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OPENING OF THE MEXICAN
. CONGRESS.

As already announced in our correspondence
from Mexico, published yesterday, the Mexican
Congress was formally opened on Sunday, the Bth
ult., by the President of the Republic. The Presi-
dent read the address of inauguration, of which a
sketch is here given :
" Citizen Deputies,—On the 31st of May, 1865,
I had occasion to congratulate, in this place, the
elect of the people on the decision and good faith
with which they fought, the good sons of the Re-
public inspiring us with unlimited confidence in the
triumph against a powerful foreign invasion. The
national representatives being now assembled again,
I can congratulate you with a still greater motive on
the complete triumph of the Republic. The Mexican
people, with their patriotism, their valour, and their
constancy during the strife, have saved their inde-
pendence and their institutions. In vain did the
monarchical intervention attempt to destroy the
Republic and its Government. The interven-
tion disappeared, vanquished by the people ;
the Republic niaiutaining itself—stronger at
home and more respected abroad. The sons of the
people, who by their valour and sacrifices manifested
greatness during the strife, have, after the triumph,
exhibited still more grandeur. They successfully
oecnpied ever_y_eity, gi:vbinssatectineLana guaranty
to even their enemies without distinction of na--
tionality. The Government has concluded to be a
true interpreter of generous Republican sentiments,
by limiting the strict application of the law to the
chief of the intervention, and to a small number of
those persons on whom the greatest responsibility
for all national misfortunes rested. The execution
at Queretaro was necessary from the most serious
considerations of justice, united to an imperious
exigency of establishing peace in the future, putting
an end to intestine convulsions, and to all calamities
with which war has afflicted our society. The neces-
sary example of the application of the law to those
who occupied the highest rank among the most cul-
pable has permitted the use of great clemency towards
the rest. The Republic has pardoned her bad sons so
far as it was possible, and has been magnanimous
with those who came from abroad to cover her with
blood and desolation. The calumniators of the
Republic have had occasion to see that whenever
the effects of the intervention ceased in any quarter
public order and obedience to the laws were iname-
aiately established. As soon as the people had re-
turned to enjoy the liberty of their institutions they
also began to enjoy the blessings of peace. The
National Government, after its action had been re-
established through its whole territory, has employed
the meiles which it commanded, and the time at its
disposal, to 'reorganise all branches of administra-
tion. Although invested with discretionaiy powers,
it has always acted in accordance with the spirit of
our institutions. It has occupied itself in preference
to Federal affairs, leaving the action of State func-
tionaries untrammelled, in order that they might
give their attentiontosubjectsrelatingmtott sacredheState;
The Government, complying with is most
obligations, convoked the people, in order that it
might elect its representative for Federal and State
powers. It appointed the shortest possible term,
so that the people might designate, without delay,
to whom they wished to entrust their destiny.
The Government has not raised any obstacle
against the enjoyment of the,most complete liberty
in the elections, in the press, and in all acts of a
political character. Necessary dispositions have
been marked out for the organisations of tribunals
and the good administration of justice. With a de-
sire of protecting, so far as was just, many interests
of private persons, the acts exercised before the
fun t ttei o
an
ua rt
hi eosisiotyf hwe ie
rne t t
made vi ,
idwbhyo had
equitable
o l e
n cti.- -
crees. The establishments of instruction and of
public charity have been attended to with that soli-
citude which such important objects deserve. The
Government has granted protection and all possible
concessions to enterprises which may be of great
benefit to commerce, to industry, and to other
branches of public wealth. Besides marking out
convenient dispositions for regulating the adminis-
tration of the public revenue, and for liquidating
and auditing the legitimate debts of the country,
every economy compatible with. good government
has been observed, and an invariable rule has been
adopted to eschew the former system of business
transactions which has been the thorough cause of
the discredit and ruin of the Treasury. Thus,
regular attention has been given from the time
of the occupation of the capital to allowance
of the public service, and even to the needy classes.
The army has been organised in a number neces-
sary for the requirements of the military service, se-
lected from among those who have fought bravely
against the intervention. It will be the firm and
faithful support of liberty and the laws. The Go-
vernment has attended, so far as its resources per-
mitted, to those who retired from the service in
order to return to their firesides and to their do-
mestic occupations. They, as well as those who
remained in the army, have signally merited the
showed
relationsowed their
decreed rewards of national gratitude. The monar-
chical European intervention impelled Mexico to
maintain
sister Republics. During our struggle those Re-
publics
of
sympathyespecial friendship with her
in behalf of the
liberty and independence of Mexico. The peoples
and Governments of some of the South American
Republics made especial demonstrations in favour
of the Mexican cause and the legitimate Govern-
ment. There arrived recently an envoy from Bo-
livia, with the particular mission of tendering to
the Republic cordial congratulations on its triumph.
With the United States we preserve the same rela-
tions of friendship that existed during our struggle.
The uninterrupted sympathy of the people of the
United States, and the moral support which its
Government has given to our cause, have deserved
emphatically the reciprocal friendship and esteem
of the Mexican people and Government. On ac-
count of intervention, our relations with European
Powers were broken off. Three of them, by the act
of the London Convention, placed themselves in an
attitude of war against the Republic. A short
time afterwards France alone persevered in the pro-
secution of the intervention. But afterwards the
other Powers who bad held relations with the Re-
public which they repudiated, recognised the so-
called Government sustained by France, thus aban-
doning their position of neutrality. In this manner
these Governments broke their treaties with the
Republic, and have severed their relations with us.
The conduct of the Government of the Republic
was to be regulated after that of those
Governments. Without having asked anything
of them, it has still taken care that nothing
should be done which might justly be considered
as a motive of offence, and it will raise no difficul-
ties which may oppose the celebration of new
treaties under more auspicious circumstances, on
just and convenient conditions, and relating espe-
cially to its mercantile interests. The Government
has also taken care to place the subjects of those
nations who reside in the Republic under the pro-
tection of its laws and authority. The efficiency of
this protection has been enough to remove any cause

