The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-08 00:00:00

SWITZERLAND.

The Indipendance Beige gives the two procla-
mations, which were circulated in Neufchatel, on
the occasion of the outbreak. The _Royalist pro-
clamations run thus :

" GOD FOR THE KING AND THE
COUNTRY I

" MBN OF NEUFCHATEL !

" The hour of deliverance has sounded. Let the
cry of Vive le Roi ' be your rallying word. To
arms, loyal men I I declare the territory of this
principality to be in a state of siege. Each com-
mune will provide for the immediate establishment
of a committee, which will exercise authority in
the name of the Sing, and will make the city of
Neufchatel aware of its entering upon its func-
tions.

"The Commander-in-Chief,
"Count FREDERIC DE POURTALES."
11.

14 LI SIGNB, Sept. 2, 1856.

" Long live the King ?' The standard of the
King once more floats over the chateau, of our
Princes. Men of Neufchatel, return thanks to
God !

"Let the faithful follow me !
" The Commandant of the Three first
Arrondissements.
" DE MEURON, Lieut-Colonel."

The Swiss Federal Council has issued the follow-
ing circular to the Governments of the different
Cantons :--

" It is our painful duty to inform you that ac•
cording to various despatches we have received, the
Royalist party in the Canton of Neufchatel made
yesterday an armed attack upon the seat of Go-
vernment, and arrested some of its members.
" Our line of conduct under the circumstances
is so clearly traced by the 16th article of the Fede-
ral Constitution that we need not hesitate for one
moment how to act. We have therefore commis-
sioned our colleagues the Federal Councillors For-
nerod and Frei-Herosee to restore constitutional
order in the canton of Neufchatel, using force, if
necessary, and to see the constitutional functionaries
reinstated.

" We have placed Colonel Bourgeois Doxat at
Yverdun at the disposal of the Federal Commis-
sioners as military chief.

" The Cantons of Berne and of Taud have been
requeste•.l to provide each two battalions, to be
placed under the orders of the Federal Commis-
sioners.

" STAEMPLI, President.
"SomEss, Chancellor.

" Berne, Sept. 3,"

FRANCE.
PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING.
Marshal Serrano, the Spanish Minister, arrived
last night in Paris, with a view of meeting M.
Walewski, but he not being in Paris, his Spanish
Excellency returned to Biarritz again. M. Pacheco
left Boulogne last night for London.
The merchants of Marseilles having ascertained
that the wheat harvest will not be sufficient
for the home consumption of all France, are begin-
ning to suggeit to the Government, through their
local papers, that a repeal of the corn laws is indis-
pensable or at least an extension of the Imperial
decree whichi permits the free importation of corn,
and which will expire on the Ist of January next.
They observe that, although 2,000,000 hectolitres
of wheat hare been imported within the last two
months, through the port of Marseilles, it will
be impossible, by the end of the year, to supply
the deficiency which exists, and to execute the
orders for exportation already received. The
Spanish Government has prolonged the period for
the free importation of corn until the 30th of June
next, and the Marseilles Merchants ask why should
France be less liberal than Spain. Another bad
consequence apprehended from the delay of the
Government in issuing a decree to prolong the
period for the free importation of corn, is that the
holders of wheat will not bring their stocks to mar-
ket, and the present high prices will be maintained.
The Swiss and French newspapers give various
details of the little fight at Neuchatel, and some of
them state the killed and wounded on the side of
the Royalists as high as 60 or 70 persons, which is
probably an exaggeration. One of the Pourtales
is said to be badly wounded. Colonel de Meuron
is reported to have escaped, and Count de Wes-
dehlen to be a prisoner.

PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, Sept. 4.—The Preicssische Correspon.
Benz informs its readers that, in conformity with a
regulation made by the King in 1841 for the bien-
nial convocation of the provincial estates of this
country, the Provincial Diets of Preussen, Posen,
Silesia, Saxony, Westphalia, and Rheinland will be
convoked on Oct. 5 for the despatch of business.
For the provinces of Brandenburg and Pomerania
the day of covocation remains to be fixed subse-
quently, with a view to meeting the conveni-
ence of the parties interested in the matters to
be deliberated on. These provincial institutions
for local legislation fell into desuetude at the
time of the revolution of 1848, and it was the hope
of the Liberal party that they had been definitively
superseded by the parliamentary institution of the
Legislative Chambers for the whole kingdom, seeing
that they were the stronghold of a narrow, local
spirit of provincial particularism, opposed to the
progress of wider views of improvement and deve-
lopment, but in 1854 they were revived, mainly
by the agency of the present Minister of the In-
terior, and seem now to have resumed their former
place among the institutions of the country. The
simultaneous existence, however, of the Diet of
the whole kingdom, the two Chambers, prevents
the local spirit of the provincial estates influencing
any other than mere local legislation, and they
seem to occupy now about the same place iu the
Prussian polity that the grand juries of the counties
do in ours.

