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From Mexico.

New York, December 14.
--Latest advices from Mexico sum up thus: From 20th to 30th of November seven thousand two hundred additional French troops had arrived at Vera Cruz. Three thousand more are daily looked for.

There were heavy arrivals from France of war munitions.

Notwithstanding these accessions, the Vera Cruz correspondent writes that the prospects of the Imperialists are gloomy.

The last installment of troops brought the cholera to Vera Cruz.

Juarez writes from San Francisco, under date of the 13th, to the Mexican Consul here, stating that the reason for ordering Ortegas's trial was because he left Mexico without permission, virtually abandoning the republican struggle.

He adds: "My family and private interests both incline me to retire to private life as soon as an election can be held. I will cheerfully give up the Presidency, which has proved to me such a weighty burden."

New York letters from Matamoras to the 26th November state that, in every attack made by the Liberals under Cortinas, they have been badly whipped, and fragments of the Liberal army finally took refuge in Brownsville.

The French army at Vera Cruz has been reinforced by six thousand Belgian and Prussian recruits.

Vera Cruz letters of the second say the Liberals are publicly making enlistments in the streets of Brownsville. Inducements are offered to white and black Americans to sack Matamoras as soon as captured.

A conspiracy to assassinate Mejia had been discovered. Four American officers were implicated. Two were captured with proof upon their persons. The other two escaped to the American side. The captured ones were hung.

The Tribune says General Grant will soon make a trip to the military posts on the Rio Grande.

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