In Switzerland, the combined movements of the Federal forces, commanded
by General Dufour, have been of the most decisive kind the Separate League has been conquered ; Lucerne, the head and front of the rebellion, has surrendered, and is governed at present by its own Liberal and Anti-Jesuit. party; in alliance with the Anti-Jesuit and Liberal majority of the Confederation. In this rapid issue of the civil war, two facts have been strongly exhibited : the Federal majority has more of heart and unanimity than was ascribed to it ; the adherents. of the Sonderbund are either weaker or less zealous than they were supposed to be.
Lord. Palmerston has been unusually explicit in his avowals about the contemplated Swiss intervention. In joining the four great Continental Powers, England stipulates that the mediation shall .only take effect with the joint consent of both parties in Swit- zerland. As it has been so long delayed; and the Federalists are victorious, and therefore not likely to accept a mere offer of media- tion, it looks as if the project would come to nothing.
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