Star.
London, England, 1829-12-09 00:00:00

OFFICIAL BULLETIN.

MEXICO, tim. is.
Copy of a despatch 'from General SANTA ANNA, to
the Secretary of War and Marine :
MOST EXCELLENT SIR!.-AS stated to your Excel--
honey ot< t6e 30th of last month, I occupied various im
portant positions so as .to surround the enemy and force
bin to surrender, or effect his total destruction. Happily
I anticipate the entire success of my plan, as General
EAANADAS will be completely tint off to night, without
say other' resource except that of surrendering or attack-
1a twine* positions.
Since the second redoubt was completed at the farm
of Homo yesterday,: a constant fire has been kept up
against the enemy from a mortar planted there. He
was forced to change his quarters; and seemed at a loss
hole to act.' During the night a twenty-four pounder
was lopuottod opposite to Hume, and has continued its fire
all day, but without effect. To-night General TER A W
walleoke up a.position at the pass . called Donna Cecilia,.
the only line of communication between the enemy's head-
quarters and the fort near the bar. I shall myself pro-.
'crisikto the spot, and concert with General TERAN on the
-biatemans pf ensuring its defences, nor will I withdraw'
Anithlihe arrangements are completed. -
I inclise the declarations of the six prisoners taken.
Elie lined captured near the Bar, in order that they.
IniTaid before his Excellency the President, together
the other details which they contain.
I OCO and ufserty!
; .ifeallaartstiPaeblo Vkp, Sept..?, WU.
' (Signed) ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA.
• ,Extrect Of: second despatch, dated from the same
'plan on en 6th of September.
• On the 2d instant I proceeded in person to'
one the fart which the enemy had • constructed
4eer the Bar on the side of Tamaulipas, and ascertained
al that could be desired, although a brisk fire
.of grape was kept up from the moment of our ap..
roach till they lost sight of us altogether. The %ink is
constructed according to the rules of the military art,
and defended by four pieces of heavy artillery, with a
garrison of 500 men. Under the guns of this fort, the
vessels which had been brought from Tecoluta, and pre-
sented to the enemy by the Spaniard, VICENTE Haus,
lay moored. Knowing the importance of such a veisil
for the river, and the injury she might do whin
leaped), armed, I. determined to effect her emit**
at any hazard. For this purpose it was arranged
that the four boats brought from Panuco should
be - armed, and manned with forty soldieri from
the brave third battalion of the line. I gave the coin-
mand to Colonel EZNESKI DE BEAUEFORT, with ordirs
to carry the vessel by boarding, and conduct her to
port we had constructed at Piedras. The eties
was attended with all the success I could have wioas
yotir Excellency will perceive by the accompanying
details.
• In rejoicing with your Excellency on this incident, I
cannot do less than applaud the intrefidity dsplayed by
Colonel BENESICI and his brave companion', • ;-
- (841104) A. 1.. DE SANTA- AlllO.

Despatches were received at the Colonial Office yes-
terday from Major-General Sir BENJAMIN DITRIPAII4
K.C.B. and the Governor of Demerara, doled
July 28 ' • and also from the Governor, pro tem. at
Sierra Leone.
. The FAA India Company's ship General Kyd lids to
leave Bombay for Cigna on the 31st July. •
- The'Commissionerii of Eitcise in Ireland, who secede
in January, retire on 'maim* of 1,0001. a year.
The Secretaryship to the Directors General of Weed
.Navigation in Ireland is vacant by the death of FIIAXCIe
titgllClt, Esq.
It is generally rumoured that Michael Angelo Taylor,
Esq. M.P. will shortly resign his oat for the city of
Outliers, in consequence of ill health..
Tan MALT.-AND Buts Durr.—Several loss**,
have already been held in different parts of the country.
where petitioner td Parliameat•have been agreed to, pray,
ing for a total repeal of the Malt and Beer Duty. ,They
are likely to be general throughout the country.
A wonderful instance of the sagacity of inferior ani-
'ands, may be seen it Netherside, perish of Avondale, the
'residence of Alexander Allison ••• Esq. of Latham. That
gentleman has three greyhound's, accustomed to coursing,
'and three• hires living together in perfect friendship.
They all feed in the same dish, and mn about promisee-
uriely, The bares": no symptoms of fear ; sad the •
greyhounds, in return for such confidence, allow puss to
enjoy herself in safety. .
An apothecary in Paris has recently been fined 1,000
freau fOr having incautiously sold poison to a girl, who.
in a fit of jealousy, swallowed it, and soon afterwards ex-
pired in presence of her lover.
EDUCATION IN FRANCE.—If a poor devil (says
the Journal de la Mettle) the wise man of the village
but without a diploma, thinks of, to get some bread, in-
Iviting about him some babes whom he can teach to read,
he will find very goon an authority which will drag
him before the bench of the correctional police, and
call forth the punishment of his offence. Why do not
our authorities let ? are they becomecall at once mute and
inactive in presence of a great school, which for slx weeks
has been audaciously opened, in violation of the laws,
lit the very heart of this town ? Shall it be because this
ecbool appears to have for its founder a man who is
ilsaid to be powerful in that counter-revolutionary aud
ultra-montane party to which the Polignac Min is
Asstined to bestow a preponderance quite new Tubas
goy are afraid of this man and his party The same
Jwrnal adde—firstly, that' the Dominican nuns have
____shed at Bar a true convent, and that this convent
te ; secondly, that these same nuns keep a board-
ing-house, and that this boarding-house isallke illegal.
The last New York Papers mention the death of the
Hon. Peter Derbigny Governor of the State of Limisi-
ana. His death, it appears, was occasioned by a wound
in the head, received from the trunk of a tree, wises
leaping from his carriage to avoid the danger about to
result from its being overturned. Governor Derbigny.
it is stated, has successively filled the offices of Attorney-
Geseral,'Judge of the Supreme Court, and Secretary Of
the Commonwealth. In consequence of his death, H.
Bauvais, Esq:President of the Senate, will tampon*
fill the office of Governor.
A GREAT HEAT, NUT Ito FLAME.--Mooday an es.
traordinary occurrence took place in an apothecary's clap
la the New Town. A large bottle full of vitriol was by
amain broken, and water being ignorantly thrown upon
it, the appearance soon became alarming. The heat wm
dreadful, and every thing that came in the way of the wag
lag liquid, suffered ; several black coats were ;Maga is"
esi, and riddled in such a meaner as to present a very
\ extraordinary appearance. The assistance of the fire.
aria was immediately called. but it was a new opals °I
fire to them ; and the captain of the red engine (We'
donald) very sagaciously obeereed, that it wrens 4
chancey job." Five parts of water to ope vitli°l
Prodooos.a boiling heat, even if both liquids are cold be,
fore mixing.--Ediseburgk Paper.