The Sun. — 1847-11-26 (London, England)

BERCHTOLD. " Friburg, Nov. 19." The state of siege was raised the same day. A letter from Berne of die 20th says— " It appears that the Commander-in-Chief will act, with regard to Lucerne, just as she has proceeded against Friburg ; that is to ,say, the Federal troops will successively take possession of all the points that lie in the march, and then invest Lucerne until it capitulates. A letter from Upper Emmenthal of the 18th says— ' Yesterday the Lucernese attempted to make a sortie upon the Bernese territory at Uffluson, between Willisau in Lucerne, and Hartwyl in Berne. To accomplish this they cleared the road of all the wood they had strown upon it, in order to impede the march of the Federal troops ; filled up the trenches they had cut across the road, and demolished their redoubts, in order to gain a more easy entrance into the canton of Berne. But General Dufour promptly sent troops to the threatened point, and the Lucernese immediately beat a retreat. The leaders of some of the columns on entering the canton of Lucerne resolved that they would, when their troops should have to pass over the mines made by the Lucernese, send forward all the women and children who remained in the villages, and thus secure, as it were, a safe conduct through these dangerous passages. Rather unsatisfactory news has arrived by estafette from Tesino. While the canton of Vaud keeps the Valais blockaded, so that the force of this canton is paralyzed, the Commander-inChief of the Valaisian troops has conceived that a large portion of them might be usefully employed in the primitive cantons. Consequently, from the beginning of this month four or five battalions have passed the Furka, one of the mass of the St. Gothard mountains, in order to reach and enter the canton of Uri ; whence these troops were moved in the direction of the canton of Tesino, to reinforce the troops which already occupied the St. Gothard. This unexpected reinforcement, which msde the force of the League at this point amount to nearly 4,000 men, allowed of their assuming the offensive with great vigour. On the 17th, after a murderous action, they carried Airolo, where the Casellini battalion and a company of carabineers were all that were posted to meet this attack, which was at the same time favoured by a fog. This small body was obliged to fall back on Faido, distant three leagues, and thence probably on Bellinzone, where Colonel Luvini has concentrated all his forces, viz., four battalions of infantry, four companies of carabineers, and one battery and a half of artillery, in the intent, as he writes, of bringing on a decisive battle."  According to advises from Aarau, the General-in. Chief of the Federal troops had ordered two bat.  talions of the division of Gmur to advance, by forced marches, to Ticino, across the canton of the Grisons. It was expected that they would arrive in  time to cut off the retreat of the column of the League. Accounts had reached Berne late in the evening of the 21st instant that the Grand Council of Lucerne had determined, by a majority of only three votes, to persist in resisting, by force of arms, the execution of the decrees of the Diet. A loud cannonade had been distinctly ht and at Berne, in the direction of the Emmenthal, where, it appears, the bridge of Gisiknou was attacked by the Federal troops. The military operations against Lucerne were not expected to commence befare the 23d.  By a royal decree of the King of PRUSSIA, all affairs relating to the principality of Neufchatel are in future to come under the head of the " Home Department." 1 his decree is a mark of the KlNa'a approbation of the conduct of the authorities of Neufchatel in the affairs of the Sonderbund.  According to the Frankfurt Gazelle, it is to the firm decision of Prussia alone that an armed intervention of the great Powers has not already taken place in Switzerland.  A Berne journal of the 21st announces that the troops of Zug and Schwytz had made an incursion into the canton of Zurich, but had been driven back