Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper 1865-07-01: Vol 20 Iss 509

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Excel. berg, osch, other Every anted mptly co. ustr . 4 Pv iain ai (Wy Le Es Entered according to the Act of Coneress in the year 1864. bv Frang Lesuie. in the Clerk’s Office of tha District Court for the Southern Distric: of New York. No. 509--Vor, XX.] NEW YORK, JULY 1, 1865. $4 00 Yearrr. |Prick 10 Cents, ff 9) Yeaua. France in Mexico. Mexico promises to be the rock on-which the bark bearing the fortunes of the Third Na- poleon will be wrecked. Successful up to this time, not from great foresight or profound judgment, but rather from luck and happy combinations of circumstances, Louis Napo- leon now finds himself for the first time en- veloped in difficulties which thicken rather than dissolve before his eyes, and which are not limited to a distant field, but invade his palace and involve his family. Not only does Mexico obstinately refuse to be ‘‘regenerated ” through the persuasion of French bayonets, but offers a resistance probably more vigorous now than ever before. This calls for men and money, for the Austrian puppet who mimics impe- tial state in Mexico, is as barren of one as he is bankrupt of the other. Both these must be supplied by France—if at all—for Austria takes no real interest in the French scheme, as this Mexican affair exclusively is, and besides has no resourtes to spare. Poor old Leopold can cathe BM tho tra titi U itl NVM only furnish a handful of mercenaries, who must also be paid by France, and who nee | proved to be no match for the Mexican soldiers, by whom: they have been very effectually cut up. The annual revenues of Mexico are insuf- ficient to cover a month’s cost of the ridiculous empire. Here, then, is the first, and perhaps grand- est of all the difficulties that beset Napoleon— the financial one. France is now restive under any addition to her burthens, for an object in which the nation has failed to discover either honor or profit, and money for Maximilian’s current expenses can only be raised through a gambling lottery scheme, which, if started here, would subject its originators and manage- ment to indictment and the penitentiary. The notion that the invasion of Mexico was going to result in making the country another Cali- fornia, has been rudely dispelled. No one be- lieves in the permanency or power of the ‘‘empire,” and all the bona fide emigrants who have gone there from Europe during the three years the French have been in the country, do not number as many as land in New York in a single day. Another Napoleonic difficulty is the restive- ness of the so-called Mexican emperor, who sees better than any one: else, the absurdity of ' his position and its untenableness. He feels that he is only a puppet in the hands of a_ French marshal, with little of volition, and less of power, and if report speaks truly, has al- ready intimated to his master his desire to withdraw from his uncomfortable, not to say perilous position. Perilous he evidently re- gards it, in view of the close of our civil war, as evinced in the haste with which his confi- dential agents flew to Europe to sound the alarm, and appeal for men and money. It is stated on as good authority as could be ad- duced in matters of this kind, that he has asked for a reinforcement of 100,000 men as a sine qua non in the reduction of the country, and to meet the forces of the republic, which it is supposed will be greatly augmented and wi anititititi Lich ett oh ies si Wi | NN | oma if 4 A atbiaiss { ulti i y ot) ay) te ane fi ‘ a eee LAD hehen Fl ob bel | ol lai) EP —s “hi Hi 4 : ah dd strengthened by recruits from the United States. Such a contribution would not be sanctioned by the public opinion of France, and the cost ‘would be a serious addition to the already heavy burthens of the country. This public opinion has already found ex- "pression, not through the feeble voice of a ' weak opposition in the French Chambers, but in the imperial circle itself. Prince Napoleon in a public speech, since widely distributed in pamphlet form, has not only extolled the Monroe Doctrine as one right and proper for the United States to maintain, but claims for it the sanctity (in French eyes) of being one of the ‘‘ Idées Napoleonnes.” He affirms that it was the policy of the great emperor to make the United States great, and the friend and ally of Francein America, and hence he gave up Louisiana to her for a song and without a sigh. His policy, according to this inter- preter, is as much to-day the policy of France as it was half a century ago, For-this speech Prince Napoleon has been 7 i> us | AL END OF THE POOR.—FUNERAL FROM A TENEMENT HOUSE IN BAXTER STREMT, FIVE POINTS, NEW YORK.~-FROM A SKETCH BY OUB AGTISL