The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-17 00:00:00

GOMAIERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, July 7 (Evening).
Money abundant. Gold, 1531. Exchange on
London, 166 ; ditto on Paris, 3.37. Stocks firm
122 ; Erie, 69 ; United States 5-20 Bonds, 1058.
Canodttoanctive; New York Centrals, 99j ; Illinois,
slightly firmer ; week's receipts, 8,250 ;
middling Upland, 36c. Flour and wheat dull. Corn
advancing. Provisions quiet. Coffee depressed.
Molasses and Sugar steady. Petroleum dull; crude,
23} ; refined, 40.

ORLEANS, July G.
Cotton slightly firmer ; Low middling, 31 to 32 ;
week's receipts, 3,250; week's ex
108,000 bales. export, 10,000 ; stock.

MEXICO.

Intellig NEW YORK, July 7.
ence from Vera Cruz of the 26th June
states that Marshal Bazaine was about to inaugu-
rate a vigorous campaign against the Republicans
in Sonora and Sinaloa. The Emperor Maximilian
had ordered a military conscription to be enforced.
Tampico was still closely besieged by the Republi-
cans. The imperial treasury is reported to be ex-
hausted.

The New York Herald asserts that the Repub-
licans in Northern Mexico are in favour of annexa-
tion to the United States.
It is reported that Juarez is about to move his
capital to Matamoras.

Lord Derby and Reform.

The following letteheen addressed to the
editor of the Times

- .
"Sir,—l
refrain, as a general rule, from troubling
you with corrections of reports, but I beg leave to
say that I did not state on the hustings that there
was no difficulty in
dealing with the question of
Parliamentary Reform, which I acknowledge to be,
perhaps, the most difficult of all public questions.
What I maintained was, there was no difficulty in
the question peculiar to the Conservative party, and
I argued that they were as free and as qualified to
deal with it as any other party in the State.
" What I wished to express respecting Lord
Derby's connexion with the Act of 1832 was exactly
what I said this year in the Houso of Commons—
that the Act of 1832, if not devised by Lord Derby,
was, at least, carried mainly by his energy.—Your
faithful servant, "B. DIPAELI.
"Grosvenor-gate, July 16.'1

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.---This Day.

MARLBOROUGII-STREET.

ENDEAVOURING TO OBTAIN CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS
BY FRAUD.—IIenry Rickson, described as a porter, of Far-
ringdon, Berks, was charged before Mr. Knox with en-
deavouring to obtain charitable contributions by false pre-
-square.
Charles
-street.
et:Vßiesickoeuineyt Uffington, residing at No. 16,

Uffington, said—Yester-
dayprisoner came to 16,
eas in the employ of Mr.
Charles-street,
harl Thos.es morningstr Elliott,zt ,
about
and
said
a valet to o
o'clockhatho Viscountt
was
Myers, of Uffington, and, that having had three days' holi-
day, he came to London on Saturday last and went to a
coffee-shop near the railway station at Paddington. The
prisoner then said he slept in a double-bedded room, and
wanted me to speak to my
he missed his money, £5
getting back to
master,oo
dn dw,
aauk and
with
othergi t
hu pt the
phe
re
view
pi nee ewr xt
yt
ofe nmorningdassist
hieing
him
in
Uffington. I told the prisoner to call again, which he did,
and I then told him that his lordship would pay his fare
back; but to make all safe I would meet him at the coffee
shop at two in the afternoon. I went to the coffee shop at
the time appointed; but the prisoner was not there, nor
was anything known of him, and he had never stayed
why he bad not kept his appoint-
there. As I was returning from the coffee shop in an
omnibus in Oxford-street I saw the prisoner, and, having
mg down,oetnt, and askedhe said h
h ime
did not know the time.
After some further evidence the prisoner was remanded.

SUSPECTED MURDER IN EDINBURGH.—On Sun-
day morning an old soldier, names Jas. Boyd, and his son,
were apprehended pending an inquiry into the death of the
wife and mother, who was found dead in bed, with a sus-
picious mark on her body. The bedding was saturated with
blood, and Boyd's trousers were also marked with blood.
Both husband and wife had been, chinking heavily.