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lay har soft, white band upou bis dark, wrinkled! woman who had ever heard the voice of Maximilian or!
brow, and speak kindly, and smile upon him ever and|seen his face, lieated the Throne of voor fellow wh
We say the poor, deformed creature seemed to/Grace in bis behalf knew him not as kindered, or, with d . A

fn O, bow wakefal was his heart!—bow it}few exceptions, as a countryman; and while a sense of POdY ven
at the kindness of the lovely girl, and how religious duty prevaded the congregation, it is unques-; science” An

-happy was the poor, lone dwarf beneath her smiles !/tionable that the depth of feollie Mown, and the . witha very inte
They were a strange couple there together—so inuch |nitude of the demonstration, had their origon }
And when she lef = pure reverence for the memory of a prings pre-emin- Shortly

ae aud 80 much deformity!

the

had
ed Creature.

To be continued,

THR SHOOTING OF MAXIMILIAN, MIRAMON
AND MEJIA.
S08? SPLOCH OF TH NPORTUNATE PRINCE,

PULL PRTAILA OF THE LAST SCENR,

; New Onerins, Tuesalay, July 9.

“The Times this evening publishes an oxtia containing
mm ranchero letter from San Luis Potosi, stalfog that at
aix o’elock on the morning of June 19, the troops of
Eseobedo formed a short distance from the eity for the
execution of Maxiniiian and his Generals, the people
ef Queretaro flocking by thousands to see the closing
seenes in the life of the men they loved, As the clock
strikes seven, the. bells toll and announce that the
prisoners ‘have left their prisons for the Inst tine, and
are on their way to thelr exPeution. After a few mo-
ments they appear, drawn in earringes and «# large
guard around them, the Emperor first, Miramon next,
and Mejia last. As they near the place of execution,
convulsive sobs byeak from the erowd. The carriages
atop, and the prisoners get ont, Among the conclave
you can hardly see a dry cye. Tokens of dissatisiac-
dion ave manifested. Maxiasilian, on alighting, is sa.
Inted by the people. In an easyand graceful manner,
and with an elastic step, he marched to the fatal spot,
‘The prisoners were dressed in a plain manner. They
were not bound nor blindfolded, In taking his posi-
tion, the Emperor spoke in 2 clear and firm manner,
and with nothing of bravate. He seemed to feel his
situation, and said when he was first waited upon ar
home by the deputation from Mexico who enwe with
bese oa tv offering him the Government of the country,
he refused. Ata subsequent mecting the proposition
was again presented, and he replied that if convinced
that dee malochy thought that it was to their interest to
place him ut the head of the Government he might
consent, Another deputation waited on him and
brought on testimonials, Upon advice from
the Powers of Lurope, who advised him that there was
no other course to pursue, he accepted the call, He
-demed that the court that had tried him had a right. to
do so. Ilis wasa case of good faith. The nations of
the world bad pledged their faith to him. He never
would have done the act had ft not Ween for the good
of Mexico. In conclusion. he hoped his blood would
stop the effusion of blood in the country,

Miramon spoke from a paper, The only regret he
felt in dying was that, should the Liberal party retain
the Government, his children wonld be pointed out as
the children of a traitor. He told them that he was no
traitor, but had always op d liberal principles, and
-had always been agaiust the disorder of the country.
He should die as he lived, a Conservative, satisfied to
die for his coustry, ‘The fame of his acts would live.
and posterity would ie whether he was right or

4

wrong. He closed with the words, + View la Emperor!
Viva la Mexico!”

Mejia made no address; he went to Escobedo and
said he would die poor; that he had never made an
effort to make money. His only wealth consisted in
forty cattle in the mountains. He asked that the mer-
chants of Matamoras, to whom. he owed considerable,
would not press his wife to pay his debts When they
came into Ssion of the nioney left them by the
kindness of the Ewperor. — -

After Miramon ceased speaking, the guard Was drawn
ap. The prisoners were standimg facing them. The

ror enlled the sergeant, and drawing from his

fet. a handful of $20 picees, he gave them to hil,
and requested that after his death he woulddivide them
with his co a asking aa a favor that he would aim
his bullet at his hears. “Che officers gave the signal,
the volley was fired, and the prisoners lay stretched on
the ground. The Emperor was not quite dead. There
was considerable quivering of the muscles, Five balls
had entered lia breast. ‘Two soldiers avere then called
out, who shet lio in the side. Miramon. and —
were killed by the first volley. Each of the four balls
entered in the breast. A sheet was thrown over the
Emperor by the doetor, who was to embalm hia body.
The bodies were then taken by their respective friends,
and the moved back to their quarters, while
thousands remained, kept by a super-natural agency.

