The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-10-26 00:00:00

WEST INDIES.
The Clyde arrived at Southampton on Thursday from
the West Indies. She left Jamaica on the 23rd, and
brings from the other islands corresponding dates.
The Clyde brings from the islands a good report of fa-
vourable weather. Rains had fallen in Jamaica and
throughout the islands generally durine the first part of
Smeupcthemimber. The young canes and pastures had been
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some par

[ering t

y succour very necessary

Sonie severe shoas of earthquake had beenj experiences
at St. Lucia and Trinidad, but they were unattended witt

had arrived at Can
been paid for Tsatlee
this season.

The depressed state of the home money market had be-
come known, and had caused increased restrictions by the
West India banks. Trade also was much depressed
throughout the islands. The efforts made by the Cham-
ber of Commerce, to induce a meeting of delegates from
the various islands, and an unity of action with reference
to the injuries they suffered from the Sugar Duties Bill,
have been strongly supported by the islands generally,
and public or parish meetings have been held
course adopted by the Jamaica Chamber of Comrae,..
The acts for the repeal of the differential duties, hitherto
levied on foreign productions imported into Jamaica, came
into operation on the 20th September, and there is now
one regular rate for the nroduce of all mnntripa

Exchange on England was 4s. 31d. to 4s. 4d. Freights
to London, £5. Company's accepted bills on Calcutta.
213 per cent.

From Shanghae we have dates to the 10th of August.
Teas were slow in arriving from the interior. A good
I demand for 19115 cloths continued. The Belhaven was to

in aid of the

The Governor-General of Jamaica had ls;;ci his pro-
clamation, calling together the House of Assembly for the
despatch of business on the 19th of October
The reports as to the disorganizat
au-P

'rince are confirmed by a- communication diited Ja

mel, September 25, and the continuance of the feud be-
tween the black and coloured population. It would ap-
pear that each party is only waiting for a suitable occasion
to enter upon a scene of bloodshed. The black
posse- la of the forts ^t

are now

in .2,9510i - above the city an ~Lso
palace; the extermination of the white and coloured in-
habitants is threatened.

IMPORTANT NEWS FROM MEXICO.

Two ships arrived yesterday at Liverpool from America
—the Oxford, bringing advices from New York to the Ist
inst., and, a few hours afterwards, the screw steam-ship,
Sarah Sands, bringing accounts to the 6th inst.
The advices thus received from Mexico are important,
though the state of affairs, as published in the New York
paper 3, is derived from the Mexican accounts. Letters
from Mexico, under date to the 9th, state that, on the
ith, the Mexican Commissioners declared that the pro-
positions made by Mr. Twist were inadmissible ; in con-
sequence of which General Santa Anna convoked a Coun-
cil of Generals, who decided that notice should he given
to General Scott that the armistice was at an end, and ap-
pointed the 9th for the recommencement of hostilities.
On the 6th of September, General Scott addressed a
letter to Santa Anna from Tacubaya, accusing him of
having violated several articles of the armistice, and one
of the charges was that he had not allowed the American
army to obtain supplies from the city of Mexico. General
Scott demanded an explanation, and concludes as follows:
—" I hereby formally notify you, that if I do not receive
the most complete satisfaction on all these points before
12 o'clock to-morrow, I shall consider the armistice as
terminated from that hour."

To this letter General Santa Anna replied at consider-
able length, and with great severity. He accused General
Scott of having violated the terms of the armistice in

refusing to allow flour from the mills in the vicinity to be
brought into the city, and says that the American wag-
gons were driven out of the city on account of the ob-
jectionable conduct of the officers accompanying them.
Santa Anna also charges General Scott with having
sacked the Mexican towns in the vicinity of the capital,
and robbed and desecrated the churches, and stealing and
destroying articles held sacred by every Mexican. He
corelules by saying he will repel force by force.
General Scott on the Bth attacked the Mill del Rey, or
King's Mill, in the immediate vicinity of Chapoltepec,
and, according to the Diario del Gobierno, and the
Boletin, published at Athsco, near Puebla, the American
army was repulsed, after a short conflict, in which we lost
about 400 in killed, and from 600 to 700 wounded, and
fell back upon Tacubaya.

