The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-02-05 00:00:00

MEXICO.

By way of New York, advices have been received form Vera
Cruz, of the date of the 11th December. By these it appears,
that the contending parties have at length come to blows, with
the prospect of advantage, though not quite decidelily so, on the
side of Santa Anna. A convoy with 50,000 dollars, on its way
to that General, was attacked and taken by General Busta-
mente on the Ist of December, but recovered on the folio wing
day by Santa Anna. Bustamente subsequently attacked the
city of Puebla, from which he was driven off, after a severe
contest, by his oppenent. It was added that Santa Anna had
contrived to cut off his retreat, and that the belief was in Puebla
on the 7th that Bustamente would be forced to submit, but this
requires confirmation.— Times.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. B.—By the William A. Turner, Capt.
Budd, from Vera Cruz, whence she sailed on the 17th ult., we
have received late accounts of the state of affairs in that coun-
try.—Santa Anna had raised the siege of Mexico, for the pur-
pose of attacking Bustamente (who was marching to relieve
that place), iu order to prevent the junction of General
with Bustamente who has now an army of 5000 or 6000 men.
Bustamente was within a few days' march of that city, and it
was expected he would risk a battle with Santa Anna, who had
about an equal force, as soon as they approached each other.—
Mexico, it is said, would not have held out two weeks lonwir,
as water and provisions were scarce. The Government, how-
ever, were actively engaged in putting it in a state to sustain
a long siege, in case Bustamente should be defeated. There
is no prospect that the country will be restored to tranquillity
for six months to come. Both parties seem confident of ulti-
mate success.

A gale occurred at Vera Cruz a short time before the Wil-
liam A. Turner left, which destroyed the wharf, and did consi-
derable injury to the shipping and town —American paper Jan. 3.
A Mexican mail, brought by the Sheldrake, which left Vera
Cruz, on the 19th Dec., and Ilavannah on the Ist of January,
supplies us with Vera Cruz papers, by which we learn than au
armistice has been agreed on between Bustamente and Santa
Anna, and that Pedraz is to be President until the Ist of April,
after which an election is to take place, the result of which will,
in all probability, be the appointment of General Bravo to that
office. If the Chambers-Should oppose this arrangement, it is
said that the united armies of Bustamente and Santa Anna will
compel them to yield.
This, however, is only one version of the story. Other ac-
counts represent that the faction Of the existing government is
still exceedingly strong, and that there was little prospect of au
early final adjustment of the civil war. These latter accounts
give a very different version of the action between Santa Anna
and Bustamente to that published in the New York papers.
They state that Santa Anna was repulsed in that action, and
his loss so serious as to preventhim advancing upon the capital,.
and that he remained at Puebla. They represent also the
country to be in a state of complete anarchy from one extreme
to the other, and confidence utterly annihilated.
We really are not sufficiently in possession of the state of
Mexican politics, to be able to offer any opinion as to which of