MEXICAN NEWS.

From American papers, received per stearcer Alham-
bra from Boston to-day, we cull the following interest-
ing items of Mexiean noms, The news is received by
way of Galreston, and is one week later than that al-
‘The Prossian consul at Vora Croz is conducting ne-

gonations to obtain the release of Ausrtrian Sriehaatses

Gen. Diaz bad ordered the capture of all foreign rep-
resentatvies who do not recognize the Libéral Govern-
nenty ‘

resident Juarez had issued an order for the convo-
or of the Liberal to eleet a President.
fen. Ortega 1s w prisoner at Monterey.

Capt, Freeman, of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Wilder-

vse, which conveyed ee ran and party to
Vera Cruz, re that the als are extremely in)
lependant, and saucy.
“Santa Anna 1s still alive at eee but his cap-
ors are awaiting instructions in regard to him from
he Liberal Government. feeling there is that he
rill undoubtedly by) shot, Advices trom Matamoras
ire to the same

Twelve more Generals who served under Maximil-

Aeon shot at Qaretare. Among others Otero
por og None Fowr Laperial Galdiale Gad also been

bandred Austrian prisoners had been sent
SD nain & dhe ug tee a i ‘
to the 18th inst. Gen. Marquez and Gen ,O'Horan
“not been found. Some of their adherents, it ir

» FeO them in the house of'the Britieh
ene. A search will be made then, and
a8 soon as they are discovered they will be forthwith
_ MASS EOR TITRE: SOUL OF MAXIMILIAN,

> (From the New, Orleans Crescent July 10.)

as for the soul of the'late Em:
4 , Was celebrated yesterday by the
va in their Church of St. Mary, in
ourth District, The Services began at 8 o'clock,

‘scoupied about an hour. Early as the aacrod cor-
voramenced the per om temple Was throne-
in the congregwion coming from the most

the city and from the parish of Jeffar-

. | Ana*ria, eines ae Bavaria,
entlomen, officially reproseiting here, Bu-
, wore and par-
A eatefaleo, resting in the

the dwarf would nestle down to where «be
sitting as though she had left the dear inflo-
enee of her presence still upon the place. Pour devot-

‘formed yoaterday by a citigan w

es .
a cenaeennnenmrarensetinomemnermensernmn

ranma essences

Those who

pg result, They injected into t
en from a dog, an

i
tee unmistakeble signs

y arteries fresh 2
of tife,
the eves hg “npn brig!

around, the lips moved as 1
and the entire face bore the semblavce of netive life

ently virtuous, truly a Christian and teuly a gentleman.

Caurt. Tararment or Maximtian.—We' were in-

with three professed Imperialist: offlvers, representing dog, the appearance of death rapidly sneceeded, Tt

were witnesses of Maxiwilian’s exeeution, and

= — Prince, with a whip or cowhide, and that
the populace were permitted to dance around bis muti!-

ated and outraged body. We give the statement without tet erie een:
vouching for its correctness, and hoping that it may
prove untrue,—Nete Orleans Bee, July 6,

~~

MARRIAGE AND THE PRICE OF FLOUR.

Halpine,

par a ee
“Tus He a Dt ee ce Gen ok 1 Jobo R. ¥
gt engi we lotine din a a pte gg oy Lad pee
tom, his head an : ‘ a
ous for the advancement{(5¥a). $71,000 ; Wai. ©

su
1 meree), .
riment was tried with the hea 500 se ae Stockton, $l

Tribune), $8.000; Theo, Tilrou, (Ind

va

It will be seen that the largest income is that of
Mr. Harper, of Harper Brothers, aud the smallest
Mr. Sweitzer, of the Gazette.

m. Coe) ee ae
THO). Trikes “(dordca Bennett, jr..$75/sound and good, and his plans practicab
2,000 ; James gs 7H, Racks, misfortune : that they tailed in the execution trom cir-
; spendent), epmstanges which the most sagacious and discriminating
J, Daily, could not have foreseen. The responsibility of the
The coldr returned go the cheeks and lips,/g1 000 ; Kaue O'Donnell, $9.400 ; James eConne!s gignetul lcentiousness and bloodshed which new hold
Aad gazed upon those)g¢ 400; Beuj. Wood, $186,000; F, J. Ovtarsda,

mpring vainly t speak, | Cri vex), $19.00); C. P. Dewey, $800; Frans

ok

000 ; Moses Beac'

had an interview/so goon as the injector dented to inject the blood of the Bellew, or * yi te rs 75: 0.G.

