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

MEXICO.

NEW YORK, July 7.
Intelligence 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 letter has been 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 House 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. DISRAELI.
" Grosvenor-gate, July 16."

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.--This Day.

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MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ENDEAVOURING TO OBTAIN CHARITABLE COICTIIIBUTIONS
BY FRAUD.—Henry Itickson, described as a porter, of Far-
ringdon, Barks, was chargod before Mr. Knox with en-
deavouring to obtain charitable contributions by false pre-
tences from Viscount Uffington, residing at No. 16,
Charles-street, Berkeley-square.

Thos. Elliott, valet to Viscount Uffington, said—Yester-
day morning about 9 o'clock the prisoner came to 16,
Charles-street, and said that he was in tho employ of Mr.
Myers, of Uffington, and, that having had three days' holi-
day, he came to London on Saturday last and wait to a
coffee-shop near the railway station at Paddington. The
prisoner then said he slept in a double-bedded room, and
on waking up the next morning he missed his money, £5
odd, and other property, and he wanted me to speak to my
master, with the view of assisting him in getting back to
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 i
there. As I was returning from the coffee shop n. an
omnibus in Oxford-street I saw the prisoner, and, having.t
got down, asked him why he had not kept appoint-
ment, -
meat, and he said he did not know the time.
After some further evidence the prisoner was remanded.

SUSPECTED MURDER IN EDINBURGII.—OD Sun-
day morning an old soldier, names Jas. Boyd, and his son,
were apprehended pending an inquiry into tho 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 drinking heavily.