The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-03 00:00:00

THE FUTUEE OF MEXIV.

The Post, in an article on the abdication of the
Emperor Maximilian, expresses an opinion that in
the interests of the Mexican nation every one must
regret this melancholy fiasco. Whatever may have
been the special motives which induced the Emperor
of the French to send an army to Mexico, and at a
later period to instal an Austrian archduke as Em-
peror of that country, there can be no doubt that
he would have rendered a real service to the Mexican
people if he had succeeded. Mexico is one of the
richest countries in North America, and only needs
an honest Government to become also one of the
most prosperous. Her industrial resources have
never been developed, and never will be, so long as
the only objects of statecraft are to commit indis-
criminate pillage and plunder. It is thought pro-
bable that the Government of the United States will
take care that under the new regime some semblance
of decency will be maintained. It is doubtful, how-
ever, if the Cabinet of Washington will pass to
the lengths of actual intervention. They have quite
enough to do to set their own house in order with-
out undertaking a similar task for others. The
Mexicans have rejected a Government which would
have made them great and respected, and they
must now submit as best they can to all the evils of
the misrule which they have restored.
The Times, referring to the abdication of the
Emperor Maximilian, remarks that this step, if there
were no now party in the quarrel, would simply re-
place Mexico in that condition of anarchy and bar-
barism from which the European expedition had
rescued her for a time. But we are told that the
United States will now adopt the party of Juarez,
just as the French adopted that of his adversaries ;
that they will assume the protectorate which the
French vacate, and re-enact the scenes of the last
three years with this simple change in the characters
of the piece. The French took up Miramon and
fought Juarez ; the Americans will take up Juarez
and fight Miramon. We have not yet any suffi-
cient authority for the fact, but it is not improbable
nor in-any way to be deprecated. Either the Mexi-
cans must be left to rob and murder as before, or
some strong Power must interfere to take up one
faction and put down the other. The Americans
can, and probably will, do what the French both
could and would have done under more favourable
circumstances. They will have this advantage, too,
in their proceedings—they will seem less like in-
vaders than their predecessors ; they will preserve
the name and form of a Mexican republic, and pro-
bably leave a native Mexican as its ostensible head.
But the measure itself will be the same as before.
It will be identical with that which all Europe saw
to be inevitable at the period of the expedition which
we ourselves declined to prosecute, but which France
adopted, and Spain was ready to adopt. It will be
intervention for the government of a people who
have proved utterly incapable of governing them-
selves. It will be the establishment of a foreign
protectorate in the place of a native Administration,
nominally independent, but expressing only anarchy
and violence ; and as this will be for the advantage
of the world at large, the Times wishes the Ame-
ricans a cheap bargain and speedy success.

" OLD PORT."—Baron
rahrendorff, one of the
greatest noblemen of Sweden, and among the fore-
most. gourmands in Europe, gave on the 15th the
first of a series of dinners of a very exquisite cha-
racter. Port wine of the year 1760 was served !
New York consumes $lO,OOO worth of eggs every
day,