The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-11 00:00:00

MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES. 4...

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ziE —UNITED STATES.
NEW YORK, Aug. 28.—Tho southern mails brin .11Wr ');4• 7':-.L• •
from Mexico news of the most important character. -7:41:1745?_,4V4,„,
The revolution against the dictatorship of Santa ''•
Anna has been successful, and the Dictator him- a; S
self has been obliged to fly to Havannah. The •
instalments of money received from tie United
States under the Gadsden treaty have hitherto sup-
ported him ; but at the critical moment, when the
last instalment of 3,000,600 dollars was due, the
United States Minister at Mexico refused, under
instructions, to pay over, and the political enemies
of Santa Anna, instead of himself, will enjoy the
division of this sum. An article in the Acapulco
Restaurador de kc Libertad of Aug. 5, giving the
substance of a latter from Mexico to General Al-
varez, says :

" The same letter announces that there is a strong oppo-
sition existing between the American Minister and the
Dictator, because that functionary, seeirg the very critical
circumstances which surrounded the miserable administra-
tion of the tyrant, has refused, in the name of the United.
States Government, to deliver to Santa Anna the remain-
ing 3,000,000 dollars due on the Sale of the Mosilla Valley.
Regarding which we positively know that his Excellency
the General-in-Chief Alvarez has solemnly protested
against the payment of this money to the tyrant.'
The San Francisco papers bring intelligence of
the capture of Petropaulovski, and the successful
retreat of the Russians during a dense fog to the
Amcor. All the San Francisco and New York
journals contain full accounts of the affair.
The various State conventions of New York take
place about this time, preparatory to the autumn
elections. The Old Line Democracy, better known
as Hard Shells, met at Syracuse last week, and
issued an address endorsing the Nebraska Bill, de-
nouncing sectionalism, and asserting that union
with themselves or with the republicans is the only
alternative. The Soft Shells, or Administration De-
mocracy, meet at Syracuse this week, and the Re-
publican, or Anti-slavery party, next month. The
native Americans will manage their affairs more
quietly in their Kuow-nothing councils. These
movements are important as bearing on the Presi-
dential election of next year. The Hards have
already put forward Mr. Daniel S. Dickinson as
their candidate. The Republicans will be ready, if
thought advisable, to put Mr. Seward in nomina-
tion for anti-slavery support. If the State of New
York takes decided ground on the Piesidential
question, and gives an efficient support to any can-
didate, it will have great weight in deciding the
question in a national convention.
The bank balances for the week show a great
loss of specie—between $1,300,000 and $1,400,000.
It is not improbable that a temporary panic may
follow this decrease. The bears are active in efforts
to depress securities, and may produce some result
for a few days or weeks; but it cannot be anything
serious or permanent. The West is well supplied
with gold, and in case of difficulty will prove a solid
support for the Atlantic to lean upon. The new
arrangements of the Commissioners of Emigration,
by which all emigrants are taken out of the hands
of runners and urovided for by the city authorities,
enable them to ascertain with great accuracy the
amount of coin which comes to the country in their
pockets. The system has been in operation only a
short time, but there is reason to suppose that the
addition of specie from these sources amounts to
$15,000,000 or $20,000,000 a=year, most of which
goes to the Western country. This must make
itself felt on the value of pr, perty in that quarter,
and on Western enterprises generally. It is un-
questionably one of the causes of the great sales
and high prices of the lands of the Illinois Central
Railroad, which now amount to about $3,200,000,
and promise before the close of the year to reach
$4,500,000.
The Ohio and Mississippi Railroad promises now
to be completed in a few months. The western di-
visi ,n is again open, and running to Vincennes,
and the third rail will be laid from Sandoval to St.
Louis in about three months. The bonds issued
for completing the eastern division have been sub-
scribed for, and the directors think that within
six months at the outside the trains will go through
from 'Cincinnatti to St. Louis.

Some of the New York journals have been pre-
mature in announcing an amicable arrangement
between the New York Central and New York and
Erie Roads. None has been made. Parties are
endeavouring to bring it about, and with hopes of
success. As yet neither road has suffered much
from the contest. The diminished receipts of the
Erie for the last month are accounted for by the
absence of local business, owing to the failure of
last year's crop. The new harvest is beginning to
come in, and next mouth will probably tell a diffe-
rent story.

