The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-19 00:00:00

VIENNA, THURSDAY EVENING, DEC. 18.

The Oesterreichische Correspondent has advices
from Constantinople of the 12th inst., which an-
nounce the departure on that day of Hali Bey,
Redschid Pasha's son, for Paris, via Marseilles,
with instructions respecting the Conference.

The Suisse of Berne says :—" The Chambre
d'Accusation, in its sitting of the 12th, ordered
the release on bail of M. Pourtales-Sandos and
M. Wolfrath. The bail required for the former
is 80,000 f. with other reserves, and for the latter
2,000 f. It is said that the same favour will be
conferred on four or five others of the prisoners.
The confederation will indemnify the State of
Neuchatel for the expense caused by the support
of the prisoners, as well as that incurred for fit-
ting up the place for the trial."

The Paris Correspondent of the Times (second

edition) says :

" The article in the Moniteur of yesterday is
variously commented on in the Paris papers. The
Assgmblee Nationale is full of admiration for the
conduct of the Emperor. In those praises
there are things which his Majesty can hardly ac-
cept as complimentary to him. The Assembles
insinuates that he has set at nought his ancient
ties with Switzerland, and is free from the
amiable weakness of gratitude for the danger
to which the Confederation exposed itself from
Louis Philippe in order to protect him.
The Assembles would rouse him to the task of put-
ting down revolution everywhere, and of going
forth crushing the heads of the hydra—the Em-
peror like Hercules, and, I presume, the King of
Prussia like bolas. Whether the former protege of
the Swiss Confederation intends to respond to the
expectation of the fusionist organ I cannot say ; I
can only affirm that the note he has permitted to
appear in the prominent page of the Moniteur has
produced on the public generally a bad effect—
an effect which may yet be more keenly felt at the
forthcoming elections for the LegislatiVe Corps.
The Moniteur is not only offensive to the Swiss
Confederation, but to the Imperial Government
itself. Who could have suggested the allu-
sion to the Treaties of 1815 ? Every one knows
how the French people feel whenever these
Treaties are mentioned ; they have ever regarded
them as a stigma on their country, as a stand-
ing record of its defeat and of the triumph
of its enemies. The feeling may be exaggerated ;
the people may be too sensitive ; but so it is.
Such an appeal to the Treaties of Vienna would
be a great mistake in any government ; but
greater still on the part of a Bonapdrte ; and it is
a mistake which will hardly be compensated even
by a visit from the King of Prussia. Beyond
those who receive their inspiration from official
sources, I have conversed with few who do not
feel ashamed of the allusion to the treaties.
The Siecle speaks of it in these terms :

It is with grief that we have perused the note con-
tained in the Moniteur of this morning. For several
days past the existence of this note had been spoken of,
but we had refused to believe it That the Government
of France should be listened to when it speaks is our
desire ; nevertheless, its susceptibility towards faithful
allies, as proved by the Moniteur, appears to us to be
great. Far from feeling offended at the resistance of a
people which, so to say, lives under the immediate protec-
tion of France, we should have admired that proud inde-
pendence of Switzerland which has never allowed her best
friends to interfere in an internal question. The French
Government now menaces Switzerland with a with
drawal of its good will because she has refused to ac
cede to a desire which it had expressed, and which was
only a trifling concession offered not to Pru ssia, but to
France. In the first instance we are not of the
opinion of the Moniteur on the importance of the
concession. We believe that to interrupt the course
of justice is a grave circumstance. We do not
admit that the concession would have solely been
made to France, after the firmly expressed de-
mandu of Prussia, and when France had repeated
the same propositions. We comprehend that in ex-
change for this concession France should promise her
support to Switzerland ; but this very promise solves
the question of the rights of Prussia in favour of our
opinion ; for had this right been undeniable the French
Cabinet would not have supported Switzerland, and the
King of Prussia would not have been satisfied with the
concession he demanded. 'We sincerely regret to be
of a contrary opinion to the government of our
country on a foreign question, and we will hope that,
if the government has felt hurt at the refusal of
Switzerland, it will confine itself to having officially
published its discontent, and will nevertheless not
abandon her. Beyond the dissatisfaction which
may have been experienced by our diplomacy in conse-
quence of the resistance of the Diet, there exists a ques-
tion of high protection which France cannot abdicate.
In order to be equitable, we must state that we do
not comprehend the delay that has taken place in the
trial of the vanquished of the 3d September. Had the
power of the law once been vindicated, we should
have been the first to have advocated a •omplete am-
nesty ; Switzerland, in offering a good example to the
other Powers, would have avoided many complica-
tions, and would have placed governments, already
bound by political acts, in a more_ favourable position
to defend her rights.

