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London, England, 1847-11-19 00:00:00

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SURRENDER OF FRIBURG.

We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday.
The Journal des Debats publishes the following
telegraphic dispatch received by the French Govern-
ment announcing the surrender of Friburg:—
" A sanguinary combat took place on the 13th, in
the afternoon, in front of Friburg. The town de-
manded a suspension of arms for twelve hours, to
deliberate.
" The following day, the 14th, Friburg surren-
dered, and at halfpast ten o'clock in the morning
the town was occupied by the Government troops.
" General DE SALIS-SOGLIO (the Sonderbund Ge-
neral) has penetrated into Argau, and, as we are as-
sured, has taken possession of the important position
of Zofingen "
The Bale Gazette of the 15th gives the following
as the conditions of the capitulation of Friburg:-
1. The Government of the canton of Friburg for-
mally to renounce its alliance with the Sonderbund.
2. The troops of the Federal Government to occupy
the town immediately. 3. The troops to be lodged
and fed according to the regulations of the federal
army. 4. The troops of the Government of Friburg
to be disbanded, and the arms of the landsturm to be
deposited in the arsenal. 5. The troops of the
Federal Government to occupy all the gates, and to
lend assistance to the Government for the main-
tenance of order. The treaty of capitulation is dated
Belfaux, the 14th, and is signed by General Durouß
and the syndic of the Grand Council of Friburg.
The Constitutionnel gives the following letter :
"Berne, Nov. 13.
" The conductor of the Zurich diligence had this
morning brought the intelligence that the troops of
the Sonderbund had assumed the offensive on the side
of the Freiamt of Argau, and had even succeeded in
seizing on Altai, the chief town of that district.
This news has been confirmed to a certain point by
dispatches which have been received by the Vorort.
The result is, that in the night of the 11th, four bat-
talions of infantry, two companies of carbineers, and
two batteries of artillery penetrated into the Argau
territory by seizing first on Diewyl, where were taken
prisoners the imprudent soldiers of the battalion Fosi ;
but half a league further on this whole force was
held in check for several hours by three battalions of
Zurich infantry and a company of St. Gall carbineers,
until the arrival of two detached battalions from
Wohlen and a company of carbineers. A battery of
artillery happened to be a t Nun, which up to yes-
terday morning could not be occupied by the troops
of the Sonderbund. According to posterior informa-
tion from a good source, this circumstance accele-
rated the explosion of general hostilities, and the
federal corps of the fourth and fifth division (Ziegler
and Bourckhard), the head quarters of which were
at Arau and Zurich, were to have moved to-day to
commence the attack against Lucerne and Zug, and
the third division (Donatz) was to seek to attack the
army of the League in the rear."
This is all the news from Switzerland contained in
these papers.
A rumour was current in Paris on Wednesday, to
the effect that the great Powers intended imposing
their mediatiOn in Switzerland. On this subject the
Siecle says—
" For some days past a report has been in circula-
tion that there exists an arrangement between the
great Powers to intervene in the quarrel which
divides Switzerland. If we are well informed, matters
have not as yet assumed so decisive a turn. N.
Guizot and 111. de hletternich take much trouble to
bring about this arrangement ; it is even hoped here
that England, who so long resisted overtures for this
end, is on the point of yielding. The question is said
to be to impose on Switzerland the mediation of the
five Powers, and to regulate the difference by a
European arbitration. If the Diet should refuse to
accede to this decision an armed intervention would
take place to constrain it to do so. Thus, after the
intervention in Portugal would come that of Switzer-
land. Did it not commence in reality on the day
when the French Government sent muskets and am-
munition to arm the Sonderbund ? The intervention,
supposing that it takes place, cannot even invoke the
pretext of humanity, for humanity would have con-
sisted in preventing war, and blood has already
flowed, and is now flowing again perhaps at Friburg.
When the Diet pronounced the dissolution of the
Sonderbund, it interpreted an article of the federal
compact to which the seven cantons gave a different
interpretation. Between the majority and minority
of the cantons is it for Europe to pronounce ? On
the day on which the great Powers will interfere in
this difference there will not be any longer a federal
compact, or independence for Switzerland. The act
of mediation will be re-established not any longer for
the profit of Franco, as under the enipiro, but for the
profit of Austria, of whom AL Guizot is only the
humble and blind instrument. The majority of the
cantons has at present 80,000 men under arms. It
may happen that the Diet, seeing itself at the head of
such imposing forces, may resist the mediation. To
what power will the care of constraining it be in-
trusted ? It will not be France, for although the
Journal des Debats, confident in the thought which
governs, has spoken of 40,000 soldiers disposed on the
eastern frontier, M. Guizot is well aware that the
Chambers would be most reluctant to vote the funds
for such a campaign. This part then only suits
Austria who has troops collected in the Voralbcrg,
and who burns with a desire tb make up for the
checks which she has met with in Italy. But for the
Austrians to penetrate into the canton of the Grisons
and to lend assistance to the Sonderbund, would cal
to mind most closely 1815, and it appears to us that
111.
Guizot has no interest to awaken such reminis-
cences."

