The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-09 00:00:00

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The' Evacuation of Mexico:

[REUTER'S EXPRESS.]
FRENCH OFFICIAL DESPATCH.
A fresh series of diplomatic documents upon the
Mexican question has been laid before the Corps
Legislatif by the Minister for Foreign Affairs. The
principal despatches relative to the evacuation of
Mexico by the French are the following :
(The Minister of Foreign Affairs to the French
Minister at Mexico.)

J. , 1866.
Sir,—The position in w PhARIS, chi wean arel4 placed in
Mexico cannot be prolonged, and circumstances
compel us to take a definitive resolution in this re-
spect which I am requested by the Emperor to com-
municate to you.
The original object of our expedition was to
obtain the satisfaction of our claims and the repara-
tion due to French subjects. If, however, we have
considered it useful to afford our assistance to the
efforts of a nation desirous of regaining order and
welfare under a regular Government, if our legiti-
mate interest counselled us to support the Prince
who devoted himself to this generous task, our co-
operation must be restricted within the precise limits
defined by the Convention of Miramar. The re-
ciprocal arrangements stipulated by this treaty have
fixed the extent and conditions of the use we were
permitted to make of the forces of France in the
consolidation of a friendly Government. It
would be superfluous to dwell upon the
causes which render it impossible for
the Mexican - Court, notwithstanding the
rectitude of its intentions to fulfil these conditions
henceforth. On one hand, any appeal to credit
would be devoid of result ; and on the other, we
we cannot, independently of the stipulations
agreed upon, exclusively take upon ourselves the
charges of the Mexican Government, provide with
our own army for its defence, and with our own
finances for its administrative service. The advances
which we have several times granted cannot be re-
newed, and the Emperor will not request fresh
sacrifices from France.
It is necessary, therefore, that our occupation
should reach its termination, and we must prepare
for this step without delay. The Emperor requests
you, Sir, to arrange this matter in concert with his
august Ally after a loyal discussion, in which Mar-
shal Bazaine will naturally: take part, shall have
determined the means of guaranteeing as far as
possible the interest of the Mexican Government,
the security of our debt and the claims of our sub-
jects. His Majesty desires that the evacuation
should commence about next autumn.
You will be good enough, sir, to read this de-
spatch to his Excellency the Minister for Foreign
Affairs, and to leave with him a copy of the same.
I request Baron Saillard to add verbally all neces-
sary explanations, and to bring back shortly the
you will acquaint me with the defi-
nreiptilvye, n which
n ments arr which shall have been iage
con-
cluded.—Receive, &c.,
(Signed) DROUYN DE LHUYS.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs to the French
Minister in Mexico.
PARIS, Feb. 16, 1866.
Sir,—At the time in which I am writing this de-
spatch Baron Saillard should have reached Mexico.
You will therefore be acquainted with the instruc-
tions of the Emperor's Government. His Majesty
himself communicated his resolution to the great
bodies of the State in his speech at the opening of
the Legislative session. I have only now to con-
firm the general directions contained in my despatches
of the 14th and 15th January, and to recommend
to you to determine without delay with the Mexican
Government the arrangements destined to carry out
the Emperor's views. His Majesty's desire, as you
are aware, is that the evacuation should commence
about next autumn, and terminate as promptly as
possible. You will have to arrange with Marsha
Bazaine, in order to fix the successive periods c:
the evacuation in concert with the Emperor Maxi.
milian.

I cannot here enter into the various considera-
tions which will have to be kept in view in conduc-
ting this operation. Some of a purely military and
technical nature are essentially-within the province
of the Marshal Commander-in-Chief. Others of a
more political character are entrusted to your com-
mon judgment, assisted by your perfect knowledge
of local circumstances and requirements arising
therefrom.

It is equally necessary, sir, to arrange the finan-
cial balance, and fix the guarantees demanded for
the security of our claims. The provisions of the
Treaty of Miramar not having been realised, it is
necessary to have recourse to other combinations in
order to secure the repayment of our advances, and
to provide at the same time in the interest of Mexi-
can credit for the regular payment of the arrears of
the debt contracted by the loans of 1864 and 1865.
M, Langlais will receive by the present courier from
the Minister of Finance, the detailed instructions
which he will communicate to you. You will have
o concert measures with him in order to assure
their execution.

