The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-02-09

The latest advices from Mexico are to the 18th
Of January, and of more than ordinary inn
portance, as showing that the successful orontn-
ctamieto of RoBLEs, instead of promoting a settle
ment of existing difficulties, has resulted in ma
king matters worse than they were before. MIRA
MON, who had been chosen President of Mexico by
the Junta assembled for the express purpose of
selecting successor to ZuLoAGA, without either
declining or accepting the honor that had been
conferred on him. suddenly made his appearance
IN the capital, on the 29th of January, and, dis
placing RoBLEs from the Office of Provisional Pre-
sident, reinstated ZuLoAGA in power In thus
acting, MIRAMoN has been governed solely by prll-
dental motives. The English and French Minis
tiers regarded ZULoAGA as the legitimate
President, who still numbered among his
staunchest supporters many of the most
influential members Of the Church party
What course RoBLEs will adopt, now that all his
plans for bringing about compromise between
the hostile factions have so signay failed, appears
at present to be undetermined Animated with
the best intentions in the world he undertook TO
reconstruct the Government upon popular basis.
but suddenly found himself ''hoised with his own
''petard' His efforts to harmonise the differences
existing between the Liberals and the Church
party, produced no other result than to render him
an object of suspicion to both. The Junta that as
sembled at the capital in obedience to his sum-
mons, instead of eecting him to the Presidency
as he had every reason to expect they would
merely invested him with provisional authority
until MRAMoN, who was chosen to that office, should
arrive from Guadalajara. MIRAMoN repudiating
alike "the programme of Noche Buena, and the
bases OF the Junta," comes back at the head of a
thousand cavalry, and restores the old order of
things. For the present he has reinstated ZuLoAGA
He does not wish to be President; his ambition
takes higher range. Heaspres to the Dictatorship
and he well knows that the man he has elevated
to Supreme power he can pull down again
at any moment. In the meantime, he de-
sires to stand well with the clergy, not only be-
cause OF the influence they exert over the popular
mind, but because it is to them only that he can
LOOK for the means of carrying on the war against
the Liberals His next movement, it ia rumored,
will be against Vera Cruz. If he could succeed in
capturing that port and in garrisoning San Juan
dUlloa, there can be no doubt that, with the ad-
ditonal resources which he would then have at
his command, the position of the contending parties
FIJI, however, whether be could take Vera Cruz by
coup de main, even if he should attempt it, for
the town is well garrisoned and amply provided
with munitions of war; while, to undertake pro-
racted siege at this of the year. is out of the
question: as the uoto will make its periodical ap-
pearance in that region few weeks hence 1t is
noticeable moreover that the troops of the Central
Government have never yet been able to penetrate
in force beyond certain limits. In every attempt
TO put down the instruction in Northern
Mexico, they have halted at San Luis
Potosi, without venturing to cross the
rugged and waterless desert which separates the
latter city from Saltlo. So with respect to Vera
Cruz-the Federal troops have rarely gone beyond
Jalapa Whether MIRAMoN will risk the laurels he
has already won, in consideration of the stake at
issue, Is a question which the next advices from
Mexico will decide. 1t is not at all improbable
that the hopes entertained at the capital of fail
nre on the part of JUAREz comply with the Joint
demands OF the English and French admirals. NAV
have induced MlRAMoN TO plan the expedition
az ainst Vera Cruz, at time when he supposed
that JUAREz would be embarrassed by the presence
of foreign feet. If this were so, the amcabe
adjustment of the difficulty must have already
shown him that he could gain nothing from the
incidental assistance on which he may have relied
for success. 1t is evident, nevertheless, from the
tenor of his letter to ROBES, rejecting the pronua-
ciaie'to OF the oath of December, that he is per-
fectly conscious that the Central Government can
never acquire any real strength, or the war be
brought to an end, while the Liberalists
retain possession of Vera Cruz As affairs
now stand the prospect of conquering a
peace seems remoter than ever The jurisdiction
of the Centrasts still continues to be restricted to
the valley of Mexico and the departments adjacent