We mentioned yesterday that Count MONTALEM-
BERT, the head of the Jesuit party in France, had
opened a subscription in aid of the Sonderbund. The
false pretences put forth by the supporters of the
Jesuit Sonderbund are well exposed in the following
article on this said subscription, which appears in the
Courrier Francais :
" M. de Montalembert has just published, in the
name of the committee for the defence of religious
liberty, a circular in favour of the Sonderbund. In
this question, besides the customary appeal for sub-
scriptions, there is a great deal of talk about martyrs,
and faith, and liberty, and independence, and country.
These are fine words, no doubt, representing noble
things ; but the matter to be discovered is how they
apply to the question. It is in vain that it is at-
tempted to turn away men's minds from the reality
of things. The present war is not a religious war
for Switzerland, nor one of independence ; it is a
war of national constitution, or, to use the plain term,
a civil war. It is in vain for the ultra-Catholics to
offer up prayers in favour of the parties, to take the
communion in its honour, to open subscriptions for its
profit; they wiil change neither the character nor
the nature of that war, which is exclusively political.
Were even the right on the side of the Sonderbund,
we should not like to see the name of God mixed up
with a civil war, nor the dignity of the Church com-
promised in the matter. That the Jesuits, menaced
in their interests by this war, should attempt to con-
found their cause with that of religion, at the risk of
compromising the latter to save the former, will not
astonish any one. Everybody is aware that the reve-
rend fathers, before being Christians, are Jesuits, and
that before aiming at the triumph of religion, they
aim at that of their order. But that the French
Catholics should consent, in the name of their belief,
to serve such intrigues is what we cannot compre•
hand! They speak of the Church ! Has the Church
anything to do with the war between the Sonder-
bund and the Diet ? Have the Catholics of the
mixed cantons been disquieted or persecuted in their
belief? How then should the primitive cantons be
so ? They speak of the liberty of Switzerland and
of her independence ! Du the Separatists consider
themselves more liberal or more patriotic than the
Federalists To wish to have Switzerland more ho-
pendent and more free ? That is,
mogeneous, is it not to wish to see her more inde-
greatest crime of the Federalists. How comes it,
however, the
then, that the country, that independence, that
liberty, are appealed to ? We have a higher opi-
nion of the cantons of the Sonderbund than M.
de Montalembert has. God alone,' he says,
by a miracle of his power, can give them the
victory.' No ; the forces are not so disproportioned
as M. de Montalembert wishes to have it be-
lieved. And if the 20,000 experienced men of Lu-
cerne should gain a victory over the 28,000 new
troops of general Dufour, it would not be necessary
on that account to cry out a miracle, and to speak of
the intervention of the Almighty. As to the Jesuits,
who speak of devotedness and martyrdom, their first
care, after having compromised Friburg in their cause,
has been to take refuge in Neufchatel, in order to
escape from the struggle which they called forth.
We are well aware of the practices of the reverend
fathers ; the Lazarists of Syria will tell you of their
acts and deeds, and the Catholics of Gallicia, delivered
by them to the poniard of Sezela, will confirm the
opinion so given. And if you do not wish to believe
either the monks of the Libanus or the victims of
Tarnow, the Catholics of Friburg will soon give you
news of the Jesuits of Neufchatel!

The Union Monarchiquestates that the Legitimatists
of France subscribe in support of the Sonderbund,
because "the Royali.4B of France ought not to fail in
that teAhoony towards a people who have so often
lavished their blood for the monarchy, and because
it defends the rights which we (the -Legitimatists) de-

J VENING, NOVEMBER 19, 1847.

fend ourselves." That the Sonderbund Swiss have
lavished their blood in support of the Legitimatists
of France cannot he denied. They did so in July,
1830, when they defended the Louvre and kept up a
murderous fire for some hours on the French people
assembled on the Place St. Germain L'Auxerrois.
They are, therefore, well entitled to the support of
the Legitimatists, but whether this circumstance en-
titles them to the aid of the King of the Barri-
cades, whose supporters on that occasion were the
victims of their fire, or of M. GUIZOT, who owes
his position as Minister to the defeat of those said
Swiss in July, 1830, is a matter which we may
safely leave to the decision of those who made
the revolution. The Duke DES CARS and that
Marquis DE PASTORET head the subscription in
favour of the Sonderbund. It is not the first time
that M. GUIZOT has made the acquaintance of these
gentlemen. If we mistake not, they all met at
Ghent.

