The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-23 00:00:00

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t parts of Switzerland. The operations a,
commenced on the evening of the 11th. That even-
he Federal troops took nossession of two stro

sitions not far from a small village of Fribourg, called
Lengine, and two pieces of cannon employed by the Son-
derbund for their defence were taken. On the morning
of the 13th, orders were issued throughout the whole of
the line for the army to advance upon Fribourg, and with
the exception of the town itself and the ground occupied
by the defenders, which in all is not above a league, the
whole of the canton of Friburg is now in the possession of
the Federal troops. It was reported at Berne, and the
report appears to have some foundation, that the Grand
Council of Fribourg has been convoked for the purpose of
considering the propriety of again opening negociations
with the Diet, and of arranging a plan of capitulation
to be proposed to the commander-in-chief of the Federal
army, as soon as he shall summon that town to surrender.
Advices from Berne to the 14th inst. state, that at noon
on the 12th General Dufour summoned Friburg to open
its gates in 24 hours to the Federal army. That delay was

accordingly to expire at noon on the 13th ; but early in
the morning of that day a flag of truce arrived at the
head-quarters, with a letter from the Government of
Friburg demanding a further delay until 7 o'clock a.in.,
on the 14th, which was accorded. Most of the heights

surrounding nad been occupied on the 13th by
the Federal forces. The division commanded by Colonel
Ochsenbein, which entered the canton on the side of
Laupen, had advanced to Dudingen, within three-quarters
of a league of Fribu rg. On no point was any serious
resistance experienced by the Federal army. The authori-
tir

of Friblirg were evidently anxious to learn the result
of the expedition which had invaded Argau from Lucerne
before returning a definite reply to General Dufour. At
length, Friburg surrounded, hemmed in, and cut off
from all support from the other cantons of the Son-
derbund, capitulated on the 14th instant, after a smart
action, in which several lives were lost. The Paris iour-

nals of M. Guizot announce a " bloody conflict" aspre-
ceding the surrender ; but it had for its result four killed
and eight wounded ! The commander-in-chief having
left some companies in quiet occupation of Friburg, re-
turned, accompanied by the commander of the artil-
lery, the same afternoon to Berne, and so the " Fri-
burg" campaign is ended. The announcement, made
exclusively by the Journal des Debats, of a successful di-
version of the troops of the Sonderbund proves to be un-
founded. General Salis Saglio, at the head of some
troops of Lucerne, advanced across the frontier, and
marched into the canton of Argau, where he met with
prompt and vigorous resistance, and was forced to retreat
into Lucerne, with the loss of 240 men, chiefly killed.
A similar demonstration made by the Sonderbund on
the frontier of Zurich had signally failed. It was reported
that the federal troops had already entered the canton of
Lucerne. The Jesuits had all taken flight from Friburg
and sought refuge in Neufchatel, before the surrender of
the city on the 14th.
The Berne journals of the 16th say that the diet met on
that day, and, after receiving an official notification of
the sur: ender of Friburg, and the conditions of the capi-
tulation, appointed, in virtue of article 6, three federal
representatives to proceed to Friburg, and there adopt
whatever measures they might consider necessary in
the interests of the federal government; The three com-
missioners set out for Friburg immediately after the sit-
ting of the diet. The Vorort, immediately after the re-
fzeipt of the news of the capitulation of Friburg, ordered a
portion of the troops who had been sent against that
place to march towards Lucerne.
Swiss JESUITS.—The foreign students in the Jesuits
College, at Friburgh (which city is likely to be the first
point of attack for the Radical faction), have been taken
under the protection of the Ambassadors. Mr. Peel takes
charge of the British and Irish youths ; one or two of whom
are from Liverpool.

Father de Sanctis, one of the most able men of the day
at Rome, has abandoned the Romish religion.
The number of emigrants to Canada this year is
91,893, whilst last year it did not exceed 31,073.
Sir John Davis has resigned the governorship of Hong
Kong. His successor will be Mr. Bonham, formerly go-
vernor of Sincapore.
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The electric telegraph between Montreal and New York,
a distance of one thousand and twenty-one miles, is now

The Roman Catholic bishops of Baltimore have ordered
all their flocks not to become members of the Odd Fel-
lows' Society, and those who have been initiated, to leave
it under excommunication.

Lord Howden, the English Ambassador at Brazil, has
taken the law into his own hands, by arming himself, and
seizing a man who had attempted to rescue a black girl by
force from the house of a lady, in which she had taken