MEXICO.
The intelligence from Yucatan continues to be of the most painful nature. The native Indians were still destroying with unrelenting ferocity all the white population — man, woman, and child. The authorities have applied to the British, American,* and Spanish authorities in Cuba, but as what they wanted was a military force, and that force could not promptly be given, it is much to be feared that by this time the Indian population will have regained all that the Spaniards wrested from their ancestors three centuries ago. The Venezuelan Government has granted a charter for an American Company to navigate the river Orinoco by steam, and it is intended to run steamers up the river 700 miles beyond Angostura. A Mr. Ellice has the superintendence of the concern. We have received by special express the Picayune of April 30, containing news from Vera, Cruz: to the 22nd ult. General Cadwallader and Mr. Trist arrived as passengers. The Court of Inquiry is still in session, and would not adjourn for three weeks. General Scott would await the adjournment. ' Paredes was still at San Luis, not under arrest. A grand banquet was given at \era Cruz on the 16th, in honour of the French Revolution. The Vera Cruz Free American remains of opinion that there is little prospect of peace. The State of Mexico is in favour of General Herrera as president, he having received 150,000 out 160,000~votes. The Congress of Vera Cruz was to assemble on the 30th, that of Puebla met on the 10th ; Don J. M. Osario was appointed Governor of the Plata State. There are 2000 Mexican troops at Quaretaro, and yet on the 12th a diligence was attacked within half a mile of the city by eight men, who fired upon the passengers ; the latter, however, showed fight, and killed one of the robbers. Santa Anna chartered a Spanish brig, and sailed from Antigut for Jamaica. His arrival at the latter place is not, however, notified to us by this packet.
The following was received" by telegraph just as the America was leaving :—: — " Detroit (Michigan), May 9, 2 p.m. " A terrible fire is now raging in this city, the population of which is 20,000. The yellow storehouses are destroyed, and also the Elbira stores. Forty build s ngs have already been consumed ; the Steamboat Hotel and the American Hotel are both in flames, and one-third of the city is threatened with destruction. The Advertiser newspaper office has also fallen a prey to the devouring element." The subjoined extract of a mercantile letter received from New York by the last packet gives a more graphic description than any we have met with of the reception at that city of the news of the failure of the Chartist demonstration on the 10th of April : " It is almost impossible to describe the excitement and panic that have ruled here during the last ten days, or since the Acadia came in. Most every one had made up his mind that the Chartists on the 10th would capsize the English Government ; every one was anxious to sell cotton, and no buyers for export ; in fact, shipowners refused to take freights, and no one would buy or sell exchange until the America arrived. On the morning of the 29th the steamer was announced below, and Wall-street was a perfect beehive. A crowd of 1000 persons gathered round the office of the Courier, and as soon as the steamer's news was landed one of the editors mounted on a stand to read the news to the multitude. I never saw so many anxious upturned faces, absolutely pale. The editor commenced reading accounts of doings in Russia, Poland, &c, when a voice cried ou t — • Never mind that stuff : what's the price of Consols V ' 82^' was the reply. ' That's enough :' and the crowd parted, shaking hands with one another."
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 333, 7 October 1848, Page 3
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645MEXICO. New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 333, 7 October 1848, Page 3
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