: i ON), ! ;

that they had juvt arrived from Mexico, who say. they Was earnestly held by the eminently surgical gentle-| (World), 819,000 ; C. A. Daa, 972,000 ; C. HL

Mecahade tnfite i thitimen in-atrendance, that during the operation the brain/Swerzer, (Evening Gazette), $37; Fletcher Harper,

aacobedo inflicted twenty-five lashes on the person ayras in fall and patural action, and that the lips tried to 397.000; Caos, Nast, $2,750; G. W. Curtie,$14,
utter the last thought which found resting place in the! 9 oq »

Marble,

The atatisties of France and Eogland show that the
vumber of mmarriages depends upon the price of wheat,
If this law holds geod in this country it should have a

The Rome correspondent of the Times describes in
most eloquent language the great ceremony which took

ee ee

Correspondence.

flare on Sj, Peter's Day, Ue endeavours to repress
ily enthusiasm, but in vain: and, after dreprecating
any suspicions as tothe soundness of his Protestantism,
heat last gives the’reign to bis eathuatasm, and con.
fesses when he heard the Te Deun® sung together
by 49,000 voices, the sublimest musie he ever listened)
tO. he joined the 40,000 and sang “as a Christian man | beauty or in the esr of a love sorg; but a fall of one

«triking Wlustration in 1866-67 as compared with years
before the war, and. as wehope with 1867-68 under
the aonndant harvest which is now anticipated.

Power whony we all worship.”
for Mr. Whalle + bat worse remains,

such a manifestation ae rhishy bes ond the reach of nn
litical changes, that * voilence will do ir na infary, he.

fluences which no ill-directed: efforts caw precipitate 4 42s Od pee quarter of eight bushels, the nuupber of
aud vo haman insthution can resist.”

The world has bevn accustomed to see theory and! was 67s, the namber ot marriages fell to 203,731
practice following two different romes, unknown to each Between 1816 and 1817, the price of wheat rose nearly
otheror at least never meeting. When doctrines, when 50 per cent.
generalideas, have whyhed to intermedidle in affairs, to ite 247 to 206,877. Then we have the following :—

fluence the world, they have only been able to effect han ve ;
this uncer the appearance and by the aid of fanaticism, Price of pater at. ae
Up to the present time the governaivat of himan aocie- 1832. ed o 253.563
ties, the direction of their affairs, have been diyided 1833 S8s He 9713 20.
by two sorts Of inflaenees; on the one side theorists, = ae - 975'b08.

men who would rule all accordinging to abstract no-

tione—cntbusiast; on the other, men tgnorant. of all

rational prismple-—sxprrimenialiets, whose only guide
dy

story, ot
is expediency, This state of things is now over. The remarkable regularity with which the uumber
The world will no longer agitate for the sake of some/of marriazes increaged or diminished wath the Increase
abstract principle, some fanciful theory some Utopian or diminution in the prico of wheat is sufficiently strik-
overnment which eat only last in the imagmation of ing to show that such a relation between the two does

To tue Eprron oy tur Heratp.
Mr. Editor,—A Tea Party now-a-days is a favorite

Viile Tea Parties bave bee

I will,

At an early hour dancing wa

Wheat at $8 40to $3.75 4 month ago was ra her/amusement, and most of the denizens of a settlement
Aseouraging to those who were bhot inthe eyo of) cojoy themselves ereat in a very sociable manner.

n held in almost every

with bis fellow ' acktiow 4 ‘dollar a bashel in twenty days has afforded a ray of/part of the Island, few thought that the small though
Mattes aoe ow Sore coodnay nO" to those who in their dreams, of blivs did not/fourishing settewens of Fifteen Point would whan
The correspin. lorget the serious Cemanda of the stomach, and we one of those partivs. !
dent declares his belief that a Charch whieh ean niake S28 watioipate an increase on the hywenial calen-|:bat we bad a most splendid Pea Party on the Church
grounds of this settlement, which are the best suited
Porter, Tn the second volume of his account of the}tur such enjoyments, both on account of the picturesque
cause itis a moral tact, that if ie be destined to Tall ir, British Empire, published many years since, gives the sceneries surrounding them, and on account of their
can only be by the slow action of those mental ins following statistics of Prence In 1808, when wheat proximity to an eleva ed shore.

