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The New York Sun, which goes for " the whole
or none of Mexico, publishes letter, purportng
to have been written in London, which pretends
gravely to SET forth the contents of dispatches from
Mr.. Bankhead, the British Minister in Mexico,
touching American progress in that countryside
startling effect thereby produced in the Ministe-
rial circle" ncudng, Of course, the Uriter of this
Munchausen story)-and the instructions there
upon sent to Mr.. Bankhead by Lord Palmerston,
and which, it seems, have been all revealed, with
the usual stupidity of the British Cabinet to the
correspondent of the NeW York San! These in
structions, we are told, direct the English Minis
ter to push his efforts at mediation; to urge treaty
of peace; not to be overscrupulous as to boundary


lines if the Americans ask territory, provided they
retire north as far as the Rio Grande and the
moment the American army withdraws behind that
line, to demand from Mexico the eighty millions
due to England, and if such demand is not settled,
to seize all the territory that has been left by the
United States" So that poor Mexico, if this story
be true, is really between hawk and huzzard But
it is got up with too little art to deceive any but
born IDIOT The Sun goes for the occupation OF
the whole Of Mexico, and this English bug.a-boo
is invented for the occasion, its counterpart was
in 1914 TO precpiate the "mmedia,e or sooner
annexation of Texas. The Sun ought TO recoect
that the cry OF wolf" may be raised once TOO
often.-Richmond IFhig.