The Express.
London, England, 1865-12-08 00:00:00

Parte, Deo. 6.
I have read in your journal of Dee. 6, so article camera,
leg the family of the Emperor !turbid*. You wen incom-
pletely informed is certain points, and I therefore take the
liberty of sending you correct particulars. The Emperor
Iturbide, my father, left five sons and four daughters ; the
eldest son is sot married ; the second, Angel, married, as
you state, s Mexican, and has a eon,now two yean enduing
mouths old ; the third, Salvador, died Jane 7, 1856, leaving
• son, who is now pursuing his stadia; at the St. Barbs
College in Paris; the fourth, Philip, died without issue on
Nov. 19. 1853, at Port fdatunoros ; and the fifth, and
youngest son, is the one who begs you to accept the assu-
rance of his distinguished corinderation.
Auartirna T. Dr YTORBIDT.
Grand Hotel Espagnel, 10, Boulevard Montmartre.
Unless I mistake the object of this letter, it is
to infer the opinion that if any member, of the
Iturbide family is wanted to be a future Emperor
of Mexico, the writer is a more available person
than the St. Barbe student, who is supposed to
have been adopted by the Emperor Maximilian.
I apprehend, however, that the question has but
an infinitesimal interest to the family, as well as
the public, because it becomes every day more and
more evident that M►ximilian, so far from having
an empire to give away, is thinking how he can lay
down his own title with a little less loss of dignity
than Rancho Pants, when he ceased to reign in
Barataria. There are rumours in Paris to-day
that be lately made an attempt to escape,
but was induced to reconsider his project
by his very powerful protector. This story, if
untrue, is only premature. It is quite cer-
tain that the attempt of Napoleon the Third
to appoint an emperor of Mexico is a failure, and
whatever delay there may be in making th►t failure
patent to the whole world must be attributed to
the praiseworthy desire of those who are sure of
the result, to make the coming down of defeated
ambition as easy, and therefore as little mischievous
as possible.
The chargi d'affaires of the Mexican legation in
Paris en attendant the return of M. Hidalgo, who
between ourselves will never come back, is not as
has been given out, his first secretary, M. Estrada.
That gentleman also is tired of a puppet mission.
M. Rus, the Mexican consul at Bordeaux, has been
sent for to Paris, and is at this moment the repre-
sentative of Maximilian's waning majesty at the
court of the Tuileries. This is another phase of
the " letting down easy " process which is going on.
The France contradicts in positive terms the
fact stated by the Temps that General Schofield
had had an interview with M. Drouyn de Lhuys ;
but in regard to the much controverted question
whether the American general has a political mis-
sion or not, it does not venture to say more than
that " nothing has transpired to indicate the
existence of a mission." This cautious contradic-
tion is quite consistent with what I have already
said on the subject.
Frenzh journals say it is yet rumoured at the
English embassy in Paris that the Prince and
Princess of Wales are to meet the King and Queen
of Portugal at Compiegne, but they at the same
time anticipate that the dangerous state of the
King of the Belgians may prevent the visit.
The Bourse was very heavy to-day in conse-
quence, as it was said, of the continuous fall in
Consols. The Rents, which was chiefly affected.
fell 20c. for cash and 12ic. for account, closing at
68fr. 80c. and 68fr. 871 c. Mobilier rose Ur. 25c.
The Daily News is seized.

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NEW YORK, Nov. 25.
I have more than once spoken of General Grant's
alleged feeling on the Mexican question, and very
strong language on the subject is now and then
ascribed to him in the newspapers. A report of
this kind appeared a short time ago, on the autho-
rity of somebody who travelled with him on some
railroad, and excited for a few days a little sensa-
tion, but it was speedily contradicted by the sup.
posed author. During bin last visit to New York,
however, he undoubtedly did express himself on
this subject, with, for him, extraordinary freedom
in private conversation—for he never does express
himself in any other way. I think I mentioned in
a recent letter his having let fall, at the Union
League C lub, a short but significant approval of some
very vigorous denunciations of the Mexican empire
uttered by a previous speaker. Afterwards during
his stay in this city, he talked very
frankly to everybody with whom he came in
contact, and it is now no secret, although very
little is said about it in the newspapers, that he
is in favour of an early application to Maximilian
of as much pressure as may cause his withdrawal.