then, inform the public

s begun, and when we

jtuarriages were 220,933; while in 1809, when wheat/arrived we were amused at hearing the different sorts
was 39s, the number of marringes were increased tolof music which, in their turn, delighted the ears of the
227,964; und again, in 1811, when the prive of Wheathyoung dancers. The fiddle, the bag-pipes, and the
concertina were there, all vieing ip harmonious sounds,

We Were astonished on beholding the tables so

and the mircieges di ntnithed from 240.+/uicely and tastefully arranged, and loaded, we may
say, with all surts of eataules.
Rev. Mr, Quevilion, whose untiring geal iv always ad-
vaneing the wellare ef hie parishioners.
ts aleo due to the Misses Clear for having so largely
contributed to the success of the Tea,

Mach is due to the

Mach eredit

Alier a last and hearty meal, enjoyed in’ the! cool

wouey was realized,

Yours, &.,
Egmont Bay, July 18, 1867.

i shades of evergreens, we departed, highly pleased with |
Porter says the statistics of England tell the same jig patti of the dey.-Wa seariak's good sun!

AN ACADIAN.

an enthusiast; nor willit put up with peavtical abuses/actually exist: in) the old world. >

or oppreasions, however favored by prescription and) We take it that our common people are not so much
expedieney, when they are opposed to the just principles |reduced in ability to procure food, as to make mach
and the legitimate end of the government. To ensure difference in their marital calculations feuuded on the
respect, to gain confidence, governing powers mast|price of breadaruifs. The operation of such a law has

acknowledge the influences of both, “They must regard|has, however, been the subject Of frequent reaark, that
as well principles as fucts; must respect beth truth and ithe enormous cost of high living among the “gentry”
neeessity—-must shan, on one hand, the blind pride ofjof our cities hud greatly diminished the number of),
the fanatic theorist, and on the other, the no less blind| marriages in that class. during a number of veurs past,

pride of the Ubertine politician.

human mind and the progress of society.—Quizot's His-| marry, even on sabuies of half a thousand « Year, s'm-

tryof Civilization. \ hag.
of the * upper class.”

Tho story gow that Rooth is still alive. nt. on

Theex-Brite| While it

effect to a gentleman in Arkansas, The pith of that let-lsy poor that «rive ia the price of wheat renders ‘it
ter 1s that two fentlemen made a het—No. 1° thatlimoradent or Mpossibts toc imarry, it should be no
Booth was alive, No, 2 that he was sot ative,

ments hy grrsens appointed by No 2 of the fact. insixjof hia being. This exeeasive and Sndefensible vany
monihs, No. 1 was to recmve the money; the persons|is the source ‘ol very great social corruption in high
appointed, to receive pay from the loser No. 1 set life, .

out, taking with bin} Mesars, Campbell and Miller, in
his veasel, and after a long absence—doring the course daughters in ignorance and disgust for practical hfe,
of which the ehip.was renorted at San Bren inco—Nevt}young won vant very epsedily wows i
returned, bringing the necessary proof, and receiving More *worthy and more beanifal wives térm © grade

‘ P * j ‘ly Quer'ts y poclery,
A correspondent of the Courrier des Etats Unis tells a ee) eee net See

characteristic story of Count Bismarck :—* Tt appears

: ? w hon w our codfish aristoerney. N jeae
that ‘tho: Count: ia net! ford of teen and confectionary, ash board anon ou aristocrney. No objuas

ions to musie, but practical du:ies should pot be neglect-

evening of the ball at the Pracwan ombassy be called for
hia favorite beverage. M. de Gulty took him rato the)
garden and showed him a keg snugly placed under a
tent, Bismarck drank, lita cyzar and sat down, When-
ever thirsty eke ee approached the teit he cour.
teously filled their mugs, not neglecting bis own Tn
this uselal and innocent occopation he speut a preat
part of the evening.

nightingale, and yet knowa not the virtue of « para-
goric,

A despatch from New York, July 24th, has the fol.|(® New York paper—then finding its way to England
lowing item:—The Briush Minister left Washington|in a copy of the peers was transferred to the colurmns
yesterday with Secretary Seward to visit the home offof the Owl—a jo

the latter in Auburn. The Union Republican Com-

President, Steamship Persia, from Liverpool 18th, ar-|the world.
rived to-day, The lath of July was calebrated by the
rangemen, The day passed ‘off quietly in all direc-
tions, In Belfast 80,000 men passed ‘in procesaion
without molestation, Dr. Higgin, Bishop of Derry,
died suddenly on the 12th.