Baron von Budberg, having delivered his letters
of recall at this Court, has now repaired to New
Stre]itz to present his letters of recall from that
Court also, he having been accredited simultane-
ously to Prussia and Mecklenburg. General von
Adlerberg, Governor of Simpheropol during the
war, and a son of the Adjutant-General of that
name, is expected hero as successor to General von
Beaokended; the late military representative of

Russia at this Court. General Benekendorff goes as
Minister to Stuttgardt.

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Tntnr, Sept. I.—The presence of Prince Murat I
at Aix-les-Bains bas caused o'nsiderable uneasi-
ness to Neapolitan diplomatists in this part of the
world, though no one but those of exceedingly ner-
vous temperaments, or those tombled With very
timid consciences, were likely to be affected by
such a very simple and natural proceeding. How-
ever, th© treat cause of alarm for these gentlemen
has been removed, as the Prince has returned to
Paris, and his relations, who went to see him, to
their respective homes, so that it may be hoped
King Ferdinand's representatives will soon be re-
stored to tranquillity of mind on that score.
It is true that the Prince was accompanied from
Paris by Sig. Salicetti, who has long been tutor to
his sons, and he might have met at Aix one or two
ether persons to whom rumour has ascribed the
place of Ministers in petto, to be confirmed when
he shall be King of Naples. And it is a fact also
that this combination gave rise to much excitement
among the Neapolitan refugees here, which is not
very astonishing, seeing how apt all men in exile
are to catch at straws, and how habitually excit-
able Neapolitans are at all times. As was natural,
therefore, reports of various kinds obtained circula-
tion as to the intentions of the future King, and
his probable policy was discussed in cafes and beer-
shops in Turin with as much earnestness as if he
bad been already seated on the throne of his fa-
ther. But the fermentation went no further, and,
though it was said that many of his future subjects
had gone from here to do him homage, I have not
been able to discover a single well-authenticated
case of any having done so except the members of
the Murat family, and therefore I much doubt the
on dit that "great numbers of Neapolitans have
gone to Aix to meet Murat."
As to the proclamations attributed to Prince
Murat, it is evident that a very different language
has been held by himself and by his principal ad-
visers, though whether this difference was the effect
of a secret understanding or of real dissent it is im-
possible to say ; but it is a fact that, while his High-
ness has denied ever having issued any proclama-
tion to the Neapolitans, and has authorised his re-
lations in Italy to contradict the reports of his having
done so, some of his friends have been promising
most liberally in his name, and have shown a sketch
of a constitution which, they say, their chief would
establish in the Neapolitan kingdom. These flat-
tering promises, however, which go so far as to
hold out an expectation of institutions similar to
those existing in Piedmont, so far outstrip pro-
bability, that reasonable men of the Neapolitan
emigration whom I have heard speak of them doubt
either their authenticity or their sincerity, for, they
say, either Murat would be restrained by his cousin,
the Emperor of the French, from declaring such
complete liberty, or he would only accord it with
the intention of destroying it by a coup d'etat on
the first opportunity offered by the impulsiveness
of the people.
Great hopes have been raised lately in the Mura•
tists by the disaffection that has shown itself and
is said to be on the increase in the Neapolitan army,
but Signor La Farina, in a pamphlet published
to day, called Murat and the Unity of Italy, very
well remarks, " Where are the Muratist generals
who could promote and direct such an insurrection?"
If, he says, the Neapolitan army, weary of the in-
sults and injuries heaped upon it, should some day
rise with one mind and cry "enough" to a Govern-
ment which has so abused its power,it will not be
for the object of substitutingone master for another,
of taking a Murat instead of a Bourbon, but for the
sacred cause of the country, and under the national
flag of Italy, not the equivocal standard of a pre-
tender.

It is a curious fact, that the only contradiction
brought forward by the Austrian Government
against General Garibaldi's statement respecting
the deaths of Ciceruacchio and his sons, &c., should
be founded on the assertion of a London correspon-
dent who said he heard so and so from somebody
else. The Austrian Government may be assured
that if it cares for its reputation for honour an d
uprightness with any portion of the Italian people,
from the highest to the lowest, it must adopt very
different means from these to clear its character of
the imputation cast upon it by so credible a wit-
ness as General Garibaldi.

A letter from Naples, of the 28th ult., in the
Correspondance Italienne, says :

"A liberal proclamation bas been lately distributed
among the troops, by whom it appears to have been
well received. Another proclamation has reached from
Sicily, recommending union between the two countries.
It is certain that the Neapolitan troops would not fight
today with the same ardour as in 1848 and 1849 against
the Sicilians. Tho officers publicly declare that they
are disgusted to serve a Government which repays them
with ingratitude. General Filangeri seldom appears at
Court, where he is regarded as an enemy, because he is
known to be amicably disposed towards the French.
The nery Pontifical Nuncio is shortly expected at Napltp."