The talk of a man of Grant's temperament,and occu-
pying the position which he does, naturally pro-
duces a great impression, and it has, I need hardly
say, given a great stimulus to the anti-French
feeling. Grant's theory is that the queetion for the
United States is not simply one of honour. He
considers the way in which the empire was set up,
and the time chosen for it, considering all the cir-
cumstanoes,to have been as strong a demonstration,
if not of ill-will, of contempt for the United States,
as could well have been made. Thin would of itself
contribute a sufficient justification, if the nation
were at all eager for war, for insisting
on the immediate withdrawal of the French
troops. But this, important as it may be, is
after all a secondary consideration. The main
reason in his eyes for seeking the overthrow of the
empire is, that it can in the nature of things never
be anything but a military power. An emperor
will always, even when secure on hir throne, have
a hankering for a large standing army, if for no
other purpose, for that of presenting the world
with a palpable evidence of his power. As long as
monarchs are men, they must have soldiers to play
with. But Maximilian is not secure on his throne,
and nobody who knows anything of the state of
society in Mexico supposes he ever will be. So
that if the French troops are withdrawn, or whether
they are or not, be will be compelled to surround
himself with a large and highly-disciplined
force, composed in the main of prefer
sional soldiers, with little or no sympathy with
the Mexican population. The presence of such a
force as this on the southern frontier of the United
States, and holding the inner lines, would, as a
mere measure of prudence, compel the United
States to keep on foot one at least as large, and
thus we should witness the inauguration op this
continent of that system of mutual menace which
is kept up by European powers, at such enormous
cost, even in times of profound peace. What the
effect of such a system on the institutions of the
United States would be, no man can tell. But
there is, of course, fair ground for fearing that
people would in the course of years get sufficiently
familiarised with the military way of doing things,
sufficiently dazzled by its superior promptness and I
effectiveness, to become less patient of the slow'
and clumsy processes of free government, and
randier to pardon any stretches of power
that produced immediate, and in them-
selves desirable results. Then it is feared that
the growth of a military caste here, combined
with the vicinity of a court, would do much to
foster the military spirit by saturating " society'
with it ; and that we should at last witness the
elevation here as in Europe of the military profes-
sion over every other in point of dignity and im-
portance. Once this estimate of the comparative
value of the soldier's calling had become general in
a democracy, great changes in the government
would certainly not be very far off.
Therefore, in the opinion of the anti-Maximilian
party here, all risks of this kind must be avoided.
We must not permit the European system of stand-
ing armies, and " balance of power," mutual de-
fiance, and the European division of so-
ciety into soldiers and pekins, to be
established here. The attempt which Louis
Napoleon is now making to establish it must be
repressed at the outset. Maximilian must be forced
to retire, peaceably if possible, but if not forcibly,
now, before he has had time to consolidate his
power. Mexico must be restored to the Mexicans,
to be governed by the natives, if not well,as well as
they can. The true policy for those who desire the
prosperity of that country is, it is said, to support
the liberal party in its efforts, begun forty years
since, andwhich if left alone will eventuallysucceed,
wrest society from the hands of the church, and
establish a real government and real order. The
Juarist party are now largely represented here and
in Washington by a body of really able and intelli-
gent men, most of them highly educated, thoroughly
imbued with American ideas, and great admirers of
the United States, and their opinions naturally
bear full sway in society. Their theory of
Mexican troubles ascribes them almost altogether
to the wealth and power of the frightfully demo-
ralised clergy whom the Spaniards left behind them. •n,
oval AND KILLED.—Mr. Richards, deput,
The great object of Spain in colonising was to coroner 2 held an inquiry at the Loodon Hrpitel. relative
spread the domains of the church. She established toanlhath Brian,u aged 5340. y etre' twis: ;ZS= oust
it in Mexico, and made it the richest corporation in that at last Saturday sista about 10 o'clock he saw the de.
the world, and she then left the country. She left wooed come out of a liieshop Ilicattoo craw deditchtioc caderryt
an enormous proportion of its soil and wealth, with twoirl
to hr °:lombrr.Al4l,.abils. with bales of wool and
corresponding political influence, in the bands drawn bitwo horses came along st the ra.tasscitif tong: at:
of the most debauched and depraved priests that htom oer.b.r b:rse:er
was
cooc Late lit go
andtheshe was knocked doer&
ever lived—men who had cockfights in their vet- The wheel west over her, sad remained on her chest
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until
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tries before saying mass, and carried the cocks under
it ." kacket:•friunTpt,l but MUD found the bee.e trod:be har.on ad-
their gowns, and kept veritable harems without „sun. b„ „Am misha „,d h„l..r. tor.
ether shame or fear. They say that the "anal- two. Thomas Willis.., in
ths driver of the to van, said
mile
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chv," so much talked of, has been simply the bores 1.740n1y ach 7tornt: of hiliti.;l:sp
struggle of all that was good in the jury raaaraad a verdict .1..• A Faitod
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country to rescue it from the hands of this T--.Br, • W
ern, iorsztourxhiro.
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degraded crew, to institute lay government, to awl tamed Caroline Brazier, mod eight ram The
secularise church property, and to reduce church- deoesse
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men to abjection to the law, and to diffuse soToik, she west out oa ss errand. As she we creasing
education amongst the people. It is not a work Toter street, a Mr. Jam
oon, :. fitoxhottas saw a Baasestaioala,
spasting
that can be done in a day, but has steadily pro- con
down the 3.17:1‘ a rate which hi computed at tee Ides an
greased, and would if let alone have been before hour, sod he bad oely uttered the remark to a coopattioti,
long crowned with triumph. " What • rat* gum Hansom cabs go ss whin ths de-
It being then universally agreed that Maxi- emu" was kt"'ek" down end rue over by it. Xr• Nam
atoped end of the cab, width stopped at rata', sad a
milieu must leave, the question is what is. the row ma
_stood Sigmas_ *lades up thse unfortunate..
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best means of getting rid of him. It is, I believe, Job. ,d.errd2_,adibriteritt..ttr2ll.l,l:l,_
generally understood that if the French troops ;Nom „s"."7„„d =to% 0n,..-jfeact
were withdrawn, he would follow, and there is a et villa she ex:rogrgo.oBjrity,. A ,mfr
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general desire to get the French troops withdrawn, soolatist, we set &lain at an excessivejury
if possible, by peaceful means. The impression of rats:sea a verdict of " accaisstal Death."