The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-26 00:00:00

MEXICO.

By the arrival of the barque Ann Eliza, Captain
Briscoe, in ten days from Vera Cruz, we learn that
the French brig Naiade had just received on board the
last instalment, of 600,000 dollars, agreed to be paid
to France by the Mexican Government.
The conducta conveying the above instalment to
Vera Cruz from the capital not having arrived the day
previous to that appointed for its payment, the French
Consul called on the Commandant of Vera Cruz, and
threatened to protest the following day. He was an-
swered that there was no occasion for such proceeding
The commercial houses in Vera Cruz subscribed the
notes immediately, and lent it to Government until the
conducta should arrive, which was then on the road,
about 30 leagues distant from Vera Cruz. The money
was paid to the French Consul on the very day that it

became due.
No news from the capital. The Republic was in a
state of tranquillity, the Federalists having been com-
pletely put down. The Central Government was more
firmly established than before. The Congress, how-
ever, were proceeding to reform the Constitution agree-
ably to the expressed wish of the ex-President, Santa
Anna.
IMPORTANT FROM RIO GRANDE.

The brig Otranto, Doty, 14 days from Rio Grande,
which arrived here yesterday, reports that the capital of
the province, Porto Alegro, is still besieged by the rebels,
who have had several skirmishes with the Government
troops. The latter suffered considerably in an en-
counter, in which 1,500 rebels attacked the Government
troops, and obliged them to take refuge in the city,
being almost cut to pieces.
On the 7th of October the ship made Pernambuco,
and soon after was boarded by her Britannic Majesty's
brig Emilius, Hunter, who reported that the province
o! Nlaranharn was in a state of revolution, and that bu-
siness was quite at a stand.

CANADA.
(From the Montreal Papers to the 3d Nov.)
", We are e
informed that his Excellency the Gov
intends rnor-
Gneral to proceed to Upper Canada, about the
middle of the month, when he will dissolve the House of
Assembly, in order that there may be a new election,
for the purpose of ascertaining the opinion of the inha-
bitants on the subject of responsible Government, as
explained in the Report of Lord Durham, and as
supported by the rebels in the Upper Province. His
Excellency is about to do as unwise an act as if he had
concentrated within himself all the ignorance regarding
the Canadas which has been displayed for some years
by the Ministry of which he is a prominent member.
Comparative statement of arrivals, tonnage, and
passengers, at the Port of Quebec, to the 29th ult., for
the year 1838 and 1839 :
Vessels. Tonnage. Passengers.
1839 1 147 ...... ....364,418 .......... ,7,261
1838 ......... 1,097 .......... 340,649 3,239

More this year, 50 22,769 4,023
His Excellency Sir George Arthur and Suite returned
yesterday. It is said that the Gover-
nor-General GppeenrerPar will
illfollow in a few days.

In another column will be found a letter from
Mr. THOROGOOD, to which we request the reader's
attention. It appears that this victim of Ecclesi-
astical oppression has been but scurvily treated by
those to whom he had a right to look for support
and assistance. These persons first mislead, then
desert, and last of all calumniate him. Of this he
complains, and no wonder.

Mr. THOROGOOD, it seems, came to London,
with the intention of appearing to the citation from
the Spiritual Court, when he was induced by cer-
tain parties representing the Church-rate Abolition
Society, to relinquish his purpose, and let the Ec-

