The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-16 00:00:00

The intelligence from the United States and
Mexico, which reached Liverpool yesterday morn-
ing, by the royal mail steamer Hibernia, is very im-
portant. A series of engagements took place be-
tween the forces under Generals TAYLOR and SANTA
ANNA on the 22d and 23d of February, at Bueno
Vista, about six miles south-weAt of Saltillo. Owing
to there being no official report received from General
TAYLOR, consequent, as it is presumed, upon his dis-
patches having been intercepted by his enemies, no
precise opinion can be formed of the positive losses
suffered or advantages gained by the respective com-
batants in the above conflict. There is an American
account of the battle given by Dr. TURNER, an
officer of the United States army, which is evidently
too highly coloured to be relied upon. He estimated
the loss of the Mexicans in killed and wounded to
amount to 4,000, that of the Americans to 700

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This officer makes no mention of General TAYLOR

having lost any pieces of artillery ; but he speaks
of " the discomfiture of SANTA ANNA'S army." On
the other hand, we have an account of the battle from
SANTA ANNA himself, written from his camp near
Bueno Vista, on the 23d of February. This General
gives 2,000 as the number of dead left by his oppo-
nents on the field, and states that he carried five of
their positions, and secured three pieces of artillery
as well as two of their fi'ags. He praises the soldiers
under his command for having " done their duty and
covered the honor of the Mexican nation with glory."
It will thus be seen that the two accounts are quite
at variance. Sufficient, however, is to be collected
from the different sources of intelligence to indicate
that the slaughter on both sides must have
been considerable—that the loss of General TAYLOR
was, perhaps, not less than 1,100 men, and one
which he could ill afford to sustain, considering the
superiority of the Mexicans in point of number—and
that, though SANTA ANNA rejoices in his " trophies
of war," they were not gained without a heavy loss
of men. Indeed, had he not suffered in this respect
the General would not have omitted in his dispatches
any allusion to his own loss, when he was computing
that of his adversary. Subsequent to the engage-
ment SANTA ANNA retired to Agua Nueva, a dis-
tance of ten miles, to secure provisions, with the
intention of renewing, as soon as possible, his attack
upon General TAYLOR, who, it is said, had retreated
to Monterey. The American General's position was
not a very enviable one. The entire open country
surrounding him was occupied by the Mexicans,
cutting him off from all communication, whilst
General URRSA was represented to be in the rear
with 5,000 men. As a whole, we view the above
intelligence with satisfaction. In the engagements
above alluded to the Mexicans were the attack-
ing party, and they have shown themselves to be a
brave people. They first compelled General TAYLOR
to retreat from Agua Nueva to Saltillo, and thence
to Monterey; and though, when the American forces
assumed the offensive in their turn, they succeeded in
destroying a great number of SANTA ANNA'S troops,
the ardour of their enemies appeared, notwithstand-
ing, to remain unabated. The Mexican people seem
to be determined to prosecute the war to the utmost ;
and there can be no doubt that the longer it continues
the better able will their soldiers prove themselves to
resist the unprincipled invaders.
By the next mail we may expect to receive some
decisive intelligence relative to the menaced attack
upon the city and castle of Vera Cruz.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the (Miele( List.)

