The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-24 00:00:00

LATEST N E WS.

The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post
:second edition), in his letter dated yesterday,

says :

" I believe I will be able to announce in a few
days that the Government of the Emperor of the
French, whilst acknowledging the sovereign rights
of Prussia to Neuchatel, protests against an
armed intervention in Switzerland. The note in
the Moniteur, which has caused so much sen-
sation throughout Europe, ought to have been
registered in the Court journal of the Tuileries,
and not given to the world as a grave political
document. I think I may now assure you that the
Emperor will not allow S witzerland to be invaded.

There is the strongest feeling in the French army
about the Swiss question, and nothing would be
more unpopular in France than if the Govern-

ment were to countenance the invasion of Switzer-
land. At a garrison town near Paris the other
day all the officers of the dinner drank `to the
freedom and independence of Switzerland.'

Meanwhile the encouragement given to Prussia by
the French Government on the one hand, and
the support of public opinion in England and
elsewhere on the other, is urging both parties to
prepare for action, and thus obliging a great and
at the same time unnecessary expense."

The Paris correspondent of the Times (second
editioa) in his letter, dated yesterday, says :
" Prussia and Switzerland are making active
preparations for war. The Prussian army to be
put in movement, it is said, on the 2d January,
consists of 130,000 men ; and the Swiss cannot
but feel highly flattered at being thus treated
as a great Power. 130,000 men is, I be-
lieve, about half the regular army of Prussia.
Perhaps the King is about to take the advice
of the Assemblee Nationale, and issue forth to put

down democracy in the other cantons as well
as Neuchatel. Notwithstanding these great pre
partitions against so small a State, it is not con-
sidered likely that blows will be struck. The

Powers will no doubt step in and devise some
mode of efecting an arrangement. It is neither

for the interest of Prussia, nor indeed of Germany
in general, that anything like a battle for " Na-
tionalities" should begin just at this moment.

Negotiations are not yet entirely over, and all
hope has not vanished of bringing them to a
favourable conclusion, notwithstanding the irrita-

tion felt by the Swiss against Prussia and the
Emperor Napoleon. They had confidence in him,
but the feeling is much weakened. They say

that he had many ways of paying court to the
King of Prussia without wounding the amour.
propre of the Swiss, and it is doubtful whether
even a visit from Frederick William to the Tuile-
ries is sufficient compensation for the alienation of
Switzerland. How the solution is to be effected I

cannot say, perhaps by letting out all the prisoners
on bail, as has been done with a few. This would
not decide the question of right on either side,

but it might answer a temporary purpose."

A Polish correspondent of the .Augsburg Gazette
writes that the Russians have long been preparing
for the outbreak of war between England and
Persia. The garrison of Astrakhan has been rein-
forced, and the Cossacks in the neighbourhood of
that city have received a new commander in the
person of Lieut.-General Krassnik, but the reports
relative to the concentration of troops, which are
to be conveyed by the flotilla of the Caspian Sea
to Astrabad, "are totally unfounded." The
Orenburg corps, of which so much has recently
been said, consists of the 23d infantry division,
and of the Orenburg battalions of the line, but it
is too weak to be sent on an expedition to Persia.
The distance is so enormous that there can be no
question of a reinforcement being sent from
Southern Russia. The principal force of Russia
in Asia is in the Caucasus and on the Araxes,
and, if her troops should enter Persia, it
would probably be by way of the province of
Azerbijan.

BERNE, TUESDAY ETENING.

Four more divisions are to be called out by
the Confederation. All militiamen on leave of
absence are ordered to be recalled, and officers
summoned from furlough. The preparations for
war are universal. _ _

The students of the University of Zurich have
volunteered for the military service. The popular
enthusiasm and determination to resist the in

vader is increasing.

The Prussian agent bas been expelled as a pro
moter of rebellion.

BERLIN, TUESDAY.
The Prussian Government will require that the
war expenses shall be credited to the State from
the day when the order shall be issued for the
mobilisation of the army, which is expected on
an early day in January.

MARSEILLES, TUESDAY.
The Hydaspes, with news from Constantinople
to the 15th, has arrived.

The Presse d'Orient says Persia has been forced
into the war by the anti-English party threaten-
ing death, or a change of dynasty., in the event
of the Russiau counsels being resisted.

The Imaum of Muscat has refused tribute to
Persia, declaring that the Sultan is his sole suze-
rain, and to him he owes fealty and alliance.

There is a doubtful rumour at Teheran that
Murad Mirza has marched southward, and occu-
pied Turab, in Cabool.,
There has been an explosion of a powder
magazine in Constantinople ; many persons were
killed.

There is a revolt in Abyssinia against Egypt, in
which England has offered her mediation.

A Vienna letter of the 18th, in the Bourse
Gazette of Berlin, states from Naples, that since
the insurrectionary movement in Sicily and the
attempt upon the King's life, the latter is more
than ever determined not to make any conces-
sions, and has requested the cabinet of Vienna to
inform the Western Powers of this resolution of