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fresh levies for the defence of the capital ? That
important question remained unsolved. There were
many who alleged, and not without great pleuei-
bility, that a fresh and more numerous army would
be arrayed at Mexico that; had held the French in
check at Puebla. We have) .110 W ,seem, how cverl
villa this hypothesis is wortL, If apucars frcla
more than one Trustworthy source that Juarez has
but between six -;:l seven thousam, men a:; tile uta
most, and !hat even they are tainted with disaffec-
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in Mexico. They
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capital to assistMt
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amount to an entire change of measures' which
government. We
have seen that Marshal Forey accepts
and regular liberty. He muritaknovvjues, 1-ce'
lenge ; be promises what they ask pts:,.heir chal-
opf rfectly welt
. that no one of. these three requisites the Mexi-
can are attainable by the successive military usur-•
pations which under the name of presidential,
governments have hitherto brought little but;
curse and desolation upon the country.- Marshal.
Forey must therefore look to some substantial
change in the political basis of Mexico.- we
have been among those who have locked Upon the
French deviation from our original and liMited
scheme of intervention as of doubtful policy
and of doubtful justice. We see nothing to
alter those convictions. But the course of events
has now in a great measure rendered their consiclera •
tion obsolete. The French army is in. Mexico to
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fulfil the high mission with which it had charged
itself, and which its commander has just. now for-
mally accepted anew. This we take to be now the
aim of the' French. If the Mexican people are really
disposed to accept them as their pacificators, much
may no doubt be done. The capabilities of the Mexi-
cans are surprising to those who have seen them only
under the injurious condition of civil war—the re-
-1 eoarces of the country itself past calculation.

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compensated by the community for the sufferings
and losses he undergoes through sueL a failure of the
jbnuesteicfiet.whlo
which thee
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si s legal doctrinaires who
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wi.i.ro.ulglafrubileyr teh„envsuiemtcod.foi;s,boeoi 00.erz This gentlCMan was
forgery some 3-ears ago ;he wes tr:-.aisoorted, and
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receive from the ceuutry wbiele condemned him by a
juryof its citizens compensation for his unjust punish-
ment and his professional ruin. Mr. Be w xhe's case
clearly comes under that of Mr. B.arber, and is even
stronger, inasmuch as Mr. Barber was really con-
victed on circumstantial evidence, was really the
victim of that "unavoidable possibility of miscar-
riage in the administration of justice" of which the
Solicitor-General speaks ; while Mr, Bewicke had
his liberty, character, wealth, and property sworn
away by a set of miscreants, who, by the negligence
of a public functionary, were entrusted with the exe-
rb:isedli I:,
cation of legal acts in the county of Northumber-
land.

