The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-04 00:00:00

SWITZERLAND.

PEACE RESTORED.—SURRENDER OF THE
VALAIS, AND DISSOLUTION OF THE
SONDERBUND.
We give the enclosed extract from a letter from
Lausanne, which has been forwarded to us from a
quarter not open to the suspicion of an intention to
mislead :

(Copy.)
" Lausanne, Nov. 29, 1847.
"My dear Sir,—l have just time to inform you that
the Valais Laving surrendered, the Sonderbund is
dissolved, the Jesuits expelled, and peace made up
among the members of the Confederation, without
the intervention of foreign meddlers. The desertion
of five hundred men last night from the troops of
Valais induced the Government of Valais to give up,
and our Federal troops entered Valais to• day."

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen and Prince Albert walked early yes
terday forenoon in the pleasure grounds and plunta•
dons of Osborne.

The Royal Children drove out in a carriage yes-
terday morning to the beach, and walked and rode
on their ponies.
The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Gloucester, yesterday, at Glou-
cester House. His Royal Highness afterwards left
town for his residence at Kew.
The Marquis of Northampton and a deputation
had an interview with Sir George Grey, yesterday,
at the Home-office.
The Lord Mayor had an interview with Lord John
Russell yesterday, at his official residence in Down-
ing-street.

The Earl of Ellenborough and Sir John Pe
lly
transacted business at the Board of Trade yesterday.
Sir William Heathcote had an interview with Earl
Grey, yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat
yesterday, and resumed and concluded the hearing
of an appeal from Bengal "Rau Srimuty Debiah
v. Many Khoond Suta."

Low's WATER SYSTEM.—At a meeting held at
Kingsland a few evening's ago, upon the subject of sa-
nitary improvement, Mr. Low directed the attention of
the meeting to the subject of irrigating the streets,
which was found so efficacious during the prevalence of
cholera. He suggested that the streets, lanes, and
alleys of the metropolis be washed instead of swept ;
this he proposed should be done by the insertion of hose
into the fire-plugs, and carefully played all over the
streets and pavements at an early hour in the morning
or late at night. By such means all the noisome matter
would be carried off, and these " receptacles of filth,"
the main sewers would also 'be cleaned out, and the
effluvia from " the gullies," by which the circumarabent
air becomes impregnated with the most deadly gases
effectually got rid of. The prevailing epidemic—influ-
enta—being the supposed precursor of cholera, renders
the subject one worthy of consideration.
DEATH FROM DESTITUTION.—Yesterday, Mr. Mills
held an inquest at the Golden Anchor, Coppice-row,
Clerkenwell, on the body of Francis Ross, aged 56. The
deceased and her husband occupied a wretched room, at
No. 11, Rose-alley, Turnmill-street. The ro un had nut
a particle of furniture, nor had the poor creatures a mor-
sel of food to sustain existence. On Tuesday last ap
plication for relief, on behalf of deceased, was made at
the workhouse, when a gentleman attended and gave a
shilling to supply her immediate wants. She would have
been then taken into the workhouse, but her body
"was," to use the words of a witness, "so covered with
vermin, that he could have scraped them elfin hands-
full," and therefore her removal was deferred, that she
might be cleansed before she was conveyed to the work-
house. Oa Wednesday she was found stretched dead
on the floor, and quite naked, with a cat sitting on her
stomach. Deceased's husband, whoso emacistud skele-
ton appearance horrified the Coroner and Jury, was as-
sisted into the court to give evidence. But destitution
had so prostrated his mental as well as his physical
powers4that he appeared to be quite unconscious of what
was taking place, and could not be made to understand
the most obvious questions. Verdict. " Death from na-
tural disease, and it occurred when deceased was in
much want and destiiution."

THE KNIFE IN LIVERPOOL.—On Monday a young
man named Michael Haddikin was killed by a boatman
named Thomas Rodrigo, at a public-house in Wapping,
Liverpool. The deceased was attacked without provo-
cation
by Thomas Rodrigo and his brother, and stabbed
with a knife by the former; both brothers are committed
for trial