The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-18 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1867.

in his hands, will be put to death. No exchange of pri-
soners will be made in future. Our soldiers understand
that they cannot deliver themselves up into the hands of
such adversaries. It is war to the death—s sanguinary
battle between barbarism and civilisation. Both sides
must kill or be killed.—Bazatsn. N.B.—This circular is
not to he copied into the book of orders, and is only to be
given to the officers.

The journal which has borne the pub-
lication of this Circular with least patience
is the Pays, which holds that " the
1" best way to testify gratitude to those who
" hold the sword of France is to show ourselves
" jealous of their honour." Believing this, how-
ever, all that the Pays does is to demand that
the officer who made Marshal BAZAINE'S Circular
public should be given up. It does not occur to
the journalist of the Empire that if the honour he
is so concerned about is to be preserved the Cir-
cular itself must be disavowed. As some of our
Paris contemporaries evince much distress at
finding that a marshal of France has affixed his
name to instructions only worthy of savages, it
may mitigate their grief to learn that Marshal
BAZAINE did not invariably act up to the horrible
lessons he inculcated. His Circular is dated
October 11, 1865 ; but a month later wo find
him exchanging compliments and prisoners with
General 'Lys PALACIO, Commander of the Army
of the Centre of the Mexican Republic, whom he
treats with courteous language on account of his
humanity to French prisoners. The following is
Marshal BAZAINEN communication :
Expeditionary Corps of Mexico, Office of the Marshal

Commander-in-Chief.

Mexico, November 16, 1863.

General,—l received your favour through the politeness
of Captain Minon. lam pleased at the sentiments of
humanity that have animated you in this affair. Anxious
to assist you in this particular, I am disposed to do all I
can to bring about • good understanding. Therefore I
have the honour to inform you that I have given orders for
the exchange to take place in the town of Acuitzco, on the
2nd of December, between R and 10 o'clock in the morn-
ing. In this exchange I place at your disposal—First.
General Canto and all the officers taken prisoners with him
by Colonel I'otier. Second. All tho officers taken pri-
soner, in Tacambaro by Colonel Venders Smissen. Third.
All the officers taken prisoners in Santa Anna Amatlan by
General Mendez. Fourth. All the soldiers taken prisoners
in Morelia. And, finally, if you wish it, Generals Tapia
and Juan Ramirez, taken prisoners in Oaxaca, and kept in
Puebla. All the prisoners in Morelia will be delivered
to you on the 2nd. In regard to Generals Tapia and
Ramirez, I give my word of honour to set them at liberty
in Puebla, with safe conducts to go where they please, as
soon as I bear that the exchange la made. I have appointed
Captain Bocarme, of the Belgian regiment, to supervise
the exchange of prisoners. Captain Antonio Salgado will
accompany him, and he will be escorted to the town of
Acuitaco by a Belgian company of 50 or GO men and a few
Mexican cavalry. I hope, general, you will accept the
good intentions offered you on this occasion. The number
of officers sent you from Morelia will be . . . . I will
not close this letter without thanking you for your kind-
ness and attentions towards the prisoners. Please accept
the assurances of my distinguished consideration.

IlezesnE, Marshal of France.

General Riva Palacio.

A copy of the original : JrE.' 9 Rvnio, Chief Clerk.
Trearobaro de Codalloe, Sept. 27, 1865.

In acknowledging this communication, and pro-
mising that the Belgian and Mexican prisoners in
Zirandaro and Huetamo should be delivered over
with the least possible delay, General RITA Ps-
Lscio thanks Marshal Hum s for " this proof
"of his humane and noble sentiments." Did he
at the time know that he and his army had already
been marked out by the Marshal for revenge
as outlaws, who must be killed but on no ac-
count be taken prisoners ? Nothing but the fortune
of war, placing a large number of the expe-
ditionary troops in the power of this Mexican
general, saved Marshal BAZAINE from the responsi-
bility of a crime as great as the execution of
Generals ARTEAOA and ISsi.szsa, and their com-
panions. The French commander did not let his
sanguinary orders stand in the way of his conve-
nience ; his Circular was a private confidential
document, from the policy of which he departed
when it suited him. It will be observed that Marshal
BAZAINE founds his orders on the Imperial decree
of Oct. 3, which ho is said to have inspired, and
even dictated. It is to be observed, however,
that that decree was not only signed by the un-
happy MAXIMILIAN, but countersigned by the
MINISTERS of FOREIGN AFFAIRS, WAR, RELIGION,
JUSTICE, PUBLIC WORKS, and FINANCE, all of
them Mexicans. The truth seems to be that all
the parties to this Mexican expedition found
themselves in a false and untenable position, and
these horrible orders were issued in a spirit of
recklessness and despair. This experience may
stand as a perpetual warning to those who would
spread civilization by the sword. The French
army left the Mexicans, as to civilization, very
much where it found them ; but it was in a fair
way to become completely barbarous when, on
Mr. SEWARD'S suggestion, the EMPEROR most
wisely resolved upon its recall.