Bank Stock .• .. 195 193
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 86% %)6
Three per Cent. Consols.Annuities .. • . 17% )6
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anne. 07% 84 8736 88
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1160 .. 98%
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 .• 8% 13-16
Ditto, 30 years, Jan .5, 1860 .. 9
South Sea Stock .. .. • • • • • .
Ditto, Old Annuities • • • • 643(
Console for May 27 .. • • •• • • 87%16% 67
Three per Cent. Consols, Scrip:. .. • • 2% % dis
Exchequer Bills. I%d. 2d.
1,0001. .• ..•• par 2 dis 1 p
5001. .. • • .. •• • • 2 die 1 p
Ditto, Small .. 1 2p 1 dim
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Chillan Bonds, 6 per Cent. •. • • 9136
Mexican, 1846, 5 per Cent •• .. 2036
Portuguese Four per Cent .. 34%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. ..
Three per Cent .. .• • • 36%12
Dividends on tiie above payable In London.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 54%
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 90 89%
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK,
AAILWATS. PAID. PER SHAWL
Amber.. Notting., Boston, & EastmJn. 2%.... 2ex int. to
Birmingham and Oxford Junction .. b 13% .... to
Buckinghamshire .. .. • • .. • • 6/. 45..... par .... to
Caledonian •• •• •• 30 25343(x.. to
Eastern Counties • . .. • • • • 20 .... 18% .... to 19
Ditto, York Extension . ..• • • 6N(
... .. to
East Lancashire .. •• . 17 . .. • • to
Ditto, New .. . • .. 736 .... 854..,. to
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. • • .. 50 .. •• 72 .... to
Great Northern .. .. • • • • .. 3% .... .... to
Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 30 .... 25 .... to
Great North of England .. • • IQO • •.41,1, ...• to
Great Western -
Ditto. -.-
Half Shane' .. ~to
Leeds and Bradford •• .40 • •• 83% .... to
Leicester and Bedford • • • • • • 165..... % dig. to
Liverpool, Mauch, and Newc. Junet. 234 .... 74 .... to 1%
London and Blackwell .. 161. 13s. 4d. •• • • •• . • to
Ditto, New, No. 2 11. 13s. 4d..... p.. to --
London, Brighton, and South Coast .. 50 52% %.. to
London end .North• Western • • • • 100 .. 174 •. • • to
Ditto, Quarters .. • • L. and B. 7 .. •• .•• to
Ditto ditto New •• • • • .... 13 ..... to
Ditto, Fifths • • • • •• • • • • 2 •• 16 .... to
London and South-Western 411. 64.. 10d. ..•• 63 6434. to 63%
Ditto, Tenths (Consolidated) . .. 50 .. • • 5336 .. • . to
Lynn and Ely • • •• .. •.20.. • . 2134 .... to
Manchester and Leeds • • • .. $2 ....NI
•to
Ditto, Fifth:, • • • • • • •• .. 5 .... 9%% %to
Manehester, Buxton, and Matlock - • 424. •••• ;fi p-- to
Manch,ster and Southampton .. •• 2 .... 1% .... to—
Midland •• •• " •• •• ••100 ....115 .... to 116
Ditto, New • • • • • • • • • • 36 .... 39%.... to
Ditto, New • • • • • • • • • • • 2 .... 436 .... to 5
Newcastle and Berwick .. •• •• 20 .... 26 ... to 2.5%
Ditto, New • • • • • • • .. 5 .... 7% .... to
Newmarket and Chesterford 10 .. • . 9% .... to
Northern Counties Union • • .• • . 2311 .... %..•. to
North British • • • • • • • • •. 25 .. • • 32 .... to
Ditto, Quarters • • • • • • • • 2%.... % to
Ditto, Extension • • • • • • • • • 1 .. •.to
Ditto, Thirds • • • • .• • • • • I .... 336 to
North Staffordshire • • • • • • • • 5 .. • . 7%34 .. to
Preston and Wyre • • • • .• • •• 25 .... 34 .... to
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate • • .. 4% .. to
Shrewsbury and Birminghtun (A) .. 3y4„ 4 to
south Eastern and Dover .. • - • •331. 2.1. 4d. 36% •.. to
Ditto, New (las. at 321.) No. 1 .20 20% .. ••to
Ditto, New (do. 151.) No. 4 .. .. 5 .. • • 5% •. to
south Wales .. • • • • • • • • 10 .. • • 7)2 .. to
Waterford and Kilkenny •• 13% 6%.... to
West Riding Union .. .. • • • • 4/. 25....• 1 p.... to
York and Newcastle • • • • • • 25 .... . to
Ditto, New .. •• • • •• .. 11) •• • • 14% .. to
Ditto, Preference • • • • • • • • 4 . • 7% .. ••to
York and North Midland • • .. • • 50 .... 81% .... to
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Demerara .. .. • • • • • • • • 2% •• .• 3%.... to 4
Northern of France . • • •. • • 8 •. • • 12% .... to
Paris and Lyons
Sambre and Meuse • • • • •• 12 .. 6 .. ••to
MINES

Madrid journals of the 9th have arrived.
The authorities appointed to investigate the charges
against General SERRANO have declared his conduct
to be blameless ; and the QUEEN has issued a decree
suspending all further proceedings against him, and
declaring that no imputation has been cast by them
on his reputation.

A Carlist band has been destroyed near Mules de
'Paredes.

MADRID BOLSA, APRIL 9.—The Three per Cents.
were done at 32} for cash; the Five per Cents. at
201; the Debt without interest at 6 ; and the Cou-
pons at 17.

