The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-06-23 00:00:00

THE CAPTURE OF PUEBLA. BY THE TRENCH.

71wo New York Heralds correenoodent at Havens
gives the buying psrtionl.n of the capture of Puebla
The heavy artilloly, which bad all arrived and been
placed in pentioa, opened fire on Puebla on the m.
15i of the 16th. A breech baring been opsata in the
Fort Totimelmacan„ an aseault was ordered for that
night, and in the midst of the attack a Mexican edam,
one Colonel Mendoza, presented himself to General
Foray with a message from General Ortega, to the
effect that if he would cause the attack to be
and permit the garrison to retire with their =art
and some field artillery, the town would be surrendered.
This pi-operation wee rejected by General Yo7hiaet
shortly afterward. a dag of truce was sent bysg
, announcing his unoondieonal surrender.
" At 11 a.m. on the 17th the Preach were in posses-
sion of the town, and cootinued to arrive during the
18th and 191 h. on which last-mentioned day General
Forey took up his quarter. in Puebla, making his entry
amid a salute of 161 guns. Among the garrison will&
surrendered were the Commander.in.Ohid, Zt generals,
900 officers of all grades. and from 15,00 i to 17,000 men
ri ell arms. .

" "The French lost in the attack not mom than be-
tween fifty and sixty in killed and wounded. On the
90th General Basins marched on Mexico, at the head of
• division, and the whole army WY to follow, with the
exception of a sufficient pxrison in Puebla to keep the
guerillas in cheek.
. . . .

"The above is, in fact, not only the substance, but
almost the langune of the principal spatch. I omit
the details of artillery and provons captured, because
the figures have escaped my memory; but 111 remember
aright, there were but eight rifled cannon among the
many taken.
"We have also an account of an attack made on the
French by General Cornonfort. on the Bth instant, in
which be was repulsed with • loss of 2,500 10 killed end
wounded and prisoners. The attack was made to conir
a large convoy of provisions for Puebla.
"I expect to hear of reoy. little resistance at the
capital of Mexico, for the icarnaon there ill not made of
the stuff that can be ried on to hold out long.
Probably, the next English mail will bring the news of
It. surrender."

The New For* Herald of the 3rd inst. rates
"By the French war steamer Finisterre, C
Cardiac Merle, which had arrived at New Yorksctisl:
Vera Cruz, we have news to the 19th inst. Captain
Eerie doubts the news of the capture of Puebla. The
Wert news from the rat of the fighting received at
Vera erns was to the 16th of May, sad the captain
riled an the 19th, when the French troops held one-
half of the city and the Mexicans the other. The
part held by the latter was so strongly fortified that
he thought • long time would he required to take it.
Account. from other sources, however, confirm the
report of the capture of Puebla, and of the advance of
General Brains on the city of Mexico. According to
theme confirmatory accounts it appears that on the 16th
May the French having established • parallel at about
200 yank from Totimehuacan, opened. brisk fire upon
that position and dismounted all its guns.
"The Mexicans fought bravely, but the next day the
parallel having been extended opt. the foot of the for-
tress, the Mexican General Mendota presented himself
at the camp, asking General Forey to let the ganison
lease with its arms, luggage, and a portion of the artil-
lery, and that they would on those conditions surrender
the city. . . . .

General Forey refused to comply with these pro-
position', and replied that if in • few hours the city
was not given up he would resume the bombardment.
"At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, an officer brought a
letter from General Ortega to General Forey annotate-
inF that he was reedy to surrender unconditionally,
with his troops. Colonel Manique, the officer in com-
mand of General Fore'', staff. WIN then detached with
the first battalion of Foot Chaseeurs, Commander
Corey, and • platoon of hussars, for the purpose of oc-
cupying the place. The entrance of the troops took
place in an orderly manner,and without any casualty
on either side. _

"On the morning of the 19th, at 11 a.m., General
Forty made his entrance into Puebbx, and was minted
by a volley of 100 guns. On the same day General
Maxine had made his preparations for an advance on
the city of Mexico, and was to start on the following
morning. During the nighta of the 7th and Bth of
Mar, General Comonfort, who had abandoned his
position in order to march to the asilietanoe of General
Ortega., was surprised by General Maxine at 2 a.m. A
brisk engagement mimed. in which Coinonfort lout 8
rifled guns, 20 artillery wagons, 200 mules, and 2,500
men, most of whom were made priaoncra"
The following is translated from the Dial to de ia
Marina, of Havana, of the 26th May . .

"The French war steamer Darren, which haa just
arrived from Vera Cruz, brings important despatches
from General Forty for the Emperor Napoleon LIL
They announce the occupation of Puebla by the forces
under his command. The following are the few details
which as have been able to obtain.

" On the Rib instant General Ciimonfort, who had re-
eeived reinforcements, attempted to attack the French
in the rear, but was oonfronted by General Barine's
division, which, as we have been informed, completely
roux"( their opponents. The battle took place at Han
Lorenzo. General Comonfort lost 2,500 men in killed
and wounded and priaoners, seven or eight pieces of
rifled cannon, and the greater part of his arms and
munitions. It seems that the principel object of Conlon-
fort's attack was to cover the entrance into Puebla of •
large convoy of provisions and ammunition.
"General Forey had received • portion of the hammy
artillery which he had been expecting; and on the lGth
be had a battery monnted in front of the fort of
Totimebuman, one of the strongest in Puebla. His
artillery was brought into play this day, and by the
17th, a breach wet effected. General Foray then
ordered an assault; bet all resistance soon ceased, and,
the French army having entered into the city, General
Ortega surrendered unconditionally with all his forma
" Besides the if eneral-in Zi generals, 000 officer.,
and 17,000 soldiers were also made prisoners. The
whole ol the artillery of the city also fell into the hands
of the French, all the ammunition. aroma,
"On the 20th • division of the French *rally marched 11
for Mexico. There would be left in Puebla only the
garrison necemary to prevent the raids of guerillas, and
the whole of the other forme would also march for the
oapitaL"
PAWS, JOIN 13.—The King and Queen of Spain.,
and the Queen of Holland, have congratulated the
Emperor Napoleon upon the capture of F'uebla.
La Trance of this evening states that the departure
of troops for Mexico bas been deferred until the arrival
of General Forey's repott.
It is asserted that the Mexican Admire! San Martin
had canoed the maritime provinces of YOOllOlll2 and
Tabasco to tronounce in favour cf the French interven-
tion.

