The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-25 00:00:00

The following are additional extracts from the papers :-
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" In the sitting of the Swiss Diet of the 19th, it was decided,
after some discussion, that the Jesuq question should be adjourned
to the next ordinary stns.on in the month of July. The deputy of
Lucerne then demanded that the Diet should at once cashier the
officers of the federal army who had formed part of the free
corps. Te this it was replied, that he was going somewhat
too fast for the slow machinery of the federative system. A
smart exchange of recriminatory language took place between the
deputy of Lucerne and M. Briatte, the deputy of Vaud. The latter
terminated the sitting by a strong declaration against the appre-
ciation of the late political commotion; in the canton of Vaud
made by M. Guizot in his second dispatch of March 25. This de.
claration was inserted in the minutes,' and produced amarked stn.
sation in the assembly and the diplomatic corps.'.
" The Semaphore of Marseilles contains a letter from Damietta,
which gives an account of the termination of the affair in which
an unfortunate Copt was killed by the populace after most shameful
ill-treatment, and the French Consul's house was injured by the
mob. On the formal complaint of this gentleman the Governor
of Damietta, Aly Bey, has been condemned to degradation, to an
imprisonuiens of six years in the fort of Aboukir, and to pay an
indemnity to the Copt's family. The ulemas of Damietta have
been also punished in the person of their chief, Hely Hafagy,
who is exiled to Tantah. Kalil Bey has been made Governor in
Aly Bey's place."
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on the
23d instant at 85f. 85c. ; the Five per Cents. at 118 f. 60e. ;
Orleans Shares, 1,220 f. ; Rouen, 1,105 f. ; Vierzon, 859 f. ;
Havre, 922 f. 50e. ; Avignon, 1,030 f. ; Basle, 295 f. ; Spanish
Actives, 40t ; Ditto, Three per Cents., 42 ; Ditto, Passives, 7A.

THE HUSH GREAT WESTERN
RAILWAY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Ste,--lour paper being a great authority on railway matters,
you will perhaps urid a corner for this exposition of railway
schemes in Ireland:—

To the People of Ireland, particularly to the inhabitants of the
provinces of Leinster and Connaught, and to those of the
county and the county of the town of Galway.
My Friends,—You will doubtless rejoice on the late truly wiss
decision of the railway department of the Board of Trade, in favour
of the Irish Great Western Railroad from Dublin to Galway—the
line which we from the first advocated u the beet—and which
had your strenuous co-operation all through. Look at the mar,
every one must admit the justice and soundness of this decision,
from the enormous advantages to be gained by constructing a great
line of railway along a level that brings the Irish Sea and St.
George's Channel within a few hours of the Atlantic Ocean.

I wish to lay before you the course which my duty, as a friend
stillbcp7,l soinbdled fearing
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to Ireland, impelled me to pursue during the last six months—
finding that various plans were proposed having much the same
object in view, though not going as far as appeared to me essential,
recommendtogether
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