The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-12 00:00:00

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FRENCH DEMANDS
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ZERLAND. 1'4%;
1:1- uvving is a translation of "14.:
deTatch addressed by :Count .W 644 f0..1.4e,S
Federal Connell of Switzbiland •
"To M. Count de Saiiknao Vengon, Minister of
Prante . 1 • !da l
Comte,-r-In the'd-2--1"`-eir

despalkhek
the honour toaddress to yOu
28th of. Nov., and: the 12th of Dem. Jest; Ictizentdittiza
you to acquaint the Federal Connell °falba' I
uvres in which the refugees in Switiiv-h01a,..
daily those in the canton of Geneva; ilotilroW -01
engage ; and to demand their rink:Tel ',to* 4,,
frontier. In spite of your zeal and nativityin-Ail
matter, we have, up to the present time, obtained;,;
only dilatory and evasite'repliefe, abdl'lltid3/4vosof
obliged, M. le Comte, to ask you to renew:
application to the federal geyernment. . 9tiFc.,aoll.g,•:
plaints, as you are aware, are principally dintect*t::
to the presence of refugees belonging_tothe Unlink
emigration. The late events at Genoa; and
horn had already shown the violence ilia petite
of this fraction of EuroPean dernegegur.
attempt on the 14th of this month .age.Uistl49 lilts
of the Emperor shows that ire have only toe' much-
reason to watch the attittiaeland the Ploti of the •.
Italian refugees, and that it is amongst rtheir)tlsit,
the most corrupt and docile instrumentS.
regicide conspirators are fotuid. It seems
Bible to me that any honeit -Mali or the Helvetic -
COnfecierstion, can have been Otherwise than struck
by this fact, or that he does not share our own im-
pressions thereupon.. I dare.then to flatter myself._
that, in renewing at Berne' y.our, former re9iteetli,,,,‘-
yon will find on the part of the federal atilhoritlee,
a greater readiness to dolhem justice. ; However
that may be, M. le Comte, the 0-remittent: df the
Emperor knows not. how to 1-attain indifferentr tn: '
the voice of public opinion, Which,' Vora one
France to the other,' demands how it is that neigh-
bouring aril friendly Conutries:Protept a corn-
pbtisant hospitality men who openly' cdunpire.--
against the life of the Emperor.
In addressing itself to 'the Confedaration,..in'i
order that these dangerous Men may be expelled the'
,cantons Wbich touch Dur-fruntierre-ancl--Infereareatr
more distant partd, the government of bin Imre-
rial Majesty milYzzxisktie usit:of:OW rigbt of legiti;-
mate d-efimoe and invokes cher prineiplen 0f,143e law
of nations". -The Federal Gnreruineutz would, din-
reg,ard the conlitions of the Helvetic neutrality,-,
and would deceive itself as te,the"ne:t4re.of
vileges, if it believed it could invoke thothin pidif
to avoid giving satisfaction to our coMplaints.. to
tolerate more or less directly, even by its silent)"
and inaction, that refugees who have, raeeived an
asylum upon its territory should abuse this hospi-
tality to attack a neighbouring Government
.by
their writings or their plots—that, without dotilit,
is not to observe neutrality ; for if neutrelitry
its rights- it also has its duties,: which prescribe.
ab,,ve all that it 811411 avoid any attack upon taw
repose of other States. I pray yon,, then, IC le
Comte, to insist upon it, with the President of the.
Goefed.eration, that measures he taken With Ont de-
lay, in order that refugees notoriously known as
disposed to devote themselves to criminal enter-
prises, eareAady those organised :into societila in
the canton of Geneva, be interies far from our_
front; era.

" The Government of the Emperor could_ not
understand how in an affair which 'so nearly concerns
our international relations, the Federal Council
should ho checked by the indifferenoe -or ill-will of
the cantonal authorities, as has too often happened
since 1852. Ia the event of the Helvetic-Govern-
ment not taking into its consideration the mans of
sati fyir'g our just requreitlents, it-would -incur
grave responsibility, and would only, hive toittrz--
but° to itself the comsequences vrThich ita s:l4euxijr
natioti might entiil. .

" Bi 8; good as to read this despatch to M.
Farrer, and to leave a copy with his Excellency.'
" Receive, &c., (Signed) WamEwsKr. •

THE ENULISII ENGINEERS AT NAPLES.

