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LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 29.

Ir the Mexican Expedition was hateful to all
honest and prudent minds in France before the 1.
brilliant debate began which, after a violett de- I
clamation from the MINISTER of STATE, was I
burled by the clamour of a complaisant majority,
it will not become suddenly popular among the
readers of the masterly and exhaustive speeches of
M. TRIERS and M. Jetts Favez, the former of I
whom almost surpassed himself on this occasion in
all the richest and rarest qualities of the parlia-
mentary debater, in clearness, and fulness, and in- I
cisive ease and simplicity of narration, in the I
luminous and precise arrangement of his facts, I
dates, and figures, in the statesmanlike compre-
hensiveness of his views, in the close and pressing
force of his reasonings, in the calm, broad survey of
responsibilities and results, and in a marvellous
adroitness in unwinding all the tangled skein
of an unjust and unnecessary war and an
equivocal diplomacy. M. TRIERS addressed
himself to the encounter like a man who is
sure of his weapons and of his cause ; he
tore a policy of bad faith and false pretences to
shreds, threw flashes of searching light on the
dark places of intrigue, with a shrewd playful wit
that now glanced like a rapier, now probed like a
scalpel. In fact, M. TRIERS convinced his bearers
even against their will ; nothing was left for M.
Jrxxs FAV•RE but to raise the argument to the
height of great principles of morality and justice,
after the clap-trap appeals of the Govern-
ment speakers to national vanity and]" glory."
Liberal France, we rejoice to perceive,
begins to love right and justice better
than the splendour of barren conquests. It will
be a happy day for Europe and the world when
France is no longer taught by her Government
that her " honour" is concerned in shedding the
blood of a helpless people who presume to defend
their independence against forty thousand of the
finest troops of Europe.
Our readers are perfectly familiar with all the
circumstances of this disreputable expedition. The
Governments of France, England, and Spain joined
in an undertaking to secure satisfaction for outrages
committed against their subjects resident in Mexico,
and to obtain payment of long-standing debts, by
seizing the principal Mexican porta, and
laying an embargo on the customs dues. That
expedition was solemnly and strictly limited, by
the express terms cf a Convention between the
three expeditionary Powers, to precise objects.
France and Spaiu sent a small military force ;
Spain, having the nearest point of departure, at
Cuba, arrived first on the coast ; and the small com-
bined army lauded, by consent, under the command
of the Spanish General ; the British force of 700
Marines only garrisoning the forts. A proclama-
tion was addressed to the Mexicans, by the
representatives of the three Powers, defining their
purpose, and promising not to interfere in the
slightest degree in the political institutions of the
country. Fever soon began to ravage the troops
of the allies ; and the Mexican forme hemmed them
closely in. liv a convention with the Mexican Coin
mender the French and Spanish Generals were per-
mitted to remove their troops to the healthier table
land, during negotiations; they were not in a
condition to stir a step in advance. Then it was,
while the representatives of the three Powers
deliberated on their future plans, that it came out
that the Minister of France had secret instructions
of quite another tenour than the terms of the
convention which, in common with his
colleagues of Spain and England, he had
signed. The Spanish General, a man of fiery
honour and liberal feeling, and the British Com-
modore, with the instincts of his race and of his
profession, at once refused pointblank to be par-
ties to a breach of faith and an act of dishonour,
and even the gallant French Admiral thought and
felt with hie brothers in arms. The forces of
Spain and England embarked and mailed
away. The French Admiral returned home. The
French General and his diplomatic colleague re-
mained to carry out their secret orders. Such, in
a few words, is the outset of the expedition from
which England and Spain escaped with honour,
and of which France herself, after victories which
she will certainly not inscribe upon her tablets of
glory, would at this moment rejoice to know the
end.