The Courrier Francais says—"lt is reported as a
certainty that the office of Grand Admiral is to be
created in favour of the Prince DE JOINVILLE ; but
it appears that the Ministry has not dared to carry
out this measure by a simple royal ordonnance, and
that a Bill is to-be presented on the subject to the
Chamber, which it is hoped to find docile."
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse
on Wednesday at 77f. 5c.; the New Loan, 76f. 90c.;
the Five per Cents., 116 f. 45c.; the Orleans Rail-
road Shares, 1,215 f. ; Rouen, 922 f. 50c.; Havre,
5171. 50c.; Great Northern, 575 f.; Avignon,
570 f.; Vierzon, 560 f.; Bordeaux, 492 f. 50c. ; Bou-
logne, 370 f. ; Troyes and Montereau, 260 f.; Basle
160 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 4221. 50c. ; Tours and
Nantes, 4101.; Paris and Lyons, 410 f.; Lyons
and Avignon, 475 f.; Spanish Three per Cents., 29.
BUSINESS DONL IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, NOVEMBER 18.
Boulogne and Amiens, 14% ex int.—Central of France
(Orleans and Vierzon), 1514—Dutch Rhenish, 2%—North-
ern of France, 12—Orleans and Bordeaux, 51/4—Paris
and Lyons, 61/B—Sambre and Melvin, 6%.

IMPERIAL PARLIAi%JEN

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
APPROVAL OF THE SPEAKER.
Shortly after Two o'clock the Marquis of Lans-
downe, the Master of the Rolls (Lord Langdale),
Lord Campbell, the Earl of Auckland, and
Earl Grey took their seats beneath the
Throne, as Lords Commissioners, for the purpose
of giving her Majesty's approbation to the choice of
the House of Commons of Mr. Shaw Lefevre as their
Speaker.
Immediately after it had been ascertained by their
Lordships that the Commons had taken their seats,
Sir Augustus Clifford, the Usher of the Black Rod,
was commanded by
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, acting for the
Lords Commissioners, to summon the House of Com-
mons to attend.the bar, and in a few minutes Mr. Shaw
Letevre, accompanied by his mover and seconder,
Lord Seymour and Mr. J. A. Smith, and a great
number of Members, among whom we noticed Mr.
R. Spooner, Mr. Thornely, and Mr. Greene, ap-
peared at the bar.
Mr. SIIAW LEFEVRE then addressed their
Lordships as follows :—My Lords, in obedience to
her Majesty's command, her Majesty's most faithful
Commons have proceeded, in the exercise of their

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undoubted right and privilege, to eleet their Speaker,
and I have to acquaint your Lordships, that,
however unworthy of it, I am the object
of that choice, and I with all humility
have now to ask her Majesty's most gracious appro-
bation of that choice.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE then said—Mr.
Shaw Lefevre, we have it in command from her Ma-
jesty to assure you, that her Majesty is so fully
sensible of your zeal for the public good, and your
ample sufficiency to discharge the high and arduous
duties to which you have been elected, that she fully
approves and confirms you their Speaker.
The SPEAKER—My Lords, with the most pro-
found gratitude and respect, I submit myself to her
Majesty's commands, and it now . becomes my
duty, in the name and on the behalf of the Com-
mons of England, to.lay claim by humble petition to
the free exercise of all their ancient and undoubted
rights, immunities and privileges ; more especially
those of freedom of debate and freedom from arrest
and molestation for themselves and servants ; free ac-
cess to her Majesty when occasion may require ; and
that her Majesty will be graciously pleased to put the
most favourable construction on all their proceedings
and actions, and for myself, my Lords, I have to en-
treat that if any errors should be committed they
may be attributed to me, and not to her Majesty's
faithful Commons.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE—Mr. Speaker,
we have it further in command from her Ma-
jesty to assure you that her Majesty most
readily confirms all the rights and privi-
leges of her faithful Commons, which have
ever been granted by her Majesty's royal predeces-
sors, and with respect to yourself, Sir, although her
Majesty is sensible that you stand in no
need of such an assurance, her Majesty will ever
put the most favourable construction upon all your
words and actions.

The Speaker then bowed to the Lords Commis
,ioners, and retired from the bar.

The Lords Commissioners then bowed to each
other, and retired.

