The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-01 00:00:00

MEXICO AND TEXAS.

The following are the articles of the treaty between Great
Britain and Texas, whereby the former become s the mediator
between Mexico and Texae. It is dated 14th Nov., 1841, and
was ratified on Tuesday last :
Art. 1. The Republic of Texas agrees that if, ;by means of
the mediation of her Britannic Majesty, an unlimited truce shall
be established between Mexico and Texas within 30 days after
this present convention shall have been communicated to the
Mexican Government by her Britannic Majesty's mission
at Mexico, and if within six months from the day on
which that communication shall have been so made Mexico
shall have concluded a treaty of peace with Texas, then and
in such case the Republic of Texas will take upon itself a por-
tion, amounting to one million pounds sterling, of the capital
of the foreign debt contracted by the Republic of Mexico be-
fore the Ist of February, 1836:
Art. 2.—The manner in which the capital of one million
pounds sterling of foreign debt, mentioned in the preceding
article, shall be transferred from the Republic of Mexico to the
Republic of Texas shall be settled hereafter by special agree-
ment between the Republic of Texas and the Republic of
Me xico, under the mediation of her Britannic Majesty.

DEATH OF THE EARL OF
LEICESTER.
(From the Derby and Chesterfield Reporter.)
It is with deep regret we announce that this venerable and
excellent Nobleman now lies in a very precarious state, and
great apprehensions are entertained that his Lordship will not
be able to rally Should these apprehensions prove well founded,
a heavy blow will have been given to the feelings of Lord
Leicester's numerous friends and admirers.
Since writing the foregoing, we have received the subjoined
communication :
" Sir,—l am sorry to say that Lord Leicester is sinking as
fast as he can. His Lcrdship is free from pain.
" Longford Hall, Wednesday evening, 7 o'clock."
Tun lISDAY EVENING, JUNE 30.—We stop the press to an.
nounce the mournful intelligence that Lord Leicester departed
this life at half-past five o'clock this morning.
The late Lord Leicester was born in 1752, and created an
Earl in 1837. His family-name was Thomas William Coke.
He was the son of Wenman Roberts Coke, Esq., by the
daughter of George Chamberlayne, Esq., afterwards Denton.
He was twice Inarried ; his first wife was the youngest daughter
of the late James Lennox Dutton, Esq., sister of the first Lord
Sherboree, whom he espoused in 1775 ; his second wife was
the third daughter of the fourth Earl of Albemarle, whom he
married in 1822. The late Lord Li icester represented Norfolk
in the House of Commons for many years. His father as,nmed
the name of Coke, on succeeding to the estates of his maternal
uncle, Thomas Coke, Earl of Leicester. His heir, Thomas
Wiliam, Viscount Coke, by his second wife, born in 1822,
succeeds to his estates.

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.--We understand that
the nuptials of Lady Elizabeth de Ilede Ginkle, only daughter
of the late Earl of Athlone, and the lion. Captain Frederick
Villiers, son of the Earl of Jersey, are to be solemnized in the
course of the week after next.
It is expected that the Queen and Prince Albert
will visit the Earl of Warwick, at his magnificent baronial re-
sidence, at the close of the seasnr in town; and that her
Majesty intends in the course of the summer to pay a visit to
Cheltenham.
e are sorry to say that, according to the letters
received this morning from Lancashire and Yorkshire, the in-
telligence brought by the Columbia has rather increased than
diminished the previous gloom which prevailed in the mann-
factui ing districts. The recent continental failures have fallen
heavily upon Manchester, as was at the-time apprehended, and
tho elect 45 been shows this net &foram Occliott oPprices,

EMIGRATION • TO THE CAPE OF
GOOD HOPE.
Various scheuies have been proposed for promoting
emigration ; some contemplate direct taxation, some a
loan, and some an additional rate during the year, to be
appropriated by each parish for the emigration of its
poor, who prefer industry in the colonies to the degrad-
ing relief of our unions. Each and all of these, how-
ever, require legislation, and in the present depressed
state of the national resources we do not perceive much
chance of either plan being soon adopted by Govern-
ment. But if each colony were to adopt and keep in
action a loan society, to assist industrious emigrants. with
51. or 101., when unable to pay but a part of the passage
money, we think the colonies would find their account in
receiving such men. Those who emigrate are generally
driven to it by the cares of an increasing family, and ap-
proaching necessity ; and a happy necessity we may ven-
ture to call it, when the man sees, as with a bird's eye,

that necessity makes it prudent ; but half of those N‘7llo
go should haVe gone before ; like the swallow, they
should have prepared in the summer—each should have
made up his mind when he hara some little means, in
order to have emigrated more independently, and then
charged with fewer children.
But times are now pressing upon the labourer and
artisan, and most of them want some assistance, and if
each colony had its loan society, they would decidedly
draw out a better sort of families, who are desirous and
partly able to pay for their passages. The needy work-
man, from competition, is now induced to undertake a
job at much less than formerly, and with the high price
of provisions, and rent indeed, scarcely at supporting
wages. This competition must increase, till at last the
little stock at the savings' bank, from little becomes
nothing.

