BY this Evenings Southern Mail.
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From the N. o. Commercial Times, Aug. "a, II m.
MOST IMPORTANT NEWS FROM MEXI-


co.


Overthrow and imprisonment Of Gen P1sds,.-The
country pronounced IN fauor Of Santa .3aa.-His
arTipai at Vsra Cruz.


Through the politeness Of an eminent commercial
house. we have Just been placed in possession Of the
following most important intelligence from Mexico.
The news was received by British man-of. war,
which touched at the Balize with dispatches from
the British minister at Mexico for his government.
The purport Of these dispatches is that the United
States haze iaksn possession Of the CaSonias and thai
The repolution in tapor Of Santa .9na is complete.


We suboin the following letters, from which it
will be perceived that the steamer Arab with Santa
Ana on board, was in sghtof Vera Cruz on the 10th
instant.


VERA CRUZ, Aug. l6, 1876.
Aaailng ourselves of the opportunity by a British
-of-war, we have just time to state that Mexico
and Puebia have since also pronounced for fedora
ton and Santa Ana. Bravos government, hardly
established, was overthrown and General Salas has
put himself at the head of the movement until Santa
Ana may arrive.


Tranquility was soon restored. Gomez Farias
aided the partsans of Santa Ana to bring about the
revolution. His sons have come down here to well
come Santa Ana, who left the Havana on the 9th in
British steamer called the Arab, accompanied by
Almonte, Haro Tamariz, Rejon, and Boves, and
thus ought to be here every day.


Gen. Paredes was taken prisoner, and is kept in
the citadel of Mexico. Gen. Salas has issued al
ready letter of convocaton of Congress- on the
principles of 1924, and the members are to assemble
at Mexico on the 9th December next


The present conveyance carries the news Of the
annexation of California to the United States, re
ceved last night by express at the British consulate


VERA CRuz, Aug 16, 1886.
Advices have just been received by express of the
formal ANNEXATION OF CALIFORNIA TC
THE UNITED STATES! and this vesse-of. wal
takes the British minister's dispatches to New Or
leans and to England.


The whole country has declared in favor of Sants
Ana, who left Havana for here in the Arab steamer
but has not yet arrived, which makes his friends
rather anxious for his safety.


Postscript. The Arab just in sight!