Glasgow Courier. — 1847-11-18 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

LATEST FROM AMERICA.  •HRIVAL OP THE CAMBRIA. The British and North American royal mail steam-ship Cambria, Captain C. 11. E. Judkins, which sailed from Boston on the Ist, and Halifax at 2-30 sal, of the 4th, reached the Mersey on Monday afternoon. She encountered strong adverse winds throughout the passage. The Cambria brings £60,000 in specie, and a large number of passengers.  . The intelligence from Mexico is still unsatisfactory and contraNo official despatches had been received from General Scott since the :Oath of April. There is no doubt they have been cut oif by the guerillas. Accounts, however, have been received from General Scott's army, dated at the city of Mexico, on the 2atli of September. They confirm previous advices of the brilliant victories gained by the American forces, and of their triumphant oceupation of the capital. General Scott's army of ten thousand men, with which he left Puebla, had been reduced to six thousand, and with these he still held possession of the capital. The total loss to fly: Americans in killed, wounded, and missing, at the capture of the city of Mexico, is now stated at 1623. The Mexican loss is said to have been immense. Five Generals, three Colonels, seven Lieutenant-Colonels, and above 100 other officers, with MOO men, had been taken prisoners. The accounts previously received of the execution of Irish deserters are fully confirmed. Fifty are said to have been put to death, a savage butchery, whicb may serve to show how critically the American armies are situated, notwithstanding their victories. General Quitman had been appointed Governor of Mexico, and had received the contribution of 1110,000 dollars levied on the city. It seems, however, that the possession of their capital by the United States army was not quietly acquiesced in by the Mexicans, even after their army, under Santa Anna, had deserted it. The liberating from prison and arming of 1000 Mexican criminals, was among the last acts of General Santa Anna before abandoning the capital. The following general order, by General Scott, pointer to a system of covert assassination, by which it is stated many of the best American troops had been lost:— Head-quarters of the Army, Mexico, Sept. 22. "The General-in-Chief has received, through many kind sources, Mexican and others, undoubted information that an extensive conspiracy is on foot about us, to surprise (by means of an Insurrection) our guards and quarters, and to murder our officers and men. "Mexican officers, and soldiers in disguise, who had not the courage to defend their capital, are the leaders of this conspiracy, aided by some 1500 thieves and murderers, who were turned loose for that purpose, and to prey upon the peaceable inhabitants, the night before the triumphal entry of the American army in this city. "The conspirators have also the services of several false !Meets, who dishonour the holy religion which they only profess for the special occasion. " Until ready for the insurrection, the disguised villains hope to do us much harm in detail. Their plan is to assassinate stragglers,  their treachery by  all grades, to be constantly to appear in the streets wi parties of twos, threes, or particularly treacherous di " By command of Major.  calls on his brethren in arms, of m alert, by day as by night; DOM side-arms; to walk out only in , and to avoid all obscure places, hops and liquor-stores. :rat Scott. '4 H. L.