The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-31 00:00:00

CRICKET.

MARYLEBONE CLUB WITH DEAN AND HILL
YER v. OXFORD UNIVERSITY.

This annual contest was opened on the Magdalen
Ground, Cowley-marsh, o❑ Thursday, and was continued
throughout Friday and Saturday in the presence of a
large assemblage of spectators. The following is the
score of the first innings:—

MARYLEBONE.
A. K. George, Esq., b Yonge ... 9
Dean, b Yonge
L. H. Bayley, Esq., b Yonge ... 8
Hillyer, b Yonge ... 26
Hon. H. Grimston, b Yonge... ... 18
C. Harenc, Esq., b Willis ... 1
Lord Burghley, b Yonge 11
H. W. Keate, Esq., not out ... 7
M. Ainslie, Esq., run out ... 1
C. Lloyd, Esq., b Yonge 6
W. Moncrieff, Esq., run out... ...
Byes 11, wide 8, no ball 1 ... 20

UNIVERSITY.
R. Bateman, Esq., b Hi ... 4
R. Honey wood, Esq., b 'Harenc ... 18
P. Williams, Esq., b Hillyer... ... 4
C. H. Ridding, Esq., b Hillyer ... 19
W. H. Davies, Esq., b Yiillyer ... 14
V. C. Smith, Esq., b Hillyer ... 19
C. Rarvioiph, Esq., b Dean ... 24
G. Yonge, Esq., b Hillyer ... 5
A. Redding, Esq., b Hillyer... ... 10
S. Soames, run out ... ... 6
F. Willis, Esq., not out ... 16
Byes 5, wide 1 ... 6

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CAMBRIDGE TOWN v. GOWN MATCH.
The annual match between the Gown and Town of the
University of Cambridge was played last week, and
seldom has it occurred that so much excitement has been
manifested as upon this occasion.

The final score stood thus:—
THE TOWN.

Pryor, c M'Niven, bA. Walker 5 b Lee 4
Bell, b Lee 27 c and b Walker... 16
Cornwall, c Boudier, b Leith 34 c and b Walker... 7
Fenner, c 111‘Niven, b Leith
Diver, b Hammersley
Hayward, b King 53 c Leith, b Walker 0
Ringwood, c 11P.Niven, b Lee
Arnold, b A. Walker
H. Foster, Esq., bA. Walker... 5 run out 6
Ilaggis, not out...
_ . . _

Wiiiierion, b Lee 3 not out 5
Byes 4, wide 11, no balls 5. .. 20 Byes 6, wide 3

193 91
THE GOWNS EN.
J. Lee, Esq.' c Cornwall, b Fenner 2
R. Seddon, Esq., b Diver ... ...... 26 b Arnold 0
A. M. Hoare, Esq., c Diver, b
Winterton
R. T. King, Esq., c Cornwall, b
Arnold l2 b Arnold
Boudier, Esq., c Winterton,
b Diver
0. C. Pell, Esq., not out
J. Walker, Esq., b Arnold
E. M'Niveii, Esq., c Kingwood,
bArnold .. ... 29 not out ~... ......... 25
Hammersley, Esq., b Diver 2
J. Leith, Esq., run out 0
..
A. Walker, Esq., b Diver 2
Byes and wides l3 Byes and wides ....+ll
176 109
The Gownsmen thus won by eight wickets.

