The Sun.
London, England, 1827-12-18 00:00:00

THE NEW MEXICAN TARIFF.

The Senate of Mexico have approved the new Tariff
Bill, so that it now i,nly remains to be published and to go
into operation. A letter in the Baltimore papers from a
merchant in that Republic, states that the changes of most
importance which it is intended to produce, arc those in
the duties on white and brown cotton goods. They are to
be raised to 18 cents per ears, fir those which are a vara
wide, and in an equal proportion exceeding that width one
and a half cents augmentation in duty. On brandy the
duty is increased to 21 dollars per barrel of five arrobas, or
19 gallons, and on wine to 17 dollars per barrel.
Pan.saut.T.—lt appears that the unfortunate naturalist,
Mr. Bompland, who has been so long detained by the tyrant
of Paraguay, lately obtained permission to leave his terri-
tory to return to France; but after he had received his
passports, a plot was discovered among several foreigners,
in which the naturalist was suspected of being engaged.—
He was therefore remanded to his confinement,- and there
is said to be no longer any hope of his obtaining his freedom
'before the death of the self-named dictator. Several of
the persons suspected were shot, and the French papers
contain a proclamation which was published afterwards,
which hinted, but obscurely, at the conspiracies.
IlavaN NA n.—The United States sloop of war Natchez
had been off Havannah for eight or ten days, on the 4th
inst., when the Red Fox (arrived at Norfolk) left that
port. It was said that Commodore Porter had gone in
pursuit of two Spanish frigates which had sailed for Cadiz
with a million of dollars. Commodore Laborde, ivith a
74, three frigates, and two brigs, remained in port. All
on board the Natchez were in good health.

PRICE OF STOCKS.—Nov. 23.

offd. asked.
101 101;
102,i 1031
Fives, 1885 lO9 1091

United States Sixes, 1813.
1811.

United States

•
4
1 1831 101+ 102
Threes. 85 86
109 109
122,i 123

Canal Fives, 1837 .
United States Bank

The following is an extract of a letter dated
Quebec, Nov. 21, which contains some parti-
culars of the present state of Canada, in addition
to the intelligence which we communicated yes-
terday from thence :

" Our House of Assembly was called together yester-
day, and ordered to appoint a Speaker. They named the
former one, Mr. Papineau. Ile was not approved of by
the Governor, and they were ordered to appoint another,
and to appear with him on Friday, the 23d. The Canadian
party were very violent on returning to the House, and in-
sisted on proceeding to business with the Speaker they had
named ; they adjourned, however, until to-morrow without
coming to auy conclusion.

" Thus you will see that no good is anticipated from the
House. The Canadians themselves are a quiet, inoffensive,
and well-disposed people ; but are, as regards political con-
duct, entirely in the hands of a few declamatory, and it is
to be feared, designing notaries and lawyers, who are re-
gularly returned to the House of Assembly, and who work
upon the ignorance of their constituents ; in fact the
Romish Church, and the (elsewhere obsolete) French system
of jurisprudence, tend to perpetuate this ignorance to the
advantage of their respective crafts ; and it may be doubted
whether the differences between the Legislative and Execu-
tive Departments will be easily settled till some alteration in
the tenures and representation of the Lower Province shall
have taken place; and above all an Union of the two
Provinces which shall give to the intelligent, deserving,
and increasing population of the Upper Province its due
share in the Legislation of the country at large.
" The badness of our harvest in this Province is a mat-
ter of serious inconvenience to trade, and is the cause of
the exchange rising. Your agriculturists have now had
sufficient proof of the little dread they need be under of a
heavy importation from this country for many years to
come; and they may likewise rest assured that for every
shilling's worth of produce exported to England we shall
take British manufactures in return. The, price of ashes
in your markets having been far below a remunerating
rate, they have to a certain extent ceased to be made, and
our whole export for the year will be nearly 12,000 bar-
rels short of last year's export, and 37,000 short of the
export of 1825. In the Upper Province the harvest has
been better ; and much benefit is expected from the canals
and public works in operation ; in fact, in spite of the pes
culiar dissatisfaction manifested in the House of Assembly
in the Lower Province, the whole colony fully appreciates
the interest taken in her welfare by the Home Govern-I
went; and were your reciprocity system (as.it is called)
at an end, Great Britain would be astonished at the spring
this valuable country would make; she would then give
employment to a very large proportion of your commer-
cial navy and seamen. It has been a matter of -reflection
with me how, at the unremunerating rates of freight and
lumber, we should have had so many vessels out this year.

" On the 17th was laid the first stone of a Monument
to the memory of Wolfe and Montcalm, in the Governor's
garden ; thus, at length, is some tardy tribute likely to be
paid to the memory of these great men."

Frankfort Papers of the 11th inst. and the
Piedmantese Gazette of the 7th, have been
,re-
ceived this morning ; they state, under the head
of Trieste, Dec. 1, that all the accounts from
the Turkish ports were of a satisfactory nature,
in so far as the Turks had evinced no hostile
feeling towards the Christians in consequence of
the battle of Navarin. These Papers contain
no further news from Constantinople :

CORFU, roy. 14.

The letters from the other islands give us no news from
Navarin, or from any other ports of the Morea. Some of
them, however, state that an Ottoman squadron .of 34
men of war had arrived in the port of Suda, in the island
of Candia, the crews of which are not very expert seamen.
It is not known. whether this squadron came from the
Dardanelles, or whether it was formed previously to the
battle of Navarin, of Turkish men-of-war which were in
various ports.

The melancholy news of the death of Lord Guildford,
Chancellor of the lonian University, has excited unusual
regret here. Our literature has lost in hint one of its most
ardent patrons—England one of its most learned Peers—_
society one of its most generous and upright members—and
the inconsolable youth of Greece an affectionate father and
benefactor.

TRIESTE, Nov. 29.

The Observer of this date says—" We learn, by a vessel
from Zante, which left it on the 9th instant, that the
squadrons of the Allied Powers had sailed from Navarin
without leaving a single vessel to cruise, before the port ;
that the Turkish transports, as well as those of other na-
tions have remained undamaged in Navarin, and had
landed their cargoes of corn ; that besides these transports
nine Egyptian corvettes and frigates, but is very bad con-
dition, remained at Navarin, and that several ships, laden
with corn, had sailed from Zante to Navarin and Patras."

Through the same channel we receive the unpleasant
news that the Captain of an English packet •boat, who bad
arrived at Zante from the Archipelago, had stated that 12
merchantmen, coming from the West, had been stopped by
Greek pirates, and carried into Carabusa (their chief depot
near the isle of Candia), and that piracy was daily in-
ci easing.

TRIESTE, DEC. 1.

The accounts hitherto received from all the Turkish sea-
ports are of a satisfactory nature. The Turks have not, in
any instance, committed any acts of violence towards the
Christians by way of reprisal.

The Trustees of Rugby School have elected
the Rev. TEIOMAS ARNOLD, A.M. late Fellow
of Oriel College, Oxford, and now of Lateham,
near Staines, to succeed Dr. WOOLL, as Head
Master of Rugby School, in July next: