The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-15 00:00:00

MEXICO.

NEW YORK, Nov. 5.
Intelligence receivod here from Vera Cruz to the
26th ult. states that all the French reinforcements
have left for Orizaba, and thae the Mexicans have
made Puebla their rendezvous.

QUEENS TOWN, Nov. 15.

The Royal Mail -steamship Australasian, from
New York on the sth, arrived here at 11.40 a.m.
She brings 46 passengers, and 281,806 dls. in specie.
She landed 78 sacks of mails and 5 passengers, and
proceeded at noon. All well.

KINGSTON FAlR.—This fair, reckoned to be the
largest next to Barnet in the South of England, commenced
yesterday. There was an average supply,all the Available
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space being filled, but the trade wast decidedly
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'and in-calvers, the former from 11
.guineas to 13 guineas, the latter from 13 guineas to 15
guineas. In Devon beasts there was a large show, and a
great many sold, but prices were not so high as they have
been. Shorthorns were a small show. In Welsh cattle
there was an average fair—prices not so good as at Black-
water last Saturday; good Welsh beasts, £6 to £l2 10s.;
yearlings, £3 to £4 10s. In bulls a middling trade was
done, a clearance not being effected; well-breds, from £7
to:fl4. BArreners, £6 to £ll. Of sheep there was no first-
rate stock ; sales at a great deal less money— lambs, £1 to
325. ; good two-teeth sheep, 408. to 445. In horses a very
slow trade; Welsh ponies from £4 to £11; really good
cobs worth as much as ever.
THE ISTHMUS OF CORINTII.—A company
has just
been formed in Greece for cutting through the Isthmus of
Corinth, and thus avoiding the long and dangerous coasting
of the shores of the Peloponnesus. From the earliest times
the immense advantage of a canal joining the two seas has
been achritted. Periandor was the first to take up the sub •
ject. After him Alexander the Great, Demetrius Folios-
cotes, and Julius Caesar turned their attention to it; and,
lastly, Nero commenced the works of which the traces
still exist. This latter plan is the one to be now resumed ;
it seems to present the greatest chances of success, while the
execution of it does not appear to demand a considerable
outlay. The width of the canal would be 112 feet, and its
depth about 20. Its length would not exceed three miles
and three quarters. The advantages to navigation to be
derived from the cutting of the isthmus are easy to be per-
ceived. For vessels on their way from Marseilles and the
Mediterranean to the Pincus the distance would be
shortened by 90 miles. The saving of time to vessels coming
from the Adriatic would be still more considerable.
CELTIC REMAINS IN NORTHUMBERLAND.—It is
well-known that the different tribes of Celtic Britain
lived in a continual state of hostility with each other, but
there is a circumstance apparent in the connection of those
towns with that on the opposite hill of Ritta, which would
indicate an extended combination to resist a threatened as-
sault or invasion, and if this connection can be traced to
exist in common with other fortifications on these hills,
there might appear grounds for the supposition that those
settlements may have been strengthened and united into
one common line of defence on the extension of the Roman
occupation of Britain in a northern direction; and that, in
fact, we have on the wild Cheviot hills a sort of counter-
part to the great work of the Roman wall erected with a
kindred view of limiting the incursions of a common enemy.
—Once a Week.

THE PRESIDENT ON THE ELECTIONS.—In a speech
at Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, Senator Wilson said :
"The other day I called upon the President with an earnest
Douglas Democrat of Massachusetts. The news had just
come to the President of these defeats of his supporters in
those States, and the President seemed bowed down, as I
have seen him bowed down when intelligence of the de-
feat of our armies in the field came upon him, and he said,
I confess that I am grieved at the results of these elec-
tions. This intelligence will go to Europe ; it will be con-
strued there as a condemnation of the war; it will go into
the land of the rebellion, and will encourage the leading re-
bels and nerve the arms of the rebel soldiers fighting our
men in the field. It is true,' said the President, ' many of
these men elected profess to be War Democrats ; but the re-
solutions of their Conventions, the tone of their leading
presses, and their general action will be construed every-
where against the cause of our country.' t,

„-
LORD SEYMOUR'S WILL.—The Imperial Court
has just heard an appeal from a judgment of the Civil Tri-
bunal in an action brought by Miss Ellen Minchin against
the executors of the late Lord Seymour. It appeared from
the evidence produced on the first trial that after Lord
Seymour's decease two wills were found among his papers,
one dated 17th December, 1855, in which he bequeathed to
Miss Minchin the sum of 25,000 fr., and another dated 22d
June, 1858, in which he bequeathed to her the sum of
600,000 fr., part of which was directed to be devoted to the
purchase of an inalienable life annuity ; the testator further
bequeathed to her an income of 10,000 fr, a year so long as
she should remain unmarried, and in case of her death or
marriage the principal was to go to the London Lunatic
remaining property was to be
between the hospitals of Paris and London.
divided equally
equAalllly the testator's
To this will was appended a codicil revoking all bequests
made in wills, dated before the 22d June, 1858, but this
codicil, not being signed, was invalid according to the laws
of Franco. In September, 1859, Miss Minchiti commenced
proceedings against Lord beynaour's. executors to recover
the legacy of 25,000 fr male. by the will of December, 1855,
but the Civil Tribunal rejected the demand on the ground
that it was evident from the dispositions a the will of June,
1858, ad imperfect codicil annexed, that Lord Sey-
mour intendd to annul the legacy of 25,000 tr., but by the
same judgment the tribunal decreed that the executors were
to pay the 10,000 fr. annuity with interest from the date of
the testator's death. Against that judgment Miss Minchin
now appealed, but the Court,after hearing counsel, declaim).
that it must be conArmod.