The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-07 00:00:00

MEXICAN BONDHOLDERS.

The new committee of Mexican bondholders is on the
most friendly terms with the Mexican Ambassador here,
as well as with the other functionaries, and the following
letter has been sent to them by Senor Luis More. The
Senor expresses his strong satisfaction and approval of
the new committee, and a determination to hold no far-
ther communication with the old one, which perseveres,
however, and has called a meeting for next Monday.
The following is the letter:—
(Translation.)
" Mexican Legation, 7, Gloucester-road,
"Regent's park, Feb. 4, 1850.
"ToW. P. Robertson, lisq Chairman of the Committee

of Mexican Bondholders.
"Sir,—Tour much esteemed communication of the
31st ult. I have not been able to- answer until to-day,
from its only having been received at this Legation on
the 2d—a delay which probably has arisen from its
having been erroneously addressed.
"My feelings and my duties most perfectly coincide
with the contents of your letter. From the moment I
learnt that the Mexican bondholders had happily been
inspired with the wish to have a committee of their own,
in order to represent them here and with the Mexican
Government, I applauded the idea, which was carried
into effect a fiw weeks after its first announcement, and
which was happily realised by the general meeting of
bondholders held on the 23d ult.
" Although I have not the pleasure of the personal
acquaintance of the gentlemen who form the new com-
mittee, I know very well the good spirit which reigns in
it, and, above all, the recommendable qualities which
among which the most re-
spirit, an urbanity, and a
proper
cbt ei re-
markable
areas
mannerei ts
of
chairman, hn ac rlry
a treatinga conciliatory
public business, with the de-
sire of bringing it to a termination mutually satisfactory.
Although in the present case I have not, nor can I have,
(11s %aftioom n tend not only to recognise the
my Government, yet all those
public meeting, beginning with the
resolutionsep
xr
sc si
ne g in instruct
ot hf s). instructions u r
nomination of the new committee, but to afford it every
assistance which it can
_receive from. the Legation in
London,
" My instructions on the agency question, and in re-
gard to the committee of bondholders, are such, that if
by any unforeseen and lamentable accident the com-
mittee over which you preside should cease to exist, and
if it should be pretended to restore the old committee,
this Legation would not vacillate for one single moment
in refusing to acknowledge the latter, and in addressing
itself, as it has done before, to the bondholders them-
selves, passing by that committee which the Mexican
Government can never again accept_ as the medium of
making an arrangement with the Mexican bondholders.
" The observations which you make relative to the
advantage of the existence of the best understanding and
the most perfect harmony between the
.committee of
bondholders on the one side, and the Mexican Legation
and agency on the other, are perfectly just; it would
have been impossible to obtain such "harmony before the
formation of the new committee,
and so will equally
be should it cease to exist; and it is under this convic-
tion that I have written to you in the terms which I have
now the honour of doing, offering
.you at the same time
the expression of my highest consideration. 1
".JOSE MARIA Luis MoRA."

ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—The ordinary monthly
meeting of this society took place last Monday. G. R.
Waterhouse, Esq., President, in the chair. The Presi-
dent nominated Messrs. Spence, Stephost3, and West.
wood, as vice-presidents fur the ensuing year. Several
donations of books and insects were announced. Several
new British Lepidoptera were exhibited by Mr. Douglas
and Mr. Stephens. Mr. S. Stevens exhibited some beau-
tiful new butterflies he had received from Mr. Bates,
who is at present investigating the entomologioal trea-
sures of Para. He also exhibited a line specimen of
Eurycantha horrida from the South Seas. A paper was
read by Mr. Stainton on Micropterya, a genus of small
moths belonging to the family Tineidre.
MONEY MARKET..--The premium on gold at Paris is
12 per mine, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s.
10id. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of
25.45; and the exchange at Paris on London at short
being 25.421, it follows that gold is 0.10 per cent.
dearer in Paris than in London. By advises from Ham-
burgh the price of gold is 4344 per mark, which, at
the English Mint price of 3/. 176. 10id. per ounce for
standard gold,
change at Hamburgh on London at short being 13.1 q,
gives an exchange of 13.9 i; and the ox.
it follows that gold is 0.40 per cent. dearer in Lon-
don than in Hamburgb.
MURDER OF A GAMEKEEPER. —• lIORNCASTLE,
FEB. 5.
—ln the neighbourhood of Boughton, a short
distance from this place. Richard Tacker, a game-
watcher, in the service of the Rev. J. Dymoke, was
murdered by a gang of poachers early on the morning of
Saturday last. Neither the deceased nor his two com-
panions were able to recognise any of the party. The
police, however, are on the alert, and it is believed they
have obtained some trace of them.