The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-19 00:00:00

THE MEXICAN THRONE.

VIENNA, Aug. 14.
The Presse of to-day publishes a leader, from
which the following, are extracts :
"News is current throughout the city to-day that
Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian is upon the point
of accepting the Imperial crown offered to him by
Mexico. We have recently pointed out what ap-
pears to us the danger of this political plan, and we
need, therefore, hardly repeat how greatly one
should regret the confirmation of this intelligence.
To those persons who come before us with an affec-
tation of loralty, and declare the press has no right
to interfere in the matter, that is a purely private
concern of the Archduke, and that we have no busi-
ness to attempt to restrict his personal freedom, we
reply that they don't know what they are talking
about. Independently of the fact that we have not
the presumption to suppose our disapproval will
prevent the Archduke from accepting the crown if
he feels inclined, we are yet unmistakably of opinion
that the joersonal interest of the Archduke is not
alone concerned in his taking his seat upon the
Mexican throne. We should have to recollect,
under any circumstances, that the ruler of Mexico
was the brother of the Emperor of Austria. Any
misfortune that might overtake him would be a
misfortune for the Imperial family ; insult to the
Emperor of Mexico would be insult to Austria. We
believe that too little is as yet known of the real
foundation upon which this Mexican throne is to be
erected, or there could not possibly be any idea of
its occupation by an Austrian Archduke. Even at
the Tuileries it has not been definitely decided
whether to recognise the Mexican Assembly of Not-
ables, drummed together by Forey, as competent,
or whether to ratify their decision by an appeal to
universal suffrage, The latter course is the most
probable, so that the future possessor of the Mexi-
can throne may feel the leaden weight of French
protective rule as long as possible. Nobody will
convince us that a real election, an honestly
meant nomination of a ruler agreeabie to the
chief parties in the land, is intended. The scum
which has hurried to salute the French stan-
dards since the occupations of Vera Cruz does
not even represent a majority of the Mexican
population, far less its active and living elements.
Its utterance cannot, therefore, be regarded as the
view and expression of will of the influential citi-
zens of the 15 States. We have often stated that,
Atmonte and his tail—the Generals and Bishops
expelled by Juarez—belong to the Ultramentane
party of an old Conservative minority; that they
and their followers are powerless and destitute of
the prospect of a productive political future. They
are not only incapable of forming the support of a
new throne because they acknowledge High Church
principles and refer with pride and insolence to their
blue Castilian blood, not only because they profess
ideas which we in Europe are accustomed to style
retrogade, for more fanatical elements have esta-
blished new empires ; more than one Royal throne
in the Pyrenean peninsula, more than one Prince..
dom in the Levant has been set up by the outcasts
of the Crusades. But their incapacity is due to the
fact that they are foreign in blood and civilization
to the great mass of the inhabitants of the country

Almonte and Co., the aristocratic ruins of the party
of Santa Anna, the allies of the French invading
army, are the last remnant of the pure-blooded
Creoles of European descent who after 40 years of

an embittered conflict of races with the natives o

the country, with the highly civilised descendants
of the ancient peoples subdued by the swords of the
conquestravora have finally beet obliged to call upon
a stranger for protection and for help

They have received this aid, and now, although a
fast disappearing small minority, not amounting to

a sixteenth part of the population of the country,
although in right of their blue blood, certainly en-
titled to style themselves the Notables, they arro-
gate the right of handling over Mexico to a Regent.
So long as foreign soldiers cross the seas, and, as
in the Spanish time, support the mastery of these
Creoles, they may maintain themselves and the man

of their choice, but not an hour beyond. Were the
question really one of principles, were a greater or
less portion of freedom at stake, compromise might
be possible and final reconciliation not unlikely.
But the lordship of a foreign Prince will never
strike firm root into this elementary struggle of two
separate races. He would never be forgiven for
belonging to the sons of the pale faces who de-

stroyed the temples and palaces of Montezuma, and
have rendered desolate the towns and republics of
Anahuac.—.Reuter's Express.

OUR FORCES IN NEW ZEALAND.

Governor and Commander-in-Chief—Sir George Grey-,
R.C.B.

Aide-de-Camp—Captain Francis B. Bulkeley.
Commanding the Forces—Lieutenant-General Duncan
A. Cameron, C.B.
Assistant Military Secretary--Lieutenant-Colonel W. G.
Hutchings,
Major of Brigade—Major James Paul.
Aide-de-Camp—Major John C. M'lsTeill.
Depaty-Quartermaster-General—Lieutenant-Colonel D.
J. Gamble.

Commanding Royal Artillery--Captain H. Mercer.
Commanding Royal Engineers—Colonel Thos. Ravlings
Mould, C.B.
Garrison Adjutants—Lieut. John Glancy and Lieut. E.
Gould Halsted.
Deputy Commissary-General—Humphrey S. H. Jones.
Assistant Commissary-Generals_.Henry Bartlett, Henry
Maule, and James Bailey.
Deputy-Assistant Commissary-Generals—Alex. Clerk,
'Wm. Henry Newland, Edward Cattell, Francis Dines, W.
Oakley Chislett, John Draper, Edwin Dunn, and George
James Neill.

