THE WAR IN MEXICO.

New Zealander, Volume 2, Issue 82, 26 December 1846, Page 4

THE WAR IN MEXICO.

We have at length received the Mexican accounts of the late collision with the American forces on the Itio ' Grande, and it is satisfactory to find that no attempt has been made to disguise from the people of Mexico ' the fact that they have sustained a severe and that their armies are wholly unahle to 'carry on the war, with ( any hope of success. The blockade of Tampico, ' Vera Cruz,, and the other Atlantic ports appear to have been conducted witli due consideration to neutral interests by the American Commodore Conner, and, to be supported by a sufficient force. That officer has under his command the Cumberland, Raritan, Potomac, John Adams, Somers, St. Mary's, and the steam ships Mississippi, and Princeton. It remains, however, to be seen whether he will venture to attack St. Juan d'UUoa, which is at all times an operation of great difficulty and danger, from the sudden northern gales which expose a 6quadron to destruction on the leefs that project the fortifications to the seaward. St. Juan d'Ulloa, moreover," now mounts 200 guns on the castle, and 50 in the two forts and walls -of the city commanding the anchorage. All these guns are new and of heavy calibre, with a number of 8-inch and.l o-inch Paixham guns. There are said to be 2,000 men in the fortress, and about the same number in the town. Under these circumstances we doubt whether the American Commodore will risk an attack on the strongest place on the Mexican coast. For the protection of British interests in the Gulf of Mexico the Endymivn frigate and the Alarm have been ordered down from Bermuda. Commodore Pring' will probably be able to increase the squadron from Jamaica where he hoists his broad pennant on the Immaum ,• and the Albion has been sent out, we believe, from this country. In the Pacific, the British and American squadrons were both at Mazatlan ; but no news have yet arrived of any operations on the western coast. We trust, however, that without any further effusion of blood, and without a prolongation of those ris>ks which are inseparable from active hostilities, we may look forward to the termination of this deplorable strife. It cannot be doubted that the extreme repugnance of the' Mexican Government to come to terms with the tjnited States upen. the subject of the boundary of the Texas, and the pertinacity with which the delicate questions have been kept open until they have led to positive hostilities, are attributable in great part to a vague fcxpectation that the differences between England and the United States would eventually secure to Mexico a powerful diversion, if not a powerful ally. The intelligence to!" iMe settlement of the Oregon question, and the happy removal of the last of those subjects of discussion Which have so long endangered the amicable relations of the American and English Governments* will, therefere, probably produce as much effecf upon the present heads of the Mexican republic as the ««wsj of another victory gained by the Yankee rifles o»* the banks of the Rio Givmdev We sincerely trust that the influence of the pacific termination of our own controversy \n\\ be felt in the speedy restoration of peace between Mexico and the United States ; and at this time the mediation Ot British agents has been olfeied with peculiar propriety , to complete between other s>taies the triumph of tint policy which has been so successfully maintained ity-t>ur. own Government.— Times. \ */