The Express.
London, England, 1865-04-13 00:00:00

THE DEBATE UPON MEXICO L'i THE

LEGISLATIF CORPS.

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THE CORPS LEGIELATTL
PARII3. Ann. 12.

PARIS. WZDNISDAY.
M. Picard made a first-rate speech yesterday
upon the Mexican question, in answer to M.
Cortes glowing description of the new empire and
its prospects. He complained tbat the yellow book
contained no despatches on the subject. The
chamber was systematically kept in the dark. He
adjured the chamber to use its legitimate influence
to get the army recalled. It would have been
better to have done it in 1882 than now, in 1865 ;
bat it would be more difficult still here-
after. He would admit that there was a
'harm in M. Carta's description of Mexico as
• land of promise, and the Emperor Maximilian
" the young prince with golden hair and blue eyes,
wheat the Mexicans had been looking for as a
opUour from the Rant" But in spite of this
attractive picture drawn by M. Cotta just freshly
zabarned from the Mexican sun, he was fain to
AIM that if he had found any bonotuabls way of
withdrawing the army from Mexico, lie would have
advised that it should come away at once. Marshal
Foray had said so lately as March 19, 1865, that
"everything was wanting in Mexico—that the
moral sense was perverted, that there was no national
administration, justice, army, or industry ; but
that this was not the fault of the nation." Well, if
Marshal Forey, who so greatly differed from M.
Corte, was right, it must be confessed that cir-
cumstances were not favourable to the new 'tou-
can loan just coming out. The government was
continually telling them that the country was
pacified ; but it was not the fact, and M. Costa
bad spoken of a new expedition for the conquest of
Sonora. The determination to resist was still
strong among the natives of Mexico. M. Picard
here read various extracts from the Moniker
showing that repeated assurances that the
war was over were invariably contradicted
by subsequent reports of fresh battles and victories.
The subscribers to the first Mexican Loan had
been doomed to see it fall in the space of a few
daps from 60fr.--at which it was issued—to 481 r.
It had now got up to, he believed, 52fr.; and the
little capitalists who had been seduced by articles
in government papers, the attraction of a high
rate of interest, and the belief that the French go-
vernment was morally responsible for the solvency
of the Mexican empire, to part with their money,
were now to be asked to subscribe to • second
loan in order to rescue the first. He could not
understand the morality of the government encour-
aging iu the case of the Mexican Loan transactions
of a character which, if indulged in by private in-
dividuals, the law would punish. The Mexican
government, which was able to give no solid secu-
rity to its creditors for the payment of their in-
terest, had been allowed to pay interest out of the
capital borrowed for the first two years. At the
end of that time there was every chance that they
would find no effects. He had in his hand a com-
plaint of a subscriber that everything had been
done to delude the public into the belief that the
Mexican loan ries guaranteed by the French go-
verument. The Credit Mobilier, a privileged estab-
lishment under government patronage, had brought
the thing out ; the Credit Foncier, another privileged
establishment, bad canvassed for subscriptions
through their correspondents in the provinces who
were notaries, receivers general, ministerial officers,
and government functionaries, whose word was al-
moat law to their neighbours. It was well to make
these facts public now that a second loan was
announoed. Well, the assumed financial pros-
perity of Mexico was the only basis for
this loan ; and upon that subject neither M.
Corte. nor any one else had given any
reliable information. The meagre accounts they
had were altogether fantastical. M. Picard reca-
pitulated the warnings which had been given in a
former session by MM. Berryer and Thiers about
the serious consequences of the Mexican expedition,
and observed that when, in January last year, M.
Rouber had made a promise that no further rein-
forcement should be sent out, and that no
loan was to be guaranteed by the French go-
vernment, it occurred to M. Thiers to notice
as • qualification of his promise the words "at this
moment." The Moniteur recorded that M.
Thiers's interruption produced " considerable
movement," and well it might, for little
more than two months later, and exactly a
year ago, on April 10, 1864, a convention regulated
the conditions of the loan, and made provision for
the sojourn in Mexico of French troops, which it
was not thought convenient to avow in January.
He hoped they were not now about to hear further
promises from the minister which were to be dis-
regarded at no distant date. They had been taught
to expect that the army would be brought home by
the end of 1864, and now, notwithstanding
the encouragement in the speech from the throne
to hope that the evacuation of the country would
commence immediately, they found battles going
on continually, and new expeditions talked of. He
trusted the chamber would have the courage to
assert itself. [This word "courage" produced a
storm, and M. Picard ultimately consented to
withdraw it.] If Maximilian was so popular with
his people as they were constantly told he was, it
was high time to leave him alone, and not, at the
imminent risk of war with the United States, to
saddle France with a new Algeria, three thousand
leagues off.
M. Ronher, in replying to M. Picard, fairly lost
his temper. He said, in a triumphant tone, that
M. Picard's speech could not damage the negotia-
tion of the new Mexican loan, for he was happy to
say that, while speaking, be had received the news
that it was signed. So far from making any pro-
mise that the army would return at any definite, or
even proximate time, he boasted that it
would remain in Mexico until its mis-
sion should be accomplished—a very sorry
prospect, indeed, for France. He entered into
a long and very inconclusive argument to show
Mr. Charles Knight is preparing for the press
that, mousethe United. States had once held mill-
tke gossiping and rstrceritive kind, to bs tary possession of Mexico, and bad left it, therefore
ancestidedr wort of a
"Shadows of the Bssisiollsm it will twist* there was no likelihood of their interfering in the
skstabes of Torsos, Give, Doieley, Woodtell, sod other
bibbwin kak „mow, will 4,,,,bs 6,,,k I, country again. But 16 votes supported M. Picard's
serious eascdots.--Gwwtilas• amendment.
[AAversisement.] Houowar's Oncrieurr. A Mexican letter states as a positive fact that so
Wounds, Scalds, Boras, and Irritating Sores.—The peculiarly
mild, soothing, snti•iadammetorp power tweeted by this mat. smalls Maximilian's confidence in the duration of
chart strongli moommends HS tO an pewter who have •
charge of Children. Accidents will occur in the n hs spite his empire that us unworn his pay from the Trea-
of the greeted nation sad Mame The wretch, the 611,7 " daily "—not being willing to run the risk of
burn, or the scald. Mentalism/it., =rig Otntment, mamma no
angry signet, sad serer keg the little eufferer whose even • week's arrears.
yea sr, slam ume briftadels cmgmei°B* "d Sur"' the The reiterated assertioas that the Duke de Per.
Criatbrute Every soreetteald madder this invaluable
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mat is applicable to soy owe. tver Its eharnetsr. It alla•
dada to health as seedy al the sower Dalai is ta. sulk. prams. I believe it to be quite certain that in

