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TAE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY- MORNING, JANUARY 27 1845.

as well as human authority. The sceptical public—
for in these days a clergyman's word is not gospel—
naturally require proofs of these claims; they judge
of the tree by its fruit, and of the faith which a man
professes by his works. This test, fortunately, was
applied by the Protestants of Exeter, last week, to
their bishop, and the unfortunate young man
COURTENAY, and such results, on any similar occasion,
p'rhaps never were brought to light. Straightforward
conduct, honesty of purpose, charity which doth not
behave itself unseemly, strict adherence to truth, and
fearlessness in a good cause, were expected of these
holy men, but woful was the failure. It would be
difficult to find, among the lowest of the human
race, among the miserable, ignorant, and profligate,
that appear before our police-courts, such instances
of mean deception, contemptible shuffling, and vain
attempts to conceal the truth, as were manifested at a
meeting of the inhabitants of Exeter on Thursday.
The Rev. F. COURTENAT, it appears, was allowed to
appear, in order, as was understood, to make a state-
ment which would carry into effect the object of the
requisitionists, and settle the differences between him
and his flock. The important disclosure amounted to
this—" You have met," said he, " to take into con-
sideration what steps shall be taken to put an end to
the disturbances to which our parish has been sub-
jected for the last two Sundays. These disturbances
have resulted from a continued use of the surplice in
preaching. I am in a position to tell you that I have
authority to discontinue the use of the surplice." This
announcement was not received very graciously. Loud
cries of" Oh !" and " Too late," resounded through the
assembly, and the speaker, evidently ashamed of
his conduct, and afraid, perhaps, of some unwelcome
interrogatories, was anxious to retire, " for," said he,
" I think that there can be no reason why I should
stay among you longer." The Protestants assem-
bled, however, thought otherwise, for the use or
disuse of the surplice was only a very secondary
object of the meeting. The main point was the cha-
racter—and, consequently, the usefulness or the
worthlessness of their pastor; and Mr. COURTENAT
was, therefore, requested to wait, in justice to him-
self, that he might explain or deny certain reports
prevalent in the parish. The following are the reports,
as set forth by one of the speakers with great mode-
ration and good feeling. First, Mr. COURTENAY was
reported to have stated, in reference to a requisition,
signed by many respectable parishioners, that "there
was only one name he regretted to see there; for the
rest he did not care the snap of his finger." Secondly,
he was reported to have said that " he would sooner
suffer his right arm to be cut off than surrender
the course he had pursued." Thirdly, the Rev.
Gentleman, on seeing a notice posted at the church-
gates, calling one of their meetings, " had torn it
down in a petulant way, and stamped it under
his feet." And, lastly, he had said of those who had
taken part at these meetings, that " they were only
rifraff, and the sooner the Church was rid of them
the better." These are serious charges against
a minister of peace, but the manner in which they
were met only added to the original offences, and
convinced the parishioners, as shown by one of their
resolutions, that " he ought to withdraw himself from
a ministry which he could no longer usefully or pro-
fitably fulfil." We give the answers in his own
words, with the winding up of this disgraceful

seek their destruction. But what must his own party
think of a leader who can thus blab out such mo-
mentous truths—truths that mark them as dangerous
neighbours, deceitful friends, and determined enemies?
England, too, knows what M. Tniaas means by
alliance. He would hold with her so long as
it suited his purpose. He would not risk
the loss of Algeria, or the destruction of every
French ship in the Mediterranean by madly going to
war single-handed, but wait for "different combina-
tions," and then make the attack. Should M. Tmuus,
therefore, ever be again placed at the head of affairs,
he must be watched like a tiger. The great Powers
will be forced to maintain, what is worse than open
war, an armed peace, and spend vast revenues in
compelling France to observe treaties to which she is
solemnly engaged. But, fortunately, M. TRIERS'
ability and prudence are not equal to his malignity.