We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday.
The mission of General CONCHA is, it is said, to
arrange with Louis PHILIPPE and with the British
Government for armed intervention in Portugal. He
is to leave Paris for London immediately.
In allusion to the announcement of the Presse of
the approaching visit of the Emperor NICHOLAS to
Paris, the National says—
" A morning paper of yesterday, in its privet* correspon-
dence from St. Petersburgh, informed its readers that the
Emperor of Russia contemplated coming to Paris this sum-
mer. That that journal should look on such a journey by the
Emperor Nicholas, under exising circumstances, as being au
event of the highest importance, one can well understand,
since it is friendly to a Russian alliance. But Heaven be
praised its opinion is not that of France. We have not bar-
tered our sympathies for Poland, or been strangled with the
rentes of the Bank of France. Now, a. 3 hitherto, all hearts
shudder at the Warsaw murders. The purchase of oblivion
of so many crimes committed during the last sixteen
years over a conquered nationality, for 50,000,000 f., was
surely not a high price. We do not accept this bar-
gain. The presence of Nicholas at Paris would be an in-
sult to our feelings, to our i,eas, and if the Czar were to
dare to come and face amongst us the unfortunates who
have been doomed to exile by his despotism, the cheers of
a few scattered flatterers would not cover the loud voiee of
public malediction. This would not be the first time of a
Russian Emperor being at Paris. The last was called
Alexander. At the period he visited us Frauoe was invaded
by foreigners. The people remember well the Cossacks
bivouacking in the Champs Elysees, and tb e presence of
Nicholas, by reviving the recollection of that fatal period,
would revive the hatred and horror with which the invaders
of France will ever inspire us. If the journal in which we
find the article wished to feel the pulse of public Opinion,
and sift out the feeling in respect to Nicholas, it may tell
its correspondent that France repels all contact with the
annihilator of Poland, and Paris would nut imi.:tate the silence
of London."

Real del Monte. Unregistered 334 • • to

The following was is-ued at the Discount-office just
before the Bank closed yesterday atternoon:—
" The minimum rate of interest at the Bank of
England is 51. per cent."
Th«•re is no limit assigned for bills, and the merchants
think that this indicares more liberality; others appre •
hend more restriction.

EPSOM RACES.
(THIS DAY-BY EXPRESS.)

The Trial Stakes.

Gabbler
Rob Roy 2
Tragical 3
THE GREAT ME TROPOLITAN HANDICAP.

The Chamber of Deputies commenced on Tuesday
the discussion of the project of law authorising the
Bank of France to issue notes for 2501. (101.) The
report of the Committee on the Bill recommended
that the amount should be reduced to 200 f., and 111
LEON FAvcnua proposed a reduction to 100 f. The
discussion was adjourned.
'We find the following in the Courrier Francais :
"A letter from St. Petersburgh, dated the 2d, announces
to us that the Emperor of Russia is seriously ill, and that his
journey to Warsaw is indefinitely postponed. The fact is
certain, but it is kept within the walls of the winter palace
but has no doubt already come to the knowledge of M. Kisselef.,
Thic news, the authenticity of which we guarantee, directly
contradicts the letters in the Press-, which
l announced the
approaching arrival of Nicholas in Paris.

Clermont
Wolhlog
Brother to Stitch 3
Won by a neck.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, APRIL 16.—Wind N., fresh breeze and fine.
Dr:AL, APRIL 15.—Wind N.E. to N.N.E., strong and
heavy squalls.—Sid. Cambria, Ceylon ; Sir John Rae, Reid,
St. Kitts; Flora, Muir, Jamaica ; William Forrester, Nassau;
Fear sot, ditto; Argyle, River St. Lawrence; Margaret,
Halifax; Margaret, West, Batavia.
KINSALE. APRIL 12.—Wind N.N.E.—SId. Bon Accord,
Davis's Straits.
DovErt, APRIL 15.—The Kroon Princessan, Amsterdam
to Gran, was brought in here to-day with considerable da-
man e, having been in contact with a steamer last night.
PORTSMOUTH. APRIL 15.—Wind N.N.E.—Off port, Ata-
!ante, Hansen, Monte Video, for Antwerp. The Luctor et
Enisergo, from Rotterdam to Boston, arrived here to-day with
I°3°' of sails, ecc., got aground entrance of the harbour; is ex-
pe,;:ted off next tide.
WEXFORD, APRIL 14.—The Rochester, Trueman, Liver-
po of to New York, struck on Blackwater Bank yesterday
ml wiling, and is full of water. The greater part of the pas-
se' alters have been landed, and the remainder are expected to
be. saved. Wind N.E., and a rough sea on the bank.
aIUNA, PENTLAND FRITH, APRIL 10.—The Salirna, of
rtfontLy,
por APRlLtree ,
Glasgow, and not the Selina, as reported, foundered off
De nnet Head, Bth instant.
c;illo‘°lleaßz
1-:::4t1: ult.—crew saved. asimmer
GRANGEMOUTH, APRIL 13.—The Isabella, of Montrose,
ficiu.—ndTerheed to Ketth"e'' Eastof aonfdtl forie Scalp,Loeh
from Shields to Leith, toundered about 57 miles off Tyne-
mouth Bar, 9th inst.—crew saved.
11ARGATE, AFAIL 15.—The Societe, of Bayonne, from
Sunderland to Nan, es, was totally lost on the Kentish Knock
Sand
yesterday —crew saved.
LivEnrooL, Arun. 15.—The France, Marshall, for London,
was on shore below Baltimore, 27th ult., with four feet water
in her hold. The Grans Uile steamer, hence to Drogheda,
took fire yesterday morning to the eastward of Lainbay
.Island, and burnt to the water's edge; part of crew and
'passengers saved by a fishing smack, and taken to Dublin.
Dam., Arainls.—The John Bartlett, for Adelaide, S. A.,
and the John Pink, fur Jamaica, are supposed to have passed
through the Downs during the night.
LIMERICK, APRIL 14.—Wind s.--Acrd. Champion, Mas-
oey, New Orleans; Rosr, Stevenson, Now York ; Inez,
Vrvard, Baltimore. Sld. Niman and Primrose, Quebec;
Ce leste, New York : Thonias Worthington, Barbadoes.