The Cerselitionaj of this evening publishes an maids
signed by IL Umaynte, wherein it says that the taking
of Puebla is the sure presage of a glorious end of the
undertaking.
The writer continues: 'The natioes know that our
honour once satisfied, and reparation obtained, our tri-
umph changes into benefaction.
We are not enemies but liberators of the Maxima
maple, who were deceived by an iniquitous Government.
They will learn that under Napoleon 111. the French
sokher is more than ever the moldier of civilisation and
humanity."
PARIS, June 14.—The Emperor, hew received the
congratulations of the King of Italy and the King of
the Belgians on the capture of Peubla.
The Consfaufnessel of this morning denies the re
ported despatch of reinforcements to Mexico.

Mclnnes:in. oln..—The lost, amounting to £O3O,
of the Budehaven, Cornwall, new lifeboat establish-
ment, has been promoted to the National Lifeboat
Institution by the surviving children of the late R. T.
Garden, Esq., of Riven Lyme, Ireland, as a memorial
of their beloved mother, Mrs. Elisabeth Moore Garden.
An inscription retarding this philanthropic gift has been
beautifully carved in stone, and over the door-
way of the lifeboat home. The shoat is 33 feet long,
an rows 10 can, doubled banked. libe pommies the
usual valuable qualities of the self-righting lifeboats of
the Institution. The boat and her carnage were on
Monday liberally taken free of charge by the South-
Western Railway Company es far as Bideford ; and on
the 19th inst., being the natal day of the deceased lay,
their inauguration will take place. The boat-house is
a rubMential and oommodian erection, and was built
frim the design and spelifications of C. H. Cooks, Esq.,
London, the Honorary Architect of the Society. Me
new lifeboat establishment at Rude is now one of the
most complete and efficient on the coast of the United
Kingdom. Probably no heavier serf rolls upon an
part of our shores than in the vicinity of Bu
fearful Indeed have been the wrecks in the locality.
Last winter twenty-six poor fellows perished there
from the ill-fated ship I3enoollen, of Liverpool. This
splendid and powerful new lifeboat will, it is hoped, be
able to ennead succesefully with the heaviest of rollers.
At midnight, on Thiincley hurt, the " Ipswich" lifeboat
stationed at Thorpe, Suffolk, was the means, miler God,
of saving six men under the most perilous circumstance,,
She is a • sister-host to the Buds lifeboat, sad her own
was presented to the Institution by the town of Ipswich.
The National lifeboat Institution has now 125 lifeboat,
under its charge ; some of them are constantly engaged
In laving shipwrecked mews in stormy weather; and
during the past eighteen months nearly MO persons have
thus been snatched from • watery grave. 1
lIKLaIicHOLT DCATII.-•During the last few days con- ,
siderable excitement has prevailed in the suburban
districts of &instead and Croydon oaring to a rumour
which prevailed that a female bad been discovered
that a child was also found at her side,
but alive. 1.: allegations were that the woman had
been forced into some water, and had died from
asphyxia in consequence of the immersion. On Monday
Mr.‘Yar. Carter, the coroner for Surrey. held an in.
quiry on the body of the woman, at the Red Lion
Ta• ern. Smither Bellisio deposed that on Friday,
about half -vast one o'clock, he was in • cart proceeding
to Banana along the public reed, when he saw the
deceased woman lying on the gram, partly in a pool of ,
water. She had • child partly under her. The',
woman, upon being examined, was found to be quite
dead. The demand was removed, and the chiU was •
taken to the union. Daniel Tunbridge said On Friday 1
he was proceeding along the highroad, when two boys
called to him, and he then saw the woman lying
on her facie in the water. He misted to get her out, and
In so doing found that she bad a Young child Partially
under her pence, wrapped in • shawl, and fastened
round her body. About half-as-boar previously be law
the same woman with the child swung to her side. Mr.
00°Per, n, said that In bad examined the body of
tte d , and found it much attenuated. From the
Poet-menial exapainatioo he was led to the coacledea
that she he had disd from apotrLtut las meld ad gar
from the want Wood. Mr. Fraser said that
he saw the women carrying the child In a shawl. She
was then about • quarter of • mile from Crardas• Ha
did not believe, front the inquiries be had made, that
she had met with say foul treatment, but had gone to
sit down and take shelter, as it was very stormy, end
raining hard at the time. The aster 'ben she was
found ia was rely at, inch or an ineb and • half in
depEHisileiou was that she bad sat down,
end, being with • fit, had fallen into the position
she was found. The jury retuned • verdiet of " Death
from earns apoplexy.
A gnat robbery has takes place at the Bash at'
Warsaw. Three millions and • half of rendes, it ia
nailed, have been serried eft No pertinders have been
as yet resolved here, but we ten have little doubt that
the" robbery" is • treader of the money into the heads
of the National Govarninant.