of complaint. A practical illustration has been
given that, owing to the enlightenment of our
people and to the principles of our liberal institu-
tions, the foreigners residing in Mexico receive the
same treatment as Mexican citizens, and enjoy the
same rights and guarantees under the laws, with-
out needing the protection of treaties. Public
opinion has been preoccupied by the importance of
the appeal made to the people in regard to some re-
forms of the constitution announced in the convoca-
tion of the 16th of August. The discussion rather re-
lated to the manner of proposing them than to the re.
forms themselves. A great number of citizens have
voted in favour of them. Some voted against them,
others have refrained from voting, sharing, per-

hips,for s the
withoutopinion
approving of thoseof wh amreihnofd of theofavour
rc-
m
theo et
ap-
peal to the people in order to bring this about.
The Government gave its opinion with frankness in
the convocation. It stated its convictions that in
ordinary times reforms should only be proposed by
means provided in the Constitution, and that an
appeal made to the people now could not serve as
a precedent to be imitated under ordinary circum-
stances. The Government considers itself justified
in this instance, in view of the extraordinary and
exceptional situation arising out of the momentous
crisis through which the Republic has just passed.
The result of the vote is not yet known, with exact-
ness'; but even if the presumption is that the votes
given in favour of reforms do not reach to a majo-
rity, still they represent a great number of
citizens whose opinion deserves to be considered.
If this number is added to those who have voted
against the propositions, they form, doubtless, a
great majority of the people who have accepted and
made use of the means of the appeal. It might be
necessary to await the verification of the votes, but
questions and doubts might be raised thereby which
would delay the resolution, while the principal
motive for which the method of the appeal had been
adopted was that of a speedy adoption of reforms.
The conviction which the Government had, and still
has, that these reforms are necessary and urgent,
lead it 'to prefer the abrogation of formality, with
the Lope that in this way they may be more
speedily adopted. Therefore, instead of asking
far a verification of the vote, the Government
would submit the points of reform in question
to the wisdom of Congress, in order that it may
come to a determination about them according
to the rules established by the constitution.
With this end in view, the initiative respecting
them will be immediately presented. By the law
of the 27th of May, 1863, the concession of
powers to the Executive was extended to thirty
days after the meeting of Congress, or might expire
sooner, if the war with France terminated. Mexico
could not declare the war to be ended, although
there do not exist de facto hostilities with France.
She was the nation that brought the war here, with-
out having till this time made any declaration im-
plying its close. According to law, therefore, the
powers conceded to the Executive ought to be valid
30 days longer, counted from to-day. Notwith-
standing this I deem it wise to decline, as I do de-
cline, by this solemn act, the further use of them.
If there should suggest itself anything necessary
to give greater action to the Government, I have
faith enough in the patriotism of the representatives
of the people to be convinced that they will give
it their support and co-operation, dictating
the means •which their prudence. and high
wisdom may regard as convenient. It is grate-
ful to me, citizen deputies, to return to you the
trust of the great powers which you have confided
to me. If in their exercise I have committed errors,
I ask your indulgence. In the conception of all my
acts I have never had any other thought than that
of the national good and the salvation of our be-
loved country. In the Article No. 2 of the law
already. referred to a restriction was made concern-
ing the power of concluding treaties. Governed by
this law, I must here declare that it has been the
constant purpose of this Government not to com-
promise in anything the Republic, and that it has
not entered into covenant with any nation what-
ever. Please to accept, citizen deputies, the devout
wishes which I make for the success of your delibe-
rations, in the trust that your intelligence and pat-
riotism will strive after the greatest good of the
Republic." •

THE EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR IN
QUEENSTOWN HARBOUR.

