The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-09 00:00:00

MEXICO AND TEXAS.

(From the Neer York Papers.)
It appears that the Mexican army and Government are
all but prostrate ; with all their bravado and boasting, the
army is in a miserable condition, utterly unable to move
from Matamoras from the want of funds. M. Tornel, of
the War Department, recommends a Dictator to be ap-
pointed. Tornel is a clever man, and sees, no doubt, that
the policy of Santa Anna's Government cannot be kept up,
unless the whole power is placee in the hands of one per-
son. The affairs of Texas have diverted the attention of
the nation from their own internal troubles ; but as soon as
the war slackens, the Republican party will again lift their
heads, and there must be another civil commotion. A re-
volution had already broken out in the State of Oaxaca,
not, 'however, of a serious character. The present Go-
vernment have disowned the acts of Santa Anna ; this was
to be expected : and General Filisola, who obeyed his in-
structions, is to be tried by a court-martial. The Mexi-
cans are represented to be treating for the aid of 8,000
Indians, and among them the Cherokees. This story we
very much doubt—lndians never fight without pay, and if
the Mexicans have no money to pay their own troops, who
they can confide in, how is it possible they can employ In-
dians ? Our Government, however, should be the last to -
complain : having driven them from their homes, and robbed,
them of their property, we can expect nothing of friendship
II•om their.hands.

(From the New Orleans Courier of July 280
CITY or MEXICO, JUNE 29.—Congress is still in ses-
sion. The treaty between Santa Anna and Gen. Houston
has arrived, and is now under consideration ; what will be
done with it we have no means of ascertaining.
TAMPICO, JULY 15.—The whole country is now in a
state of convulsion, and in a very short time the former fe:
deral Government will be proclaimed again. In Guadala-
jara, Guanajuato, and several other places, revolutionary
movements had already taken place, but were suppressed
by the military. In Mexico a" Grit o" was every moment
expected to begiven. In the province of Puebla a " Grito "
has been given, which. as it appears, is of some importance.
The troops sent there from Mexico to operate against the
Federal party proucuuced themselves on the road in favour
of the same. In short, from all sides we heal: nothing but
" Fedeiation," and the whole seemed to bt as if it were a
matter already settled.
EXTRACT OF A LETTER DATED TAMPICO, JULY 13.
" The Mexican army, about 4,000 strong, yet now under
the command of General Jose Urrea, whom Gen. Andrade
accompanies as second in commar.d, is assembling at Meta-
moras, but it is in such a state of Wretchedness, that it will
not be able to move before ',axe or three months, to begin
the new campaign against the Texians."
(From the Nem Orleans Bee, July 25.) •
Toro, the commam.ant of Yucatan, has been deprived of
his authority, on account of his attachment to Santa Anna.
General Felipe Co dallos has been named in his stead ; and
it is supposed that Ciriaco Vasquez, commandant of Vera
Cruz, will share the same fate for like reason. And, in
fact, it is believed that all the high functionaries who are
at all friendly to Santa Anna, either personally or to his
cause, will be removed and replaced by others of opposite
sentiments. Gomez, the commandant of Tampico, was
deprived of his place partly on the same grounds, and partly
for the insult given to our flag. His place was supplied by
Ferias, the same individual that was imprisoned in 1832 at
NaCogdoches, by the colonists of Texas. General Filisola
has been summoned before a Council of War, for alleged
misconduct in obeying the orders of Santa An3a, issued
while he was a prisoner of war.
Th.., New Orleans Bulletin of the 27th ult. contains the
following paragraph :—" A letter from a highly respectable
source, dated at Matamoras the 29th ult., says,—" It is
an undoubted fact that this Government (the Mexican)
have made, or are makings a treaty to engage 8,000 Indians
to join them. The Cherokees are already engaged. There
are 14 or 15 chiefs of different tribes within a few miles of
here, who have daily communications with the officers.
The commissioners were this morning turned into the
common prison with criminals. It is not improbable we
shall be invited to take French leave of this country soon."
EXTRACT OF ANOTHER LETTER DATED MATAMORAS,
JULY 1.