HERALD.—The news we publish this morning
confirms that received by the last mail. Vicksburg
has really fallen, after a resistance which will im-
mortalise in history the name of that gallant little
city. Even the Yankees, who have never before
shown themselves capable of anything like gene-
rosity, are forced to acknowledge and to admire the
desperate valour which has held out so long against
a powerful flotilla and an army of 100,000 men.
The North has not much to be proud of. After suf-
fering so severely that we are told that the accounts
already given only revealed half the truth, Vicks-
burg has surrendered to famine and not to the foe.
without supplies, without ammunition, disappointed
of the hopes so long cherished of assistance from
Gen. Johnstone, the garrison has at last capitulated
on honourable terms. Such, at least, is the Northern
account; and if this be true it is apparent that all
the stories which have reachedns,also from Northern
sources, of communications open between Vicksburg
and the right bank of the Mississippi, and also of
abundant supplies stored in the city, have been un-
true. A full and reliable history of the siege acid the
surrender will probably reach us, ere long, from
Southern authority. In the meantime all that is
certain is, that the victory is more profitable
than glorious to the Federal army. They have
failed, after repeated efforts, to storm the place ;
its fall is due not to their exertions, but to the
original weakness of the garrison, in the want of
adequate stores to stand a siege. But the price,
however acquired, is one of the highest value.
Only one strong point on tke whole course of
the Mississippi is new held by the Confederates,
and when that is gone—if, that is to say, Port
Hudson share the fate of Vicksburg—the
Confederacy will be cut in two. The States east of
the river will be blockaded on all sides, and will
find it almost as difficult to obtain supplies from
Texas and Arkansas as from Europe. This is a
serious calamity, but we mast not exaggerate its
severity. The States of the West will not be lost
to the Confederacy. The Federal flotilla will not
be able to prevent communication, and not even, in
all cases, to hinder the crossing of the troops.
Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana will have to fight
their own battle; but their immense extent, their
martial population, and their indomitable resolution,
will make it as impossible for the Federals to sub-
due them as to conquer their sister States of the
East ; and when the war is over, if the Confederates
succeed—and no one doubts that they must succeed
—in establishing their freedom, these States will be
at once abandoned by the North and re-united to
their sisters. Nor is the Mississippi really opened
to the commerce of the West. While the war lasts
no trading vessels can safely navigate that river
except under convoy. They may be fired upon
from the banks; they may be sot in flames; they
may be captured by the daring guerillas of the
South-West. The worst evil in the fall of Vicks-
burg is that it sets tree an army said to number a
hundred thousand men, to burn, plunder, and mur-
der, as they march through Mississippi, either to
fall on the rear of General Bragg, to assist Banks
at Port Hudson, to ravage Alabama, or to complete
the establishment of military tyranny in Louisiana.
It is a significant fact that the news of the fall of
Vicksburg and the repulse of Lee was instantly fol-
lowed by an order for a conscription, to take effect
immediately. It is clear that the Federal Govern-
menc was in desperate straits; that a victory had
become necessary to its very existence; and that if
none had occurred it would have been driven to in-
vent one. Men must be had if the war is to go
on ; and even in presence of a Southern inva-
sion men will not come forward, and the
Government dare not take them, except at the
lucky moment when good news has excited the
people to a fit of warlike enthusiasm. As it is,
the draft has been resisted—•a riot has occurred in
New York, en the nature of which the gravest
issues depend. Hit have been serious and success-
ful it will probably receive the support of Governor
Seymour, and with his support riot would become
revolution, When the mail left two great battles
were impending ; one between Lee and Meade, one
between popular liberty and Federal usurpation in
the Empire City. If the Federal power be worsted
in either of these engagements, there is a hope of
peace—if unsuccessful in both, it may prolong the
Near till the South is devastated, the North ruined,
and Lancashire reduced to bankruptcy—but the
issue of the ea ar remains as certain as ever, and
the independence of the Confederacy is still an
accomplished fact.
POST.—The despatch of Marshal Foray from the
Mexican capital to the Emperor of the French re-
presents the Mexican people in a new character.
Hitherto we have known them as for the most part
opposed to their invaders. But as the French arms
advance, either they come upon sections of the com-
munity differing in opinion from those of Puebla
and Vere Cruz ; or otherwise the tide of invasion
has carried before it all the opposition with which
it was before threatened. It appears that in
Mexico itself, t'ae reception which has been given
to.the French marshal and his army has been one
continuous ovation. Nor are we at all surprised
that this should be so. Hitherto there have been no
means of arriving at the opinions of the inhabitants
of the capital. They were crushed by the worst of
all despotisms—a corrupt military (or rather a
brigand) usurpation, without justice and without
even laws for any one. This was, in a word, the
Government of Mexico. It must have been detested
by every one bearing the spirit of freedom or pos-
sessing the mere instinct of security and right.
But it is a part of such a Government to with-
hold any expression of the popular will. FT', .a_
Mexican to assert a will of his own in
affairs was as inadmissible as to assert that hisd
private property was not liable to sequest_ratiornanann
seizure by the State. From this istatteh f t
one hand,
and insecurity, while it was clear, on
ascertained it
ens to to
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that public opinion could not be infer
was, on the other hand,
what that public opinion
that this
show itse.latwhile, however, it was prat!".
per.pletly
At one moment it had
pub-
lic feeling did not distin
Orizaba and at Puebla.
appeared as though the Mexicans were resolved
and side even to
resent invasion at all costs,
i nvader.
Now, however, all with their
usurper rather
than with the European
is changed. In place of the
slow marches which marked the • earlier part of the
• the French advance from Puebla to
cearmPaig has
:!' been as rapid as it has been triumphant.
mexico
Juarez has not even attempted to contest the posses-
sion of the capital. The inhabitants of Mexico
have received Marshal Forey as their deliverer from
an intolerable bondage. In place of the artillery
and small arms of Puebla, the French have been
assailed by storms of garlands and bouquets flung
from every window. To judge from the language
of the.Commonder-in-Chiel, who is no boaster, the
reception thus given to them must have been very
remarkable and significant. Nor was this all. The
municivalit:a c: the forward to ask Marshal Forey
for the blessings of justice, order, and moderate
liberty—that is, tor a complete political revolution.
Tree marshal did not attempt to abridge or shrink
from his imperial master's programme. He pro-
mised the municipality of Mexico all these Things.
"re assume, therefore, that he is still prepared to
nut this question of their political future before the
Mexican people, and not to leave them until that
question snall have been solved and the political
suture of Mexico be called into present existence.
A people may prefer to owe the benefit of good go-
vernment to themselves rather than to a conqueror.
But they may also fairly prefer to owe it
to a conqueror than not to enjoy it at all.
urez has 6600 men to
It now appears ha t
t
support him. With this remnantbut
he Chas retired
northwards, it is stated, to San Luis Potosi ; but it
would be more correct to say simply in that direc-
tion ; for he did not appear to have retreated to any
great distance from Mexico when Marshal Forey's
despatch of the 10th of June left Mexico. This

