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weigh all the features of the. case, and act accordingly. He
doubtless considered that if he lost 600 men—supplsing the
loss to be only to that 'mount—it would cost him 400 more
to take the remaining part of the city, making a total of
1,000. To advance to Sahill° with any safety, it would be
necessary to leave 1,000 men in garrison at Monterey.. This
I would reduce b*.m army to 4,000, and with such a diminished
force it would be madness to go on—he must wait for rein-
forcements, even if successful, and lose one of the great
benefits of his victory, viz., taking advantage of the enemy's'
panic. All these considerations, no doubt, influenced the
mind of General Taylor. He also considered that the armis-
tice of two months would give him the advantages, first, of
being joined by General Wool, who was advancing by the
road of St. Antonio de Bear; secondly, of receiving
succour from the United States ; and, thirdly, of giving his
government an opportunity of negotiation with Santa Anna.
" From what we have seen of the spirited resistance that
will probably be made by the Mexicans, it does not seem
safe for General Taylor to advance on Ssltillo with a less
effective force than 10,000 men. This would be necessary
with or without the armistice; and the armistice, in our
opinion, is no lee favourable to the one party than to the
other. The American commander, then, we think, cannot
be justly censured upon the strength of the information that
is before us." - - .

A letter from Matamoras says :
A glance at the list shows the terrible suffering of the
3rd Infantry. Five officers were killed, and but 71 of the
rank and file of this entire regiment were left untouched.
This terrible fighting was in the streets of the town,
which were barricaded and defended by artillery. The
fight, too, was carried on from house to house. Many were
killed in ascending. to the tops of the flat-roofed houses
occupied by Mexican shooters. Two of the officers
that fell of the 3rd, were New Yorkers, Captains L. N.
Morris and G. P. Field. (Captain Field is a native of the
village of Black Rock.—Eda.) The latter had been slightly
wounded, and was being carried to the rear by two men,
when a party of the Mexican rancheros rushed upon and
savorily murdered him. Major Barbour was a nephew of
Arise Barbour, of Virginia. He was a native of Kentucky,
mai was brevetted to a majority in August, fur his gallant
melees in the battle of Resace. Lieutenant D. S. Irwin
wee the adjutant of the regiment, a universal favourite with
the army, and a most promising officer. Lieutenant Hazlett,
graduated at West Point, in 1843, and served in the 4th In-
fantry until November last, when he was promoted to the
3rd regiment. ..:aptain M'Kavett, of the Bth Infantry, is
likewise a New Yorker. He fell in storming the en my's
batteries on the right of the town. Captain Williams, of the
Topographical Engineers, was killed in the streets. lie ex-
posed himself to the enemy's fire with the most absolute
contempt of danger. He was a man of many accomplish-
ments, and great eminence in his corps. Lieutenant Hus
kips was adjutant of the 4th Infantry; and Lieut. Woods,
of the same regiment, was another of the gallant men who
had been rewarded for services in the former battles. It will
be remembered that he was conspicuous at Resaca, in which'
battle he took a piece of Mexican artillery, though it was
obstinately defend. d.
" In the midst of our triumph over the victory, let us
bestow a thought upon national justice and gratitude. Most
of these officers have left their families, and it is for these I
would appeal to every patriot and statesman in the land.
Give, by your legislation, to the dying warrior, the consoling
thought that his life was not surrendered in the cause of an
ungrateful people. Invite him to leave with confidence to
your care and protection those whose support has been taken
away in supporting you.
" General Taylor had his horse shot under him alter enter-
ing the town. He continued dismounted for the remainder
of the day's fight, exposed to the hottest fire from the house
tope and the heads of streets."
The government had received dispatches from the
army of the right, by a courier arrived at St. Louis
from Mazatlan, the Ist June; Chihuahua, the 15th
July ; and Santa Fe, the 6th September. The follow-
ing is his report :
General Kearney, with 1,000 men, left Santa Fe on the
3rd, for the settlements below on the Rio Grande, intending
to erect a fortification at Socorro, also to visit Albuquerque.
75 miles below Santa Fe, the residence of the ex-Gor rnor
Armijo, whose "whereabouts" is unknown. General
Kearney was to be absent about 20 days. The murder
of Armijo is contradicted. About 300 men, with their horses'
and rattle, were ordered to the Calestello-ereek, 15 or 20
miles below Santa Fe. General Kearney was crectinga fort
on an eminence to the north-east of Santa Fe, to command
the whole. The Mexicans are becoming much attached to
him, as he promised them protection from the Indians.
They are quite pleased with our government of them. On
the arrival of Colonel Price's regiment, and the battalion of
Mormons, General Kearney would set out for California.
Monterey is to be the place of destination, a distance of
1,200 miles. The Arkanmsriver,fnr the whole route, was dry.'
According to the New York Herald, the utmost
activity prevailed in organising the naval resources of
the country. The Ohio line-of-battle ship was equip-
ping at Boston, for active service; the Pacific squadron
was to be cugmented, and that in the Gulf increased,
so as to allow of an immediate attack on the fortress
St. Juan d' Ulloa. The Herald says:
The resolute prosecution of the war will soon bring the
