The Daily Dispatch: May 2, 1863., [Electronic resource]

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Important from Mexico.

--The Havana Diario of the 14th, contains intelligence of the defeat of General Comonfort on his way to the assistance of General Ortega, who, at last accounts, was closely besieged, and had offered to capitulate under conditions. The Diario says: ‘"An English steamship of war arrived home yesterday from Vera crus, which place she left on the 5th, and brings the following information:"’

The news heretofore communicated to us by a private correspondent, by English steamer, of the defeat of General Comonfort, is confirmed. He had started to Fueble to reinforce General Ortega, when General Berthier gave him battle.

General Ortega had sent a communication to General Forey, offering to capitulate upon terms the French Commander-in-Chief had refused to accede to any capitulation whatever, demanding an unconditional surrender. The authorities of the city of Pueblo had sent a dispatch off to General Forey to ask him not to destroy the city, and another had been sent by the ladies. It is said that General Forey had stopped all further cannonading, preferring to rely on other means to compel a surrender. General Ortega had made a sally at the head of 15,000 men, with a view of opening a passage in the correction of the Capital, but found the obstacles so serious that he was forced to return having suffered considerable loss.

Such was the supply of provisions in Vera Crus, and to cheaply were they sold to private buyers, that large quantities had been re-exported to France.