The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-01 00:00:00

The following is the speech of Sir Charles Begot on
closing the session :
"Hon. Gentlemen of the Legislative Council,
and Gentlemen of the Legislative Assembly,
"Although I anticipated, when I called you to-
gether, that your consideration might have been
given at the present session to such public business of
importance as seemed to require your early attention,
yet I am induced by reasons of public cezvenience,
and with a view to an early resumption of our joint
labours, to pat a close to the present session.
"I have to thank you for the zeal and assiduity
with which you have considered and perfected the
various measures in which a short period of the ses-
sion has been occupied. These, I trust, will be an
earnest to the country of the principles by which I am
guided, and of the advantages which may be expected
frcm the cordial and united efforts of the several
branches of the Provincial Legislature.
" Gentlemen of the House of Assembly,
"I thank you, in the name of her Majesty, for the
liberality with which you have voted the supplies re-
quis:te for the public service; and for your ready co-
operation in carrying out the views of her Majesty's
Government.
" Honourable Gentlemen and Gentlemen,

" In relieving you for the present from farther at-
tendance in yoar legislative capacity, I would express
my confident hope that, when you return to your
homes, you will use your just influence in promoting
in your several districts that unanimity and good
feeling which it has been my endeavour to establish,
and in- diffusing those hopes of permanent peace and
prosperity, in which I trust you will unite with me in
believing that we may now, under Providence, be per-
mitted to indulge."
The Honourable the Speaker of the Legislative
Council then declared the Provincial Parliament pro-
rogued to the 18th day of November next.
LATE AND IMPORTANT FROM MEXICO.

(From the New Orleans Crescent, Sept. 27.)

The steam-ship Medway arrived at the Balize on

the 23d, having feft Vera Cruz on the lath.
G. S. Curson, Esq., bearer of dispatches from Ge-
neral Wacky Thompson, our Minister in Mexico,
came passenger in her ; also Mr. Rafeiul, .61e of the
editors of the Courrier des Etats finis. They came
up in the Governor Yell. The Medway had on board
$250,000 in silver for England.
There is a strong hope that the cutter Woodbury
is sane. She arrived at Vera Cruz on the 28th, after
experiencing head winds all the way. On the 13th
inst. she sailed for New Orleans, having on board 15
Texian prisoners, to whom General Thompson had
given a free passage. She had also $BO,OOO in specie.
Officers and crew all well.

On the day the Medway left Vera Cruz, General
Almonte, Minister Plenipotentiary, near the Govern-
ment of the United States, and suite, among whom is
the son of the late Emperor Iturbide, were to leave
Vera Cruz in the bark Eugenia for New York. Herr
Cline also sailed in the Eugenia.
The Yucatan navy is safely moored under the guns
of the fort of San Juan d'Ulloa. The general impr%--
sion was, that no more. troops would be transported to
Laguna, the force at Yucatan at present being deemed
sufficient for all purposes.
The war steamer Guadeloupe was at Vera Cruz,
preparing to sail immediately for Galveston, for ,th,e
purpose of reconnoitring the island, and capturing
any Texan vessel she might fall in with, previous to
the sailing of the expedition for the invasion of Texas
by sea, consistinr, of two steamers, two brigs, and
three schooners of war, and the transports to be em-
ployed for the purpose of transporting the troops,
6,000 in number, wild are at present stationed
at Puebla, Zelapa, and' Vera Cruz. A large num-
ber have also been sent by the northern route, and
have for some time been encamped in the valley at
the foot of the Sierra Madre. We have before us
a letter from a friend in the city of Mexico, stating
that-General Will had communicated to a friend
there, that he had marched from Mier with 400 in-
fantry, 200 dragoons, 200 recruits, and 4 pieces of ar-
tillery, to take possession of San Antonio. The same
epistle states that the bad understanding existing be-
tween the two Governments, in consequence of the
insulting tone of Bocanegra had been arranged to the
satisfaction of General Thompson, who, at the request
of the President, held an interview with him in the

