The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-10 00:00:00

TO OUR READERS.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

A !.ate edition of the E.rpreas i. publishol every
ermu•.4 dorinl the racing season, containing the
teeult■ of thu dar's races.

THE brief but explicit reply of Lord Runsin.r.
to the- sir.mestion made on behalf of British
claimants for restitution from Mexico, that we
should actively irterposo to secure the formation
of a string Government in that country, will
allay any uneappreliension that may have existed
as to the course meant to be taken in con-
junction with tbo Governments of France and
Spain. No delusive hope is held out by the
NE. RETALT for Foitetiot A►►anei of a more per-
manent or powerful administration being speedily
establishes] in that distracted country ; but the
responsibility of attempting to bring domestic
troubles c•. 1111 end by the i••terposition of foreign
arms is plainly and peremptorily repudiated as
wholly If ships of war are about to
anchor before Ye-a Cruz and Tampico, and if their
commanders should take measures to vicure, if ne-
crony), ',oil/session of the custom-houses, quays, and
shames of these cities, it is not with any
ultimate ',ensue of political interference in
the d tic concerns of the Spanish-American
commouwealth, or with any intention of being
provoked or betrayed into political movements
there. It is simply and solely to levy execution
upon an international judgment, confessed Ity the
defaulting State at the close of a protracted but
amicable discussion, and over and over again re-
cognised iit tle most distinct and emphatic terms
as lawful and right. A greater -mistake cannot
well be made than that which some people seem
to have fallen into, of supposing that the joint
expedition of the Three European Powers to the
coast of 3ilexico is undertaken, as is said, to collect
the debts due to their subjects in their individual
character as bondholders, or general creditors of the
Republic. Nothing can be lees like the truth. The
expedition it is proposed to sod out will go forth
to elect the long eluded fulfilment of conventions
solemnly entered into by successive adminia-
trations on the part of Mexico from the year
1851 to 1860, each and ell having the same
object in view, and each and all o 7 them
specificilly asstring over certain definite pro-
portions of the customs revenue of the principal
seaports of the Gulf, for payment of certain sped-
tied amounts admitted to be legally due. The
proportions of such customs, as appears by refe-
rence to these diplomatic engagements, have been
increased indeed from time to tine, partly in con-
sequence of the deplorable accumulation of inju-
ries and losses sustained by European subjects in
the country at the hands of per.ons authorised or
abetted by there in authority, sod pat' 'y by rea-
son of the reiterated default made in the worm et
payment, and the actual seizure and re-appropria
tion on more than one occasion of large sums levied
as customs, or from other sources assigned for
payment of the instalments admitted to be due.
In one instance a sum of 400,000 dollars in specie,
on its way from Potosi to the office of the agent
for the English creditor', was taken by force
under the order of General DZOOLLAIX), on the plm
of its being necessary for the pay of his troops ;
and, in a still more recent case, 660,000 dollars
were at-tracted by violence from a aaa'ed
and locked chamber of the BtAish Lege.
ton in the city of Marjo*, by command
of (ieneral Masques, the English Consul
and the Spanish Minister vainly pro' c
Mg against the shameless outrage. Year
after year the cup of indignities and wrongs has
been filling higher and higher, till at last it has
reached the brim. Ye: even then the Government
of England has slows iyslf unwali-ig to resoi to
extremity ; aid so ht:e es the 12th of January Nat,
Mr. MATHEW, the English Envoy, was authorised
in a despatch from Lord Roseau. to recognise the
Presidency of Juanita, and to offer th•e morel sup-
port of Great Britain, on condition of any reason-
able guarantee being given that the oft-broken
conventions would be at Mat fulfilled, and the
recently stolen property above rererred to re-
stored. The requisite promises were forthwith
made, sod, u a mater of coons, they were in
due time set at nought. The Government of
JUAILZI, though perhaps incapable of the open
brigandage that characterised that of Mauston,
has proved itself equally destitute of ptinciple
where money is concerned. It availed itsel" gladly
of the recognition afforded it by is ; but under
the first severe pecuniary pressure it has not
scrupled to break faith by poising suddenly
and secretly a law which postpones the payments
under the conventions 'or two years more. I. is
clear that these violations of honesty and good
faith are not mere repudiations of debt to private
individuals, but are direct and open infri :time of
international engagements. It is as such that
they are now likely to be visited with the chastise-
ment they deserve ; but it is the minimum of
pushy that we are disposed to inff:ct : we nation-
ally disclaim all thought of vengeance on the mix •
table country whose mitdortune it is to be thus
misguided and tuirovei.ied, but we have duties
which we WOO to ourselves ss a nation, and we
cannot with impunity or propriety afford to neglect
them

The series of cruelties and insults inflicted from
time to time upon our countrymen resident
different parts of Mexico is perhaps without ex-
ample vi the luetoryof so-called civilised oammun;-
ties. Let it be borne in mind, however, that not
for any or all of throe has our Government been
stung into a quarrel with the helpless and headless
community whose chiefs have perpetrated
such crimes. With exemplary patience we
have persevered in remonstrance and reproof,
eschewing the language of retaliation, and con-
tenting ourselves with trying to obtain reasonable
oomnenniti..ii for the injuries sustained, and tardy
payment of dehts which, in their original form of
puldic contracta with private persons, we never