It is still hailing epigrams in the Corps Legislatif. On
Thursday M. Rouher having pointed to universal suffrage as the test of Mexican feeling, Jules Favre remarked that it was odd policy to kill a nation in order to obtain its vote. Are we, like Pagan priests, to consult the entrails of victims for favourable auguries?" M. Thiers describes the expedition as one which would probably fail, and which, if it succeeded, would simply erect a - second Brazil—Brazil, which, after a peace of fifty years, has a budget of four millions a year, and a trade of twenty-four millions. He re- commended an immediate treaty with Juarez, advice which, wise once, involves the useless sacrifice of ten thousand lives, treachery to the new Emperor, and the sacrifice of the last hope of restoring decent order in Mexico. 1 he invasion was bad enough, but to retire without accomplishing anything would be even more im- moral. It is reported by telegraph that Marquez has defeated Juarez, and that the Mexican President, attended only by three servants, is on his way to Texas.
