The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-30 00:00:00

TT. , L.O'N D 0 M 11,1 t M. ORN -I.N I U-NF, 80, 1845,

Tii 7E MEXICAN DEBT

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' a !node!. trams 4.-rarse the
r.,ii oa in ti.L. L-allery, with all ilto
fume, and speed of a Biriningharn express, and ascend,
unretarded, up inclinations of one in seventeen. But
our space would not allow us to detail all the advantages
which, with apparently good reas.:,n, are expected from
the invention, and permits no more than to direct atten-
tion to a most curious and pleasing exhibition. The
other lectures and en'ertainments in th. Gallery were
of the usual attractive character. Major Beniewski
continues to lecture with increased popularity upon his
admirable system of phrenotypics, and Mr. Scott's ex-
planations of the electrical eels should be carefully at-
tended to by every admirer of nature's wonders who
vi,its this Institution. The Infant Sappho, after a loeg
and prosperous tour in the provinces, will make her re-
appearance hare th-s evening, and her return will gra-
tify her old admirers and all who can appreciate true
melodic genius, unparalleled since the infancy of Mozart.
There will be no small interest in observing what change
or improvement two or three years have effected Lt her
voice and wonderful faculties.

The hill4.tving corrop,•pndetic.:.! will be read with in-
terest, th.•ugh we f. ar with little satisfaction, by the
11,-xicatt '‘ybndl,.olders. It is understood that a mcetiug
on the subject will be announced in a few days :
" New Broad-street Mews, June 4.
_ .

" Gentlemen,—We beg to enclose to you a letter from
his Excellency the Minister of Finance of the Republic
of the United States of Mexico.

Being appoint, d by t‘.e Government of Mexico to
act as its agents in this city, we are instructed by the
Government to receive from you the funds in your hands
which hove bcen remitted to you for the payment of
the dividends of the foreign debt of Mexico, together
with all papers and documents in your hands relating
to this agency.
We shall be happy to learn at what time it will suit
your convenience to carry these instructions into effect.
" We remain, Ms.,

" JOHN kl-INEIDER and CO.
" Messrs. F. de Lizirdi and Co."

" Austin-friars. June 6, 1845.

" Gentlemen—We have to acknowledge receipt of your
letter of the 4th inst. iinclosing a dispatch trom the
Mexican Minister of Fitiance), informing us that you had
been appointed agents to the Mexican Government, and
were instructed by the said Government to receive from
us the funds belonging to it in our hands, together with
the documents and papers relating to the agency.
" In reply, we have to state, that from our prede-
cessors ie the agency we received no papers or documents
whatever ; nor have we any others than the books re-
lating to the conversion of the- debt and the paymrnt of
dividends, which, being requir,d for daily reference, we
cannot consent to part with.
" The Mexican Government has been regularly fur-
nished with the accounts relating to the affairs of this
agency.
" Credit has been given to the said Government for
all the moneys remitted up to the present date, end
there is etill a considerable balance due unto us from the
Mexican Government, which we hope you are autho-
rised to pay, and in such case we are prepared to furnish
you with copie. of our accjunt-current with the said Go-
vernment, made up to this date.—We remain, &c.,

ROYAL VISIT TO ST. THOMAS'S

HOSPIT AL

'• F. DE LIZARD' and CO.,
" P.p. MANUEL J. DE LIZ ARDI.
" Messrs. J. Schneider and Co."

" New Broad Weet Mews, June 7.
" Gentlemen,—We have just received your letter of
yest,-Tda.y's t!ate.
" Permit us to state to you that the funds which you
arP directed to hand over to us can have no connexion
ith.any account which may be existing between your-
selves and the Mexican Government. They are funds
which have 6-en remitted to you for the payment of the
divid,,nds cf the M,xican foreign debt. They have been
appropriated to that purpose by a special contract between
the Mexican Government and the bondholders, effected
through your agency, and to which you are parties ; and,
being so remitted, they can have no connexion with any
Other azcount or transaction, whatever the nature of the
same may be.
" We are therefore under the necessity of repeating
our request for the payment of this money to us agree-
ably to the order in your possession.
" We remain, &c.,
"JOHN SCHNEIDER and Co.
" Messrs. F. de Lizardi and Co."

