The Memphis union appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-07-17

PAR1s. June 81. 1852

1ARIs, June Il, 1867
The General Newspaper Suffrage on L1teruen-
ho's-ls France Unanimous on the Subject
In EFortto COrer up The MericdnF Failure.
The Constitutional has just published ~
article in which it is pleased to assume that,
because one hundred provincial journals have
inserted the propositions which it made last
week, advocating a conjoint interferencexof
the w estern Powers with the domestic strife
now prevailing ia the United States, these
same journals--1and, Is matter of course,
tneir readers-approve its policy. I presume,
by the number mentioned, the semi-oficisl
journal isciudes the provincial press Of Eng
land.
Indeed, it is most untrue that anything ap-
preaching to unanimity or majority of senti-
ment prevails in France in favor of the policy
of intervention. Wherever I go, and what
ever correspondence am permitted to pefuse,
find rather determination not to be hood
winked by the selfish objects of England
What with the peculiar spirit exhibited by
England toward Italy when the object is that
France should have all the blows-physical
and moral-andu England all the good will
and commerce obtained by the expenditure of
words only, what with the soreness felt by the
protectionist class Of France, who plainly see
that free trade is simply the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
OF England at the expense of other countries !;
and what with the disgust felt by Englands
withdrawal from Mexico at moment when
the honor of France was concerned and which
has since been dragged ANONYMOUSLY in the
dust England, l really think, never stood
much lower IN French estimation.
1t is not, therefore at such q time that
France desires to risk the good will of Amer
lea, whom In her youth she assisted to obtain
Independence; and l again repeat notwith-
standing this feeler of tie Constitutional and
certain gossipping tone assumed by M. Persig-
ny, that the government will be very slow to
make or meddle in a quarrel which every one
feels America is deciding for herself.
Much Of this dirty work of the semi-official
organs is done in order to plaster up the mat
ter of the Mexican expedition. To eompen-
sate for sending out 10000 troops to Mexico
in order to place an Austrian Prince on Re-
publican throne, France is to be humbuged
with the idea that somehow or other, through
their fundamentally, the jealousies of Lyon
Rouen and other emporiums dependent on the
supply of cotton, are to be set going; that
France will mediate while 20, 600, or per-
haps $4,000 Of her troops present respectable
demonstration to their title to a share in "a
gr11lde nations
Frenchmen have an especial dislike to being
checked" of course. Such word as " beat
en- is not in her vocabulary; and now that the
ferences, and resolved TO fight common enc
my, France chews the leek with no good grace
Gen. Forey, who distinguished himself in the
Crimea, by exposing himself to some peculiar
suspicious Of tampering with the enemy, is K
have the command. With him viii be Lo
rencez and Donai each of whom is to havt
q division. Admiral Jurien de la GravierG
returns from Paris TO his naval station il
Mexico, and f2,o0e new troops viii be soon c,
route. Between six and seven millions ster
ling the Spanish war indemnity of ls23-ha
recently be paid into the French Treasury
and it has come in very useful for the war.
Letters which | receive from Algiers stat
that quite commotion has been caused anon,
the troops in that colony, where, from the tran
quill state of the Arabs, troops have little TO d
except road making. Gen. Forey's name wa
long since mentioned there as the most prob
able for the Mexican command. The LIST reg
iment Of Zouaves, from Algiers, is going, and
it is said, the regiment of Chasseurs, with IA
foreign legions from the same colony.