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PARIS, THURSDAY.
A Council of Ministers, at which the Emperor
presided, was held yesterday at the Tuileries.
The Moniteur publishes decrees, conferring the
rank of Knight of the Legion of Honour on En-
seignes de Taisseau Magdelaine and Augey-
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THE NOTES OF D. LIYINOSTON.—Aftcr sixteen
years of wandering, Dr. Livingston has returned to
England from exploring Central Africa, which ho has
traversed and retraversed through regions where no
civilised being ever before has been, and through an
extent of territory of upwards of eleven thousand miles.
The doctor, in addition to his qualifications as missionary,
obtained a medical degree before leaving England.
Warm and genial was the welcome be received from a
crowded meeting at the Geographical Society on Monday
last, when the great gold medal of the society was pre-
sented to him. After the geographical discoveries which
he is reputed to have brought to light have been de-
s,!ribed, we hope that the observations he has made in
his medical capacity will be given to the profession. In
a lecture delivered by him before leaving Mauritius, he
mentioned the Singular immunity of the native African
tribes from such diseases as consumption, cancer, hydro•
phobia, and cholera. Doubtless his note-books and
memory are stored with many facts that will be of the
deepest professional interest.—Lancet.

THE " OBSTINACY" OF SWITZERLAND.

PARIS, Wednesday, 6 p.m.—The Emperor,
through the channel of the Moniteur, reads a lee.
ture to day to the Swiss, and a rather severe lec-
ture it is. It was first intended for that ordinary
reservoir of semi-official outpourings, the Constitu-
tionnel. It was then withdrawn and prepared to
suit the regular Government organ. It was again
withdrawn, and this second withdrawal led some
to suppose that an arrangement between the Fede-
ration and Prussia was not improbable. Its pub-
lication this morning slows that that chance is for
the present postponed.
Some curious thoughts are suggested by a perusal
of this document, which is certainly less subdued
than if it had to be addressed to a Power like
Russia, and it is the more remarkable from the old
and friendly associations between Switzerland and
the Emperor of the French. Considerable stress
is laid on the fact, that the Imperial Govern-
ment of France cannot, in spite of the interest
which it feels towards Switzerland, disregard the
faith of treaties. One would suppose that the
Moniteur is not the best,authority to lecture people
on the immorality of violating solemn engage-
ments, whatever form they may -Like, whether
treaties or otherwise. The. crown the Emperor
Napoleon wears is in defiance of treaties as solemn
as any on record, so far as relates -to foreign.
policy ; and the obligations incurred on the 10th
December, 1848, are historically too recent, and the
sit
coup d'etat still more so, for the di i '
•y of eat
sive puritanism on the violation of "l ; eum oblip-
tions. The sans facon manner in w ich the Revo-
lution of 1848 is alluded to savours a little of

ingratitude. But for the catastrophe of 1848 whele
would the Emperor of the French now be, or what
would he be ?

