The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-17 00:00:00

MEXICO AFTER THE ABDICATION.

General Carrera is appointed Provisional Presi-
dent of Mexico. The intentions of Alvarez and
Comonfort are not yet known. The provinces
have been invited to pronounce. Santa Anna,
after escaping to Havannah, proceeded to Caraccas.
The New York Journal of Commerce remarks :
The more detailed intelligence of events at the Mexi-
can capital consequent upon the abdication and flight of
Santa Anna shows that the provisional government
was acquiesced in for the moment, only as an alternative
preferable to the anarchy which would have ensued
upon an interregnum attended with a cessation of the
exercise of all restrictive and protective functions of the
civil prawer. It is represented as not acceptable to the
liberals, and it seems to have acknowledged its own in-
stabiiity and tenure of sufferance, by summoning the
commanders of the liberating forces to the capital to
consult in respect to the constitution of a permanent
government, instead of preparing to maintain its own
authority against the claims of the expected chieftains.
In requesting the generals to leave behind them their
followers, it may have sought to avert from the proposed
settlement of affairs the preponderating influence of
military dictation, and so to secure fur itself a more po-
tent voice in shaping the result. But no effective oppo-
sition could be directed against the establishment of a
liberal government, under the auspices and administra-
tion of the leaders who have forced Santa Anna into
exile.

(Front the New Orleans Picayune, Aug. 26.)
The steam-ship Orizaba, Captain Forbes, arrived this
morning from Vera Cruz, which port she left on the
22(1 inst.

It appears that Santa Anna left the city of Mexico on
the 9th instant at the head of 1,400 men, under the pre-
text of quelling the revolution in the State of Vera
Cruz. On arriving at the fortress of Perote he threw off
the mask and unveiled his real design. He there issued
a proclamation, depositing the government in the hands
of Pavoni, Vega, and Sala,, and immediately departed
with all speed to Vera Cruz. His last day's march was
from Puente by circuitous routes (say 14 leagues), and
he arrived in Vera Cruz on the night of the 14th inst.
On the day afttr his arrival Santa Anna endeavoured
to go on board the Mexican war steamer Iturbide, but
being prevented by the state of the weather, he em-
barked on the night of the 17th, and, with his family,
it is supposed, proceeded to Havannah.
In the meantime all Santa Anna's Ministers at the
City of Mexico took French leave, and Gen. Carrera, at
the head of the only troops left in the city, say 700 men,
pronounced for the plan of Ayuntla, naming Carrera
President pro tem., and Vega Commander-in-Chief of
the troops.
In Vera Cruz, on the night of the 18th, part of the
regiment of Tres Viejas pronounced and killed one of
their officers, and then left the city over the walls to
join La Llave who was in the vicinity. Next morning
the remainder of the regiment, say 200 men, were
marched out of the city by order of General Corona, to
prevent further disturbance. On the same day, Sunday,
the 19th, the city of Vera Cruz and the troops pro-
nounced in favour of the plan of Ayuntla, Governor
Corona still retaining the command, waiting for orders
from the Provisional Government.
On the 20th all was quiet in Vera Cruz, and no fur-
ther disturbance was looked for till the 22d, the day La
Llave was expected to enter the city with his pronun-
ciados, to which serious objections were raised, as his
troops, it was feared, might create disorder. On the
night of the 21st, however, at half-past seven o'clock, a
disturbance occurred among the troops. The Regiments
of Guides and the 2d were ordered out, and several shots
were fired. The pronounced troops in Fort Conception
fired the cannon loaded with grape, and several of the
Guides were killed. The Guides then took the fort by
assault, and which all became quiet, and remained so
until the sailing of the Orizaba.
Since the foregoing was written, we learn that Carrera
was appointed Provisional President for six months.
A quarrel for the Presidency, it is said, is likely to
ensue. The pleasure of Alvarez and Comonfort is not
known, and they will have a say in the matter.
Below we give an extract from a letter received per
Orizaba, by a cemmercial firm in this city from one in
Vera Cruz, with which we have been favoured.
" Important changes in political affairs have taken
place since we last addressed you. Santa Anna has fled
the country, having embarked on board of a Mexican
war steamer with his family, on the 18th inst. Her des-
tination was not made known, but it is supposed he has
gone to Havannah for the present. A new Government
is about being formed whose views as to commerce in
general are stated to be very liberal, so that we may
soon expect to have a new tariff and the export duty
lowered."
On the evening of the 15th the new Government sent,
under General Vega, expresses to the various governors
of the deparments or states, requesting them to pro-
nounce, and at the same time they sent to the comman-
ders of the liberal forces to inform them that everything
had been regulated according to their views, and to re-
quest them to come to the capital alone, leaving their
forces behind them, for the purpose of electing officers
and arranging the Government. The liberal party,
however, were not satisfied, and sent on to the com-
manders, telling them to' bring their forces, and that
they would then be able to carry out their plans.
The new Government was, in fact, composed of a large
proportion of the members of the ast one, and closely
united with the church, for which reason the liberals
could not adopt it.
D. Luis do la Rosa, late Mexican Minister in Walh-
ington, has been appointed Governor of Puebla, to the
great satisfaction of the liberals.
The correspondent of the Charleston Courier
writes :
" Mexico, Aug. 19.—The tyrant has abdicated. On
the 9th inst. Santa Anna commenced his retreat, under
the cover of an ultima hora, of a Ministorio de Guber-

nacion.
" At 1 o'clock on the 13th, there began to be a gather-
ing in the Alameda, the beginning of a revolution. Pre-
viously there were some 60 state prisoners released, who
had been arrested for suspected civil offences, in de-
murring to the faculties of the supreme government, or
for having written or spoken disrespectfully of his serene
highness. As was to be anticipated, many of these
were the orators of the occasion.
" The closing orator, after the lamentations of a feel-
ing subject, reciting outrages on his person in confine-
ment, even to handcuffs and fetters, exclaimed, 'Let us
go to the palace to demand the arms of the National
Guards,' who had been disarmed by Santa Anna, to
protect the republic. Stop, says a voice echoed from
' every quarter, 'We must sign the Pronunciamento first
for the plan of A yulta.' This ceremony complied with
by some 12 or 15 individuals soon prepared the masses
for a movement.
" San Francisco, the leading avenue to the palace,
was thronged with the animated masses, silently advanc-
ing on the palace. The doors were closed, with a guard
ijfront. A volley of blank cartridges, and the explosion
of a piece of artillery, was a sufficient answer to the de.
mand. From thence their belligerency was directed to
Madame Tastes, the mother of Dolores Santa Anna,
and i❑ succession to the Ministers of the State and two
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