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758. THE TREATY WITH PARAGUAY—ITS COMMERCIAL IMPORTANCE. [Frew the L.loorpool Albion.] Tutu was always a strong presentiment among commtr. cial men in this country that a treaty with Paraguay, such as has been brought about by Lord Malineshury's side • niaaary, Sir L. llotluun, would be productive of great ad vantages ; an d th ew i s an strong conviction now, despite the apprehended Obstacles ranted lay the Buenos Apra.' Government in respect to the enfore•ed protect°. rate of the isle of Martin Garcia, diet the treaty ratified on tho 2nd tilt. by Lord elaretidon and lain Excellency lion F. Lopez will, in due time, ellect most of the benefits an ticipated. /tut 140 complete is the ignorance in of the real mereatitile resources of Paraguay, that even public writers most disposed to augur well of the treaty in pies timal 11441,0111 t canrernitig 11111 t territory see far shoat of the minal fact, that• if they were true, certain poli ticians might be almost justified in now laboh-poolaing what has been aceomplisheil, just as they did when it Willi attempted some years ago. Fair instance, an evening journal long eelebrated for its taipposseel peculiarly accurate inGirmation on foreign topic* ham mated that Pautguoiy was the most populous of all the Is Plata provinces, "except Buenos A'ress," the truth being that the Paraguaytua lotion exceeds the Buenos Ayreati upwards of threefold— eireeds that of all the Argentine Stan s anal the Banda Oriental put together ! while, contrary to the olieral even in South America, its power ieferinstuttption is greater than the rent of the interior province of the 'onfederistion. 'insisidcring its e%tri.iiie isalatiota hitheli.,.llll4 OHO 11114 KII.III waiters, profensing to trent of it, have almost invariably drawn their information from second-hand or apocryphal 'sources, it is, perhaps, last natural that there 'should ha' extatat but little. reliable knowledge iviwetil,g Parirgisa- We believe we. arc in et condition be suppl, intuit of the Yield complained of; and, ill presees.elitag to u o sn, the first filet to whirl. we would draw the attention aif mercantile men is, tint set annals its varied preslitette, many of theist most suitable to British purposes, nor its advantages peculiarly fitting it tea nourish an inalseatant commerce., reasaidering its fine dentate, fruitful "mail, m a d 'teats papulation—last to the stable and enduring nature of its governmental status. Unlike all the Platine provinces, Paraguay is blest With a a ioVellllllellt which, doing!' republic in 1111111 e, and ill the forms lot its adnainistrul , guarantees the preservation of public order ; and is not exposed to those constant revolu tionary viciaaitudes that have conic to be n•garded as the nortnal condition of the neighbouring powers of Spanish origin. lieni•e, to o u r thinking, the great value of this treaty with a tiovernment not only willing but able tee realise its intentleil sham in the 0111111getIlellt. We have not only fully entered into relations with a country new, rich ii natural t 11401110%, peopl e d with a dew& nice well (biassed towards 104, 11101 situate at the head of a vast in ternal navigation, but We may rely mien the utmost itl.et being given by the Exectitive no the stipalatieinx it lass undertaken to alle.erVe, and that the open tiu%igatiun of the l'aragnay and l'pper Parana shall be favored to the British flag, free frisin all alteration or sudden (leasing of those rivers, thus completing that security so essential to sue. coastal enterprise and speculation. No census ear statis tics having ever been published, it is, of 1401114 e, i111110,40111C to estimate with atertarary the population of Paraguay ; but, from the slats furnished by parties tumbling then. during the last few )(ars, there is 110 reals4lll to doltht that it ex ceeds a million. The populati )))) of Assumption, the %alai. tal, has been stated at 1 I,olflo, which is certainly 011SilIVE14. bly under the nal tllll When Rostra, In him ',notelet, announced that he ens preparing grunt military and naval arlinunents with a View of itriauling mid inceqaterating her 111 the Argentine Its Irnt I iota Paraguay speedily raised an effective tutioy of more than M N) men; and, calcula ting that force at the sisoilerate rate of two per cent. on the entire population, the rysidt is alsave st militant, which, as already stated, is more than double the poimifttioti of the Argentine provinces and the State. of I't•u nac united—a fact which explains why it is that Paraguay imports more than all the itate.risar provinces of the confederation, in cluding the prtaince. though not the port, of Buenos