The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-06-25

and paid by collectors. Their duties are to be
to act as assistants.
Fourth Assistant assessors, 10 be appointed
by assessors. Their salary Is fixed at three
dollars per day, in addition to which they will
receive the same commission as assessors.
FJM-Inspectors Of liquors, &C., to be APP
pointed by collectors, whose duties will be to
measure and examine the proof Of liquors re-
moved fer sale, for which they are to receive
fees from the owner thereof, the extent OF
which il to be fixed by the Commissioner Of
Internal Revenue.
The officers above classified are to carry into
effect the provisions Of the bill, and are to be
held strictly accountable for their actions
Collectors, through whose hands must pass
very large sums Of money, will be required
to give heavy bonds for an honest performance
of their duties. In some districts 1t 10 probable
that bonds to the extent Of 5000, 900 or 100000
will be required. Our readers will find all the
information in respect to the Tax bill that they
may desire by consulting our issues Of yester-
day and to-day.
Tho Mexican Question I'm England and
France.
Among the news from Europe by the Etna,
which arrived here yesterday, there ore some
highly interesting points about Mexico, bearing
out our suggestion in last Mondays paper, that
the breaking up Of the treaty Of London and
of the convention of Soledad Is but part Of
the programme secretly agreed on from the
first by the conspirators Of France, England
and Spain, who mediate the overthrow Of re-
publican institutions in Mexico, and the erection
Of monarchy on their ruins, that step by Ma
poleon being only preliminary to the joint
action of the three Powers in destroying the
republic Of the United States, il we only give
them fair chance.
If they had openly entered into . treaty at
first to subvert the independence of Mexico
and to establish the monarchical idea on this
continent, Mexico would have too soon taken
the alarm, the United States would have been
prematurely reused, and even the democratic
element in Europe would become troublesome
and dangerous. But they pretended that their
sole object was to collect just debts, which they
could not recover in any other way, and
that they had no intention whatever of
meddling with the right Of the Mexicans to
choose their own form Of government and their
own rulers. But no sooner does the French
army, by treachery and bad faith, get beyond
the fortified pass Of Chiquihuite, than the Lon
dohtreaty is cast to the winds, and the agree
ment of Soledad, by which the French troops
we're permitted to occupy Orizaba, is perfdious-
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nivance of the other two Powers, who permit
ted their authority to be used to entrap an indie
pendent nation into such position that its con-
quest was expected to be the sure result, and
its autonomy forever destroyed. Accordingly
| we find the Paris correspondent of the London
| Times, q journal in the interest Of the English
| oligarchy, under date of June 9, applauding
Napoleon for what he is doing. The writer
says:-''Credit should be given to the Emperor
for the best intentions in carrying out, on his
| own account, the present operations in Mexico.
Undeterred by the departure of the allies, and
u,olling to be bound by the restrictive conditions
| Of the London treaty, he persists in the praise
,oorthy effort to compel the Mericans to accept
the benefits of civilization, If not the very
i
disclosed, and the governments Of England
and France acquiesce in the overt act.
It may be . very "praiseworthy effort" on the
part Of Napoleon 10 compel free a is indepen-
dent nations to accept his ideas of civilization;
but the writer for the Times ought to know
that this is not 'liberty, fraternity and equali-
| ty," and is at antipodes with the principles Of
1889, or, in other words the principles of the
French Revolution. Well does the Revue des
Deur Mondes, the leading political periodical
of France, exclamation the France of 1873
contemplate for an instant imposing q mo-
narchical government on o republican nation
whatever cause of complaint be given to it by
the anarchy which prevails in it, Can France,
which has so cruelty suffered from foreign
pressure, cherish the impious design of plant
ing foreign government among any peoplen'
But when intelligence reaches the Emperor
Of France that his army has been not only de-
feated, but cut off from achievements and
supplies, his eyes will have been opened to the
difficulty of the enterprise he has undertaken
The news Of the disaster to his troops had
reached England by the Niagara; but there
was no time to ascertain its effects
whom the steamer sailed for New
York. The effect upon the Emperor's
mind cannot fail to be heightened by the fact
admitted by the Paris correspondent of the
London Times, already quoted, that ''you will
hardly fall in with single person lin France)
who speaks encouragingly and hopefully Of
the enterprise" and "the regeneration Of Mexi-