SUMMER ASSIZES.

OXFORD CIRCUIT-STAFFORD, July 21.
CIVIL COURT.

(Before Mr. Baron Martin and a Common Jury.)

NIXON V. MOSS.

This was an action in which the plaintiff claimed.
damages from the defendant for the breach by him
of his promise to marry her.
Mr. Gray and Mr. H. James were for the plain-
tiff; Mr. Huddleston, Q.C., for the defendant.
The plaintiff's name is Mary Ann Nixon, and she
is the daughter of one John Nixon, a master crate-
maker, of Tuustal ; and the defendant, whose name
is Joseph Moss, is a builder and stonemason at
Tunstal. As long back as 1848 the plaintiff had a
child, which was affiliated on the defendant. In
1850 she had another child, said to be the child of
one Fuge. Subsequently the defendant again ap-
peared on the scene, and resumed his visits to her,
and in 1854 she had another child, of which the de-
fendant was the father. After the birth of the
second child, the mother of the plaintiff heard the
defendant often promise to " alter the thing" and.
marry the plaintiff. He had, however, now deceived
her beyond forgiveness, for he had married another
woman last November. It was proved that he was
the owner of six houses in Tunstal. _

Mr. Huddleston did not call witnesses, but ridi-
culed the action for its groundlessness and want of
romance, and blamed the promoters of it for raking
up the fclly of the defendant's youth.
The learned Judge endorsed the epithet " unro-
mantic." and stated to the jury that, if they were
satisfied that the promise had been made and broken,
then the plaintiff was entitled to compensation for
not being mi.de the wife of a man in the defendant's
position of life, and also for the injary done to her
feelings by being disappointed in a natter the most
important of her life to her; and
The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—da-
mages, £2O.
Mr. Justice Byles sat in the Crown Court, but the
cases were of a light and very uninteresting cha-
racter.

JULY 22,
CIVIL SIDE.

Before Mr. Baron Martin and a Common Jury.)

