The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-17 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

ARRIVAL OF THE ACADIA.

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.
The Acadia, the royal mail steam-ship, which left
Boston on the ht, and Halifax on the 3d inst., arrived
here this forenoon with the usual mail, and 53 passen-
gers. We have received by her papers to the date of her
sailing.

The intelligence since the departure of the Great
Western is of considerable importance, although the in-
terval is only five days, one of which seas the Thanks-
giving, and another, Sunday.
The city of Tampico was captured without bloodshed,
by the fleet under Commodore Perry.
In accordance with the plan of the campaign which
Santa Anna appears to have adopted, the Mexican forces
retired from Tampico on the approach of the American
fleet, and that city and garrison surrendered to the
United States forces on the 14th of November.
Later advices state the United States steamer Missis-
sippi, Commodore Perry, left New Orleare, on the 21st,
with a detachment of 50 men and the guns and muni-
'ions of war belonging to the State of Lousiana, tendered
f r the use of the United States by Governor Johnson.
G neral Brooke is prepared to take the responsibility of
d .spa telling to Tampico any amount of troops that may
be deemed necessary to its defence, and General Jessup
is furthering this important object with alacrity, in his
department. About 600 men will soon have been sent
from New Orleans to guard the captured city.
Advices from Ilavanah to the 13th instant, received
at New Orleans, state that nothing has yet been done
under the letters of marque and naturalization which
Mexico has sent there for sale.
The Nov Orleans Picayune of the 28th instant gives
extracts from Vera Cruz papers to the Bth November.
Santa Anna is implored to take the presidency himself,
which be declines. Eighty Mexicans were killed by the
bombardment of Tobasco. Members of the new con-
gress were elected on the 15th of November. Old
Herrera was unanimously chosen in Jalapa. Another
proposition from the United States Government was
received at Vera Cruz on the sth of November, which
the papers ridicule, declaring that no one thinks of peace,
all call for vengeance. Americans have been ordered
out of the state of San Luis Potosi. The Indians are
,!ornniit ting outrages in Durango and menacing Zacatecas.
Au insurrection against the Americans at Los Angeles,
California, in September, terminated in the death of the
Mexican leader and a few subordinates. M. Gasquet,
French consul at Monterey, is in custody of the Ame-
rican squadro❑ for protesting against the seizure of
California. The United States sloop Cyane was re-
pulsed at Guayamas, with twenty men wounded.
Arrangements were making to seize Mazatlan.
The Washington Union contains dispatches from Com-
modore Conner, asking for troops to garrison Tampico.
Santa Anna's position at San Luis Potosi calls for large
reinforcements for our posts. Preparations are making
for a decisive battle.

The Mexican Commander-in. Chief is concentrating
an immense army at San Luis Potosi, between Monterey
and Tampico. The importance of this position will
readily be appreciated 133 a glance at the map of Mexico.
General Taylor cannot receive reinforcem-nts at Mon-
terey before the Ist of January, nor can he unite his
forces with thine at Tampico without passing near San
Luis Potosi. There Santa Anna had collected up to last
advices, nearly thirty thousand met-. General Taylor
cannot have more than nine thousand available for a
march upon San Luis, nor can the United States
land more than seven thousand at Tampico.
Hence the strength of Santa Anna's position
at San Luis, on the only road by which the
United States forces can be united. If the dissensions
in Santa Anna's camp do not divide his forces, we may
look for another battle in January or February, the
greatest and most destructive, probably, of any ever
fought on the American continent.
Important intelligence from Mexico was received
at Washington on the 28th of November, from the vici-
nity of San Luis Potosi. The Mexican Cabinet is said
to have been dilsolved ! and the Hon. Mr. Bankhead,
her Britannic Mjesty's Plenipotentiary, having ordered
the restoration of the two millions of specie which Santa
Anna had seized, the property of British subjects, Gene-
ral Almonte was appointed Minister to England, doubt•
less to solicit the aid of the British Government.
APPALLING SHIPWRECK.
Ono of the most beautiful steamers in the United
States has been cast away in the Sound, about one hun-
dred and fifty miles from New York. It is supposed
that between thirty and forty lives have been lost by this
disaster. Thirty-one bodies were recovered. The names
of forty-seven persons saved have been published,
among whom is Henry Van Wart, Esq., of Birming-
ham, England. Among those lost, were John Walton
and his wife, and their children, John, James, and Eleanor
Jane, and an infant, an English family. Only one of
this family escaped, Jacob Walton, a boy twelve years
of age.

The steamer Atlantic was a regular packet on the
Boston and New York line. She left New London on
Thursday, 26th November, at ten o'clock, A.M.,
haying on board the passengers for New York from the
Boston railroad train of the previous evening. As she
entered the Long Island Sound, she received the full
force of a severe hurricane, which strained her machinery,
and the bursting of the steam chimney, which imme-
diately followed, disabled her engines. Anchors were
then got out, but she still drifted, and at half-past four
o'clock next morning, (Nov. 27) she struck the rocks on
Fisher's Island, twenty or thirty miles south east of the
point at which the first accident occurred. She went to
pieces within five minutes after striking.
CLOSE OF THE AMERICAN CANALS.

Canal navigation was suspended throughout the State
of New York on the 27th November, which revived the
drooping spirits of the dealers in bread stuffs, and caused
a slight advance in prices.