The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-26 00:00:00

LONDON,

travagance of the principles of the Protetionists
cannot fail to be more than ever recognised. He
has adventured upon such a variety of topics in his
attack that he displays beyond all denial the super-
ficial character of his information. He has spread
his statistics out over such a wide surface that
he has betrayed their excessive shallowness,
and laid himself open to the overwhelming
rebuttal if Lis aniaganista. Never did Oppo-
sition leader make a more Quixotic charge, or
receive a more Quixotic castigation. The walls of
the Commons were still reverberating his denuncia-
tions against free trade, when Lord Joist( 'Winn".
showed in half-a-dozen homely sentences their utter
insufficiency and absurdity. Among other things,
the Prime Minister asks the leader of the Protec-
tionists to explain whether he would have a duty of
20s. or 30s. imposed on wheat when wheat is at 110 s.
the quarter ? Among other things, he reminds the
House that while the exports from Liverpool of British
manufactured goods to the United States were to the
amount of 4,529,586/., for the three quarters ending
October, 1846, they had amounted during the cor-
responding three quarters of 1847, to no less than
6,791,000/., showing an increase to the extent of just
fifty pp cent. upon the exports of British manufac-
tured goods from Liverpool to the United States.
Such were the declarations extorted from the Premier
by the foolhardy aspersions upon free trade uttered
by Lord GEORGE BENTINCIC The golden oppor-
tunity, in fine, which Lord STANLEY and his
colleague in the Lower House have grasped
at with such avidity, „ has proved to
be merely what the straw is to the drowning man
—an illusion and a mockery. Instead of leading to
the revival it must tend to the yet further abasement
of the stubborn supporters of that most stubborn fal-
lacy—Protection.

The Duke of MODENA has declarred Massa Carrara
in a state of siege, and has ordered his troops to fire
on any assemblage consisting of more than two
peraons.

The Archbishop of Turin, Cardinal FRANZONI, had
forbidden the clergy of his diocese to take part in any
demonstration in favour of the reform granted by
King CHARLES ALBERT.
His Majesty CHARLES ALBERT has granted to the
Duke of TUSCANY permission to march troops des-
tined to occupy Pontremoli over the Genoese terri-
tory ; they are to land at the bottom of the Gulf of
Spezzia. The Italian journals look on this fact as
the first
,political act of the Italian Confederation,
proclaimed in principle in the Customs' Union
Treaty.
Extract of a letter from Naples, Nov. 15 :—" I
have just heard that his bIAJESTT has changed his
Ministers, and that it will be published in the Gazette
of this evening. Everything is perfectly tranquil
here, and the weather beautifully mild ; we have some
strangers, but not so many as in former autumns."

The Bilancia of Rome states that Count Cuurs-
TOPH;It FERRETTI had been commissioned to termi-
nate the difference respecting Ferrara with General
RIDITZYT, at Milan.
Letters from Rome of the 16th state that the
Council of State waa inaugurated on the preced-
ing day.

The Provisional Government of Friburg has issued
the following decree :
" Being obliged by circumstances to adopt the most
urgent measures to arrest the course of the evils which
overwhelm the country, and prevent their recurrence ;
" Whereas the accession of the canton of Friburg to
the anti-national league called the Sonderbund was prin-
cipally the work of tt:e Jesuits and their associates ;
" Ia virtue of the decree of the Federal Diet, dated
3d September, 1847, which declared the Society of Jesuits
to be incompatible with order and tranquillity in Swit-
serlAnd, and invited the canton of Friburg to expel them
from its territory;
" Wishing to secure to the civil authorities the liberty
of action necessary for the lasting pacification of the
canton, and being invested with extensive powers con-
ferred on them by the resolution of the popular assembly
held on the 15th November last ;
" We have decreed :

" 1. The Jesuits, corporations, congregations, teachers,
and professors affiliated to that order, are banished for
ever from the Friburg territory.
" 2. This mere applies to the Jesuits, the Liguo-
rians, the Slarianites, or Fnires igno: ; the
Brethren of the Christian Doctrine, the Sinters of SL
Joseph. the Sisters of St. Vincent of Paule, and the
Nuns of the Holy Heart.
" 3. Congregations and corporations of that descrip-
tion shall nut in future be permitted to settle in the can-
ton under any denomination or pretext whatsoever, to
purchase property in it, or to direct public or private
establishments for the education of youth.
"4. The individuals belonging to those orders and
congregations shall quit the canton within the space of
thrice twenty-four hours from the publication of the
present decree.
" 5. All the property, moveable or real, possessed by
the abovementioned corporations, is to become the pro-
perty of the State, and its proceeds to be applied to
public instruction, To that effect it is to be sequestered,
and, after an inventory of it shall have been taken, it
shall be placed under the civil administration. The
cession or sales of any part of said property as far back
as the 15th of October are declared null and void.
" 6. The directors of the departments of the police
and finance are respectively charged with the execution
of the present decree.

