Richmond semi-weekly times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 184?-1853, 1852-04-27
LATER FROM MEXICO.

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| ty of Mexico to the Sd inst.
! A report was very prevalent in the city of Mex
| leo that pronunc1dnatento had been made in
Vera Cruz, but it originated entirely in the fears
of such an event produced by the excited state OF
feeling in Vera Cruz on the tariff subject. The
Government has evidently become alarmed by the
| determined stand taken by Vera Cruz and Tam
| pico, and by the energetic remonstrances pro-
cee'ing from these ports. The effect is to be seen
in the re- establishment of the old tariff at Mata-
moros, information of which we have received
from the Rio Grande.
Senior Ramirez, Secretary of Relations has re-
piled to the note of the foreign ministers protest.
ing against the unequal tariffs then in operation.
The reply shows that the foreign ministers have
no cause for interference foreign merchants, &C
cording to Senior Ramirez, are compelled to sub
init as Mexican citizens are to the effects of the
political events of the country; and they cannot
fall back upon their separate nationality for re-
dress. The foreign ministers were neither COM
pletely convinced, nor altogether dissatisfied with
this argument. They to hold meeting at
| the residence of M. Letcher, who was then con-
fined by Illness in order to decide on their future
course of action. The Trait d Union thinks that
Senor Ramirez could not have been serious in ad-
vancing such argument he did :--'' The To-
| reign merchants demand special privileges,
! they simply ask Justice, and to obtain it they are
! forced by the weakness of the Government, and
the bad disposition of Congress, to have recourse
to their ministers, whose duty it is to protect their
| interests
| Senior Ramirez has also published a memorial,
in which he shows the legitimate reasons which
| the Mexican Government has for not recognizing
the Garay grant, or its cesson to American
company. A rumor was afoat, in very emphatic
terms, that Mr.. Letcher had presented his ulti-
| nadtum to the Mexican Government, and that he
would give Congress till the 9Th of pril to ratty
j.
| not the slightest truth in that report The truth
is, it says, that the 25th January closed the term
in which the treaty could be ratified; but that it
was extended by common consent to the 9Th of
April.
The opponents of the Administration insist
| that Arista is going to astonish the world by a
coup detat in imitation of his '.great aud good
frend," Louis Napoleon. On the other hand the
organs ofthe administration declare that its ad-
versaries are engaged in grand conspiracy to
overturn the Government. There is certainly
great resemblance between this state of affairs
and that existing in Paris prior to the ed Decem-
Der.
The Bandera Mericana says that short time
ago party of twenty-five adventures passed the
Rio Grande at Analuas, with the intention of
stealing horses. force was Immediately sent
from Camargo to attack them, but before arriving
at the place, the civil authorities of the rancho Of
San Fernando, aided by some armed citizens,
had attacked them, taken fonr prisoners and
drove the rest of the adventurous into the river,
where the most of them were drowned
The Chamber of Deputies has decided to hold
sessions every evening, exclusively devoted to the
financial question. They ought to attend to that
subject during their day sessions Also
An important commercial order relative to the
port of Carmen has been published. 1t provides
that vessels coming from any foreign port, after
having discharged their cargoes at Vera Cruz,
may proceed to Carmen, load with dye wood re-
turn to Vera Cruz and receive passengers with
out being obliged to pay tonnage duties twice in
the latter port.
Senior Villasenor, second to Lieut. Pima in the
duel in which the Spanish Consul at Tampco was
killed. has been assassinated. He was shot through
thehead.-N o. Pic