The remarkable correspondence between the Earl
of ABERDEEN and the Lord RANELAGII, which the
latter has just published under the title of " Legal
Order and Constitutional Rights, as defined by the
Earl of ABERDEEN," has scarcely received from our
Contemporaries that degree of candid consideration
which they are usually by no means backward in
awarding to the merits, such as they may be, of con-
temporary polemics. Lord RANELAGII, it will be
remembered, some few years ago thought proper to
throw himself, with a degree of unquestionable en-
thusiasm, into the struggle for the succession to the
Spanish Monarchy, that was sustained with so much
sanguinary perseverance between the Carlists and
the Christinos. His Lordship served under the
banner of Absolutism against that of Constitutional
Liberty. By these designations, at any rate, the two
parties in the civil war which then raged in Spain
reciprocally distinguished one another. We have
always denounced the disastrous ambition of Don
CARLOS, and canr.ot affect, therefore, any sympathy
with the choice of a young English nobleman who
had it in his power to draw his sword, for the other
party, or the cause of what professed to be free in-
stitutions, and were largely modelled on those of his
native country. We find it difficult to imagine how
1 a free and enterprising spirit, such as Lord RARE..
LAGII seems to be animated by, can voluntarily have
attached himself to the desperate fortunes of an un-
popular pretender to an European Crown, and a
gloomy, bigoted vassal to a superstitious Church. We
should have presumed that all the chivalry of an
Englishman's prepossessions would have attached him
to the cause of two Queens, contending for a mo-
narchy bequeathed to the younger, by the solemnly
declared will and renewed act of her dying father,
together with the guardianship of her person to the
elder, the wife, the widow, and the mother of a
Sovereign. But we are far from impeaching the
motives, or doubting the sincerity, of Lord RARE..
LAGR'S partisanship. It is lamentable, in our view
of the matter, that he should have sided with, and
fought for, the friend and patron of the execrable
CABRERA ; but had he given his services to the other
side, we must confess with horror, that he would have
been leagued with that bloodstained monster, MINA,
or, haply, serving now with the contemptible and
unprincipled NAEVAEZ. The mistake into which
Lord RANELAGII was betrayed, in the first instance,
seems to have been that which was common to so
many other of our countrymen at the same time—
namely, to believe that it could be worth while to
fight at all, and under any circumstances, for a
country and a people, and institutions social and
political, so utterly debased, disorganised, and worth-
less, as those of Spain.
With regard to the " Correspondence" we advert
to, it arises mainly out of the circumstance of Lord
RANELAGII having been charged by Don CARLOS to
place in the hands of the Earl of ABERDEEN
a certain letter, authorising Lord RANELAGII
"to make certain propositions to her MAJESTY'S
Government, on the part of his Royal High-
ness, having for their object the marriage of
the Prince, his son, with the Queen of SPAIN."
The nature of this communication will be readily
collected in the extracts from the pamphlet that we
publish in another part of our paper. We are bound,
at the outset, to declare that we never rose from the
perusal of any letters ;vith more unmingled satisfac-
tion at the dignified as well as discreet tone—the
candid as well as collected character of the statements
made in them—than we have experienced from the
letters of Lora ABERDEEN. It was certainly in bad
taste on the part of Lord RANELAGH to identify the
source of the injurious treatment he remonstrated
against with his own adherence to, and Lord ABER-
DEEN'S defection from, political " principles so long
and so' ably maintained by the latter nobleman and
his colleagues in her MAJESTY'S Government ;" for
this gratuitous assumption only brought down, in
return, Lord ABERDEEN'S announcement, that, on
the records of the Foreign-office, instructions had
been found which Lord PALMERSTON, whilst holding
the Foreign seals, had deemed it his duty to issue to
our Ministers abroad, prohihiting them from present-
ing Lord RANELAGH at the Courts to which they
were accredited, on account of Lord RANELAGR'S
having actually, after joining the army " of Don
CARLOS, taken part in operations, in the course of
which the Carlists were engaged with a portion of
the British co-operating force in the neighbourhood
of Bilboa." Lord RANELAGR'S solemn disclaimer of
the fact, admitted by the recal of these " instructions,"
as stated, in the fairest and most honourable manner,
in Lord ABERDEEN'S dispatch to him of the 19th
ultimo, does not cure Lord RANELAGH'S ungra-
cious mistake of attributing their origin to the
wrong cause, and of assuming that cause to be—
the personal abandonment of former political prin-
ciples by Lord ABERDEEN. But surely it was in
still worse taste for Lord RANELAGII, in his letter of
the 7th, in reply to Lord ABERDEEN'S dispatch of the
4th, to instruct the Foreign Minister as to what he
ought to have done, or what his predecessor, Lord
PALMERSTON, " might have pleaded for what he did
do, and to taunt the Noble Earl with bringing
humiliating reproach" upon " those who have the
misfortune to trust in him or to be associated with his
Lordship in office." Lord RANELAGII may plead ex-
treme irritation to account for the caprice of reading
a didactic lesson to the Noble Secretary, and even for
reflections se unmeasured and unqualified on that
functionary's official conduct ; but we doubt whether
even to himself such a plea will excuse an error of
judgment that appears to have elicited from Lord
ABERDEEN only this cold, but courteous and signi-
ficant notice :

