New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-07-09
TUE AMERICAN QUESTION.
r,o,o Ou Own Correspondent.
pAp,s lime II 1862.

F,efDO
PANS, June II, 1862.
Government il 10 longer able 30 deny that the
Wrench troops instead Of taking possession of Pneta,
NAV s, were checked, not 10 cay beaten, May 10 IN
An engagement with tire Mexicans tlis side Of thai
otv IL takes measures for Immediately paihog
forward re-enforcements that were 10 have been
sent only in October. There is great new onste a.
Toolon, and even at Brest they say-alnost more
come suspicious folks think, than ibe mere Mexican
Exped, ion, even with lie uew eXigencie~, seems 70
call for. Cochin China doubtless oilers oe'er e@-
planafion than the United states OF this increased
activity in the imperial navyyarts. Tue ttle check
10 the Ffencb army sefore Pueba, The embarrassing
1nd rossiblv dangerous pOsition Of Gen. LoTencez,
have now drawn public attention TO tie Mexican
Exrediop as fully as 1t has been hitherto turned 20
sny Of the absorbing European Questions. The
FNr.dtion certainly has not much gained il po1u-
'arity as yet by icing looked At, Tut Is fast gaining
popular support IF not favor il il be Napoleons
policy 20 turn Mexico, under he name Of protected
Republic or Monarchy, iuto French colony, he
could have invented 10 surer means Of procuring It's
adoption by the French nation, than the sacrifice al
the outset Of half the in adequate force sent 10
Mexico to rauCurate il. The s.. Naz4lre mail
steamer that brings the las. news from Vera Cruz.
brngs 10 Official reports from Gtr. Lorencsz, hi.
communications with that port beng intercepted ty
eueinlla banda OF course 0f kleyoa patriotic
counsel, nothing is TO Oe done Low but 10 reopen
these communications, hid continue the military
rosd to Mexico no luttiel at what cost. One o. the
ministers without portfolio told tie Committee on
lie BudCe- the Otber day that Government dlc no;
purpose to call for extra appropriations for this
Mexican business when Il meant 10 have done with
before The year closed. Debate on the Budget has
Lao eIrff 4. lr IN
easily understand how the news brought by the
steamer LOuis ana 10 So. No2are the OJher day will
he like 10 restrain tic Independent censGre OF tbs
Mexican XIedltiOn, winch Government would have
heard enough OF had tie debate opened ten days sQo.
And while the Liberals and most sensbly economic
Government Lien, in aud OGt OF tie Legislature, dis
approving much u ever the Franco
Mexican policy, feel now obliged from patriotism TO
materially support il, Il Is 10 DC noted that
his yolicv meets on tie whole the approval of the
purely rcacion,ry Church party. Tus last-naued
parry was, up 10 The time Of the Italian war; as ei-
faent a supporter o. Government me NapOleon.st
party pgOler. It's alienation, growing ever since
that date has forced Napoleon into sort Oi alliance
with the Liberal element IN the Dation, TO whose
growing influence be has been IN turn obliged to
yed more, probably, than was strictly asreea le to
LIS autocrtc tastes. IL Ii moi quite exirayagln;
hypothess that, In addition 10 tie cCnJectured mo-
lives vi hIs A4Ajcsty's uneXi h1ed policy lesIecun8
Mexico indicated IL ny last letter, there may lie in
tie cabinet Of his mind, this O. play ing of
b.s new Liberal friends against bis tate ReacuOna,y
friends, Of substituting Mexican iuicIs enuon for
Roman Intervention. Vbis present, like that Old
passinQ intervenrcn is Los lie 10 q Republic, and
favorable 10 the Church
! need not seek rhetorical form OF transition
FROM the FTancO-NeXcan 10 the FfsncO-Americsu
cuestion-ffom MeXic.ll intervention 10 American
mediation. The diplomatic Ike The goOgrsl hicsi
states OF The case, are coBtefElDoGs divided BY
line Of hardly api reCable breadth, Whatever thick
uess some congeniai brains may attribute 10 IL.
Ia pf "a ID Houses q
Of Commons last / Idsy evening carried 10 you
along with tie last Friday afternoons letter Of yOur
Pari. re, orier There lie 10 intention Oh the part
Of her Maestvs Government 10 mediate NJ ~ JTes-
-at u0mfnf." sid Earl Russell ia tire Lords. We
have at present TO intention Of Offering mediation
between the cOuteuding parues, SAID Lord ialmers-
ton in the Commons. Identical, prepared answers
10 ouestious 10th Ministers Knew were 10 be asked
whose common significant implications arctic con
TENDING parties are iuevOc.Uiy separated, but the
opportdne moment FOR friendly mediation I'd 10 their
future national line has not yet arrived. That
ia what tie two nswers mean. Tie Hahcs
are-I wac about 10 wrlte 0fne-tLe work OF
all French Government organs, nom the WOEitcUT
NJ o. down AID Of many others tere who would
gladly riay otter than Government tunes. Lord
pair's-.lon furthermore said, that tie English rad
recei,s 10 communication resPeotinH medihl3n
from thg French Government In go saying, Lord
Palmerston made q statement 81 undouOted literal
truth that probably no, even intended ~ convey
nm impresson OF absolute truth. Az that no said,
ali that be meant 20 say let us hope, Tor hi6 aged
,cll's te va THAI 10 formal diplomatic notes nal
lately PASSED between the French Ministry Of Foreign
Affair and the English Foreign O1ce having con-
lined mediation H. AUemc21 Affairs for their subject
matter To supYose hat new conversations, not unIu
rortaDt becaute informal, have not lately taken
,,ace between Persigly and tiahault on one side,
and E.fI Russell On the other, between Earl Cowey
and NJ IlOuyeuc, j. 10 suppose tia' these states
men and Louis Napoleon, gray-heeded and bald
headed practiiOEers IA stsecrdit, are hunk % the
inisntile naive, heedlessness Of second childhood
Perhaps our eily an lophobos will finally learn that
IL will be cur American OUty, and pleasure, and wise
policy, 90 soon 40 We have " crushed out the
ninety days Rebellion, 70 urash + rance ID vel ~
England.
Meantime, ci,atlant.c spectators Of our kmeri-
can civil waI-10B only spectators OF ihe govern
inq ciasees IimcrstO1s, Napoleons, aud tlAt sort,
smiling content IT. tic dress circle, IN plea an an
ticipatiou OF tragic deDouement 70 our republican
Jfaui--bul symUaililIu. spCcl atOrs aud even gen
eg0usly pagtisGn ciGgr@ and more important IMAM
either calm historical crIucs-hopstully, despair
Inelv studionals watching ia driit-aTc more than
inclined 30 predic. separation 20 lis Only possi-
Die conclusion.
Iisnot uleasaut ~ yonr reporter 20 Pet this down
ia black on white: bat hiseyosig1t and hea1Gg over
bear he eisa aud ,ili Struggle with them az you
will the facts remain. These intensely significant
facts remain 20 vii: that all or Euro, eau friends,
all European friends of humanity aud Eglt aud
Justice. % our side and al our European enemies,
eu,Lui,s OF republics and deuOcracies ara calaciJy
Of men rs men % Judge for and govern theuieyer,
OIL tie other ..de, argue from common premises
that We furnish. Aud me North, our Union
SOyernue1t does not furnish premises 20 fdycI1O!e
tseemngly a. least, 10 he argument Of our 1Iends
a. % the afsu,neB, 81 our enemies.
To tskc "a ia'e instance, peculiarly represent
tive Instance, - proof. Two Or lhIes Gays ago t1e
S,tc.t uewsrarei-tbe mOsi widely circul,ed news
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