The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-16 00:00:00

MEXICO.

Our advices from the city of Mexico arc up to the
20th of October, and from Vera Crux to the 27th.
Congress was then in session. This body had de-
clared, as the will of the nation, that the Executive
Government should not be clothed with the extraor-
dinary powers which they had demanded. This is
regarded as a rebuke to the central leaders, I3usta •
merne and Almonte, and coming from a Central junta,
it must have great weight. The idle project of pro-
secuting a war against Texas was entertained at the
capital. A law bad been passed, authorising the Govern-
ment to contract a loan of 2,000,000 dollars, pledging
ler the payment the 17 per cent. duty, and the President
is empowered to issue bonds for the amount, which are
to sold to the highest bidder, within thirty days from the
18th of October. Two-thirds of this sum was to be ap-
propriated to. carrying on the contemplated war against
Texes.
MR. BAIRD IN RUSSIA.—A letter received from Mr. Baird
at the office of the American Temperance Union, states that
he had a very pleasing interview with the Emperor of Russia,
at his palace at Psarskoe Zelo, and bad dined with the Royal
fsmily. His Majesty and the Grand Duke manifested much
interest in the cause of temperance—permitted the publica-
tion of the History of Temperance Societies in the Russ, and
expressed a wish that it might also be translated into the
Finnish. A distinguished Russian nobleman in Courland
was so convinced by reading the history in German of the
evils of drinking ardent spirits, that he agreed to pay the
Government the sum which the retailers had undertaken
to pay for their licenses, in order to have no brandy sold
on his extensive estates; a fact worthy of the best times of
temperance in any country.

Major-General Sir Howard Elphinstone, begs
to say that the Spectacles he has now_ had some time in
use, have fully redeemed the assurance of the Messrs. S.
and B. Solomons as to their excellence, and having found
so much comfort and advantage from their use far prefer-
able to every other kind of Glasses which he has been in
the constant habit of making use of far a great number of
years; he, therefore, feels a pleasure in recommending
them to his friends. 13, Norfolk-street, Park-lane, the 6th
November, 1840. Messrs. Solomons, 35, Albemarle- street,
Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel, and 76, King Wil-
liam-street, Bank of England, state that immediately
those newly. invented Spectacles are placed before imper-
fect vision, every object becomes clear and distinct, and
the most minute particle is seen with distinctness, so that
the most aged imperfect sight becomes bright and brilliant,
and is brought to its youthful, natural, and original state.
Their Invisible Operative Voice Conductor, for (leaf per-
sons, is not the least perceptible nor more uncomfortable
than having a piece of wool in its place; they give imme-
diate relief to old standing extreme cases of deafness.
These valuable inventions have also gained the patronage
of the Royal Family, and the unqualified approbation of
above four hundred of the principal members of the medi-
cal profession, and numerous individuals of high distinc.
tion, who have been greatly benefited by their use. No
connection with persons of the same name. 39, Albe.
made-street, opposite the York Hotel, and 76, King Wil-
liam-street, Bank of England.

ESCAPE OF A TIGER, AND ATTACK OF A
VESSEL'S CREW.—The Adam Lodge, Captain James, ar-
rived at Liverpool from Calcutta, on Saturday, having on
board a remarkably fine Bengal tiger. On the voyage,
from some strange inadvertence, the animal broke his cage
and got upon deck to the imminent danger of the sailors,
some of whom made a precipitate retreat, and the remain-
der got up the rigging. The latter part of them, how-
ever, were not so secure from attack as they conceived,
for the brute managed to ascend a considerable distance
after them, and the hindermost narrowly escaped; fortu-
nately, they were provided with handspikes, which they
had procured in the moment of their terror, and, having
beaten the tiger down, safely reached the mainyard. The
ar.mul then went towards the cabin, and. sprung upon
Captain James, who dexterously avoided it. A loaded
pi• ee being immediatels at hand, it way seized by Captain
Lines, and the infuriated brute was shot through the heart
an-1 dropped dead immediately.
A dreadful conflict between three of the keepers
of Sir Hugh Hoare and three poaehra, toc‘,le, plac^ at_
i
fer ti a hard
Stotnton, Somerset, on Tuesday evening.
fought battle, one of the keepers inflicted a fatal,
dept
on
tied
head of one of the porinhora, which inrtAn.ti
him of life. A verdict of "Justifiable homicide" has
been returned by the Coroner's Jury. The name of the
deceased was Adams. He was the che.mpion of England
at singlestick.