The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-02-15
From Europe.

nal purity.
From Europe.
extract the following from the
news brought by the Australasiun:
The Paris Constitutionael, of the
18th ult., says, with reference to the
dispatches of Mr.. Bigelow, that M.
Drouyn de FHuys could not give ex-
plantations with regard to the inter
nal administration of affairs in Mexi.
CO.. for which the Mexican Govern
ment was responsible. The United
States cannot call resistance by plum
dering adventures, war, after re-
fusing the title of belligerents to the
Confederates of the South.
The Paris Patrie says the official
s'Yellow Book will not contain the
dispatches between France and Ame-
RIGA on the Mexican question, as that
question is still pending.
The political world begins to as
same some vitality, in view of the
approaching meeting of Parliament.
The members of both Houses were to
assemble on the first of February,
but the proceedings of the first few
days would be confined to mere mat
ters of form, such as the swearing in
of members, the election of Speaker,
&c. The formal opening of the ses-
sion by the Queen in person, would
not take place till the 9th instant
The nature of the proposed reform
bill continued to be actively discussed.
The Times shows hostility to mode
rate measure, and contends that bill
which only deals with the franchise.
Will not deserve the name of q reform
bill.
The cattle plague in England con-
tlnued to increase. For the first
time, the number of cases reported
in one week exceeded 10000, the re-
turn for the week ending January 20,
showing total number of 10.O4l
cattle attacked.
The daily trial and conviction of
Fenian prisoners continued in Dub
lin. One of the prisoners, upon a
verdict of guilty being returned
against him, admitted that he had
had fair trial, and that honest men
were on the jury.
The police had searched house in
GARDENERS Row, Dublin, supposed
to be an Orange Lodge,) and found
IN it q quantity of swords and bayo-
nets, which they seized and CONVEYED
to the Castle.
The police had also made addition
al arrests of Fenians.
Further seizures of arms are also
reported at Belfast
A vessel that was on the point of
sailing from the Thames for Peru,
was detained at the instance of the
Spanish Consul General. Suspicion
was entertained that the vessel was
intended to make war upon Spanish
commerce, under the Chilian flag, snd
proceedings were forthwith instituted
to carry out the provisions of the
Foreign Enlistment Act in the matter.
The draft of the budget, for 1867,
had been presented to the Chamber
The ordinary expenditure is calcu-
lated at 1, 524, 900, 600 francs; the or
dinary revenue at upward of 1922,
10000" francs. After appropriating
from Tie latter SS,OOO,O 900 francs for
the extraordinary budget, there will
remain a surplus of 10, 500, 900 francs.
The issue of Treasury bonds is to be
limited to $50, ,OO0,O 900 francs.
The PreSse had received a first
warning, on account of an objection
able political article.
NAPoLEoN's POLICY IN MEXICO.
In the paragraph of his speech re-
ferring to Mexico, the Emperor re-
fers to French interests as the only
interests to be taken into account in
deciding upon the maintenance or
the recall of our troops. We felt
bound, in our yesterdays remarks, to
insist upon this point in the speech,
and to draw the conclusion from it,
that the French Government does
not consider itself bound up with
that of the Emperor Maximilian.
Our Interpretation is singuIarly con-
firmed to-day, by the manner in
which the Mexican question is re-
garded in the report upon the posi-
ton of the Empire. * It is
to be more explicit, or, as we
SAID In commencing, to repudiate
more distinctly the partnership which
the public feared to see established
between the French Empire and that
of Mexico. Why, in fact, should we
consider ourselves as charged with
the interests Of Maximihan I, and
the cause of the monarchy in Mexico?
Either we have endowed that country
with g form of government the
people did not ask for, and then, as
the report says, we have thereby fol-
lowed course contrary to the funda-
mental principles of our public law,
or we have merely requested the