New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-03-07
PKACE-NIAKING IN MEXICO.

the possible future OF anairB In NeIlcO must
made at considerable hazard. Unsafe as ma
be the guidance of the Cuban official journals
We have been taught that their reports are
comparatively greater value than those "hic
purport to come to US directly, at intervals, b.
overland channels. The letters, moreover, o
our correspondents are more or less either tn
siftings-as applied to alleged facts-of tho Ha
vana press, or gesnings from sources wnicl
represent, in a measure, the sympathies
the allied powers. The Judgments. therefore
which are formed here are necessarily baset
upon statements which we have no other meant
of strictly verifying than by comparison Will
the few data which do. not admit OF doubs, Oh
by as close an analysis as may be applied Il
each successive batch Of semi-ofiicial and one
sided news. Applying these rules to the IN
teigence brought by the Columbia, viz Ha'
vana, we can with difficulty reach any other
conclusion than that, on grounds OF e1pedlency
if not of treacherous comprOmise-the repre-
sentative acting for the Mexican Government
at Soledad gives up the cause OF Independence
for lost, and is shaping bis course to accept
not merely the treaty stpulations which were
spurnsd by the President in July last, but along
with these such political arrangements-even to
the establishment of monarchy-as may be de-
manded by the allies.
The story, as reported in our last issue, ii
this: A preliminary conference-whether sug.
gested BY tho Allies or the Mexican authoritie'
does not appear-was held at Soledsd on the
18th ult. between Gen. Prim, representing the
three Powers, and Gen. Degollado, Foreign
Minister under the Juarez Government. At THU
conference, which is said to have lasted four
hours, and to have been of q most friendly
character, the preliminaries were settled fol
the immediate occupancy of Cordova, Orizabn,
and Tehuacan, respectively, by the English,
Spanish, ard French forces; for the opening o.
immediate negotiations at Orizaba; for the re-
turn Of the Allied army TO Vera Cruz, in the
event of failure in the object of the con-
ference; and for the restoration, while ths
negotiations are in progress, Of the Mexican
flag 70 the Castle Of San Juan D'UllOa.
Taken BY themselves, these preliminaries and
the prospective Convention may DO held t.
contain but little which is alarming for ths
political future of Mexico. But We have Il
remember that our previous report from Vers
Cruz left the Allied Army there in an alarmingly
unhealthy state--n no condition, either, from
that cause, and from their comparatively iso
lated position, to drive hard bargain with the
.Juarez Government. This removal, therefore,
at once places the Allios in . position strate.
gically of great value. without their having to
forfeit q single life; and at the opening Of the
sickly season in its vrulence, they have a free
passage to high and comparatively salubriOua
ground. II is true, these manifest advantages
are, in part, modified by the alleged stipulation
that, ON a failure Of pacific negotiations. the
status quo ante shall be resumed; but he mus,
be q credulous diplomatist who docs not zee
how easily such a provision may be evnded
and how the law Of force, which is the pr
mary principle in oil this Intervention, will re-
sumo its full sway the moment the Convention
appears to fail to meet the Allied purposes.
If peaceful negotiation were really meant, Of
if there were no infdelity to the cause of indie
pendenco in the concessions made by Juarezl
deputy, the health Of the Allied forces might
have been as well consulted by . cruize OF
board tho shps.Of-war in the Gulf, as on thu
high grounds OF the interiors and the contract
ing parties in the Convention would then have
met on entirely pacific ground. 1t may be pos
able to explain the honesty of the intention,
which lie at the basis Of the proposed Conven
ton, on the grounds proposed by the Allie,
and accepted by Gen. Degollado but the case
dc it stands, gives rise 10 the very worst sus
picions. And these suspicious, moreover, are
strengthened BY the concurrent report that the
war between the domestic factions has broker
out anew; and that while Gen. Prim, in com
pany with the deputies Of France and England
! is bargaining with the Mexican Foreign Minis
ter at Orizaba for the surrender Of the nstiOna
rights Of the Republic, the Church party under
Gen. Marquee renews the war against tho con
stituted Government--probably in the hope o
selling its influence at the proper time to III,
| imported monarch at the highest price, an,
regaining its full title to tho property so lon,
enjoyed by the hierarchy. We may misinter
pref the news in some Of its features; but it
general bearing surely augurs little for the in
dependence Of Mexico.
THE HARBOR.LlNE.