FRENCH DESIGNS UPON MEXICO.

Taranaki Herald, Volume I, Issue 40, 4 May 1853, Page 4

FRENCH DESIGNS UPON MEXICO.

The latest American papers are full of! epeculatipu respecting the probable results of a bold and »o far successful nioveinent I on the part of one Count Boulbon, who in the fogs of November, at the head ol 500 i armed French emiHrnnts from California) bad seized tho silver mines of Almediil, 1 midvvny between (iU.iyani.is nnil llcrmoeili'i, in thu larjre and vvivilihy provimc ol Sonora, wliich is 11 n>> mbn of the Mexican Confederation, tv tlif souih (if Calilonii.i This ndvcnturrr had dif'-.iiud Gi ni'ra' Blanco and hi< army o f 2,000 Mexicans, ;uia hid dccl-iied ■md Sin lo.i (the adjat'ent province^ to bu m<n>xcU 'o Frnncel It is probable thai ibis tidventtiur vi ill be disavowed by I lie Crunch Goverutneiit ; but it is al-)O postililc that Liuii Napoleon may ure in this mnltrr 1 fnir opening for the enterprise nnd vulor ot French soldiery without ri.nki ng the consequences of a war with Europe. And this view of the case seems to he countenanced by the tone of the French press within the last few months.

The ' New York Herald,' 13th Dec., rem.irk*, that ihcse views, taken in connt-xioii N with the recent seizure- of the Peninsular of Wimana, (in H.iyti) and the reputed unnexjiiiuji move in Soi.oni, "unnustak'-ably demonitrate the new line of policy which it would si'trn France has nvolved to adopt in ichnion t<> this Republic, and to avoid complication!" in Europe. The despots of the Old World, see, wirh intense alarm, thu ti-ndcncy which our republicnn institutions have to ovnupreiid ihi-> continent and they diead the influence which our increasing power would give u» in the affairs ol l-ur'ijK*. This is confessedly the motive which has uigcd France to send her squad* u.n t» the l J t!iiinsula of Samnna, am) to prnscMiie the colonizcition scheme of SoroHi The UniteiJ Scutes is to be prrventvd nt every hazard, from inct easing her t«rntory hv the absorption of the we.il; republic of Mexico, into the Union. An 1 the mode v solved 01 to c rry out this policy, is tv fend Ftrnch colonists into 6onor<t, une'er llie lea'ltrshjp ofa ti-dcvaiit officrr of the army of Algeria."