22 FEBRUARY 1845, Page 2

• Switzerland is once more in hot water ; or

rather, has conti- nued so, but now gives audible sounds of her ill condition. Lu- cerne is still collecting troops to defend its right of intrusting edu- cation to Jesuits ; and the general officer has even been named who will command the Catholic troops against the Protestants ! The State Council of the Canton of Vaud, petitioned by more than thirty thousand persons to demand the expulsion of the Lucerne Jesuits, has abdicated ; and a provisional Government has been • appointed in its place. These are but overt signs of the ferment that agitates the whole Confederation.