Deputy-Inspector-General of the Medical Department—
James Mount, C.B , V.C.
Staff-Surgeon—James Hamilton Bows.

Staff Assistant •Surgeons—Morgan S. Grace. M.D., Alex.
Thomson, M.D., E. D. Tomlinson, and George Elmsly Will,
Assistant- Superintendent of Stores and Barrack-Master
—J. 0. Hawley.
Deputy Assistant-Superintendents of Stores—William
Marvin, A. R. Tribe, and Joseph Rainsford,
Purveyor—H. de B. Adams.
Deputy Purveyor—George W. Warwick,
Purveyor's Clerk—T. F. Gooch.
Chaplain—Rev. L. Parlsly,
Second Battalion of the 14th (Buckinghamshire) Infantry
—.Colonel W. Wood, C 8., K.H., Lieut.-Col. C. W. Austen.
Second Battalion of the 18th (Royal Irish) Infantry—
Colonel Sir J. F. Fitz Gerald, G.C.8., Lieut.-Col. Alfred
A. Chapman.

40th (Second Somersetshire) Infantry—Colonel Richard
Greavee, Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Leslie, C.B.
67th (West Middlesex) Infantry—Colonel Sir J F. Love,
K.C,8., Lieut.-Col. Henry J. Warre, C.B.
65th (Second Yorkshire, North Riding) Infantry—ool.
R. B. Coles, Dent -Col. Alfred F. W. Wyatt, C.B.
70th (The Surrey) Infantry—Colonel Sir W. Paty,
K K. 11., Lieut.-Col. T. J. Galloway.
Royal Engineers—Sixth Company.
The Eclipse, 4, screw gun-vessel, 200-horse power and 700
tone, Commander Richard C. Mayne, has of late been doing
good service. She was off the Katikara river, June 4, and
at Manukau on the 6th. . _

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The Himalaya, 6, iron screw troop-ship, 00 horse-power,
and 3,453 tons,
Captain Edward Lacy, embarked at Ports-
mouth, July 23, 33 officers, 38 sergeants, 21 drummers, 38
corporals, 662 men, 64 wives of soldiers, and 92 children of
the second battalion of the 25th i R
--ng's Own Borderers, and
sailed on the following day for Ceylon, and it is reported
that on her arrival at that place she would embark the 50th
Queen's Own, for service at New Zealand.
Several men of the first and second battalions of the 4th
ging's Own, 36th Royal Sussex, 19th and 81st Regiments
at Chatham, have volunteered their services into the second
battalion 18th Royal Irish, 40th, 67th, 65th, and 70th Regi-
ments, and also for the 31st, which regiment is ordered from
China to New Zealand. A number of men from the diffe-
rent depots at Colchester have also volunteered their ser-
vices in the above regiments.
Deputy-Assistant Commissary-General Ivan Graham,
lately serving at Guernsey, is under orders to proceed to
New Zealand.

THE HOP PLANTATIONS,—ROCHESTER, Aug. 18.
—Most of the plantations are looking decidedly
better, the late gentle showers having done much to bring
about this improvement. In the rich hop -growing districts
in the centre of the county the plant has made surprising
progress within the last few days, and a general belief is
entertained that the yield will be much larger than was
calculated upon a week or two since. The agreeable change
in the weather has caused the hops b grow rapidly, and so
great has been the jail rovornent that many plantations
which appeared a few weeks since in an altogether hopeless
condition now show signs of yielding a moderate crop. This
improvement, however, is not general, and there are some
hundreds of acres upon which the hops grown will not pay
the expense of picking. In some of the best p!antations a
yield of from 15cwt. to 1 ton per acre is confidently antici-
pau,
but these will be extreme cases. The probable ave-
rage is likely to be about 4cwt. to &wt. per acre. Should
the present fine weather continue picking will commence in
parts of sent in about a fortnight,

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SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK.

SPORTING: INTELLIGENCE.—This Dayi

YORK RACES-TUTS DAY.
MY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

GREAT EBOR HANDICAP.
Golden Pledge
Eleven ran.
EBOR sr. LEGER.

Physalie colt
Prince Lee 800
2
LONDESBOROUGII CUP.

- - -
Bertha
Cellarius
2
Balderstone
.... 3
Ten ran.
EIGHTH BIENNIAL STAKES.

Linda ...... .
Appenine ....
2
Ten ran.:
RAWCLIFFE STAKES.

Saragossa..... - --
..
2 1
Vanessa .... .. .....
Alcoyne ............. -

....... . ..................... 3
Pour ran.

Ou
Rhone, Clarissirnus, , Siren, Ghillie, Culiam, Rapid
Senorita colt, Theobalda, Rouge
Crosse, Dunkeld, Myrtillus, Old Orange Girl, Eas trainater.