Ayres - routic as are we ninny p o rti o ns o f Solidi .1111erieft, there is no one art* of anything like the same magnitude to be compared for a moment with Paraguay. There are culti• valet! with SO easy success, to %%hid. the MOMS of the in• habitants are the only limit, cotton, sugar. indigo, ciichi• :teal, and the finest tobacco in the world ; dyew of great value abound, as also various wild plants of the hemp kind, capable of being converted to the greatest utility ; resinous Dees—ai tttttt them several producing doe indiarubber and giittais.reha gums ; copxiba, rhubarb, and medicinal plants of unequalled c irt uc. I . lBntittiOllB of coffee have lately been et ttttt lowed. mill answer excel. lently. The forest timber, which is inexhaustible in Tian lily, is of the liest spiality, not only Air shipbuilding. lon for cabinet work. Fruits and grain 4'llll , llWe nearly all that are indigenous to the temperate lied the torrid tone ; and the cattle may be multiplied to an indefinite curia if advantage be taken for that portsise of the illimitable pas. throw-611 11111 1 1‘tt alit emisideration just now. bearing in mind the %moves of our 'supply of hides and tallow, whether from the north of Europe or South America itself. Direct European interrounw, by means of the Nlalinesloary, treaty, not only promises to be productive of the utmost good to Paraguay prirr, but, through Paraguay, to the remotest provinces of the Confederation, and heyon4l, to the spurs of the Andes. The Vermeil), already twice explon.il, puts l'aragnay in communication with the vast prm ;neer of and Turemilan ; and if, as there is good ren• son to believe, the Pilcomayo is navigable considerably above Paraguay. her e tree would go straight to the beau of 1i1.11% lat. lty the riser Paraguav itself ships of ;NMI tons can ascend to the capital of the linutilian province of Mato u ireesso ; while the interior of Paraguay is interlaced all over with oat igable streams emptying them. lei Veil Auto dr snot fluvial ado . ) . after nhick the rrimucc THE PRESS. I is named, thus tteilitating the transport, in the manner of the Chinese canals, of its produce to the markets of Assumpti #### and the thiiving town of Filar. Surely we are not um sanguine in believing that a noble territory geographically so situate, politically so secure under the firm and sagaciour guidance of President Lopez, and affluent iu so many of the raw materials of European miumfacture and necessity, will speedily develop itself among nations in a manner worthy of its natured endow. inents. The prospective mutual benefits that are likely to he derived from this treaty aro of far greater inaptitude than appear to hi' generally understood in England, or perhaps even in Pariii,niay itself, although they must, in a great illeilSllll% depend on the spirit in which the new reciprocal relations may be cultiiated atm extended; but, be the result what it will hereafter, we have abu n dant r' noun to be gisteDil for the exertions of Sir C. Illithain in having 110111 i ao much to lay the foundation of future commercial prosperity. It is said, as ay have already intiniated, that upp.iititin will is made by Buenos Ayres to the execution of the other tiv-itty with rripliAlll, althimgh the active energies of Sir chalks were, in both cases, exerted oily for the obvious niutiud sib itotage of all parties violet-rued ; but A* regards the Paraguay treaty, at all events, no such obstacles are to he appichended. The Goveniment of I'uraguny lave cow-thistly shown a laudable desire to establish I:swop-mu intimacy, which einonsistancea not de. upon itself have too long delayed. liiruier wens we took the opportunity of making the amend, fur our tardiness in giving full credit for his South Ameriemi policy to Lord Afalmesbury, with whose polities on nearly every other point we are at issue. Fur ther inquiriea and lobo-million from the beat quarters induct ur to relent now, 11114 . e empluitically than la-fore, our cane vietion that the obligations of the commercial coniniunity ou this head pro imise to he de ell and enduring, however evanescent the sense of them or h iwever grudgingly acconled. By selecting Sir C. llothani for the mission to Paraguay, his lordship virtually coutinued, in the person of the iery officer chosen for that purpose, the prescient com mercial policy initiated in by Sir W. (tore iieseley— the most 'popular, perhaps the only popular, diplomatic tcpri•nctitative of Eliglutol ever sent to the Piste, as the uterus in which both natives and fOreigners of all nations continue to spunk to this day of his Illialliiloll, contrasting it with those that sufficiently prate. IVe have been told that when the Paraguayan