The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-02 00:00:00

MEXICO.

NEW YORK, Nov. 23 (Evening).
Advices received here from Matamoras to the Bth
inst., via New Orleans, announce that the Republi-
cans have raised the siege of Matamoras in conse-
quence of the Imperial troops marching from
Monterey to attack their rear. They dispersed in
different directions, pursued by the Imperialists for
about five miles, having been previously badly cut
up. Generals Pensa and Gallenda were killed, and
Cortinas, Himajosa, and Garza wounded. A French
squadron had arrived at the mouth of the Rio
Grande.

Washington despatches state that Aleijla had
informed the Emperor that half the forces besieging
Matamoras were Federal troops, and that Maxi-
milian, fearing complications with the United States
might arise therefrom, had abandoned his intended
journey to Yucatan. The Empress would visit
Yucatan, and afterwards proceed to Europe.
The New York papers announced the receipt of
authentic intelligence stating that Maximilian
had ordered all the Imperial forces to be withdrawn
from the outposts and concentrated at Vera Cruz,
city of Mexico, and San Luis Potisi, there to await
the arrival of reinforcements. It was believed that
the people would rise in favour of the republic upon
the troops being withdrawn ; the republicans, it is
added, having received encouraging advices from
the United States.

The Matamoras papers announce that a conspi-
racy had been discovered, formed at Brownsville, to
capture Matamoras and the forts, and assassinate
Gen. Aleijla. Two of the conspirators, formerly
Confederate officers, had been captured and sen-
tenced to be shot.

It is reported, via New Orleans, that the French
Admiral demanded of Gen. Weitzel the surrender
of the steamer captured by the republicans, which
was refused.

Intelligence via San Francisco announces that the
Imperialists had shot Arteaga, Parapachos, Gomez,
and Saluzar, recently captured in Michoacan. Gen.
Alvarez had consequently proclaimed the life of
every captured French imperial general to be for-
feited.

Despatches from Mazatlan to the Bth, via San
Francisco, state that the French had entirely aban-
doned Sinaloa, except the town of Mazatlan, where
800 troops were stationed. The Republicans,
vaguely estimated at several thousands, had cut off
their communication with th e interior and threatened
the city.
Advices from Acapulco to the 3d report the ar-
rival of a reinforcement of 500 Imperial troops from
Mazatlan.

General Carrajal and other Republican Mexican
officers in the United States are purchasing arms,
ammunition, and uniforms for shipment to Mexico
via Brownsville.

The Royal Mail screw steamer Cuba, from Hali-
fax and Boston, arrived at Queenstown at 1.45 p.m.
to-day (Dec. 1) with 62 passengers and $112,100 in
specie. She landed all the mails but the Liverpool
and Scotch and three passengers, and proceeded at
2.10 p.m., all well.

PORTUGAL.

LISBON, Nov. 28.

Since the time of Pombal, who flourished a cen-
tury ago, the Oporto wine trade has been subject
to restrictions quite at variance with the free trade
principles of the present day. The Ministry, much
to tis credit, recently brought forward a bill to
make the trade perfectly free three months after it
should become law, and the House of Deputies yes-
terday sent it to the Peers, approved by a large
majority, with a modification that the law is to take
effect immediately after its approval by the Peers
and the Crown.

It appears the wine trade at Oporto were quite
prepared to dispense with the three months' grace,
and, doubtless, the result will be that those English
gentlemen who enjoy their old port will continue
to get it equally good, guaranteed by the brand of
their favourite shippers, while the less brandied and
purer wines of the Douro will soon freely pass the
Oporto bar, and find their way to those consumers
who prefer wine to alcohol. With this freedom all
parties ought to be satisfied, and particularly the
general interests of Portugal which will derive
great benefit from this further step in the removal
of restrictions upon its commerce.

The Lower house yesterday commenced the

debate upon the Ministerial Bill to modify the con-
tract for the South-Eastern of Portugal Railway,
now under construction by Waring, Brothers, of
Westminster, and 1 learn upon good authority,
the Bill is likely to be voted by a considerable
majority.
It is due to the Ministry and the Cortes to note
that the debates this Session evince a disposition to
discuss measures with the view of voting them,
rather than for the purpose of procrastination and
prevention of all legislation so prevalent of late
years.

Although there is still much to do in this country,
it cannot be denied that progress in the right direc-
tion has been made during recent years of tranquil-
lity.
I had recently an opportunity of visiting the In-
ternational Exhibition at Oporto, which is very
creditable to so small a place, and that not the capi-
tal. The building is very pretty, and in a beautiful
situation, commanding an extensive view, with
pleasure grounds, calculated to be a great perma-
nent benefit to the city.
The exhibitors, I believe, number about 3,000, of
nearly two-thirds are from Portugal and its colonies ;
from France, 500, and England only 107. Natu-
rally, as these numbers show, the Oporto Exhibition
is not to be compared with those of London and
Paris, but it still is no small credit to the spirit of
the Portonians, who get it up with very little as-
sistance from the Government, and particularly Mr.
Alfredo Allen, to whose persevering zeal it may be
said to owe its birth and present maturity.
I observe on the part of many Portuguese friends
a soreness on the small number of English exhibitors
—being only one fifth of the French, which they
appeared to think implied some slight, whereas it
probably has its origin principally in the initiative
of the Governments, and the greater influence exer-

cised in France over manufacturers, &c., while the
English exhibitors are principally composed of firms
already more or less connected in trade with Por-
tugal.
We have had storms on the coast lately, and
some vessels have been observed partially dismasted,
which are not yet known to have got into any port.
Exchange on London 53i for three months ;
stock, 48 to 484.

