The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-21 00:00:00

CALIFORNIA AND THE NATIONAL TAX.

The Secretary of the Treasury received to-day tha fol
lowing telegram from the Governor of California :
" SACRAMENTO, Jan. 31, 1862.

" I am instructed by a resolution of the Legislature of
California to inform you that this State will assume, and
pay into the treasury of the United States, the direct tax of
254,538 dole. apportioned to this State by act of Congress.
" LELAND STANFORD, Governor of California."

MEXICO.
The Madrid journal La Epoca„of the 15th inst.,
publishes the following correspondence from Vera
Cruz:—

Vera Cruz, Jan. 14.

The three nations have presented their several
demands, each in a separate form. Those of Spain
are-1, The nomination of a Mexican representative
at the Court of her Catholic Majesty, charged to
give suitable satisfaction for the insult offered to the
nation by the expulsion of its ambassador since the
assumption of the supreme Government in the
capital of the Republic by the present President;
2, The immediate fulfilment of the Monelmente
treaty ; 3, Indemnity for the losses caused to the
Spaniards on several points, of which mention has
been made, but which the person from whom we
receive this news has not present to his memory.
4, indemnity to the amount of 40,000 piastres for
the destruction of the Spanish frigate Concepcion.
In case General Count de Reuss and the French
Vice-Admiral Jurien de la Graviere absenting
themselves from here, the English Commodore
Dunlop is to remain in quality of governor-general
in the name of the three nations; and M. Mendiena
is to be placed under his orders as deputy governor.
The period granted the Mexican Government to
reply to the ultimatum is four days, from the mo-
ment of its delivery into the hands of the President
by the commissioners of the commanders-in-chief of
the allied troops; the commissioners, nevertheless,
are empowered to grant a further delay of two days,
if they deem it necessary.

The following is the text of the proclamation ad-
dressed to the Mexican people :

Mexicans,—The representatives of England,
France, and Spain fulfil a sacred duty in making
known to you their intentions on their arrival upon
the territory of the -epublic. The faith of treaties
violated by the various Governments which have
succeeded one another amongst you, and the per-
sonal safety of our countrymen incessantly menaced,
have made this expedition necessary and indispen-
sable. Those
persons deceive you who make you be-
lieve that behind such just pretensions are concealed
projects of conquest, restoration, and intervention in
your politics and your administration. Three
nations that loyally accepted and recognised your
independence have a right to be regarded as ani-

mated by more noble, more elevated, and more gene-
roa:, sentiments then the wish to deceive you. The
three nations we represent, whose first interest seems
to be to obtain reparation tar the grievances done
to them, are actuated by a higher motive, and one
of a more general and more advantageous scope ;
they come to offer a friendly hand to a people on
whom Providence had lavished all his gifts, but
whom they behold with sorrow wearing out their
strength and exhausting their vitality under the
violent impulsion of civil wars and perpetual con-
vulsions.

This is the truth, and we who are charged to set
it before you, will do so only with a view to make
you labour for your own future which interests us,
and not for the purpose of making war upon
you. It is you, you exclusively, without any
foreign intervention, whom it behoves to consti-
tute yourselves in a solid and durable manner.
Your work will be a work of regeneration, which
all those will applaud who shall have contributed to
it, some by their opinions, others by their renown,
and all in general by their good faith. The evil is
serious, the remedy is urgent ; it is now or never
that you may achieve your own welfare. Mexicans,
hearken to the voice of the allies, an anchor of
safety for you in the midst of the tempest by which
you are encompassed ; trust entirely in their
good faith and their generous intentions ;
have no fear of restless and malevolent spirits ;
your resolute and decided attitude will
suffice to confound them during all the time
that we shall be impassive witnesses of the grand
spectacle of your regeneration guaranteed by order
and liberty. Such, we are sure, is the light in
which the matter will be seen by the supreme
Government to which we address ourselves; such
will be the views of the illustrious men of the
country to whom we speak, and in which good
patriots will be forced to agree; it is, that instead
of having recourse to arms, it is best to give the
lead to reason, which alone ought to triumph in the
nineteenth century.
Vera Cruz, January 10, 1862.
(Signed) CHARLES LENNOX WYKE, HUGH
DUNLOP, E. JURIEN DE LA GRA-
VIERE, DUBOIS DE SALIGNY, the
COUNT DE REUSS.