" Your Lordship will excuse me if I abstain from en-
tering into any consideration of other portions of your
letter, personal to myself and relative to my oticial
duty. I think that these may safely and properly be
left unnoticed."

Still there are many passages in Lord RANELAon's
pamphlet that strike us as evidencing abundant good
sense. 'They prove how much easier it is for men
mixed up with the concerns of public life to express
forcibly sound opinions upon paper, than to control
and regulate their own conduct in respect to those
concerns. He thus alludes, in his introductory re-
marks to the present state of Spain :

'• No man, who loves his country, or his species, can
contemplate without anxiety and alarm, the present state
of Spain. There we see not the successive rise and fall
of opposite parties in the State, but a monstrous union
of anarchy and despotism, which, under all changes of
administration, pursues one constant and fearful triumph
over every form of public order and private right. The
people—once temperate, industrious, brave, and loyal,—
are familiarised with butchery and instructed in crime by
the examples of their governors and the abundant
elements of natural and moral wealth are crushed and
eradicated, by a system which, if permitted to continue,
cannot fail to communicate its frightful contagion to
other States. This is an evil immediately suffered by
Spain ; but it is a danger from which no kingdom in
Europe is safe. The cause, therefore, involved, is not
that of any faction, but of general peace, and of human'
civilizAtien."

We must also emphatically concur with Lord
RANzLson in reprobating such terms—in respect of
the present hideous disorganisation that rules supreme.
in Spain—as Lord ABERDEEN has applied to it :
"In proportion as what Lord Aberdeen calls the
cause of constitutional liberty' has advanced, the secu-
rity of life and property has diminished ; and amidst
that tranquillity of which he boasts, not only is anarchy
and strife everywhere prevalent, but hundreds are from
year to year put to the most horrible death, without even
the form of a trial."

There is as much of reason as of smartness in a
similar allusion :

" The Noble Foreign Secretary considers legal order
and constitutional right' to be synonymous with the
present state of Spain : what he may think would exem-
plify a condition of anarchy and rebellion' it is diffi-
cult to imagine."

Lord RANELAGH will pardon us for saying that the
following passage involves a mere quibble :
" It is necessary to bear in mind that the quesiion
really at issue in the salajoined correspondence is not the

law of Spanish succession, but the re-establishment of
Spanish peace. The rights discussed are not those, re-
spectively, of Don Carlos and Isabel, but of Spain—with-
out referk•nce to party, and of humanity—without regard
to political opinion."
The simple fact is that the very propositions of Don
CARLOS impeached the existing law of Spanish suc-
cession. They contemplated nothing less. They
would have been to the last degree " vague," as Lord
ABERDEEN calls them, and irrelevant to fact, if they
meant anything else. But we must here take leave
of the subject, once more referring the reader to our
abridged abstract of the correspondence.

