The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-05 00:00:00

SWITZERLAND.

The occupation of the Valley des Dappes by the
French troops has created no small sensation
throughout Switzerland.
A letter from Berne, dated let inst., says :

"The Federal Council has decided that the events
which have occurred in the Valley des Dapper

shall be officially notified to the Governments of
all the cantons by a circular, and that a complaint
shall be addressed to the French Government on the
subject."

A letter, dated Berne, 31st October, says:—
" Official reports have been received, confirming
the news of the occupation of the Valley des Dappes
by the French, Yesterday, at 10 a.m., the Council
held an extraordinary sitting, in which reports
were read from the Council of State of the Canton
de Vaud, from the Prefect of Nyon and from the
Commander of the Gendarmerie of St. Cargues,
which announce positively that on the 28th of
October a detachment of soldiers and geedarmes
penetrated the valley of the Dappes, on the
pretext of preventing the arrest of an individual.
The Federal Council has ordered President do
Migy, of Berne, the Vice-President of the Canton
de Vaud, and Colonel Veillon, to proceed forthwith
to the spot to investigate the matter."
The Conststutionnel has the following on the
subject

" At the very moment that the difference between
France and Switzerland respecting the affair of
Ville-la-Grand was on the point of being settled, a
new conflict has arisen. This time it is the Valley
des Dappes, to which France has stated rights in
virtue of the final act of the Treaty of Vienna,
and which, a few years since, was the subjeCt
of fruitless negotiations between the Govern-
ment of the Emperor and the Swiss Con-
federation. In the centre of that valley,
which has no territorial importance, but which
intercepts the communications between Fort des
Rousses and the district of Gex, there is the little
village of Cressoniere. An individual sentenced
by the Court of Nyon to a punishment sought re-
fuge in that village, and the Vaudois authorities
ordered him to be arrested there; but the French
gendarmerie has occupied Cressoniere, and pre-
vented the Vaudois police from doing so.

"The Federal Council held an extraordinary.
sitting on the Ist of November, in which it has
been decided to send a note to the Swiss represen-
tative at Paris to be communicated to the French
Government. It is, moreover, inexact that the
Valley des Dappes has been occupied by our troops.
" This new incident only proves one thing, the
necessity of settling definitively this question of the
Valley of the Dappes, which, without having any
special importance of its own, is an endless source
of difficulties on that portion of our frontier, and
we believe that negotiations for that purpose have
been opened with the Swiss Federal Council."
La Patrie says :
" Different foreign journals have published false
statements respecting the occupation of the Valley
des Dappes. For nearly 45 years France has
never ceased to claim that territory, which be-
longs to her in the most incontestable manner, and
we believe that an offer has now been made to
Switzerland for negotiations for an arrangement
which would give every possible guarantee to the
Swiss Confederation as regards its neutrality."