Envoy% wen-844a to Motile Video in 'lO to treat with our then Minister there (Sir W. Gore ouseley) lie 'suggested a la rof distiliguished young natives being sent to England, that they might judge of our institutions I commenial spirit for themselves, and report to him that this country loot and could have /110 sinister motive to ?WM(' by a treaty with Paraguay. Con. touring in that opinion, President Lopez has now cawed his nun , the minister plenipotentiary toads ('oust, Gl'll4llll Lopez, to be IleCOmpithied pay it numerous Milli. of Military toliiei.P. HMI el% Wails, together with a younger brother of the general, as secretary, awl by N. Belli, a veteran tliplotostim. It is nun lethlood that he and the principal members of the Legation will soon set out on a tour through the uuuuufactoring districts, where they will &whiles* turn to good liCCollili iill• opportunities that way present them selves, punirubu ly With a View to the preparation for this untrket of three great Paraguayan staples--cotton, sugar, NMI tollMeell, and molly minor though still moat important products. We taut it-noire confidently to promise them a suitable reception whenever they go; and it would only be licooming et 1111 l Demonition of the great event of which he is the personal exponent it' tlenend Lopez were publicly entertained by those merchants of Liverpool whose para mount interest in the commerce of South America has been so appropriately secured by the recent splendid steam enterprise between this 'sot and that continent. tultsiastital. PIIEFEIIMENTS ANI) APPOINTMENTS. The lice•. I►r. Bra'leford, Heiler of k:xbourue and Honey. (111'1 . 01. has Iwo' appointed a Surrogate for the pro% nig of e The Hey. Richard highway Kirby, to the Perpetual Curacy of Ilaverthaaite. in the county of laueabter. The Itev. John Alexander Kerr, to one of the Cnraeiee of the Cathedral Church of Unnuore. The lter•. Maurice de Hut gig, to the Curacy of the Cathedral hi The Hey. F. Moor, juts., MA., to the Incumbency of Atop field, II ansi..laire. The ltev. J. ',lnnen, M.A., to the Perpetual Curacy 01 M. Mat thew, Great Peter-Kiri-rt. Wi, , ttnitamter. _ _ The tte‘. J. Jiitoce4,n. M.A., to the Perpetnfil Curaey of the Proprielaly I hopell, I A • 14111ill glOll, Wor%iekshire. 'the Itev. J. 11. Item, 8.A., to the t harlatiney of the Brotnegrove noon), Worreet _ _ The'Rev. Michael llarrison,ll.ll., to the Rectory of Langford stt ryk, Hills. The Rev. N. A. I; urbatal, M.A., of Christ Church, to the Rec tory of Mal, how. iha s. Wattey. M.A., to the Vicarage of Compton, Iserk. The Hey. 11. N. Barton, M.A., to the Itectory of it. Rano, Cornwall. The Her. S. Ilablileigh, ILA., to the Vicarage of M. Wenn, Cornwall. The t'. Chit ei4, 8.A., to (hi li. Cory of Mouton it', • Leicestershire.. The ite‘. licorge Alston. 8.A., Vicar of Hanlon-on-the•11111, Essex, to the ltrelior) Studlaud, , . • -- -- The Boy. C. W. Dew, 8.A., to the Evening tectoreArip of St. Cuthbert's, Carlis•le. The Het:. 'rheum% ennottield, ILA., to the Stipendim y fumy of St. Goorge's, rley. The Rev. Eau old Rogers Tituieu, to "'ire et. r.c., county of Stafford. VAcANcIES. The Rectory of Votteretl, atilt the Rectory of Rroeillield 'an nexed. pear Butitingfortl, ilertfordshire. by the death of the Max. .1..1,11 Walker, M.A. Value 4041/. a Vic, r, iu priiate patrnage. By Mr. Witll.e•r'e death the Vicarage ot litaintree, lEbt.vit. also be• conies vacant. Value dt,o/. PI year; in the silt of the Mat.tcr and ..flrino -hall. awbri.l ge. The Rectory of Farnham 110,41, Buckinghamshire, by the .leath of the Hex. John Se•ptiutua timer, o ff A. Value CO/. a ear; u< the SUt of the l'rvl vet awl Fellvne vt Etvu SATURDAY, The Rectory of little Honied, near l'cklield, Susses. by the death of the Rev. Juwepli Nnipeon, M.A. Value itiol, a year ; the gilt of the representatives of the late incumbent. The Head Mssterehip of the Proprietary Grammar School, St. John'e-woo.l, Loudon, lb vacant. Ihe master must be in priest's orders, and a graduate of one of the UniveraiUes. lie Curacy of Loa, emit, Suffolk. Stipend, 1001. per animus ; in the gift of the ltev. F. Cunningham, M.A., Canon of Norwich. Ihe Luton of lullarone,llexfurd, by the death of the tier. l'huikett Prewtou. In the gift of the Bishop of Ferns; value 20u1. a year. Ihe Clattplailliey of Cork Garrison, by the death of the Rev. J. Iferbert. The duties are onerous, there being no fewer than Mur services Oil each Sabbath, to say nothing of the attendant.) on nick. &e., where over 2,000 and occasionally 3,000 men are quartered. 'I lie salary is itotil. per annum. It is said to be In the gilt of lord Fitzioy somerwet, under the Board of Ordosuce, with II haw the exclusive control and management of all military Zinibtrsitg OXFORD. 