The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-07 00:00:00

MEXICAN LEGATION.

The following official letter has been received by the
Chairman of the Committee of Mexican Bondholders
. _ " Mexican Legation, London, Jan, 3, 1335.

" have the satisfaction to inform. -you, by direction'
from Senor .Miguel .Santa Maria, that in reply, to his urgent
letter of July last-to the Mexican Government, respecting
the interruption which had been experienced in the pay-
ment of the 'dividends' on the Mexican bonds, the Legation
has received a communication from the Secretary of Foreign
Affairs:in Mexico, accompanied by a copy of another ad-
dressed by the Secretary of Finance to the collectors of
customs in the ports of the Republic, ordering a strict obr
servance ,of the disposition of the Government order of the
15th of February, 1833, by which was- assigned' six per
cent upon the receipts of the said custom-Clauses:for the
payment of the dividends to the Mexican bondholders in
England. In the mean time the Government will use
every effort towards applying the sixth part of these re-
ceipts to that object.
"-Whilst fhb' Secretary laments the unsettled. circum-
stances, known to all the. world, which to the pl-esont mo-
ment have impeded the fulfilment of the engag-tnnents of the
Mexican Government, with respect to the above-mentioned
resolutions, he places confidence in the belief that the Me:.i-
can bondholders will view fiwourably the endeavours of the
Government to di6charge_its.eb:lgations towards them.

I have the honour to he, &c.,
" A. DP. ITURBIDE.

" Lieutenant-General Sir Robert )Viison."
This letter is sine by the Secretary of the Me7.6ean

„ . .
Legation in London, Senor Santa 'Marin, the AinhaF.sadoi,
being at present in. Madrid; r,\,aitiw the conclusion of the
arrangements for alreaty of independence. It affords sa-
tisfactory proof at least of the good intentions of the Mexi-
can Government towards the credit-oil in this country, and
though much `disappointment has teviOusly' Veen'' eXpe-
rienced, it is heped,. that. good. faithooiilbfor Abe -.future be
steadily adhered to. It is understopl„that„,ifjthe„pro-
mises of the Government _are.rcaligcd,,the bondholderS.will
have been under Rtwhehliga.tion, to thif:Artnratiiehonour-
:.J)le rop':cscatations transmitted home 'by Senor ,Santa.
Maria on this subject.

A notice was issued by the Posifodice, on Tuesday,
hat the. mails for Lisbon will be made up and dc;sontehed
:'rom the Ge-no'ral Post' Oflice eveill Satin'Aav: iu tcsd of
Friday, as heretofore. This. arranp,ttler!t (!onnnence

with the mail, to be made up and deiyatohed from benee on

Saturday. next, the 9th inst.

A celebrated Pbacher, witallact emigratedto Ame-
rica, being met in' his new country hv a person who knew
bis,propr. ety in the old, wa§congratblated on being able co
pursue it with impunity ; to . which ht replied, " if you will
believe me, I seargely ever think about jo2: them i.v 2291k0dy
here ticut sees to ,kiader us."

.
The following fact, taken from a private lettei re-
ceived from,Cracow, shows to what degree the hatred of
the Emperor Nicholas exists in Poland. On the lOth
the anniKrsary of the Emperoes:namcday (St. Nicholau,
6th Peccmber, old style), a M. Adam Siemonski, known
for an eccentricity often bordering,on insanity, took it into
his head to illuMinate his house, whieh is situate in one of
the principal streets of the city. In,an instant .a large crowd
collected before it, and with stones broke every-uldow in
the building. A. servant of N. Siemonski appeared at a
window to extinguish the lamps, aid thui reniove the cause
of popular displeasure, but the exasperation was such that a
pistol was fired against him, which fortunately did not
wound him. •