Palace of the national Government. This was ef-
fected, the letter adds, by the high and manly tone
assumed by General Thompson on all occasions.
The " Napoleon" had also a presentiment that a
United States fleet would soon be off Vera Cruz, a
visit he was not at all desirous of receiving.
Mr. Curson left the city of Mexico on the 9th inst.,
and leaves for Washington immediately.
TEXAS AGAIN INVADED—CAPTURE OF

SAN ANTONIO—PARTICULARS OF THE
GREAT GALE.
(From the New Orleans Bulletin, Sept. 27.)
By the politeness of Captain Boylan, of the steam-
packet Merchant, we have full files of Galveston,
Houston, Matagorda, and Austin papers, to the latest
dates. The news from Texas is of a startling and
important character, if we may place full credence in
the following extract from the Galveston (extra)
Times of the 20th. That paper says :
" We stop the extra to give the following informa-
tion, but this moment received from a gentleman who
has just arrived, and met the express the other side
of Oyster Creek.
"San Antonio was completely surprised on the 11th
inst., by 1,300 Mexicans, under General Wall.
Fifty-three of the principal citizens taken. The pro-
clamation of the President, headed "The enemy
again," orders the marching forthwith of the militia
of Brazoria, Austin, Fort Bend, Colorado, Victoria,
Gonzales, Jackson, and Matagorda counties against
San Antonio; and the counties of the Upper Brasos
an,-.1 Colorado to march to Austin, and the citizens of
the °the counties to hold themselves in instant readi-
ness. The orders of the Executive are direct, that
in the event or the evacuation of San Antonio by the
Mexicans, they are to be pursued beyond the Rio
Grande, and chastised as " their audacity deserves."
In the event of a formal invasion, the western coun-
ties are to hold them in check, until the rest of the
Republic can rally to the rescue.
" P.S. When an Antonio was taken, the Circuit
Court was in session, and the Judge and officers of
the Court were made prisoners.
" It appeared that the'equinoctial gale swept along
the Texas coast and over the Gulf of Mexico with
frightful violence on the night of the 18th, causing
the waters of the Gulf to flow into Galveston Bay
until it was full to overflowing. 'When things were
thus situated the wind suddenly changed to the N.E.
and N.N.E. about ten o'clock at night, and blew with
terrible violence for the space of about four hours,
during which period the water arose with frightful
rapidity into the streets of Galveston, until the depth
ranged from two to four feet in all the streets situated
within 300 yards of the bay shore, in the principal
business part of the city.
" During the prevalence of the storm, in the dead
hour of the night, many families were compelled to
flee from their falling houses, and seek shelter with
their neighbours, after wading through a raging surf
propelled by a hurricane?'
The Times adds—" The Episcopal church, a stately
edifice, just completed, was blown from its founda-
tion, and though still partly standing, is a heap of
ruins. The Catholic church (unfinished) is nearly as.
much injured. A fine new residence, just completed
by Mr. Savage, is unroofed and seriously damaged.
The store of W. Hall and Co. is measurably de-
stroyed, and a fine stock of goods almost totally lost.
De Lacy and Co., store and goods much injured. A
house belonging to J. M. Jones blown down. Glad-
man's barber shop totally destroyed. Colonel Jack-
son's kitchen blown down (two servants narrowly
escaped destruction). Captain Simpton's house and
furniture much injured. The shed of the Cotton
Press blown down, and other injury sustained.
Many small buildings destroyed, and much injured.
A portion of the second floor of the Merchants' Ex-
change fell in, caused, as is supposed, by the wind
entering the building and forcing the walls from an
upright position.
" Mr. Colton, the owner of a trading sloop, had his
leg considerably bruised by his vessel coming in con-
tact with the San Bernard, but the wound is by no
means serious.
" The war schooner San Bernard, blown from her
moorings, now lies in two or three feet water, but not
injured. Brig Atlantic stranded, and said to he much
injured. Prize schooner Mary Elizabeth ashore at
high water mark, near the Custom-house. Schooner
Endeavour capsized. Slool Picayune st ran led, mast
broken. Several sloops and small craft high and dry.