The Sun.
London, England, 1847-10-23 00:00:00

York Sun's Pony Express, we extract-the 'following
particulars : •
The Arco Iris had received letterr.frbm Mexico
under date of the 9th September, stating that on the-.
7th the Mexican Commissioners declared .that tike,
propositions made by Mr. Trist were inadrnissiblee
In consequence of this General Santa Anna convoked
a council of generals who decided that notice should
be given to General Scott that the armistice was at an
end, appointed the •9th for the recommencement of
hostilities.
On the 6th September General Scott addressed a
letter to Santa Anna from Tambaya, accusing him
of having violated several articles of the armistice.
One of the violations was in not allowing the Ame-
rican army to obtain supplies from the city of
Mexico.

General Scott demanded an explanation and full
reparation, and concluded as follows:—" If these are
not given, I hereby formally notify you that if I do
not receive the most complete satisfaction on all these
points before twelve o'clock to-morrow, I shall con-
sider the armistice terminated from that hour."
To this letter Santa Anna replied at considerable
length, and with great severity. He accused General
Scott of having violated the terms of the armistice in
refusing to allow flour from the mills in the vicinity
to be brought into the city; and he says that the
American waggons were driven out of the city on
account of the objectionable conduct of the officers
accompanying them.
Santa Anna also charges General Scott with having
sacked the Mexican towns in the vicinity of the capital,
and robbed and desecrated the churches, stealing and
destroying articles held sacred by every Mexican.
Santa Anna concludes as follows :—" I flatter
myself that your Excellency will be convinced on
calm reflection of the weight of my reasons, but if by
misfortune you should seek only a . pretext to deprive
the first city on the Arherican continent of an oppor-
tunity to free the unarmed population of the horrors
of war, there will be left me no other means of salva-
tion but to repel force by force, with the decision and
energy which my high obligations impose upon me."
On the 7th, General Herrera, as Commandant of
the city of Mexico, addressed the clergy, exhorting
them to exert all their influence to incite the people
to arm themselves and prepare to resist the American
army.
On the Bth September, General Scott attacked the
Mill del Rey, or King's Mill, in the immediate vici-
nity of Chapultepec, and according to the Diario del
Gobierno, and the Boletin published at Atlisco, our
army was repulsed after a short conflict, in which we
lost about 400 killed and from 600 to 700 in wounded,
and fell back upon Tacubaya.
The account of this affair, given by the Boletin,
represents the battle to be the most bloody and se-
verely contested of the whole war. This, however,
is a Mexican account, and concludes as follows :
" At 11 o'clock the enemy commenced a retrograde
movement, and by two in the afternoon withdrew all
his forces to Tacubaya, abandoned the two points he
had occupied and blowing up the house of Mats,
although some say it was set on fire by a bomb from
Chapultepec."

It is believed that Generals Tviiggs and Pierce
directed the attack, and that they put in motion
about 8,000 men.

It is certain that the fire was more intense and
brisk than at Chumbusco.

