New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-11-23

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T., HE that, among the many irons WHICH,
. -, the French public, Louis Bonaparte Is com
M % ALWAYS keep 10 the fire, Mexican Expe-
-, ~ have figured Il is sure that Spain,
oyerstro,g head has been quite turned
H.. hc, reeen, cheap successes in Morocco and ST.
Dominoo. dreams Of restoration in Mexico. But,
nevertheless il il certain that The French plan was
far from being INSURED, and that both France and
Spain strove hard against joint expedition TO Mex
leo under English leadership.
On Sept. "a, Palmeston's private Moniteur, The
London Morning Post, FIRST announced in detail the
scheme Tor the joint intervention, according to the
terms Of treaty just concluded, it said, between
England, France, and Spain. This statement had
hardy crossed the channel when the French Govern
ment, through the columns of the Paris Potrie,
gave il tie lie direct. On Sept. q, TIE
London Times, Palmerstons national organ, first
broke its silence on the scheme in leader con-
tradcting, but not quoting, the Pdtrie. Tile
Times even stated that Earl Russell had communi-
Gated to tie French Government the resolution ar
rived at on the part Of England OF interfering III
Mexico, and that NJ. De TbouveDe replied that the
Emperor Of the French had come 10 similar con-
cuson. Now il was The turn OF Spain. SEMI
Official paper Of Madrid, while affirming SPANS M
teption 10 NEEDLE with Mexico, repudiated az the
same time the idea of a joint Intervention with En-
gland. The d,mentis Were not yet exhausted. the
Times bad categoresly asserted that a" the full as
" sent Of the American President had been given 70
" the Expedition" All the American rapen taking
notice Of The Times article have long since contra
dicted it's assertion.
! Ii is. therefore, certain, and has even been ex-
pressy admitted by The Times, that the joint inter-
venon in its present form s Of English. C., Palm
erstonian-uake. Spain was cowed into adherence
by lie pressure of France; and France was brought
round by concessions made 10 her in the field OF
European policy. In this respect it isa significant
coincidence that Tie Times of November q, in the
yery number in which il the conclusion at
Paris Of a convention for The joint interference in
Mexico, simultaneously publishes a leader pooh
pooling and treating with exquisite contumeiy the
protest Of Switzerland against the recent invasion Oh
her tcrritory-viz., the Dappenthal-by French
military force. In return for bis fellowship IN The
Mexican expedition, Lonis Bonaparte has obtained
carte Uoache for his contemplated encroachments on
Switzerland and, perhaps, on other parts Of the Eu
rouean continent The transactions on these points
between England and France have lasted throughout
the whole of the months Of September and October
There exist ia England TO people DESTROYS Of an
intervention in Mexico save the Mexican bOndhold-
era who however had never to bOast the least sway
over the national mind. Hence the difficulty Of
breaking 70 the public the PalmestOnan scheme.
The next best means was 10 bewilder the British
elephant by contradictory statements, proceeding
from the same laboratory, compounded OF the same
{ in fha A
the animal.
Tie Morning. Post, in its print Of September 81,
announced that there would be ono territorial war
on Mexico" that the only point al issue was the
monetary claims on the Mexican exchequer; that it
would be impossible 10 deal with Mexico IS an
ora,uized and established Government" ard that,
CO. seQuoutly, " the principal Mexican ports wonld
" betemporariy occupied and their customs revenues
sequesiered."
/ Tie Times Of September q declared, on the con-
trary that to dishonesty, TO Reputation, to the
4" LEGAL and irremediable plumber Of our countrymen
10y the default Of a bankrupt community, we were
steeed by long endurance, and that, consequently
." the private robbery Of the English boudboldefs
Law not as The Post had it, at the bottom Of the IL
tefveuiion. While remarking, passasf, that " the
City of Mexico was sufficiently healthy, should II
a "be necessary to penetrate far" The Times
hoped, however that the mere presence Of Il COM
bned squadron in the Gulf, and The seizure Of
" tain ports, viii urge the Mexican Government 10
" Aec eXertons in keeping the peace, and wall con
vince the malcontents that they must eonfne them
" selves to some form Of opposition consttu-
" tionsl than bigandsge.' If. then, according 20
The POst, tue expedition was TO start because there
" exists no Government in Mexico, it was, accord
ing to TIE Times, only intended as encouraging aud
supporting the existing Mexican Government. To
be sure The oldest ever hit upon for the con
sodation of Government consists in the seizure Of
its territory and the sequestr;ion of its revenue
a Tie ZINES and The Morning Post having once
j given out the cue, John Bull then handed
70 the minor ministerial oracles, systematically beia-
boring him in the same contradictory style for fsur
weeks, until public opinion had at iast become suf-
fceuily trained TO the idea Of joint intervention in
Mexico although kept in deliberate ignorance of the
aim and purpose of that Intervention. AT last, the
transactions with France had drawn to TO an end
the Moniteur announced that the convention be-
tween the three interfering powers had been con
cluded on October 81 and the Journal des De6ats,
one of whose coprOpr;etos ia appointed to the COM
mand Of one of the vessels of the French equadron
informed the world that no permanent territorial
conquest was intended; that Vera Cruz and other
points on the coas were TO be seized advance TO
the capital being agreed upon in Gaze Of non-ccm-
p!iance by the constituted authorities at Mexico with
the demands Of the invaders; and that moreover, q
strong Government was to be imported into tho Re
pubic.
4 The Times, which ever since its first an
u,nnce,nent IN Sen.crler q seefnpd IN have for.