The Government of the Emperor thought that
the most simple and least onerous arrangement for
the Mexican Government would consist in remitting
to us the customs of Vera Cruz and Stampico, or
other ports which might be considered more con-
venient. Half the proceeds would be given us, to
be employed partly in the payment of the interest
at 30 per cent. of our claims, estimated at a capital
of 250 millions, and partly as a partial guarantee
of the interest due to the holders of bonds of the
loans of 1864 and 1865.
Administered under our care, we may be per-
mitted to hope that those customs will still fur-
nish important resources after the deductions agreed
upon.

You will therefore have to make with the Mexi-
can Cabinet the necessary arrangements that this
power may be regularly conferred upon us.
These points having been regulated, and French
interests thereby secured, the Emperor's Govern-
ment will none the less continue to show, in an
efficacious manner all the sympathy with which his
Majesty is animated towards the Sovereign of
Mexico. and the generous task to which he has de-
voted himself.

You will be kind enough to give this assurance,
in the name of his Majesty, to the Emperor Maxi.
milian.—Receive) &c.)
(Signed)

DROUYN DE LHUYS.

THAMES.

The Minister of France in Mexico to the Minister
for Foreign Affairs.
Cm- OF MEXICO, March 9, 1865.
Monsieur le Ministre,—l am in receipt of the
despatches which your Excellency did me the hon-
our to address to me on the 14th and 13th of
January.
I am about to declare that the thoroughly decided
intention of the Emperor is that the evacuation
shall commence about next autumn ; that I am at
the orders of the Emperor Maximilian for regularly
fixing this perion in conformity with the instruc-
tions I have received, but that in the meantime
Marshal Bazaine will be occupied with the measures
to be taken to guarantee, as much as possible, all
the interests at stake.
Your Excellency already knows the intentions of
ell autumn of 1867, November n
the commander-in-chief of the expeditiouary_coerpxst;
would he evacuation,
completed
ndninueignn ci ngh t
that is to say that it will be entirely carried out in
18 months.—Receive,

(Signed) DANO.

TIIE FIRE IN DUBLIN. -- The fire bridgade are
severely censured by the public in reference to the fire in
Westmoreland-street. Six lives have been lost, but the
bodies Lave not been discovered. A Private investiga-
tion into the circumstances was held this day by the cor-
poration ; but no definite opinion has been, expressed.

MISS RYE.—At a meeting, held at the rooms of
the Social Science Association last night to welcome
Miss Ryc on her return from the colonies, Colonel Sykes,
M.P., in the chair, Miss Rye was presented with a purse of
£lOO by Madame Bodichon, on behalf of several ladies in-
terested in her efforts to improve and encourage female
emigration. Miss Rye holds 150 orders for the emigration
of single women and a few families into the colony of Vic-
toria, and will shortly commence work in connection
with her Majesty's Emigration Com Missioners at 1, Adam-
street, Adelphi.

LAW INTEIALIGENCE--;This Day.

COURT .OF CRIMINAL APPEAL.
(Before Lord Chief Justice Erie, Justice She; and Barons
Martin, Bramwell, and Channel].)
THE QUEEN T. BOWER.

This was a case tried before the Assistant-Judge at the
Middlesex. Sessions, and was a charge brought against
Bower for embezzlement. It appeared that Bower had
been employed by the firm of Skersow, Clarke, and others,
coal merchants, as an agent, at a salary of Li is. a week
and a commission of ls. per ton for any coal he,sold, as
well as 6d. per ton on coal sold to any customer he might
introduce to the firm. He was also to collect debts, and
by agreement the same were to be paid into the firm by
the defendant a week after their receipt. The defendant
then got into the retail business on his own account, being
supplied with goods by the prosecutors, and still retained
the agency, but without the salary, his sole remuneration
being the commission. It was discoverel that the defendant
had received different sums of money, for which he bad
not accounted. He was found guilty, but he denied that
he was a clerk or servant of the prosecutor's, and conse-
quently not liable to an indictment for embezzlement, not
being under salary, and the sentence was deferred until
the question was argued before this court.

