The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-08 00:00:00

MEXICO.

The following news has been received in New
York from Mexico via San Francisco and Havana.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 19.
The steamer Golden Age brings advices from the
city of Mexico, to the 2d of May, and from Peubla
to the 30th of April.

General Ortega's despatches to General Comon-
fort, states that on the night of the 24th of April
the French exploded a mine on the block called
" Stenino," occupied by Mexican troops.

A number of the Mexicans were buried in the
ruins, but the balance resisted the French all night,
fighting desperately.
On the morning of the 25th both parties were re-
inforced, and continued the battle with the greatest
determination and ferocity, the Mexicans at its
close holding their original positien.
Daring the contest the French exploded another
mine in the Santa Jesu, and another fight ensued
here, lasting seven hours, the Mexicans remaining
masters of the field and capturing 130 prisoners
from the Ist Regiment of French Zouaves.
The French left 400 dead on the field.

Since these fights the French have kept up the
bombardment of the city, though less vigorously
than before. On the Ist of May, President Juares
left the city of Mexico for General Comonfort's
camp, near Peubla, for the purpose of urging im-
mediate offensive operations against the French.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 20.
General Ortega's despatch to General Comon-
fort, dated Peubla, the 29th of April, thus sums up
the military situation during the last month and a
half :

The French have made eight assaults, succeeding
only in two. We have lost nothing save our aban-
doned forts, and one line of defences_ For the last
thirty-one days we have not lost a foot of ground.
The French continue to throw their bombs into the
city, and are cutting ditches and covered ways for
an attack on Santa Austa.

(News via Havana.)
(Correspondent of the Associated Press.)

HAVANA, May 19, 1863.
On the 16th the French steamer of war L'Eure
arrived from Vera Cruz, which port she left on the
11th. She reports that no news had been received
from the army later than the 27th ult. ; that the
siege of Puebla has been raised, or suspended, till
the arrival of reinforcements and heavier gunnery,
as it bad been impossible to penetrate the city of
Puebla with the artillery they had, it being only
twelve pound callare, though rifled. The guns
from the vessels of war in port have been sent
ashore and are to go to Puebla. Two guns have
arrived within two days' journey, and others were
on the road. The impossibility of entering Puebla
consisted in the barricades eighteen feet thick with
earth and stones, and in the fact that the Mexicans
had filled the houses of the first line of parapets
with earth. The Mexicans again occupy the Fort
of San Xavier, which they are repairing.
The Eure reports that light skirmishing took
place daily with parties who came out to attack
from the city; that on the 24th a large convoy of
meal was captured by the French, which the Mexi-
cans were trying to introduce into the city.
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mail steamer Clyde en route for France, whencec Dbe
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attack the convoy. This, I am told, is the reason
that the transport L'Eure is to return to Vera Cruz
with 1,000,000 dols., which has been produced here
by the sale of drafts on the French Government.

Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by pur-
chasing Horniman's pure Tea; very choice at 3s 4d. and
48. " High Standard "at 4s. 4d. (formerly 4s. Bd.), is the
strongest and most delicious imported. Agents in every
town supply it in packets.
THE MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES.—The Marquis
of Salisbury, as Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex, gave his
aunual entertainment to the officers of the several regi-
ments of the county militia and magistrates on Saturday
evening at his mansion in Arlington-street, Piccadilly,
FRANCE AND THE LEVANT.—The Emperor of
the French has been pleased to affix his signature to
the following decree, founded on a report to his Majesty
from M. Drouyn de Lhuys, dated June 1:—" Art. 1. A.
commission is instituted for the purpose of ascertaining
whether the organisation of consular tribunals in the ports
of the Levant and Barbary should be modified, and to pre.
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