" Austin-friars, June 107

" Gentlemen,—We have the honour to acknowledge
the receipt of your communication, dated the 7th inst
With reference thereto, allow us to say that we do not
feel ourselves called upon to discuss with you our reasons
fur refusing to comply with the reque:4 made in your
letter of the 4th and in that now under reply.
We have, therefore, simply to refer you to our letter
of the 6th inst. for our sentiment.; on this subject, and
remain; &c., " F. DE LIZARDI and Co.
" P.p. MANUEL J. DE LIZARDI.
" Messrs. John Schneider and Co." '

13, Austin-friars, June 21, 1845.
" Gentlemen,—The Committee of Spanish American
bondholders Lave received from Messrs. J. Schneider
and Co. copies of two letters which they had addressed
to you on the 4th and 7th inst., and of your replies to
the same, dated respectively the 6.h and 10th inst.
" From this correspondence it appears that the
Mexican Government, having transferred its financial
agency in this city to the house of Messr. John
Schneider and Co., had authorized those gentlemen to
receive from you the balance of the funds remaining in
your hands for the purpose of applying it to the payment
of the Mexican dividends ; that Messrs Schneider had
applied to you, in pursuance or the authority thus lodged
with them ; and that you have declined to obey the
orders of the Mexican Government fur the pyment of
this money, on the ground that you have claims on that
Government to a consi,lerable amount.

" The Committee are under the necessity of calling
your attention to the circumstances under which
these monies have been from time to time I.:,
witted to y,..11. By, the agreement dated 14th Sep-
tember, 1537, under which conversion of he original
'Mexican debt was eff.cted, which agreement Was ef-
ectel through your agency, and bears your signature,
togeOter with that of the Mexican Minister at this
Curt, a certain proportion of the Customs' duties at
Vera Cruz *rod Tampico was set apart for the plyment
of the interest on the foreign debt. Commissioners
were appointed to receive the same from time no time,
and to ronit those hurls to you expressly for 1.1-,a par.
pose in qu:. stion. They have done so ; th dividends
have been from time to time paid by you out of those
funds ; and the o•um remaining in your hinds is an 111,1
appriated part of the same funds.
" That there may be no possible misunderstanding on
the subject I extract from the bonds bearing your signa-
ture the foPowing clause:—_

"• For the better securing the punctual payment of the
said interest, the Mexican Government shall appropriate
irrevocably thereunto one sixth part of all the Custom-
house duties of the ports of Vera Cruz ar4l Tampico
(Santa Anna Tamaulipas). This portion of the duties to
received from the administradors of the CuMtoms by
twoCommisiioners to be appointed by the Mexican Govern-
merit, one of whom to be nominated on the recommen•
dation of the agents of the bondholders in the city of
Mexico. These commissioners to transmit by every
English packet to the agents of the Mexican Government
i❑ London the aforesaid funds ; the commission to be
paid to the said commissioners for this service by the
Mexican Government.
" 'line Committee, aeting on behalf of the bondholders,
are under the necessity of emphatically stating to you,
that there is, in their view, no pretence in law, equity, or
justice, whereby you can seek to appropriate these monies
to any o' her purpose that► that for which they have been
specialty remitted to yoe. The bondholders can have no
concern with any other dealings between you and the
Mexican Government. You have received these monies
under a solemn engagement ander your: own hands, to
apply them to the purpose for which they were sent; and
the Committee venture to insist that you have no right to
deal otherwise with them.
" Under these circumstances, the Committee now call
upon you, as you have declined to pay over the funds re-
m.tining in your hands to MessrA. Schneider, to proceed
at once to pay the sramt• to the bondholders, es a part
payment of the dividend due on the 14 of October last.
—I remain, &a. "fT. R. ROBINSON, Chairman.
" cif ssrs. F. De Lizardi and Co."

