The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-07 00:00:00

LA PLATA.

By the Coriolan, Capt. Lamand, arrived at Ram,
we are in possession of news from Monte Vida3is
the 30th of October. On the 2Gth of that month th
government of Buenos Ayres issued a decree stop
the trade eiii Monte Video after the let of December,
from which date no produce would be allowed tots
shipped except in vessels exceeding 120 tons bur
and going direct to their ports of destination wittiest
touching at Monte Video.

This step on the part of the government of Bona
Ayres is intended to stop the traffic which tes
hitherto passed through the blockading squadron.
On the 26th the French steamer Pandour captured,
at Ensenada, a considerable number of vessels which
were loading at that port under the previous tacit at-
couragement of the French, asd all of which would
have paid toll at Monte Video.
On the day before the captain of the Coriolaa koft
the roads at Monte Video, load reports of Ara
lery and musketry were heard from tam till
evening. The cannon appeared to be fired 11
intervals, but the firing of small arms seemed
incessant It had been impossible to ascertain either
the result or the explanation of this engagement,
which nothing on the previous days had led to anti.
cipate. If, as it may be supposed, this is a renewal
of vigorous operations at the siege of Monte Video,
it may be inferred that Roses, foreseeing that Eng.
land and France will shortly act in concert to com-
plete the work of intervention, has determined to pro.
fit by the respite given him, by making a last effort
against Monte Video. Hq, seemed to have bad hopes
of carrying the town by a coup de main before the
arrival of the negotiators.
The great subject of anxiety in La Plata was the
imminent invasion of the province of Corrientes by the
troops of General Urquiza, Governor of Entre Rios,
and the devoted follower of Rowe. The La Pkds
Courier distinctly states that Rosas has commanded
Urquiza to commence the campaign. The letterset
that journal from Entre Rios, dated the 4th of October,
state that the army of that leader, reinforced by
troops from Buenos Ayres, had been ordered to as
aemble on the 15th, and that the Argentine squadrce,
commanded by Bonifacio, which bad entered the Pa.
rana within a few weeks previous, had no other object
in view in doing so than to attack that of Corrientes,
and transport soldiers and horses for the use of the
invading army. On another hand it was said that
Urquiza had sent one of his confidential officers to
intimate to the governor of Corrientes, Madariaga,
that he should execute the clauses of the Pact of Al-
caraz, which were dictated by Rama, or he would
immediately begin the campaign.
The whole population of Corrientes was in arms.
And pending the commencement of the struggle
Governor Madariaga has published a manifesto, in
which he expresses his astonishment at seeing Go-
vemor Urquiza meddling in a policy the grave mss.
sequence of which might, at a future period, tam
against his own authority.
The execution of this invasion of Corrientes is, iA
fact, only suspended by the hesitation of Urquies,
who waits before he finally takes a resolution till he
knows what assistance he may expect from the inter-
vention, to resist the demands of Roses.

In addition to the evils attendant upon a
siege, Monte Video is a prey to internal dithcal-
ties of no ordinary nature. Its ancient presi-
dent, Riveira, has been, as already stated, be,-
nished, on a charge f having betrayed the
national cause. The manner of his arrest and the
proceedings taken against him are these : Being HU-
pected of having intelligence with the troops besieg-
ing Maldonado, of which he had the defence, he
was arrested in that place, in the midst of his forme,
by the minister of war. After offering Dome resist-
ance he obeyed the orders given to him, and em-
barked on board the Chimere, from which he wu to
have been transferred to the Alsacienne, to be con-
ducted to the place of his exile, Santa Catalina. His
arrival at Rio has been announced. The executive,
aster having taken these measures, gave an account
of them to the legislature, in a report on the subject
by the Minister of the Interior, Herrera y Ober, who
thus states the motives which led to the steps taken
against him :
Since the reaction of the sth of April, 1846, General
Riveira had taken upon himself s power in open opposition
to the government, and he refused to submit to the rules d
legality. He had called upon government to furnish him
with a new army, and government reproached him with
having successively lost three. Confined, as it were, in
Maldonado, he had been charged with the defence of that
important post, and, instead of acting honourably against the
enemy, he allowed the poor people who had taken refuge is
the town to starve, whilst he made a shameful traffic of the
provisions which were sent to him from Monte Video. He bed
abandoned Corrientes, then allied with him sgainst Rosas,sal
he had conducted himself very badly towards the unfartrusate
Lavelle at the Battle del Sauce Grande, and towards General
Paz, before and after the battle of Caaquazu. The repast
goes on to reproach him with his bad administration, the
dissipation of the money of the state, his double dealing Or
wards the French agent who had entrusted him with several
sums to carry on the war at the time of the French blockade,
and which he, instead of devoting them to their real pur-
poses, took for his awn use ; the treaty with the rebels of
the Rio Grande ; the attack, capture, and abandonment
the town of Paysandu and its inhabitants, without theautho-
risation of the supreme authority of the country, and that
at a time when negotiations were going on between Moats
Video and the governor of Entre Rios for a pesos ; aid
the report concludes by reproaching him with the
arrest of an official envoy from the Monte Videan government
to the chief of the Oriental forces carrying on operations at
Maldonado, from whom he took a sum of money he carried,
and then murdered him. Besides all this, Gen. Riveira
has committed treason, as documents of established authenti-
city show that he had frequent communications with the
two most confidential officers of Gen. Oribe.

Such are the accusations which were brought
against Riveira, and such in the present state of Monte
ideo, which shows that the sooner the intervention
takes place the better for that city.
On the night of the 16th of October a violent hurri-
cane burst over Monte Video. Several of the ships
in the roads dragged their anchors, and a Spanish
brig, the Lindo, was wrecked in the bay, as lirriss
an English three-masted vessel, the Richardson.

UTRECHT, JAN, I.—The old year closed under
distressing circumstances in our city. Divine service had
been concluded at the church, at seven o'clock in the even-
ing, but as a light was still perceived within the building
at one o'clock some alarm was excited. On opening the
church door, the whole body of the church stood in a mass
of flame. The conflagration proceeded with such rapidity,
that all hopes of extinguishing it was at an end. There was
scarcely time to save some books and furniture of the church.
The are engines were on the spot, and every exertion was
made to save the noble edifice without effect; the chutch
and tower became a prey to the flames, and nothing remains
but the walls. Happily for the crowd who were resembled
the tower fell inwards, and the clock, weighing 500 N..
lies buried under the ruins. The church was built in 16.52,
and was repaired only a few years since. The cause of the
fire has not yet been ascertained, .bat it is thought that. la
putting out the fires in the stoves, due care was net takes to
extinguish them completely.