SIR J. FRANKLIN'S EXPEDITION.
Some weeks ago a paragraph concerning this expedi-
tion, from a Portsmouth journal, made the tour of the
newspapers, and was noticed in the Literary Gazette. It
was to the effect, that Dr. Richardson had undertaken to
conduct another expedition in search of that under Sir
John Franklin and Captain Crozier, and to carry provi-
sion and succour to relieve any distress or danger which
might have occurred to our brave navigators. As this
statement seemed to imply an immediate alarm for their
safety, we have deemed it our duty to make the best in-
quiry into the subject, for the sake of satisfying the
public mind ; and have now the satisfaction to make
known the result. It is true that Dr. Richardson, the
old companion and sharer in the toils and perils of
Arctic discovery, nobly offered to the Admiralty the
service of which we have spoken, and that Lord Auck-
land, feeling the deepest interest in the subject, lost no
time in giving it the earnest attention of the Board. It
was judiciously suggested, by competent and experienced
persons who were consulted, that supplies of provisions
should be forthwith cent, under the direction of the
Hudson's Bay Company, and conveyed through their
agency to the northern shores of America, by the
Mackenzie and Coppermine rivers, so as to meet and
furnish the expedition if it arrived in that region. This
has been done, and the stores are in course of transit to
the destined points. It has also been determined that,
should nothing be heard from Sir John Franklin in the
mean time, Dr. Richardson shall set out next spring
upon a similar errand, and so follow up the proceedings
already in progress. But we ought to observe, that
though these humane and salutary precautions have been
adopted, no apprehensions are or need yet for a long
time be entertained respecting the fate of the expedition.
In the first place, it was fully provisioned to last till the
autumn of 1848; and if, in the prospect of detention by
elementary causes, reduced to shorter rations, to the end
of that year. It has, therefore, wherever it may be at
this, moment, eighteen months' provision in store. In
htahvee
Russian
accounts fromrit territories;
;
John Franklin
the interim we have two alternatives in view. Within
the next
faw
overland months w
through
emay
or before the period when Dr. Richardson would start,
we might hail the return of the enterprising commander
himself and his gallant companions, having achieved a
successful termination to their arduous voyage. God
grant it may be so; but, at all events, we repeat that
there is not any ground for natiobal alarm as far as
present consideration is involved. We certainly agree
that the measures so promptly adopted by Lord Auck-
land do honour to his foresight and feelings; and we are
sure it would only require a hint from some proper
quarter, whose opinion and authority would carry
weight, to induce his Lordship to take a further step in
the event of such intelligence as we have alluded to not
being received. We think that his Lordship should be
prepared, with two vessels, to pursue, as far as possible
the tract laid down for the expedition, and carry out
every aid that its probable condition might render
necessary. For it ought to be remembered, that no suf-
ficient overland supplies could be carried to above 160
men ; and especially by parties who must themselves
encounter great hardships and privations in the attempt
to find them. We, however, confide the whole case to
the same alacrity and discretion which has already dis-
tinguished the Admiralty proceedings.—Literary Gazette.

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent,
the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court and the domestic
household, attended divine service yesterday morning in
the private chapel at Buckingham Palace.
Her Majesty and her Royal Consort took their usual
early walk yesterday.
The Royal Family took their accustomed airings yes-
terday in the pleasure grounds of the Palace.
Her Majesty, accompanied by Prince Alfred and the
Princess Alice, and attended by the Hon. Miss Dawson,
took an airing on Saturday in an open barouche and four.
Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Equerry in
Waiting, attended on horseback.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, as Lord Warden
of the Stannaries, presided on Saturday morning at a
meeting of the Duchy Court of Cornwall, which was held
in the Council Chamber, Privy Council Office, White-
hall.

The meeting was attended by the Lord Chancellor,
Lord Lyndhurst, the Right Hon. T. Pemberton Leigh
(Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall), and Sir Henry
Wheatley, Bart.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse-
back on Saturday, accompanied by the Duke of Welling-
ton and attended by the Equerry in Waiting.
The Queen and Prince Albt.rt, accompanied by the
Prince of Leiningen, and attended by the Viscountess
Canning, Hon. Miss Dawson, Marquis of Ormond°,
Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, and Captain the
Hon. A. H. Gordon, honoured the performance at the
Royal Italian Opera House with their presence on Satur-
day evening.

her Majesty the Queen Dowager, and their High-
nesses the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess
of Saxe Weimar, attended Divine service yesterday
afternoon in Westminster Abbey.
The Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of
Saxe Weimar, attended by the Countess of Assenburg.
Count de Beust, and Baron Zigesar, visited and in-
spected the Tower of London and the Thames Tunnel
on Saturday. Their Royal Highnesses accompanied her
Majesty the Queen Dowager for a drive in the after-
noon, in a pony phaeton. The ladies and gentlemen of
the suite of her Majesty, and of the Hereditary Grand
Duke and Grand Duchess, also drove out in pony
ph:ctons.

