The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-10-21 00:00:00

AFAIRS OF SWITZERLAND.

The Swiss Universal Gazette of the 10th instant,says :—" At
the extraordinary session of the Grand Council• of i3erne, the
recommendation of the Council of Regency, that the deputies
to be sent to the Extraordinary Diet should be instructed to
v,ite fur such conciliatory measares as may put an end to the
difference with France, in a way compatible with the honour
and dignity of Switzerland, was adopted, after a debate ofeleven
bouts, by a majority of 131 to 80, subject, however, to ratifica-
tion. Several of the members gave the assembly some re-
markable information as to the affair of Conseil, and some
voted for energetic measures against France."
The Pair congratulates the couture on the hope which may
now be entertained of a speedy termination to the difference
subsisting between France and Switzerland, as the Federal
Directory has adopted the resolution a postponing the execu-
tion of the orders of the Diet till souse final decision shall have
been adopted-by. the Extraordinary Diet about to assemble.
" As the danger to which France might be exposed in a con-
test with Switzerland is not considerable, the former power,
observes the Pair, " is not disposed to be excessively rigorous
as to the extent of the reparation which she demands."—
Standard. •

PORTUGAL.
(From the Correspondence of the Times.)
LISBON, Oct. 8.

A circumstance, which at first wore a serious aspect, took
place on the evening of the 6th instant, the government having
during that day discovered that a conspiracy had been set on
foot, having for its object the subversion of the present consti-
tution by the very regiment, the sth Caqadores, that was, on
the night of the 9th ult., the foremost in proclaiming it, by turn-
ing out that night, as alley were under orders to march for the
Algarves on the following morning, and proclaiming the insti-
tutions given by Don Pedro. Several persons_ have been im-
plicated in endeavouring to buy over the soldiers, one of whom
in particular, their senior major, has been placed under an ar-
rest in the military hospital, where he has been for some time
with a broken, leg, occasioned by a fall from his horse. He is,
when lie shall be sufficiently recovered, to be tried by a court-
martial. 'the National Guard beat to arms, and soon assem-
bled in their respective quarters, and were, by order of the Civil
Governor, divided into four brigades, occupying the most im-
portant positions of the city, viz:—Campo de Santa Clara,
.Praga de Comiuercio, Campo de Santa Anna, Jana Estrella,
and the Naval Arsenal Battalion, commanded by their new
colonel, M. Franga, in the Pelottrinho-square add- Arsenal-
street. While the troops of the line remained in their barracks,'
the National Guard was kept under arms until midnight, when
they retired, leaving a strong force to be in readiness in case of
necessity. Here the projected subversion ended, and up to the:
present, everything remains perfectly tranquil. It is said that
much of this general feeling of alarm has been created by the
arrival of his Britannic Majesty's ship Talavera from Vigo, on
the 4th instant, and taking up the very extraordinary and un-
usual anchorage close to the Praga de Connnercio, as also that
of 350 Marines disembarking at Cacgilhas on the opposite side
of the river on the morning of the 6th instant, for the purpose
. of exercising, and the continual manoeuvring of gunboats up
and down the river. On that afternoon all the ministers re-
aired to the Palace, and told the Queen that they were per-
. fectly aware of what was going on, and begged of her Majesty
that, even if she knew any thing about it, not. to lend hey sanc-
tion to any praceeding that could involve the nation in anarchy
. and bloodshed, and thereby endanger the staijility of her throne,
at which, she was much surprised and agitated, and evinced every
disposition to prevent any disturbances whatsoever. So long,
therefore, as the government cart depend on the troops (for in
them alone lies their whole strength.) they have nothing to
dread, as it is a known fact, thlt all the changes that have taken
place in this eountryssince MO were effected 'exclusively by
the military, the people always remaining passive, and ready to
side with them in upholding any system of laws,they may choose
• to establish.