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Rh Almonte this morning. Nothing decisive. The streets continue blocked up with cannon, the roofs of the houses and churches are covered with troops, the shops remain closed, and the streets deserted. People are paying ounces for the least morsel of room in the suburbs, on the San Cosmé side of the city.

23d.—Yesterday, the Archbishop invited the chiefs of the pronunciados to a conference in his Archiepiscopal Palace, in order that he might endeavor, in his apostolical character, to check the effusion of blood. The conference took place, and the rebels requested a suspension of hostilities, whilst the Prelate should communicate its results to the President, which was granted by the General-in-chief. But the pronunciados broke the truce, and endeavored to surprise the President and Almonte in the citadel, passing over the parapets in the Calle de Monterilla. They were repulsed with slaughter, and a fierce cannonading was kept up all night. They have now requested a parley, which is granted them. . ..

In the midst of all, there is a communication from the Governor of Morelia, giving an account of the routing of a band of robbers who had attacked an hacienda.

We went to Tacubaya, and met with no other danger but that of being drenched wet; as a daily watering of the earth, short but severe, now takes place regularly. The new propositions of the pronunciados are these:

1st. "The forces of both armies shall retire to occupy places out of the capital.

2d. Both the belligerent parties shall agree that