The division in the French Chamber of Deputies
on Thursday afternoon has destroyed the little in-
terest excited by the discussion on the Address. Mem-
bers themselves were evidently tired with the tedious
repetitions about Morocco and Otaheite, and were
glad to come to the main point and decide the fate of
the Ministry. M. DUPIN, who appears to have been
in one of his most crotchetty fits, probably hastened
the result, and increased the majority for M. GUIZOT.
He had been disappointed of the Presidency of the
Chamber ; the Ministry could not trust him, they pre-
ferred a man of less ability, but a man of correct
habits, moderate in his politics, and consistent in his
purposes, and for this Deem could not forgive them,
or admit that any one act of their policy was good.
He bitterly attacked them, therefore, for their con-
duct in every point under discussion. The Morocco
war, the Otaheite affair, and the Right of Search. On
the last, he was actually rabid, and would not hear
of a mixed Commission. He would cut the knot
at once, and without England's consent abrogate the
treaties of 1831 and 1833. This sally may have alarmed
men anxious for the honour of their country and the
peace of the world, and added a few numbers to the
majority. But this injudicious statesman did not
confine himself to politics, he could not avoid being
personal, and to excite laughter on the Left against
M. GUIZOT brought forward again the story of the
journey to Ghent. M. GUIZOT may therefore con-
sider himself lucky in enjoying the full enmity of
M. DUPIN, for the friendship of such a man is more
injurious than his enmity. The Journal des Debas
draws a correct character of the man, and rejoices
that, in opposition to its recommendation, he was the
rejected candidate for the President's Chair.
" Without the speech of M. Duets," says that
paper, "we should not have much to say.
But M. Duets did speak, and this made a remarkable
event in the sitting. Let us be permitted to express
our great surprise. We did, perhaps, expect some of
those raps and sallies which he is accustomed to be-
stow with an almost equal hand upon both the Mi-
nistry and the Opposition, but did not look fur a
speech of so much bitterness and violence, for such a
torrent of acrimonious personalities as may perhaps
excite applause from the Left, but which must be re-
pugnant to every noble mind, to every man of sound
judgment and talent. True it is, then, that we de-
ceived ourselves when, a month ago, we proposed M.
DUPIN for the Presidency of the Chamber ! His
candidateship was not, as we might have had good
reasons for believing, a neutral candidateship! If M.
Duets had been chosen, the darts he has now thrown
from the tribune might have been thrown from the
chair of the President ! For there can be no doubt
that his acrimony has not been created suddenly by
this, check ! He thought a month ago as he thinks now,
that the treaty of Morocco has sullied our diplomacy,
and that the hands which signed it are dishonoured !
He knew a month ago that by Article 4 France freely
engaged that AHD-EL•KADER, if he ever fell into our
hands, should be treated with moderation—a clause
which, according to M. Duns, is an eternally dis•
graceful blot in our glory. A month ago M. DUPIN,
whether President or not, would have left his chair or
his bench to mount the tribune, and denounce to the
anger of the country the PRITCHARD indemnity. In
a word, the opposition of M. Doris blazed out yester-
day, but it has long been smouldering in his heart.
This cannot be an incidental opposition—it is an op-
position of rancour. And yet we have recommended
M. Doris for the Presidency. We were wrong, our
loyalty compels us to acknowledge it. The Opposi-
tion knew better than we did what it was about. An-
other time we shall be more considerate. Beyond all
doubt, M. DUPIN has a right to blame that which he
thinks blameable ; it is a right which the Hon. De-
puty has exercised very frequently, and upon all
parties. We shall not pretend to dispute his right or
restrain his independence. We merely say that a man
is of the Opposition when he endeavours to overthrow
the Ministry, and that it is perfectly puerile for him to
give out that he is a Member of the majority at the very
time when he is endeavouring, by detaching himself
from it, to dissolve it. M. DUPIN is at bottom a
Conservative ; we know this full well, because he has
given striking proofs of it. We cannot doubt his
wish for peace. He expressed this wish with energy
four years ago, after the treaty of July and the
events of 1840. We have a wonderful recollection
of this. All this, however, does not prevent M
Dens from becoming at this day the most decided
the most active Oppositionist—and this is
what we did not know, nor could expect.
We add that, even with the Opposition, there
is a measure to be observed ; but M. DUPIN
carried away by his lively imagination and his wit,
has gone beyond all measure. For him, M. DUPIN,
to seek to revive the unworthy scene of last year
against M. GUIZOT without the excuse of a moment,
without any warranting circumstance, without any-
thing to provoke his rage ! M. DUPIN may believe
us when we say that he will deeply repent his speech
of yesterday. He has broken out of that neutrality
in which he loved so much to keep himself, and into
which he cannot re•enter very easily. With fine
talents and a sarcastic humour, a man, no doubt, may
succeed in making himself feared—he may become a
dangerous adversary ; but he who spares no one must
soon have all the world in league against him."
fall the Opposition journals are loud in their praises
of M. Doris, and expected that his speech had done
wonders. The large majority, however, against him
has by this time.convinced them of their error.
There is no news of interest in the Paris papers.
When the post left, the division in the Chamber was
not known on the Bourse, but it could not fail to have
a favourable effect.