"7. The present decree becomes obligatory imme-
diately on its promulgation, and shall be published and
posted up in the usual places.
"The President SCHALLER.
"The Chancellor Dr. BERCIITOLD.
" Friburg, Nov. 19."
The state of siege was raised the same day. A
letter from Berne of the 20th says—

" It appears that the Commander-in-Chief will act,
with regard to Lucerne, just as she has proceeded
against Friburg ; that is to say, the Federal troops will
successively take possession of all the points that lie in
the march, and then invest Lucerne until it capitulates.
A letter from Upper Emmenthal of the 18th says—
' Yesterday the Lucernese attempted to make a sortie
upon the Bernese territory at Uffiuson, between Willi-
eau in Lucerne, and Hartwyl in Berne. To accomplish
this they cleared the road of all the wood they had
strown upon it, in order to impede the march of the
Federal troops ; filled up the trenches they had cut
across the road, and demolished their redoubts,
in order to gain a more easy entrance into
the canton of Berne. But General Dufour promptly
sent troops to the threatened point, and the Lucernese
immediately beat a retreat. The leaders of some of
the columns on entering the canton of Lucerne re-
solved that they would, when their troops should have to
pass over the mines made by the Lucernese, send for-
ward all the women and children who remained in the
villages, and thus secure, as it were, a safe conduct
through these dangerous passages. Rather unsatisfac-
tory news has arrived by estatette from Tesino. While
the canto❑ of Vaud keeps the Valais blockaded, so that
the force of this canton is paralysed, the Commander-in-
Chief of the Valaisian troops has conceived that a large
portion of them might be usefully employed in the pri-
mitive cantons. Consequently, from the beginning of
this month four or five battalions hare passed the Furka,
one of the mass of the St. Gothard mountains, in order
to reach and enter the canton of Uri ; whence these
troops were moved in the direction of the canton of
Tesino, to reinforce the troops which already occupied
the St. Gothard. This unexpected reinforcement, which
made the force of the League at this point amount to
nearly 4,000 men, allowed of their assuming the offen-
sive with great vigour. On the 17th, after a murderous
action, they carried Airolo, where the Casellini battalion
and a company of carabineers were all that were posted
to meet this attack, which was at the same time favoured
by a fog. This small body was obliged to fall back on
Faido, distant three leagues, and thence probably on
Bellinzone, where Colonel Luvini has concentrated all
his forces, viz., four battalions .of infantry, four com-
panies of carabineers, and one battery and a half of
artillery, in the intent, as he writes, of bringing on a
decisive battle."

jAccording to advices from Aarau, the General-in-
Chief of the Federal troops had ordered two bat-
talions of the division of Gmur to advance, by
forced marches, to Ticino, across the canton of the
Grisons. It was expected that they would arrive in
time to cut off the retreat of the column of the
League.
Accounts had reached Berne late in the evening of
the 21st instant that the Grand Council of Lucerne
had determined, by a majority of only three votes, to
persist in resisting, by force of arms, the execution of
the decrees of the Diet. A loud cannonade had been
distinctly heard at Berne, in the direction of the Em-
menthal, where, it appears, the bridge of Gisiknou
WAS attacked by the Federal troops. The military
operations against Lucerne were not expected to I
commence before the 23d.

By a royal decree of the King of Pcussil, all
affairs relating to the principality of Neufchatel are
in future to come under the head of the " Home De-
partment." This decree is a mark of the Mica's
approbation of the conduct of the authorities of Neuf-
chatel in the affairs of the Sonderbund.

According to the Frankfort Gazette, it is to the
firm decision of Prussia alone that an armed inter-
vention of the great Powers has not already taken
place in Switzerland.
A Berne journal of the 21st announces that the
troops
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back

with some loss. A report was current that Zug had
offered to capitulate, but it did not rest upon any
authority worthy of credit.

Madrid papers of the 18th have arrived.

The Eeo del Comereio announces that the Union
Bank has resumed its payments. A Bill was pre-
sented on the 17th to the Chamber of Deputies,
authorising the Government to continue to levy taxes
to the end of December, and another to take measures
for the preservation of public order. The latter pro-
poses to give it power to prevent any political meet-
ing without its authorisation, and to adopt military
and other measures of some severity to put down
sedition.

