Important from Mexico
--
Mysterious Movement of the French, English, and Spanish Ministers, &c.,&c.,
By way of
Texas we have some late and important intelligence from
Mexico.
The Houston
Telegraph, of the 4th, copies the following from the Brownsville
Flag:
Last week we published a meagre account of the withdrawal of the
French English, and Spanish ministers from
Mexico, and of the consequent suspension of diplomatic relations between the four countries.
The matter is kept profoundly quiet by the
Mexican press, but from what we have learned from private sources we understand the difficulty to have resolved itself into the following from: The retiring ministers left for
Vera Cruz, and immediately gave orders to the naval squadrons of their different Governments to concentrate at that place and at some point on the
Pacific side, when it is designed to seize all the
Mexican custom-houses and appoint officers to conduct them for the different nations claiming debts from
Mexico.
Under the stipulation entered into between
Captain Dunlop, of the
British navy, and the constitutional Government of
Vera Cruz,
Great Britain is entitled to a certain per cent.
of the revenue derived from customs at
Vera Cruz and
Tampico, and it is intended now to apply this arrangement to all the ports of
Mexico.
It is not intended that
Mexico shall have more than thirty per cent., we believe, of revenues, which are to be collected and managed by
European officers.
Gen. Ortega, whom we noticed last week as being on the march after
Marquez, is reported as having come up with his opponent near
Cuernavaca, and to have beat him in a pitched battle.
We doubt the truth of the report, however.
Rumor says that 3,000 Federal, or rather United States troops, have been landed at
San Blas, or at some other point on the
Pacific coast of
Mexico, for the purpose of marching across the country towards
Tucson and forming a junction with the troops in New
Arizona and
Mexico, and then entering
Texas by way of
El Paso.
If such is the case, they will probably be surprised to learn that their friends have been captured, and that they will have to meet a strong
Texas force instead of a strong body of Federal friends.
The election in the
State of Tamaulipas for Governor having resulted, as the friends of Serna aver, in their favor, it is publicly announced that a small revolution will have to occur before
Mr. Serna can reap the fruits of his victory.
We know nothing of this matter more than we are told, which is that
Gen. Gareia says he does not intend to allow the successful party to take office.
Gen. Garcia has a strong force to back him, and it is probable that he may keep his friends in power.
Gen. Saas, an old retired
Mexican officer, has been in
Matamoras the past week, and it is thought that he is having a hand in the row which is brewing in Tamaulipas.
