The Express.
London, England, 1862-05-27 00:00:00

CRICKIIT.

MARYLZBONE CLVB (WITH WOOTION) V. THZ
GENTLZMIDI OF IRELAND (WITH GRUNDT).—'This match
was cansuced at Lord's yesterday, and when the stums
wen drawn, the score stood u under: —llnrylebone Club,
first innings, 131 ; second innings, 33 ; total, 164. Leland,
first inninp, AD.

Carroty FRO* NA ~—The British steamer
Southwick, Captain Starke, arrived in the Mersey late on
Saturday evening from Nassau with a cargo of cotton and
spirits of turpentine. Tho vessel is consigned to Marrs.
Fraser, Trenholm, and Co. The cotton amounts to 300
tele&

In the last Conference Sir CHARLES Wvix de-
clared his firm belief that the Jualizz Govern-
ment was supported by the majority of the nation.
He added that its conduct towards the Allies
had always been satisfactory from the commence-
ment of the expedition. On the let of March our
Commissioner writes :
Your lordship also mentions the rumour apparently cur-
rent in Europe that the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian
will be invited by a large body of Mexicans to place himself
on the throne of Mexico, and that this people will gladly
hail such a change.
There never was • greater fallacy than this!
Mr. Corwin's reputation in his own country stands so high
that his opinion is worthy of every respect, and I have found
him since his residence in Mexico always thoroughly well ac-
quainted with what is taking plain is the Republic.
It is his opinion, as well as my own, that the actual
government, since it has had Senor lado at its bead,
unites the only elements in this unfortunate country that
afford a hope for its future regeneration under a regime sup-
ported by what remains here of public opinion.
Commodore Duzmor writes :

With reference to a letter to you from the Secretary of
the Admiralty, relative to a large party is Mexico being to
favour of • monarchial form cif govarumest, ad that there