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.
(THIS DAY.)

THZ GOTICRNMINT POLICT.
MIL W. Z. rolurna's SPIRO( AT BRADPOZD.

Mr. Forster's address to his constituents on
Monday evening is reported entire by the Daily Newt, and
in the leading article columns is dwelt upon as supplying
the first impartial retrospect of the session from the
opposition point of view. His criticisms are distinguished
by good sense and charity, though the true English senti-
ment in the ministry which Mr. Forster applauds has cer-
tainly worked its way to the light through Tory tortuous
passages. With all his indulgence, Mr. Forster desiderates
in the government and its supporters a little more modesty
in their new professions. As he pointedly says, "If ceasing
to oppose reform be giving reform, they have given it."
But repentance for their past sins, rather than boastfulness
in their new virtue, is the attitude which would best
become them. The banquets which are in preparation at
Manchester and Edinburgh have scarcely • penitential
aspect. Mr. Forster recommends that the measures
which are necessary to complete the present scheme
of reform should be reserved for the reformed
parliament—a parliament, moreover, which will fail
if it be not also a reforming parliament. The diffusion of
popular education, the restoration to the universities of
their national character, the improvement of the eccle-
gestic:al and territorial system of Ireland, the regulation
of the liquor traffic, the solution of the question raised by
the Trades' Union questions on terms which will protect
►t once the right of combination and the freedom of iso-
lation and secession, are some of the tasks with which the
I new legislature will have to grapple. On all of them Mr.
Forster speak. with a courage, a hopefulness, and an in-
telligence which are of good augury for the future.

The Star thanks Mr.Forsterforstirring so many great
questions at a languid season. This s, indeed, just the
time to begin preparing the mind of the country for the
struggles which are soon to take the place so long occupied
by the reform agitation. It was a cheery speech—perhaps
here and there a little too cheery ; but there is not much
of that melancholy which poets have called divine in Mr.
Forster's robust and healthy nature.

The Post observes that if Mr. Forster is to be regarded
as the exponent of the views of the bulk of the nation, it
is apparent that the work of parliamentary reformers, so
far from approaching completion, has but just begun.
The Herald and the Standard attach much significance
to the banquet which is to be given to Mr. Disraeli at
Edinburgh. Nowhere in the kingdom, says the latter,
could an audience more intellectual and discriminating be
found for a speech to which the entire nation will look
forward with a deep and curious interest. No word of Mr.

Disraeli's is ever lost. He has hitherto been only too
reticent. Bat then, the Herald says, the right hon.
gentleman's trim forte must be taken to lie, not so mush
in the art of swaying the passions and feeling. of an igno-
rant multitude as in appealing to the convictions and the
reason of the cultivated few.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

OXON OM owl,

PARIS. ThiBDAT Evans°.

Count de Keratry's revelations in the Berne Can-
, Umporaint about the Mexican expedition 'give a
new interest here to a subject which might have
been supposed to be almost exhausted. He con-
tinues to defend Marshal Bazaine, from whom it
is evident that the greater part of his information
is derived. But he defends him at the expense of
the Emperor and in a manner whichM. Rouher may
one day bring forward triumphantly in the tribune
to show that liberty of the press does exist in
France. It is indeed difficult to conceive what pur-
pose the imperial government can serve by prose-
cuting the Cuarrier Francais for " exciting to
hatred and contempt of the government" about the
"black point" and "reveres" of Lille, when it
allows an old officer of Marshal Bazaine to weite as
follows:

It will be remembered that while imperatively requiring
the convention of July 30 (that which gave up to the
French government half the customs duties), so ruinous
for the Mexican monarchy, the Emperor Napoleon promised
Maximilian that if he accepted the offered conditions the
French army would only withdraw in three instalments,
and that the last corps would not be taken away till No-
vember, 1867. But the interviews of St. Cloud (that be-
tween the Emperor Napoleon and the Empress Charlotte)
provoked resolutions as angry as the oonvelastion of the
two Sovereigns. There was equal irritation on both parts.
The court of the Tuileries, giving way to passion which
ought always to be banished from political action, took the
sudden resolution of recalling its troops instantly, and
altogether, and thus trod under foot the engagement it
had but recently entered into. It was, however,
felt at Paris that such a breach of sworn faith,
though prompted by impatience to put an end to
this fatal expedition, was very serious ; and that the gra-
vity of the step might be mitigated, if Maximilian, by
persuasion or force, could be made to abdicate. In that
way alone there was a chance that if the Austrian Arch-
duke could be sent back to Europe, safe and sound, though
sadly discredited, a new Mexican republic' might arise with
which it might be possible to treat.

