MEXICO.
The latest advices from Mexico disclose a sad state of affairs in that country. Civil war has broken out at the capital, and there had already been considerable fighting between the partizans of the President and their opponents, under General Zuloaga, who has pronounced against the General and in favor of Santa Anna. The partizans of the latter had possession of the citadel and several convents, from which they were firing upon the city. One hundred persons had been killed in the streets. All was consternation and confusion. The foreign consuls had hoisted their flags, and respectively extended their protection to their countrymen, but the natives were gathering their goods and hastening from the city. The revolution had extended to many of the provinces, and the downfall of Commonfort was considered almost certain.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume IX, Issue 586, 16 June 1858, Page 5
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134MEXICO. Lyttelton Times, Volume IX, Issue 586, 16 June 1858, Page 5
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