His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Constantine
of Russia visited Lord John Russell on Saturday at his
residence in Chesharn-place. His Imperial Highness
also paid visits to Viscount Palmerston, at his residence
in Carlton Gardens, and to the Marquis of Clanricarde
at his residence on Carlton House Terrace. The Grand
Duke honoured Baron de Brunnow, the Russian Mi-
nister, with his company at dinner on Saturday evening,
at his residence in Dover-street.

Monsieur de Berg was in attendance on his Imperial
Highness the Grand Duke Constantine on Friday even-
ing at the concert given by her Majesty in Buckingham
Palace.

We have authority to state that the time each day for
the issue of tickets to view the Royal Pictures in St.
James's Palace is from nine to one o'clock.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, at-
tended Divine service, yesterday morning, in Grosvenor
Chapel. Baroness Hammerstein and Mr. Edmond Mild-
may were in waiting on her Royal Highness.
The Duke of Cambridge attended Divine service, yes-
terday morning, in the Lock Hospital. Major Stephens
was in waiting on his Royal Highness.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Augusta Bruce and Lord James Murray,
honoured the performance at her Majesty's Theatre with
her presence on Saturday evening. Her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Cambridge also honoured the perform-
ance with her presence.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Gloucester
and the Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Kent on Saturday, at Clarence House,
St. James's.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester House.
A Cabinet Council was held at three o'clock on Satur-
day afternoon at the Foreign-office. It was attended by
Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of
Lansdowne, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston,
Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl
of Auckland, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Campbell,
Viscount Morpeth, the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, and
the Right Hon. H. Labouchere.
The Council sat two hours and a half.

THE UNITED STATES
AND MEXICO.

GREAT BATTLE AT CERRO

GORDO.

THE MEXICANS AGAIN DEFEATED.
JALAPA AND PEROTE TAKEN.
FLIGHT OF SANTA ANNA.

By the steam ship Caledonia, which arrived at
Liverpool on Sunday morning, we have received New
York papers of the 15th instant. Their contents are
very important. On the 17th and 18th of April the
American forces under the command of Gen. Scott,
completely defeated the Mexican army, commanded
by Santa Anna, killing 400 and taking five generals
and 3,000 Mexicans prisoners. Santa Anna fled,
leaving his carriage, his money, his plate, and even
the dinner which had been prepared for him in the
hands of the victors. The American force amounted
to 8,178 men, the Mexican force was estimated at
14,000. The following is the official dispatch of
General Scott announcing his victory :
Head-quarters of the Army, Plan del Rio,
50 miles from Vera Cruz, April 19,1847.
Sir,—The plan of attack, sketched in General Or-
ders, No. 111, herewith, was finely executed by this
gallant army, before two o'clock P.M. yesterday. We
are quite embarrassed with the results of victory—
prisoners of war, heavy ordinance, field batteries,
small arms, and accoutrements.
About 3,000 men laid down their arms with the
usual proportion of field and company officers beside
five generals, several of them of great distinction.
Pinson, Jarrero, La Vega, N oriega, and Abend o. A
sixth general, Vasquez, was killed in defending the
battery (tower) in the rear of the whole Mexican
army, the capture of which gave us those glorious
results.

THE MURDER AT ROTHERHAM.

A Deputation, consisting of Sir Isaac Morley, and
Mr. Waddingham, accompanied by Mr. Reeves, solici-
tor, Leeds, had an interview with the Right lion. Ed-
war3 Strutt, on Saturday, at the office of the Commis-
sioners of Railways, in Great George-street.
The Earl of Clarendon, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,
has returned to town from Dublin. _ _ _

Our loss, though comparatively small in number,
has been serious. Brigadier General Shields, a com-
mander of activity, zeal, and talent, is, I feat, if not
dead, mortally wounded. He is some five miles
from me at this moment. The field of operations
covered many miles, broken by mountains and deep
chasms, and I have not a report, as yet, from any
division or brigade. _ _ _

