MEXICO.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1693, 7 January 1874, Page 4

MEXICO.

The Pall Mall Gazette gives us the fol j lowing information'. iabout Mexico :-r-" A radical and comprehensive revolution' has just been effected in Mexico. The Con-; -.gress-o/that country Has decreed, the following addition?,; or, . amendments to the .Constitution of' the Republic :— l. The •"church 'and state : are;to be aeparater .■ 2. Congress cannot make laws prohibiting' or any religion^ ; 3. M/itrimony is to be a civil contract. 4. Religious corporations cannot possess 'property* i 5. A sample promise to speak the truth, complying witiv' obligation's contracted, with penalties 1 in case of violation, is spb,Btituted: for, the religions oath. 6. . Nobody is .obliged to give his or her ser..vipes; without just compensation. 7- Ifo contract is to. be perniitted which aims at ; the'; sacrifice 'of the liberty of man in the •niatter of ; -work, edacation, and religious .rows. '8. And no contract will be allowed -to;be made among persons consenting to ; their own proscription or barishment. l^jtie aeyenth provision, which puts an end to monasiib orders and forbids their establishment by any denomination or ' tinder any pretence, will of course affect ; th r e- • interests of the Roman Catholic ,Ohurch;;bnt the provision, which most .concerns this, country is the fifth, aub- .*.'• a Bimple promise to speak the truih, complying with obligations contracted, with penalties in case of violation, '^foT' ! tne religi6us oath." The word of Mexico has always been as good as her bond, bo fargfas her English creditors are concerned ; and any iriipr6vement in both, consequent upon, the elevation of a promise to the. dignity of a religious oath, will be gladly hailed throughout the civilised World— more espeoiallyVin the stock exchanges.! ,The; New York Herald hopes that from her- half-century of revoXlutiotiary factions, civil' wars/ anS anarchy, Mexico is at length emerging 1 - "like gold " purified, by fine." Everjy.body iwillioin in ' this hope, and' no dbubtkuch^of hefbbnps as have been chucked to the back of the fireplace;.! as; wpr,?hless;<ipaper; ;will now emerge like gold from the cinders, and become valuable; securities;