The Press.
London, England, 1854-01-07 00:00:00

clerks did their best, and they
shown a clerkly talent in the
it is said they have " cooked "
sheet, to make their best appei
bad as it is in reality. From
collectors of revenue have hit
the revenue cash through th,
by bills payable at twenty-one i
but about the 20th ult. an on
directing that those bills elm
drawn payable at seven days' si
this quarter is unfairly credi
which would not be included
" sponding period " of last 371
we are glad to hear that the
which poverty has driven to th
is not mean. The bankers,
receive interest for the usual pr
one days, awl thus no one will
defrauded by this arrangemei
factory to know that the clerks
desperadoes if they practise
main for our Christmas consol

MINISTERIAL DISCOUR.
ENVOY OF PARA,
THE readers of the PRESS are .
the importance of the Paraguay
mercantile world ; Liverpool
ing for their ratification with
had been accepted by the Cr
procured by their predecessor
HOTHAM, their negotiator, was
the Governorship of Victor'
afterwards General LOPEZ,
dent of Paraguay, arrived in
purpose of ratifying them.
arrival the Government were
was an English diplomatic
America on board the steal
came ; yet that courtesy wh,
bestowed on the representati,
European State was withhelt
the ruler of the rich region o:
baggage was searched at tlb
which to one arriving here in
a marked indignity. Beyon(
a presentation to her Majef
more than a bare recognition
character, no notice was tak.
Government of the country to which he was
accredited : no Minister called upon him, nor
was he invited to any of those banquets at
which the presence of diplomatists is prescrip-
tive and conventional. Commerce is sensitive
and vigilant, and from our Liberal con-
temporary the Liverpool Albion, from whose
columns we have condensed the foregoing
particulars, we take the following remarks:
We should be sorry to believe that there has been any
studied diaconrteay in the case, any intentional design to
mark the insignificance attached by parties now in office to
the South American commercial policy of which Lord
Malmeshury is proud, and, to our thinking, as we said on
a recent occasion, most justly proud, notwithstanding the
shortcomings of his colleagues in so many other respects.
Bnt at the same time the facts we have recorded are quite
enough to warrant faction in imputing such motives; and
on every account it is greatly to be regretted, first, that our
treatment of general Lopez should have been so unbe-
coming towards him and towards the principle he repre-
sents, and so unworthy of ourselves; and, secondly, that
such treatment should be practically sod rebuked by the
conduct of France.
For in France his treatment was in every
respect exactly the reverse of that which he
experienced in England. There he was re-
ceived with all the courtesy to which he was
entitled as " Envoy Extraordinary and Mi
" nister Plenipotentiary of the Republic of
" Paraguay." Our contemporary adds that
the impression produced on General LoeEz
by this contrast iu his reception in the two
countries is precisely what might be expected ;
indeed, iu whatever cause the strange con-
duct of our Government originated, it bore
the aspect of studied insult. Our contem-
porary the Edinburgh Advertiser assigns to
this conduct a definite meaning. The pro-
ducts of Paraguay are the same as those of
Russia—hides and tallow; were the resources
of the former country to be fully developed, we
could dispense with the latter, not only without
inconvenience, but with advantage to our.

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SATURDAY,
y have at least
mode in which
" their balance-
ear not quite so
in Scotland the
.itherto remitted
he Scotch banks
days after date ;
rder was issued
ould this year be
might. Therefore
cited with items
in " the corre-
year. However,
Coalition Firm
these expedients
, it is said, will
period of twenty-
II be permanently
ant. It is satis-
aro by no means
a little legerde-
)lation.
TESY TO THE
AGUAY.
; already aware of
lay treaties to the
. has been watch-
th anxiety ; they
Coalition, though
mrs ; and .Sir C.
was promoted to
)ria. Very soon
son of the Presi-
n England for the
Of his intended
e aware, for there
agent from South
Liner by which he
Bich is studiously
five of the meanest
ld from the son of
of Paraguay. His
the Custom-house,
.n his capacity was
nd the formality of
sty, which was no
in of his diplomatic
aken of him by the
y to which he was
lied upon him, nor
those banquets at
amatists is prescrip-
amerce is sensitive
our Liberal con-