The-se preliminary remarks arise from having been
shown the counterpart of a promissory note, which a
gentleman in this city has adopted for assisting emigra-
tion. Simplicity recommends it, and credit for part of
the passage money being offered, indicates the certainty
that the emigrant will soon be able to pay for the balance
of passage money in the colony. The promissory note
we have seen does not give quite so much assistance as
we could wish, but the principle is equally good, and it
may be as much as an individual can do. Societies could
do more. We insert both sides of a promissory note :
EMIGRATION 'TO THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

PROMISSORY NOTE FOR Xl3.

I hereby acknowledge that Mr. Joseph S. Christophers,
of London, has provided me with- a passage in the
steerage of the ship Guardian, Captain Vickerman, for
Algoa Bay, Cape of Good llope, for which I acknow-
ledge myself to be truly indebted to him in the sum of
thirteen pounds ; and which 1 hereby agree and promise
to repay him, of his order in the said colony, in monthly
instalments of twenty shillings each, first instalment to
be paid at the end of two calendar months after my
arrival. (Mason.) HENRY WAITE.
London, 241 June, 1842.
ENDORSEMENT.

Pay Messrs. Wm. Jos. Smith and Co., or order.
London, 2d June, 1842.
(Signed)

J. S. CHRISTOPHERS.
1842. v Sign here.
2d June. Ist instalment recd. by J. S. Christophers...£9 0
sth Dec. 2d " Wm. Jos. Smbh & Co. 1 0

1843.
sth Jan. 3d Wm• Jos. Smith & Co. 1 0
sth Feb. 4th Wm.Jos. Smith & Co. 1 0
sth March. sth Wm. Jos. Smith & Co. 1 0

Received in full £l3 0
WM. JOS. SMITH. and Co.

The within amount to be remitted immediately, so
that it may again be employed in sending out another
emigrant.

The emigrant, on payment of each instalment, to be
urged to write to his friends in England, giving an ac-
count of his progress, and of the country.
Thus the emigrant is taken to the colony for el., paid
down, and a promissory note* of 41., the latter to be
paid in five months after arrival, in monthly instal-
ments, the first instalment to be paid two months after
arrival, in order to give the emigrant time to turn him-
self round, and get his little comforts around him. If
he require no assistance, an emigrant can go for 121.
only.
It will be observed that the first payment made here
is acknowledged by the ship-owner on the back ; and
that he appoints his agents in the colonies to receive the
instalments, for which the receipt is also given on the
hack 'as. they are paid ; .and thus the note is cancelled
by itself.
By this simple plan we are persuaded much good may
be effected, and we highly commend it ; because the
emigrant is not obliged to labour for the person who thus
assists him, and forced into taking reduced wages. He
takes his labour to the best market in the colony, and
perhaps pays off the balance in five weeks, instead of
five months. Remuneration is as high at the Cape of
Good Hope as in other colonies—meat and bread each
2d. or 24d. per pound. Our readers will recollect that
for some time past we have given favourable notices of
the Cape colony, where the wages are good, work is
constant, provisions are exceedingly cheap, and the cli-
mate is superior to that of England, exemplified by 14
deaths occurring in England per thousand, and 10 only
at the Cape per thousand. We venture to suggest, that
if possible, credit should be given for a pound or two
more. Sure we are that it would enable more to emi-
grate. However, so far as it goes we commend the plan.

* These notes, stamped, may be bad of Mr. Jo*eph S.
Christophers, East India Chambers, Leadenhall-street. In
cases of emigants or their friends paying part of the passage.
moneyt it can be so endorsed, as the first instalment.

MARQUIS AND MAPCHIONESS

OF WATERFORD.

DUBLIN, JUNE 29.—The answer to inquiries this morning
concerning the Marchioness of Waterford, for whom, as well
as her noble husband, public sympathy has been intensely
awakened, was, that her Ladyship is going on favourably, but
that she has not been yet pronounced wholly out of danger by
her medical attendants. The Marquis did not escape wi'hout
some severe, though superficial, coritusi,,ns, but his anxiety
about. the Marchioness is such that. he pays no etention to him-
self, and is occupied without ceasing in ministering to the
comfort. or relief of his suffering consort. On Monday even.
ing that eminent surgeon, Mr. Cusack, left town for Cur.
raghmure.