The Moniteur publishes two royal ordonnances
respecting Algeria; one is for the regulation of the
local and municipal budgets—the other declaring
that the ports of Mostaganem, Arzew, Cherchel,
Djemmaa-Ghazaouat, Dellys, Bugia, and Gigelly
are to enjoy the same advantages and privileges as
those of Algiers, Mers-el-Kehir, Oran, Tenez,
Philippeville, and Bona.
The Globe repeats its assertion that Count DE
MONTALIVET ,voted with the Ministry on the Address
in the Chamber of Peers.

About four years ago, says a letter from Con-
stantinople, of the 31st ult., a society was formed for
the relief of distressed foreigners in Turkey, and
placed under the direction of the French Ambassador.
Some of the other foreign Ministers, however, having
disapproved of this exclusive protection, the Society
has been, with the consent of the British Ambas-
sador, placed under that of the corps diplomatique
generally.
THE BOURSE—TnuasDair, Jam. 23,
First Highest Lowest /wit
Price. Price. Price. price.
French Five per Cents."... 121 95 .. 122 121 85 .. 121 sib
Three per Cents..... $8 20 .. 85 24 .• 85 15 .. 85 15
New Loan •• •• 86 40 .• 86 40 .. 86 40 .. 86 40
Bank of Prance 3270 —3270 ••3265 ••326,5
Gouin Bank. I,ooof. Shares • • 1090 .. 1090 • • 1085 ..1088
[Wean 8ank......
11•106.6 1,1•14, 1640 104 .. 104% • • 104% .. 1047. ti
11141 ........ 106 •• 10S4 •• 1064 .. 106%
Four-and-a-Half 103 .. 1034 .. 1035 .. 10314
Spanish Threes •••• •• • ..• •• 403,1 .• 41 •• 40 ti •• 41
Active ..
Passive.•• 7 .. 7 .. 7 ••
New Deferred 16% •• 16% •• 16% •• 16%
Portuguese Five per Ccrita.• 60 .. 60 .. 60 ..
unman •• • •••• •. .... 10:514 .. 10514
•• 105% .. 155
sew York Five per Cents lOO .. 100 • • 100 .. 100 '
Ohio State Debt .• •• • • ... 97 • • 97 97 • • 97
RAILWAY WARES.
Versailles, R. 8..• .• •• •• •• 498 75 .. 498 75 •• 497 50 .. 497 50
L. 8.•• •• a. •••• .• 385 .. 385 .• 385 • • ass
Ronan •• •• •• 1062 50 • 106! 50 ..1060 ..1060
Rouen to Ravre.. •• • . B4O .• 842 50 840 .. 840
Orleans .
Strasburg to Bale•• •• •• ...• 301 .. 310 •• 306 25 . 307 50
RAILWAYS FOR TUE ACCOUNT, FEB. 7.
St. Germain . . •....1010 —lOlO —lOlO ••1010
Versailles, 1111..• •• • • •• 457 50 .. 497 50 497 50 • • 497 50
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Rouen
Rouen to Ilavre • •., ..... ,• 837 50 .. 847 50 837 50 .. 845
Orleans ••
Strasburg to 8a1e....
Avlguorito Marseilles. ••• 930 .. 930 .. 927 50 .. 927 50

The Madi4cl. Gazette of the 17th inst., contains the
following decrees :—The Ist, appointing the Baron
DE MEER a Grandee of Castile under the title of
Count DE GRA and Viscount of Loyalty; the 2d,
appointing the Viscount DE GRA President of the
Supreme Tribunal of War and of the Marine ; 3d,
appointing General Don MANUEL DE LA CONCHA
Captain-General of Catalonia; 4th, depriving Don

JOSE RAreoN RODIL of all his honours, titles, and
decorations, and removing him from the list of gene-
rals of the army; and sth, appointing Don FER
NAND° Coto/int second in command in the province
of Catalonia. Gen. RODIL has been stripped of his titles
and honours for refusing to obey the summons of NAR-
VAEZ to appear before a military tribunal at Vittoria,
where he knew justice could not be obtained. The
mother of NARVAEZ has been created Countess DR LA
CONCEDA, and decorated with the cordon of the ladies
Maria Louisa.

The Three per Cents. closed at 311 for cash, and
32i at 60 days; the Five per Cents. at 23 at 60 days ;
and the Debt without interest, at 7i- at 60 days
with premium.