The Dukes of Wellington and Rutland, and the Duke
and Duchess of St. Alban's attended the early Service
yesterday, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. Prayers
were read by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the Sermon was
preached by the Rev. Dr. Goddard.
At the daily service in the Chapel Royal, St. James's,
yesterday, the prayers were read by the Rev. T. Helmore,
the communion service by the Rev. Dr. Wesley (Sub-
Dean.) The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr.
Goddard. The anthem was—" I beheld, lo ! a great
multitude" (Blow.) Mr. Turle presided at the organ.
The sacrament was administered by the Rev. Dr. Wes•
ley (Sub-Dean.) Among the nobility present were the
Dukes of Beaufort and Leeds, the Duchesses of Beau-
fort and Sutherland, Ladies Spencer, Fortescue, St.
Germans, Wilton, Desart, Ebrington, and B. Somerset.
The Rev. Dr. llook will preach the sermon on Sunday
next in the Chapel Royal, St. James's.

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COMMIT PAL OF THE ACCUSED.
ROTHERHAM, SATURDAY EVENING.—The inquest was
held this afternoon, at the Court-house, Rotherham, be-
fore T. Badger, Esq., Coroner, and a highly respectable
j ury.
After viewing the body, the evidence of several of the
witnesses was taken, and the jury then adjourned to the
Courthouse. The case, as might have been expected,
had caused great excitement in the neighbourhood, and
the road near the gaol was occupied with groups of per-
sons throughout the whole of the morning.
Benjamin Jagger proved that the body was that of
his wife.

Twigg's division, followed by Shield's (now Col.
Baker's brigade) are now at or near Xalapa, and
Worth's division is in route thither, all pursuing,
with good results, as I learn, that part of the Mexi-
can army—perhaps six or seven thousand men, who
fled before our right had carried the tower, and
gained the Xalapa road.
. .

Pillow's brigade alone, is near me at this depot of
wounded, sick, and prisoners ; and I have time only
to give from him the names of First Lieut. F. B.
Nelson, and Second C. G. Hill, both of the Second
Tennessee foot (Haskell's Regiment) among the
killed, and in the brigade 106, of all ranks, killed or
wounded.

Among the latter, the gallant Brigadier General
himself has a smart wound in the arm, but not dis-
abled, and Major R. Farqueson, 2d Tennessee;
Captain H. F. Murray, 2d Lieut. G. T. Sutherland,
Ist Lieut. W. P. Hale, Adjutant, all of the same
regiment, severely, and Ist Lieut. W. Yearwood,
mortally wounded. All I know, from personal ob-
servation on the ground, that Ist Lieut. Ewell, of
the Rifles, if not now dead, was mortally wounded
in entering, sword in hand, the entrenchments around
the captured tower.
Second Lieutenant Derby, Topographical Engi-
neers, I also saw, at the same place, severely wounded,
and Captain Patten, 2d United States Infantry, lost
his right hand. Major Sumner, 2d United States
Dragoons, was slightly wounded the day before, and
Captain Johnston, Topographical Engineers (now
Lieutenant Colonel of Infantry) was very severely
wounded some days earlier, while reconnoitering. I
must not omit to add that Captain Mason and Second
Lieutenant Davis, both of the rifles, were among the
very severely wounded in storming the same tower.
I estimate our total loss, in killed and wounded
may be about 250, and that of the enemy 350. In
the pursuit towards Xalapa (25 miles hence) I learn
we have added much to the enemy's loss in prisoners,
killed, and wounded. In fact, I suppose his retreat-
ing army to be nearly disorganised, and hence my
haste to follow, in an hour or two, to profit by events.
In this hurried and imr erfeet report I must not
omit to say that Brigadier General Twiggs, in
passing the mountain range beyond Cerro Gordo,
crowned with the tower, detached from his division,
as I suggested the day before, a strong force to carry
that height, which commanded the Xalapa road at
the foot, and could not fail, if carried, to cut off the
whole, or any part of the enemy's forces, from a re-
treat in any direction.
A portion of the Ist artillery, under the often-
distinguished Brevet Colonel Childs, the 3d infantry,
under Captain Alexander, the 7th infantry, under
Lieutenant-Colonel Plympton, and the rifles, under
Major Loring, all under the temporary command of
Colonel Harney, 2d dragoons, during the confine-
ment to his bed of Brevet-Brigadier General P. F.
Smith, composed that detachment. The style of exe-
cution, which I had the pleasure to witness, was most
brilliant and decisive.