" Through tbe medium of your paper, I think it highly
necessary thr.t the Government of the United States, as
well as the Texians, should be informed of what presents
itself, so odious, in my opinion, in the character of General
Urr,;a, the Mexican Commander-in-Chief, too unpardonable
to be overlooked, and should be immediately attended to L
the United States.

" We have at this moment here six or seven India 11
chiefs, Cherokees and other tribes, with their interpreter
from Texas. These Indians are on a mission to the Gene-
ral, and have had several private meetings with him. There
exists no doubt of the business they came on, and have
made propositions to the General to join the Mexicans
against the Texians, which appears now to be concluded.
As Colonel Waterchea is to be despatched to-morrow to
their camp, some distance up the river, where they have 3
or 40 in number to be used as spies or runners, I had occa-
sion to call on General Urrea at his quarters on business,
when I met there three of the Indians, with their interpre-
ter, making inquiries of the strength of their tribe, the
General being anxious to ascertain what force they could
muster with other tribes.

" The commissary of this place has orders to purchase
800 or 2,000 horses for the cavalry, which he is now doing,
Every movement appears to confirm the belief that the ne-
gotiation is concluded, with a promise to the Indians or
land and cattle, should they assist and succeed in extertni,
noting the population of Texas."

Birds are tolerably plentiful in most parts of Sussex ;
but in Kent the. young have died off by dozens, from a disease
called the "pip."
A pig was yesterday morning seen sailing down the
river Thames between Westminster and Blackfriars-bridge
with much gravity. Ile occasionally squeaked with peculiar
shrillness, which a waterman construing into a hail for a pilot,
he put off, and after a long contest with the floating animal,
succeeded in delivering the swinish navigator from his perilous
situation.

A fine woodcock was shot, on the 2d instant, in
the neighbourhood of Willenhall. This unusually early ap-
pearance of these birds is supposed to indicate the near approach
of cold and inclement weather.— IVolverhampton Chronicle.
Hop-picking has counnenced at Orchard Portman,
near Taunton. The crop is abundant, and of excellent quality.
The Ministerial interregnum in France has this time
lasted 13 days. In February, when the Thiers Administration
came in, it continued 17 days.
Blandford Race Ball was attended last week by up-
wards of 150 persons, including most of the principal families
in Dorsetshire. Weippart's band is represented on this occa-
sion as to have outdone itself; their novel mode of blending
the voice with the music, having a most Irannonious effect, and
drew forth general and rapturous applar,se.
An eminent London firm of engineers has received
orders for the execution of two steam engines of 200 horse
power, for the huge steam-vessel now building in Bristol for
trans-Atlantic communicatior., and which it is expected will bo
completed in the course e? the ensuing summer. That now
erectin.d at Liverpool f-Jr the same voj ge,
eobTjecrititho:un
will only contain.
sane of 270 horse tv:,wer.
wShitichprtehme
n ICc
came tel oT Ar
resolution oI lAu io An
thistj G
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e°n.i—n g ,Tbi lye
of the 7',ounsel of the accused Minister of State, to the tom-
Pefr Tribunal, are overruled, so that the cadse.ocy of the will
droceed to- morrow. A courier was despatched this evening
for Stockholm.
HAMBURG, We learn from
Elsineur,
that three Russian men-of-war (a ship of the line, a frigate.
and a cutter), had arrived yesterday off Hornbeck, where they
were detained by contrary winds.—Humbury Papers, Sept. us
The state of the weather continues very unfavour-
able, and the country has again been deluged with heavy falls
of rain, which must greatly retard harvest operations, and
prove very injurious to the crops. On Sunday and yesterday
the Clyde was considerably swollen, and strong fears were en-
tertained lest it should again overflow the lower parts of the
city. With the exception, however, of part of the Broomielaw
Quay being flooded, the water kept within the embankments..
The new quay on the South side was completely under wa-,
tar, so that the operations there are once more suspended. ass
siness at the harbour was scarcely, if at all, impeded.—Was-
pow Courier.

It is in contemplation to establish Zoological Gar-
dens at Cheltenham, and a considerable portion of the re-
quired capital of ten thOusand pounds has already been filled
up. The 'Zoological Society in London have recently made,
some interesting presents of duplicates of their collection to the s
Society at Dublin, and it is tntended by theta to carry on the
same friendly intercourse with other provincial societies.