About the only man who made any money out of the
Freneh-Mexican Imperial scheme was one M. Bureau, discovered in the building eeenpied hy John Usezard
ho by the help of the French, kept the city of Vora & Co., at St Eleanors. The alarm wae instantly;

FIRE AT ST. ELEANOR'S
TWO BUILDINGS DESTROYED.

dollars, left between two days, and has since made his pression "pen the pang building. whieh i
appearance in France, * time fell jo, & mass of blazing raing, Elvrts, were
then inade to bave the baildiag adjoinidg and o eupied

that perpetually grows upon a man, till at last he cane this, tl ;
not bear to think of anything but hinself, nor even to sinle toda this, the. stare was ented
suppose that others do,” :

It is said that a permanent garrison is to’ be eatablish-
edin British Columbia, and h 4 a Regiment of British store by a shed, was in danger, but the, shed. was re-

urned to the ground, 2 :

that Colony in the course of the present month, direction,

The French Corps Legistatif hav passed a bill for. the

of St. Bleaner's}
the wells were ex-

cluding the twenty-seven millions required for the) With a scorching and water-soaking.
army. * From all we con hear the peo
worked nobly, and though sone

sopplying the city with water, the bodies or skeletons
of thirty-three children were found,

Now York papers state that of lute the shipment ofjin keeping ap the supply.
gold to England haa been quite large, A very large! The Sammerside
portion of it goes to the banking houses of London’to scene of the fire, bat on the way Was stop
meet advances made on letters of credit to Americans mes
who have been attending the Paris Exhibition, or/vice#® were not netded. {
making a tour of the continent. Tt issaid thatthe firm| It ts lucky there wasnot much wind, or the fire might
of Baring Brothers & Co., have advanced over three |have spread and/destroyed mach valuable property.
aud a half millions of dollars to tourists. —The expen-| Th stock in the store of John Haszard &
ses of some of the American competitors at at the Ex. |total loses, it hating been found pag tromgees Nese va |
hibition are very largo, and as ten to twelve thousand|thing. This steckiwas a valuable one, and ¢ompri
are said to have gone abroad, it will require a large|we are told, one of the best assortmeuts of cloth in this
supply to meet theit expenses. It is estimated that|part of the Island.
more than ten millions of dollars will be expended in| M "
Kucope during the present year, by Americans who| Me Thomas Gannon, wax in Chorlottetown att
ate travelling for ploasue, of the ea We ey cree —_ meg £
4 ul
His Rxcellerey the Lietitenant Governor and Mus \"ht Stok Po | tare hoe nities th 7 hue ano

Dnndas, arrived here on Wednesiay night, in sel Cant books of Mr Haxzard’y concern were saved.

Mr Porter, who owns a tannery,

mitamgrend i! selena kan erga mag i yl Pe The origin of the fire is unknowns

veep ona Visit to General Doyle, Lieut. Governor of iw origi ‘
New Bruvawick,. — the pareenzere ne Colosal Le tebgt ® soma with the sufferers by this gate
Graham, aide de Camp of the il-fated Maximitian, late|“**PBe-—: hie

Em of Mexico. Graham is at Hit Stay. ' ree
ing wt Goverament. Uouss, Whent young man, he\INCOMES OF NEW YORK RDITORS AND
teft Seotland aod joined the Austrian army, in whicb PUBLISHERS :

he soon gained a distinguisbed poses. We believe wen . did ‘
he w Hitiea to Max while. that). , i pill bee
vo ry The Cologel fol- By the following published incomes it will be seen
t

coy Hichneaa ¢ Atlan 3 twas, that the editorial aod publishing fraterpity in Ne
So’ . re, in ree

ot has f 1¥ te .
Snitber be had boos ‘eapatchod ee York are gettiog along very comfortably :-
nected with Mexican Pat.

.

A firm brake onto Pope's si chatcnaeee he (Bare) $oev0003 Wan. Brat (pi),
A ww Aw send tah ‘ hoff, (Post), $6,100; Thurlow W. ma
septs geil oral 9 7000" Bot

rescuing it from anarchy 1
by ee tee ernment. We may

d woul
shoals, we think it is extremely
Bonner, § 000 jj Napoleon to impute to him motives of a selfish and

Wednesday, Jaly S31, isc?.

now unite theory and practice ; they must know and/not been noticed in this country:among the poor. It}

~: =

NalOLEON AND MAXIMILIAN, °

Seiad

Wr scarcely take up a newspaper now-a-days that

und by every principle of -

e tol

ita that the war would have
‘ther resources of both

45 a nattiral one, and not

- : tgged the delosion ap to the very Inst hour of ‘the
‘Horace Greeley, [rvitaw), $87,000 5 H. J,,*Fuxilo that the South was quite 4'match for the North,