The principal evidence was that of Elizabeth, wife of
Joseph Turner ; Thomas Cocking, the landlord of the
Travellers' Inn ; and Joshua Ileward, of Rotherham,
labourer ; all of whom had witnessed the murderous
attack, but were unable to prevent it.
In addition, Ann Flannigan, of Rotherham, deposed—
Yesterday morning, I was on the road, and met Samuel
Linley. He crossed off to me, and said, " Llolloa missus."
I was walking fast, and said I had no time to talk to
him, and walked away as fast as I could, till I got be-
yond the toll bar, and then heard a scream. On turn-
ing round, I saw a woman down on the side of the foot-
path, and Linley beating her. I cried out murder, and
some men ran to her assistance as fast as they could.
Her throat was cut, and site was dying when I got up.
The prisoner, Samuel Linley, is the mao whom I saw on
the top of the woman beating her. I did not see his
knife, but there was a pool of blood round the woman.
By the jury—lle attempted to get hold of me as I
passed, but I got away from him.
The CORONER to the prisoner—Would you like to ask
the witness any questions? Linley—lt is of no use
asking me. I cannot talk to you now.
Henry Wilkinson, of Rotherham, surgeon, gave the
necessary professional evidence.
The CORONER having addressed the jury upon the
evidence, and the law which applied to the case, they
returned a verdict of " Wilful murder" against Samuel
Linley.

The brigade ascended the long and difficult slope
of Cerro Gordo, without shelter, and under the tre-
mendous fire of artillery and musketry with the
utmost steadiness, reached the breastworks, drove the
enemy from them, planted the colours of the Ist ar-
tillery, 3d and 7th infantry—the enemy's flag. still
flying—and, after some minutes' sharp firing, finished
the conquest with the bayonet.
It is a most pleasing duty to say that the highest
praise is duelto llarney, Childs, Plympton, Loring,
Alexander, their gallant officers and men, for this
brilliant service, independent of the great results
which soon followed.
Worth's division of regulars coming up at this time,
he detached Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel C. F. Smith,
with his light battalion, to support the assault, but
not in time. The General reaching the tower a few
minutes before me, and observing a white flag dis-
played from the nearest portion of the enemy's batte-
ries below, sent out Colonels Harney and Childs to
hold a parley. The surrender followed in an hour or
two.

Major-General Patterson left a sick bed to share in
the dangers and fatigues of the day, and after the sur-
render went forward to command the advanced forces
toward Xalapa.
Brigadier General Pillow and his brigade twice
assaulted with great daring the enemy's line of batte-
ries on our left, and though without success, they con-
tributed much to distract and dismay their immediate
opponents.
President Santa Anna, with Generals Canalizo and
Almonte, and some six or eight thousand men, escaped
toward Xalapa just before Cerro Gordo was carried,
and before Twiggs's division reached the National
Road above.

