The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-04 00:00:00

SWITZERLAND.

The Federal Convention of Switzerland, in conse-
quence of the threats of the. French and German Go-
',v,rornents, on the subject of the political refugee 3
resident in that country, has abolished the obligation
imposed in July, 1849, on the cantons, to receive
refugees, and has besides maintained in force the
orders relative to the internment and banishment of
refugees. This determination has been announced in
a proclamation addressed to all cantons.

ITALY.
The AuEtrians have concentrated an army of 20,000
!nen ou the frontiers of Piedmont.

THE LEVANT MAIL.

We have received Constantinople journals of the
Bth ult., and those of Smyrna of the 14th ult., and
from Athens to the 18th ult. The intelligence from
Constantinople is not important. Abrnet Weffyk
Effendi, Imperial Commissioner in the Principalities
of the Danube, has been named Ambassador at Lon-
don. The announcement of the termination of the
troubles at Samos is confirmed. The Smyrna and
Athens news is quite insignificant. Nothing more
has transpired respecting the demands said to have
been made by the Ottoman Porte on the Viceroy of
Egypt.

DEATH OF THE HON. AND REV. GERARD THOMAS
Norm, M.A.—We regret to announce the death of the above
respected clergyman, brother of the Earl of Gainsborough,
the Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel, the Hon. and Rev. Leland
Noel, and the Hon. and Rev. Francis J. Noel, who died a
few days back at the vicarage at Romsey, Hants' The Hon.
and Rev. Gentleman was second son of the late Sir Gerard
Noel Noel, Bart., and Diana Baroness Barham (his first
wife), and was born 2d December,
1782. He married Char-
lotte, daughter of the late Sir Lucius O'Brien, Bart., by
which estimable lady, who died in 1838, he leaves a nume-
orofutshoisosaune.oos ofTie
Winchester Hon. and
in Rev. deceased
and was appointed byc,eased was appointed one
the dean and chapter of that see vicar of Romsey, Hants, in
1840. He was deservedly muchesteemed and respected by
the inhabitants of Romsey. The Earl and Countess of Gains-
borough, Viscount and Viscountess Campden, Sir Andrew
and Lady Louisa Agnew, and several other families of dis-
tinction are placed in mourning by the lamented death of
the Hon. and Rev. Gentleman.
MEMOIRS OF HORACE WALPOLE, EDITED BY
ELIOT WARBURTON, EsQ.-A new historical work, which
promises to be one of great general interest, entitled " Me-
moirs of Horace Walpole and his Distinguished Contempo-
raries," including numerous original letters chiefly from
Strawberry Hill, edited by Eliot Warburton Etq., is an-
nounced for immediate publication by Mr. Colburn. In the
prospectus of the work it is observed with much truth that
" perhaps no name of modern times is productive of so many
pleasant associations as that of Horace Walpole, and cer-
tainly no name was ever more intimately connected with so
many different subjects of importance in connexion with li-
terature, art, fashion, and politics. The materials which it
offers to the biographer may indeed be regarded as affording
a series of the most entertaining illustrations of society in the
last century that have ever been brought before the public.
The position of various members of his family connecting
Horace Walpole with the Cabinet, the Court, and the Legis-
lature, his own intercourse with those characters who be-
came remarkable for brilliant social and intellectual qualities,
and his reputation as a wit, a scholar, and a virtuoso, can-
not fail to render his memoirs equally amusing and in-
structive."

ARREST OF AN AME.ICAN PACKET.—Accounts
from Holyhead state, that the New York packet-ship York-
shire has been placed under arrest by authority of a warrant
issued by the High Court of Admiralty, at the instance of
the City of Dublin Packet and the Chester and Holyhead
Railway Companies; the former claiming 10,000/. for ser-
vices rendered by the Prince of \Vales in towing the sail
vessel into the harbour, and the latter claiming 3,0001. for
similar services rendered by the Anglia.— Liverpool "Won.
A clefk, in the service of the East Lancas;lira
Railway Company, is in custody at Bury, on a charge of
embezzlement.