The Master of the Rolls, having divested himself of
his robes as a Lord Commissioner, and acting as De-
puty Speaker, shortly afterwards re-entered the
House, and took his seat on the Woolsack.
Several Peers then took the oath.
The Lord Chancellor, we understand, was absent
through indisposition.
Their Lordships adjourned at Four o'clock to
Three o'clock on Monday.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was heavy.
Sales 3,000 bales, including 2,500 American at 44d. to
6d. per lb. Railway Share:, were quiet.
The intelligence of the capitulation of Freiburg, to
the troops of the Federal Government, was fully anti-
cipated from information of a preliminary character,
which had been previously received. However, it has
had little influence yet in political circles; but the more
so, as the statement previously made does not appear to
be correct, via. that the Austrian troops were marching
in the direction of the contending parties.
There are not any colonial arrivals announced in
the City to-day.
The Corn Market was heavy this morning.
There is a meeting of the Spanish bondholders in
progress in the City. The proceedings, as yet, do not
possess any general importance. As a matter of course,
the deluded and ill-treated bondholders are indignant at
the vacillating and dishonest policy of the Government,
though some hope for better times.
There is no particular change in the state of monetary
affairs in the City. Where undeniable securities are
offered we have a strong impression that, ere long, the
bankers and discount houses will be sharp competitors
for business, otherwise they will be shorn considerably
of their profits, for, business having been contracted,
there is much less facility for the employment of cash.
The Funds have fluctuated a good deal to-day. Upon
the commencement of business, prices were heavy,
Consols having fallen to 838 Subsequently they
rallied to 841, and are now 83i to 84 for present Trans-
fer. The arrangement of the Account is the chief
cause which operates, and there has been as much as
possible made of the hostilities in Switzerland. Ex
chequer-bills have been marked par to 2s. discount. The
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 838 to 844.
Bank Stock is at 187 to 189.

The Foreign Securities are very dull at present, Por-
tuguese Four per Cents, have realised 211-, and Spanish
Three per Cents. 274. Brazilian new are 774. Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been 54 to 8.
Railway shares have bee❑ steady comparatively with
stocks.

ONE CLOSING
RILES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES,
dank Stock lB7 189 189
3. per Cent. Reduced Anns B2 8276 82%
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities.. .. 831/2 844 8374 84%
New 314 per Cent. Anns 83% )f 84% 841/4
Long Anna. to expire Jan. 1860
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 B% 8%
India Stock — 234
India Bonds, 1,000/.
Ditto under 1,000/. .. ...... 25 dis 25 dis
Consols for Account 83%1 811/4 81 84%
Exchequer Bills. 3d.
1,0001.
500/
Small
ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK PRICES
79
77:
87

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent.... •
Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent Bl
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 l6
Ditto, Account —
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Ditto, 4 per Cent 21%
Russian Bonds .....
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Passive
Ditto, 3 per Cent 273/
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch, 2% per Cent., 12 Guild 54% 54 54% 541A3
PRICES Of PAID BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
.
RAILWAY SHARESAT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES`
Aberdeen
Amber.. Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 2%.....
Ayrshire and Galloway.. 21/2
Belfast & County Down 10 ...... ..
Birmingham and Ox-
ford J unction
Birmingham, Wolver-
hampton, and Dudley 10 ... ..
Birming., Wolverlepton,
and Stour Valley... .. 8 ......
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire Junc.... 73/4 — ...
Boston, Stamfd, &Bi rm. 5
Bristol and Exeter 75 - ... ...... •• ...
Ditto, Thirds
Buckinghamshire 10/. 4s
Caledonian
Ditto, Half Shares..... 33/4 —
Ditto, Clydesdale Junc 50
Chester and Holyhead... 37% —
Ditto, Preference .. 8
Clarence 784 —
Do. Ist Class, 6 per CL 10 —
Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10
Do. Government Loan,
4 per Cent.
Dublin and BelfastJunc 2O
Dundalk & Enniskillen 15
East Anglia, 251., L. &
E. and L. and D. ...... 25
Do., 18/., E. & H.... 18
Do., 31.105.,E. &11. 1
Eastern Counties
Ditto, Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1....... 61.135. 4d
Ditto ditto, No. 2... 6/. 13s. 4d... 1/2% dis it dis
Do., York Extension.. 10 ...... 8
Do., North. & Eastern 50
Do., Quarters
Do., New 23 —
&stern Union 5O .. ... ........ ...
Ditto, Quarter Shares 121/2
Ditto, Thirds ... l3s. 4d —
Do., (guar. 6 per cent)
East Lancashire
Ditto, New
Ditto, New Quarters 334
:'ast Lincolnshire
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ..... 47
Ditto Half Shares ~. 15
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12%
Edinburgh & Northern.. 20
Ditto, New
Ditto, Newport ..... ... 7 ......
Ditto' ditto, New . .... 1% —
Ex eter, Yeovil, & Dorch. 2%
Ditto, New . . 2N —
Glasgow, Dumfries, and
Carlisle 81.65. 8d
Glasgow, Kilmer.,& Ayr 50 ....
Ditto, New
Do. Preference Consol. 121/2... ..
Great Northern 8
Do., London and York 2%.....
Great South. and West.
(Ireland)
-,reat North of England..100
; (Ditto, New 401.
Ditto, New 301. 3O
Ditto, New 15/ ... I % —
. --
G, eat Western_..... - 100
Ditto, % Shares. .... ... 50
Ditto, 144 Shares ...... 15
Ditto, Fifths
Ditto, New 17/...... 7
Huddersfield & Manches. 22
Ditto, Thirds .. . 7
'uii and Selb-