Vr
SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNAL.

The opinion we expressed respecting the cause of
Thiers' dismissal is confirmed by the appointment of
Mole. Though the King will still administer the fo-
reign affairs of France, the character of his Minister
is an indication—Nye fear an unerring indication—of
the course he will pursue. It is not worth while to
dwell upon the past career of such a man as Mole, a
Councillor of State under Napoleon ; a Peer under
the Restoration ; after the revolution heading an op-
position to the Ministry of De Broglie and Guizot ;
energetically declaiming against the pieces d' Avril;
pleading for an amnesty, and denouncing the insolence
of the 'Doctrinaires. To the pliancy of his principle
we may attribute his heing now found in opposition to
former colleagues in a better cause—to such men as
Dupin and Gerard ; and sitting in the same Cabinet
with Guizot, between whom and himself political hos-
tility has more than once, we believe, resulted in per-
sonal insult. Considerations of this kind are at the pre-
sent moment beside our purpose. •To the opinions of
Mole we refer because he has been placed at the council
table wits the portefeuille of foreign affairs in his hands,
and from the character of the instrument we may form
a not very inaccurate judgment of the design to
beaccomplisbed. Mole, the 'Foreign Minister of
France, is Russian in all his predilections. He was
so even 'before he became the intimate personal friend
of the Due de Richelieus—the creature; at all events,
the political ally of Alexander, forced upon France by
that Emperor, as its Foreign Minister after the occu-
pation. If anything have a stronger hold upon the
mind of Mole than his devotion to Russia, it is his
antipathy to Talleyrand, and to every act of that astute
diplomatist. A curious and characteristic illustration
of this feeling, and perhaps of its source, has been
mentioned to us. After the Revolution of July Mole
was appointed nominal Foreign Minister, the presiding
genius being then as now, Louis Philippe. Talley-
rand was sent as Ambassador to the English Court.
All despatches of any 'importance were directed to the
King ; those sent to the Minister containing nothing
but speculations, profound, no doubt, upon the variations
in the prices of silks, cottons, sugars, &c. The diploma-
tic talent of Mole aimed at something higher than the
mere framing of a tariff, and he complained to Louis of
the insignificance of the dispatches from the Embassy
at St. James's. ~ Que voules vous, mon cher Mole,
Talleyrand baisse ; it ne ' s'occupe qu'a faire de
l'esprit dans les salons Anglais, was the satisfactory
- reply of the King, having discoveterthe truth some
short time after Mole left the Ministry. For, the
truth of this account we have no better authority than
Count Mole himself, who, in 1832, told it, as we
have told it, to Lafayette, adding the pithy commen-
tary, " La faussea et la duplicia du Roi des Fran-
cais est telle que
.j'a imerais mieux servir le Sultan
que de redevenzr Ministre de Louis Philippe." M.
Mole has had more experience of -his-Sovereign than
we have had, and we must not quarrel with his opinion.
Without stopping to inquire whether tae hostility of
Mole to Talleyrand proceeded from this source, we
know at all events that it exists to an inveterate degree.
If, then, the new Minister for Foreign Affairs were not,
as we know he is, devoted to the interests of Russia,—
if he were not, as we also know he is, opposed to the
alliance with ' England,—(he has been more than
once heard to ask, " What hope have we from an
alliance with England, which merely endeavours to
preserve the status quo? while an alliance with
Russia would give to France, its natural boundaries"),
—even if the mind of Count Mole were not thus
predisposed, he would have a sufficient motive for
trampling on the Quadruple Treaty in the fact of its
having been, so far as France is concerned, the work
of Talleyrand's skilful diplomacy. Have ' we, then,
any just cause to doubt the sincerity of the " assu-
rance" received by our Government, that the King of
the French and his Ministers are determined to ad-
here to the stipulations of the Quadruple Treaty. As
a proof of Louis Philippe's disposition to recede from
it we have adduced the dismissal of Thiers for demanding
its fulfilment, which is followed by the appointment of
Mole, who has even already given proof of his devotion
to Russia, and of course of his hostility to the Western
Alliance, by bargaining that in the Ministry should
be included one who, if he does not'deserve, certainly
enjoys the reputation of being a hireling lilerateur of