TREATY OF COMMERCE WITN BRAZIL.—By the
Express packet, from Rio Janeiro, we are apprised of
a Commission having been appointed to settle the
treaty of commerce with this country. The names
of the three gentlemen appointed are Senhor Paula
Souza, a Senator; Senhor Maia, late Conservator
Judge for the British Nation; and Senhor Ferreira
Franqa, the Minister for Foreign Affairs at Rio. An
officer had arrived at Rio, the bearer of the submis-
sion of the rebel chief in Rio Grande, who submitted
after having been four times defeated by Baron
Corxids. The Express has brought a large remit-
tance on account of the dividends.

PROGRESS OF THE MEXICAN
REVOLUTION.
ONE DAY LATER FROM AMERICA.

The Columbus, Captain Cole, arrived at Liverpool
on Saturday. She brings only one day's later news.
The revolution in Mexico was progressing. The
New York Herald says :
" The principal towns, and indeed all the country,
have pronounced against Santa Anna, who, with a
small force, has fled to Queretaro. The revolution
passed off very quietly, no blood having been
shed. The former revolutions being carried on by
one party of military against another, resulted in
much bloodshed—hut this movement coming from
the people, as well as from the soldiers, mad,. it gene-
ral, and hence the little commotion of a disagreeable
nature. Santa Anna had but little chance of over-
coming this movement, and it was a matter of con-
jecture whether he would attempt to escape or deliver
himself up—he very probably will endeavour to gain
over the opposite General, by bribery or similar
means, but in this it is thought he will not succeed.
In case that he is taken prisoner, the people will pro-
bably demand his execution, as they seem to think
his liberty will be dangerous to the Republic.
" The markets were in a very bad state, with very
little hope of improvement.
" The departments of Sonora, Sinalva, Jalisco, Za-
catecas, and Aquescalientes were in a state of revolu-
tion, and in the military possession of Gen. Paredes.
" General Santa Anna (with Cort2zar), had mili-
tary possession of the departments of Queretaro and
Guanajuato.
" Canalizo, Santa Anna's President interim, and his
ministers, were prisoners in Mexico.
" There were at the Island of Sacriflcio the British
frigate Spartan, just arrived from New Orleans;
British frigate Inconstant, and two French brigs of
war, but no Americans." _ _

