The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-29 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(PROW OUB OWN

PARTS, SUNDAY EVENING.

The very obvious remark made by the opposition
journals that it would serve no purpose to keep
the Mexican despatches out of the yellow book
since most of them have been published
already in America and England has forced
the government to rescind the resolution it
had taken with about as much wisdom
as that of the ostrich, which hides its head in
sand expecting not to be seen. The Patric,
which was instituted on Friday to announce this
resolution, on the pretext that a " new phase " of
the negotiations being now entered upon, it was
desirable, to prevent misoonstructios, that the
publication of the despatches should be deferred,
is now compelled to eat its words. It announces
to-night that the diplomatic documents relating
to Mexico have been scat to the Imperial Printing-
office, and will be immediately published in the
form of a supplement to the yellow book, "the
government having revoked the decision which we
bad announced in consequence of the publication
of the American despatches." The government
knew right well of the publication of these de-
spatches at the time the Patric said what it was
told ; but it is now alive to the absurdity of its
conduct in pretending to conceal that which every-
body knows, and talking about a " new phase of
negotiations"—inferring important secret diplo-
macy—after the Emperor had said in his speech
that the "frankness of his declarations" would
dispel all doubt and allay all anxiety in the United
States. Everybody must see that the only
°biped in keeping back the despatches was to pre-
vent the French public from being familiar with
that which all others know. That forlorn hope is
now abandoned.

The Pays states that Count Favernay, the first
Secretary of Legation of the French Embassy at
Washington, left Paris on Jan. 10 with the draft
of the arrangement decided upon by the French
government for the recall of the troops from
Mexico, and that Baron Ballard embarked for
Mexico on the 15th with identical instructions re-
lative to the same subject. You will remember
what secrecy was maintained about Baron Sail-
lard's mission, and how till it oozed out in
the Pre.sse several days after he had sailed
nothing was known about it. Until you had
,my telegraphic despatch with the news nobody
lin England had the least suspicion that Baron
&Allard was employed on any such business. I
cannot tall what is the precise object in now tardily
publishing the news in the Pays ; but I think it a
reasonable conjecture that the intention is to con-
tradict the report that Baron Saillard bad no writ-
ten instructions whatever, but merely a verbal
message from the Emperor. I informed you—
and this is perfectly true—that the Emperor
thought fit not to give him an autograph letter to
Maximilian ; but I have no doubt that he is fur-
nished with formal papers from the Minister of
Foreign Affairs. The statement of the Pays, that
he has the " same instructions" as Count de Fever-
nay, probably wane this.
It ought te be known—eod I mention the feet as
one patent and undeniable, without going on to
draw any inference from it—that the articles of the
Daily Telegraph, the only English paper which has
obtained permission to be sold in the streets of
Paris, are now quoted every day in the Moniteur
and Constitutionnel as evidenze of public opi-
nion in England. On the Mexican ques-
tion, on the extradition question, on the theory
that Frenchmen are not fit for political liberty,
and many others, it happens that the views of the
Daily Telegraph are always precisely in accordance
with those of the French government.