earlypcineoerrle ttatah t
have
ov
ne
I have determined to parole the prisoners—officers
and men—as I have not the means of feeding them
here beyond to-day, and cannot afford to detach a
heavy body of horse and foot, with wagons, to accom-
pany them to Vera Cruz. Our baggage train, though
increasing, is not yet half large enough to give an
assured progress to this army.
Beside, a :greater number of prisoners would, pro-
bably, escape from the escort in the long and deep
sandy road, without subsistence—ten to one—that
we shall find again, out of the same body of men, in
the ranks opposed to us. Not one of the Vera Cruz
prisoners is believed to have been in the lines of
ne,ot the means of
Cerro Gordo. Some six. of the officers, highest in
rank, refuse to give their paroles, except to go to
Vera Cruz, and thence, perhaps. to the United States.
The small arms and their accoutremlenhtesveboeirndgereocf,
nthoemvaltuoehteo
douesrtraorymeyd
;hefroer owreathahvoem
transporting them. lam also. somewhat embarrassed
with the pieces of artillery—all bronze—which
we have captured. It would take a brigade, and half
siege-train
the mules of our army, to transport them fifty mileg
A field battery I shall take for service with de.
army ; but the heavy metal must be collected, and left
lainerdethfoerptrhoepperrecsaernrtiagelsVewih..tahveus.our own
eosistliioanll
thniost,sidperobably,
Being much occupied with the prisoners, and all
the details of a forward movement, beside looking to
the supplies which are to
.follow. from Vera Cruz, I
inwt:itrn:stre,r:ulownisessolpd\perlayed by the means o: have time to add no more—intending to be at Xalapa
INFIELDof Perote—
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taken in his carriage
an accompanying
*the honour to remain, Sir,with high respect,
SCOTT.
letter
President
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Yesterday ; also to his proclamation, issued on hear-
ing that we ,had captured Vera Crtiz, Sz.c. in which
he says—" If the enemy
.advance one step more, the
3.tooPuthilSem.
National Independence will be buried in the abyss of
the past." We have taken that step. W. S.
I make a second postscript, to say that there is
some hope, I am happy to learn, that General Shields
may survive his wounds.
One of the principal motives for paroling the
prisoners of war is, to diminish the resistance of other
garrisons in our march. W. S.
Hon. Wm. L. Marcy, Secretary-at-War.

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half-vast seven, and the courier started fur Paris at
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MILITARY COURTS- MARTIAL.— Saturday. ',Lie
Battalion of Coldstream Guards, stationed at St. John's
Wood, under the command of Colonel Bentinck, were assent.
bled in square to hear the minutes of a court-martial read
on private J. Brownhill, of No. 8 Company, who bad been
tried by a court-martial for absenting himself without leave
from his battalion for upwards of seven days and nights.
The Court found him guilty, and sentenced hint to thirty
days' imprisonment with hard labour. On Friday, the 28th
inst., a district court-martial assembled, composed of the
officers of the 2d Battalion Coldstream Guards, at present
stationed at St. John's Wood, when private J. Crook, No. 7
Company, was brought to trial by order of Colonel Bentinck,
commanding the Coldstream Guards, under authority of a
warrant from his Grace the Commander-in-Chief,
for dis-
graceful conduct as a soldier, in stealing one pair of regi-
mental trousers, the property of another private of the 2d
Battalion Coldstream Guards. The finding and sentence of
the Court will not be made known to the battalion until
finally approved of by the Queen.
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(From the New York Tribune.)
List of Mexican officers captured at Cerra Gordo
on the 18th of April, who have given their parole of
honour to report thernselves, without delay, to the
Cvin Lila Idaht of the American forces at Vera Cruz as
prisoners of war :
Jose Ma Jarero Brigadier-general.
Romula de la Vega, Brigadier-general,

A 11.111 W d Samuel Mills, a " 11:0 Vsy, bleu
committed for trial to Lancaster Castle for a horrible assault,
committed under the most revolting circumstances, at Pres-
ton, on a child named Jane Edmondson, under four years
of age.

TILE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 31, 1847;

P. Ruiz y Baranda, Captain of Mexican Navy,
commanding artillery.
Vicente Arguellea, captain artillery.
Jose Ma Mata, captain.
Jose Ma Gallegos, commanding Grenadiers.
Mariano Camocho, Ist Lieut. Artillery.
Bartohme Amable, 2d Lieut. Artillery.
Jose R. Cobarubiar, 2d Lieut. Artillery.
Jose de Lastor Bras y Soller, Lt.-Col. Battalion de
la Libertad.
Jose Nunez, Capt. 6th Regt. Infantry.
Jose Ma Mareno, Captain 6th Regt. Infantry.
Gregorio del Callejo, Capt. 6th Infantry.
Rafael de Berrabidas, 2d Lieut. 6th Regt. Infantry
Salveio Velez, Aid-de-Camp to Gen. La Vega.
Francisco Fernandez, Ist Lieut. Mexican Navy.
The above prisoners, under the charge of Captain
George W. Hughes, Corps of Topographical En-
gineers, arrived at Vera Cruz on the 21st instant,
about one hour previous to the departure of the
McKim.

