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Late and important from Mexico.

--The Brownsville (Texas) Flag, of the 7th instant, has some intelligence respecting the revolution in Tamaulipas, which appears to be drawing to a close. We extract the following:

Previous advices left Gen. Garcia shut up in Victoria, with Caravajal on one side and Pena on the other. Subsequent advices state that General Caravajal made a feint movement towards Tampico, upon which General Garcia dispatched a courier to General Garza, in Tampico, giving information of the movement, and advising General Garza to advance against Caravajal in front, while he (Garcia) would attack him in rear. General Garza made the advance, and in doing so, encountered Servando Cavasos, and was defeated. At the same time General Caravajal made a backward movement, and met and boat Garcia, upon which the latter barely made his escape into Tampico with a few cavalry.

Gen. Caravajal, leaving a force to watch Tampico at once took up the line of march to join the forces under Gens. Trevine and Aldemand, probably 2,000 strong, he in tended to make an attack upon Matamoras in addition to the legitimate Tamaulipas force. Governor Vidaurri, of has furnished Govserria with heavy artillery with which to batter Matamoras.

Gen. Caravajal, through Don. Andrers Trevino, Commissioner ed hoc, has officially notified the people of Matamoras that it they desire to keep clear of difficulty they had better leave the town by Saturday next. In accordance with this intimation, large numbers of Mexicans are moving into Brownsville until the trouble is over

From the interior of Mexico we learn that on the 12th August Gen. Ortega surprised and defeated Gen. Marquez at the hacienda of Alenco. On the night of the 13th Gen. Ortega attacked Marquez again in the town of Jalatlaco and dispersed his entire force. Marquez abandoned his artillery and munitions, and escaped into the mountains with a party of followers.

It is now know with certainty that the English and French fleets are before Tampico and Vera Crus.

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