By the mail-steamer Dee, we have accounts from South America
and the West Indies. From Mexico the dates are to the 30th July. Most of the troops had left for the North, and General Paredes was about to place himself at their head; having transferred the Government to General Bravo, the Vice-President. All the Ministers had resigned. The new Cabinet was not yet formed. An amnesty to prisoners accused of political offences had been published. On the 31st July, Vera Craz declared in favour of Santa Anna; and a deputation had proceeded to the Havannah to invite him to return. He consented; and on the 8th ultimo took a passage by the Arab steam-vessel for Sisal.
Throughout the whole of the West India islands there seems to be an unmixed feeling of satisfaction with the weather and the appearance of the crops.
Accounts from Monte Video, to the 8th June, mention that the English and French squadrons, with the vessels under their protection, had passed the batteries of San Lorenzo, without the loss of a single life. The affair took place on the 4th June; the cannonade on both sides lasting from ten till half-past one o'clock. A rocket from the squadron directed against a powder-magazine blew it up with a dreadful explosion. The batteries were several times silenced. It was found necessary to burn three merchant- men, one of them the English bark Caledonia, which had grounded below the batteries.
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