It is impossible to ascertain the loss of either side.
Ours does not amount to 100 killed and 250 wounded.
There are a few missing—nearly all not killed or
wounded retiring to Chapultepec.
The enemy, according to the confession of an Irish-
man, who came over to us in the evening, carried off
400 dead and 600 or 700 wounded.
They lament the loss of General Leon, since dead;
that of Colonel Balderas, of the valiant Colonels
Iluerla and Geleati, and of the determined Captain
Mateas of Puebla.
A Mexican letter announces that Riley and his
Legion of St. Patrick, seventy in number, were
ordered by the court-martial to be hung. The sen-
tence was approved by General Scott, and on the Bth
the whole legion were hung in presence of the army,
as also of the enemy. The Diario del Gobierno says
—" At half-past four o'clock this morning the Ameri-
cans attacked the position of the Mill of El Rey,
close to the fortress of Chapultepec. This numerous
and brave column were, however, repulsed three
times by valiant soldiers, who this day gave brilliant
proofs of their patriotism and bravery. More than a
thousand of the enemy remained on the field of
battle, and on our side the loss has been less than one-
half that number—having to lament the death of the
gallant Colonel John Lucas • Balderas and General
Don Antonion de Leon being wounded, together
with several other distinguished chiefs and officers.
The ",traitor" Santa Anna commanded in person the
column which forced the Americans to retreat; taking
with them, without doubt, the conviction that this
only brought rivers of blood, that they cannot pene-
trate the city of Mexico, and that at all events they
will there find their sepulchre."
We translate the subjoined letter from Jalapa to
the Arco Iris, without vouching for its correctness
When General Perez abandoned the Mill El Rey,
a bomb discharged from Chapultepec fell among the
amunition waggons of the enemy, in the yard of the
Mill, causing four of them to explode, by which 300
Americans are said to have been blown up, including
General Worth, who, according to the accounts, had
not been seen or heard from, the following day, at
Tacubaya."
The next accounts we have from the capital come
in a letter to the Arco Iris, dated the 10th September,
of which the following is an extract :—" The Mexican
Government has taken three hundred thousand dollars
which were being sent by a commercial house to the
camp of the enemy. General Smith has expired. By
the enclosed slip you will see that the Americans
mutilated and cruelly assassinated the unfortunate
Irish who were taken at the battle of Churubusco."
Another letter from the capital, under date of 11th
and 12th says, "It appears that the enemy is con-
vinced of the improbability of reducing the city by
any other means than bombarding it ; because he
has lost 900 to 1,000 men, who were placed hors de
combat by the action of the Bth, and among them
thirty-seven officers and three colonels were killed,
and one colonel wounded. It appears that the death
of General Pillow is uncertain."

They have expelled from their houses all inhabi-
tants of the village of Mixcoac in order to establish
their hospitals and head-quarters. On the 12th of
September, at five o'clock in the morning, the bells
awoke us by the announcement of an alarm. The
batteries of San Antonie Abad and the corresponding
battery of the enemy opened upon each other. We
have seen discharged by the enemy a multitude of
bombs, the greatest number of which burst in the air
long before they reached our trenches. At the same
hour a firing commenced at Chapultepec, on the right
side of the town, and in the mountains from whence

came the attack. A short distance from the enemy

were stationed our forces—infantry and cavalry—
who were watching the foe. We opened at half-past
six from the battery of Garipa of Belen, or it may be
from that starting from the end of Bacco Nuevo,
%hich is situated in the angle formed by the cause-
way leading to the villages of La Piedas and Tacu-
baya. This brings us to the 12th, but at what hour
of the day the letter was closed we are not informed.
Of the eventful denouement, says the Picayune,
we have 'only a brief account, but sufficient to
assure us that the Americans have achieved
a brilliant triumph, and that our army is revelling
in the Halls of the Alontezumas. The only reliable
account we have of the last struggle before the capital
is in a letter addressed to Mr. Dimond, our collector
at Vera Cruz, from Orizaba, as follows :

" Orizaba, Sept. 19, 1847.
" I have the honour to inform you that an express
arrived here this evening from Mexico, which brings
intelligence that General Scott was in the city of
Mexico ; that on the 13th the American troops
took Chapultepec and the Citadel, and went into the
city that night. General Bravo was killed, and
General Santa Anna was wounded in the arm and
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In regard to the American loss the Picayune says
"_ As to our loss before the army entered the city,
w e have nothing authentic. We fear this new vic-
tory
__ has not been achieved without great loss of life.
The Mexican accounts show that active hostilities
commenced on the Bth, and were continued with
more or less activity until our army took possession
of the city."
A passenger by the James L. Day, informs us
that it was reported among the Mexicans at Vera
Cruz that we lost 1,700 men in killed and wounded,
but he could trace it to no authentic source. An-
other passenger estimates General Scott's loss at a
quarter to a third of his army.
We now come to what has been looked for with so
much anxiety—the basis upon which Mr. Trist and
the Mexicans proposed to negotiate, from which it
would seem that there was no disposition on the part
of the Mexicans to treat from the first. The propo-
sitions are farcical in the extreme. I annex a synop-
sis. The first proposition we come to is from Mr.
Trist :
Article 1. There shall be a firm and universal Peace
as soon as the treaty is ratified by both parties.
2. All prisoners of both sides shall he returned as
soon as the treaty is ratified by the United ,F,tates,
all towns captured by Americans shall be giv(!n up,
except such as are comprised within the limits of the
United States by article 4, of this treaty, wit);so}tt the