New-York tribune., 1866-12-26
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE.
PARIS.

MEXICAN AFFAIRS AND THE UNITED STATBs-THB
NEW MINISTER TO wAsHISGToE-IMPERIAL
PERPLKxITIEs AND TROUBLEs-A NEW MUSICAL
ARTlsr-PoPULAR CONCERTS IN PARIs-LITE-
RARY ITEMS
From Our Special Correspondent
PARIS Nov 30 1866.
Where is Maxi is if possible the question Of the
day than at the date Of my last We have your various
NewYork versions Of answers, eontoEnding confusion
there has invention by interested parties and
if the pe-setters of yesterday evenings journals made
mistake in figures had yesterday, at O'Clock p IN"
Kew-York newsof the preceding day-the first instance
Of the Cables bringing within twentyfOur hours Of
Won. The fact that the Cable taken up fol- long
hours the other day with United States Government work
has turned the attention of ingenious persons
TO the Interpretation Of Government cipher Start
ing from the postuate base that the costly telegram in
queson must relate 70 Mexican affairs they have come
20 these among other results Of their heTmeneutc abors
"a proposed u!umatumi" an imposed uluMatum,
"a next door but one 20 final amicable arrangement with
France for her liberation from the disastrous Mexican
kltiness-the United States voluntarily taking up whero
sic soced TO leave the United States undertakes to
assure the undsurbed retreat of the French troops and
10 see TO il that the native Mexican Government set and
hdnp by its patronage accept and fulfill the peounary
Obligations toward French claimants ~hlch poor max
entered INTO"
long S5 600 Gable telegram is the work OF wePad trans
lasers whose interest in the quotations Of the Mexican
BOuTac
Atlantic Cable lies and isused confirmation OF an earlier
born repor-a caDar begoten by kites on pgeons-oug
nate 80 far as typesettng goes IN London newspaper
last week and much propagated and cherished hereso
that TIC Mexican loan waited up, two days ago from
is low state of q 90 Encouraged by this report and
this interpretation the old story runs againis SET run
nng-that the Government here Will practically assume
that responsibility for the Mexican loan which, without
It's legally irresponsible bat open and Jealous rccommen
dation kad never caught French subscriber.
Ministar Berhenny late OF China, the appointed sue
Of AR. Montholon az Washington Is waiting ior
insructOs before starting for his post 10 your cores
ondent nere outside observer, not cheak byiow as so
E'any OF ny professional brctheren habuay priv
lssed 20 be- with Ministers high quarters and other
s'arigina sosEces Of mudded informatoB- does seem
thal Minister Berthennye master az Compegne rs also
wang quite like the rest Of for Instructions from the
next als-and the communications ot time ana chahce
Peops9 here veXed and iritated-surP1ised, even
despite O2d eXpeenceat the pesistenty eloquent Silence
,Of the koaiteHr on Mexican ataiE.
Dear pesYe galel reader, suppose You WeIe the TO-
spoHsblo editor Of that enterprsHg sheet and suppose
yoq were 20 spend sad hour IN looking that marvel
OGs series Of uninterrupted triumFhs and penutmate
esng successes Of your Mexican EApcdhon which you
base had pour sube,tors publish teren for me a sss
foaryssYs ysst--wouh you be in ntns haste this Goth
Of Nosembef 20 bring goH Mexican 2ews down Later
than Get 1871 That uBhaPpy responsible editors see
hope Of consolation now be looks ost Of his dark
snsd wjndoWs is that his opponent and pueh beloved
enemy the tradilAOnally friendly ally Of France will
plunge into the foy he is creeping cat Of snstify him,
and eondena Itself b3 the mpotc. expensive, ubiquitous
pret ee of TIE fepudlAt2d doctrine Of iDeTyeption.
How the windows Of tic Imperial house are darkened-
whether the master looks ont westward, toward Mexico,
and the etrn Of his crippled soldiers and Of ghosts Of
Freeb dead m that waste advcnture soulhwafd 20
"uByatcga taH united IN his despite and to Ron5
whee al for his c<ed 10 moro questionable than eYeri
eastward ~ ooyefcd Belgium, mockingly faie from
neghbory coyeousp,Ns; 10 Prussia, fatally leading Ger
many b uulieG mighty emprei or yet ferther cast
ward 70 Rosas fatal mtrch TO the seq ana heylta9e
maReshpof the eastern ead OF that Mediterranean inc
nagtd nthts 10 central conff renewed Italy
possessed ofthat French LaAS OF the trt hapoeons
grad ambitious yisoni Or northS2d niue pr across