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clesiastical law take its course, because (he was
told) by adopting this course, he would most
effectually advance the great cause of religious li-
berty. He followed the advice given him, and re-
turned home, from whence he was soon dragged
to Chelmsford gaol, where he has ever since re-
mained without a single word of encouragement,
or sign of sympathy, in his affliction, from those
who had been instrumental in bringing him. within

the fangs of his persecutors—who buoyed him up
with grand promises, and false hopes, and thus
betrayed him-
Nor is th is all. Those very persons are the first
to impeach the purity of his motives. In a memo-
rial which soroe of them presented to Lord Non-
NI A NBY, on "A londay last, ostensibly in favour of
this poor man, it is stated that he was deterred
from contesting the legality of the proceedings
against him by the expense to which he would be
put by so doing—an assertion which he declares
to be false, and which, we may add, his noble self-
devotion for the sake of principle, has proved to be

so.
If this be the way that a conscience-protecting
Society " move heaven and earth" in the cause of
the persecuted, we hope and trust they will in fo• 1
ture remain in a state of quiesence. 'We heartily
wish they had not stirred on this occasion, for they
are likely t© do more harm than good. They have
delayed their interference until it is worse than.
useless, for it may have the effect of making those
who are at a distance from the scene of action, and
unacquainted with the secret springs that may be at•
work in this case, imagine that now that Tricto
GOOD'S case has been taken up by a " great asso-
ciation," their individual exertions are not wanted.
Let not the Dissenters fall into this error--a
more dangerous one they could not commit. Their
own efforts in their own cause have been too long
suspended by the empty professions of societies with
high-sounding names. It is now full time that theY
should be persuaded of the necessity of acting for
themselves, and of acting with energy and pose.
verance. Again we hold out to them the examPle
of the men of Leicester. Let them meet. —publicly'
where they live in towns, and congregational!l
where they reside in the country—and express their
sentiments, to be conveyed to the Throne and to
the Legislature, on this, one of the grossest out'
rages ever perpetrated on the rights of conscience.

The Moniteur of Sunday publishes the whole
the garbled despatch from Madrid announcing the
dissolution of the Cortes. Why it was not all
given on Friday can be best explained by such c"
the French Ministry as interest themselves most
about the price of Spanish Stock ; for we place no
reliance upon the statement of the Moniteur Pa"
risien about the interception by the fog. The fol-
lowing is the despatch as given entire : °f
" MADRID, Nov. 18.—A decree of the Queen
Spain orders the dissolution of the Cortes. Tree",
arc assembled at this moment between Ocana and
Aranjuez, under the orders of General Bathos. The
garrison of Madrid is increased, but the town is perfectly
quiet."
" When rogues fall out, honest men come by
their own," is an old proverb, which promises to
be verified in the case of M. DunA No, the Editor
of the Russian organ the Capitols, and the Editors
of his former paper the Journal de Frankfort.
appears that the Frankfort Editors have been in-
structed to discard the assistance of their quondam
colleague, and even to ridicule his pretensions to
support the views of the Northern Powers ;
and so well have they followed their instructions
that M. D URA ND, stung to the quick, now threatens
to turn round and expose to the world the whole
net-work of Austrian intrigues—for to Austria onlY"
does he attribute the attacks made on him
'rc,
show that he is in earnest, and also what he has in
his power to do, he publishes the following seim,e:
w e
tuenryui inviteosaus
issaae,
etcatorenei littletei enontngi
convention,
nr—gi
ce
nmial
yns
of the designs of Austria upon Cracow, to whic
t
t disposed
cbetweenadeaz,Austria,fgiiina
riaanvtoe favour
o,:trist
vytis .64
man::
first of these powers. Of what did this cadiau con.'
silt? Why, that in spite of existino. treaties, Angtria