Mexicans to terms. We rejoice to perceive that the govern-
ment have aroused to a thorough sense of what is due to the
national honour, by going in earnest to work. Our navy
has been neglected a good deal of late years, though pos-
sessing as gallant spirits as in its palmiest days.
In our revolutionary struggle and subsequent wars, it has
won imperishable laurels, and it is due to that gallant force
to give It an opportunity of sharing in the glory already won
in our struggle with Mexico. We feel a deep confidence in
the successful operations of our navy in any demonstration
made upon the celebrated fortress opposite Vera Cruz.
Alluding to the exhausted state of the treasury,
the same journal remarks:
We learn from our Washington correspondent, under date
of the afternoon of the 20th, that the cabinet were in session.
and among other business before them was that of raising
additional means fur carrying on the war with Mexico, and
for obtainine the necessary means for the support of the ge-
neral government. The Treasury department is not only
embarrae.ed, hut begins to suffer from its embarrassments.
How could it be otherwise with such a war as we have, and
such financiers as those who have originated the suh-trea-
sury law ?
COLLISION AT SEA.--BOTH VESSELS LOST.—The ship
Roman, Captain William R. Drew, from Newburyport, and
the brig Maria Spear, Captain Prior, of Boston, bound from
New York to Londonderry, Ire Lind, came in contact at half-
past three o'clock, a.m., last Monday, bow to bow. and were
both so much injured that they filled rapidly, and at nine
o'clock were abandoned in a sinking condition. The crews
were brought to this city by the Swedish brig Albion, from
Bremen, which passed just in time to see their signals of
distress, and give them the necessary relief. This the cap-
tain of the Albion generously and promptly afforded, and
treated them with great killdeer*, though his vessel was
small, and 120 passengers on board of her. The Roman was
a new ship, in ballast, built with great care, and insured in
three of the Wall-street offices, owned by Messrs. Gordon
and Talbot, and named after a ship of theirs which was lost
by a Amilar accident several years ago in the English Chan-
nel. Her spars were not much injured, but ten or twelve
planks on her bow were driven in, nearly their whole thick-
ness ; the seams opened from the stem to the middle of the
fore-rigging; and two or three butts started four or five
inches; all on or under the water line. Great efforts were
made to stop or lessen the leak by nailing on battens
through tarpaulins and blankets, but they were found of no
avail.
The Maria Spear belongs to Boston, and ie probably
insured there. She was two days out from New York, with
a full cargo of grain. The concussion broke off her bow-
sprit and both masts, stove in her bow, and the man at the
wheel, named Jordan, from Beaton, was knocked overboard
and drowned.
Both vessels, when left, were full of water, and rapidly
settling ; the weather squally, and sea running high. It was
a rainy and very dark morning, and though they discovered
each other before striking, it was not in time to avoid the
shock. The Maria Spear was nearly on the wind, and making
about four knots per hour; the Roman nearly before it,
and running at the rate of nine or ten knots
The explosion of the Oakland County Bank of Michigan
has fallen with great severity upon the poorer classes. This
is the third hank in Michigan which has exploded within the
last six months ; and, notwithstanding the warnings of the
press generally, the public continued to take the issues of
this institution. Many have paid dearly for their misplaced
confidence, and we trust it will be a lesson they will never
forget. We have so frequently exposed the rotten
condition of such banks as the Saint Clair, the Oakland
County, &c., that it is a matter of much astonishment
that a single individual can be found who will ever
receive them, to say nothing about keeping them.
The indifference exhibited by the public generally in
relation to the solvency of the institutions the issues
of which they 'so freely take, is enough to discourage
the press from taking airy further trouble to protect them
from the swindling intentions of those engaged in sustaining
these banks, until they reach a certain circulation and the
most favourable point for an explosion. Most of the banks
in Michigan and other western states, which have exploded
within the past five years, have been in very bad credit fur
a length of time prevines to the grand crash, and every effort
has been made to put the public on their guard
against their
bills ; but, it appears, without avail, as in every instance the
result has shown that a circulation to some extent has, in
spite of the frequent warnings, been obtained, generally
among that class the least able to bear the loss. It is full
time for the legislature of Michigan to do something in rela-
Von to the banking business of that state. It is full time
that the most restrictive system of banking should he per-
(voted for the protection of that elms of the public who will
not protect themselves. Michigan has long been celebrated
for its wild-cat banks ; and for the credit of the state, and
to remove, if pretailde, the stigma which it now bears, the
most rigid investigation should be made into the condition of
those institutions which are the least tainted, and a complete
revolution should be made at the earliest moment in the
system of banking generally. The pre,ent system is a curse
to the state,and retards the prosperity of the people more
than her public debt ever did.
COVMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
AFrotn the Nese Fork SIN.)

