The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-11-03

have been consolidated and placed under command OF
Admiral Palmer The stations will extend from Halifax
to the West Indies
nro occurred on Canal street, in New Orleans on
Thursday night, which destroyed two large clothing
stores The loss amounts to three hundred thousand
dollars boiler exploded on the evse in that city yes
terday, by which three men wero seriously injured
Colonel Young the leader Of gang Of marauders in
Texas and formerly chief Of General shermans scouts
was hung by the rancheros recently and all his gang
captured, shot or hung.
The jury in the trial OF the Adams Express robbers at
Danbury yesterday rendered verdict Of guilty against
all the prisoners Notice given that motion for
trial would be fled and sentence therefore de-
ferred.
The OF James do Rothschid and others agsinos
VIM. weisiger, involving four hundred hogsheads Of
tobacco taken and held by the during enc
war; was commenced In the United States District court
Of Virginia at Richmond yesterday.
-Four negroes were executed at Maribor'usn' MARY
land yesterday for the murder Of Mr. w'iam Lylos OF
Prince George county, In July last in0y ooniesseo
their guilt
The Mexican Treat. o"r "ei"'iO"s with
One If our nit contemporaries in Its Paris
CORRESPONDENTS published yesterday puts for
vard state-lents that entirely msrepressnt the
relatsns between the Emperor Of France and
~ government Of tho United States. This
correspondence pictures the Emperor, az ac-
cording to the elegant phrase Of the writer,
"Hghting mad ct the Americans" upon the
subject Of the Mexican empire, as furious and
% railing In puerile and ridiculous frenzy
against our government and against certain
persons in the government, for our policy Of
opposition to the attempt to establish mon
archy upon the soil of the neighboriny re-
public. This choice "Paris news" ID al err
roneous and its tendency Is in the highest
degree mischievous. There il not only no
fury at all-but the relations Of the two
governments are Of the best possible character.
The Paris correspondent of the journal In
question is entirely ignorant OF the subject
upon which he writes.
1t Is not difficult to give q straightforward
summary of the recent and present position Of
affairs between the two Powers. At the close
Of the war the rotations between Washington
and Paris were as bad as 1t is possible for
diplomatic relations to be without open
| rupture. II was certain that the Emperor
had not originally intended that his Mexican
expedition should initiate the foundation
| of an empire. He had desired to
send to Mexico in common with other Powers
England, Spain and the United siates--to
demand and enforce payment Of the claims
that foreign creditors had against Mexico.
But the United States declining and England
and Spain drawing ont, he was left alone in
the matter; and from that position, Influenced
by spectators in Paris, generally the enemies
Of the United States, and convinced by their
misrepresentation that our government was
destroyed, he drifted into the programme Of
the Mexican empire as II has been since
attempted TO carry 1t out. But when the
rebellion was triumphantly put down, 1t was
seen in France as clearly as In the United
States that the empire was q blunder and must
be given up At that time the diplomatic
relations between the two governments was
serious cause Of trouble and uneasiness to the
Emperor; and he only saw his way out Of that
trouble and happy solution to the difficulty
when he received the frank declaration Of
President johnson, made privately as we'll as
~nblcly in his message, that there was deep
~ -.nral entente cordiale between the
P'op'e VI fra--e and the people of the United
~ss' anu 'ns' Stating from that good will Of
the two people there wa. nothing in our
relations with France that might not no
amlcably adjusted with full regard 70 thu
honor Of the two nations.
There Is no doubt that the Emperor accepted
that declaration In the right spirit at the time
II was made; but the troubles then arising In
Europe and which eliminated in the war tina,
has changed the political complexion OF the
Continent, necessitated further DELAY IN tho
settlement Of Mexican affairs No sooner wa,
that war terminated, however, than this settle.
ment was begun ip earnest Some complications
having arisen In the correspondence Of the
French Secretary for Foreign Affairs, M. Drown
dc Lhuys, the Emperor, in order to have a
clear case, and, perhaps, not to let any per
sonal questions Of dignity or pique interfere,
went to the length Of changing his secretary
and substituting for. N. Drouyn de Lhuys the
Marquis de Moustier, then at Ccnstantlnoplc--
man entirely new 10 the subject, and who,
from not having any preconceived ideas OF bio
own, would perhaps carry out the more directly
and simply those Of his sovereign. Between
this new Secretary and Mr.. Bigelow, invited to
Biarritx for the purpose, the Emperor sot forth
clearly the whole policy Of his retirement from
Mexico and his abandonment Of the imperial
scheme.
The preparation Of treaty between the
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