It has been left to their election by General Scott,
whether they should remain close prisoners in the
castle of San Juan de Uloa or proceed to New Or-
leans, where they should be allowed such personal
liberty as their condition and conduct might seem to
require of the commandant of that post. It is un•
derstood that all of the foregoing captured officers have
expressed a desire to be transferred to the United
States, and that Colonel Wilson, Governor of Vera
Cruz, had acceded to their wishes, and had directed
that a vessel should be held in readiness to sail, for
their accommodation, about the 25th of April.
The Mexican loss at Buena Vista, officially re-
ported, was 1,138 killed, 1,500 wounded.
JALAPA, APRIL 23, 8 A.M.
An express has just arrived from General Worth.
He entered Perote yesterday morning about eleven
o'clock, and found a Mexican Colonel, who was
charged with the surrender of the place and all the
arms and munitions of war generally. None of the
large guns were spiked, and were found in excellent
ordr. Ampudia, with about three thousand dis-
organised Lancers, moved out just far enough to
avoid a conflict, and then proceeded on.
Santa Anna had not passed through Perote, and
must now be in the mountains on this side of that
place. We understand that information was received
yesterday that General Worth had thrown his out-
post towards Puebla and would march immediately
in that direction himself.

It is now certain that Santa Anna is at Orizaba, a
little fort at the foot of the mountain of that name, with
about one thousand troops.
He was seen at that place on Sunday morning last',
and was heard to express his desire of remaining there
till he could muster a sufficient force to make another
stand. He will not dare to return to the City of
Mexico is the universal opinion, until some success
should crown his efforts to redeem his thousand pro-
mises to the deluded people and the clergy, the latter
being now his only backers.
It is said that those who now cling to his drooping
standard are brought from Oajaca principally, and that
not more than two or three hundred of them have any
arms, those, too, being in a very bad condition.
We learn that he pretends he can yet repulse the
invaders of the soil, if he can rouse the Rancheros
and form them into Guerilla parties to annoy small
bodies of our citizens and soldiers, whom they may
have the temerity to attack.
The following is from the Mexican Chronicle of
the 28th, by a person just arrived from Orizaba. He
knows that General Santa Anna had arrived there
with about 200 Dragoons, and immediately com-
menced recruiting, having now under his command
about six thousand men, including the fugitives from
Cerro Gordo.

He also assures us that a correspondence has been
seized by the authorities of Mexico, addressed by I.
great personage to Senor Rejon, offering a certain
sum if he would bring about an early peace, and to
place all the requisite means at his disposal.
In Puebla General Inclin is commanding. They
are fortifying the town for resistance.
The navy are happy, and arrangements are in
course of completion for the expedition to the south-
ward, and a start will soon be made after the ports
along the southern coasts are secured.
A grand expedition is to be fitted out for the Pa.
cific, not by way of Cape Horn, but by internal navi•
gation. It has a real existence, and the movement is
seriously contemplated—of its object, lam also igno-
rant.
It is to be composed entirely of sailors and ma-
rines, two thousand in all. Is it not Quixotic ? lam
pretty' confident that it will be abandoned when all
the difficulties come to be weighed, although it may
at this moment be resolved upon.
The correspondent of the Times says :
I send you the first two numbers of a paper issued
in this city, the Mexican Chronicle, from which I
take the liberty to clip the following morceau :

General Morales measures the veracity of the
American officers by the Mexican standard, hence his
mistake ; I can hardly consider him capable of a di-
rect falsehood, but this document would seem tojustify
such a charge.
Juan Morales, General of Brigade of the Mexican

