New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-04-14
MEXICO.

The news from Mexico which reached this
city yesterday had been looked forward to
with some curiosity as it was expected to
contain an account Of al actual attack of the
French upon Puebla, which was to take e)ace
on March IA. This expectation is disap-
pointed, for though we have intelligence from
Puebla to March ", we learn Of no change
of Importance in the situation. The French
were still in their former position before
Puebla, and continuing their preparations for
an attack.
Our Havana correspondent sends us numer-
GUS extracts from the official dispatches of
Gems Comonfort, 0rtega, and others, to the
Mexican Government. They express the full
est hope TO be able to repulse any attack
which the French General may make, although
they, at the same time, doubt that an attack
upon the city will be made at all. The Mexi-
cans claim to have been victorious in several
engagements, and it is, in particular, reported
that they attacked the laborers who were
working at the new railroad near Cordova,
and carried off all the Mexican laborers as
prisoners.
No new account rsaches US from the French
side. They carry on their operations with the
utmost secrecy. In Havana, where nearly the
entire press strongly sympathizcs with the in.
vasiOn Of Mexico an .unfayOrabls construction
was put upon this silence of the French. The
officiSFhspatches Of the Mexican Generals,
howsy4 make it probable that no serious re-
verso BIAS yet befallen the French and that
they were merely waiting because their prep
arations were not yet finished, and they did
not think the right moment for the attack to
have come.
While however, the French have little to
fear and much to hope from military rencoun.
ters, new enemy-the sickly Summer season.
ia again upon them. We learn that already
sickness has begun TO annoy them seriously
aud to thin their ranks. They will therefore
need re-cnforcements. The French Govern
ment will have to reconsider its defign-recently
announced through the MOniteur-not to send
any more troops TO Mexico for the present.
or it may be predicted, with high degree
of probability, that Gen. Forcy will not feel
himself strong enough to accomplish the obi ects |
of the expedition.
It may not be generally known that there
arc 10 the United States several French news |
papers which are so favorable to the policy of
the French Emperor as to even defend the in.
vaslon of Mexico, and hail it Us glorious act
Of humanity, and as the Inauguration of 4 new
era for that unhappy country. Thus the Re-
nuisance LouiSidRaise of New-Orleans deyotes
A long article to the Qualification of the French
policy, and the Courier of this city gives to
this article a cordial Endorsement. Al that is
said about the benefit OF the Invasion for the
Mexican people would, of course, hold good if
ever monarch of Europe should be tempted
10 try similar experiment in the United
States. That such articles can be published
with impunty in the United States is the best
proof of the great liberty which public opinion
enjoys in this country, even in times OF civil
war, compared with France where the pOlti.
cal papers have not even the right to criticise
freely the proceedings of the Legislative Body.