The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-25 00:00:00

FRANCE AND MEXICO.

La Patrie publishes the following :
" We are assured that the last despatches from
Mexico announce that the Expeditionary Corps of
General de Lorencez occupies an excellent encamp.
ment in the province of Puebla, the most healthy
and the most fertile of the country ; that he is well
supplied with provisions, and that he may, without
any danger, pass in that position the season of the
great heats, which terminate on the 15th September.
In presence of these reassuring facts it is proposed
to delay for some days the departure of the rein-
forcements, to make them leave France in such guise
that they will not reach Vera Cruz till early in Oc-
tober. Our troops will thus avoid the great heats,
and will have for the operation in Mexico the four
most favourable months of the year as regards
climate and salubrity : that is to say—October,
November, December, and January."
La Presse has the following : _ _

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" The contingents of the troops which are now
preparing for departure in various points will not
go directly to Mexico: they will stop at Martinique
and at Guadaloupe, so as to reach Vera Cruz to-
wards the end of September, when the great heats
will be over. The last despatches from General de
Lorencez allow this delay in the despatch of the
reinforcements. Our little Expeditionary Corps
is encamped at Amazoc, in an excellent position,
and it is scarcely probable that the Mexicans will
attempt to dislodge it. In consequence of this in-
telligence the departure of General Forey seems to
have been postponed; it will probably not take
place till after the return of M. Dubois de Saligny.
As regards Admiral Jurien de la Graviere, who is
much esteemed in Mexico.. he will sail at once. He
will have under his command one of the finest
squadroas in the worid,consisting of the three follow-
ing divisions :—The Mexican division, tie Antilles
division, and the American coast division. It is
also said that Captain Roze will be raised to the
rank of Rear-Admiral, and ,will retain the command
of the Mexican division, which he is exercising ad
interim since the Admiral's departure."

La Patrie says that the other divisions will be
commanded by Rear-Admirals Reynaud and de
Cande.

FATAL ACCIDENT IN A COALPIT.—OR Friday
evening last, Charles O'Connell, redsman, residing at 21,
Charlotte-street, Bridgeton, was killed in Eastbank Coal-
pit, Shettleaton, while he and another man, named Patrick
M'Lachlan, were propping up the roof. The rcof fell in
and killed him on the spot. M`Lachlan escaped unhurt.
LICENSING REFRESHMENT-HOUSES.—Yesterday
morning, in pursuance of orders issued by the Home Se.
cretary, a number of constables were employed in each of
the metropolitan divisions of police to visit all coffee-houses
and other places kept open for the sale of refreshments in
their several districts, and all who were found trading with-
out licenses were informed that, unless they took out the
same forthwith, they would be proceeded against for the
penalties they had incurred. The whole of the night
saloons in the vicinity of the Haymarket and Leicester-
square were visited, as a preliminary, it is said, to their
suppression.
THE COURT OF CHANCERY.—The sittings for
after Trinity Term commenced yesterday, The cause list
of the Court of Chancery shows an entry of nine appeals
and five causes before the Lord Chancellor and tha Lords
Justices; 117 causes, &c., before the Master of the Rolls ;
43 causes, &c., beforeVice-Chancellor Sir R. I. Kindersley ;
57 causes, &c., before Vice-Chancellor Sir J. Stuart;
and 163 causes before Vice-Citmelfor Sir W. 1", -Wood.