Hill's New Hampshire Patriot

The following from the London Times gives a good idea of English opinion in regard to Mexico and the United States :—

"The intelligence just received from Mexico will increase the disgust with which the conduct of the people of that country has long been viewed, and will greatly diminish the sympathy hitherto felt for them on account of the ill treatment they have experienced at the hands of the American Government. There is no possibility of helping those who are unwilling to help themselves, and such appears to be the condition of the Mexicans. They are wasting upon internal discord the little energy and limited resources they possess, while standing almost in the presence of a powerful enemy. We might with justice cease to feel an interest in the fate of a country so perversely bent upon its own ruin, were it not that our own commerce is suffering severely from the present condition of the relations between the United States and Mexico. A squabble, however contemptible, which impedes the progress of trade on the part of neutrals, and renders private property liable to those dangers that are inseparable from a state of domestic anarchy—such a contention between two litigants, who seem both unable to bring the quarrel to an end, is a nuisance which a third party should be allowed to terminate. Friendly offers of mediation have already been made by our late as well as our present minister of foreign affairs; but the United States and Mexico seem disposed to 'fight it out'—a process which threatens to prove exceedingly tedious. On one side we find large resources injudiciously applied, and on the other internal discord dividing the force that needs the utmost concentration to give it the smallest chance of proving successful,

"We can scarcely hope for the triumph of the Mexican cause, after the specimens we have seen of the incapacity of the Mexican people to provide efficiently for their own government. Were they to retain their nominal independence, it is only too probable that they would continue to be the slaves of that spirit of vacillation which subjects them to a constant change of rulers, and dooms the country to a condition practically amounting to anarchy. No sooner does the last new president turn his back on the seat of government, than, almost in a night, there springs up in his place some mushroom rival. He, in his turn, is superseded by another, equally rapid in growth, and with as little hold on the ground he occupies. Santa Anna has by this time returned to such power as can be held by the nominal head of a body whose members cannot be brought to co-operate in any sustained effort for their general benefit. He is said to be determined on continuing the war; but it is not improbable that, with the fatal tendency to disunion which prevails among the people, their sentiments may take a pacific turn when the president is known to be bent on an opposite policy.

"The downfall of Paredes cannot be deplored, for in the midst of the crisis to which Mexico has been exposed, with conquest threatening from abroad, and every social evil preying on the vitality of the country at home, the president who has just been displaced remained at least inactive, if not indifferent. His imbecility, which might have kept him harmless under ordinary circumstances, rendered him wholly unfit to retain the office of president in a country whose greatest evil is the want of a strong government. If Santa Anna can supply such a desideratum, his restoration will be a happy event, of which not only Mexico itself, but all who are interested in its commerce, will speedily feel the benefit. Whether the war is to be continued or concluded, a strong government is equally essential for the security of neutrals, who will naturally feel disposed to sympathise with that party which affords them most efficiently the protection to which they are entitled. The cabinet of the United States is scarcely to be blamed for evincing an indisposition to negotiate with men who, though nominally rulers today, may be deposed and treated as traitors tomorrow. A country must be itself united before it can inspire the confidence of those who are disposed to become its allies, or obtain the respect of such as are in the position of its enemies. Mexico can neither make an honorable peace, nor prosecute a war with a chance of success, until its interests are placed in the protection of an efficient executive."