The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-01-24

in public sentiment as TO permit Mr. Beecher TO
express so many worthy and Christian senti-
ments in Erie county, where poor Benedict, the
village preacher among the Baptists, was inn
prisoned, and whence he was carried to Wash
ington, in defiance OF all law, because he read
and preached too literally from the text of the
beautiful sermon once delivered on the Mount
The Meeting of the French Chambers
Waiting in WashingtO for the Speech
of Napoleon on Mexico.
From tie Herald.
From our European news by the Asia it ap-
pears that the French Senate and Corps Legs
latf had been summoned 70 assemble on the 22d
January (last Monday, and that the opposition
deputies had held meeting at which "tney had
decided to direct their efforts chiefly to the
Mexican question: At the same time, from in
formation received from Washington we infer
that the Committee on Foreign Affairs on the
House OF Representatives VIII withhold any re-
port or accommodation in reference TO this
Mexican controversy, until they shall have
learned what the Emperor Napoleon mas had to
say to his Legislative Chambers upon this very
impo, taut subject. 1T is generally believed tnat
his speech VIII embrace the declaration OF
purpose to abandon MS imperial Mexican enter
PRISE and an eXpla- alton to cover his retreat
satisfactory 10 France. At all events, we have
reason to anticipate that the receipt OF the EN-.
peTor's speech Will be promptly followed by such
action Gu the part OF Congress as the occasion
may seem to demand.
That the Emperors speech will define line
Of policy on his part satisfactory to our Govern
nlent we have reason to believe from a late sig
nlhCant leading article In the official MO7ateu5'
and from similar articles from other leading
French journals and periodicals. The purpose
OF Napoleon thus suggested we tind very broadly
expressed in the Paris correspondence or the
IndCTeHdduce Beige OF December 81, in which
the writer sayi:-"We expect soon to see IN the
journals which are the recip ents of govern
mental Inspiration note which mag permit us
to see, in no very distant future, the evacuation
OF Mexico" From the same authority it further
appears that "the highest circles" in Paris ''are
becoming enlightened as TO Mexico and very
indignant as to Macmillan, who is showing him
sell at the same time both incapable and un-
grateful to France, TO whom he owes every
thing:n and that 'it is even regretted that in the
framing OF his Government precedents rendered
all relations with JuareZ impossible The
French journals, 1t further appears, are quite
disgusteC with the indifference and ingratltude
OF Austria, the Power most directly interested IN
MaXmlians adventures: but Power which has
given nothing towards his support, except an
occasional Journalistic paragraph"
All these are but straws, and yet they are suf-
fCient TO mark a decided change in the wind,
and this change in reference to Mexico may in
volve "a change OF Louis Napoleon's policy in
reference 10 Italy, the Pope, the Papal States,
Venice, and Austria. II is evident that Austria
regards with suspicion this Mexican present to
Macmillan, that Napoleon begins 20 feel that
it is bad investment, and that MaXimian is
doing all that he can to turn the tables upon his
master, like the mock Prince of Como, with his
eXtTaVagant presents and expenditures. But, in
addition to all these embarTassments, the Empe-
ror vi the French Is called upon to determine
! how his experimental empire in Mexico can be
| sustained when its recognition in anv shape or
tolm at Washington has been officially pro-
nounced "impracticable." We cannot,. there
! fore, resist the conclusion that, as Napoleon at
| Nllla tranca made peace when the Italian war
! began to assume proportions beyond his orlgi-
! nal estimates, SO now with his Mexican scheme,
| I.aAA
will gracefully withdraw. We daIe say, indeed,
! that the two Houses of Congress, in waiting Tor
his anticipated announcement OF this purpose,
ale doing so upon official information.
Meantime the Liberals in Mexico, having re
| duCed Their predatory warfare to something ike
a regular system of operations, continue to give
| Macmillan abundant employment If he ad.
Vances his troops to the eXtremities of his empire
the Liberals are up in the Interior and playing
the mischief even in the suburbs of his capital;
as he wtthdraws his forces from the borders into
tue interior again, the Liberals reoccupy the
| country behind him. In fact, his authority in
Mexico is limited to the places and roads occu
| pied aud commanded by his soldiers, and every
| exposed detachment is liable ut any moment to
be cut off by the invisible but omnipresent
Juarists. The MeXicans, through halt dozen
| generations, have been trained 10 this business.
1t is their normal condition. They have never
known any thing else.
Thus against twenty or thirty thousand
French, Belgans, TuTcos, and native renegades,
the Liberals can keep MaXlmlllan busy foI
twenty years to come. The savage alternative
OF their determination only makes the matter
worse for Macmillan. Two hundred OF his Bel
gians taken prisoners, have protested against
this barbarous system OF revenge. They say
that "they came to Mexico solely IN order to act
as guard to our Princess, but whom you (MaXr
m,lian) have forced to fight against principles
identical with our own;" and that, had the Llbe
rails tC C'lowed the law OF retaliation, their lives
would lave been sacri1ced "Breuer,n in behalf
OF himself and fellow Belgian prisoners, In q
remonstrance Ito che representatives OF the
Belgian nation" published IN a Liberal paper IN
the central Stale OF Michoucan, calls upon them
10 intervene, and says that the Belgian Legion
desire to return home, that they have haC
enough of "this inlqultons war; ana he cali
I'm the name OF Belgium whose honest conf
dence has been abused"
Ii such are the sentiments of MaXimilian'i
ORIGINALLY devoted Belgians, 1t may be imagined
that his French soldiers are not over-anXious tC
remain IN his somewhat too dangerous and un
profitable service, and 1t may be supposed, too
that, apart from the great difficulty OF the Mon
roe doctrine, the Emperor Of the French has hat
enough of his German Emperor and empire owe
the MeXicans. The empire is q failure, and ",
expect in Napoeon's speech, which was doubt
less delivered OH Monday to his legislative bodies
the announcement that the experiment Is to b
abandoned, with certain indemnit es 10 France
Regarding Louis Napoleon as a sagacious states
man. we can, as matters now stand, reach n
other conclusion. 81
Lewis Fisher, fresco-painter, fell distanc
nj N fFri IN Of fhaIa