WINE DUTIES —By the Avon, steamer, which left
Souti-ampton yesterday for Lisbon, Mr. Oliveira, M.P.
for Pontefract, was a passei.ger. The hon. gentleman
goes to Portugal, for the purpose of examining the state
of the vineyards, the stocks of wine, and the vintage,
especially in the Oporto district, to obtain the best in-
formation upon the subject of a reduced duty, which be
takes so great an interest in advoc.ting ' • and likewise
to ascertain what disposition may exist in Portugal as to
a reduction of the tariff upon B It sh goods.
DEATH OF CAPTAIN W. H. PECEIELL.—It is under

the most painful feelings we have to annotmce the death
of Captain William Henry Cecil George Pechell, 77th
Regiment, which sad event appears from a telegraphic
communication to have taken place on the 3d September,
while serving in the trenches before Sebastopol. This
gallant and promising young officer, the only son of Sir
George Brooke Pechell, and non. Lady Brooke
Pechell, was born at Castle Goring in May, 1830, and
alter passing his early days at Harrow and Sandhurst
College, entered the army in August, 1848 ; and, making
it his profession, he most sedulously applied himself to
all its duties, set+ ing aside all other advantages to which
his station might entitle him. During the winter cam-
paign in the Crimc-a he cheerfully shared in the arduous
services in which the 77th Regiment has been engaged.
The personal regard and high esteem in which he was
held by his brother officers, and bis kindness and atten-
tion to the men under his command during that dreadful

period, will cause his loss to be most deeply deplored by
them. After the attack on the Redan on the 18th of
June, he was offered by Prince Albert to he placed in
his Royal Highness's regiment of Guards, which would
have been the cause of expediting his return to England;
but the high position he held in his regiment, and the
zeal which ever stimulated him in the conscientious dis-
charge of his duties-, induced him (at such a moment) to
decline quitting the post of honour and danger to which
he had so nobly devoted himself. His many amiable and
estimable qualities endeared him to all tvho knew him ;
and to his affeted and bereaved parents and relatives
his loss is irrel arable.
ROBBERY FROM A SILVERSMITH'S SHOP. Yesterday

morning much sensation was crtated in the town of
Huddersfield by the announcement that the jeweller's
shop, kept by Mr. E. W. Chinn, John William-street,
had been burglariously entered during the night, and
stripped of all the valuables it contained. The place en-
tered is only occupied as business premises, Mr. Chinn
residing in Prospect-row. On Saturday night, alter de-
positing all the watches in an iron safe under the counter,
with the exception of two or three which he left in the
window, he fastened up the shop, and went home—
starting on Sunday morning for Coventry, having the
shop keys with his wife. On Monday morning, about
half-past seven o'clock, the apprentice went to open the
shop, and found that it had been entered ; the safe,
weighing above 2 cat., containing the watches, was
missing, and all the gold brooches and trinkets, the
silver spoons, and other valuable articles left in the glass
cases on the counter, were all stolen, and the thieves
appeared to have gone most deliberately about their
work, as they had rejected all the silver plated goods,
but they did not give themselves the trouble to secure
two or three silver watches left in the window. The shop
door, by which the burglars had effected an entrance,
was secured both by a patent and a common lock. The
latter was picked, and it is ascertained that the former
must have been opened .by -a,duplioate key, as it has
been since examined, and it does not show the slightest
trace of violence. After removing the goods, the thieves
again locked the door, and thus left no external mark by
which the notice of the night watch might have been
attracted. The value of the goods is supposed to be
between 3001. and 4001.
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On Thursday morning
hours. Robins returned
home between one and two. o'clock after being away
are far from edifying
for three weeks, during which period it is stated he has
not slept at his house more than four or five nights,
quarrel appears to have ensued between Robins and
his wife, in the course of which she attempted to murder
bin' by cutting his throat with a razor or some other
sharp . instrument. Mr. T. 'W. Fryer, surgeon, of Red'
611.6111, was sent for about half-past six on Thursday
morning,
ning, and on arriving at the house he found Robins
sitting in a chair in a back-room down stairs, with a
good deal of blood on his shirt and also on a towel which
he was holding to his throat. Upon examination Mr.
Fryer found the man had received a superficial incised
wound about two inches in length, just above the breast
bone, which was then bleeding a little, but upon exposure
to the air it ceased without requiring any of the vessels
to be taken up. Robins was at this time in a fainting
state from the loss of blood. His wife, who was in the
same room, partially undressed, and appeared to be in
an excited state, said that they had been having a few
words, owing to her husband having been out for three
weeks, during which time he had only been home four
or five nights. She bad a sliht wound on her left
thumb, which Mr. Fryer also dregked. Robins's wound
was not in itself dangerous, but the constitution of the
patient renders his recovery doubtful. The woman was
at once apprehended, and in the course of the day Mr.
Shorland, one of the Somersetshire magistrates, acting
for this division, visited Robins's house for the purpose
of taking his deposition. Mr. Fryer was also examined
and ultimately the woman was committed to take k
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