The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-14 00:00:00

MEgIGO.

(From the Money Market lieview.)
The course of events in Mexico moves steadily, forward
towards the consummation which all who take an interest
in the welfare of that country now desire to see. The first
instalment of the French reinforcements has landed at Vera
Cruz. At this moment probably not less than 20,000 ad-
ditional troops have touched the Mexican shore. Will any
attempt be made to resist this force ? What are the pro-
babilities suggested by the actual state of circumstances ?
The French have some months past had, at the utmost,
in Mexico not more than 5,000 men. The last encounter
between them and the Mexicans took place on the 14th of
June. Since that time the French (left to conduct the war
single .handed) have been standing purely on the defensive.
What has been, on the other hand, the position of the
Mexicans ? 'With the whole resources of the country at
their disposal, their antagonists shut up in a single town,
why have they not assembled their forces and gone to chas-
tise their invaders ? What a glorious opportunity have they
had. Cut off from the possibility cf receiving resources,
until the sickly season should be past, what chance could
5,000 French soldiers have had against the force of the
whole Mexican nation ?

Does not this single fact render the whole truth trans-
sparent ? Is it not clear that there is no such thing as an
army, or a Government in the country
It is said that Puebla is to be fortified. Puebla is the
principal city between Orizaba and Mexico. But if the
Mexicans have not been able to do anything against the
French in the isolated position of the latter, with only
5,000 troops, what can they hope to do when that number
shall be increased sixfold.

Juarez will doubtless attempt to make some demonstra-
tion, in order to induce the French commander to treat with
Doblado, a member of the Government equal in im-
portance to Juarez himself, has left the capital for Gua-
naxuato, one of the largest cities in the interior—professedly
to organise a military force of defence there ; but another
account tells us that his mission is to pacify the Sierra
Gonda, the inhabitants of which were in insurrection.
General Forey, the new French Commander-in-Chief,
was to land at Vera Cruz early in September. He has
issued an excellent address to the army, from Martinique.
This officer takes with him instructions from his Govern-
ment, prepared with a full connaissance des causes, which
the intervening time has enabled the French Government
to acquire.
It will be in the capital of the country that we shall see
the solution of this great undertaking—so important to
British interests. Under the protection of the French flag,
the sober-minded portion of the community will have the
opportunity of declaring their sentiments, and whether it
is really their desire to continue to see their country in the
condition in which it was described in the representation
made last year to Earl Russell, by the merchants and others
connected with Mexico, in the following terms :•
"The condition of Mexico has gone from bad to worse.
It has become one now, not merely of political agitation,
but of entire social disorganisation. For three years the
country has been without a Government—that is to say,
without anything possessing the reality of that title,
while those who have assumed to exercise the powers of
Government have been themselves foremost in acts of law-
lessness—suspending the performance of obligations so-
lemnly entered into towards creditors, seizing continually
funds which had been specifically appropriated to those
creditors ; 'dissipating the resources of the State ; and
crowning their acts of violence by tearing the seal of the
British Legation from the property of British subjects, and
forcibly laying hold of the same for the use of the Govern-
ment. In Mexico there
,is no security for person or pro-
perty. Within the last twelve months, no less than 23
Englishmen have been murdered there."
For the redress of these wrongs and protection for the
future, we must in fairness acknowledge we shall be in-
debted to the perseverence of our French neighbours. The
establishment of tranquility there will open out to us a fine
extension of our commerce. The Mexican debt will become
to us a reality. The customs duties solemnly mortgaged
thereto will be honestly applied to it, and some just arrange -
ment will be made for the liquidation of the arrears of in-
terest, now 25i per cent. on the capital. But the party
most benefited by what is going forward will be the Mexi-
can nation itself—relieved from a thraldom as oppressive as
it has been infamous, in the form of factious and mock
governments, organised for nothing but corruption and
plunder.

MUSEUM OF PATENTS, SOUTH KENSINGTON.—
Number. of visitors for the week ending Oct. 11, 4,509 ;
total number since the opening of the museum free daily
(12th May, 1858), 640,266.
SIGNS OF WINTER.--.on the North Yorkshire
hills, en Sunday, snow and rain fell nearly all day, with
cold, boisterous north-east winds. The weather in the
north has been very unsettled since Friday, and it is much
ctohibefleyr_iegrsetted that a largo breadth of the harvest—oats
yet unsecured in the exposed positions, and some
crops are still to cut. Daring the week very little progress
has been made with harvest; what has been stacked has
been in very damp condition, and factors are wearied with
offers of out-of-conditioned new grain.
SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM.—During the
week ending Oct. 11, the visitors haee been as follow :
On Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday, free days, open from
10 a.m. to 10 p.m., 30.874; on Wednesday, Thursday, and
Friday, students' days (admission to the public 6d.), open
from 10 a.m. till 5 p.m., 5,546; total, 36,420; from the
opening of the museum, 3,413,592.

Previous to the return of the Royal Family to
England, the King of Prussia will pay a short visit to her
Majesty at Coburg. His Majesty was expected to arrive en
Sunday, and to return to Berlin on the following day.
THE GARIBALDI AND POPE EXCITEMENT IN
LIVERPOOL.—Though it was anticipated that the lectures
and preachings of Gavazzi on Friday night and on Sunday
might have caused some excitement and rioting in Liver-
pool, fortunately quiet was maintained. Had any outburst,
however, occurred, the police had made the most comprew
hensive arrangements to quell the disturbance at its outset.
At Birkenhead on Sunday there were knots of people in
half-dozens moving about the neighbourhood of Holy
Trinity Church (the scene of the recent attack); but no
combined movement was attempted. To-night (Tuesday)
Gavazzi lectures at the Collegato Institutioenoe
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will be taken against interruption and violence.
THE TEA TRADE, October
Louden estimated for the week were
788,5461 b., which is a
pared with the previous state-
decrease of 67,2721b0 C°P3
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end, zasysad, and left again on the following day for Glensiguy.