sums than usual offering in the street to-day, at the moderate rates
current for some brae past. Business is good, but not waw active.
The receipt of flour at this port from all places, from the Ist of Ja-
nuary to October 13, were 1,599,584 barrels, against 1,151,874, for
the same period of last year. Tim exports for the same period in
1840 have been 745,448, have
barrels 221liarrels in 1445. The exports
of this month, up to the have been 96,672 rrels. Therecelpts
of wheat, from January 1 to 13, have been 1,014,482 bushels,
agaimt 256,048 last year. Export, Fame time, 1840, 808,212 bushels ;
and in 1845, 84,444 bushels. These figures exhibit an immense in-
cream in the business for this year over the previous one.
Currox.-About 590 or 600 balm were sold, without any change in
vices.
Froua.-The miles were 1,000 barrels of good Crummy at 2 dots.
5610., and 1,000 ditto at 5 deb. 50c., and 600 to 800 Michigan at
5 das. 371 e. to S dole. 430. The market closed without animation, as
both buyers and tellers seemed Indisposed to operate largely, as the
Balqmsire packet-ship wasreported below with a few days' later news.
Waits'. was steady. 4,000 bushels of Genessee white sold at 1 dol.
16c. to 1 dol. 17e.' and 2,000 ditto at 1 dol. 16c.
Coax was in fair demand. 2,000 mixed sold at 70c., and 2,000
Jersey yellow at 70e. ; 75c. was offered for 19000 bushels of Southern
white to anive, and declined.
Its-s was firm. 5,000 bushels sold at 79c., and 1,500 ditto at 800.
delivered. New Jersey Corn meal sold at 4 dole. 12;c. each ; and rye
flour at 4 dots, to 4 dol.. 121 e.
PROVINIONi,.-The demand for pork is still feeble. 200 barrels of
mem brought 8 dots. to 10 doh. 25c. Quotations range from 10 doh.
to 10 dots. Ue. Prime waftheld at 9 dots. to 9 dots. 121. c. Mem beef sold
at 7 dolt. 75e. No change in prime. Lard was In less demand, and we
note a We of 50 barrels, Said, at 71e.
Tomeco.-100 Mids. heutucky leaf, brought 2'e. to 51e.
Asno.--Sides, 70 bbls. pots, at 4 dohs. 610., and 175 bbls. pearls, at
4 dohs. 621 e.
Coat--Sale,, 250 tons Liverpool Orrel, at 7 dole. 50e.
Siu.r.-Sales, 1,000 Liverpool in sacks, at I dol. 10e.
Freights to Europe were oonaldered easier for exporters, though
quotations remained nominally the same. Vessels to many secondary
ports of Great BrMin are still wanted. To Havre there was so change.
The freight from Buffalo to Albany is 80e. per barrel for lour, and 25e.
per bushel for grain.
BtrIALO, Ocr. 21.-State of the Markets.-Sales were made to-day
of 30,1100 bushels of Ohio and Wisconsin Wheat, at Rona 75e. to 86c.
3,009 barrels of Michigan flour were sold at 4 dole. 2.5 e. to 4 dot. 57e.
Corn.-10,000 bushels went off at 42e. Pennsylvanian butter brought
90. Ohio cheese, 100. Salt, I dot. 15e.
ALBANY, Ocr. 20.-Flonr.-Bame sales at 5 dole. 371 c. toy doh. 50c.
Barley, two rowed, 56!e. to 57e. Oat*, 34e.
Itocaurres, Ocr. 19.-Market lively. Wheat, 95e. to 96e. 2,000
barrels of Genesesse flour at 4 dots. 75c. Barley, 37Le. Corn, 510.
Cheese, 61c.