The Cork. Examiner gives the following account
of an extraordinary occurrence which took place at
Queenstown on Saturday night—viz., the firing at
a vessel in the harbour by an officer of marines.
The facts, as stated by the captain of the vessel
fired upon, are these :

"The Sally Ann, of Beamnaris, Wales, Captain
Robinson, left Portdinorwick, in that principality,
about a week since, with a cargo of slates for Cork.
She is a trim little schooner of about 90 tons,
slightly rakish in build and rig, and a fast sailer.
She entered the port last Saturday night, and passed
unchallenged up the harbour, close by the guard-
ship Mersey, the night being mild and clear, and
not very dark, though moonless. The captain
determined to anchor in Monkstown Reach for
the night, and it was about midnight when
the schooner, under shortened sail, moved slowly up
the bay, and her crew went forward to clear the
anchor. Just then Captain Robinson, who was on
the quarter-deck, saw a boat following at a short
distance, and supposing it to contain the custom-
house officers, he laid hold of the end of the main
sheet to pass it to the boat when she came up. The
courtesy, however, was disregarded, and, without
hail or demand of any sort, the boat was rowed up
close to the schooner's starboard quarter, and the
forward man in the boat grappled her amidships.
Captain Robinson, having thrown aside the main-
sheet, was then standing on the quarter-deck, close
by the starboard bulwark, which is about waist high,
and with his right hand on the rail looking for-
ward, he called to the mate to let go the anchor.
Almost at the same moment, and without any par-
ley or communication whatever, he says the person
who seemed to be in command of the boat stood up,
and pointing a revolver towards where he was stand-
ing, fired. The person who did so was at the time
not more than three or four yards away from him,
and the hand that held the pistol must have been
on a level with the schooner's rail, for the bullet
passed obliquely through the quarter bulwarks,
about half way up, and struck the captain's right
foot. It cut the leather of his boot, near the in-
step, without completely penetrating it, and glanced
off. The anchor was let go at the moment the
order was given, and the schooner came to at once.
Immediately after, the person in command of the
boat, and who, Capt. Robinson has no doubt, was
the one who fired, ordered his men to board the
schooner and search her. One of the crew of the
Sally Ann was so alarmed by the firing that he
scrambled up the forerigging exclaiming, 'The cap-
tain is shot.' The mate had not heard the shot as the
chain cable was running out at the time, but the
boy seems to have seen the flash. Immediately on
receiving the order to board three men, armed with
guns, whom the captain and crew say they recog-
nised as marines, jumped on board with the person in
charge, leaving about four men in the boat along-
side, who they say were men-of-war blue jackets.
The marines had topcoats over their uniforms ; and
the captain says the person in command of them
wore an oilcloth coat over a flannel vest, and also
an oilcloth hat. From his bearing and address
Captain Robinson has no doubt he was an officer,
and he surmises he was of superior rank. The
party having boarded, the officer ordered the marines
to go forward and search the vessel. As they has-
tened forward, the mate asked them what they were
after, adding jocularly, 'ls it Fenians you're looking
for ?' They said Yes;' to which the mate rejoined,
still in joke, Oh, well, go below—there are lots of
them there.' The marines went below and searched
the forecastle, and while they were so engaged
their commander had turned to Captain Robin-
son, who at once demanded of him why he had
acted in so outrageous a manner as to fire with-
out any provocation, and even without hailing
the vessel. The officer, Captain Robinson says, re-
plied that they had orders to fire; and when he fur-
ther asked, Even without hailing the vessel ?' he
answered, with a careless air, Yes. We had too
much trouble with such vessels as yours before.'
He then went down to the cabin, accompanied by
the captain, whose foot began to ache, and when
below the officer merely looked about, seeming every
moment to feel that he had made a mistake. Cap-

tain Robinson offered to show him the ship's papers,
but he replied that he did not want to see them—
that be only wanted to search the ship. Having
remained a moment below, he returned on deck,
and the marines having completed a fruit-
less search forward, he ordered them to re-
turn to the boat, and he followed them. The
boat was then rowed away, and the captain saw
no more of, her or her occupants. Next day his
foot was so swollen that he could not put
on his boot, and he has since been obliged to sub-
stitute a soft slipper, and is still a little lame. He
refers, in corroboration of his statement, not only
to the evidence of his little crew, but to the hole
pierced in the schooner's bulwark, the round bit cut
out of the upper of his boot, and the dark bruise
left upon his foot. He feels naturally indignant at
the conduct of the person who fired upon him, and
observes upon the hardship of his being innocently
exposed to the danger of losing his life and leaving
his wife and children without a protector, through
the wanton recklessness of a person acting under
the ostensible sanction of authority. Other ship-
masters may at any time be placed in a similarly
dangerous position, and he thinks the conduct of
the ' officer' should engage the attention of his supe-
riors. The man, according to his statement, was
labouring under considerable excitement at the
time. The Sally Ann is at present lying at Patrick's
Quay."