The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-31 00:00:00

FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

" Paris, Jan. 16, 1866.
" Sir,—l have had the honour to receive your Excel-
lency's communication dated the 15th inst., relative to cer-
tain decrees recently promulgated in Mexico upon the
subject of immigration and colonisation. Your Excellency
refuses all explanation of the inadmissible passages of ono
of these decrees, to which I had the honour to call your
attention in a note of the 22d Nev. last, upon the plea that
they relate to measures of internal administration with
which the Emperor's Government had nothing to do.
"Although the line separating the responsibility of the
Imperial Government from that of the political organisa-
tion it has planted in Mexico is traced with some indistinct-
ness, 1 am certain my Government will learn with satisfac-
tion that France, which was one of the first Powers to hold
up slavery to the execration of mankind, declines all re-
sponsibility as to the attempt (although made under the
protection of her flag) to re-establish that institution in a
country which had expressly stigmatised and abolished it.
" I take this opportunity, &c.,
(Signed) " Jolts BIGELOW."
"'TIE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO THE FRENCII
MINISTER AT WASHINGTON.

" J. 25, 18CO.
' --" Meii-sietrr loltarquis,—Tbe Ur,Ma' ntitteet
sired that the communication which ho made to me of the
Attorney-General's letter to Mr. Seward, relative to the
decrees of the Emperor Maximilian concerning immigra-
tion and colonisation in Mexico, should bo acknowledged in
writing. I consequently addressed such an acknowledg-
ment to Mr. Bigelow. He replied thereto by the letter of
which a copy is appended. It would have been easy for
me in my turn to continue the correspondence by discuss-
ing his reply. I did not consider it necessary to do so. I
confined myself, in the verbal explanations which I bad
on this subject with the United States Minister, to dwell-
ing upon two points which I could not allow to pass with-
out observation. I said first to him that I did not admit the
expression/Wanted, applied to the part taken by the French
Government in the events which have modified the politi-
cal system in Mexico. He was sufficiently acquainted
with the causes which led us to that country to render it-
unnecessary tor me to revert to them ; and as to the pre-
sent organisation of that State, the Mexican people had
themselves settled it according to their wishes and
interests.

"In the second place, I observed to the United States
Minister that I had declined all discussion with him upon
the decrees of the Emperor Maximilian, in our interview
and that he was not therefore justified in attributing to me;
any opinion whatever upon the subject, as he appeared to
do in the last sentence in his letter. I added that if he,
howeVer, wished to know my manner of viewing the ques-
tion, I did not hesitate to say that the measures of the
Emperor Maximilian so strongly incriminated had not, in
our opinion, the character and object attributed to them.
It appeared to me advisable that you'should not be ignorant
of the manner in which this incident terminated.—Receive,
&c., (Signed) " DROUYN DE LILVYS."
" THE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO THE FRENCH

MINISTER AT WASHINGTON.

I,' Paris, Jan. 25, 1866.

" Monsieur le Marquis,—The American newspapers
bring us extracts from diplomatic documents published in
the United States, in which are related some conversations
that I have had with Mr. Bigelow on the subject of certain
measures adopted by the Emperor Maximilian's Govern-
ment. The observations of the United States Minister and
my replies relate particularly to the decrees of the Mexican
Government concerning the admission of blacks as colo-
nists, to the suppression of brigandage, and to the position
in which the Iturbido family were placed. I have not the
official and complete text of the American documentsbefore
me ; and it is, therefore, under the reservation of the ulte-
rior reflections which they may suggest that I deem it ex-
pedient to define the sense of the explanations to which the
questions I have just mentioned have given rise between
Mr. Bigelow and myself. These explanations are, bi,sides,
stated in the despatch which I had the honour to address
to you on the 29th of November last, and I shall confine
myself, in my reference thereto, to reviewing that part of
the despatch relative to these questions.
"When the United States Minister came to acquaint me
with4lic opin ions of. the Wasitinrett-C-44otrit,--1-6.44 to state
that 1 declined all official controversy upon the acts of
foreign Government, acting with full independence, and
that I could only receive as simple information any com-
munication he might wish to make on the subject.
"It would not become us, in fact, to accept the respon-
sibility for resolutions emanating from the free initiative of
the Mexican Government. To adn.it such a discussion would
justify its being said, contrary to all our declarations and
the attitude wo have rigorously observed, that we consider
ourselves invested in Mexico with sovereign rights. Now,
the support we afford to the Emperor Maximilian and the
Mexican nation is precisely intended to aid them to consti-
tute, according to their wishes, an independent power re-
sponsible for its acts. This reservation was clearly esta-
blished, I observed to Mr. Bigelow in the course of ordinary
conversation, that the measures pointed out by him were of
a purely administrative order, and did not appear to me to
Constitute any of those exceptional derogations from gene-
ral principles which may sometimes perhaps authorise a
Government to intervene in the interior affairs of a neigh-
bouring country. Every State regulates as it thinks lit the
admission of emigrants upon its territory, whether black or
whit©, and the conditions of the colonisation of its soil. It
is evident that these conditions, offered to strangers, only
apply to the persons who have freely accepted thorn. So
also the Mexican Government has only exercised a right
incontestably belonging 'to it in declaring that in its eyes
civil war no longer existed on its territory, and ceasing to
recognise in wandering bands the character of belligerents
it has promulgated against them the severe penalties which
have been applied in every country for the suppression of
brigandage. Still less, in my opinion, can it be questioned
respecting an act assigning in the State a particular rank
to a particular family. In any case the effect of these mea-
sures did not go beyond the Mexican frontiers, and did not
therefore appear to me to constitute any grievance of which
a foreign Government could complain. If, however, an
opposite opinion should be entertained at Washington, I
can understand that some,uncertainty might be felt as to
the means of causing the reclamations it might be thought
proper to draw up to reach the right quarter. But, defini-
tively, because it does not suit the Federal Government to
recognise the de facto Government of the Emperor Maxi-
milian as existing by right, and as, upon the other hand,
it would seem to it ridiculous to address itself to the Power
it considers as legal, but which has in fact disappeared, I
could not admit as a consequence that there was ground for
finding fault with us to escape embarrassment, and for de-
manding at our hands explanations of acts emanatingfrom
the sovereign authority of a foreign Government.—Receive,
(Signed) " DROVYN DE LLIVYS.
" The Marquis do Montholon, Minister of
France at Washington."

