The German papers received on Thursday are filled with notices
of the preparations iu progress in Germany in anticipation of war with France. All the letters received in l'uris from Frankfort, Augsburg, Berlin, Munich, and Vienna, corroborated that statement ; while at the same time they declared that no attack upon France ever entered the minds of any German Sovereign or statesman ; that, in fact, those mea- sures were merely precautionary, and that there was every reason to hope the good sense and the good feeling which actuated the present Government of France would render those preparations superfluous. Letters front Switzerland state that the Grand Council of Soleure adopted, on the 13th instant, the fiAlowing principles as the bases of the new constitution of the canton. 1. The sovereignty resides in the people, who exercise it through the medium of its delegates ; 2. The Catholic religion is the religion of the canton, except in the bailiwick of Bucebeggland, which professes the Evangelical creed ; 3. The liberty of the press is guaranteed, saving the repression of abuses ; 4. Industry and,trade are frce ; 5. The right of 1 etition is granted. A letter front Milan of the 8th instant, inserted in the Mintheine Journal of the I -th, announeas that the Archduke Regnier, Viceroy of the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom, was shortly to proceed to Vienna, in order to be intrusted with au important share of the government of the empire. The Milanese intended sending a deputation to Vienna, to pray the Emperor to continue the Archduke in the government of his Italian dominions; where the report of his recall had excited universal regret. The Sardiraimi Minister of Finance, Count Gallino, and the private Secretary of King Charles Albert, M. Trabaeio di Castagneto, had arrived at Milan a few day s belbre, uud had had several interviews with the Viceroy. It '.vas believed that their visit was connected with certain measures of safety, which it behoved Austria and Sardinia to adopt in the event of au attack on the part of France. The railroad from Milan to Monza seems destined to have great success, especially if the two branches to Bergamo and to Como are joined to it. Opened only with two engines on the 18th of August, it had already transported, up to the 31st of October, 111,243 passengers, and had a receipt of 96,750 franes.—Journal des Davits.
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