If Prussia, as the Moniteur implies, is justified in
employing intimidation to prevent men from being
legally tried who had unfurled the Royal standard
against the de facto Government, on the ground
of their having fought for " right and for legality,"
a Legitimist or Orleanist insurrection should not be
condemned. True, the King of Prussia, as the
Maniteur states, has protested against the Revolu-
tion of 1818, but Louis XVIII. protested with no
less solemnity against the first Empire, and his
protest did not save the Tendeans or Bretons from
the doom of rebels when taken in arms. Charles X.
protested against the " usurpation" of 1830, but
that protest did not prevent Louis Philippe from
detaining in captivity his own niece, nor from ex-
posing that Princess to the scoffs and derision of
the world.
The Orleans Princes would, no doubt, protest
' against the Revolution of 1818, did that protest
afford a chance of success to their cause, and a
collective protest did not prevent the confiscation
of the Orleans property.
The Legitimists ifgard Henry V., and none
other, as their King, and in him alone are centred
" right and legality." Supposing the Marquis de
Pastoret and the Marquis de Larochejacquelin,
under some sudden inspiration from former con-
victions, rising to-morrow in their places as mem-
bers of the Imperial Senate, unfurling the white
flag, and shouting, instead of as now " Vive Napo-
leon 111. !"—" Vive .Henri V. !" I wonder whe-
ther the consciousness of their having proclaimed
" right and legality" would save them from im-
prisonment and trial ? And, if it did not, would
the Emperor Napoleon admit the right of Henry
V. to interfere ?

The liberation of the prisoners on demand is, in
point of fact, the whole question. The eagerness to
save them cannot arise from any apprehension on
the part of Prussia that they will be treated with in-
humanity ; if they had a "right," as the Moniteur
all but declares, to revolt for the overthrow of the
de facto Government, the de facto Government
has surely a right to put them on their trial.
The concluding passages are still more harsh
than the opening. All is compliment and flattery to
the King of Prussia, the heir presumptive to whose
crown is now feasted at the Tuileries, and whose own
long desired visit to Paris is not yet despaired
of ; but all is cold and harsh to Switzerland.
" On one side," says the Paris Moniteur, "France
has met with a sincere desire to terminate a delicate
question;on the other, on the contrary, an obstinacy
which is to be regretted, an exaggerated suscepti-
bility, and a complete indifference to counsels."
From this-crime of obstinacy (writes the corres-
pondent of the Times) I fear there is no way of
defending poor Switzerland. The reproach of the
Moniteui-, is, alas, too true. Switzerland has
before now displayed her obstinacy on other mat-
ters. That characteristic fault of hers has brought
her into trouble more than once. It is proved by
the following letter addressed by the Duke of
Montebello to the Federal Directory in January,
1838:-