To thiy better state|[y is a common conviction among the young men of dors not fling its little pile of dirt at the Emperor Na-
of things we have been brought by the progress of the|avistocratic asphations that they cannot afford to poleon for the disastrous termination of his Mexican.

ply because they cannot support their wives in the style expedition, The placing of Maximilian upon the throne

‘ of that unhappy country 1s pronounced to be an evidence
® source of regret *o the philanthropist) of lust of power and glory, and the tragic de oP the
tanic Consul at Shanghai bas written a lewer to thatithat the mase of the peoplé of any country should be} Austrian Prince, a futhie selebution ta rete

aggrandizement, We confess we caunot read the latest

vo. Five/loss regretred that the pride ane vanity of our aspiring 8° darkest chapter in Mexican history in this light;
hundred pounds a side were staked, the conditions he. young men shou'd cause them to igdoro the law that for while we agree with the
ing that if No. 1 could bring well authenticated State- requires a man to cleave into a wile forthe completion po

opinion that France is
honor and chivalry to

avenge the death of Maximilian, still, we cannot resist
: believing that Napoleon's intentions in interfering in
If the fanit is with parents in oringing up. their|tbe affairs of Mexico were to benefit. that country by

If Ristteign Goverment

oreign Governments

the money, No, 2 declaring himself thoroughly satisfied, jor two below, and make of them present helpnates and have no right to interfere in the dowestic affairs of ano-| Cont rae
(her country, but our theory is, that a people who are
There ie aortoubrodly woo mach piano and too little unfit to Bovern theinselves deserve to be subjected to
the first Power that is strong enough to master them.
but be has # healthy German appetite for beer, On the ed. What 8 gnifies any or ail of the so-called aceom-| Phe Mv aicans bad long enough turned one of the fair-
jlishments when tha faty cannot cook a roast, nor ¢st portions of God's earth into a desert, and French
ere a house? What, though she may sing like a sabjects had been 1 ng enough subject to the exactions
of rival monsters in rapacity and bloodthirstiness, who,
: ont in contending for power, despoiled tho country by
Tt seems that the story about the diplomatte notes|"Uf8, to warrant the intervention of France, There
from the Russian Cabinet 16 its Ambassadors at seve. jare few persons who will deny to the late Emperor of
ral European Coarta, was stated by the Irish Nation—|Mexico either the desire or the ability to govern the
country well; and iu selecting a man of bis stamp to
ing paper in London, where the ote. |BOvern 1s ofinire,, to opppelidaye: its power, ito davvlop
ver Agent of the Associatiated Press saw it and itved/!t# resources, and to promote tts prosperity, Napoleon
mittee of New York have nominated General Grant for|(rom comparative obscuriy, and sent it foatiog rownd |gave evidence of that sagacity and, intuitive knowledge
of baman character for which be has been so remark-
able. )'The decision of the Mexivans themsulves, as ex

pressed at the polls, confirmed the choice of the ruler,
whoin Napoleon had selected for them,
fied that if the vote which the Mexicans voluntarily
About half-past one on Friday morning last, fire was!gave about four years ago in tavor of Maximilian as
Emperor, bad been adverse to that Prince, he would
rug andet control, collected all the Revenue fram the given, aud the cRizens — me, women, and hile Oexe® pare crosaed the Atlantic to assume 80 serious a
Custoin House, and, having raised five or six thonsand |dren--came to the rescue; bat could make no jm-|responstbllity. His own last words on the fatal morn-

We feel satis

} in a eboltiing of execution are to this effect: Trusting to. the
good faith of the Mexicans, Maximilen renounced bis
A great thinker has sad that ** egotion is an inflemity | as 4 atore by J Fraser, Esq. 4 but it being found impos- claiys to the Austrian, Throne, and with his wife—the

and the most|#Mheted Cariottar-set out from his bappy home at Mir-
wrt of its contents removed, This building was alsojamar wrth high hopes of the good he was about to ac.