A royal decree has been issued prohibiting the
importation of mixed woollen and cotton fabrics
where the proportion of the cotton exceeds a third
part. Senor Escosoa♦ has taken his seat in the
Cortes among the Progressista Deputies.
On the 18th Senor SALAMANCA made a communi-
cation to the Chamber of Deputies, in which he
stated that, having received the grand cordon of the
Order of Charles 111., he was liable to re-election,
but he begged that this might not be regarded until
he should have cleared himself from the accusations
which have been brought against him.
The QueeN's troops have taken 200 Carlists pri-
soners at Ilorta y Alfara ; they constituted the band
Of CSNDROS.

MADRID Boma, Nov. 18.—The Three per Cents. were
done at 26k, at 50 days ; the Five per Cents., at 15,
for paper ; the Debt without Interest, at 4i ; and the
Coupons, at 10i,

We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday.
It is considered as certain that a Congress of the
representatives of the five great Powers will be held
to consider the affairs of Switzerland. "We have
no doubt," says the Commerce, " that such a Con-
gress will unite all the conditions of impartial justice,
that it will not be an intervention of brutal force,
with some forms of right proper to conceal its real
nature. Europe would feel repugnance to give, in
1847, the spectacle of five great Powers coalescing to
crush a nation unable to resist them by force of arms,
but which would summon them before the great tri-
bunal of history, where all oppressors, sooner sr later,
receive a just reprobation. 'We, therefore, await with
confidence this Congress, at which France and Eng-
land, two constitutional countries, will be present.
Lord PALMERSTON has declared, it is said, that he
would not permit an armed intervention in Switzer-
land. M. GuizoT regrets without doubt, at present,
his conduct towards the Sonderbund, and his sending
arms, which has only ended in defeat. Let, therefore,
an intervention of a friendly character endeavour to
reconcile eitiaens led astray by party spirit and by
the ambiguities of an insufficient compact, and the
twenty-two cantons may still hope for the establish-
ment of a regime, under which all good liberties will
find guarantees, and will not be any longer a danger
for federal unity, and for the central power of the
Diet."

The representatives of Groat Britain, Austria, and
Prussia held a. conference with M. Guizor on Tues-
day; after which a courier was dispatched to Switzer-
land with, it is said, an offer of mediation, and an
injunction to both parties to suspend hostilities.

The Reform banquets continue to be held in every
part of France, to the great annoyance of the-Mi-
nistry.

M. NAPOLEON DcrcuATEL has been appointed
Ambassador to Turin. M. PISCATORT, the French
Minister at Athens, is appointed Ambassador to
Madrid; and M. DE BACOUILT, who was very desirous
of going to Spain, is to succeed the late Count
MUSSON at Naples.

The report to which we alluded yesterday, that the
Queen of SPAIN is enceinte, is confirmed. The fact
has been communicated to the French Government
and accepted by them.

The Prince DE JOINVILLE has resigned the com-
mand of th Mediterranean squadron. The cause
assigned is indisposition.
Orders have been sent to Toulon to fit out imme-
diately the ships-of-the-line Jernappes and Hercule,
They have taken on board four months: provisions
each.

The Constitutiontwl says—
" All the journals announce that M. Magne, deputy,
is nominated to the direction of affairs of Algeria, in
the room of Lieutenant-General Delarue. It has been
lung in contemplatiori to place M. Magne in the War
Department, but as Under-Secretary of State, in the
room of M. Martineau Descheneta. In this capacity
M. Magne would ha►e especially the direction of the
affairs of Algeria. This arrangement has not yet been
realised."