THE MEXICAN 11XPEDITION:
as *elation of waft the Arida' thedithal Maxad-
to the throes, ham the heehaw to Wens yea that
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. having been mentioned to me bylfieeAdistral
Joritra, Cramer., when I first met him at Havesnah.
THE Parliamentary Papers on Mexico issued have takes every means in my power to ascertain whether
yesterday will not tend to raise joint military and the ere airmiyjecd gr
shoo inandfeavfor
our 08;p:oiling that aos
political expeditions from the discredit into which (omegas I have obtained from the best 110111monarch70;•7.ithin ray the '
they have fallen in English opinion. The rebel lads toe to suppose that the only tarty is Mexico at
I all favour of a monarchy is the Church party, ad differences between the views of the Eng- minis homes. it sees no other pent wha
prosteverb&ever otfriti7.
Ugh and Spanish Commisaioners in Mexico pie* influence over the Mexican people.
on the one part, and the French Commis- The cle‘rhe Party embraces that bigoted. and
Mon on the other, manifested themselves 1 fire ix
=sad at vartt:ce themepirit the therefore teag7f7or
early as the 18th of January, when Sir CLumas '• by the great majority of the people, who ors in
I WTER and General PRIM were compelled to imvur a libend P°s°Y.
3%6 ap.kh Government receive the same iss-
signify their unwillingness to support a most
forunitien. We close our extracts with the M.
extravagant claim which M. Di SALIONY was pre-
paring to forward in his ultimatum to. the ' 10441 despatch front
TO STR C. E.
Mexican Government. Were it possible to EARL *MILL
ForeignaffiWTEoe, May 22, 1862.
account for this extraordinary demand by M Lad,—Hsi Majesty's government have hadi under
'opposing that M. DE SALIONY had mss- uilt:imoidlraliou.__, Your &sputa dated from Orizaba, the
former despatches relating to GISSERI
Abthilits,=espY7cially the prores•rerbal of the coutereees‘
apprehended or exceeded his instructions,
we should pus by it without notice. But it held et Orizaba on the 9th rt April.
appears throughout these transactions that this i olihr 111**4'sbegf:emint7: rage t
er gad bar jai" ha..
Commissioner was in an especial manner the depoi- tea sad Span on the one heed, and of Frazee on the
tart' of the Exertion's eentldenee 0 and the ; 1414
cisrasiso47: llet°Vdslit.i="dhcie ladrueteelbab Admiral
• had deter-
°salty with which his undue in respect of the . mangivicTioa:zyks who, yaa—Q-45..„,5i prim
JeClith claims was defended at Paris favours deli • that there was se asses
most on the ter to
belief that it was not a settlement, but an excuse ' crbt: axed to c'ralg th• 1 o ;rf ApriLam" •
at
for ',quarrel, that was wanted. After laying down i
termed ap-
The Menthes of ° among the commissioners
. Pearato home It on two points. Tbe first of
the extraordinary principle that the allies could not
related to the protection given to General Almocte by
be judges of each other's claims, but that from the the From* army, sad the demand of the Mexican govern-
moment a Commissioner gave in his demand on the . meat that he should be seat back to France. The second
point of of diferthee
reees oialiesswistated M. . Dubois ds Saligoy,
Mexican Government the other Commissioners of April
were bound to sustain that demand, M. Thou- M. a. flaligey (ashes on this point, that it is impossible
west. consented to withdraw the Jscxr.a claim, to deny that the rid sad rinapat object of the convention
and leave the other undecided claims to be dealt twr to tl4alkuoiaLoWitoilt, tar taltitr bes Pit obsrvance
co foreign
with by a French commission. But other causes of treaties' that the temporizing and conciliatory system
Wawa wawa was condemned by what was daily occur-
of difference soon showed themselves. • inamanoli 'es the reign of extortion, tyranny and
Towards the end of January it was reported at vielsnm had bees made doubly oppreesivu and had rem.
tifoo:Lignmaiitebyinttolh era* ble ; that
Vera Cruz that the notorious Mittucox was ex- aorodstrgitsmil°D of
petted in Mexico. His partisans were waiting for May stout in to hien
m; theTattitude of the ale'mditats
him on the coast with horses and arms and all else appeared to have stannlated the government to redoubled
necessary for him to renew a civil war which had audacity ; that, he his part, he formally declared that he
would not treat with that government; and that his well-
only died out after a three years' bloody struggle. matured opinion was that it was alealliary to march upon
Sir CHARLES WYKE and Commodore DUNLOP were Mexico."
both strongly of opinion that if MIRAXON th~aug°Tenk. luracotnrdpervtlaltyber "edad ;at
were allowed to land under the protection of the °emend shouts in Mexico, under the preteen's et the
allied flags, the Government, and the great Ina- ciTrveir,c!'aran:Zahamtr. fairly be considered a
nt" could not provocation
a"p-
jority of the nation, which was liberal, would proved Of a measure having that *tendency ; for at that
regard us as the partisans of the bigoted and fans- time the government of Mexico was a government with
which the allies were conducting negotiation with a view to
tical minority of which Mraamos is the chief, and a peaceful settlement of their differences,
thus we should be thrown into alliance with the Her Majority's erument are aim el
_oOnion that you
Church party. However M. DI SALIONY declared acted rightly wham, pr in emmor h? H. ds miligmY'm deciere•
horsof his unchaegrabLe resolution not to treat with the
that he would retest in the name of the DM- gaeammeat d prmidect Juin., on refund to oak your
PEROR against any interference with General MIRA. signature to the answer addressed by the French commie-
mom after he had set foot in Vera Cruz, where the tam" to.Grepreal .D°betdi %omit:11"bl broke
action 7,thh: a°
lives
French flag was flying. It happened that he came Powers.
in the British packet, and Commodore DVNLOP Iler. Majesty's government greatly regret that the co-
operation with Prance should cease ; and they regret,
arrested him on his own responsibility on board shove all, that the hope of the fulfilment of the object. of
that vessel for having robbed the British Legs- the othoomtiom of October 31, which might have boom
attained before the end of April had the conference met on
lion. the 154.14 should thus have been abandoned.
The preliminaries of Soledad, negotiated with Her Majesty's government have every reason to be Bath-
the Mexican Government by General Palm, and toed
opinions give. t.he determinatio
General n you They concur
aad that
pproved by the English and Spanish Governments, gencondoglct of the repreeentea' ad are happy e
d herCathoiie Majady has
were signed by M. DE SALIONY, who appears to been approved by the government of Stria.
have been well aware that preliminaries were not hel:for
jaiLtt:.sere any
mressonent. to regret
Hd they delayed asking by
re-
what his muter wanted, but an excuse for march- dram from the government of Mexico for the wrongs of
ing on Mexico ; for when General ALmorrrz had Br'tuh
subjects
tbee
wyhowoutda eiltA;rettabetttr te3stjust cm-
arrived, and the time for action was come, this lion. iladmther naltetheir own course separately,y and
Minister told his colleagues he never considered refused to act with Farce and Spain, they would have pro-
that the preliminaries were worth the paper they !redo., relations,itert.wttstgthaelail=risfatlia.,l Poefrhtahp: threei-
were written on. And when asked why, then, he great European powers. Rad they, on the other had,
signed them, he only replied that "he had no ex- evinced an insurmountable repugnance to treat with
President Juarez, they would have been wanting in due
" planation' to give to the Conference respecting reZ to the independence of the Maxima people.
" the motives which prompted him to sign the her Majesty's government, therefore, taken any
" preliminaries." other course than that which was adopted, they would have
incurred the risk of evils greater even than the separation
Lastly, General Ameoyrz and a reinforcement which has now occurred.
of the French division appeared on the scene, and You will understand that while her Majesty's govern-
ent the course taken by the mnuanoners of the
from that moment the course of M. DE SALIONY eetlaM co
Emperor
of the French, nothing has occurred to impair the
became, we do not say more steady, but more frieudly relations which continue to subsist between the
apparent. ALMONTE was an exile for his political two government, of G?rut pain and Franca—Rul am, he.,
opinions, and on landing at once joined the parti-
sa
sans of MIRAMON at Vera Cruz. Here he might
have remained but for the French General DE
Loasxmcre, who, as soon as General PRIM and Sir
CHARLES WYKE had left the coast for Orizaba,
gave ALMONTE an escort into the interior. Com-
modore DUNLOP upon this remonstrated with M.
DE Simotiv, who thereupon replied that " General
" DE Lottzscrz was acting in this matter under
" direct orders from the EMPEROR." But General
DE Loaratcu himself appears to have been un-
aware of this fact, for when Sir CHARLES Writz
and General Paim pointed out the mischief he was
doing, he said he was sorry, and would send
ALMONTE back to Vera Cruz. M. DE SALIGNY'S
oollearie also condemned the extension of
French protection to General ALmorrra, and said
that it had taken place " through a regrettable
" misunderstanding." Hero again, however, the
Admiral only showed that, although a Commis-
sioner, he had not been entrusted with the thoughts
of his Government. M. DE SALIONY was right,
and ALMONTEMSS carried into the heart of Mexico
by the orders of the EMPEROR, without the consent
or knowledge of his allies. In the final con-
ference of the Commissioners, General AutorrE's
business in Mexico was very freely discussed.
When the French Commissioners were asked
in the Conference whether they thought they
had the right to allow the enemies of the
Mexican Government to be escorted on the
Mexican territory, Admiral Junizis said that
General ALMONTE was "a person honoured with
" the good will of his Majesty the Emputoz," and
that " the French flag never fails the exiles of any
"country."
We need quote no more to show how thoroughly
justified the English and Spaniards were in with-
drawing front the expedition, and how foolish it is
of the Patrie to misrepresent the course of events,
the real character of which cannot fail to become
known. We may just add a few opinions of men
qualified in various ways to judge of the character
of the present Government and of the probable
success of the attempt to establish a monarchy in
Mexico.

