The Sun.
London, England, 1823-12-15 00:00:00

count of the Mexican Government—if any '
body can tell who or what the Mexican Go-
vernment is ! For our own part, all we know
is, that Mexico was some time ago distract-
ed, by civil wars, and an' adventurer named
Yturbide proclaimed himself Emperor. This
Gentleman's Imperial dignity evaporated more
quickly than that of the Corsican Charla-
tan ; but Yturbide contrived to escape with
a good round sum of money, and is living
in splendour somewhere in the Continent of
Europe. Since his flight, two or three factions
have been squabbling and skirmishing in diffe-
rent parts of Mexico, and one or more of them
are probably trying to gull honest John Bull
with the old trick of a Loan ! The Franco-
Mexican scheme does not even pretend to
the weight and authority of a Government
project. It is offered as a mere private mining
speculation. The civil wars have desolated
Mexico, the gold and silver mines have been
neglected, the water has flowed in upon them,
and a large capital must be sunk in machinery
before those mines can again be rendered pro-
ductive. That machinery, too, must be placed
under the direction of honest and skilful ma-
nagers ; a new system of working must be intro-
duced ; the veins of metal must turn out to be abun-
dant ; the means of transport must be rendered
safe and easy : and Hall these favourable circum.
stances should coincide, the metal would finally
be brought into the market, and, if very abun-
dant, would of course decline in value. It is
said that the Government duties on those
mines• are greatly redueed ; hut it will not
at all follow that the Mining Companies will
derive a profit to the vmount of the tax taken
off. The different mines will enter into compe-
tition with each other, and the profits of each
will be regulated by that competition. We say
nothing against the right that people have to risk
their money on such distant and doubtful specu-
lations--only let them clearly understand the
hazards they run, and not forget the old proverb
—" all is not gold that glitters."

[MORNING HERALD.]
There is no leading article in this Paper to-day.

THE REV. C. C. COLTON.—The unaccountable
absence of this gentleman has produced the
following opinion, transmitted to us by a Cor-
respondent :—" A gang of villains have ex-
isted in London for a number of years, com-
manly called Resurrection-men, or persons
who nightly plunder the sepulchres of the
dead, and dispose of them to the surgeons for
dissection. It happened during my residence in
the great city, that I became acquainted with
a publican in the neighbourhood of Guy's Hos-
pital, who gave me a strange account of those
rascals, which the mysterious appearance of Mr.
Colton so strongly returns to my memory. 1-1•
stated, that he knew four or five of these wretches
who had acquired handsome fortunes by this in-
famous traflic,and described them as men complete-
ly divested of all the good feelings of human nature.
He also informed me, that ho was coufideat, from
their conversation, that give them an opportu-
nity, they would not hesitate to kill any person,
strip the body, and put it into a sack., for which
they can obtain from three to five guineas. A
sailor, some years ago, was mortally wounded in
one of the low brothels near Chandos-Weet, but
contrived to make his escape out of the house to-
wards St. Martin's Church ; a watchman, going his
rounds, found the poor fellow dying ; he instant-
ly ran oil to get assistance, and, though but a
few seconds away, upon his return, found the
body gone, and all search made to recover it
proved fruitless. For some days it caused a
great ferment in the public mind, it being sup-
posed that some of the resurrection-men had
first robbed and wounded him, and finally
took away the body to sell. I do not wish
to be too severe on these traffickers in human
flesh, for in a large place, like London, where
accidental death so often happens, a surgeon
is not obliged to know or to ask how the
subject in the sack met with his death ; and it is
well known, that by keeping the body a few days,
it would have the appearance of being taken out
of the grave !"—(Stockport Advertiser.)

The Almanack for the ensuing year presents no
less than five Sundays in the month of February,
a circumstance that may not Again occur for more
than forty years.
APPEARANCE OF THE PLANET VENtI9.----This
beautiful planet is now a " Morning Star," and appears like
the moon about five or six days previous to the change. At
present, those who have telescopes will have an opportunity of
observing a large spot on her disc near the northern
There is also a large spot on the sun, worthy of attention.
These phenomena of late have become more rare, this being the
first spot visible since July 27, 1823.
On Sunday se'nnight a cow. was found dead on
Ifoneymau Farm, part of the estate of the Right
Hon. the Earl of Northesk, at Rosehill, near
Winchester. The animal had been stabbed in
several places. A herse also, on the same pre,
mises, was severely wounded in the neck. A
reward has been offered for the detection of
the cruel perpetrator, who, it is hoped, 1%111 not
long elude detection.
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