Some uneasiness has been occasioned in Paris in
consequence of the recent rise in the price of provi-
sions. The Conservateur attributes it to the holding
back of the corn by the farmers, and does not con-
sider the rise either durable or disquieting.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse,
on Wednesday, at 76f. 80c. ; New Loan, 76f. 60c.;
the Five per Cents., 116 f. 35c. ; the Orleans Rail-
road Shares,l,2l7f. 60c. ; Rouen,9lsf.; Havre, 500 f.;
Great Northern, 571 f. 25c.; Avignon, 575 f.; Vierzon,
575 f. 50c.; Bordeaux, 492 f. 50c.; Boulogne, 3110 f. ;
Dieppe, 265 f. ; Basle, 170 f. ; Paris and Strasburg,
420 f. ; Tours and Nantes, 4021. 60c.; Paris and
Lyons, 406 f. 26c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TUE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Novamsze. 15.
Boulogne and Amiens, ISyex int.—Northers •f Frames,
12% —Paris and Lyons, 614-4Signbre and Meuse, 7—Tours
and Nantes, 4.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
Lo!mote, Nov. 26.—Wind S.S.E. Light breeze and
dull hazy weather, with rain.
DlAnstAzz, Nov. 25.—Wind S.W.—Off Port, El-
phinstone, Singapore.
DEAL, Nov. 25.—Wind S.S.W. fresh.—Arrd. Fanny
A. Garrequis, Lee, Cape Coast Castle; Palmyra, Cross!,
Demerara; Sussex, Cumin, St. Vineents; British Queen,
Pugwash. Arrd. from the River, Jane, Cape of Good
Hope; Elizabeth, Grenada ; Velocity, Jamaica ; lon,
New Orleans. _

swAysgi, Nov. 24. Wind S.—Arrd. Medelaide
Grenfell, Grey, Cuba; Aboukir, Valparaiso.
LIVIRPOOL, Nov. 25.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd. Pytha-
goras, Corney, Port Philip ; Duke of York, Chandler,
Calcutta ; Meg of Maldon, Rickerty, ditto ; Roseberry,
Madras ; Hero, Donald, Valparaiso ; Irt, Young,
Ifacaio ; Virginian Chase, New Orleans ; Norfolk, Ro-
lAdadilel°pPhitia. Sid. Susan, Vera Cruz ;
Y'
Jane
Sara-
wak,gers
Hd
ji.t,t)Gho
in;esd,Gcunp. Rebuts, Charleston ;
New York ; Henry Clays, ditto. Put
back Charlotte, from St. John's, New Brunswick.
PORT TALBOT, Nov. 24.—The Sisters and the Olive
Branch have been got off, and show apparently very little
damage.
PORTDYNLLIRN, Nor. 22.—The Ellen and Mary, of
Port Madoc, and nut the Catherine and Mary, has been
got off shore.
CORK, Nov. 23.—The Jane of Whitehaven, Mary
port, was passed under juryteasts, having been dis•
masted off the banks of Newfoundland.
DrtoouLDA., Nor. 24.—The Utility has been got off
shore, making little water,
YAXMOUTII, Nov. 25.—Tbe Massena, of and for
Nantes, from :iunderland, got on the Scroby sand this
morning, has been abandoned and is expected to become
a wreck.

LONDON, Nov. 26.—The Homona, from hence, is re
ported to have bee❑ wrecked at Grand Baser', Liberia,
(Africu) previoudy to the 15th ult.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.
QUARANTINE REGULATIONS.
The following has been received at Lloyd's:—
" Spanish Consulate Gt neral,
" 37, Old Broad-street, London, 24th Nov. 1647.
" Sir,—The undersigned Consul-General of her
Catholic Majesty, has just received the following com-
munication forwarded by his Excellency the Prime
Minister of State:—
" ' A contagious disorder, which is considered by the
faculty, to be the yellow fever in its first stage, having
made its appearance in the city of Las Palmas, belong-
ing to Grand Canary; her Majesty's Government has
determined that, for the present, all vessels proceeding
from the Canary Islands are to be considered as having I
foul bills, and are to be subjected to quarantine in one
of the Lazarettos of Mahon or Vigo, without preventing
the adoption of the other necessary regulations for
maintaining the Peninsula free from contagion.'
" Which I communicate to you that you may have
the goodness to give it the necessary publicity.
" I remain, Sir, your most obedient servant,
J. M. BARRERO.
" W. Dobson, Esq., Secretary, Lloyd's."

Commons worillatmseiext
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nesday, and every succeeding Wedbneesdbauysiadeirsingundthere
session, at twelve o'clock, for the despatch of private
business, petitions, and orders of the day. When such
business has been disposed of,
cisely, notwithstanding there may
discussion, the Speaker will adjourn the House without
putting the question. Should the House be in coos.
mittee at six o'clock, the chairman will immediately re-
port progress and obtain leave to sit again.
HEALTH OF THE LORD CHANCELLOR.--We have
much gratification in stating that the Lord Chancellor
is steadily progressing towards eonvalesence. The Noble
Lord was able to sit up for some hours yesterday after-
noon. The inquiries have been exceedingly numerous,
and have included those'of her Majesty, his Royal High, '
ness the Prince Consort, the Duchess of Kent, and a
eonsiderable number a the nobility, 4e.