To-day in the Corps Legislatif, General Allard,
replying to the speeches of M. Lanjuinais and
Baron David, said it was necessary to increase the
European population of Algeria, and was of opinion
that a military government would for a long time
to come be indispensable in that colony.
Paragraphs 17 and 18 of the address were then
adopted.

(non on owx

The amendment of the opposition to paragraph
19 was rejected.
ffi Kolb-Bernard delivered a speech against
Italy.

I; is asserted that M. Thiers will speak ' to-
morrow.

FRANCE.
TOULON, Ann. 12.

The yacht Aigle has returned here in order to
be at the disposal of the Emperor, should his
Majesty go to Algiers.

MALIAN IFINANCN.
APIUL u.

The report of the Committee of the Chamber of
Deputies upon the principal expenditure for 1863-
1864 has been issued. The committee propose that
a Bill of Indemnity should be passed in favour of
the preceding' ministry, and recommend the
government to appoint a commission for the pur-
pose of studying the system of administrative ac-
countability and to present to a future parliament
a complete project of reform.

TURIN, APRIL 12 Sviernio.

The Chamber of Deputies approved this after-
noon the 2nd article of the bill relative to the sale
of the State railways. The chamber subsequently
approved the whole project for the reorganisation
of the railways by 156 against 88 votes.

INCREASE OF THE PRUSSIAN FLEET.
BERM?, Antic It

The government has submitted to the Chamber
of Deputies a plan for the increase of the Prussian
fleet. It claims for the country a position capable
of imposing respect upon naval powers of the
second rank.

Ten iron-clad frigates, 10 iron-clad batteries,
and 20 corvettes and despatch boats are stated to
be necessary for Prussia.
The expenses for the whole increase are estimated
at 34,593,500 thalers.

DISTURBANCES IN MADRID.