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I Legation, and shows it to have been one of the
most deliberate and high-handed outrages ever
perpetrated on the rights and property of
foreigners :--
" The Committee have received a letter from Mr.
Whitehead, dated Mexico, the lith ult., confirming
the telegraphic news that General Marquez had
seized the funds of the bondholders in the capifll
by order of General Miramon, in the presence and
under the protest of the Spanish Minister, the
British Consul, Mr. Glennie, and of Mr. White-
head, by forcibly breaking the locks and cutting
a piece out of the door of the strong-room in which
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British Legation. The Government professes that
of the amount, to be reimbursed out of certain con-
tributions and duties. An extract from Mr. White-
head's letter will be sent to-morrow.
" It appears that ou the 30th of October last an
armistice was concluded at Guadalajara for 15 days,
by the terms of which both armies were during the
time to retire to a distance of 12 leagues from that
city, and that the Constitutionalists availed them-
selves of this opportunity to turn upon Marquez, who
I had approached within a day's journey, and entirely
routed him. The result has been that Marquez arrived
alone in the capital, which was declared in a state of
siege, and where Marquez was named Qnarter-
master-General. It is further said that, the
armistice having be= broken, and a conflict having
taken place, Guadalajara was taken by the Con-
stitutionalists, Castillo, with the remnant of his
force, retiring towards Tepic. However that may-
have been, it is pretty certain: that the Consti-
tutionalists are advancing rapidly on Mexico, and
that guerilla bands were already hovering about
the precincts of the city, and daily getting bolder."
The subjoined details of the Mexican robbery,
written while the event was in progress, are
extracted from the letter of the Mexican corres-
pondent of the New York Times:—
" The Government has passed an order to Mr.
Whitehead to send to the Treasury 200,000 dole.
of the funds belonging to the English bondholders.
He, of course, refused to do it, and has requested
the Spanish Ambassador, M. Pacheco, to take the
ever
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funds under his protection.
" M. Pacheco promises to .defend them as long as
possible, but it is doubtful if Miramon will pay
attention to his protests.
" P.S. I have just witnessed the greatest robbery
tAheftserptahneisrhefuAsmalboasfsaMdro.rcaitmee-
head to deliver the English funds, the Government
sent a detachment of 50 soldiers, with orders to
break the doors and take the money by force.
and protested against the violation of the seal of
the English legation and against this Vandallic
act, as he called it. The French Minister also
protested, and, iu fact, the whole diplomatic corps
protested, and all the Consuls besides. Mr,
Glennie, the English Consul, made in the name of
his Government all the persons personally respon-
sible who gave the orders for this robbery, or who
executed them. But all this had no effect; the
commanding officer sent for three locksmiths, and
ordered them to break open the door. Mr. Glennie
stepped forward and told them he would make
each of them responsible for it, and the locksmiths
refused to go on, but the officer sent for several
soldiers, who levelled their guns at them, and
forced them in this way to prosecute their work.
" After working for two hours on it they suc-
ceeded in breaking down the door, after which Mr.
Glennie and Mr. Whitehead protested again, and
abandoned the whole sum—nearly 1,000,000 dols.
—to the Government.
" They are now loading up the money on carts
to carry it to the Treasury.
" I hope that this infamous act will be the means
of arousing foreign Governments."
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ritiCL AD. STAMPED, SD.

bee!. said that over-caution and timidity were his
foible; and to this some has added the sarcastic
commentary that in public business rashness and
timidity are of kindred stocks.
His lordship shared the fortunes and misfor-
tunes cf the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert
Peel consequent on the disruption caused by the
Emancipation Act and he stood side by side with
them during the tempestuous vicissitudes of the
Reform era. Of course he took office, and left it
(on this occasion, however, for the Colonies), during
the short Conservative interregnum of 1834-35 ;
and equally of course resumed his old position in
the Foreign-office when, in 1841, Sir Robert Peel
obtained a more durable lease of power. lie had
during the preceding years of pilgrimage in what
Sir Robert candidly termed " the bleak regions of
Opposition," taken part frequently in the
debates ; and it happened that, from the period of
his taking office in 1841, down• to his retirement
some years later, when the Conservative party and
the corn laws fell together, the interest attached to
foreign affairs remained altogether secondary to
that of the great domestic subject which moved the
country throughout its length and breadth. A
rumour was circulated by persons not friendly
to the Foreign Secretary, that, during the visit
paid us in 1844 by the Emperor of Russia, there
had been interchanges not only of personal com-
pliments, but of communications which it was the
duty of a British statesman to treat as public pro-
perty, and accordingly cause to be made public.