3111. AAHHInsE SHORT, of New College, was en Saturday lust admitted an actual felluw,after two years probation. Mk. I•'!t►:Math' Mosta:rt., solicitor, of Oxford, has been appointed solicitor to the University, in the room of tae nether, Mr. Baker 31orrell, who has resigned un account of advanced age and declining health. Piorrir LETLEY Scrxr rat, M.A., scholar of Corpus College, has been admitted a fellow of the society. TH►: kuit.st HY THE STATUTE about to be proposed tor founding and endowing a professorship fur• the Latin lair• guage has just appeared. The professor is not to be under the degree of M.A. or It.C.L. He is to reside within the precincts of the I•niversity for eight weeks in each term ; he is to give two public lectures each year in English, and twenty-four lectures fur the use of the junior members of the University each term. The professor is to be appointed by the Viee-t hsnct•llor, the Proctors, the President of Col inas, and some one other to be named by the fellows i f Corpus, by the Regina professor of Greek, the Camden Professor of Ancient History, the Public Orator, the I're• fessor of Poetry, the Senior Examiner and the Senior• Moderator in the Classical Schools. 'rile SOCIETY or• CORMS, following out wl:at appears to have been the wish of the founder of that college (Bishop Fox), viz., the establishment of a lecturer in Latin, fleet... bible not only to the members of his ovm college, but to all, offers at once to endow the professorship with ti4XN. per annum, intending to increase the endowment to 6110/. at a future period. The University has also set spilt the stun of 141,0011/. as a certain endowment for the above, so as to provide that an income of nut less than 611 W. be ensured to the professor for his services. All the junior members of the University, with the exception of those of Corpus College (who are to attend the lectures gratis), are tu pay the professor for each course the same tee (21.) as that paid to the other pmfessors and lecturers by their respec tive classes. MATHEMATICAL CLASS LIST, for the Second Public Examination, Michaelmas, 1868 :-•••• CLAYS I.—Behrendt', John 8., St. John's. ('LAMS 1.-1 la 3 ton, eorge, uet. us' ; Rogers, Walter RAM ; Tanner, thllllVB, Pent hroke. CLASS M.—Fulton, Thomas G.. Queens' ; Hayward, Heur H., itembt,Ae Joie, tgeithen I'., Pembroke. CLAAIt IV.—Eras ford, Nan. A., Exeter; Ison, Wm. G., Brine. nose ; Vadletort, Viscount, t hutch. . . . —..—. EXAMINERS IN XI Al lIE 11A1 ICS ANII PHYSICS. 1111111104 Eill‘auNi II.; nice, Jimitiv,loniew ; 1% ay te, brumel W. Altt. Crt.i.EN, Commoner of Worcester, and Mr. Pike, from King's College, London, have been elected scholars of lintsenose College. There were eleven other eanoidates. ( AMBRIDGE. ME GLEE): ritonstion has given notice that the subject of his tint course of lectures will be the Gorgiss and Theatettts of Plato. The lectures will commence to the Bth of February next. Tnr. EXAMINATION FON MATHEMATICAL Hoseras coin• invitees on Tuesday, Jan. 3. There are a hundred and betty four candidates. The examiners are :—C. F. Blacket sic, M.A., Coins College; I'. Frost, M.A., St. John's Collt 6e; W. Walton, M.A., Minty College ; J. Wolsteuhohne, M.A., Christ's College. THE I'ROISUECTII4 OF A NEW CLASSICAL JOURNAL, to be published terminally at Cambridge, and edited by a coin wimp of resident numbers of the University, was issued on Tuesday last. The first number is to appear on the Ist of March. The following degrees have been Conferred 9f..l.—Jolty► White, Clare Hall; Robert John Shupe, Catherine Hall (compotuider) ; Frederick Thorpe, Eni mantle' College. Cislner, Caine College; George Richiud Withington, Trinity Hall. /1-I.—Thounui Chenery, Caius College; Henry Fortey, Jesus College. Hobert James 3l'iilwe, of Trinity College, Dublin, is admitted ad tanden►. UNIVERSITY REFORM. Tile Oxford Heads have imaned the Report of their emu mitten on the recommendations of the Commission. It is an octavo volume of WI) pages, of which about 101) ate oc milled by the report, the lest by evidence. The principal evidence is that of lir. l'usey Wu pages); the Itev. 0. Cordon, of Christ Chuich : Mr. Marriott, of Oriel ; the Rev. R. Ilussev, of t hristchureli ; Pr. Hawkins, of Oriel: Pr. Cotton, of Worcester; Mr. Justice Coleridge; and U. R. Rickards, Esq. he number of nit cabers of Convoy cation who have given evidence is rmall, not exceeding 21. —besides a riper approving generally of the reeonnnenda lions of the Conaluihsivii, signed by eleven persona, must of whom had previously expressed their views to the Com mission itself. The principal ICCOManadationas and &Polon& ON as follows .