The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-06 00:00:00

:MEXICO.

A correspondent of the Baltimore Commercial
wrote from the City of Mexico, Feb. 23, 1868 :
" Mexico is losing friends daily. Her treatment
of creditors is atrocious. General Sturm, who fur-
nished arms during the war, remained here for
three months attempting to adjust his claims. A
few months since he left with not a dollar in
money, but earnest promises to pay. Mr. Tift, a
New York banker, and firm friend of the Republic
in the trying times of the intervention, is still here,
and his claims are yet unsettled. Hundreds of
others—principally Americans—still wait from
day to day, and the prospect ahead is not the most
pleasing one. The right party is not at the head of
affairs, and the policy pursued is destined to wreck
the concern, sooner or later." The conspiracy
against the life and authority of Juarez he thus
describes :—" The plot was discovered in time to
prevent the tragedy. Colonel Esteves, and most
of the officers of the 7th Regiment of the line, were
connected with the plot. Esteves was to shoot
Juarez iu his box at the theatre. Iturbide, on the
night of the 17th, and another officer, in command
at the palace, were to dispose of the Ministers.
The would-be assassins not being aware of dis-
covery began to carry out the plan as the evening ad-
vanced. Esteves was arrested as he entered the
theatre, and the rest secured at the same mo-
ment. The conspirators are now in irons, and will
be tried very soon. Papers and letters were seized
at the same time detailing the plan, and that Santa
Anna was implicated, and also General Negrete.
Up to this time the public knows nothing as to
the ramifications of the plot, but rumour has it that
many accomplices are scattered over the coun-
try, and that other regiments and many pro-
minent persons were active in the commission
of the act. It is known that if the conspira-
tors succeeded, a plan of liberty was to be
proclaimed, and another man called to fill the
Presidential chair. Whether Santa Anna him-
self was to resume his old place is unknown as
yet, but the facts will appear on the trial, and in
the publication of the papers which are now being
examined for that purpose. Excitement, of course,
was intense ; and the respectability of. the parties
concerned makes it a matter of the most serious
character. It is no individual affair, nor the work
of a few enthusiasts ; but a plot conceived, and
was on the point of consummation, by men of rank
and position—the very body guard of the Presi-
dent, and guards of the palace. These are the
facts as officially stated in the Government
paper. A general distrust is apparent—distrust
of the Government in the management of public
affairs, in the capacity and honesty of Juarez
and of his Cabinet. The people have been
wrought up by continued usurpations—usur-
pations in the States—and the Government here
unable or Unwilling to interfere. The infamous
proceedings at Sail Louis and Guerrero, Sinaloa,
and other States have not ceased, and yet before the
general indignation has been half exhausted a new
monstrosity appears in the gubernatorial election
in the State of Puebla. There were four candidates,
one opposed to the policy of Juarez. That one,
Mendez, beat all his competitors put together at the
polls. The Legislature, now in session, immedi-
ately declared that there was no election, and with-
out proofs or investigation proceeded to elect the
man of its choice, and the man, too, whom Mendez
led in the 30,000 votes. And when a town of that
State, stung by the wrong, pronounced against this
usurpation of power, the leading organ of the Go-
vernment hopes that the people will not be induced
to resist, but submit quietly. The Government
here is silent upon the subject, and permit, with-
out a word of rebuke, this flagrant violation of law.
Who is so dull as to doubt its complicity in all these
abuses and usurpations ? The revolution and
anarchy that are abroad iu the land—aye,
and more desperate modes of redress sought— fin now
legitimately from misgovernment, incapacnittyis,in nn
duplicity, e latter
duplicity, and the utter absence of
those who profess to execute the ltanwns.mp
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of the conspiracy will be shot, rut
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drifting upon a de-
heading for the reefs, rapidly _ anrhl leadersehere
lieves that the end is yet. The Government is
the lights of the Republic, and
eluted a panic among
structive shore. The tempted assassination pro-
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