The account given by the Boletin represents the battle
to have been the most bloody and severely contested of
the whole war. This, however, is a Mexican account.
It concludes as follows :

"At 10 o'clock the enemy commenced a retrogade
movement, and by two o'clock in the afternoon he with-
drew all his forces to Tacubaya, abandoned the two points
he had occupied, and blew up the house of Mata, although
some say it was set on fire by a bomb from Chapoltepec.
"Tt is believed that Generals Twiggs and Pierce di-
rected the attack, and that they put in motion about 8,000
men. It is certain that the fire was more intense and
brisk than at Churubusco.

" It is impossible to ascertain the loss on the other side.
Ours does not amount to 100 killed and 250 wounded.
There are a few missing—nearly all not killed or wounded
retiring to Chapoltepec.
" The enemy according to the confession of an Irishman,
who came over to us in the evening, carried off 500 dead
and GOO or 700 wounded.

"We have to lament the loss of General Leon, since
dead ; that of Colonel Balberas, of the valiant Colonels
Hueria and Geleati, and of the determined Captain Ma-
teos, of Puebia.

" A Mexican letter announces that Riley and his legion
of St. Patrick, 70 in number, were ordered by the court-
martial to be hung. The sentence was approved by Gen.
Scott, and on the Bth of September the whole legion were
hung in the presence of the army, as also of the enemy."
By some, however, it is doubted whether General Scott
has put to death the re-captured deserters. Another Mexi-
can account states that more than 1,000 Americans re-
mained dead on the field of battle. A report was afloat
that a bomb-shell discharged from Chapoltepec fell among
the ammunition waggons of the Americans. causing them
to explode, by which 300 men, including General Worth,
had been killed. Another account, however, states this
to be false.

The following is the latest of the Mexican accounts from
the capital. It renders it certain that General Scott had
opened his batteries upon the city. The only report of
the result is contained in the following letter, addressed
to Mr. Dimond, at Vera Cruz :

Orizaba, Sept. 19,
I have the honour to inform you that an express arrived
here this evening from Mexico, which brings intelligence
that General Scott was in the city of Mexico. That on
the 14th the American troops took Chapoltepec and the
citadel, and went into the city that night. General Bravo
was killed, and General Santa Anna was wounded in the
arm, and has retired with the remainder of his troops,
which have suffered much, to Guadaloupe.
From this it seems that the attack upon Chapoltepec
was renewed, which renders credible the first statement
that in the attack of the Sth on that town General Scott
was repulsed. _

It is stated that the Americans had possession of two of
the streets, but that the troops had suffered severely from
the fire of the enemy stationed in windows and on the
roofs of houses. The American loss since leaving Puebla
is estimated at 3000 men.

General Lane had reached Vera Cruz on the 10th with
2000 men, and started for Mexico ; and General Cushing
was expected. Paredes is stated to be in the state of
Puebla with 6000 men, prepared to prevent reinforcements
reaching General Scott. Government had made no attempt
to arrest his proceedings. He had been appointed Inspector
General of the Puebla National Guards.

OREIGN ei• COLONIAL IA TELLIGENCE arrived on the 16th, with dates from London to the 24th
of June. The news of the Canton expedition in April
having then just been received and published in London,
speculation was rife upon the future, and the next coming
mail was looked to with great interest, as likely to develope
the views of Government. All remained quiet at Canton,
but there was an uneasy feeling still existing,
The export of tea from the Ist of July amounted to
7,371,000114, being 4,000,0001 b. in excess compared with
the same period last year, in consequence, it was said, of
the early arrival of the newteas._ Some of the new silk

on, and as high as 445 dollars had
Little was expected to come down