i , jeomplish. Alas! what a change have three eventful
Mr, Hasgard’s granary. which was attachod.to his] years wrought! Carlotta, in-all the bloém of youth

regular infantry, With artillery, will leave England for) moved, r y i ahd beauty/‘a ratrhg maniac; and Maximilian premature.
egu 3 gla moved, and the fire age from spreading in that ly ent off fo the prime of vigorous ieanhaots titheg a
‘Mr John~MeFadyen’s hotel was! wasaleo in inmi-/foreign gravé. The great mistake which Napoleon
credit of on®@bundred and Gity-eigut million tranes, in-j/nent danger, bat by the efforts of the people it escaped made was the attenipt, daring the American civil war,
to consolidate Maxi ilian's power by conciliating the
most formidable enemy of the present time {to all mon
In clearing ont a reservoie at St Louis, used forinauated, enongh water was farnished to answer all pur- archial forms of Government, We mean the Washin,
poses, put his borse-'ton Cabinet, Hereafter, when perbaps the New Do-
power to work pumping. and very materially assisted! minion anil ali these British, American Provinces. abali
fall a prey to the self-same Monroe doctrine to which
Taher tray at mechanic iitihlestioe?b Mite hen boon dectidaid and: freeuens part
that all danger was passed, and their ser-jand parcel of the Great Republic, England may deplore
' with France the ersor of not recognizing the Southern
States immediately after the Battle of Bull Run, or at
.. was a any time daring the struggle which the gallant Lée and
hisbrave armies maintained agaist an overwheluting
+ Federal force. Conciliation is a very fine thing in its
way, where it can be successfully carried into effect;
+ Hasnard in absent in Eng'and, and his pariner,|>ut it is folly of the simplest kind to expect an enemy
sip eto acquiesce in an arrangement opposed to his own in
om terests, and which he bas the power to resist. Herein
‘consisted the mistake of Napoleon—a mistake which, in
oan SOeNT"|an Uhelihioed, estgibnead i Vide: bellel had the Bout
would have been able to accomplish ite independence
without the aid of a foreign mmtervention, or at ail

been so protracted as to
North and South, and

thus bave afforded the time and the guarantes for the
Consolidation of Maximilian’s power. The mistake
at smgular to Napoleon, for
We ‘believe that with’ the exception Of the Russians

one, most of the sovereigns and statesmen of Eure

_ [bagged the det

woul evn achive Ws idepndence,

xioan, policy upop thése

agoonresnnsenpamemneranamssentna onan tes a

oung,(Tribune), ambitious aggrandizement in directing the French inter-
,

vention, or to lay at his door the responsibility of Max-

(Journal of Com-imilian’s death. Ili motives we believe to bave been

but the

bigh earnival in Mexico, as well as the death of Maximi-
lian, more immediately reste upon the authorities at
Wasbirigton, ‘This fact is candidly admitted withyming-
led feelings of shane ant indignationdy the ableet and
most influential papers In the (pited Btates. The New
York Tribune, for itatance, coments with grave sever:
ity on the marder of Maximilian by the Mexican but-
chers, Juarez and Escobedo, and does nov hesitate to
impute that sad event in a great degree to thé conduct
ef the American Government, *' Our part,” says the
Trivune, “in this disaster, thanks to an imbecile aad
purposeless policy, has been humiliating. Maximilinn
was exacated in defiance of the United States.
asked tie poor boon of hiy life, and it was denied,
Santa Anag, av exile, and taken froman American ship,
is either dead ot under sentence ot deathy When the
United States ‘ook two rebels ont of a Brit-
ish steamer, we were somppoiled to return them
almost by the next wail. The defiance the Ameri-
can Government dareqa 20t offer ta England, Mexico
offers to the American G.Vernment. e American
flag was no protectio MT Anon | Ae y acome
trampled upon by Me ‘Be. jews: Ie . - q
indeed, thatit was Mr, ward's J tte rto Juarer,
determined the fate of the Empei't. that until that
letter was received, there was no inte, 19 on the part
of the Liberals to execute Maximilian, Lhe Ranchero
® Mexican paper, says: under date of ace 28th of
ou agentieman jast in from the interior, Who is
w osted ju Mexican tatters, states to us some
rathor wtarding facts in “velusion to the © fon of
Maximilian. From bis intercoursd with leading Mex.
icans, this gentleman states most positively thet it was
Sewurd's letter, requesting the sparing of Maximilian's
life, that directly caused his deat)... Prominent Mex:
ican oMlerals treely admit that there was no thought ot
execnting the Emperor on his tilling into the hands of
the Liberals previous to the reception, by Juarez, of
this request trom the Government of the United States,
On the reception of that, however, * d«teaaination to
pet the Emperor to death was almost both tuaninious
n the army and out. of it, and it was worth Jnarez's
life to have denied acceding to the ¢lumerous for his
execution p> a

The United States are pledged to oppose the inter-

" jference of Euvopgan powers against the Ayeriean Re-

She Mervala.