" Austin-friars, June 24, 1845.

" Sir,—We have t acknowledge receipt of your latter
of the 21 G inst., addresiied to us an behalf of the Com-
mittee of Mexican Bondholders, wherein you inform us
that Messrs. John Schneider awl Co. had laid before the
Cominittee copies of their corresp indence with us on the
subject of the tran.fer of the Mex;can agency. We also
earn f. om your communication that the Committee call
upon us to pay over either .to the bondholders or to
Messrs. Scheeider and Co. ' the balance of the funds re-
maining in your hands.'
In our letter to Messrs. John Schneider and Co., of
thi- 6th Jute, we told those gentlemen that, liner giving
crAi' iu aec•ite4 to the Mexican Gover!iment for all the
an nits tat:ll usst,iethhebreeiwng.as
to
du
have no :untls to pay river to .'.l.essrs. behuei ier aud Co.
or to any one 'lse.
" Throughout the whole corresvmdence which we
have had nit): the Coniiiiivece we have constantiy al.d
utiiforedy maint4..ined that the fluds remiaed us by the
xica,e Government were fer its sole account. ; that we
a ere the agents of the said Government., and not of the
; and that we . could make no paymerts
i•her t u yi:efAint of dividends or any oth, r pu:po>,
it! rt..ceivie:); instructions front AL-xico.
We tv, aware that the Committe- have asserttd
we were only the recipients of these fur.ds on 13.1t:a of
the bondholders, but this we always have, avid now atf,iin
,4tnphatically deny. We have always reeeived these
funds in the character of general agents to the Mexican
Government ; and nothing can m re clearly prove that
the said Government entertained a similar idea [ban the
fact of the Mexican Minister of Finance giving the
order
,"or Iransferriug any fun .s in hand to Messrs. Senn ider
and C c, s hell we apprehend his Bee..llene), w,,uei
i,a,tuy have done bad he entertained any doubt as to the
t'e nits being the property of hit: Governalent—indeod, on
no other understanding coed we have ventured to Make
the heavy Arancos which we have done.
htve also to remind the Cl,nnm;ttee that when
succeeded in obtaining from the. Nlexi.7au G()vern.
mem the increased assignment ,f 313 p: r eetit, thv
custom-house r venues, this :cud was charged with the
payment to us of a considerable arneunt ; and we
imagine that no impartial person will dispute our right
t!)

" Since the Committee refer to the year 1837, we
think it would be as well that they look still further
blck, and they will find that, from 18:32 to 1837, no-
thing was recovered from the Mexican Governm lit for
the bondholder-, and Vint at the latter period the price
.;f the Stock, with twenq.three overdue coupons, was
barely half that which it has borne of late years, and
at present.
" In conch sL iin, we have to repeat what we have al-
ret,dy told z,chneider and Co., that the entire of
the fin,d, remitted us by the Mexican Government have
ht e i earrH to its ertdit in account, and that there is a
considerable batanee /Iv !Iwo us,—We remain, &c.
" F. Dl4-; LIZARD' and CO.
" P.p. MANUEL DE LIZARD'.
" G. R. Robins,n, Esq."

THE ENFANT SAPPRO.--Tlii, very talented chill,
whose musical performances are more wonderful than ever, has just
returned to town from an extended and most successful provincial
to4r, ttud will make her first appearance to-day at the Adelaide
Gallery.
l'll E PENINSTJLkR MAIL --The Cuptiirl
Russell, from Gibraltar, arrived at Southampton last night. Her
dates are—Gibraltar, 18th June; Cadiz, 19th ; Lisbon, 2:3c1
oportp, 2,14 y Vigo, 23d ; and Corunna, 24th. She brings 1
package of specie ; 111 hltda. of oil ; L 1 cases of le. ches ; '4OEII
chests of oranges ; 45 boxes of potatoes ; tlse chests of lemons,
tivese for ber Majesty the Queen, &c,