After the events of Strasburg and the act of generous
clemency of which Louis Napoleon Bonaparte had been the
object, the King of the French could not expect that
a friendly country like Switzerland, and with which
the ancient relations of friendly neighbours had lately
been so fortunately re-established, would suffer that Louis
Bonaparte should return to its territory, and, with a con-
tempt of all the obligations imposed on him by gratitude,
should dare to resume their criminal intrigues and avow
loudly insensate pretensions, of which their very folly cannot
absolve him since the attempt at Strasburg. It is notorious
that Arnenberg is the centre of intrigues which it is
the right and duty of the King's Government not to tole-
rate. Vainly would Louis Bonaparte deny the pamphlet
he has published both in Germany and France—that which
the Court of Peers had recently condemned—to which it
is proved he had given his assent, and had distri-
buted it. Facts exist, which prove that the object of his
return from America was not only to pay the last duty to
a dying mother, but likewise to recommence plans and
announce pretensions which, it is now demonstrated, he
never rorounced. Switzerland is too honourable and
faithful an ally to permit that Louis Bonaparte shall
call himself one of her citizens, and the pretender
to the throne of France—that he shall call himself a
Frenchman whenever he may conceive a hope of convuls-
ing his country for the furtherance of his plans, and a citi-
zen of Thurgovia, when the Government of his country
wishes to prevent a repetition of his criminal attempts.
How Prince Louis Bonaparte felt on that (=Elsien
may be seen by- the following :
Arenenberg, Sept.
the 2 22,
DlBu3kBe.
of
Monsieur le Landamann,—When the note of
Montebello was addressed to the Diet, I wouldo notr
i t was submitueueto
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the exigencies of the French Government,
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retire, that I had re-
sary for me to prove, by my
refusal to
lating any engagement
turned to Switzerland without vio
that I had a right to
reside there, and that I should find
there aid and protection. month
Switzerland has demonstrated,
tedudreienieio during y
anme
of th ,
the
great
Councils protests, and now by h
Councils which have assemblede
up to the present time, that
she was prepared to /nakthe greatest sacrifices for the
maintenance of herdignity and her right. She has done
her duty as an independent nation. I shall perform mine,
and remain faithful to the voice of honour. I may be per-
secuted, but I shall never be dishonoured.
The French Government having declared that the refusal
of the Diet to comply with its demand would be the signal
of a conflagration of which Switzerland might become the
victim, it only remains for me to quit a country where my
presence is the subject of such unjust pretensions—where
it would be the pretence for such great calamities.
I request you, therefore, M de Landamann, to announce
to the Federal Directory that I shall leave as soon as I
shall have obtained from the Ambassadors of the different
Powers passports necessary for me to proceed to a place where I may find a secure asylum.
In voluntarily quitting to-day the only country in Europe
in which I found support and protection—in withdrawing
from places which had become dear to me in so many re-
spects, I hope to prove to the Swiss people that I was wor-
thy of the marks of esteem and affection they lavished on
me. I shall never forget the noble conduct of the cantons
who declared so courageously in my favour, and particu-
larly the recollection of the generous hospitality accorded
me by the Canton of Thurgovia will remain profoundly en-
graved in my heart.
I trust that this separation may not be eternal, and that
a day may come when I shall, without compromising the
interests of two nations which ought to remain friends, re-
cover the asylum where a residence of twenty years and
acquired rights had created for me a second country.
Be, Monsieur le Landamann, the interpreter of ray
grateful feelings to the Councils, and believe that the idea
of sparing Switzerland from trouble can alone assuage the
regret I experience in quitting it.
Accept the expression of my exalted esteem and of my
distinguished sentiments.

NAPOLEON LOUIS BONPRTE.
ro his Excellency the Landamann Anderwert, A
PrAesident
of the Lower Council of the Canton of Thurgovia.

THE GUANO EXPEDITION TO ELIE

KURIA MURIA ISLANDS.

ADEN, Nov. 25.

It is with extreme regret that we have, to report the
temporary failure of Captain Ord's expedition to the
Kuria Muria Islands, whither be proceeded from this
place with the vessels Bleng and Philip Dean about two
months ago, for the purpose of working the guano which
is to be found in large quantities on three of those
islandP.

After making those islands in safety and landing most
of his implements, &c., and commencing operations, it
appears that his tent was surrounded, at 6 a.m. of the
22d of October, by a body of 150 armed Arabs, who,
having first demanded what his object was, and learning
from him, through the interpreter, that it was to cAlect
guano from such of the islands as had been ceded to her
Majesty by the Itnaurn of Muscat, and that he possessed
an exclusive right to that privilege, immediately, and in
the most peremptory and insulting manner, ordered him
quit the islands within one hour. The islands, they
averred, were never a dependency of the Imatim, but
belonged to their chief, who resided at Marhat, on the
mainland adjacent, without, whose authority no person
had any right to set foot on his territory.
Captain Ord at the time had only one European (his
second assistant) and 10 men with him, but was subse-
quently joined by his first assistant (Mr. Smith) and 20
more of his own men, chiefly natives of India. Even
with this force it would have been the height of rashness
to attempt any opposition, and captain Ord seems to
have acted with equal.determination and prudence in the
difficult position in which he was placed. He warned
the Arabs of the certain retribution which would follow
any attempt at further violence, and succeeded in
obtaining a respite for 48 hours to abandon the islands.
This he effected, and was prepared to sail with the
Bieng and Philip Dean to Bombay, on the 29th of
Octet er. Mr. Smith, accompanied by the hired coolies
taken from this, started on the same day, in two boats,
and reached Aden in safety on the 18th of November.