The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-02 00:00:00

M.EXIC,4N BONDHOLDERS.

The following is from the Committee of Mexican
Bondholders :

"The committee have received advices from Mr.
Whitehead, dated Mexico, the 23 ult., and also a letter
from him, which has been missing, dated 3d July lad.
The law of eesamortizacion ' of mortman property
(ecclesiastical and secular) of the 28th of June had as
yet met with no very formidable opposition, and the new
Minister of_ Finance was justifying the anticipations
formed of the character of his administration, but General
Tidaurri had declared against the Central Government.
The Legislature of Coahuila was, however, endeavouring
to heal this breach, and from advices of the 9th ult.,
received via United States, it would seem that this bad
been attended with some success, La Plata brings for
the dividend fund $G5,000 from Vera Cruz and $lO,OOO
from Tampico.
"The committee has been informed by the financial
agency of Mexico in London that the term within
which Messrs. de Lizardi and Co. are to deliver up
the deferred bonds issued in excess under the con-
version of 1837 has been prolonged till the 21st of
October. With reference to the option given to
Messrs. de Lizardi and Co. to deliver up either deferred
bonds or active bends of the last issue at the rate
of 80 active for 100 deferred the Mexican Government,
in reply to Col. Facio's observation on the difference in
the value of active bonds at that rate, and of deferred
bonds on which there is a claim for arrears of intere-t,
has informed him, as well as Messrs. de L'itirdi and Co.,

that the alternative conceded was only meant to apply
to a certain number of deferred bonds which a clerk of
the said house was alleged to have abstracted, and that
the intent and meaning of the agreement of the Mexican
Government with Messrs. de Lizardi and Co. (lated
21st Feb. last) was that all the deferred bonds issued in
excess were to tie delivered up and cancelled without its
putting the Government to the expense of a single
dollar."

Aud the following is from Col. Facio, the Mexi-
can financial agent :

" Mexican Debt.—By the Royal West India steamer
La Plata, just arrived, $75,000 have been received from
Vera Cruz and Tampico. Besides the above sum. 33,2301.
108. 11d. is already deposited in the Back of England."

CO IVES, ISLE OF NIGHT.—Sept. 1.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.

BATHING SEASON.—Numerous families are daily ar-
riving. The following fashionahles are at present re-
siding at Cowes:—His Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales and suite, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps and
family, the Marquis of Ely, the Marquis Conyngham,
Earl and Countess Vane and family, Earl and Countess
Desart and family, Sir William and Lady Georgians
Codrington and family, Sir John and Lady Bayley and
family, Col. and Lady Rosa Greville and fatuity, Lord
Yarborough, Admiral Walpole, Capt. Seymour, Lord
Colville, Best, Esq., Earl Fttzhardinge, Mrs. DAnsey
and faintly, Mrs. Mayor and family, Mrs. A. C. H.
Duff, Lord George Lennox, James Maxse, Eaq., Spenct r
de Horsey, Esq., Sir Bellingham Graham, Bart.. Le
Chevalier Servando de Zulueta, Sir Charles and Lady
Fellows, Joseph Gee, Esq., C. R. M. Talbot, Eiq,,
M.P., W. B. Ponsonby, Esq., Algernon Greville. Esq.,
G. H. Ackers, E,q., and Lady, Sir Edward Hulse,
Bart., Major Cawler, J. W. Cunningham, E=q., and
family, J. A. Simpson, El., and family, Capt. Arm-
strong and family, John Kenyon, El., Lady Cecilia
Conyngham, J. Loder, the Rev. Mr. Knight and
Lady, W. Bidder and family, Capt. Franklin, &c.

THE GERMAN LEGION AND THE

CAPE.

The following letter has been addressed to the
Editor of the Times:—

Sir,—lt is proposed to send out German soldiers
from the Foreign Legion, armed with Enfield
rifles, to become settlers on the Eastern frontier of
the Cape of Good Hope. Should any such plan be
carried into effect, it will be the cause of endless
confusion, misery, and bloodshed in that already
" debateable" land. Mercenaries would soon, by
their aggressive conduct, make inveterate enemies
of all the native tribes, and afterwards coalesce
with our more civilised and much-injured enemies,
the expatriated Dutch boers. In statinz this I
adiance no fanciful theory, but one founded on a
personal knowledge of Southern Africa, and an
attentive study of our relations with the native
tribes.

Lat. but a trial be made of the plan I long since
suggested to the " powers that be"—let full am-
nesty for the past be offered to the expatriated
Dutch boers—let a belt of fertile land, extending
between the Keiskamma and the Kye, be offered
to these bravo and hardly-used men—let this tract
of country so occupied be acknowledged as an in-
dependent State, under British protection, on con-
dition that they keep the native tribes from our
own frontier, and our colony will be cheaply and
securely protected, and without either German
mercenaries or English rifles.—l am, sir, &c.,
• E. NAPIER, Colonel,
Once employed on particular service at the Cape.