The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-07 00:00:00

VAL OF THE WEST INDIA

MAIL PACKET.

SOUTHAMTON, OCT. 6.—The Medway, Captain An
drews, Royal West India Mail Packet, from the West
Indies, arrived in the docks at two P.x. this day, and
landed her mails, which were forwarded to London im-
mediately by special train.
Her dates are—Tampico, Aug. 21 ; Vera Cruz, 31 ;
Havannah, Sept. 10 ; Nassau, 13 ; Bermuda, 21 ; Hon-
duras, Aug. 20 ; Demerara, Sept. 3 ; Tobago, 5 ; Tri-
nidad, 5 ; Puerto Cabello, 2 ; Laguyra, 7 ; Grenada,
9 ; St. Vncent's, 10 ; St. Lucia, 11 ; Martinique, 11 ;
Dominique, 11 ; Guadaloupe, 11 ; Antigua, Montserrat,
Nevis, and St. Kitt's, 12 ; Tortola and St. Thomas's,
13 ; Jamaica, 7 ; Jacmel, 9 ; and Porto Rico, 12.
The Medway has on freight 107,176 dollars on mer-
chants' account, 7,830 ounces of gold dust and gold,
1,100 pounds silver, 80 pounds platina, 102 cases of
cigars, and 62 bales of tobacco, 154 bales of sarsaparilla,
36 live turtle, 10 casks of preserved turtle, 16 cases pine
apples, &c., and 34 saloon passengers, with several for-
ward cabin passengers.
The Medway, after leaving Tampico, experienced
from the 14th September to the 17th, strong gales from
N.E. to E.N.E., making her two days late to Bermuda,
and on Sunday, the 4th of October, a heavygale from S.E.
Royal West India Mail Packets.—The Avon, at home;
the Clyde. on outward voyage; Dee, Southampton, sails
the 17th instant; Forth, at Grenada, the 9th Sept. to
sail for Jamaica; Medway, Southampton; Severn, at
Jamaica, the 9th Sept.; Tay, at Grenada, from South-
ampton; Teviot, on outward voyage; Thames, sailed
from Havannah the 9th Sept. for Gulf o Mexico; Trent,
on outward voyage; Tweed, sailed from Bermuda the
21st Sept. for Nassau; Eagle, at Barbadoes, the Bth, for
Demerara; Reindeer, at St. Thomas, the 14th Sept.,
from Grenada.

INFORMATION RESPECTING VESSELS OF WAR OF ALL

NATIONS.
IN GULF OF MEXICO.—Her Majesty's ship Endymion,
her Majesty's ship Electra, her Majesty's ship Rose.
Spanish ships—Maria Christina, 52 guns; schooner
Juanita, 10. French—Mercuria, 20 guns, at Sacrificios.
American Fleet in Gulf of Mexico—The Cumberland,
60 guns; Potomac, 60 guns; St. Mary's, 22 guns; John
Adams, 22 guns; Porpoise, 14 guns; Somers, 14 guns;
three schooner, 3 guns; steamer Mississippi; steamer
Princeton; steamer (unknown) with dispatches.
The American brig Truxton ran on shore on Tuspan
Bar on the 14th of August, when chasing a small
schooner, and is a total wreck.
The American corvette Raritan had left for Pensa-
cola, ill with scurvy, which was spreading through the
other ships.

Arrived at Havannah on the Vth of September—The
French frigate Andromache, 60 guns, Admiral La Place;
the Blonde, 24 guns; Pylades, 20 guns; and steamer
Tonnerre, 10 guns, from Martinique, to sail in a fort-
night for Vera Cruz.

Spanish Ships at Havannah—LuisaFernanda, 22 guns;
Havanero, 20 guns; steamers Montezuma, Guadaloupe,
and Warrington; schooners Bozan, 4 guns, and Infanta,
2 guns.
The Montezuma and Guadaloupe are to be sent to
Europe shortly for repairs.
Arrived at Nassau, oa the Bth of September, the Ame-
rican steamers Spitfire and Vixen. The Spitfire left for
Chagres on the 11th, with dispatches; and the Vixen, on
the 13th, for the Gulf, with Commodore Perry, to take
the command there.
The Madrid, Captain Bingham, is hourly expected
from Gibraltar with mails.

NEWS FROM MEXICO.
Santa Anna, with his family and several friends, left
Havannah on board the Arab, hired steamer, on the
evening of the Bth of August, expecting to anticipate
the arrival, at Vera Cruz, of the Royal Mail steam-ship
Medway, which sailed the following afternoon. On the
afternoon of the 10th the Medway passed the Arab, and
which vessel did not arrive at Vera Cruz until the morn-
ing of the 16th. The captains of the United States
blockading vessels bad orders to offer no opposition to
the landing of Santa Anna ; indeed, so far from it, that
Commodore Corner desired that an officer might be sent
on board to congratulate the General on his return to
Mexico. The Medway was allowed to land her mails,
passengers, and quicksilver, and to receive passengers,
mail, and specie, but no other merchandise. About the
17th of August, the United States brig Truxton, whilst
chasing a Mexican schooner, ran upon the bar of Tus-
pan, and became a wreck—one boat's crew made their
escape, and the remainder surrendered themselves pri-
soners of war. Tho American squadron was at the an-
chorage of Anton Lizardo, and was suffering much from
scurvy, particularly the frigates. The Raritan left some
time ago with 120 sick ; the Potomac left for Pensa-
cola, on the 30th of August, with 90 sick ; and the
Commodore's ship, the Cumberland, was said to have
120 sick. There seems to be no idea of attacking St.
Juan d'Ulloa ; nor would the present forces in the Gulf
have the slightest chance Of success. Santa Anna was
warmly received by the military, but very coolly by the
in the city for his re-
people generally. From Vera Cruz he went to his
estate of Encerro, about four leagues from Xalapa, and
did not leave for Mexico until the 28th of August.
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their failure to the strength of the current preventing
them from reaching the vessels.
The day before the Medway left Vera Cruz a Bremen
brig, name unknown, attempting to break the blockade,
was detained, and having been previously warned off, was
made a prize by the Apaericans.
It was reported, whet the Medway left, that in some