Disturbances have occurred in the Swiss Canton of Tessin. Mornho ,
Chronicle gives the following particulars of a petty revolution- " TI:;: play called Aristocratic was there kept in power by the support of Amnia. In order to restrain the Liberals, it was obliged toinive recourse to harsh and arbitrary measures. The consequence was an insurrection, produced, not by plot, but springing out of accident. On the morning of the 4th, soldiers were sent to arrest an artisan. A woman (his wife, perhaps, it was) resisted, seized the sergeant by his moustache, upset him, called for aid ; and the people gathering, disarmed the soldiers. The civic guard instantly got under arms. and took. the government into their own hands, the patriots _pouring in from the neighbouring towns. More serious collision was expected at Lugano and Bellinzona, ellecillly at the latter town, where there is a fortress ; but the garrison, on seeing the tree of liberty planted against them, surrendered. Se- veral of the governing party have been exiled. Rive, their chief, has escaped to Milan. 'de resolution of the Austrian Government, on learning this insur- rection, will be anxiously looked to."
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