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LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 25.

Tai Empress of the Faratcn may well be eager
about the EMPIDOB.I3 return, on account of the

Maxima question. Beaidea the difficulties of the
came on the Mexican and French side, there are

complications on the American side which Me:-
perienced persons in Europe can scarcely be
expected to understand, or at least to form a
decided judgment on, for immediate action.
It must be borne in mind, though we need not
enlarge on it here, that the so-called MONROZ
doctrine is now something very unlike what it was

forty, thirty, and twenty years ago. It meant at
first that the Government of the United Stake
must watch over any action of European powers
on the Western Continent which could involve

the Republic in conflict with the States of the

Old World. As the alienation e the Slave Stokes

from the North, and from the principles and spirit
of the Republic, proceeded, the words of Mr.
Mowaos were perverted more and more to the
purposes of the Slave Power. The annexation of

Teas and the Maximus war made the ow dear.

The South sweated territory, and stole Texas,
where it introduced slavery after the Mexicans
had abolished it throughout their country. The I
aim end desire of the South grew with every see-
ress, till it took the form of an sasainption that
Mexico would become a part of the United States

whenever it should wait the South to extend
slavery into it, and strengthen its own section
against any new Free States which might be
formed in the North. Of course this
purpose involved a steady denial of all oppor-
tunity for the Mexicans to make friends in Europe,
and for European powers to befriend or meal
Norio°. Nobody but the United States was to
meddle with Mexico ; and to engage the North
to agree in this view great zeal was used in mag-
nifying the words and the assumed meaning of Mr.
MONROE. We need not dwell on the disgraces
which followed—on the success of the recruiting
for soldiers, and fishing for money in the Northern
States, on the facility with which the South en-
listed all the false patriotism that existed in the
Free States, all the vanity and levity, the greed
and the ignorance, the idleness and the vice that
a mixed society in • half-hearted condition could
supply, for the project of the Mexican war. Citizens
who have seen what the war of the last four years is
like may remember with disgust and horror the cam-
paign in Mexico with all its barbarous and de-
grading characteristics. All this is quite relevant to
the question of to-day. Now that the exposure of
the South is complete—now that the true his-
tory of the Mexican war begins to be understood
throughout the country, the chances are leas than
they ever were before that the name of a Mexican
war should tempt the judgment and the feelings of
rational and patriotic men. Whatever may be
the opinions of the citizens about the Government
of Mexico becoming that of hereditary monarchy,
administered by Princes from Europe, all are likely
to remember that a dangerous liberty would be
given to the now humbled South by absorbing into
the Republic the very territory which the Slave
States have so long coveted, for traitorous pur-
poses of their own. There might be more surpris-
ing things in the development of the history
of the next few years than that loyal republicans
should consider the rule of the Emperor Maxi:KI-
LIAN more advantageous to the United States than
a restoration of the Mexican republic, as affording
the check to Southern faction which will be needed
for some time to oome. This, however, is only
speculation, warranted by theweakness of Mexican
republicanism, and by every possible view of the
relations between the new Mexican Government
and any number or quality of Southern refugees
who may take shelter under it ; but still, it is only
speculation. The next consideration is far more
substantially true, and of the utmost importance.
That consideration is, the deep-rooted attach-
ment to France which exists in the whole society of
the Republic, from every Secretary of State that has
ever held office down to the lowest order of Irish
immigrants. It would be easy for English people to
ridicule or complain of the partial affection with
which American citizens regard France and the
French ; but there is something, not only impres-
sive, but very touching, in it. The French helped
them to achieve their independence, and virtually
guided them in the adoption of the principles of
their polity ; and the thought of war with France
has always had in it something so shocking to
American sensibilities, that hitherto it has always
been safe to prophesy, while any dispute was going
on, that it would be pacifically mottled. Thirty
years ago, when President Jacnson wore a very
belligerent air in his rupture with King LOUIS
PHILIPPE'S Government, only light-minded people
believed that war would come of it. It is true
there is the peculiarity in the present case, that the
French people are believed to dislike the Mexican
enterprise, and thus an attack on the new Im-
perial Government may be explained as not mean-
ing war with France ; but to set against this there
is the popular or universal reluctance among Ame-
ricans to "gratify England," as they pot it, "by
" quarrelling with France." On the whole, it may
be considered doubtful whether any inducement