Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1864-02-05
TIE WAR IN MEXICO.

INGLIsH SYMPATHY WITH TIE PRESoH VICTORIES.
From ths LOnd,n Post (GovTnmsat organ jan. 6.
The present position Of the Mexican campaign has
been clearly deuea,ed 10 the AoniteR which has az
fosded US considerable information in advance Of the
public intelligence brought by the last mail After
uact witty caused chiefly by the Of the year. the
French had resumed, in two directions simultaneously
mach to which the feeble tppOyt of the republi-
can arms 10 longer imparts character of real hos
Titles From this b ef tracing of the move
metts OF the French forces it will be seen that the
character of the French Dominion in Mexico is now
undergoing q great, and at length rapid, Change
Until very lately the French forces were masters odi
of the comparatively email territory between Vera Cruz
and the capital They have pushed GU. both to she
west and TO the north Towards the Pacific It il prob
able that the great centre of GaadasaGs NOW in thel
hands as well the important outpost OF Vasdold ;
and these positions in the hands Of the French, the
Western States fall almost necessarily under their
hori;y Nor does it appear that the p,rty Of JuareE
has had auy ooWDg in that part Of the Mexican con-
federation; and it becomes, therefore, more easy to
knowledge the probability of HE advance OF the French
forces INTO the Wettsrn States producing geneSG co.,
currence in the new goVtromens. Moreover, the COM
binaton of an effective native force with the French
army now serves to relieve the latter in great degree of
the character of invading force II turn TO the
north find the French authority now carried in the
heart of ths country, far north as the latitude OF
Tampioo We may also fairly presume that during the
past month of DeceIsber the States of San Luis Potes
and Zacatecas have come into tie sysem, aud have
knowledged the government now established at heKco
for the French and Mexican combined orce was within
short distance Of San Luis Potos, the capital when
the last intelligence left
A glance at the map will show tina. within the rayon
deserted BY these towns and States is comprised the
bulk of Whist is really and vitality the federal States OF
Mexico There still, indeed, beyond this rsyon GER
tain ou;ayng provinces States ard their area teo
is o. reonsiderable. But they are thnly peopled-
They ave little in making up either the popu-
laion or the public opinion of Mexico they have always
lain out loosely around the other States and they have
scarcely more vital direct concern with the system
OF government that may prevail to the southwark than
California and Texas used TO have. On the whole h. re-
fore L. can hardly be doubted that the establishment Of
the French authority within the line indicated by the
cities Of Tampco San Luis Potos ZscAteeas and Gau-
dasiara and from hsnce to the Pacific coGi would be
practically equivalent to the general recognition OF tho
rev regime
twill not indeed follow that the guerilla bands viii
be thereby suppressed Immediately but there Is good
reason to anticipate thai they will lose much of their
POLITICAL character and guerilAs reduced TO banditt
are social grievance rather than the maintenants Of
civil war In the meantime to the south Of the line of
Mexico, Pusbla and Vera Cruz the French authority
appears to have been submitted 10 without much show
Of opposition and the story brought by the Epa Of the
recap ure of Pueb by the republicans hardly rsqqi s
even the confuaon which the later DATES Of the Shan
non afford Il has been lot geveral occasions to
differ with the policy of the French intervention in the
character which it assumed after tbs Convention Of Sole
dad but sOe cannot trace s0ithO feeling of satisae
ton the success ukieh has al length attended the arms
of NsighSOr and Az ally, after much treasure and