THE INTERVENTION IN MEXICO.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 149, 8 May 1862, Page 2

THE INTERVENTION IN MEXICO.

(From the Dispatch.) A batch of correspondence respecting the affairs in Mexico has been published in the form of a Parliamentary paper. It occupies 155 pages, and comes down to last month. On the 19th January Lord Russell wrote to Sir J. Crampton in relation,to the premature departure of the Spanish expedition for Vera Cruz, and the tone of the proclamation issued by the Spanish Government, which he said, are calculated to produce some uneasiness. " You will point put," his lordship writes, "that the allied forces are not to be used for the purpose of depriving the Mexicans of their undoubted right of choosing their own form of Government."

The Constitution-net publishes the following letter from Vera Cruz, of ttie 9th ult., mentioning the disembarkation, on.the Mexican coast, of the first French expedition, under the orders of Admiral Jurien de la Graviere, It says :—" We arrived on the 7th, and the landing of the troops commenced the morning after. The whole squadron is anchored at Sacraficios, which is about a league from Vera Cruz. The Zouaves were the first to land, with the battery of mountain artillery, commanded by Lieutenant Bruat. of the navy. Those troops made a triumphal entry into Vera Cruz, the Spanisn soldiers forming a line as. far as the barracks. The Spaniards committed a great military fault in coming here alone ; Vera Cruz is actually invested, and, as they, alone, were not strong enough to get rid of the siege, the Mexicans have had time to keep provisions from the town. An egg costs a franc and a half, and fresh meat cannot be procured at all. In a few days all that will be changed., The French flag floats on the town fort, and at the two extremities, right and left, those of Spain and England." The Debats of Thursday publishes some important diplomatic papers, which have just been laid before the French Legislative Chambers, illustrating the diplomatic action of France in the affairs of Mexico. We extract the following passages from a despatch addressed by M. Thouvenel, on the 11th November, to Rear-Admiral Jurien dela Graviere, the commander of the French military forces :—

'■The allied Powers do not propose to themselves, as I have told you, any other end than that which is indicated in the convention. . They interdict themselves from interfering in the internal affairs of the country, and especially from exercising any pressure on the will of the people as to the choice of their Government. There are, however, certain, hypotheses which present themselves to our-foresight, and which we ought to examine. It might happen that the-pre-sence of the allied forces on the Mexican territory would' determine the sound part of the population, weary of anarchy, eager for order and repose, to make an effort to Constitute, in the country, a Government presenting the guarantees of strength and , stability, which have been wanting in all those that have existed since the emancipation. The allied powers have a common and too manifest interest in_ seeing Mexico rescued from the state of social dissolution into which it is plunged, which paralyses all development of its prosperity, annuls for itself and for the rest of the world all the riches with-vvhichProvidence has endowed a privileged soil, and obliges those Powers to recurperiodically to expensive expeditions in order to recal to ephemeral and senseless authorities the duties of Government. This interest ought to induce them not to discourage' attempts of the nature of those which I have indicated 'to you; and-- you ought not to refuse them your encouragement and your moral support if, through the position of the men who would take the initiative, and the sympathy which they would meet with among the mass'of the population, they Bhould present chances of success by the establishment of an order of things of a nature to assure the interests of resident foreigners the protection and the guarantees which have failed them up to the present lime. The Government of the Empire leaves it to your prudence and your discernment to - appreciate, in concert with the commissioner of His Majesty, whose knowledge acquired by his residence in Mexico will be very valuable to you, the events which will develop themselves under your eyes, and to determine the decree in which you will be called upon to take part in them."

Cnnious Cross.—Mr. Baram, of Sandy Creek, has succeeded in a curious experiment of crossing in vegetables, having procured a cross between the common pea and the broad bean. The pod is exactly the same as that of the pea; the vegetable is found, but has the black spot of the bean, and in taste is almost the same, but somewhat sweeter. — Tarrengower Times, 7th January,