Mr. O'CONNELL arrived at Lyons on Sunday.
It was said that there was every hope of the
differences between Greece and Turkey being satis-
factorily settled.
The Three per Cents. closed at 771. 90c., the Five per
Cents., 115 f. 80c.; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,22/it. ;
Rouen, 885 f ; Havre, 671 f. 25c. ; Great Northern, 623 f 75c. ;
Avignon, 777 f. 50c. ; Vierz,m, 562 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 5 Wt.;
Basle, 1911. 25c.; Dieppe, 522 f. 50c.; Paris and Strasburg,
428 f. 75c.; Tours and Nantes, 423 f. 75c. ; Paris and Lyons,
-1321 5Uc. ; Lyons and Avignon, 450 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette,
44'f. ; Spanish Actives, 324 ; Spanish Passives, 5.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, A PIIL 15.
Boulogne and Amiens, 16%—Demerera, 31/i Dutch
Rhenish, 4—East Indian, 14—Louvain it la Sambre, 1
—Northern of France, 12:% —Paris and Ruuen, 35—Paris and ,
Strasbourg, 214.

ALARMING EXPLOSION IN THE ST RA ND.—Last
night a serious explosion of gas occurred upon the premises
known as the Globe Tea Warehouse, situate at No. 20,
Strand, the corner of Hungerford-street, belonging to 515.-
Marshall. It appeared that about eight o'clock some eN
the inmates experienced a strong smell of gas, and ix,
order to ascertain whetlitr or not a le .kage had taken
place in any of the pipes, a young matt, named Arthu.:
Fuzzey, incautiously lighted a piece of paper, which b a
was passing over the floor behind the counter. The
moment the light came near one portion of the !loot-ling
an explosion resembling the discharge of fire-arms oc-
curred; the young man was knocked down as if shot, and
svitt underhploas:rewun:flsfgoi:n,oudarntri,:eilleagetiftabLkasetlni e
basement
theu uosrh i
shattered tons
to thepiece-,
eee doers and
the
glassNshi
bent flying to the other side of the road. The firemen I
y"?:bd'eurt:httattoint'ehethga:4-tip. gas-pipes
heasdexbp3:dsoan;led tancecaun•i
undated below in Cue basement. The young mau Fuzzey I
e fe►co 114 to require surgical
as3idansv,

'6I4NY OMNIBUS.—SeVerai Dew ounnibus,es were
yester ,d av exhibited in the metropolis, the property of the
Econk or re Conveyance Company. and which will, on Mon-
day r ext. commence rowing from St. Paul's to the Bank,
and t' pence w the Brikhtim, Dover, and Greenwich Railway
Stati, pa, London-bridge;_lite farerfor each passenger outside
being; ply otie peony.

care or to turn it into ingratitude 1" It is impossible MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
not to sympathise to the uttermost in the aspirations
indulged in by the Prussian Monarch in greeting his
dear and well-beloved orders of Nobles, Burghers, and
Commons. The joy with which his bosom is inspired
in gazing round that ancient chamber, and remem-
bering that he—the KlNG—has summoned a nation
to Freedom, assures him that the blessing of Ost-
NIPOTENCB will be secured to the young Constitu-
tion. " Out of our unanimity," he says, " out
of our unanimity it will descend on the present and
future generations, and I hope on all our glorious
German fatherland in one broad stream, beside which
we may dwell in peace and safety, as by the shores of
the blessing-bringing waters that encircle the earth."
With that golden and almost Epicurean future
dawning upon Prussia, and guaranteed, so to speak,
by the lips of her patriotic SOVEREIGN, we may con-
tent ourselves with the simple record -of this noble
and august ceremony.

