Maximilian I, Of Mexico

oro it not l"r our civil war, tlic wlinlc oouiitry would ring, froiu tho Peiiobseot lo tlio Rio Grui-de, t the bold Bxfeinpt froui wliich tho miisk bas nor ftllun, to coDvert the Mexiean Rcpubüo into a ajonaïvliy ;;:id p!aj the Auetrian oircliduke on its tbroue. Tho crafty and pertidious Eutpcror of France takes advaiitage of uur weaknoss to subvert tho iiiititutions of t iioigliboring State. Ho uniiortakes to plant a ïnonarehy on tliis eoutineut, and olïors it lo the Aro'iduke .i;i.iiiiiü;i;i. Aecording to tho Indrpendance ]jc!ic tlie Cabinot of Madrid preHofited tlis mfanto Don Sebastian, of i Spain, a a caiuiidulu ibr tlm nuyr thronej bui, Franco and Euglund pcrenipt.orilj' , deolinod to entertain the proposal on tho grouud tliat it would bo contrary fo Ü.e , article of tho convontion by wi.ich tho tb ree powurastipulutedthat uonuot tliem ! slioulü setk a I3par&t6 advantago in the rapeditioit. A rvcont journcy made by tl.o Muxican Qooral Almonte to ! scls led to the oonjeoture tuat Frunce and Englagd had tliought of the Count of ' Flanders, second son of the Kiog of j giuin, but the tact that, tbruuh bis ituitlier, lic is Prinee of (Jileans, reodera it iniprobablo tliat ho could liave boen thoughtof by Napolpou UI. Tbc offor of the Siexioao erown to the Archduke Maximiliau was not at first well received in Austria. Tho Oü Deutsche Pod applied to tbc offer the words whlch Virgil puts in the inouth of a Trojan respectiug tliü wooden horse: Timeo Bañaos et dona 19 - "[ foar tho Greoks even wbou they offer presents." Tbis journal deuied the exictonee of the negotiations relativo to the arebduke, just as cvery proceiing Stop in this porfidious business has boan prcluded by semi oficial contradictions whieh events soon proved to be ' false. It wns deuied in tho Londou and Paris journals in an early stage of tho proceedings tLt tliero was to bo any intervention ; iiras then denied that tbere was to be any concert of action, and the details vvere persisted in up to the signing of the treaty. It is now put bevond question that the Od DciUsdie Post was deceiving its readers when it reeontly dcnied the existeueo of the negotiationa respecting tho crown. Blaxiniilian has conüitionally accepted the tbrone of Mexico; but the couditions made by Austria aro difi'erent f'rom thoso proposed by Franco. Recent intelligerice froin Vienna represented that Austria wa.s disposcd to aocpt, provided a body of ailied troops would reiniiin five vearsiu Mexico to give the new mouareh)' time to get firmly establisbed. But a dispatcb f'rom Vienna, dated February 4, in the London Morninj l'osl, statea that Muximiliau will accept the throue, but tbat Austria will not oede Yenetia in return - implying that ihis was proposed as a condition.