JONES V. JEFFRIES.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, Ann
Jones, against the defendant, James Jeffries, for the
breach of his promise to marry her.
Mr. H. James and Mr. Brindley were for the
plaintiff; Mr. Matthews for the defendant.
The plaintiff, at the time of the defendant's intro-
duction to her, was the barmaid at the Blue Bell
Inn, at Stone, and the defendant was a joiner and
builder in the same place. The defendant only de-
nied making the promise. The plaintiff's case was
proved by a Miss Stretch, whom the plaintiff suc-
ceeded as barmaid at the Blue Bell, and who
turned dressmaker, living with her mother at Stone,
and visited the landlady of the Blue Bell after she
had left. She spoke to seeing the defendant with
Miss Jones continually, and to their walking out of
an evening for hours together, and to bearing the
defendant tell Mrs. Dugmore, the landlady of the
Blue Bell, in answer to the question whether his
intentions were honourable, that he intended to
marry Miss Jones at Christmas last. This occurred
in October last, and in December Mr. and Mrs.
Dugmore left the
Blue Bell, and the or s.
the inn no longer required a barmaid; upon
the defendant begged Miss Jones not to take an -
other situation, as he would make her his wife,
snignleye
while
and Miss Stretch said Plaintiffcouldive her a h.womehetfotor
a month or two.
hasn been
the Stretches and
there the defendant continued his visits, and re-
peated to Miss Stretch his intention to marry the
plaintiff.
In the middle of March last he took a
house for himself and Miss Jones, as he said ; he
bought furniture, sho wed a pattern of a wedding
dress to
Miss Jones, who disapproved it as too old-
fashioned. He also gave her a gold guard. It
appeared also that the plaintiff had given up an-
other suitor for Mr. Jeffries. The defendant con-
tinned to visit Miss Jones till a Saturday Ain April,
when his visits ceased, and on the Thursday follow-
ing he married a Miss Weetman. It seems he had
been spoken to by the witness about Miss Weetman,
but he always declared she was his cousin, and gave
that explanation of his visits.
For the defend ant no witness was called, where-
upon
Mr. James proceeded to reply, and a curious
point arose, for when he proceeded to discuss the
damages he was stopped by
The learned Judge, who ruled that he must con-
fine himself to a discussion of the evidence as far as
it affected the issue—viz., whether a promise had
been made or not, and must not touch upon the
damages. •
Mr. James tendered a bill of exceptions to his
lordship's ruling, and
, After Mr. Matthews had addressed the jury,
His lordship summed up, saying that it was a case
for substantial damages, and, if the defendant had
been a person of substance, in his opinion the jury
, might well give heavy damages, but as they had no
, proof that the defendant in this case was worth
anything, it would be useless to do so.
The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—
, Damages, £5O.

THE HORRIBLE OCCURRENCE AT ASTON PARK•
—The inquest on the body of Madame Geneive, the unfor-
tunate woman who fell a victim to the popular taste for sen-
sational excitement at the Foresters' fete on Monday, will
be held this afternoon. It may perhaps be interesting to
know that in her case the price of blood was £4O.
FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning an acc.i-
dent terminated fatally to Cornelius Mahoney, 30 years
who resided in Thomas place, Jubilee-road, Kensington!
The deceased was in the act of erecting a scaffold in War-
wick-square, Hammersmith, and slipped, when he fell a
depth of 30 feet, on a brickwall, and then to the ground.
He was conveyed to St. George's Hospital, where he gra-
dually sunk and expired,
A letter from Lisbon states that the sale Of Crown
diamonds, recently auth)rised by the' Portuguese
Cortes, has taken place at the Bank of Portugal. The
principal purchaser was M. Bernard, of the Imperial
diamond-cutter's establishment of France, to whom four of
the principal lots of rough diamonds were knocked down
for a sum of 1,300,000 f. The total proceeds of the day's
sale were 1,800,0001. These precious stones came from the
mines of Minas Geraes, in Brazil. They were brought to
Portugal, as has been stated, by King John VI. in 1821.
The value of the diamonds which the Crown still has to sell
is estimated at aboat 35 million of francs. It lases sad that one
rough stone among them will, when cut, surp in size the
finest it present known.