The following letter from Vera Cruz appears in the
New York Herald:—

" VERA CRUZ, DEC. 9, 1844.—There is nothing
talked of here but the revolution that is going for-
ward, and it seems to be the opinion of the best in-
formed persons that Santa Anna's time of destruction
has arrived. At this moment he is, with his army of
about six thousand men, at Queretaro, about sixty or
eighty leagues from Mexico, where he went to meet
the revolutionary general, Paredes, who, with a strong
force, was watching Santa Anna's movements, and
was ready at a moment to take advantage of the
President's mistakes. Puebla, the capital of the State
of that name, and a place celebrated for its manufac-
tures, with a population of about 15,000 or 20,000,
had pronounced against Santa Anna, and it was daily
expected that the city of Mexico would follow. Santa
Anna having become annoyed at the interference of
Congress, had put that body down, the news of which
was proclaimed with great pomp and show in Vera
Cruz. However, all this showing off was got up by
the military, and it was very evident that the people
did not participate in the glorious news.'
" Mr. Cushing has been robbed of all his books
and Chinese papers ; the robbers have taken advan-
tage of the unsettled state of the country, and have
become insupportable. The people here think the
United States will not go to war on account of Texas,
as they say, by granting licenses to privateers, that
the United States will lose more than she possibly can
gain.
" DEC. 11, 1844.—Since writing on the 9th, in
which I described the rejoicings here on account of
Santa Anna having put down the Congress, we have
had a total change in the appearance of things. Only
three days after the guns had been fired in honour of
the above disgraceful proceedings, news arrived that
Mexico, and nearly all the country, had pronounced
against Santa Anna. This information was re-
ceived at Vera Cruz when a norther was blowing,
consequently there was no communication with
the castle of St. Juan d'Ulloa, and when the re-
joicings commenced for the downfal of the Great
Chief,' which consisted of fireworks and in firing
salutes from the forts, the castle understood this to be
a further declaration in favour of Santa Anna, and
they immediately proceeded to elect him ` Supreme
Dictator;' but guess their astonishment when the
storm cleared away, and they found the great man
no longer existed in the minds of the good people of
Vera Cruz. Well, what do you suppose they did ?
Why, immediately after receiving the intelligence,
they pronounced against the very man for whom but
a day before they had voted the Dictatorship.
Beautiful consistency, certainly. The feeling against
Santa Anna is universal, and I think it would be
difficult to find a person who would speak in favour
of him. His portrait, which was once so much re-
spected, has been thrown from the balcony of the
palace, and the mob tore it immediately into pieces.
The individual who threw it exclaimed, at the same
time, Here goes the son of a w— !' Even the
famous leg, once belonging to Santa Anna, and
which was buried in the city of Mexico with so
much pomp, has again been restored to the at-
mosphere, and insulted in every way imaginable. His
bust, which had a conspicuous place in the new and
beautiful Theatre of Santa Anna (El Teatro de:Santa
Anna), was broken into a thousand pieces. Another
large statue of his, at Puebla, was demolished in
rather a curious manner; first they hung him by the
neck, then they cut off his head and afterwards spat in
his face; and at last left poor Santa Anna in the hands of
a charitable Mexican mob. I am very much surprised
that this once great man should have attempted to
put down the present feeling against him by the
sword; but what shows his confidence in his fancied
power, is in marching to Queretaro, leaving Mexico,
Puebla Vera Cruz, and so many other towns in his
rear ; this he must now regret, as they have all unani-
mously pronounced against him. What will be the
end of this movement I cannot positively say, although
I am inclined to believe that if he cannot bribe over
some of the other generals and their soldiers, that he
will endeavour to escape, and I think, in the event of
his being taken prisoner, that he will most assuredly
suffer death. The immense property that he has will
certainly be confiscated, which, if he escapes, will not
affect him :much, as he must have considerable funds
in Europe.
" The character of Santa Anna, both political and
moral, is so black, that his present situation is lost to
view when his crimes are considered. His friend,
General Canalizo, late Vice-President, is now a pri-
soner in his own palace. Mr. Tuquenos, formerly
Minister of Finance, still cannot leave the bounds of
the city ; and when his trial comes on he undoubtedly
will be severely punished, as he and his friends have
plundered the people to a very great extent, and which
plunder will have to be restored. All the acts of this
person for some time past are to be inquired into, and
suspect that many negotiations that he has had with
some particular merchants will be declared null and
void. The house of Mr. Tuquenos, just now alluded
to, was pulled to the ground by the mob.
" The late Minister of War has been sentenced to
some fifteen years' imprisonment for his partiality to
Santa Anna, particularly for creating him ` Com-
mander-in-chief of the Forces.'"
The New York Morning Express contains the
following extract from a letter of a highly respect-
able gentleman in the city of Mexico, to a merchant
in this city, under date of the 4th of December,
1844
We are in the midst of a revolution, the result
of which no one can foretell, because both parties are
very powerful. The departments of Jalisco, Aguas-
calientes, and Zacatecas, have pronounced against
Santa Anna with General Paredes as their leader,
who, by the bye, is a brave man and pretty good
general, but not gifted with so much talent
and shrewdness as General Santa Anna. It
is believed generally here that other depart-
ments will follow the example of those already re-
volted, and in such a case it is difficult to tell where
it may end. In the meanwhile General Santa Anna
is advancing from Queretaro to meet General Pa-
redes, who, at the last accounts, was at Lagos. The
former has under his command from 12,000 to 15,000
of the best troops in the Republic, and 25* pieces of
cannon, all veterans and well disciplined ; and the latter
can dispose of all the resources of the Custom-houses
of Jalisco, San Blas, Mazatlan, and the rich mining
department of Zacatecas—but the military force is
less numerous and less effective ft is true, if we
believe what we hear in general, that public opinion
is rather against Santa Anna, but these people
do not know what they wish, because it appears that
all parties resent the treatment they have received

from the Government of the United States, and all to
a man talk of waging war against Texas and vgainst
the United State, if the annexation takes place, but
Ido not know who will be the man capable of carry-
ing on such an enterprise, if by any chance Santa
Antra should be deprived of his authority. However,
we must not deceive ourselves. If this revolution is
of long duration, the United States may do in the
meanwhile what they please, but I have no doubt that
if matters come to a prompt settlement, whichever be
the victorious party will send to Texas an army of
25,000 or 30,000 men, and war against the United
States is certain, in case the annexation should be
effected."