Mr. Collins appeared in support of the appeal, and Mr
Metcalf for the Crown.

Lord Chief Justice Erie said that in this case the convic-
tion must be quashed. He thought the law was clearly
established by the cases cited in the course of the argu-
ments. A person travelling under orders with instructions
to collect orders was a servant, but a perscn merely en-
trusted to collect orders and debts was not a clerk, a ser-
vant, within the meaning of the statute. Under the first
agreement the defendant was a servant, but having, in
June, 1865, set up on his own account, the relation between
the parties was changed. The prosecutors recognised that
change, and made an alteration in his position towards
them, by merely giving him a commission and requesting
him to collect debts.
The verdict was accordingly reversed.
THE QUEEN V. BANEES.
This was an appeal from the finding of a jury at the
Bolton Assizes, under the following circumstances. It
appeared that the defendant was entrusted by some fellow
workmen to receive their wages, which ho got from the
cashier of their employer, Mr. Omerod, but never paid to
them. Ho was indicted by Mr. Omerod for a felony ; and
that gentleman described the property as his own; but de-
fendant's counsel held that the property was improperly
described, as it really belonged to the workmen, and not to
their employer. The Court held the same opinion, and
quashed the verdict.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
:Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Mr. Justice Keating and a
Common Jury.)
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BUTLER V. JEER

This was an action' by the plaintiff for an excessive dis-
tress, wrongful conversion of goods, and not selling the
same to the best advantage.

Mr. Huddleston, Q.C., and Mr. Shaw were counsel for
the plaintiff, and Mr. Sergeant Parry and another learned
gentleman for the defendant.

Mr. Huddlestou stated the case. The plaintiff was a
widow with a family, and supported herself and children
by working as a charoman, and the defendant was a
dealer in house property in an extensive way at 109,
Cheapside. In March last the plaintiff took two rooms in
Clerken well at a rent of 4s. a-week from a person
named Barr. The goods of which she was deprived of
were all her property, and were worth about £23,
and every single stick of these had been swept away by
the defendant, who claimed to be the landlord of the house,
and for rent alleged to be duo to Barr, from whom she had
taken the apartments. It appeared that Barr had taken
the house from a person who became bankrupt, and
he did not pay him the rent, considering that he
was liable to the assignee, a Mr. Temple ; and Mr.
Barr refusing to payhim he sued him in the County Court.
Afterwards Mr. Barr was applied to for £6 13s. by
an agent of the plaintiff, who asserted that he was the
landlord, and this account not being paid, a distress was
put into the house, and the goods of Barr and the plaintiff
were seized, the latter not having left even a chair or mat-
tress for herself and children. The plaintiff got a gentle-
man, named Owen, to intercede with the broker to let her
have a mattress, but he refused, and he then requested
the things to be sold at a weekly auction, which
took place in the neighbourhood. He afterwards
went to Mr. Jebb, who, on his representing the hardship
of the case, said that he would return the plaintiff her
goods if she gave up the key, to which she consented, but
in the meantime the broker had sold the goods for £7 10s.
The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for £l2.

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Kerr.)
A COOL IDEA IN LAW—FRANKS V. SPIRGEL.
This was an application of a somewhat singular charac-
ter. Plaintiff bad sued the defendant upon soma question
at issue between them, but upon the day of hearing he had
not appeared, and the defendant, paying the hearing fees
was awarded £1 as costs. To-day plaintiff appeared, and
urged that these costs should not be enforced as against

His Honour considered that as the plaintiff had not ap-
peared when his caso was called on, defendant was clearly
entitled to costs.

Plaintiff—But I wrote and asked him whether he would
appear, and he did not answer me.
His Honour—Nor was ho bound to take any notice of
your letter.