On Saturday an inquest Was held at the Windmill
public house, Croydon, on the body of Sarah Penfold, who
had been 'a Servant to a tradesman of the name of Freeman,
on Croydon Common. It-appeared from hi§ evidence, that
on Sunday last he and his family went out; leaving the de-
ceased in charge of the house. The keys of the cupboards
were also intrusted to her. On Monday morning it was dis-
covered that some liquor had been taken out of a bottle,
which had been filled up with water. The deceased was
accused of having done it, and she confessed that a man
named Lauacelot, who had formerly been employed by him,
had gone to the house on. Sunday,' during the fiunily's ab-
seam' and induced her to give him the liquor. lie remon-
strated with her on the subject. She appeared much a
fected, and left the house shortly afterwards, and he saw WO
more of her till she was taken out of the canal on Wedues-
day.morning. The father of the deceased was also, .exa-
mined, and admitted having told the., deceased that if she
lost her place he would turn her oat of doors. The police-
man who found her deposed to finding. the -body of the de-
I ceased in the canal, and to there being; no .marts of violence
upon her person. The Jury returneda verdict that the de-
ceased was " Found drownrd."
INCENDIARY FIRE AT BRAY.-L-Mll§ 111Ornillg,
about `five o'clock, a des'tructive fire' toOk'phice' on the
'remises of Mr. Mloway, 41:respectable farmer, of -Stroud
Farm, Bray. A carter in. Mr.. Alloway's employ first dis-
covered the fire in, a shed, which was filled with straw, and.
he instantly gave the alarm. Assistance was speedily
cured, but the flames spread rapidly„ and in spite of every
attempt tO stop the progress of the devouring element., all
the outbuildings, excepting one barn, with their contents of
cum, thrashed and unfinished (of which there was a large
quantity), were wholly destroyed. The dwelling-house
and ad the cattle were fortunately saved. There is no
doubt that the fire was the work of an ince4diary.—Wind.-
sor Express of Saturday.
MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.--On the morning
of Monday last, the body of Mr. Milne, farmer at Gotha!),
was found in the river Findborn. Mr. Milne had for many
years back been employed as forester or Overs Aler on the
estate of Sir W. G. Cumming of Altvre, and, !is factor on
the estate of Duuphail, the property of Mir. Cumming ,
Bruce; M.P., and Ird consequently mr.ny valuable books
'and papers belonging to these gentler:len in his possession,
Owing to some accident, his wrung-office, where these
wer:: deposited, caught tire on the previous Saturday, and
the most important of them were destroyed. The deceased,
o
n „ zs, sin any ti.np,iepn
gatto.C4nl;disnteaoctine. of
in cunsequence of this, evinced symptoms of.great uneasi-
ness of mind, but by
de-
rangement. Suncl.ay, he remained all day at home with
otthie)af‘almngilvgbo by re
hqiusefaacme,ilays,
iasncsl,,aptp9n,iegtronf.
fire the preceding evening), be left the, house about one
o'eb.ck on l',lf:nday• morning, and was neither seen nor heard.
of after, tili his body was found in the water a'oont a mile
down the stream. Whether the deceased had fallen' acci-
od nbtiasily house(lo
precipice that leads from the gable
or whether, in a fit of temporary
delirium, he had consigned himself to the mercy of the rapid
stream at this place, is very naecrtain. Mr. Milne has left
a widew cud a numerous and respectable family, by whom,.
as. well as by all in the ueigh!-Murbood who bad the slightest
acquaintance with,
l'.;.*M„' his death is deeply regretted.—
Invcrne.TA

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOUNRALS.

