The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-16 00:00:00

SWITZERLAND.

A foreign journal publishes the two follewing dis-
patches, which have been addressed by Lord Aberdeen
to the British Minister in Switzerland :
(No. 1.)
" Foreign-office, Jan. 13, 1846.
" Sir,—The intelligence communicated in your dis-
patch of the 24th of November, with respect to the
affairs of the Canton de Vaud, and more particularly as
regards the conduct of the Government of that canton
towards the clergy, has been received with great regret
by her Majesty's Government, and has excited deep
sympathy with the persecuted pastors, among various
classes of her Majesty's subjects.
. . .

" So painful indeed has been the impression whick
recent events in that part of Switzerland have caused in
this country that members of different evangelical per-
suasions have petitioned her Majesty's Government to
exert their influence with the authorities of the canton
in behalf of the clergymen who have, on conscientious
grounds separated themselves from the Church recog-
nised by the state. But, although this petition is con-
fined to the prayer that the Government of the Canton
de Vaud will afford to those pastors their protection in
the free exercise of the worship of Gud, and does not
profess to seek for their restoration to the churches
which they have for conscience sake been constrained
to abandon, her Majesty's Government feel that it is not
competent for them to interfere, even in this limited
sense, with the internal administration of an independent

state.
"At the same time I can have no hesitation in
authorising you to express in any quarter in which you
think a knowledge of it may be useful, the feeling of
deep regret with which her Majesty's Government have
received 3 our report of the proceedings to which I have
above alluded, as well as their conviction that perse-
verance in such a course must sooner or later involve
the canton, and indeed the Swiss Confederation, in re-
newed troubles, and materially impede a settlement of
the previously existing differences which her Majesty's
Government have already had occasion to deplore.
" I am, &c.,
(Signed) " ABERDEEN."
(No. 2.)

0° Foreign-office, January 30, 1846.
" Sir—Your dispatch (No. 4), of the 22d inst., en-
closing the note addressed to you on the 14th by the
Council of the Canton de Vaud, relative to the differ-
ences which have arisen between the Government of that
canton, and a portion of the clergy of the Naional
Church, has been received and laid before the Queen.

"My dispatch (No. 1), of the 13th inst., will hava
made you sufficiently acquainted with the painful effect
produced in this country by the proceedings of the Go-
vernment of the Canton de Vaud towards the seceding
clergy, as well as with the opinion entertained by her
Majesty's Government that a perseverance in such a
course must, sooner or later, be attended with results
most detrimental to the welfare of the canton and indeed
of the Swiss Confederation.

" You will have likewise gathered from that dispatch
that the desire of her Majesty's Government not to in-
terfere with the internal administration of an indepen-
dent state, was the sole reason which prevented them
from expressing those sentiments officially to the Go-
vernment of the canton. But, now that the Vaudois
Council of State, invested as it is with full powers in re-
speet to Church affairs, has itself invited her Majesty's
Government to pronounce their judgment upon the pro-
ceedings which form the subject of the documents trans-
mitted to you en the 14th instant, her Majesty's Go-
vernment can have no hesitation in authorising you to
express directly to the Executive Government of the
Canton de Vaud, in answer to that invitation, the feel-
ing of deep regret with which they have viewed the
course pursued by that Government towards the clergy
of their canton.
" The Council of State observes, at the conclusion of
the letter which they addressed to you on the 14th in-
stant, That a distinction can easily be made in the do-
cuments in question, between what bears a general cha-
racter and what is peculiar to the legislation and position
of their canton.'
" Her Majesty's Government are unable to compre-
hend how any peculiarity of legislation or position can
be considered as justifying a departure from those first
principles of civil and religious freedom, the mainte-
nance of which forms the distinction of civilized Chris-
tian states, and had, till now, been the boast of the Can-
ton de Vaud. On the contrary, her Majesty's Government
were entitled to expect that those cantons which call
themselves liberal would have been solicitous to establish
their claim to that title, by setting the example of a
scrupulous regard, equally for the rights and liberties
of their own citizens, as well as for those of their con-
federates.
" The respect which her Majesty's Government enter-
tertain for • the independence of the Swiss Cantons, as
for that of all Sovereign States, would, I have already
observed, have withheld them from expressing their
opinions in the present official form ; but the Vaudois
Government having appealed to her Majesty's Govern-
ment for their judgment, they feel that they cannot
give a better proof of the sincere interest they take in the
welfare of the whole confederation, of which the Canton
de Vaud constitutes so important a member, than by
frankly, but with deep regret, expressing their convic-
tion, that perseverance in the course pursued by the
Government of Lausanne, with respect to religi-
ous matters, must involve the canton, and indeed
the Swiss Confederation, in renewed troubles, and by
impeding a settlement of the previously existing differ-
ences, which her Majesty's Government have had al-
ready occasion to deplore, endanger, through the rup-
ture of the Federal Compact, the national independence
of all the Swiss people.
"I have to desire that you will communicate a copy of
this instruction, as well as of my dispatch (No. 1), of the
13th inst., to the Government of the Canton de Vaud, and
that you will make known the sentiments expressed
therein in any quarter in which the knowledge of them
may be deemed useful. " I am, &c.,
(Signed) " ABERDEEN.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE,—The Caledonia has received
orders to exercise with blank cartridge once every week.
On Monday last she astonished the natives at Torpoint by a
feu de joie. All the seamen in ordinary were on board, num-
bering about 700. Rear.A.dmiral Sir Samuel Pym came
on beard to inspect, and expressed great satisfaction at tho
ratußeuvrb3g of men —Plymouth Journal.