Plaintiff —I consider that ho should have done so.
Defendant—l really do think that the idea advanced by
the plaintiff is most cool. He certainly did write to me,
and asked me if I was going to defend the case, but 1 did
not think proper to answer him, as, in the event of my
doing so, I might have had two or three barristers brought
down against me.

Plaintiff—l think it would have been only polite on
your part to answer me.

His Honour—He was not bound to let you know what
he was going to do. It appears to me that ho has acted
perfectly right, and you having commenced the action
should have attended here on the proper day. A defen-
dant is not bound to inform a plaintiff whether he in-
tends to defend an action or not, and I must dismiss the
application with costs.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBORO UGH-S TREE T.
BATHING IN THE SERPENTINE DURING TILE PROHIBITED
HOURS.—Joseph Riley, a young man, described as a bar-
man, residing at Bow, was charged before Mr. Knox with
bathing in the Serpentine during the prohibited hours.
Police-constable Fassmidge, 604 A, said that on the pre-
vious night, some time after all the other bathers had come
out of the Serpentine, ho noticed the defendant in the
water, about 20 yards beyond the boundary. He called to
the defendant to come out, when he refused to do so, was
very impudent, and kept swimming across the Serpentine,
and by the time he came out it was half-past 9, the hour
for bathing to cease being 9 o'clock, there being boards
placed in different parts with notices to that effect.
The defendant said he did not know it was not allowed.
Mr. Knox asked the defendant why he did not come out
of the water when the constable called to him.
The defendant said he thought it was a friend calling
to him.

Mr. Knox said it was the first case before him this sea-
son, and as the defendant had been locked up all night he
would discharge him.

It appears that above 1,000 persons bathed in the Ser•
pentine yesterday evening, and that at the time the defen-
dant was in the water the boatmen had left.

A PRECOCIOUS VILLAIN.—John Aldridge, a boy aged
twelve years, was charged with stealing £l5, the monies
of John Garrett, a greengrocer, of 16, Mile-end-road.
On the sth of May last the prisoner was engaged by
Mrs. Ann Garrett, the wife of the prosecutor, as errand
boy, without a character or reference. He told a plausible
tale, and Mrs. Garrett believed him to bo an honest boy.
Her misplaced confidence was very soon dispelled- He had
been in her service three hours when he took up a can and
asked his mistress if he should fill it with water from the
butt in the yard. She requested him to do so, but he never
returned to the shop with the water, and disappeared.
There was £l5 in gold, silver, and halfpence in a peck
measure on a chest of drawers in Mr. Garrett's parlour.
The money disappeared at the same time as the pri-
soner, and nothing morn was heard of him
until yesterday afternoon, when ho was arrested
by a police-constable named Edward Cable, No. 240 K, at
the dwelling of his parents, No. 2, Caroline-court, Caroline-
street, Ratcliff. He said that ho took the money, and that
he and another boy purchasd each a suit of clothes and
went to Gravesend, where they spent the remainder of the
money.

Mrs. Garrett said silo intended to give the boy Is. Gd.
per week, and to maintain him.

Mrs. Aldridge, a very respectable woman, the mother of
the prisoner, said her son absconded from home on tho 2d
of May, and that she received a letter on Thursday morn-
ing stating that he was in Gravesend Workhouse.
The prisoner was committed for trial.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. —Jane Robinson, a stout, thick-
lipped African negross, was brought before Mr. Paget
charged with attempting to commit suicide in the water
of the London Dock.

James Connor, a police-constable, No. 35 11, stated that
at five minutes to three o'clock this morning he heard the
springing of a rattle from the dock watchman, near the
swivel-bridge over the lock in Old Gravel-lane. He went
there and was told a woman had thrown herself off the
bridge. He procured the drags and grapnels, and, guided
by some bubbles in the water, ha throw them in and
dragged out the body of the prisoner. She was insensible
for a few minutes. He obtained assistance, and she was
resuscitated. She made a similar attempt on her life before
at the same place.
The prisoner, who held down her head and looked very
dejected, said she was an unfortunate girl and had nothing
to say. 6ho was remanded for a week.