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d that the material is infected with the yellow
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NOTTINGHAMSHIRE (NORTII.)
A very influential meeting was held at the Town-
hall, Retford, on Saturday, for the purpose of adopt-
ing some more effective measures for arresting the
cattle plague. The attendance was very large, and
among those present were the Right llon. Mr.
Denison, M.P., Sir Thomas White, Earl Manvers,
&c. Mr. Denison (who occupied the chair) said
the only question was, should-they let the plague go
on, or endeavour by judicious Measures to lessen its
effects by forming au association, which he was
going to propose on the same principle as the ono
formed in Aberdeenshire ? Since he had come there
he had heard an objection to the measure that it was
now too late ; if it had been done earlier it might
have been of essential service. At the last meeting
there, one of the speakers differed from the rest,
and perhaps others might have changed their
opinions. It had been said that Parliament would
do something, and perhaps it might try, but if
counties would do what they could within their
respective limits by volunt,U,.y action, it
-worrht- show they -were. fullyzejsl.4o- 04? - = ;.
and were doing all in their power to help themselves.
The principal features of the association now pro-
posed to be established were that all landlords and
tenants should be members thereof, and should pay
ld. in the pound on the agricultural rental of their
estates and farms, and that no member should be
liable for any amount beyond the sum subscribed
by him. Ile would conclude by moving that au
association be formed in the county of Nottingham
upon the same principles as the association which
had been formed in Aberdeenshire. Earl Manvers,
in a brief speech, seconded the resolution, which was
carried with only one dissentient.

WESTMORELAND.

On Saturday afternoon a large and influential
meeting of farmers and others in Westmoreland
was held at Appleby. Vice-Admiral Russell Eliott
presided, and strongly urged the formation of a
cattle plague preventive association for the east and
west wards of Westmoreland. Ile moved a series
of resolutions, of which the following were the most
important :

" That a general subscription be at once opened,
to include landlords, tenants, and the public gene-
rally, to raise a fund for the purpose of immediate
prevention and partial indemnity against the cattle
plague in the east and west wards of Westmore-
land. . .
" That such fund shall be intrusted to the
Management of a central committee consisting of
15 members, nine to be chosen by this meeting, who
are to elect six others, with a treasurer and paid
secretary, and who shall have power to make such
calls per centum upon subscribers according to the
amount of their subscriptions as from time to time
may be deemed necessary till the Ist April, 1866, or
till such time as the whole fund shall be exhausted,
if such should unfortunately be the case before that
. date. That the central committee so constituted
shall nominate local committees in the several dis-
tricts, consisting of not less than two practical far-
mers, who shall be authorised on their own judg-
ment (assisted by a professional opinion where neces-
sary) to purchase at three-fourths of the sterling value
any animal infected or suspected of having taken
the rinderpest, on condition of the owner thereof
destroying and burying it instantly, at least 4ft.
deep, with quicklime, and without skinning, opening,
or mutilating the same, and as remote as possible
from the approach of other cattle.
" That while the association will pay three-fourtbs
of the sterling value to subscribers, it is upon the
condition that the illness of the animal has been re-
ported immediately and without any delay to tho
nearest local committee. They will pay to non-
subscribers, or those subscribing less than 5 percent.
on the aggregate value of their cattle, averaged over
head at £lO each, one moiety or half of such three-
fourths, or such other sum as the central committee
may deem proper for the purpose of destroying the
infected a nim al."

Another resolutiOn provided that on April 1 the
account should be closed, and the balance (if any)
returned to the subscribers, in proportion to their
subscriptions. The resolutions were adopted unani-
mously. A subscription list was then opened, which
the chairman headed with £5OO on behalf of Sir R.
Tuf ton, and £lOO on his own account. The sum of
£1,736 was raised in the room. A Mutual Cattle
Assurance Association established some weeks ago
at Appleby has now insured stock to the value of
£54,000. Westmoreland is now the only county en-
tirely free from the disease.