The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-14 00:00:00

FRANCE AND MEXICO.

La Patrie publishes the following letter from
Vera Cruz, dated 9th September :
" The fortifications erected by order of General
de Lorencez at Orizaba, and which have rendered
that town safe against the attacks of the enemy,
allow it to be made the principal basis for the
proximate operations, and the point of concentra-
tion for the reinforcements that are arriving.
Thus the inconvenience will be avoided of
overcrowding Vera Cruz, and of too long
a sojourn in the low lands. The troops will
land in detachments, which will be immediately
advanced towards the interior, as has already
been the case with the Zouaves and the Chesseurs
d'Afrique. It is with this view that the prelimi-
nary measures for the campaign have been taken.
In fact, it became necessary to make Orizaba a large
provision store, so as to assure the regular forward-
ing of the convoys.' General de Lorencez, with the
small force under his orders, was not able to occupy
other points, except those which extend from Ori-
zaba to Chiquehuite. The line of communicationvera
has now been completed by the establishmenteart
earth-
works permanent posts at La Soledad and Tejeira. This
latter locality, which is connected with
Cruz by a railway, is now
distances,
works and by a good garrison. Provisions will be
reinforcements for the
forwarded to this point as they arrive. From thence
where the
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escort if necessary.

To clear the territory of Vera Cruz completely
from the incursions of the guerillecos it is thought
that it will be necessary to establish posts upon the
flank of our line of occupation, and especially at
Jalapa. It is also possible that we shall have to
occupy the different points of the second road which
leads to Puebla by -Jalapa and Perote, so as to be

Dr. Heinrich Kruse, editor of the Koelnzsche
Zetung, writing to a contemporary, says :—" Your
number a few days ago contained a leading article
wnich seemed to imply that it was the Liberal
Opposition (viz., 308 members of our House of
Commons against the 11 gentlemen forming the
Ministerial party) which wanted to reduce the
Prussian army from 200,000 men to 150,000. Quite
the reverse. It is the Government which wants to
increase the standing army of Prussia. Oar army,
which since the Peace of 1815 consisted of some-
thing about 120,000 to 130,000 men, and was only
in 1855 raised to 140,000, and in 1858 to 151,000
men, at present, if things go by the Government, is to
be augmented to the enormous state of 210,000 sol-
diers. Nay, more, the Government created, against
the known wish and will of the country, in 1860,
in the midst of peace, while all the other great
Powers of the Continent were reducing their
armies, 40 new negiments, and increased our army
actually to 205,000 men. But this overgrown
peace establishment is not legally sanctioned by the
Prussian Diet, and never will be.

" The constitutional conflict in Prussia is at pre-
sent of a simple nature. The Government contends
that the House of Commons has no right to vote
the Budget. The Budget says the Ministerial
party, is a law to which the House of Lords and the
King must give their consent as well. Therefore,
if either the Lords or the King refuse to sanction.

the Budget as voted by the Commons, there is no
Bud 4 et ; and if there is no Budget the Government
may do with the people's money whatever it likes.
This is no exaggeration, but the simple truth, which
you may read yourself in the enclosed number of
the Allgemeine Preussiche Zeitung, the paper of the
Prussian Government. That famous Constitu-

tionalist, Lord Russell, trying hard to read, mark,
and inwardly digest this new constitutional theory,
is said to have nearly died with a fit of indigestion.
"As I am writing to you I may as well, in justice
to myself, correct an old error. In a leading article
of the 7inzes it was stated that the editor of the
Koelniselze Zeitung refused to publish a protest of
certain English gentlemen in the well-known Mac.
donald case. I did no such thing. Although that
protest was couched in a language almost sure to
involve the responsible editor in a lawsuit, I de-

Glared myself quite ready to publish the manuscript
provided, of course, the gentlemen signed their
names, the document asserting facts unknown to
myself. But the English gentlemen, not wishing
to share the public responsibility, expressly with-
drew their declaration. I did not wish at the time
to swell the Macdonald debate with personal mat-
ters, but avail myself of the present opportunity
for vindicating my conduct to my English friends."