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 23,1 of February, at Bueno
Vista, about six miles south-west of Sal, i do. 0 wing
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
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
IBueno 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 piece.: of artillery
as well as two of their flags. 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 URREA 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
:o 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.

Madrid journals of the 9th hare 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 Murias de
Paredes.

MADRID BOLSA, APRIL 9.—The Three per Cents
were done at 32f for cash ; the Five per Cents. al
201 ; the Debt without. interest at 6 ; and the Coll•
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. lie
is to leave Paris for London immediately.
In allusion to the announcement of the Prase of
the approaching visit of the Emperor NICHOLAS to
Paris, the National says—

"A morning paper of yesterday, in its private correspon-
dence from tit. Pe.teraburgh, informed its readers that the
Emperor of Russia contemplated coining to Paris tads Rum-
mer. That that journal should 10. kon such a journey by the
Emperor Nicholas, under exiting circumseatices,
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
renter of the Bank ~f France. Now, as hitherto, all hearts
shuuder 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-
'suit to our feelings, to our ioeas, 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 lie visited us France was invaded
by foreigners. The people remember well the Cossack:. '
bivouacking in the Champs Elysees, and the presence of
Nicholas, by reviving the recollection of that tatal 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 not imitate the bilenc.-
of London."

The Chamber of Deputies commenced on Tuesday
the discussion of the project of law authorising the
Bank of France to issue notes for 250 f. (101.) The
report of the Committee on the Bill recommended
that the amount should be reduced to 200 f., and M
LEON FAt.:culia proposed a reduction to 1001. 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 po4tponed. 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 Kisselef.
Thin news, the authenticity of which we guarantee, directly
contradicts the letters in the Press., which announced the
approaching arrival of Nicholts in Paris."

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., 1151. 80c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,225 f.;
Rouen, 885 f ; Havre, 6711. 25c. ; Great Northern, 623 f. 75c.;
Avignon, 777 f. 50c. ; Vierzon. 56'2f. 50c.; Bordeaux, 5 iut. ;
Basle, 1911. 25c.; Dieppe, 322 f. 50c.; Paris and Strasburg,
4281. 75c.; Tours and Nantes, 4231. 75c. ; Paris and Lyons,
432 f. 50c. ; Lyons and Avignon. 4501. ; Bordeaux and Cette,
44.%f. ; Si.anish Actives, 32i ; Spanish Passives, 5.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Amt. 15.
Boulogne and Amiens, 161/2. —Denerera, 31/i Dutch
Rhenl.l), 4—East Indian, Ali—Louvain a la Sambre, 11,i
—Northern of France, 121,11—Paris and R uen, 35—Paris and
Strasbourg, 24.

AL/RUING EIPLOSION IN TUS STRAND.—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 Mr.
Marshall. It appeared that about eight o'clock some of
the inmates experienced a strong smell of gas, and in
artier to ascertain whether or not a 'ell:age had taken
place in any of the pipes, a young man, named Arthur
Fuzzily, incautiously lighted a piece of paper, which he
was passing over the floor behind the counter. The
moment the light came near one portion of the flooring
an explosion resembling the discharge of fire-arms oc-
curred; the young man was knocked down as if shot, and
the fluoring under the shop torn up, the doors and win-
dows in the basement floor shattered to pieces, and the glass
TTantL a below
sent flying to the other side of the road. The firemen
leak, and that the gas had escaped and accu-
getiuiny
burtkeutbaseournthenet.fusThoe youngwrequ mann etrFuzsiseciay
then found that one of the gas-pipes had by some means
was so dr

care or to turn it into ingratitude !" lt is impossible
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 Old-
NIPOTENCH Will be secured to the young Constitu-
tion. " Out of our unanimity," he says, " out
of our unanimity it will degcend 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.