Republic, to the Nation and its Allies.
It having come to my knowledge that some chiefs
and officers of the invading army of the United
States, which have operated against Vera Cruz,
said that General Scott had previously advised me
that the families could leave, to avoid the evils attend-
ant upon a bombardment, and that consequently
those which have happened are chargeable upon me ;
in order that neither now nor at any future time any
accusation of injustice may stigmatise the defence of
Vera Cruz, I declare that it is false that any such
advice was given ; that the only communication I
have derived from General Scott tended to summon
me in general terms to surrender; that even the
neutrals were prevented from leaving the place ; that
if the Mexican families could have left, the enemy
would not have occupied the place without first
burying its defenders in the ruins.

JUAN MORALES.
JALAPA, APRIL 24, 1847.

General Scott is said to have dispatched a messen-
ger to Mexico or to the point occupied by the Legis-
lative Junta. This is the old song, and the olive
branch.
VERA CRuz, Alum, 29, 1847.

An express is in this morning (April 29, 1847)
bringing intelligence of the continued advance of Ge-
neral Worth and some disconnected rumours from the
city of Mexico. The citizens are throwing up wslls
of sand, I fancy, around the place, and expect the sol-
diers to defend them. How far their expectations
will be realised, we may judge by the past.
The public voice is openly heard in opposition to
the late Mexican demagogue, Santa Anna. " Coward,"
" Down with the traitor," are the cries that are now
heard in the capital.
I am very happy to learn by this express that
General Shields is not dead; he is improving. The
steam ship is expected to move every moment.
Before Santa Anna left the capital Senor Anaya
was elected Deputy President, and immediately
issued the following proclamation :
Citizen Pedro Maria Anaya, President Substitute of
the Republic, to his Fellow-citizens.
Mexicans—At a moment in which the loss of
Ulna and of Vera Cruz, in which the danger of the
capital itself obliges the worthy President of the re-
public to vacate the Government and take command
of the army, the vote of the representatives of the
people has committed to me the Executive power of
the Union.

Ever devoid of ambition, and deeply penetrated
with the terrible difficulty of existing circumstances,
the imperious force of duty alone could impel me to
accept the responsibility. But, a citizen and a sol•
dier, I owe to my country the sacrifice of repose, of
life, and even of my reputation. The voice of pa-
triotism cries to me that it is necessary to save our
country or to perish.
The war which devastates Mexico is for us the
most sacred of causes. The world contemplates with
disgust our neighbours of the North converted into
conquerors, to gain possession of a territory which
the faith of treaties, which rights the most worthy of
respect assure to us. Never was there a defence more
legitimate, never a war more necessary. In it every
thing is at stake—our honour, as well as our national
existence, the present and the future.
The territory we have lost, the cities which have
been bombarded, the blood which has soprofusely
flowed in this war—all constrain us to prosecute it
undismayed by reverses. It is necessary to prove
that our name ranks with justice among those of the
people of the universe. Let us accept the trial to
which Providence subjects us—that from great crises
nations are regenerated.
This people cannot think of peace, because it
involves its consent to the dismemberment of our
country ; it cannot think of the disgrace of our
name, because the unworthy thought would proclaim
that Mexico, incapable of showing her valour, and
enduring sacrifices, is at the disposal of every people
who can bombard her cities and march an army upon
her territory. After such disgrace, our independence
would be a derision, our nationality a transitory act.
'War then is the cry of the people ; war is the policy
of the Government.
To wage it successfully but one element is neces-
sary—Union. Too long has our strength been wasted
in senseless conflicts; it is necessary to unite the
whole against the foreigner. In the name of the
country I conjure all Mexicans that they rally around
the sacred standard of Independence and the Repub-
lic ; that they cease from these pernicious divisions
which facilitate the projects of the invader, which
excite smiles of criminal joy in those who count
upon erecting a foreign throne upon the ruins of our
conquered and humiliated country.
Mexicans—l have not accepted power for the
triumph of any party. The Government thinks only
upon the common salvation. In its eyes all generous
opinions are worthy of respect; all republicans are
• good sons of the country. Throughout my life,