At a Court of Directors of the East India Company,
held yesterday, George Russell Clerk, Esq., a mem-
ber of the government of India was unanimously
appointed governor of Bombay.

Mr. Billinton, a civil engineer, who has been en-
gaged in a survey of the Great Britain, thus
reports in a letter from llundrum-bay :
She is stranded on the sands on the north side of Dun-
dnim-bav, between two reefs of rocks, which extend a con-
siderable distance into the sea, about 1,000 yards asunder.
Her position is north-west, with her stern to the sea, and
about 130 yards above low water, and her stem 300 yards
from shore. _ _

The sands average from one foot to three feet deep, upon
blue gravel from nine ineht s to twenty inches thick, resting
on blue mountain limestone rock, on which the hull now
rides. The bay iv frequently very rough, and the vessel dif-
ficult to board during high tides. The sands vary very little
in this part of the bay, and whatever accumulation takes
place from the southerly winds, is removed when the winds
blow eastwardly, which increz:ses the facility of float-
ing her.
On the starboard-side, the plates have been bulged, and
the rivets sprung to a considerable extent, which admit freely
the flowing and ebbing of the tide ; and several holes about
one inch and quarter diameter have been drilled through the
bottom in order to prevent her from lifting or beating.
' At spring tides there are from sixteen to seventen feet
of water in her hold, and at low water she is left
dry, with the exception of a small quantity of water
in the dock she has naturally formed for herself in the
sand and gravel, and about two feet in her bottom, and she
oscillates freely during high tides. She appears much sprung
and strained, has lost her rudder, and the screw propeller is
slightly damned. The winders, pumps, &c., and part
of the driving gear, are covered at high tide, and exposed to
the action of the salt water. Her weight is about 1,600 tons
(without masts, &c.), and the accumulation of wreck about
200 tons more. _

The sands on the beach at low.water are very flat, with an
inclination towards the sea of about 1 in 750, and the coast
barren of materials, except limestone.
From the practical survey I have taken 1 am fully con-
vinced that the difficult task of floating her can be accom
plished, and that respectable and experienced contractors
may be found who will undertake to float her at a moderate
cost.

MANILLA TOBACCO. The revenue authorities
having bad under their consideration an order of the Lords
of the Treasury, dated the 22 ult., authorising them to
give directions for the admission of Manilla tobacco when
imported in illegal packages, eubject to thn conditions con-
tained to their torasuty.• o.dei or the tune or rsouary lam
viz., upon payment of a fine on account of the irregularity,
and upon condition that if the same be cleared for exporta-
tion it should be repacked into legal sized packages—orders
have been issued to that effect to the several departments
in the port of London, and the various outports of the
United Kingdom privileged for the importation of the
article, fur their information and future government. And
these officers have further been made acquainted by the
commissioners, that in the event of any importation of
Manilla tobacco in illegal packages, they are to apprize the
parties that they are at liberty to apply to the board for
relief.

MADAGASCAR.—A letter has been lately received
from Madagascar via Bourbon, by a commercial house much
interested in the opening of our trade with that country,
from Captain Gevint, of the Ariel, dated from Sainte Marie.
He announces that, on his arrival at Tamatave, where he
had directed his vessel to make another ►ffort to obtain the
merchandise which belonged to him, and had been in em-
bargo for more than a year, he communicated with the
Hovel, and informed them that the intention of the French
government was not to make war on them. They appeared
much satisfied with this information, and recommended him
to write to the Queen, as she alone could authorise the deli-
very of his merchandise. He therefore wrote to the Queen
aY Imime, and sent the letter on the 18th of June, leaving
Tamatave for Sainte Marie, and intending to return 20 days
afterwards for an answer. The time which has expired
since then leads us to suppose that he has not succeeded, and
that the answer of Queen Ranavalo has not been favourable
to his demand. We trust this supposition will prove incor-
rect.—Mauritian, July 31.