The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-10 00:00:00

THEIMOUETER.

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LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1863,

Looking through the Mexican intelligence, has
been of late, and, for that matter, still is, for al,
the world like peering through the tube of a kalei.
doscope. With the same materials—as valueless,
some of them, as so many little bits of coloured
glass—the changes are so total, so rapid, so very
bewildering, and yet, each of them in turn, to all
appearance so complete in itself, and in a manner
so exceedingly symmetrical Even the momentary
crises of anarchy—when, like chips of bead and
bugle, the political nonentities of the hour, there,
have been recognised, as it were, in the very act of
changing places—Mexico has presented to view a
certain picturesqueness. JUAREZ and his rivals,
poussetting and balanceieg, to the right, to the left,
hands across, and more frequently still at daggers
drawn, up the middle and down again, have
presented to view the Mexicans themselves, in the
first instance, like the Christmateeve company in Mr.
.Fezziww's country dance "in various stages of
affectionate grouping,"—sometimes it may be
allowed, also, in various stages of grouping any-
thing but affectionate ! Afterwards came the
tripartite intervention. Eagland and France, with
Spain, projecting at first a joint interposition be-
tween the belligerents.
Abandoned, as some might say, left in t'ae lurch,
by her sometime associates in the enterprize,
France perseveres as France is, under the
like circumstances generally in the habit
of persevering. And, although, in thus per-
severing, she alone remained consistent in re-
spect to the enterprize, France immediately
learns that a change has come over the spirit of
the dream of her Mexican project, so far as any
change could possibly be effected in it, by the
somewhat perverse withdrawal of all further
sympathy on the part of one at least of her two
intending associates. General FOREY lands with
his expeditionary force, a force consisting of some of
the picked troops of the first military nation in the
world. The Mexican anarchists are expected by
most observers—particularly by those numbering
themselves among the more enthusiastic believers in
French Prowess—to succumb almost imme-
diately upon the advance inland of the in-
vading army of Frenchmen. Time elapses,
however, and nothing whatever of the kind
occurs. The republican soldiers of JUAREZ
are still, there, in arms—unconquered. So far from
gaining any brilliant success at the outset of his
Mexican campaign, General FOREY appears to
stumble into a succession of difficulties. One blow
is parried after another. When they are not actu-
ally parried they are evaded. Ominous rtemours
come floating eastwards across the Atlantic. The
French are announced to have been driven back—
are stated at length (and that, moreover, pretty
coefidently) to have been actually defeated with a
sanguinary loss. Suddenly, however, after delay
upon delay, these ugly and sinister misstatements
a" awept aside altogether as misstatements
Clearly and definitively demonstrated. General
Feet
tT, girding up his Joins—all things being pre-
pared--advances inland at the pas d'charge. And,
as s
NA2°L.e°N'
ateb,u_onth good fortune will have it, immedi-
P
by p'ar ia
at l
e very morrow of the perverse rejection
solitary e, the Imperial candidates without one
%ion—come to the EMPEROR at
Fon tainbleae
of the Fall
the very nick of time, the tidings
unex 0; Puebla.
They come so suddenly, so
pectedly, so
liionportunely
of the FREN for the Emperor
at
they have all the effect of a
coup de theatre.
of rat
Afterwards, almost as abruptly
after a little •
diate
tidings also pause, come
Mexico itself. The vintorio Fall of the city of
earliest of his exulting us d
general, in one of the
"Patches •
certain amount of hyperbol , indulges in a
e, that is in the descrip-
tion of the popular enthusiasm of the II .
the arrival of the victors, a.descriph • ex.cans on
on too
very dispatch of General FeetEv a ruing that
st° the I
Minister at Paris. This triumphant despatch e Imperial
French General talking, as may be remeaa, the
---..eeed of
the French soldiers as " crushed" under the weight
the tho bouquets and garlands showered doe,
n upon
them from the windows, as they marched into the
captured city. to shouts of " Vivo l'Empereur,
i !" Now, as the very latest tiew,
from Mexico, come ringing to us across the
Atlantic, other cries of " Viva l'Empereur !" But,
this time, the EMPEROR whose name is tiles
sons who were killed
is—not l Si
EmperoreP oo The •
ardently greeted by th
evidelate taken at
LEON 111 It is the the
Mnewly-electedxicans the inquest upon the per-
Mexico the Emperor MAXIIIIILIAN I! The Aus- and Huns at the accident on the Lynn
tantou %lima
Diplomacy has been be done to avoid the re Y Proves that much may
Irian Archduke, whose brows DiP
curret,,, " . .
crowns, has at last The Rector of South of similar casualties.
striving to measure for so many Wootton
them all fitted to on both sides was ver Stated that the land
had the most imperial among Y tench used
Whether or not to bullocks, and horses, and he for grazing sheep,
them—it yet remains to be seen w• had vivie,
on the line. "He considered seen heifers
his own entire satisfaction. the fence
once Mr. BLOMFIELD'S land from the • e separating
In some respects, it may be admitted at railway es
that the selection is eminently satisfactory. Had f y
ectl inadequate to keep the bullocks 43 per
off the line
any scion of the Imperial dynasty of All the other evidence corrohorat-d
this awe.
•
France been elected to the throne of Mexico, the ment, azd therefore it will be evident that ee
choice might have been, would aircoz; certainly time is to be lox: in immediately rectifying t 6
been, locked upon with jealousy. I; would paispi2s that have led to gull h 4 'l4l ZClalt4r• A

Wring districts, nearly one-fourth of the total_. of

deaths being in some parts attributed to it. This
is so singular that it is worth special attention. It
is to be feared t ha: a rEduced state of the system

consequent upon the distress of the last eighteen

months has something to do with it. But while

measles are killing people in Lancashire, small-pox
is busy in London, 788 deaths being registered in
the quarter. It is time that the authorities should

sec that the laws respecting vaccination are strictly

enforced, and the importance of this precaution more
fully shown to the ignorant and prejudiced. Mr.

MARSON, the surgeon of the Small-pox and Vac

cination Hospital at Highgate, who is well quali
fled from his experience to give reliable information,
found that when small-pox attacked persons who

had not been vaccinated it killed one iu every three,
whereas vaccination reduced the mortality to one
in 15. The virulence of the diseasa is abated in

every way, but it is important to know that much
depends on the manner in which the operation is
performed. We have to thank these records for
collecting much valuable information, and for en-
abling the public to guard against many dangers to
the general health.