21'
1051,(2

207.34

11%
471 h

....Loy 5O .. ...
Ditto, Halt Shares 25
Ditto, 14 Shares....... 121/2 ••• „
.pswich &13ury St. Edin. 15 ....„ —
Do., do., and Norwich 15
Do., do., Extens. Scrip
(late Camb. & Ely) 21/2
Lincaster and Carlisle... 50
Ditto, Thirds .. 10 ...... ••• •• ••
Lancashire & Yorkshire 93
Ditto, ditto
Ditto 1/2 Shares . ... 38
Do. Quarter Shares... 141/2
Do. Fifths 6l/2. •••
Do. Sixteenths 6'4 —
Do. Thirds (Reg.)....10/. 4s.
Do. Liverp. and Bury 34
Ditto 14 (late Hud-
dersfield and Shed') 33

1614
23 th

Do.( Wakefield, Ponte-
fract. & Goole
Do. (W. Riding Union) 44 2s 2% dis 2M diF.
Do. (Preston Sr Wyre) 25
Do. I 4 Shares (A) 9
Ditto ditto (B) ... 114
Leeds and Bradford 5O
Leicester and Bedford... 16s.
Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 371
Do., Branch 1/ Shares 12 lA ••• ......... ••• ••
Do. New Branch( blue) 21% — ••••••
Do. Ex tension (green) 21/2.....
Do. NewExten. ( pink) 2%
Leeds and Thirsk —
Ditto, New
Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3%.
Liverpool, Crosby and
Southport.... ....
Liverp., Dlnchstr& New
castle Junction 2% -•

London and Blackwall..l6/. iss. 4d. -
Do. New, No. 1
Do. New, No. 2 .. 4/. 13s. 4d.... 1% dia....
Do. Extension l5
London, Brighton, and
South Coast
Do. Consul. Eighths.. 30 -
Do. Guarant. 5 per ct. 9 -
Do. Pref. Con. 5 per ct. 50 ...... - ... •,,,,,,,,,,
London and Greenwich 12/ 15s 4d... -
Ditto, Preference ... 18/1782d... - -
London and N. Western 100 15434 153 153
Do., Quarters L. & B. 17 - -
Do., do., New - -
Ditto Fifths - -
Do. LA Shares (G. J.) 25 - -
Do 40/.Shares(L.M.) 15 - -
Do. 40/. (M. & B.) ... 40
Do. 10/. (M & B.) A. VA, - -
Do. 10/. (M. & 13.) B. 74...... - -
Do. 10/. al. &BO C. 1 -
Lone'. & S.Western 41!. 6s. 8d - -
Do. New Consol. Btbs 40 . ~.. 41 ... 4l
Do. New 50/. ... ..... 324.. .. 2e4 28%
Do. New 401 26 ... . -
Do. Tenths (Consul.) 50 .. ••• -
Ditto ditto .... .... 40 ..,...
Ditto, Thirds.. ...... td. 13s. 4d ... - ... - •••••••• -
London Salisbury, and
Yeovil ..... . ........ 114...... - -
Londonderry&Coleraine 271 - «••••••••••••• -
Londonderry and Ennis- -
killen - ..... ...... 2334 ...... -
Bilanchester,Buxton,and
Matlock 3 ..... . -
Manchester, Sheffield,
and b;,,,:, ,Lire, _lOO .....1 -- ••• •• ....
Do. Quarters (No. 1) 13 -
Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25 -•
Ditto ditto (No. 3)... 71,-
Ditto aril Grimsby.... 25 -
Ditto ditto . ......... 7 ----- - -
Ditto ditto - .•• ~ r•-•