FRANCE.

BOULOGNE, MAT 24.

By order of the Mayor the names of several of
the streets have been changed. Among others the well-
known Rue de r Ecu is to be called Rue Napoleon, which
was the name it bore during the First Empire ; and the Roe
de l'Abrenvoir is to be called Rue do Pointe Albert, in
memory of the late Print* Consort, and of his landing rind
embarking at Boulogne in 1854 and 1855. The great number
of paisengers already passing through Boulogne on their
way to the Exhibition of 1862 makes the place seem much
more lively than it usually does so early in the season. The
band of the Bth Chaisson de Viocennea already Oars twice
a week on the port. The South-Eastern Company's fast
Mesmer, the Victoria, daily crosses in about an hour and a
half ; and the Eugenie is quite as comfortable, and much
faster than the old boat., although somewhat lees rapid
than the Victoria. The Marquis of Downshire's splendid
ship-rigged yacht Sylphide is now in harbour, accompanied
by her steam tender ; and attracts crowds of admiring gazers
who tiod it difficult to believe that • vessel of such dimen-
sions and elegance le not • government vessel. The in-
creased shipping and trade of Boulogne since the commercial
treaty are very noticeable ; and it is to be regretted that the
rate of progress of the new dock gives little hope of it. being
available for at least two years to come. Meanwhile the
harbour has been partially deepened ; the whole of the
western quays have been reconstructed, and are now used
by vessels discharging their cargoes of iron and coal ; and
the backwater is made available as • sort of temporary Boat-
ing dock ; so that nothing bas been neglected to afford as
much accommodation as possible to the growing traffic in
the interval. The route of the railway from Boulogne to
Calais is definitively settled, but the works have not yet
been commenced.