, has lost
accident has
,ion into the cause of the
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