publics. and for that reason they are morally respou-
sible to foreign Governments tor the good bohavior of
those Republics, Iadnot Mr, Seward protested against
the French ovgupation of Mexico, and, obeying the
national will and acting in accordance with the hational
traditions, dumanded the withdraw! of French troa Ds,
Napeoluon would undoubtedly have carried out bis
original design, and Maximiban would have been firmly
established on the Mexican throne. it was but naturid
that, as the United States had aseumed:a sort of protee-
torate over Mexico, it would have been able te exeroise
such au influence over the leaders of the Liberal party
in that Republic as would have prevented them from
the comnission of such barbarous acts ad that of mir
dering the captured Emperor and other distinguished
prisoners Of war. Nor is it any wonder that the United
tates should be dengunced ithe French Assembly as
tesponsible for the death of Maximihan. There is
hitte doubt,’ says the 7ribwre, * that the United. States
could have saved the life of the Emperor, for the Mexi-
can Republic owes ats every existance to the éympathy
of the American people with the Liberals. But tor the
attitude of the United States, Napoleon would movit-
ably have finished his work!’ The Mexicans knew this
well, and had Mr. Seward shown as much energy in sen-
ina Uoitar Staten. Minister to Mexico, as -be did. sa
recalling one from Austria, they might have been saved
; Mexico has gone back to the days of
Carthage and Rome, and crowned her vietory with bar-
baric Jaurels.”

Such is the substance of the Tribune logic, and it
cannot be denied that ithaa the force of irath in .
concludes thus: When we say that our action might have
spared her this, we remember Mr. Cam bell idling ja
New Orleans without orders, the United States abeo-
lutely unrepresented st the Liberal head quarters, and
the subsequent appuintinent of an unknown forei ner tg
® position which none Lut American statesmen should
fill. This 1s the pitiful pohey which resulted in the
deliberate refusal of the only boon we asked Mexico to
grant--the lives of the vanquished. We gave her ayin-
pathies which were stronger in the end than aries
and yet Mr. Seward can obtain for us nothing in res
turn but a trampled flag. :

Tho Zi ibune's articles may have been diets
the ‘hee of giving a color to Amerivan laseteedon,
in the affairs of Mexico, and possibly to the speedy an-
nexation of the whole country, which it foreshadaws
but at all events it contuings « great deal of: trutn. and
exonerates Napoleon trom much of the oly uy , 4
ed upon him in connection with! Mexico. Should the
Tribune's sentiments be shared in by the W. gton
Government and by the American , We MAY 2000
see an allied force consisting of Prouchmenand Ameri-
cans, avenging upon Mexiexh soil one of the moat
eartless murders ot modern times. ‘The defiance and
insult fevelled at both countries, by Jnavrez. and his
miserable faction of cut-throats, demands the moat
a and summary chastisement, and the blood of
the wurdered Prince cries alond to heaven for ven-
geance, in tones which cannot be appeased till the lives

of his murderers pay the penalty of tneiv :
wanton crime, : . ge ses get a

POLITICAL AFEAIRS,
Ta the New Dominion are iv a muddle just now;
and asthe ‘lay of election for the Dominion Par-
liament draws nigh, the’bittérness of feeling between
the two parties, under the vames of Reformera and
Conservatives, into which the politicians have
ranged themselves, becomes more and ‘more in-
tensified. ‘This state of affairs naturally. resutte
from the higher stakes which Confederation affords
to be played for, As far as wo ean perceive, the
only diffsrence betwees the two parties in Canada
is, that # corrnpt. ‘+ combination” has managed to
appropriate and retain all the spoils, while the
other is striving to gain them. The “combination”
or Couseryatite Party awes e10 Sir Joba
A. McDonald, and the Hon. G. E. Cartier, avd is
suppers by “ corruptiouists " Hons, ‘
Ta an
‘Provinces. The Reform Party is nie yw
Hog. Geo. Brown in Canada and will likely’ be
supported by Hons. Messrs Smith, Howe, and Mr,
Anglin, &e-, for Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
From present appearances, we would. uot be sur-
prised itthe Reformers carried the day ; anil indeed
we think that the lesson to be learned from a defent
would have a most wholesome effect upon those who
are not inaplly termed * co "When

the whole history of Confederation and’of the
Canadian coulition Government comes to he written,

with all their lurking stealthiness, |
diasi oe the truth of the appellation Noor.
ruptiouiste ” will receive such force and:

Pelas to damn ever the character of ve jetneiget
actors in then. We should like to do the portrait
of the poliroon and arch-traitor Tupper, and the

depraved mercenaries, Miller 4
who wero regularly: bought Hig } 4

people, painted in nature pea of the
historian, and in the same he squirming,

We: