The Sun.
London, England, 1837-06-17 00:00:00

TRADE Wall MEXICO.

(From Last Night's Gazette.)
Foreign Office, June 16, 1837.
Dispatches, dated the 3d of April, 1837, have been received
by Viscount Palmerston, G. C. B , his Majesty's Principal Se-
cretary of State for Foreign Affairs, from Richard Pakenham,
Esq., his Majesty's Plenipotentiary at Mexico, of which the
following arc an extract and a copy :
( Extract.) _ _ .

In the new tariff of duties lately promulgated by the Mexi-
can Government provision is made for the fulfilment of the
stipulations contained in the fifth article of the treaty with
Great Britain, by placing foreign vessels upon the same foot-
ing as Mexican vessels in respect to the payment of tonnage
duties.

By the 2d article of the tariff it is provided that " every
foreign vessel arriving in the ports of the Republic shall pay
twelve ryals for each ton, to which duty even national vessels
shall remain subject, without any abatement whatever, when
they come directly from a foreign port. The anchorage duty
continues abolished for one and the other."

I have to. add that, by a law passed on the Bth of last month,
it is declared that the abatement of duty now granted on goods
imported in national vessels shall cease within four months,
counted from the date of the law—provision being thus made
for the fulfilment of the stipulations contained in the 6th ar-
ticle of the treaty, which will come into effect on the 19th
July next, and by which it is agreed that the same duties shall
be paid on thQ importation into the territories of Mexico of
any article, the growth, produce, or manufacture of his Ma-
jesty's dominions, whether such importation shall be in Mexi-
can or British vessels.

(Copy.)
Mexico, April 3, 1937.
My Lord—By a decree published in -Mexico, on the 7th of
last month, it is enacted that the ports which shall henceforth
continue open for foreign trade. are the following
In the Gulph of Mexico—Vera Cruz, Santa de Tamau-
lipas (Tampico), Matamoros, Campeachy, Sisal and Tabasco.
In the Pacific—Acapulco and San Bias.
In the Gulf of California—Guaymas.
In the Sea of Upper California—Monterey.
The following ports, hitherto open for foreign trade, are
by the same decree declared to be closed, except for the coast-
ing trade :
Bacalar, Goatzacoalcos, Alvarado, Matagorda, Galveston,
Huatulco, Manzanillo, Natividad, Mazatlan, La Paz, Loreto.
San Diego, and Francisco.
But the measure is not to take effect until after six mo nths,
counted from the date of the publication of the decree.
I have the honour to be, &c.,
(Signed) R. PAKENHAM.
The Viscount Palmerston, G. C. 8., &c., &c., &c.

It is said that the beautiful and highly-accomplished
daughter of the Countess of V—, one of the fair debutantes
of the present season, and justly denominated "la belle blonde"
Alrnack's, is likely to be united to the Marquis G—.
Lady M. G. has not yet attained "sweet eighteen."
An American paper says—" Travellers should be
careful to entrust their baggage to proper persons only, as a
gentleman a few days since, on alighting from a stage-coach,
entrusted his wife to a stranger, and she has not been heard
of since."
THE CROPS.—The welcome change in the weather
has given an impulse to vegetation, and the crops arc rapidly
assuming a healthy appearance. The alternation of showers
and sunshine has produced a most favourable effect on the pas-
tures and meadows. If the season continues to shed the
genial influences of the last few days, the hearts of the poor
will be revived with the promise of an abundant harvest.—
Hall Advertiser.
POLITENESS.—PhiIip Hone, Esq , of New
York, I look upon as the politest man I ever did see ; for
when he asked me to drink at his own sideboard, he turned his
back upon me, that I might'nt be ashamed to fill as much as I
wanted. That was what I called doing the fair thing.—Col.
Crockett.

The recent delightful change in the weather has
given promise not only of improved but plentiful crops. A
copious supply of rain within the last few days has so far altered
the appearance of the grass that the probability seems to be
that it will "not look back again." It is indeed consoling to
reflect that during the extensive pressure and despondency in
the commercial world the face of nature is cheering.—Liver-
pool Paper.
Everything connected with mining in our neigh-
bourhood is of the most gloomy character. Our miners are
beginning now to feel what before they had only heard of—
" distress." But it is a passing cloud.—Cornwall Gazelle.
When the American Indians saw Captain Morley
take off his wig, they cried out that he had two heads.
We understand that the contracts for the Midland
Counties Railway, in the neighbourhood of Nottingham were
signed on Wednesday week, and that the works commenced
On the following day,--Doncaster Gazette.