the Cabinet of St. Petersburg. But it is unnecessary
to dwell upon this point. We have said enough to
produce a conviction that can alone be shaken by the
future conduct of the Cabinet of the Tuilleries. Let
the Queen of Spain receive from France not as a boon,
or as a favour, but as a right, the aid to which she is
entitled. It is our deliberate conviction that, if this
aid. be not speedily accorded, the power of refusal will
not long remain with Louis Philippe. The men he is
about to call to his councils will not, either by their
character or their policy, calm the exasperation that is
growing up in-the public mind of France, and to which
events that are hastening in the Peninsula may give
an impulse perhaps dangerous to the stability of the
Orleans dynasty.—Morning Chronicle.
Several notices appear in our paper of this day
which cannot fail to draw the attention of our readers
to a subject of the greatest importance, viz., the pro-
vision of adequate accommodation, in the churches and
chapels of the establishment, 'for the rapidly and con-
stantly increasing population of England. We feel
bound to.say that this field
,of patriotic and religious
duty has not hitherto been cultivated with a zeal and
energy commensurate with its importance. There ,has
been guilty apathy upon this subject in the capital,
and the bad example of the capital has been followed
with too servile an imitation in, the provinces. We
have recently had the satisfaction of announcing that
the metropolis, stimulated by the zeal and guided by
the judgment of the Bishop of London, has taken
effectual steps to redeem itself from the imputation of
indifference to the cause of religion. It is a melan-
choly truth, that at this moment there is not room in
the edifices in London devoted to public worship, in
conformity with the rights, discipline, and doctrines
of the Church of England, sufficient for. the recep-
tion of more than one in ten of the population. This
• —We say—is a melancholy fact. It would be a dis-
graceful fact but for the apology that it is an evil, the
progressive growth of which . has escaped general
attention. The fact is now distinctly and authorita-
tively proclaimed. The apology for negligence exists
no longer ; and we rejoice to say there is no longer any
doubt that the religious feeling and the public spirit
Of
.the inhabitants of Loudon, now that the real state
of the case has been brought distinctly under their
view, will secure the speedy and complete correction
of this odious and pernicious vice in our social insti-
tutions. Nothing can be more gratifying
than to find
that the feelings which have manifested themselves
so strongly in London have pervaded the provinces
also. We rejoice to learn that in all our consider-
able towns new churches have been built, or are now
in progress. But still more do we rejoice to learn
that wherever a new church has been erected there is
at once found a congregation more than overflowing.
We enter into no controversy as to the relative
number of members of the Church of England and
of Dissenters. What le sufficient for us to know,
with a view to our practical. duty, is, that, wherever
a new church arises in connection with the national
Establishment, there is a congregation ready to occupy
it. This is all that any churchman who is balancing
with himself how much he ought to contribute towards
the erection of new churches, in his neighbourhood
has any interest to ascertain. The edifice being pro-
vided, is it certain that there will be a congregation
sufficient to vindicate its utility ? This is the single
question about which any conscientious Churchman
ought to be solicitous. Is there the opportunity of
doing good ? This is the only enquiry which any man
should think it worth while to make. Upon a well-
founded answer in the affirmative his course is at once
clear. The proceedings recorded by a Blackburn
Conservative journal as having taken place in that
town are perfectly conclusive in favour of the accuracy
of our doctrine. These prOceedings present an
where such an example would have been
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!?,,:%7:(:` ',least expected, of the zealous attachment of the mil-
- 11 -''../ions of our countrymen to the doctrines and wor-
))
k
0: r ~-; ( ship. of the national Church; and they prove that
verteer, • wherever that attachment may seem dormant or
.:,...›.4,„.:ei" Lever that . for the
... ,! . . inactive it is tue want merely of an appropriate
,N,;•=r-.• ! • ' •
01_,' "' '` 100 in which it may be exhibited. This is a subject
0, .-15.2.-4.1'. ich ought,, above all others, to stimulate the exer-
/1- lions of those who are -in possession of the means to