Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1849-12-03
From the New Orleans Picayuae of. Nou. q,
LATE FROM MEXICO

By the arrival at Mobile Point yesterday of the
British West India mail steamer Dee late fom
Vera Cruz, we have received files of Ell Sigh of
the city of Mexico, to the 18th inst, inclusive
| The Mioister of War has recommended te the
| Government the promotion to higher grad in
the army of Gems. Uraga and Guzman, for the
services they lately performed in suppressing the
revolt in the Sierra Gorda
Senior lturbide has retired from the Ministry of
Finance, and is succeeded by Don T. Eorriaoa. a
gentleman of high attainments.
A new theatre, commensurate with the wealth
and magnitude of the capital, is about to be
erected in the city of Mexico
! A resolution had been brought into the Cham
Der OF Deputies disappearing of the project of the
| Government to anticipate, by disc uniting the paw
ment OF the next portion of the indemnity to be
| paid Mexico by the United States, in Nav next
A committee in the Senate had proposed reso-
luton limiting the expenses of the Government to
100000 monthly, to which the Chamber of De-
puties bad agreed.
Ell Globo paper published in the capitol. as
sures its readers that the British Minister in Mex
| ic o has received instructions from Lord Palmer
ston to Interfere in his official capacity in pressing
| the claims of British creditors holding Mexican
bonds Mr.. Robertson, the agent of the bond
holders, after finding his hopes defeated of OBJ
tanning satisfactory settlement, it will be recol-
lected, retired from the country, and Lord Pal
merston has now interfered
| E2 Siglo of the 10th inst. says that conspira-
! cy had been discovered at Merida, Yucatan among
the prisoners confined there, to break out, sack the
city, and assassinate the principal men. 1t was
stifed in the bud. The government had not been
able to induce the Indians to lay down their arms.
| Intelligence had come to the hands of the Yucca
| tan government, proving that TO English media
ton are the whites indebted for the contnuad hos
| tility of the Indians.
| A shock of an earthquake was felt at Cordova on
the 18th ult., at half past 10 o'clock, A. NJ, which
| from East to West.
| The Monitor of the 10th alarmed the capital by
| stating that war had been declared by Great Bril-
tain against the United States, Oh account of the
| Nicaragua affair.
The Chamber of Deputies has ordered an in
quiry into the late execution of Flores shot or gar
roted by Canales in Tamaulipas. Ithas been in
simulated that the unfortunate man was put to
death on account of 100000 in gold which his
| captors wanted to appropriate.
EI Slgl0 OF the 9th inst, states that the Ser
| ramos, or Mountaineers, in the Republic of Qua
temala, are carrying on the war against the Co.
vernment in the most cruel and barbarous manner.
The opinion is becoming general that the States
now separated will reunite, and organize a new
| confederation. The Guatemala Legislative AS
sembly did not meet on the 18th September, as
convened, in consequence of the want of the me-
cessary number to form quorum
| The Indians, Apaches and Camanches, have
lately made fresh incursion into Coahuila, and
committed terrible atrocities near Parras.
| The cholera had disappeared from Chihuahua,
where 1t had made the most terrible ravages