The Sun. — 1845-04-15 (London, England)

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRAL 18, 11448.  351 at sixty days ; the Five per Cents. at 251 at sixty days ; and the Debt, without interest, at 8+ for cash, and 81 at sixty days.  The French Chamber of Peers have passed the Bill for mitigating slavery in the colonies by a majority of 103 to 59. This is a large minority, when it is considered how small the boon is which the unfortunate slave is to reek ire. But something more will be done. Slavery cannot long exist in the French West India colonies amidst those of England, where liberty prevails. The Paris press too, generally, is favourable to the measure, and it is understood that a proposition of the Duke D'HARCOURT, for granting a certain sum out of the Treasury to enable slaves of good character to purchase their liberty, will be brought forward in the Chamber of Deputies. The accounts from Zurich are to the 10th inst., on which day the Diet was to meet. In the meantime the Commission had made a report, recommending the Federal Commissioners to give efficacy to the resolutions agreed to by the Diet against the free eorps, and for the preservation of the public peace, insisting especially that the refugees from Lucerne shall not fix their residences within a given distance of that canton ; and, in the second place, the Vorort is called upon to see the resolution regarding the free corps executed in all the cantons, and to make a report on the subject at the next extraordinary Diet. The Catholic cantons had held a general council at Lucerne, and a general amnesty had been granted to all persons under twenty years of age. M. GEZOT had addressed another note to the Count DE PONTOIS, French ambassador to the Cantons, in which he states that the KING'S Government is anxious to maintain the independence of Switzerland, whilst at the same time it must protest against revolution or a civil war. The following are the only contents of the note of the slightest interest :  "So far from wishing, by the conduct that I prescribed on the 3d of this month to the King's Ambassador, to affect this independence in the slightest manner; our intention was to offer Switzerland a fresh proof of our esteem. if anything could compromise the external situation, as well as the internal prosperity of Switzerland, it would be the breaking out of civil war and anarchy in her bosom. Was it a normal and regular state of things that the violent action of troops, illegally armed and raised, should endeavour, in the canton of Lucerne, to impose by violence their will on a legally constituted Government? Is the revolution accomplished in the canton of Vaud, by insurrection and mate. rial force, a normal and regular state of ttings ? Should not the friends of Switzerland see in such facts an imminent danger, not only for the peace and security of the country, but even for the existence of the Confederation, so unfortunately affected in the inviolability of its compact and the sovereignty of tts cantons. As long as the question of the Jesuits was discussed regularly and pacifically in the cantons, the King's Government, faithful to the principles which have aletays guided it, abstained from any mani. festation ; but when the gravity of the situation revealed itself by (Murders that affected the whole of Europe, the French Govern. ment deemed it their sacred duty to call the most serious attention of the Diet to perils as evident as they were grave; and it con. jured it, in a friendly manner, to take prompt and efficacious measures for remedying the evil, to prevent renewed attempts, and re-assure at the same time both Switzerland and Europe. These are the affectionate and disinterested motives which have alone guided the King's Government."  The French Three per Cents. were done at TOR TOM'S on Sunday at 85f. 70c.