should receive the free town of Cracow.
54 It was first agreed upon that this town should !les
occupied by the three Powers, under pretence a I.a
pacification, and of protecting it ; but that
should soon after retire its troops beyond a certain en't
tance ; that Prussia should go still further, and
the Austrian garrison alone should remain and OCCUPY.
the town until the moment when the Austrian cabinet
may feel itself inclined to proclaim Cracow as belonging
to the empire.
" Thus, as its first revelation the Capitole announces
that Cracow has become at: Austrian town by virtue of
secret treaties between the powers of the north ; and
that the thin, has been so weil managed towards the
Cabinets of Faris and London, that French and English
diplomacy are ignorant of it still, and will only now learn
it through this journal. tha
" There is our first fact. A few impertinent provo-
catives will make us reveal others as secret and as little
known. Will Austria, to convict us of falsehood, eva-
cuate Cracow ? That, indeed, would be a triumph ob-
tained by an article of a journal."
We subjoin what other news there is in the Paris
Journals of Sunday.
From Madrid we have Papers of the the 17th
inst., but their contents have been anticipated.
Accounts from Galicia announce that the people at!
o
everywhere preparing to refuse the payment of tag
and that means to resist are organising for this puepoK
in many places.
Fears were again felt for the tra.nquillity of Barceletni.
The violent party was very active.
Munagorri, whose name and absord undertanig3,
were forgotten, has just arrived at Tolmsa from Ma roe
whither he has been, as he affirms, to support
that
fueros of the Biscayan provinces. It is affirtued the
he is very low-spirited, and expects no good fronl
famous reat of Bergara. 0144.
The letters y from Saragossa of the 17th bring"- La
new relative to the state of things in Arraga*---
Gazette de France. r frois
The Semaphore of Marseilles says, that a It tier
13eY
Tunis of the 4th of November, announces that the
.ss of
is now quite easy with respect to the inteutior eance
France ; he was afraid, notwithstanding the alsll Id be
of our Consul General, that an expedition vienpulte
directed against Keff, but he had learned that tbe
°sae
of Orleans has gone towards Setiff, in a quite °L.PPsorno
direction to Keff. The Bey has, however, leit
troops in that place, which is to be revictualled.
oisfr
TOULON, Nov. 19.—The official news of the °Odor)
of Admiral Rosamel to the command of the Pere'squa
now forming in our road, has been well ,received reo
The Admiral, who will probably assui.ne in :fleet;
months the chief command of the Mediterfanee-,,,era'
will have under him twenty ships of the :kW'
frigates, corvettes, &c., in all above thirty me" 7-aillieP
The fleet will form two divisions, the command 01 t La
will be retained by Rear-Admirals Lalande tin": lei
Susse. Thus we see that there will be a great d'sl)Eve
r
of force in the Mediterranean, at the return of thesio•
season. England, on its side, sends considerable
foreementsur'
to the fleet under Admiral Stopford.----J°
nal des Debate.

IMPORTANT TO case 0561stoir)tf
brought P
before the Justices of the Peace in this • h
with regard to the desertion of seamen from a 130ditilioe
ship in foreign parts. Three men were shiPP- vegg
board the Roger Stewart at New York, for the "'„ of
from hence to Quebec and the Clyde, at the wagcl-the
21. i Os. per month. At Quebec they desertenther
ship and came home in another vessel. the
men had to be engaged in their room et
''tare
rate of 81. per month. On their arrival
gp
the master of the Roger Stewart broughtstic eo
action
against them before her Majestys Ali6th
a
of the Peace, founding on the statute sth c° of
of William IV., c. 19, for the recovery of the excess so
wages paid to the men whom he was obliged to hire
arty
substitutes in their room. The desertion being cle
proved by the log book of the ship, the evidence re'
quired by the statute, the Justice, on the full hearing f
the case, found the defenders liable in the eseetish%
wages paid for substitutes, and, on failure to 13°Y tor
sums respectively due, granted a warrant in
terms 0
the statute to imprison the defenders in the
comroche
gaol of the county, where one of them now lies
entilAp
discharges the debt incurred by his delinquency in
serting his duty.—Greenock Advertiser.
PRETTY CONIPLIMENT.—AII anecdote of the
Duchess of St. Albans at Abbotsford recounts the haPci
pleat thing (and it hos merit) that her Grace is suPrse
to have said. In showing her over the house,
de-
siring her to observe that his bed-room communicatedd
by a private staircase with a little study, be added,
46 Thus, you see, when they all think I have retired to
three
bed, I can escape to my study, write for two or
hours. and nobody the wiser." " That is im
after
Sir Walter," replied her Grace.