The article then shows by fact and argument that
while the official journals of Paris were swearing
that the French army was only coming away
because its mission was successfully performed, and
Maximilian's throne firmly established, General
Castelnau, the Emperor Napoleon's aide-de-camp,
was sent over with instructions to urge Maximilian
to abdicate. Although M. de Keratry's article
contains much which is novel to French readers in
a connected form, there is not much in it which
has not appeared already in one form or another in
the American and English press. That at the interview
between Napoleon 111. and the Empress Charlotte
almost Billingsgate language was exchanged, and
that the United States, taking a very high and
menacing tone which the French Emperor thought
it the least of two evils to succumb to, told France
diplomatically, through Mr. Bigelow, that Mexico
must be evacuated, and that speedily, are facts
not new to the readers of this correspondence
in the Express. The novelty is that the facts
should be truly, fully, and consecutively stated
by a French writer to French readers. Count de
Keratry's present paper does not come down to
Marshal Bazaine's circular, ordering his officers to
give no quarter. That is a difficult subject which
the writer cannot avoid dealing with subsequently.
The Bourse was depressed, principally on ac-
count of sales of Credit Mobilier shares. Rente
fell 20c. for cash and 15c. for account, closing at
69fr. 25c. and 69fr. 2211 c. Italian fell 30c., closing
at 49fr. Credit Foncier fell 17fr.L50c. Mobilier
fell 12fr. 50c., closing at the unpreoedentedly low
figure of 2671 r. 50c. The feeling of speculators
was that the arrangement with the Bank of France
is but a disguised bankruptcy. Comptoir d'Escompte
fell 17fr. 20c.

The Libert4 notices the seizure to-day of the
Inelependanee Beige and the &forma. As to the
Cologne Ga:ette,it is scarcely ever delivered in Paris.

WZATEUIR REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

WZONZSDAY.

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The atmospherical pressure still vintinues remarkably high,
erpccially on the north-cast coast ,30 in. at Shields): it has de-
creased a little In the south. elsewhere it has slightly increased.
Since yesterday strong northeasterly winds have prevailed on
the southeast rout, increasing to a gale at Yarmouth. This
morning the winds are 'generally from the eastward : In the
north they are very light and southerly. SOON rain is also re-
ported as having fallen in the south-east.

The Princess Clotilda has arrived in Paris from
Bordeaux with her children.
General Almonte has *rived in Paris from
Germany.

Sir MOWS Montefiore, accompanied by Dr. L.
Loewe, Dr. Daniels, and Captain Moore, has arrived at the
Hotel Mearice on his return from the Danubian Princi-
palities. We watirma,, 0 are glad to hear that the hon.
baronet is highly gratified with the result of his philan-
thropic mission.

The Paris Exhibition is now principally visited
by the working classes of Frsnoe and other countries, who
arrive in excursion trains. It is rumoured that the French
government is in communication with the city authorities
as to the organisation of a fete to be given at the close of
the World's Show, at which the Emperor and Empress of
Austria, as well as several other Sovereigns, will be pre-
sent, invited to meet their Austrian Majesties.
" A few years ago," says the Paris Figaro, " when
a man of elegant appearance, and irreproachably dressed,
entered one of our theatres, people used to say • It is an
Englishman.' Now-a-days when one remarks in the
orchestra stalls a soft dirty hat and a red flannel shirt, one
may. without fear of mistake, exclaim ' It is an English.
man.' Why and how bas this change come to pass It is
a mystery. Xavier Aubryct, however, has found an
explanation for this atrocious uneeremoniousnota, and for
these ignominious costumes. • The English,' he says,
travel abroad to wear out their old clothes.' "

The Gm :eta di Genoa says :—" Mgr. Charvaz,
archbishop of this diocese, went yesterday afternoon to
visit the cholera hospital at Carignano. He stopped a
long while among the '25 patients and the convalescents on
the point of leaving, and administered the sacraments to
several sufferers."

General Fleury is at Vienna at the present
moment, it is said, on a mission concerning the translation
of the body of the Duke de Reichstadt.

A letter from Albano gives a frightful account
of the ravages of the choler► there. Out of • population
of b►tween six and seven thousand the epidemic has
carried off 775. There is hardly a house but bas lost an
occupant, nor • family that has not been bereft of ore
or more of its members. In some cases whole families of
six and seven have been swept aw►y. Albano, like most
Italian towns, contains but two or three streets which are
kept in anything like decent order, and the rest consists
of back alum. Under no pretence is an inhabitant of
Albano permitted to enter a house in any of the surround-
ing villages.