The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-05 00:00:00

The Baltimore sailing-packet, from New York,
arrived at Havre on Saturday last, bringing New
York journals to the 10th ult.
The Yucatan schooner Atrevida, which sailed from
Campeachy on the 19th of February, brought a letter
to a mercantile house in New Orleans on the let of
March, announcing that the Tweed had been wrecked
on the shoal which surrounds the Alacrane islands.
The Tweed is stated to have sailed from Havannah
on the 9th of February for Vera Cruz and Tampico •
to have struck on the north-east point of the shoal
on the 12th, and to have sunk immediately. It was
reported at Cam peachy that sixty of the persons on
board were drowned. As soon as the news of this
disaster reached Campeachy (on the 17th) assistance
was sent to the sufferers. It was also reported at
New Orleans, that Commodore Connor, commanding
the American squadron in the Gulf, had sent orders to
Laguna to dispatch a steamer immediately,to assist the
survivors from the wreck of the Tweed. These are
all the details supplied by the American journals.
We are not without hopes that the statements may
prove to have been exaggerated. This is a part of
the West India mail service on which few passengers
are carried at any time ; and the blockade of the
Mexican ports has of late diminished even this small
number. The Tweed was commanded by Capt. Parsons,
formerly master of a line-of-battle ship in the royal
navy, an officer of great experience and nautical ability.
He -has commanded one of the company's steamers
for a considerable period. Nothing farther is likely to
be ascertained till the arrival of the next West Indian
mail, which (in the event of the Tweed being lost) will
probably arnve in England about the 14th instant, in
another steamer from Bermuda. The Alacranes are
a group of islets or rocks, the highest summits of a
ratanextensive reef, about 70 miles from the coast of
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nearly due north of Merida. The following
is a list of the officers borne on the Tweed's books,
when she sailed from Southampton on the 17th of
December last :
Commander, G. Persona; Chief Officer, E. J. Ellison ;
Second Officer, C. 11. Onslow ; Third Officer, B, A. Shen.
heard ; Fourth Officer, W. H. Crook ; Midshipmen, P. A.
Spathe, R. Vanden, and T. P. Rowlett ; Clerk, J. Ballard ;
Surgeon, J. B. Rowland; Chief Engineer, A. NPKenaie;
Steward, C. P. ki'Cabe ; Admiralty Agent, Lieutenant
Davies, R.N.
The Mexican dates brought by the Baltimore are :
Brazos St. Jag.), Feb. 22 ; Vera Cruz, Feb. 18 ; Tam.
pico, Feb. 20 ; and Santa Fe, Jan. 1.
General Scott sailed from Brame on the 17th of
February on board the propeller Massachussette. On
that day the whole of Gen. Worth's division had been
embarked, with the exception of the dragoons and
the light batteries of field artillery. Gen. Worth was
to embark with these on board the Edith, on the 23rd,
for Lobos. Gen. Scott reached Tampico on the 20th.
Immediately on his arrival he proclaimed martial law
in all parts of the Mexican territory occupied by the
troops of the United States. He declared that any
individual detected in acts of pillage or disorder, or
any aggressive acts for which he had not the express
command of his superior officer, would be immediately
brought before a court-martial. The force under
Gen. Scott, when assembled, will amount to about
13,000 men. It is said to be his intention, should the
castle of Vera Cruz make an obstinate defence, to
advance his troops beyond the range of the vomit° :
poet them eo as to interrupt the communications be-
tween the city and the Interior ; and carry on the sea
blockade.

General Taylor was reported to have drawn all his
troops together at Agna-:Neva, on the 10th of Feb.,
except those detached to bold Monterey and Saltillo.
Be had with him Bna's and Thomas's batteries,
and about 8,000 men in O. He was said to be much
in want of light troops, He wan understood to have
collected from eight to ten months' provisions at
Monterey, to be collecting a large train of waggons
and pack mules, and to be constructing water-tanks.
The forts on the Rio Grande in possession of the
Americans are weakly defended, and the Mexicans
are understood to be constantly and correctly informed
of the movementh of the invading armies. The
Americans, on their part, seem to be very. im-
perfectly informed of the movements of the Mexicans.
The remain regarding them are contradictory and
vague in the extreme.
A Mr. Lumeden wrote to the New Orleans Picayune
from Tampico, on the 18th of Feb., that he had seen
a letter from a Mexican officer, to a friend, dated San
brie, the 9th of that month, in which the writer states
that Santa Anna was to march on Saltillo, prepare-
tory to an attack on Monterey ; that General Urrea,
at Victoria, with 5,000 men, was to attack Materna-
ras. The writer is said to be Saute Anna's pried,
!smeary, and, as no mention is made of the manner
in which his letter came into American hands, a
suspicion arises that it may have been composed for
their perusal.
A different version of the story is given in the
New Orleans Commercial Bulletin of Ist March. It
is there stated that Santa Anna at one time contem-
plated an attack on Saltillo, but was deterred from
the attempt by the difficulty of procuring water. The
report coincides with a rumour from Brazos that
Gen. Taylor had ceased to feel the Mexican light
troops who had been in front of him. The Amen-
eau, however, were still apprehensive that Minon
might give Gen. Taylor some trouble.
The New Orleans Mercury of let March, mentions
that betters had been received by the Vera erns mail
of the 18th February, from foreign merchants resident
in that city, which used that orders had beet re-
ceived there from Santa Anna for its evacuation. The
mops, it was said, had been ordered to retire into
the interior, and leave the Americana to occupy the
tern,. Without opposition. The Nerestry expresses its
nuelief of this intelligence, because "the capture of
the city would involve the fall of the castle of San
loan d'Ulloa." Santa Anna, however, might
be inclined to run that risk for the parpae of
the the Americans to oecnjry Vera during
""" icily season. Accounts in the New Orleans
Cbsineresol Bulletin represented Santa Anna as
basing with him 30,000 as (of whoa 7,000 ars
It was add lime hoe soil melt Vera
was With this force ads am as Ms. &ate coda
lithe before that city.