The Express.
London, England, 1862-06-05 00:00:00

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Tag f4sir, JUNE •5, 1862.

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THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON AND THE
MEXICAN QUESTION.

The following Paris letter on the Mexican ques-
tion appears in the Independence :
The Emperor is more determined than ever to pursue the
execution of his projects in Mexico. He is not in reality so
much annoyed as people suppose at the withdrawal at
England and Spain ; on the contrary, his isolation leaves
him more free to carry out his own views. It is, moreover,
• mistake to suppose that he was ever very anxious about
the candidature of the Archduke Maximilian, or that it is
any sacrifice to him to give it up. I believe that the
Emperor never thought it possible to make the ihtIiCSIII
acclaim that prince as their sovereign. The only object in
putting him forward was to make • parade of disinterested-
ness, the Emperor being very sure that his name would
never be an obstacle to the accomplishment of the imperial
schemes. What those schemes are is not yet well known,
but they will gradually oome out, as circumstances may
favour their development, and will considerably astoeish
the world. Take it for certain, that the Emperor is
fully resolved to make the Mexicans pay full value
for the services he proposes to render them, and that oar
intervention will not be limited to a single campaign. Of
course there can be no doubt that the overthrow of Juaree
government is one of the objects of our expedition ; but
when Juarez is got rid of, another government must be put
in his place, and the task of providing that will naturally
fall upon the French, who, moreover, will take the:oppor-
tunity of levying upon the country the oasts of the war,
which must needs be considerable. I have reasons fop be-
lieving that out of the impossibility of astahlishins
monarchy in Mexico plausible reasons will be found. for
permanently establishing French influence, in the form of a
protectorate, something like that of England in the lonian
Islands. Mexico will be made a great French colony, with
liberal institutions, and as much of her autonomy as pos-
sible. It is thought at Pais that • vast outlet for our
' manufactures may be found in Mexico, and that, under
French protection, the country may be made to proclaim
6 cotton on a large scale.

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passed the Corps Legislatif yesterday, after a long - TIE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.
and uninteresting speech in opposition by M. 1
}... Yesterday was a day of agreeable disappointments
Darimon. The Limited Liability
Bill is
to
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:at the Exhibition. The counter attractions of the
passed through the house this session.
' great sporting festival were expected to thin the
Judgment was given this morning in the affair
crowd
at South Kensington, and hundreds
of
at the Serres bubble bank of the Rue d'Amsterdam,
families seized upon what they thought would
which I explained at length on Sunday. The four
prove a quiet day for going over the great indus-
clerks who alone appeared at the trial are
trial collection. When fifty thousand people oome to
acquitted. Series, who has absconded, is son- the same determination in fifty thousand different
tamed (in his absence as "contumacious ") to five
places the result may be easily anticipated, and
years' imprisonment and 3,000 fr. fine. her Majesty's commissioners had yesterday to wel-
A fire of considerable extent took place last night
come one of the greatest crowds that has yet
in the terminus of the Versailles (Left Bank) Rail-
poured into the • building. We reject the half-
way, Boulevard Montparnasse. The flames were
imatest ed numbers of the opening day as fabulous
first seen about 11 o'clock, and increased so rapidly and unreliable, but the figures of yesterday, not-
that the glare of the conflagration was visible from
withstanding a few defects in the turnstiles, are
every part of Paris. The disaster occurred in the
solid and unmistakeable. As it is matter of public
workshops, and was prevented from passing to the 1 interest to know how these numbers were dis-
more important buildings. The loss is said to be tributed over the day, we give the official returns
important. Thirty-five railway carriages were en- up to 5 o'clock.
tirely destroyed, and a great many others injured. rims O'CLOCK MORN.
The building fell in, and only one of the four walls Season tickets
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is left standing. The company was fully insured.
The Council of State has just had a bill laid
before it, by order of the Emperor, for granting a
pension, by way of national recompense, to the
widow of M. Hal4vy.

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