New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-07-08

| TO return for paragraph to Mexico; day or
two after receipt Of the OF the fall OF Puebta,
the Consttationnei newspaper asserted Positively
that Government did not intend, and never had in'
tended TO send to Mexico the largo re-enforcements
which everybody believed land still beheves ten
DAYS ago were on the eve Of embarkstion for Vera
Cruz. The Const,tattosneFs statement was mace ~
time to affect if not for the purpose OF Affecting sne
voters at the deferred elections OF last Monday Inc
truth OF the case seems to be this: The nearly
completed preparations for the emberkation OF
10 900 troops more or less, are simply arrested.
The ships are kept ready in port and the men reaoy
to march thither, awaiting fuller reports from Gen:
Forey Marshal Duke OF Puebla, or OF Mexico thas
shall bel which will not reach here before the Isl
day OF July. Meantime am told, the ship.oi'war
Forfait Ia already at sea- bound to Acapulco by The
way Of Cape Horn. II carries, so report FAYE,
| enough military passengers ana mateiAi W
possession Of that town, and supplement OF mihns
engineers apt for the study and exploitation VI
adjacent mining country. -, H..
| heard this morning an Irish gentleman lneed
say that he was intelligent express IL as MS ah1
his countrymens opinion, 20 far ss ne nAa nslru nnu
read, that their conn,ryman Comonfort had for his
part BETRAYED Mexican right to French power. IL
was news 10 me that Comonfort Is an freshman
and the charge Of treacheTy WAS equally novel. Iae
novelist, should add. Is cultivated Irish Cathonc
priest, and utterly free from craftsmanship IN the
Franco. exican business.
We are anxious enough, as you may suppose,
about Grants GROWING success, although lie Is 30
lar from Washington. Oar latest news are your
latest Of 9th june, received yesterday. For The two
preceding days much was made OF report that had
made short submarine cut from San eminent com.
mercia house in New.York" 10 the London and
Paris newspapers to the effect that Grant had raised
the siege OF Vieksburg. Its direct effect along with
other appliances, was 10 raise the quotations OF the
Confederate loan TO within one per cent oi par.
DO you to know, now-s-days, what the
Grundy OF European public opinion says about US
1t il hopeful sign of developing self-respee OF the
substitution OF pTds for vanity, that a European
journalists ink 10 longer Affects us like oil OF vltiioi
on the raw. We getting skin. Yet, let US not
become insensibly pacAydermatous. European oIin-
ion If worth needing always, when II IS opinion
Intelligent spectators are, IN certain essential TO
spocts better placed than equally intelligent actorS
g. pass Judgment the play. lake case IN proof:
Do not you, johnson, being fairly Informed OF the
facts set up your judgment OF the significance OF the
Just past Paris elections as quite equsi III sonndness
to sav the least OF it-with the judgment OF Mon
sieur Dursrd heated, active csnvssser aud voter Ia
tho same / admit, Of course, that the Intelligent
American 10 exceptional IN his intelligence OF foreign
affairs. But ttill
Postula.ing that, among others, these three were
chief ends Of our civil war IRON tie Outset: Ierii'
torialy: recovery or rather, holding, OF the geo
graphical boundary OF the United States Of looJ
Politically: vindcstion Of national sovereignty, or
rather Of the very principle Of naIiona iiy OF EXIT
snce . nation. Morally; restriction III the hrst
instance and abolition IN the LONG run, OF slavery
forward and named, tie third ignored formally, and
nominslly rejected as purposed ends.
European opinion al trst blush, regarding The
material superiority Of the North, regarding the
supreme night rs well, and tie moral power thai
goes with il, Of Government 10 defend itself. re-
garding witha the great underlying fac; which at
the outset no failed 10 see or insncliycy e isel
that Southern Slavery and Northern Freedom were
the elements Of tho hostility between insurgents aud
Govsrnmen,-European opinion at bret blurh,
f.y flst f.ll
of conviction that We were strongest and that OF
conviction ths, were right. IL Is our fault not
Europeans fault tat those convictions have passed
to the state Of hope, doubt anxiety and hottie yow'
How they dld 80 pass, and how from n few uina
apologsts the Southern cause hns come 10 have BOLD
parlissns and eloquent advocates without number,
you know.
Iinco n's long delayed, unhappily qualified procla-
nation Of September inhrPosed the fret check to
/ the adverse current. The waste vildness OF The
howl about horrors Of St. Domingo showed that
the hsf-charged ball had struck our European enc
miss-we had let, had encouraged them 10 grow 10
be enemies-in the midrih. ionr correspondent,
happily for your readers, has just locked Of his
watch; fifteen minutes between now and mailing
time; long-crswn historical and logical cOncsie-
mated explanation and exegeHs become impossible;
ABRUPT ss,smept and shat IA form Of breiest index
generalization, rsked.l European opinion, on The
whole quite different in the beginning OF the second
wear OF the war from what II was ia the first year
il agsin changing. The territorial postulste is still
generally relscted as an extreme improbabiiy; the
vindiea,ion OF political sovereignty rosls about
where It always dad, on l. primary principle that
may he styled the soul of any possible body polite;
the foolshly bbndly, unrecognned, hushed.up un.
named and unnsmeabe, denied, re- ccted moral
quality Of the war Is at last coming to be,
in spite Of sOw-gong, honest dubiety, Of smart,
aunty poticasteTy, Of mad, popular prejudice, the
recognized essence OF the Of the is waged
for. There numerous indications that European
opinion is renclning 10 the probability even Of a
restored Union. htS rcsIing ON the possibility OF iti
ruling over q unity Of free soil l All sorry and
faced to say tha, tie Administrators Of our
Government are held in anything but respectful
TEEN by friends and enemies Of our iustiiu tons.
The essential characteristics Of the Government
! i,self are getting 10 be better appreciated. As
gentlemen said TO me the other day, why, Mon
! Uleu 4 French Government could not exist through
the " eek with such chisfs yours has endured aud
even carried on q with for two years"
Victor Hugo Rteo"ta par n" lemon de La We
| 10 published at laAt. The two most enhancing
volumes that have Issued from tho French press
since their author's husband signed bis ION s,rer
10 the proof sheets OF Les Mserablss You count
on the fingers Of hand all the literary biographies
that are worthy 10 come Into comparison with II for
bswitching Issdatleness, for value a. IN hissorco
psychological study o. the growth Of great intel
leet Ii can DO said Of few Of the notasles OF the
world q truly as Of Hugo that tho boy was father
OF the Reading those volumes you come to
love the boy much ~ you admire the man, and TO
TrtpcCb pOtu ~ you thieiy fosIoNs-V oias hsVo
reason 10 respect in their strictly personal private
character the celebrities Of literature. had marked
in my galop through tho volumes-broksn only by
gross want Of vctusl at yestsrdays break fast and
dinner for one day--marksd, in passing here and
there passage for quotation 10 todAys lottor. The
marked passages, see now, would occupy in trans
lation some two psgss Of your worst finest TKIBuSK
print In fact, half the frat volume and nearly all
the second is marked. Some kind soul some genial
| man. should quick translate them both entire for
the SOULS good Of American readers; not merely Of
dilettsDte 1overB or moro serious lovers Of literature
nor yet merely for curious students Of intellectual