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, WEDNiISDICr.
At a meeting of the Town-Council of this borough
to-day, the Mayor presiding, Mr. Wm. Morton
proposed, and Mr. G. Forster seconded, the adop-
tion of the following memorial to the House of
Commons with reference to the protracted incar7
aeration of the two English engineers found on
board the Cagliari at Naples :
" To THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF THE UNITED
KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND Ii PAR-
LIAMENT ASSEMBLED.
" Tho humble petition of the Mayor, aldermen, and but •
gasses of the borough of Neweastle-upon-Tyue, in cowl-
eil as2erabled,
" Humbly showetb,—That a townsman of ours, named
Henry Watt, and a native of Glasgow, named Park,, for-
rualy engiaeers ou hoard the Sardinian steamship, the
were, in Jilue 01 last year, ramie panotrers By a
ship of war belonging to the Government of the Two
Sicilies, and have since that time been detained in confine-
ment in the prisons of that kingdom ; and that while the
length and rigours of imprisonment appear to haveteverely
affected the health of Park, our townsman Watt. has, kona
their operation, been driven to madness.
" Your retitioners consider that such treatment of
British subjects, or indeed of any man whatever, even
if guilty of an offence against the State—imprisoning
them without trial or observance of right—is contrary to
the first principles of justice, and disgiaeful to a civilised
country ; but then, in the ease of men manifestly inno-
cent, it is wrong done to humanity, and an insult gratui-
tously offered to the English people and to the English
name.
" Your petitioners beg to call attention not only to the
material fact of these men's innocence, but alsoto remind
your honourable house that their capture, as set forth by
Count Cavour, is illegal, and contrary to the law of na-
tion', and that on this ground alone the Sicilian Govern-
ment should be called upon for restitution.

" Finally, your petitioners, knowing from painful expe-
rience that a trial in Naples means a long preliminary im.
prisnument, calculated to impair the mind and to induce
death itself, consummated by a trial in which forme of

ju,tice are assumed only for the purpose of mocking its
spirit and trampling on its maxims, humbly pray that
your honourable house will instantly demand, through the
Government, the release of our unfortunate countrymen,
and that while satisfaction is sought for the public outrage
on our country committed against us on the persons of
our countrymen, your honourable house will not allow
this painful and humiliating transaction to be closed
without obtaining for the sufforers themselves the only
compsmation which the Government of the Two Sisilies
can now rander to them.

" And your petitioners will ever'pray, &o.
" Given under our common seal this 10th day al:Larch,
1858."
This petition, on being put to the council, was
adopted without a dissentiout voice, and will be
forwarded forthwith to the local members for pre-
sentation.

ANOTHER GALE AND GREAT LOSS OF
SHIPPING.

SHIELDS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.
The assurance associations of this and the neigh-
bouring north-east ports are in receipt of intelli-
gence from their agents on the Norfolk and Suffolk
coast, this morning, giving the details of another
very serious loss of shipping in the North Sea, which
occurred during Sunday night and Monday. A gale
from the north-east had blown with frightful fury
on Sunday night along the coast described, and it
had been accompanied by blinding .showers- of
snow. A very /considerable fleet of laden vessels
from the north-east ports, on their passage to Lon-
don, had reached the neighbourhood of Yarmouth
Roads at the time the gale arose, and the destruc-
tion amongst them has been very serious. No less
than eighteen vessels have been helped into Lowe-
stoft, with loss of anchors, some with their Masts
carried away, and-many of them leaky. The Speck,
from Hartlepool to Exeter, lost a boy overboard in
the gale ' • and the master of the Competitor, of
Mr. Jeremiah Allen, was • also swept out
came ashore on the beach on Sun-
of his vessel, on Sunday night, and drowned.. The
to pieces, and all hands were
ddjraaoynue:nuieldfl.itpTslwtweiecollilt,rwell schooner, of Arbroath, drove
on the Newcombe Sands, and has become a wreck ;
her crow were saved. And on Monday morning the
t Pytho, of Whitby, was brought into Yarmouth
by Alio Caistor life-boat, with her sails split, her
anchors gone, and her masts cut away. Several
laden vessels have also been run down and sunk by
light-ships during the snowstorm. The Ironixiaster
steamship, trading between London and Middles-
borough, ran down the Yam, of Exeter, but fortu-
nately picked up the crew ; and the schooner Quick-
silvtr, from Sunderland to London, was run down
by the light brig Jane,
of the same place,- and sunk.
The crew of the Quicksilver got aboard the Jane,
and have been landed at Yarmouth. The niate,Elenry
Grieves, was severely injured during the collision,
and has been removed to the infirmary. Vesse*
in point of fact, are crowding into all the ports
along the line of coast, damaged and crippled by the
effects uf the gale, which all the mariners that were
out at sa agres was one of the most fearful that has
been experienced during many years. It was less
vi,,,lent on the north-east coast, but the snow showers
wero very blinding, and great fears are entertained
that in re vea,els have been run down than are yet
accounted for. Th 3 storm had come on accompanied
with thunder and lightning. The weather is mid
on the coast to-day, hut old sailors state anotherthatnok.th.
fall of snow is impending. The wind is about
—Manchcsfer Guardian.

An intimation has been made that tbe widow and child
bu'olf::::essinrs.lll3yrdao3BPeya:::a:
of Mr. John Henderson, lately of the firm of Fox and
Henderson, have been left poncileeo• His connection
übtioinretcoedive
desire
thslriepmlieodnye.
with the Great Exhibition
other works wi:l cause the p
this painful eirennistance, and a committee has been
famedAj ekifi naiennGT: ri
ajoslngcde committee ,maen:td: E'i.leB"ihrlag'sY'been constituted also at
Birmi,:ghlim for the 4 ton purpose,