The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-02-16
FROM MEyICO

We have dates from the City of Mexico to the
3lst ult. and from Vera Cruz to the 4th inst The
principal item of news appears to be that Mira
mon has raised a considerable amount of money,
nearly half million of dollars for his projected
attack on Vera Cruz. 1t is said that he was obi
ged to give SIS, 100000 of bonds in exchange for
this sum, but this seems hardly probable. Indeed,
according to one account, $500 900 of the sum is
set down as from patriotic subscriptions, and
S26OOOO as having been loaned by the banker
Jecker.
But this is the only triumph which Miramon has
won lately. His forces are beaten on all hands,
and It'll probable that if he attacks Vera Cruz, it
will be at the expense of the City of Mexico itself
The guerrilla force of Aureliano now frequent
ly makes its appearance at Tlalpam, less than
dozen miles from the city. About Touca, which
is not 30 miles away, strong Liberal force is
sembied, and there are reports that that important
place has fallen; and finally, Alvarez has informed
the Liberal Government at Vera Cruz that he will
join this body with 1000 men, which will
raise the Constitutional forces within striking dis
lance of the capital to nearly 1000, as the Mexi-
cans count. In Michoacan the Liberals claim 900
men under arms, and a number of small victories,
near the northern border of that State; in Jasco,
that with several thousand troops thew have COM
PEELED Gen. Wool to retire from Guadaaiara; and
that Ortega has taken Zacatecas; and that while
Helez was hgrrying from San Luis to the succor of
Zacatecas, CARA, the Liberal leader in Tamauli-
pas, slipped in and took possession of San Luis.
In the southeast the two Cobos at the head Of
the Church forces were badly beaten on the 23d
and oath ult and the Liberal possession of Oaxaca
is scarcely disturbed. Indeed, the Juarez govern
men seems now to be in full possession of the 18TH
mus of Tehuantepec.
Toward Vera Cruz Miramon has clear way only
for about so miles; his forces have just suffered
seriously at Tlascala from the lances of Carbaials
cavalry.
To sum up, it would appear that the Liberal gov
eminent is now so strong it hardly needs the
81 ,00O,0 600 with which Mr.. Buchanan is anxious to
support the Constitution and Juarez. The only
tO lia int ffantH hinbh
$500, 900 may have upon of the leaders of the
Constitutional party. 1t is not at all probable that
if serious defence be offered, he will be able to
reduce Vera Cruz, with the victorious Constitu-
tional troops of 0axaca threatening his flank and
Carbajal cutting off his communications before a
successful attack can be made by the Liberals upon
the capital of the country.
A RUSSIAN VIEW OF THE CHINESE OuEsrtox.-The
AJeWe du Nord of st. Petersburg publishes an ar
tcle on China, in which it endeavors to prove that
the English Government has been unjust towards
the Celestial Empire on more than one occasion.
The following is the conclusion of the article:
"What can European nations want in China but
security and liberty of commerce in the seaports
1t is there that the power of European nations can
be sensiby felt without being exposed to consider
able losses in men and money. Would it not be
better, instead of treating directly with an impo-
tent Government, to make arrangements with the
local authorities? Let the Pekin Gazette occupy
itself with chimerical attacks on Europeans, your
honor will not suffer. The principal object is to
convince the Mandarins in the provinces on the sea
coast that an exemplary chastsement awaits them
every time Chinaman shall commit crime, or
even an offence, against European. The popu-
lation in the interior laugh at the idea of inva
sion of their provinces. In opinion, it would
not be bad policy to accept the Emperor of Chna's
apology for the regrettable incident of Peho.
In this manner campaign in the interior of the
Celestial Empire might be avoided. At all events,
having obtained n way or
another, it will become necessary to revise the
treaty of Tien-Tsin, and substitute clauses favora
BILE to commerce, in place of those which are insult
ing to the Chinese, and cannot be executed. ANY
other arrangement will lead to permanent collisions
most injurious to trade"