The West Indies.

LIVERPOOL, Dec. 1.

The West Indian and Pacific steamship Cuban,
Capt. Watson, arrived off Crookhaven to-day from
Port-au-Prince, Hayti, Nov. 10.
The French gunboat Lulin had arrived from Cape
Haytien, and reported that the commander of her
Majesty's ship Galatea had issued an ultimatum.
He had demanded that Salnave and all the members
of the Revolutionary Committee should surrender
on board the vessel unconditionally. In case of re-
fusal her Majesty's ships Galatea and Lily would
proceed to bombard the forts of the Cape. The
time of the ultimatum would expire three hours after
the sailing of the French corvette.

It is further added that Salnave's Admiral had
gone on board the De Soto, and offered to put the
Cape under the American flag if the American com-
mander would protect them against the British.
The offer was refused.

The Assassination of Mr. Lincoln
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

am desired by the Minister of the
United States to request the publication in your
columns of the following despatch, addressed to
him by the Secretary of State on the 4th of last
month. It is intended as a general answer to the
various addresses spontaneously called forth from
all parts of this kingdom by the lamentable events
which happened at Washington in April last. These
papers were received in such numbers as to render
the labour of answering at the time each one sepa-
rately, under the peculiar circumstances attending
the situation, impracticable. It is, therefore, hoped
that, by now presenting to them this paper di-
rectly through the preis the respective parties in-
terested will be pleased to accept of it as an
acknowledgment to themselves by the United
States Government of their kind and earnest sym-
pathy in their moment of public calamity, in lieu of
a more formal and direct communication to the
same purport, which, but for those circumstances,
would undoubtedly have been transmitted earlier
and in a separate form to each.—l have the hor.
to be, sir, very respectfully, your obedient ser-
vant, BENJAMIN MORAN,

Secretary of Legation.
Legation of the United States, London, Dec. 1.

Department of State, Washington, Nov. 4.
Sir,---During the seasons of spring and summer
which have now passed, you transmitted to this de-
partment the manifold expressions which were made
by the Government, public authorities, civic, eccle-
siastical, and educational corporations and associa-
tions, as well as by public assemblies of citizens and
by individual citizens of the realm, of their feelings
of sympathy and condolence with the Government
and.people of the United States in the calamity which
they had suffered in the lamented death of the late
President Abraham Lincoln. The same proceedings
spoke in one voice the language of indignant repro-
bation against the perfidious political crime of
assassination, by which the eminently useful and
honourable career of the late chief magistrate was
so abruptly brought to a fearful yet for him a most
triumphant end.
Owing to some peculiar casualities the efficiency
of this department was impaired at the time these
despatches were received. They obtained only a
simple and formal acknowledgment from the presid-
ing secretary, and no instructions were given you
concerning the recognition of the papers alluded to
by this Government. I have now to inform you
that all of these communications thus received were
without any delay submitted to the President
of the United States, and were read by him
with profound emotions of - sensibility and
gratitude. It was his expectation that the parties
from whom these generous and sympathetic utter-
ances had come would be duly and properly assured
of their consolatory influence, not only upon him-
self, but upon the whole American people. It is
deeply regretted by this Government that this ex-
pectation of the President was found impractic-
able.

Our Government, simply constructed with adap-
tation to the transaction of necessary affairs in the
ordinary course of administration, found itself, in
the condition of this department which then existed,
inadequate to the immediate acknowledgment of
such various and vast obligations suddenly and un-
expectedly incurred. The regret, however, is in
some measure mitigated by the fact that these ex-
pressions of British sympathy and good-will were
only a part of similar manifestations of the same
feelings which occurred in every part of the world.
Nevertheless, the President earnestly desires that
recognition shall even now be made of the sympa-
thies and condolences which were thus poured in
upon us with a profusion that did honour to human
nature.

You will attempt to execute this purpose, so far
as Great Britain is concerned, by giving Earl Rus-
sell a copy of this despatch, and by promulgating
it in England, either with or without accompanying
references to the addresses, resolutions, letters, and
other testimonials to which I have referred as shall
be found practicable.—l am, sir, your obedient
servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
Charles Francis Adams, Esq., &c.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—That the fearful annual mortality of
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lids' and Infauts' Food, the Revalenta Anbica, and its
thousands of cures annually. It yields three times as much
easily assimilated nourishment as the best meat, and for
children it is the best substitute for human milk. Dr.
Rout'', physician to the S.,maritan Hospital for Women and
e.hildren— the best au, hority on such matters —in his admir-
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is, without doubt, Du Barry's Revalenta Ambles, Food, eon-
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MARKETS—This Day.

COVENT GARDEN.

Fair average supplies of fruit and vegetables are on sale
here to-day. In most kinds of produce a good business
is doing at our quotations :

FRUIT—Pine apples, 7s to 8s; hot house grapes, 2s 6d to
6s ; foreign do, 9d to is 6d ; filberts, is 6d to is 9d per lb ;
apples, is 9d to 3s 6d per half sieve; new oranges, 4s
to 8s ; lemons, 3s 6d to 7s• walnuts, is to 2s per 100.
VEGETABLES—Red cabbages, is 6d to 2s 6d; white do.,
9d to is 3d; Savoys, 10d to is 4d; celery,'Bd to is 6d;
horseradish, 9d to 2s 6d per doz heads ; greens, 2s 9d to
3s Od ; turnips, is 6d to 2s ; carrots, 3s Gd to 4s Gd ; onions,
is 6d to 2s ; brocoli, 4s to 8s per doz bunches ; Brussels
sprouts, is 3d to 2s per half sieve.