New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-03-10
employed in starting the Mexican Intervention is only

BRUSH government huect 10 DO eurprseu NJ ana
sink ont Of the execution of the nefarious scieme
planned by themselves. II ia the latter part Of the
business propose dealing with for the present.
On The 18Th December 1861, hlr. Isiuriz, the Span
ISL Fmbassador at London, submitted 10 John Rus
cell note including the instructions sent by the
Captain General Of Cuba to the Spanish commanders
o, the head Of the expedition to Mexico. Jonh
Russell shelyed the note and kept silent. On
the 23j December, Mr.. Isturiz addresses him new
note protesting TO explain the reasons that had IN
duced the Spanish expedition to leave Cuba before
the arrival of the English and French forces. John
usso again shelves the note and persists in his tact
turn attitude. Mr.. Isturiz, anxious to ascertain
whether that proracted restrain, Of speech unusual
in tie verbose upshoo Of the house Of Bedford means
possibly uscbief, urges personal interview, which
granted to him, andtakes place 9TH Of January.
John Russell had now for more than month been
| fully acquainted with the onesided opening Of the
operations against Mexico on the part Of Spain. A
month had almost past since the event had been
officially communicated 20 him by Mr.. Isturiz With
all that in his pertonal interview with the Spanish
ambassador, John Russell breaks no word breathing
the elightest displessure or astonlshment at the
precpitate steps taken by Gen. Serfano," nor leave
his utterances the antest impression on the mind OF
Mr. Isuriz that all was not right and that the Span
ish proceedings were not fully approved OF by The
British Government The Cas,ilian pride OF Dir.
Isturz shuns, of COURSE any notion Of Spain being
pl.yed with by her powerful allies and made mere
caispayy of. Yet the time of the meeting OF Par
Lament approached, and John Russell had now TO
pen "A series of dispatches, especially intended LOT
for international business, but for Parliamentary con-
sumption. Accordingly, on the 10th Of January, he
pons dispatch inquiring in rather angry tones,
about The onesded initiative vertured upon by SPAN.
Doubts ard scruples, which for longer than month
had slnubered in bis bosom, and had not even ma
tured into symptoms Of existence tue 9Th Of Jan
uarv. during his personal interview with Mr..
Isuriz al at once disturb the serene dream
Of tlat confident, sincere and unsnspecting
fta,csnan. Mr.. Isturiz feels thunders,ruck, and In
Lis reply, dated January 10, somewhat ironically re-
mind. lis Excellency Of the opportunities missed
hy him Of giving vent to bis posthumous spleen
He PAYS in fact his Ezcelency ia bis own coin, az
sumug in Lis justification of the initiative taken by
So,in. the same air of naivet6 Lord John R1sseii
aft. c'ed in lis request for an explanation. The
! Capain.Geneial Of Cuba" GAYS Mr.. lsturiz, came
/ 'Vera Cruz Besidea' and here he pnehes Lord
John, "the expedition had been for long time
ready on every point" although the Captin-'en-
eral. till the middle Of December, wac unae-
ouainted with tie details of the treaty and with the
point fixed for the meeting Of the equsdrons Now,
Tie treaty was not concluded before the 10Th OF NO
vember Ii, then, the Captain-Ge General had his ex-
ned;,ion for long time " ready in every point be-
fore the middle of December" the orders originally
sent ont TO him from Europe for starting the e1ped-
ton Lad no, waited upon the treaty. In other words
,ba o,iyinal sprsenent between the three Powers,
.,d,tes,er,tsken IN its execution, DID no, wait
uron tie treaty, and differed in their "details from
tie clauses of the treaty, which, from the beginning
wc., intended not no rule Of action, but only as
decent formulas necessary 10 conciltate the public
mind "a the nefar0us SCI eme On the I'D January,
John Ruese replies to Mr. Isuriz in rather bluf
mole intimaiiug 10 him that " the British Govern
men, WIS rot eafrey satisfied with the explanation
offered" but at the same time would not suspect
Spain Of the foohardness Of presumlng to act IN the
/ teeth Of England aud France Lord John Russell,
so sleepy, 70 inactive, for whole month,
lecomes all lifo and wide awake es the
Parliamentary session rapidly draws near. No
time ia TO be los, On the 18th of January no has
personal interview with Count Flahault, the French
ambassador at London. Flahsult broaches to him
lie ilLomenei news tha, bis master considered il
necessary " to send an additional force to Mexico"
that Spain by Ter preoipitate initiative had spoiled
the mess; that " the allies muet now advance 10
The interior Of Mexico, and that not o1y
the forces agreed upon would now prove
insufficient for the operation but that tho operation
Itself would assume character in regard TO which
Louis Bonaparte could not allow the French forces
TO be in position of inferority to those of Spain,
run the risk of being compounded" Now, Fla
haults augmentation was anything but conclusive.
If Spain had oyerstepped tho convention, single
note to Madrid from the quarters Of ST. Tours ami
the Tuileries would have sufiiced to warn her off
her ridiculous rretensions and drive her back to the
modest part imposed upon her By tie convention.
Bat no. because : ain has broken the convention
n breach merely formal and Of no consequence, since
her premature arriynl at Vera Cruz changed nothing
in the protested aim and purpose Of the expedition
because Spain had presumed to east anchor at Vera
Cruz In the absence of the English and French for
cea there remauedno other issue open to France but
10 follow in the track of Spain, break also the con-
ven.ion, aud augment, not only her expe6itionary
forces but change the whole character Of the opera
ton. There was, Of courfe, no pretext needed for
the Allied Powers to let the murder out, and on the
very outset of the expedition set at naught the pre-
texts and purposes upon which it was ostensIby
started Consequently, John Russell, although lie
regrets tie sep" taken by France, indoFses 1t by
telling Count Flalault that "he had no objection TO
Offer. Oh behalf OF her Majesys Government, to the
rgL4Yy e the French argument" In n dispatch