The revival of this rumour in 1854, together with
the expressions of confidence in Lord Aberdeen's
friendly disposition which, whilst hostilities were
impending, were reported to have been used by the
Czar in certain conversations with the British Am-
bassador at St. Petersburg, contributed not a little
to the coldness, amounting almost to distrust, with
which not only his general policy on the Eastern
question, but the measures adopted by his Govern-
ment in the conduct of the war, were regarded by

many.
• But to return to the chronological order of
events. From the fall of Sir Robert Peel down to
the formation of the Coalition Ministry, in 1852,
Lord Aberdeen experienced another long interval
of exclusion, illuminated by only a momentary and
deceptive gleam of sunshine in 1851, when in the
general confusion of parties he was invited to at-
tempt the construction of a Ministry in conjunction
with Sir James Graham, but shrank from a task
which was perhaps impracticable. While out of
office, the revolution of 1848 had showed the fallacy
of the implicit trust which a not inconsiderable
section of English statesmen had reposed in the
political wisdom and prescience of the Citizen King.
During these years Lord Aberdeen was not sparing
of strictures on the policy of the Foreign-office
under Lord Palmerston ; and he made himself re-
markable by departing from his usually quiescent
tone when referring to the misunderstanding with
Greece in the famous " Don Pacifico" case. Herein,
however, as upon nearly every question arising
from time to time, it happened that public opinion
was with Lord Palmerston and against the peculiar
view taken by Lord Aberdeen.
It was the complete disorganisation of party con-
nections after Lord Derby's discomfiture in 1852,
and the embarrassing relations in which the more
active leaders found themselves, that led to Lord
Aberdeen's new call to the formation of an Admi-
nistration of which he was himself to be the head.
It has been remarked that this coalition Ministry
contained in its constitution the elements of disso-
lution, that it comprised too many men of the first
class, and that this circumstance alone was enough
to insure its early fall. But it was not, after all,
so very short-lived. It lasted as long as Lord Grey's
Ministry, with its unparalleled majority, had done
after the passing of the Reform Bill ; and it went
on pretty well until it encountered an ordeal such
as no other Government has been subjected to
within living memory—the sudden " drifting" into
a great war with armaments based upon the expec-
tation of permanent peace, and departments all un-
prepared for such a demand upon their energies and
resources. It will be matter of discussion by the
future historian whether, with regard to the
management of foreign affairs during the previous
crisis, we had " the right men in the right place."
We found ourselves at all events in a war to which
the head of the Cabinet was believed to be strongly
opposed. Mistakes and misfortunes undoubtedly
occurred, perhaps would have occurred under any
possible distribution of the Ministerial personne/.
But the press, already in an ill humour, was deter-
mined to throw blame on particular individuals. A
full share of this fell on the Premier himself and
on another statesman, who was probably the most
hardworking member of the Cabinet. In Feb-
ruary, 1855, Government was beaten by a very
large majority on an ad captandum motion
for inquiry; and Lord Aberdeen, nothing loth,
relinquished an irksome position, which he
certainly had not sought, and which, probably,
nothing short of an imperative sense of duty
had induced him to retain so long. He was
succeeded by Lord Palmerston, whom the distinct
expression of the country, signally verified by re-
sults, had fixed upon as the man most capable of
carrying on the war with effect and success. Since
then Lord Aberdeen has not taken a prominent part
in politics, though occasionally addressing the peers,
and always listened to with the peculiar deference
which is paid to only two or three other members
of the house. He was known to have been honoured
in a special manner with the personal confidence
and esteem of his Sovereign.
Lord Aberdeen was the 4th in succession in the
Scottish earldom, which was created in 1682. In
1814 he was created a viscount of the United King-
dom. He succeeded his grandfather in the family
estates and Scottish honours in the year 1801. He
was married twice : first, in 1805, to a daughter of
the first Marquis of Abercorn. who died without
issue in 1812 ; secondly, in 1815, to the relict of
James, Viscount Hamilton, This lady's son by her
first husband became subsequently the second Mar-
quis of Abercorn, so that the nobleman just de-
ceased was son-in-law to the first and stepfather to
the present marquis, to whom his son, Lord Haddo
(by the second marriage), the present earl, is of
course half-brother. On his retirement, in 1855, he
received the honour of the vacant Garter. He was
also a Knight of the Scottish Order of the Thistle.
His lordship was Chancellor of University and
King's Colleges, Aberdeen, Ranger of Greenwich
Park, an Elder Brother of the Trinity House, and
for some time President of the Society of Anti-
quaries. His lordship's discretion was much con-
fided in by his countrymen of the Presbyterian
persuasion ; and, during the disputes which arose
upon the patronage or " intrusion" question, he
acted fel- a while as a kind of umpire between the
contending parties ; but his mediation could not
avert a final rupture.—Morning Post.