The Express.
London, England, 1846-11-12 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THIS DAY, Four o'Clock.
By the packet-ship Rochester, Captain Button, ar-
rived last evening at Liverpool, we have papers from '
New York to the 22d ult., being one day later than
those received on Saturday last, by the Joshua Bates.
The commercial accounts from this country, conveyed
outwards by the Caledonia, were received just pre-
vious to the departure of the Rochester, but at the
period of her sailing, sufficient time had not elapsed
to show the effect of the advices from England on the
corn and flour markets.
There was report in New York of another en-
gagement between the Mexican troops and the
United States' forces in which the former were said
to have been again defeated. No particulars hul been
received, nor was it by any means certain that there
were good grounds for the rumour, which had found
its way from New Orleans, and was thus noticed by
the Baltimore correspondent of the Express.
The New Orleans papers of the 13th inst. bring the wel-
come intelligence of the safe arrival at that port of the
steamer Neptune, which, it was feared, had been lost, with
all on board, on her passage from Galveston. She succeeded
in reaching New Orleans, in a leaky and somewhat crippled
condition, on the 12th.
A bearer of dispatches from General Taylor to the govern-
ment, who had arrived at Brawn Santiago, reported that in
the battles of Monterey no lees than 2,000 Mexicans were
killed and wounded, while the American loss in killed and
wounded was only 500. The story, however, was not cre-
dited.
The Mexican forces had all withdrawn from Monterey,
and left General Taylor in sole possession of the city and its
fortifications.
The New Orleans Delta gives a rumour that, after the
armistice agreed upon by the two armies, and whilst the
American forces were reposing in fancied security upon the
good faith of the Mexicans, the latter made • sudden and
desperate attack upon them; that the Americans suffered a
large loss, but eventually dispersed their faithless and trea-
cherous assailants.
The following is from the New Fork Express of the
22nd alt.:
" There continues to be the greatest anxiety throughout
the country, particularly in quarters where volunteers have
gone, to hear further from Monterey. The absence of the
full returns of the killed and wounded throws us upon con-
jecture, and conjecture in such a case is often worse than
reality. Ampudia, it would appear, after he was driven
from the heights, the Bishop's 'Palace taken, and his forts
abandoned, concentrated his remaining force in the Plaza
and adjacent houses, where be was capable of making a
stout resistance, by defending himself from houses, as was
done at Saragossa. This, indeed, is the Spanish mode of
defending their towns. The houses are strongly built, and
constructed of stone ; the roofs are flat, and communicate
with each other, after the Moorish fashion. From these
and from the ,vindows an assailing enemy is fired upon as
from a masked battery. Every house becomes a little for-
tress and ob.tinacy of defence is one of the characteristics
of the Spanish race. It •as in this state of things that Am-
pudia sued for a cessation of hostilities, and offered to sur-
render the town. The s4/bion, the organ of the British
population in this country, thinks thst,. under the circum-
stances, Gentral Taylor was wise in giving Arapudia the
liberal terms he did. . „ .