The New York herald., 1862-12-10

papers. Besides this, n Il were not for this
corporation patronage, two-thirds Of the radi-
cal organs in this city would speedily die Of
starvation. The wise conservatives In oar city
government are, therefore, not only assisting tho
enemies OF their own party and Of the country,
but are actually responsible for their exist
once. Such an anomaly can be accounted for
upon no hypothesis except that Of conscious
dishonesty. Those conservatives who aid in
supporting radical papers must do so because
they have been guilty Of some jobs or pecu-
lations which they are anxious to conceal
from the public; and the Corporation adver-
tising thus takes the form Of bribe. Turn
this disposition Of tho city advertising into
every possible light, therefore, and it is
equally obnoxious As a party measure it is
supporting the organs Of the opposition. As
public measure 1t il wasting the money Of
our Citizens upon papers Of small circulation
and thus putting the Corporation advertise
msnts where nobody can see them. AS any
thing else, it is bribe for concealing or
abetting some past, present or intended
wickedness. We hope and expect that tho
newly elected Corporation officers, who as
sume power on the lst Of January will
make an immediate reform in this matter.
1t is quite time for such . reform, and it
should be inaugurated with the new Corpo-
ration and the new year.
Our Relations with France ana
Mexico.
In recent adyices from Vera Cruz. which ap
peared in our columns, il was stated that the
French government had given orders for the
purchase In the United States of one thousand
mules, with their harness, and Eve hundred
We had previously been informed Of very
large orders for machinery and materie' for the
military railway now being constructed from
Vera Cruz to Cordova, and it is not long since
several vessels were openly chartered aud
freighted in this port for account of the French
government, with general supplies for the use
Of the army of invasion in Mexico.
As Mexico is country with which we are
at peace, and as we have no treaty Of alliance.
with France in her crusade against republican
institutions on this continent it appears TO us
that these are very grave announcements. And
tiasl'uch as Mexico is our neigbbor, and is re-
pt',sic, established under institutions in the
per1aucncy Of which we have deep
and vital interest, peculiarly at this mo-
men sud as the openly avowed and
repeatedly and officially declared purpose
of France in Mexico is to overthrow The logiti-
mate constitutional government established
under these institutions, it appears to us that
II our government is unmindful of its
plain duty in the premises this state
the part Of Congress to ascertain whether, in
this instance, our neutrality is only for the
benefit of the strong and against the weak:
whether what we demand Of England is ref, .ed
to the prayer Of Meyico and whether, white
we ore rigidly refusing to permit .id
in any form to go to our sister repub-
lie, We are to allow France to have the
advantage OF making the United States her
hSse Of supplies in her operations against
sexico, with the privilege OF drawing from
htIe that natesicl Of war which otherwise she
,uld have to bring from three thousand miles
across the Atlantic, at far greater expense of
sme and money. In other words, are we to
aid France to acquire possession Of Mexico
to place there a French army Of forty thou
sand, eighty thousand, perhaps one hundred
THOUSAND men and is this the time to do it?
The public mind has not yet sufficiently
awakened to the fact that there Is to-day an
army of forty thousand Of the best soldiers of
Europe, under the direction Of its greatess
military Power, landed on the shores Of Ame-
rica, in hostile array against republican insti-
tutions, within the territory Of our nearest
neighbor, and not four days sail from the
mouth Of the Mississippi, and that this army
three times larger than the former entire
standing force of the United Statcs---bscked by
q powerful fleet, belongs 10 the Power which
has just spoken to The world Of the "Con
federate States" not using tho usual designa-
tlon Of sO-callcd, and Is scarcely concealing,
under hypocritical lamentations over "ths
sffi,sion Of blood" its obviously determined
purpose, il circumstances continue as at pre-
sent, 10 spesdily recognize End perhaps aid the
south. Al this moment, too, comes to US the
views, both from Mexico and from Europe, Of
further Rxench expedition Of eight thousand
men to occupy Sonora, long known to have
been eagerly coveted by Napoleon for its iu.
calculable mineral wealth.
These plain, material facts and past expe-
rience forbid US to shut our eyes and rest
upon blind confidence in the friendly feeling
Of any European Power, much less in that Of
France. France is every day acquiring q
greater and greater stake upon this continent
as II advances in its possession of Mexico
and II well knows, as docs all the world, that
its tenure Of that possession depends entirely
upon the disruption Of our Union being made
permanent. An alliance with the South would
secure its possession Of Mexico, and probably,
in the opinion Of Europe, achieve the inde-
pendence of the Confederate States, while at