The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-14 00:00:00

MEXICO.

On the sth of October last the representatives ap-
pointed by General Santa Anna, two from each &part-
xneut of the republic, -met-and chose him President (~f`
the Mexican Republic. The next day he took the oath
of office in, the hall of the Chamber of Deputies, and the
same evening appointed as his Cabinet Ministers :
Manuel Gomez Pedraza, Minister ,of Foreign Rela-
tions and Government.

Cipriano del Castillo, Minister of Justice and Public
Instruction. •

Jose Maria Tornel y Mandevil, Minister of War and
Marine.

Francisco Garcia, Minister of Hacienda.
[Senor Garcia" declined .the 'appointment, and soon
afterwards died in the department of Zazatecas.]
General Pedraza resigneel after he had been in office
four or five W'eeks, and. Jose. Maria de Bocanegra was
appointed as his successor.
Ignacio Triguerres was appointed Secretary of the
Treasury in place of Senor Garcia.
The Provisional President had, by proclamation, con-
voked the Constituent Assembly for the Ist of June
next. _ _

;hie I);z4tio del Gobierno of the 16th of October con-
tains an official letter, dated Antonelisco, September 22,
from General Manuel Armijo, the Commandant7General
of New giving an 'account of the capture of the
vanguard of the Texan expedition to Santa Fe. The
General states that intelligence of the approach of the
Te:ans was communicated to him by an Italian and a
New Mexican, who were with the expedition,_ but who
fled. from it in advance for that purpose ; that on the
17th of September the party of 100 Dragoons under
Colonel Cook surrendered at discretion, and were de-
prived of their arms and clothing, which General Ar-
mijo distributed among his own companions in arms ;
that the interpreter had been set at liberty on account
of his good behaviour, but that the other prisoners were
on their way towards Mexico under an escort.
The same paper of the 18th of October pUblishcs Pre-
sident Lamar's proclamation to the citizens of Santa Fe,
one of the papers found upon the Texan prisoners.. The
proclamation is accompanied by a commentary from the
Editor of the paper.
The number for the 24th of October states that Pre-
sident Santa Anna bad directed a cross of personal dis-
tinction to be prepared at the public expense for General
Armijo, with the Allowing inscription :—"He saved in
New Mexico the integrity of the national territory." To
the chiefs, officers, and troops who partook of the cap.
ture of the Texan vanguard was also awarded the pri-
vilege of wearing upon their left arm a shield, in whick
on a green ground, was to be seen a national eagle with
outstretched wings, bound with gold cord for the chiefs
and officers, and with yellow silk for the other troops,
the following inscription appearing on the ground of the
sl!iel is of both, "Intrepidity and Valour in deft nee of the
Mexican territory."
An official letter to the Secretary of War from Fran-
cisco G. Conde, Commandant-General of the depart-
ment of Chihuahua, dated at that place on the 26th of
October, announces the arrival of ninty Texan pri-
soners there the day before, and that, for want of means
to support them, they would rest there only two days,
when they would be conducted to the border of the de-
partment, of Durango.
Another letter to the same from the same person,
dated November 5, gives an account of the capture of
the rest of the Texan expedition at Lake Colorado by
Lieutenant-Colonel Don Juan Andres Archuleta, at the.
head. of 230 men.

A Report of Secretary of War, dated November 11,
is published, recommending a formal campaign against
Texas, and stating the quotas of troops which the seve •
rat departments were to contribute for the purpose of
recruiting the army.