The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-15 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. 1

AMERICA.
The Great Western steam ship, Captain Matthews,
arrived here on Saturday, having i eft New
en York on the
26th ult. ; she made the p:.ssage n betw fifteen and
sixteen days.
Several vessels bound for England w'th immense car-
goes of grain had put back to New York and other ports
leaking and with pumps choked. Tne Board of Under-
Writers had resolved to refuse to insure any vessel bound
to a foreign port (excepting only double-decked vessels
under 250 tons), carrying more than one half of her re-
gisTered tonnage in grain in bulk. Thirty vessels were
loadieg at N,w York with bread stuffs for England.

-WlT:ier was setting ha over the States, snow having
fallen in many places.

venerable Quincy Adams has been attacked by
paralysis. He is, however, expected t recover.
With respect to the war in 111exico, we learn that
Toliisco had been attacked and bombarded. Commodore
Perry set out for Tobasco on the 16th ult.; and. hiving
cap ured several prize?, forced the city of Tobasco to dis-
play a flag of truce, after a long resistance on the part cf
the Governer, who was at length induced to yield on
strong memorials from the English merchants, that the
city might not be ruined.

e.„.
The accounts from the interior of Mexico are not later
than those brought by the West Indian Steamer, a sum-
mary of which we give elsewhere. The Mexicans appear
to he exerting themselves strenuously. Santa Anna was
at S..n Suis de Potosi, where Gen. Ampudia had arrived.
From the present advices, the war seems, barely, to have
begun, and the United States' Cabinet were calling for
additional regiments.
The operations of the land forces had been few if any.
The troops under General Taylor were quiet at NI onterey,
and several contradictory statements are put forward as
to their future movements. General Kearney was about
a hundred and seven-five miles south of Santa Fe, on the
Rio Grande, near the place whence he would take a
western direction for California, he met a company of
sixteen persons, who had been sent forward by Commo-
dore Stockton, with dispatches for the Government and
for General Kearney, announcing that the American flag
was flying over every town in Upper & Lower California;
Th.,- provinces were occupied by the troops. The Mex-
ican Governor and force= had been driven out, and were
put stied as far as the head of the Gulf of California : they
succeeded in escapinf, across the Colorado. Commodore
Stockton had five United States vessels with him, and
was in entire command of the coast, which he was vigor-
critslv blockading. Colonel Fremont was provisional
Governor of the Californias. The Mexicans captured
two Americans, one of whom was Mr. Cowie, of St.
Louis. and flayed them In death. No further difficulty
was apprehended in California, as the whole country was
in vssession of the Americans. In consequence of this
infOr,ation General Kearney ordered back to Santa Fe
all of the dragoons except one hundred. and availed him-
self the services of the company that had just traversed
the route.. At Santa Fe and throughout New Mexico
affairs were quiet, with the exception of Indian irruptions.
The troops were in cord health, and previsions were be-
cornice abundant. The Mormon regiment was to leave
Sage;. Fe Id• California on the 17th of Octolnr. The in-
habitaots of New Mexico were by no means friendiy.