1.11.3 Times, after a good deal of wavering, seems to
lave at length settled into a conviction of the policy of
fighting -the battles of the " Church" and the " Con-
stitution," with the assistance of the ‘, idle gentle-
men," " the most despised order of the human race,"
whom it has been summoning from the Hells and the
Stews to "the rescue." These gentlemen will, we
suppose, profit by their admonition, and kiss the rod
like dutiful 'children. One would suppose that power
tould not well be entrusted to worse hands than the
1" Lordly Aristocrats of England," of whose favourite
habits and indulgences so striking a picture has been
furnished by our contemporary of Printing-house-
square. The Whigs and Radicals, no doubt, have
their share of human imperfections ; but we defy the
Times itself, rich as is its vocabulary of abuse, to show
that any set of men in the country are worse qualified
for conducting the affairs of the country than the men
who fill the Conservative ranks, " the Lordly Aristo-
crats of England." We are told by the Times that—
. 4 The Whig partisan Ministers, who put themselves
forward as authors, both of the political reform and the
corporate, were little influenced by the tendency of either
so effect any particle of benefit for the nation, but looked
to one exclusive object—viz., the working some grand
change in the relative state of their own faction and of
their opponents, by seizing a permanent gripe of the Go-
vernment into their own hands, and consigning Conserva-
tism to the Opposition benches for evar. For this one,
this base and geovelling end, was an anxiety for reform,
political and municip4 assumed by the Whi.7 faction upon.
coming into office : it was not to secure good government
for the State through the medium of a reformed House of
Commons, or good local government through the efficacy
of a number of reformed corporations, but to crush Conser-
vatism, and raise Whiggery into the ascendant, that all the
multifarious manoeuvres of the Whigs, in their three suc-
cessive stages of Cabinet making, an in each and every
provision of their measures, touching-Ist, the elective
franchise ; 94, the municipal franchise ; 3d, the Church of
Ireland ; 4th, the Irish municipal reform ; sth, the encou-
ragement of ambitious intriguers and disaffected Republi-
cans among the Dissenting body, were contrived and re-
commended to the ' groundhogs' of Great Britain and
Ireland."
It is easy to impute motives to any set of men ; but
in judging of politicians we ought to look not to mo-
tives, whist can never be discovered, but to the cha-
racter of their acts. If the Reform Bill and the other
measures of the Whigs are good in themselves, to in-
quire into the motives' of the authors of them is a work
of mere supererogation. . But the motives ascribed to
the Whigs, is really the highest praise that can be
given to them. When we are told that their object
was not to secure good government for the State
through the medium of a reformed House of Com-
mons, or good local government through the• efficacy
of a number of reformed Corporations, but to crush
Conservatism, we say this is a distinction with-
out a difference. Conservatism or Toryism is only
another word for bad Government—for applying the
resources of the State not for the benefit of the
nation, but of a caste—for deluding the people with
a semblance of freedom, that a few may riot with-
out control or responsibility. If, after the nation
has obtained a reformed House of Commons, and
good local government through the efficacy of a
number of reformed Corporations, Whiggery is raised
into the ascendant, this is the very highest praise that
can be given to the Whigs. The ascendency which
is derived from the unbiassed opinions of the people,
is precisely that ascendency which it is most desirable
to have. But the Times is as loose in its mode of
reasoning as in its principles. The Tories, or Con-
servatives as they choose to call themselves, fought to
the last for boroughmongering and self-election in Cor-
porations—that is, they fattened on the pillage of the
nation. But the great object of the Government is
the protection of property, consequently the possessors
of property had an interest in parliamentary and Mu-
nicipal Reform. When we say, )mwever, that the pos-
sessors of property are interested in good government,•
we do not mean to contend that this is for the interest
of every holder of property. Many rich men were, as
boroughmongers, interested in misgovernment. It
was the fashion with these men to speak of themselves
as the property of the country, and the Times seeks to
/avail itself of the same fraud. Thus we are told, with
respect to the Reform Bill and other measures con-
nected with it, that " whatever form the measure to be
forced into notice might assume, or by whatever vague
appeals to ignorance and passions it might be support-
ed, the same genius and spirit presided throughout
them all—namely, the weakening the power of property
in all -directions, and strengthening that of fierce, dis-
satisfied, grasping, and irresponsible numbers." We
might here apply the argumentum ad hominem to our
Contemporary, and ask with what conscience can it
now pretend to guide the opinions of the people of
England, when, by its own confession, for four years
it was every day extolling the Reform Bill, as calcu-
lated to strengthen property, and only destructive to
those who preyed on property,—and now it has the
impudence to wetend that it was calculated to weaken
the power of property in all directions, and to
strengthen the enemies of property. But the Times
would laugh at any attempt to meet its argument of
one day by an appeal to the argument of another. The
Times will say—we know we arc dishonest, unprincipled
Swiss—ready to prostitute our pens for any cause—and
our arguments a year ago in favour of any cause
are-no more to be taken into account than our pre-
sent arguments against it. We extolled the Re-
form Bill, it is true, as calculated to secure the na-
tion against misgovernment ; but we now choose to
abuse the Reform Bill and its authors ; and the
only certain conclusion to be draWn from this
contradictory conduct is, that we are ourselves
dishonest. Abandoning, therefore, all reference to the
past conduct of the Times, we say that the Reform
Bill has strengthened the power of property in all di-
rections, by its making the Government responsible to
all who possess property. During the reign of bo-
roughmonaerinff a share of the plunder of the nation
0 rt,
.was distributed among those by whom the farce of vir-
tual representation was carried on. The guardians of
the public purse had themselves an interest in employ-
ing it. But the Reform Bill, with all its imperfections,
has so far widened the constituencies, that a majority
of representatives cannot be returned by bribery ; and
the guardians of the public purse being now really
responsible to the mass of possessors of property,
the nation has before it a prospect of cheap
and economical Government. The owners of
property must labour under a strange dein- 1
sion if they think that property is weakened
by diminishing its burdens. Some of " the Lordly
Aristocrats of England," who having lost their pro-
perty in the criminal indulgences described by the
:Times, may have cause to regret the inability to re-
plenish their stores from the national plunder ; but
this is the only class who can with justice lament
economy in the Government. The Times holds out to
the Tories the hope that all is not lost by the triumph
of Reform in' the late Municipal elections. The Mu-
nicipal electors we are told are not political electors ;
and if a fill majority of political electors cannot be
bribed, " every man to whom they refuse a bribe—
that, is, an office and a salary—will be jealous of those 1
who are more favoured than himself, will be exaspe-
rated
against the distributors of these loaves and
fishes, and will infallibly join the Conservatives." We
hope better of the enlightened inhabitants of the
communities of England. Why are the Tories
thrust out of power ? Because they have been
the oppressors of their fellow-citizens because
they have taxed them heavily and arbitrarily—
because they admitted justice partially be-
cause they have done those things which diey ought
not to have done, and left those things undone which
they ought to have done. The people have seen that
the State and Corporation robbers and peculators were
closely leagued together--that the Tories and the cor-
rupt eorporators were one .and the same. It is difficult
to say whether indignation against the Tories as a
party, or indignation against the local Tories, who op-
pressed their respective communities, most predomina-
ted in the late clearing out of the Corporations. Are
we to suppose, then, that the political electors will so
tar stultify themselves as to join the Conservatives—
join
the state-plunderers—join the men who have Wen-
li-i-veLLli . lified themselves with every abuse in Church and
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who lament that, too little blood •
as shed at
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'led of their sons in tithe campaigns--be Cause those
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