The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-01 00:00:00

cussed. M. DE MONTALEMBERT had called our
position ignoble, but he denied the accusation.
"M. MONTALEMBERT may wish to keep the
POPE upon his throne by English bayonets ; and
other friends of Italy may wish that we drove out
the three dukes by English bayonets. We should
make enemies whatever course we took. We should
make enemies of those whom we put down, and we
should make ungrateful friends of those whom we
1 set up. Therefore I say to England, keep your-
selves, my insular countrymen, in your own island ;
mix not yourselves with European contests. If
you are attacked, strike back a blow that shall an-
nihilate the invaders and maintain our position.
(Applause.) If you wish for friends, look at the
great colonies that you have established in the
world. If we are to adopt this course, there are
millions of men speaking the English language
who have derived from England their literature,
their institutions, and their laws, who would then
be ready to maintain us in the position we now
hold, as the only free people in Europe. We
alone have a free press; we alone have a Govern-
ment which represents the people ; we alone de-
serve the name of freemen. (Applause.) Shall
we say that we at this time are afraid of anybody ?
Not a-whit of it. (Laughter and applause.) Afraid
we are not; but let no man dare to offend us.
When they talk of invasion, that army that puts
its foot upon England will never take its foot off
the English soil."
After referring to the unsatisfactory results of
our former interference in the affairs of other
nations, who never manifested the smallest grati-
tude for our services, and generally arrogated to
themselves the credit of the successes we had
gained for them, Mr. ROEBUCK went on to say :
" But I am now very much afraid that there is a
meddling spirit abroad ; that there are people in
power who delight to have the honour of being
talked of, and I do therefore fear that their med-
dling spirit will entangle us in European affairs.
I may be called a narrow-minded man. I have
been accustomed to a great deal of abuse in my
life, and I don't care for it. (Laughter.) But this
has been my great object through life—England
and England's greatness. For her I have laboured
late and early. I have not sought my owz but my
country's welfare. To her I have dedicated
what intelligence I have had." This manly decla-
ration might justly be made to his enthusiastic
audience by the honourable member for Sheffield,
who, by a long course of Parliamentary labour and
public serviees, in spite of his occasional acrimony
of speech and ebullitions of temper, has earned for
himself the title of an upright and consistent
patriot.

Several months have elapsed since her most
gracious MAJESTY, in her speech from the Throne,
made stern allusion to the wrong-doings of the
Mexican Government. A twelvemonth, indeed,
has gone by since the Sovereign of these realms
thus so solemnly intimated to her lords and com-
moners in Parliament assembled the sore need there
was then, according to the opinion of her coun-
cillors, for some interposition at last between Bri-
tish subjects and British interests on the one part
in Mexico, and that disorganised Mexican Govern-
ment on the other, by which both those British
interests and those British subjects had been so
long and so flagrantly outraged with im-
punity. We have yet to learn how far
these recommendations from the Crown itself
to the Imperial Legislature have been re-
sponded to by the vigorous action of the
Executive. We have yet to learn how far the
Mexican authorities have been called to account
for acts thus demanding roprobation from the
lips -of Queen VICTORIA. The situation, for the
most part, has all this while remained unaltered
within the Mexican boundaries. Anarchy- still
threatens to result from the collision of the rival
parties established respectively at the city of
Mexico and at the seaport of Vera Cruz, At
Mexico, under MIRAMON ! At Vera Cruz, under
JUAREZ ! The latter—Ju.utEz—representing what
is called the Liberal, but what is, in reality,
the American party, or party of ultra-demo-
crats, under a pseudo-Constitutional Govern-
ment! The former—MlßAMON—reprbsenting on
the other hand the so-called Clerical or Absolutist
party, but in truth the one only party expressive
of purely Mexican or national sentiments ! How
thele parties have been, cunningly pitted against
each other by the diplomatic influence brought to
bear in that direction by the United States' Go-
vernment has been clearly explained in the course
of a simple narrative of facts by the " Mexican,'
who, on Monday last, recounted in a lucid and
succinct narrative of facts, the general affairs
of Mexico, and the actual situation of the
rival Mexican Governments. Already we have our-
selves commented upon this really masterly communi-
cation of our correspondent. We took occasion only
yesterday to refer in general terms to the nefarious
and insidious policy which was shown thus to have
been carried out for years and years past in that
direction by the half-huckstering, half-buccaneering,
wholly shameless and flagitious Government at
Washington. A policy hitherto carried out with
such signal success in that one direction, that
already during the brief interval which has elapsed
since 1836 very nearly one moiety of the whole
Mexican possessions, the United States, have
absorbed into their own dominions—this moiety
comprising within it, moreos er, the whole of the
auriferous province of California.
It will be as well, we cannot but think, now, that
our intelligent Mexican Correspondent should be
permitted to reiterate, however briefly or fragmen-
tarily, some few of the more remarkable among his
many remarkable arguments, explanatory of the
perils now immediately hanging over his fellow-
countrymen, from the mere development of the
policy long being carried out, inimically to Mexi-
can interests, by the pitiless, insatiable, inexorable
United States Government. Our shrewd Mexican
puts the matter at the very outset quite plainly.
He says :—" It is an egregious error to suppose
that the United States arc highly interested in
seeing an independent regular Government esta-
blished in Mexico. They want nothing of the
kind." Adding to this at once explicitly, "What
they have at heart, and they make no secret of it,
is to come into possession of the country (not
leaving • the Isthmus of Tehuantepec for the
last), just as they want also to render them-
selves masters of Central America, of the
island of Cuba, and of all the shores in
the Mexican Gulf." How far, in the develop-
ment of this scheme, they have already succeeded,
we know but teo well—their success being none
the less remarkable from the circumstance of their
possessing no regular army for its accomplishment.
Knowing their policy, conscious of their one clear
aim, object, or ambition, the Mexican then asks—
" Now, what was the best and most efficient wav
to establish anarchy in Mexico ?" Answering his
own query thus, without one moment's hesitation
—"lt was not difficult to discover that if the Mexi-
cans were brought to adopt the Republican Amer-
can institutions—a constitution after the fashion of
the United States—the effect of such adoption could
not be doubtful. Institutions, indeed, so absolutely
at variance with the character, the manners and
customs, the traditions and the moral and physical