Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-05-30
Foreign Intervention In Mexlco-Her
p .litIcaI situation TO INFLUENCE the
DestinY OF the WOrld--Approachtn
Fall Of the Republic 20 a european
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From the London Times, May 49, !,

From the London Timer, may lJ' q.
In reply to question from Mr.. Butt, Lord
John Russell announced, on the 10th OF May,
that Sir Charles Wyke, our Plenipotentiary 70
Mexico, has taken out precise instructions to
enforce the conventions under which certain
proportion,of the custom duties are hypothecat.
/ ed for the payment Of the interest Of the debt.
Supposipg these instructions to be vigorously
acted upon, the bondhodere, whatever may hap.
pen in iuture, will be certain regularlyto re.
ceive portion OF their dues. The chief thing
requisite is that some person should be definitely
appointed to supervise the receipts, and prevent
| the frauds and evasons habitually tolerated or
encouraged by the officials. The service OF
such an Individual would be no less valuable to
the State than to the English creditors, aud the
i necessity for the appointment Is too obvious to
allow Of It's being resisted. The country, even
| in the midst Of anarchy, continues rich IN all
kinds of productions, and iulportations Of Euro
pean take place eren IN the iuorst
times. A total suspension OF dividends, there
fore, is thing that can never occur except from
culpable indifference on the part of the British
Government In enforcing claims, which arejust as
clear and undisputed as would be the right OF an
Englishman resident In Paris to O plot Of land
house, or bond he may have purchased from
the authorities. In the event of peace being
maintained, experience shows that the proyi-
sions made for the bondholders might soon be
nearly sufficient, and that at an ordinary rate
of progress 1t would become ample, especially
! If the government can be induced 10 improve
the tariff in the beat manner toencoura age trade
Meanwhile the ,secularization of, the church
/ lands, If it should work only fraction Of tn,
a good that has resulted from analogous proceed
ings in Spain, s calculated TO lay the foundation
} for great increase Of prosperity. On the othe
a hand, assuming the republic to fau beneath h
. spay of France or Spain--absorption by the Uni
ted Statei, thich, if honestly accomplished, ,cOult
haue been regarded ttDO or three years back III
i satisfaction, being nop out Of the question:
= there would, at least, be the prospect Of It's f.
0, nances being sustained, since even the latte
d Power would scarcely like to increase the stall
8, of confscation by which she is at present degra
Q ded. OF course such q contingency as the sur
0, render of the republic to a European Stat
q, could not arise except as consequence o
le ministerial indifference here, but the adroi
spl way in, which the seizure Of st. lDoming
I has been contrived, suggests vigilance I
)f every quarter. There ID no country to whic
rel Mexico herself turns with such eopfdent
.el as 10 Enqland, eince she knows that Eng
id land desires only her independence and growth
a. lbut, the last dregs of anarchy having bee
ID drunk IL is plain that, without support of som
to kind, she will fall to any nation that chooses
1e Hay q plot for the purpose and to win her with
d. out blows. That land richer than any othe
to in mineral wealth, situated in the very ceutre
6 the commerce of the world, and forming th
ii natural highway for the greater portion Of th
he traffic between the East and the West, car
as amid the changes that are now taking place,
Of alloiosd much longer to continue an ihpting pre-
be out of the question; and If those who are mo-
,ft interested in her welfare seek only TO be pc
IL mitted to remain untroubled with her affair
es they must not complain If they find others le
~ passive. In few weeks the public will prob
to bly, learn in what direction and with what Wig,
l the powers Of Sir Charles Wyke have been ex
". lercised In any case there can be little doul
l. that, small as has been the attention which En-
re lish politicians have hitherto been disposed
ue give to Mexico, the events Of 1861 in that qua
ter toll be of no mean importance in their bsarin
Co. commercial, political and religious, on the dest
ew mics of the toorld.