The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-01-23

OF Hspelssn On MsSise.
From our European news BY Tho Asia IL APP
pears that the French Senate and Corps Legis-
latif had been summoned TO assemble on the
22d January yesterday and that the opposi
ton deputies had held q meeting at which
'they had decided to direct their efforts chiefly
TO the Mexican question" AT the same time,
from Information received from Washington,
We infer that the Committee ON Foreign Affairs
OF the House OF Representatives will withhold
any report or recommendation In reference 10
this Mexican controversy, until they shall have
learned what the Emperor Napoleon has had 10
say to his Legislative Chambers upon this very
important subject II Ia generally believed
that his speech will embrace the declaration
Of purpose 70 abandon his imperial Mexican
enterprise, and an explanation 10 cover his re-
treat satisfactory 30 France. Al all events,
we have reason 10 anticipate that the receipt Of
the Emperors speech will be promptly followed
by such action on the part Of Congress ~ the
occasion may seem 10 demand.
That the Emperor's speech win define line
Of policy on his part satisfactory 10 our gov
eminent we have reason 10 believe from late
significant leading article I'm the olncial Mont
teur, and from similar articles from other Iced
Ing French journals and periodicals. The pur-
pose Of Napoleon thus suggested We and very
broadly expressed In the Paris correspondence
Of the Independence Beige OF December 81, In
which the writer says:-awc expect soon 10 see
In the journals which are the recipients Of
governmental inspiration, q note which may
permit us to see, In no very distant future,
the evacuation Of Mexico" From the same
authority il further appears that "the highest
circles" in Paris "arc becoming enlightened as
to Mexico and very indignant as 10 Macmillan,
who is showing hmself at the same time both
incapable and ungrateful TO France, 10 whom he
owes everything;" and that at Is even regret
ted that in the framing Of his government
prccedents rendered all relations with Juarsz
impossible" The French journals, 1t further
appears, are quite disguised with the indifYer-
cnce and ingratitude Of Austria, the Power
most directly interested in Maximlian's adven-
ture, but Power which has given nothing
towards his support except an occasional
Journalistic paragraph"
sufficient to mark a decided change in the wind,
and this change in reference to Mexico may
involve change of Louis Napoleon's policy
in reference to Italy, the Pope, the Papal
States, Venice and -Austria. It is evident that
Austria regards with suspicion this Mexican
present to Macmillan, that Napoleon begins TO
feel that it Is bad investment and that Maxi
to at all khok ho IN t.rU tbn
tables upon his master, like the mock Prince Of
Como, with his extravagsnt presents and OK
penditures. But, In addition to all these embar-
rassments, the Emperor of the French Ii called
upon to determine how his experimental
empire in Mexico can be sustained when IL
recognition in any shape or form at Washing
ton has been officially pronounced "impracti-
cable" We cannot, therefore, resist the con-
lusion that, ~ Napoleon at Villa Franea made
peace when the Italian war began 10 assume
proportions beyond his original estimates, 20
now with his Mexican scheme, involving him In
unlocked for complications, he will gracefully
withdraw. We dare say, indeed, that the two
houses Of Congress, in waiting for his antici-
pated announcement of this purpose, ere doing
80 upon official information.
Meantime the liberals in Mexico, having re-
duced their predatory warfare 10 something
like a regular system Of operations, continue
to give Macmillan abundant employment IF
he advances his troops 10 the extrcmities Of
his empire the liberals are up in the interior,
aud playing the mischief even in the suburbs
of his capital; as he withdraws his forces from
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reoccupy the country behind him. In fact, his
authority in Mexico is limited to the places
and roads occupied and commanded by his
soldiers, and every exposed detachment Is
liable at any moment to be cut off by the in
visible but omnipresent Jusrists. The Next
cans, through half dozen generations, have
been trained TO this business. II Is their nor
NAL condition. They have never known any
thing else. Thus, against twenty or thirty
thousand French, Belgians, Turcos, and native
renegades, the liberals can keep Macmillan
busy for twenty years TO come. The savage
alternative of their determination only makes
the matter worse for Macmillan. Two hun
dred Of his Belgans, taken prisoners, have
protested against this barbarous system of re-
vengc. They say that "they came TO Mexico
solely in order to act as a guard to our
princess, but whom you (Maximilian) have
forced to fight against principles identical with
our own;" and that, had the liberals followed
the law of retaliation, their lives would have
been sacrificed. "Breuer," in behalf Of himself
and fellow Belgian prisoners, in remonstrance
"to the representatives Of the Belgian nation"
published in liberal paper in the central
State of Michoacan, calls upon them to inter-
.vene and says that the Belgian Legion desire
to return home, that they have had enough Of
.this inquitous war;" and he calls ain the