The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-07 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 7.

THE Mexican Government has saved that of
Great Britain the trouble of solving a thorny
question, though perhaps at the cost of adding to
its own difficulties. For the last few months we
have been debating the question whether and how,
to recognise the Government of Mexico. That
such an act would be one of great condescension,
and that recognition ought at least to be withheld
for a while, in order to mark our sense of the use
which that Government has made of its victory,
seemstohavebeen a common opinion inthis country.
While we are still revolving these questions
comes the news that President JUAREZ has solved
them for us by ordering our diplomatic agents
in Mexico to go about their business, and get out
of a country where they are not wanted. The Paz-
EIDENT appears to have thought that they owed
some explanation to Mexico for remaining there
in the face of the national Government, after having
for three years given the support of their presence
to the foreign usurpation which fell at Queretaro.
We shall survive this rebuff: but there is no doubt
that whenever the time arrives for renewing
formal relations with Mexico we shall
find we have a position to rectify.
We can hardly expect to escape some
inconvenience as a consequence of the elec-
tion we made in 1864, when we resolved to re-
cognise the Empire which NAPOLEON 111. had
set up. By that act we obliged en ally and
gratified a Prince connected with our own royal
house ; hut wo at the same time ignored the rights
of the Mexicans as a people, and treated their
country and government as the prize of conquest.
In so doing we did not proceed upon the necessity
of recognising a de facto government. It is our
policy, and it is a practical and liberal policy, to re-
cognise tie facie governments. We readily acknow-
ledged that of blurs PHILIPPE in 1 830, and that of
the Second Empire in 1832. But these were cases
of governments succeeding one another, not
of rival governments each maintaining itself
on the national territory, and each claiming to
be that of the nation. No civil war was raging in
France upon either of these occasions ; no armed
resistance to the power which claimed to be the go-
vernment of the country. In Mexico in 1864 there
were two Governments—One national, the weaker
of the two, but always able to maintain itself in
arms, to hold cities, to win victories, and obtain
the exchange of prisoners ; the other the represen-
tative of an invasion. Taking no account of the
Mexicans, and believing in the ability of NAPOLEON
111, to support the throne of his protige, we recog-
nised the government which sprang from and was
sustained by the invasion. We are now ready to
recognise Mexico, but the PRESIDENT is in no hurry
to be acknowledged. These American republics
are more susceptible than the older govern-
ments of Europe. President JULREZ would
doubtless admit that we acted within
the limits of our rights when we acknowledged
MAXIMILIAN'S throne, as Mr. SEWARD cannotdeny
that we acted within our rights when we recog-
nised the Confederates as belligerents ; but at the
same time he claims the right to regard such a po-
licy as hostile, and declines to have our diplomatic
agents transferred front the fallen government to
him as a mere matter of course. There is,
perhaps, too much of temper in this resolution.
JUAREZ has lately declared in a public document
that he does not seek recognition at the hands of
European Powers ; and certainly, if he could
do without it at Chihuahua, he can dispense
with it now. But diplomatic relations are
established fur the sake of common interests, not
for complimentary uses. France practically
recognised the Republic when the Emperor NA-
POLEON recommended MAximitiAN to come to
an understanding with JeAazz, and Austria
more formally in the highly respectful letter lately
delivered by Admiral Teorrinorr. We, too, shall
do so in good time. In the meanwhile, we hope
that the spirited manner in which President
JUAREZ maintains the dignity of his government
towards foreign Powers will serve to strengthen
his hands for the consolidation of peace, order,
and security at home.

Tits annual Trade Circulars which we have
been publishing for the last few days show under
bow great disadvantages the principal branches of
British manufacturing industry have been car-
ried on during the past year. Especially is this
tone of the spinning and weaving of cotton, a
trade in which, owing to the steady decline in
the value of the staple, a continuous sacrifice of
capital, amounting to an enormous aggregate, has
taken place. There has been no steady demand,
and if stocks are small it is principally due to the
inability of the manufacturers to hold their goods.
The losses of 1866, and the dearness of food checked
consumption in Europe, and spoiled the continental
market. Large supplies have been sent to the East,
in many cases to be sold for lees than they were
worth in this country when they were shipped.
In these circumstances it is with some curiosity
that we read in Mr. Sanusisos's recent letter to
Lord ROBERT MONTAGU on industrial progress at
home and abroad a notice of • new class of mills
which appear to have well sustained the stress of a
difficult period, during which many concerns
founded on long recognized principles have suc-
cumbed. Mr. &mimeos, referring to his tour
in Lancashire before visiting France, writes :
" What surprised me more than anything
" else was the great comparative moms
"of the co operative spinning works, erected

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