CITY, tivARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton market at Liverpool was very animated yes-
tenlay, and the sales amounted to 10,000 bales, including
3,000 bales of American and 3,000 of Surat on speculation.
The quotations for American were Id. to 4d. per lb. dearer.
There were 3.500 bales Surat sold at 4d. to 5(1., and 6,000
bales of American at 61-Ad. to 734 d. per lb.—Railway Shares
were sready, but not brisk.
The advices from the United States have enga _ed almost
exclusive attention to-day, and there has been much discus-
sion as to the construction to be put upon them. Some
regard the improvement in the rate of exchange as being
merely temporary, and not likely to prevent the continued
exportation of specie from the United Kingdom, in the face
of the immense supplies of provisions which we
have yet to expect. Others, on the contrary,
anticipate that the purchases of goods here,
even at the reduced limits generally given,
will go far to ease the
.balance against us, provided our
manufacturers can be uhluced to keep their mills going with
cotton at such high rates. The scarcity of shipping was still
felt, and the continuance of the Mexican war will cause full
employment for a large number of vessels which otherwise
would be free for commercial purposes.
In Toronto the flour trade had been firm, and sales of 2,000
barrels, lying at Kingston, were last made at over 6 dollars.
A statement of the liabilities of the Bank of Montreal, for
the month ending Feb. 28, makes the amount 846,5241., in
which promissory notes stand for 519,0821., and cash deposits
for 244,0001. The assets were 1,596,850/., the coin amounting
to 137,9001., and the notes and bills discounted to 1,370,0001.
Respecting the weather, we are advised from Montreal as
follows :—" Daring the whole of last week very fine weather
has prevailed, and the sleighing, where the roads are
not broken, in cabots. by the now returning use
of the old-fashioned trains, are very good. An im-
mense quantity of produce has, consequently, found its
way into, and the streets are more thronged with country
people from a distance than they have been this winter. The
snow is lying very deep, having fallen late, and there having
been few thaws in the winter months," so that whenever
spring sets in we may expect it to burst on us with unusual
suddenness.

At Kingston warm days and cold nights were the order of
the month. The sap is running, and the farmers were
making sugar, the first labour of the year. The crossing on
the ice still remained good, arid the sleighing was yet good.
The Toronto Colonist says—" la anticipation of the East
India mail for Britain, the Canada Company received appli-
cations from all parts of the province for exchange for remit-
tance. No lens than 250 bills, amounting, in all to about
2,5001., were granted; and it is highly honourable to the
Irish character that we are able to record that of this large
sum nineteen-twentieths was remitted to Ireland, by the
Irish in Canada, in sums varying from one pound and up-
wards."

The Court of Directors of the Bank of England are evi-
dently impressed with the difficulty of acting in the present
crisis so as to retain their bullion, and yet not unduly to dis-
tress the mercantile interest; otherwise at their parlour meet-
ings they would be likely sooner to come to a decision.
Yesterday they sat until late in the afternoon, and came
to the determination of keeping the rate of interest at five
per cent., but of leaving themselves at liberty to decline
or accept bills of three months' date. The con-
sequence is that money is dearer to-day with
the discount houses, especially upon any but first-
class bills. We have even heard of 8 per "cent. being
refused upon paper presumed to be connected with specula-
tion. In the meantime the price of grain is on the advance,
and the decrease in the note circulation of the United King-
dom during the mouth to the 27th ult., compared with the
previous four weeks, was upwards of 700,000/.
The Stock :tiarket opened this morning with some appear-
ance of buoyancy, Consols having touched 874 to % for
present transfer, and 871,4 for May 27. Since then sales
have been again pressed; and the quotation is about 87 to %
for both. Exchequer-bills are rather higher, via., 2s. dis-
count to ls. premium. Bank Stock is worth 193 to 195.
The New Three-sod-a-Quarter per Cents. have realised
87% to 88.

The Foreign Bonds have been dull. Portuguese Four per
Cents. are 343/4, and Spanish Three Cents. 36% to %.
Mexican are 20%, being flat still. Dutch Two-and-a-Halt
per Cent!, realise 58%.
Railway Shares have been tolerably steady, though with
but little doing.