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The German Diet has been interfering in the internal affairs

of' Switzerland. The Canton of Berne is to be the directing Canton for the next two years ; and the object of the Diet is to dissuade the other Cantons from sending representatives to Berne, according to custom, because they fear the democratic spirit of the Bernese. The Chambers of Hesse Darmstadt have been suddenly dis- missed, on account of their refractory conduct,—in other words, as a punishment for their endeavours to defend the liberties and the purses of their constituents. Their dismissal seems to have caused a good deal of excitement among the usually phlegmatic Germans.

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