DEFEAT OF SANTA ANNA. Liverpool, May 29.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 229, 9 October 1847, Page 4

DEFEAT OF SANTA ANNA. Liverpool, May 29.

The Royal mail steam-ship Caledonia, Captain Lott, has arrived with the usual mails of the 16th, from Boston, and from Halifax to the 18th instant inclusive, announcing the intelligence of the defeat of the Mexican troops under Santa Anna, at Cerro Gordo. The Caledonia arrived out at Boston on the morning of the 6th instant, and on the 16th the steam-ship Britannia entered that harbour after a run of extraordinary speed. The screw auxiliary packet-ship Sarah Sands, left New York on the Hth instant. The Boston packet-ship Anglo-^axon, which sailed for this port on the sth instant, went ashore on the Bth on Sable Island, and was expected to be a total loss. Our advices from New York by this arrival extend to the 15th instant inclusive. With the exception of the accounts annexed, with regard to the operations of General Scott's force in the engagement of the ] Bth ultimo, at Cerro Gordo, and the subsequent investment of the towns of Jalapa and Perote, the capture of Tuspan, and the position of affairs in the capital of Mexico, they possess little political importance. The engagement at Cerro Gordo opened on the 17th April with a slight skirmish. On the 18th a combined attack was made upon Santa Anna's position ; and shortly .after noon | on that day Santa Anna, according to the accounts in the American journals, himself gave the signal and example of flight, accompanied by Generals Almonte and Canalizo, and a few thousand men, towards Jalapa. The Mexican loss in the engagement is estimated at 300, subsequently swelled in the pursuit of the fugitives towards Jalapa, and that of the Americans in killed and wounded at 250. No less than five general officers were captured, and the whole Mexican army was completely disorganized. Santa Anna's carriages, papers, plate, and baggage fell into the hands of the Americans : Jalapa and Perote surrendered wrthout resistance, and at the capital the defeat of the General had created the greatest alarm. Puebla was threatened. Santa Anna, with from 1000 to 2000 trpops, was at Orazaba, and, it is said, bad written to the capital for money and reinforcements. His applications are said to have been unattended to. He contemplated the institution of a guerilla warfare upon the enemy. At the capital no preparations for defence of any moment were being made. Gomez Farias had been deposed from the Vice Presidency by a congressional ruse ; the office he bore having been annihilated, and afterwards revived under another title and conferred upon Don Pedro Marie de Annaga. , The dates from the capital extend to the 24th April, and from Vera Cruz to the 29th.