The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-05 00:00:00

MILITARY.

On Wednesday a company of Artillery arrived at Liverpool
from Dublin, and proceeded on the following morning to
Portsmouth, whence they were to embark for the Crimea.
The 15th Hussars, now stationed at Exeter, consist of 348
men and 270 horses, and it isunderstood that theyaro to hold
themselves in readiness to depart for the Crimea, though the
route has not yet been received. In the same barracks are
also 200 horses and 41 recruits belonging to the 11th Hussars
who are being trained for active service. 17 recruits, with 1
lieutenant and 1 sergeant, from tho depot, are expected to
start from Plymouth for tho East in the course of a few days.
Within the last 10 days 50 horseshave been received, and the
regiment is also fast recruiting its men.
It is intended to augment the army in the Crimea by two
regiments of cavalry of 700 sabres each and five battalions of
infantry, each mustering 1,200 bayonets, making a total of
7,400 cavalry and infantry. In addition to the above the
horse brigade, siege and field trains of the Royal Artilery,
are to be increased ; and the line regiments in the Mediterra-
nean and lonian Islands will proceed to join the army in the
East. It has not as yet been officially announced what regi-
ments aro to be placed under orders for active service ; but it
is believed that the 3d Light Dragoons, quartered in Man-
chester, and the 7th Hussars, at York, will form the cavalry
reinforcements, and that the infantry will consist of the 51st
King's Own Light Infantry, from Manchester ; 80th Foot,
from Fort George ; 82d Foot, from Edinburgh ; 94th Foot,
from Windsor ; and the 3d batta ion of the Rifle Brigade
(newly raised), from Portsmouth.
Captain Broadhead, R.N., is down on the Durham coast
enrolling men for the Naval Coast Guard volunteers. There
has been a meeting of seamen and fishermen at Sunderland,
and it is thought that the captain will succeed better among
the fishermen and watermen this year thaw last.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE PAST WEEK.

Miles Receipts.
opened, NAME OF RAILWAY.
1855. 1854. 1855.
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BRITISH. ------...
£ £
72% Aberdeen ...................• •- .• 1,872 2,144
37% Belfast and Ballymena •••••••• • • • • • • 813 828
17 Belfast and County Down.• • • • • • • • • .. - -
32 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 2,202 2,368
2611 Bolton,Blackburn, and West York •• .. - -
103% Bristol and Exeter ... .
189% Caledonian-. .•.. _ _ • ~ •• ••
..
••
.. 10,694 10,995
142 Edinburgh and Glasgow •...........• 6,463 5,277
904, Chester and Holyhead... .. - _ .... - 4,390 4,855
614 Cork, Blackrock, and Passage •••• .• 229 172
20 Cork and Bandon - - .. 177 256
56 Dublin and Belfast •Tunction •• .• - .. 903 1,034
63 Dublin and Drogheda...-. ......... 1,358 1,515
7% Dublin and Kingstown ............ - 1,327 1,376
16% $ Dundee and Arbroath .............. 468 523
31 1 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction 844 979
25 , Dundalk and Enniskillen ••-.•• • • • • • 182 320
68 1 East Anglian...... ".•-.•-.. .. - .. 841 864
8114 I East Lancashire .................... 4,737 5 391
417 Eastern Counties and Norfolk" - 21,110 21,825
.• 1
Eastern Union.. • ....... • • .. • • • ..•
78 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee •.• • • . 2,778 2,93 G
6 1 Exeter and Credit0n................ - -
22 1 Furness Railway ... .............. - -
183 Glasgow, and South-Western • • • • .• .. 5,564 5,596
963 Great Northern and E. L ... - 18,043 20,474
188 Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 6,669 G,943
342 Great Western .................... 20,571 26,738
95 Irish South Eastern ...• - - - • • •... - -
90 Lancaster and Carlisle 6,141 5,351
260 Lancashire and Yorkshire. .••• . • • • ... 18.557 19,181
- Leeds Northern ...• - •• •• • . . • • • • • • • - -
16 t Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.• • • - -
55314 London and North Western ..... •• •• 53,074 56,171
5 London and Blackwall- ...... • •.... 1,246 1,285
174. , London, Brighton, and South Coast.. 11,845 12,024
267 London and South We5tern......... 12,221 14,009
60 Londonderry and Enniskillen .... • • • • 501 611
- Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c. - -
171 % Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 7,732 9,349
s;lj Manchester and South Junction .... • • 719 690
28 Maryport and Carlisle • • .• • • • • • • • • .. 843 955
4981 V Midland ..... •••• • • • • ............. 24,903 25,960
126;4 Midland Great Western (Irish) ••• • • • - -
37 - -
78a3` Newcastle and Carlisle.. • • ........ • . -
119 North British ••..•••••• • • .• •• - - - 4,514 4,848
-- North Staffordshire ••••.• • • • • ••• • • • -
874 837
46'., North-Western ••..••• • • • • • •••• • • ••
2 314 2,433
B`."4i Scottish Central •'.•••••••• • • • • • • " • • ',,,, 832
32 Scottish Midland •••••••• • • • • • • • • •
798 1,284
29''x{ Shrewsbury and Birmingham ••• • .•
1 842 2,159
48 Shrewsbury and Chester • • • • • • • • • • -
'662 669
30 Shropshire Union .. • •• • •
South Eastern• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• •• ..
57.14 South Dev0n........ .••••••.• • • • • • •
289 4.145 5,05
1 623
162', 4 South Wales .. ••••••• • • • • • .2 ••" 1,641
97 South York., Doncaster, and Goole
••••• • • • •• 3,004 3,162
152;4124 160535
33 -
an 7
Waterford and Limerick • • • • • • - •••• •
.. 67s 68
77
West Cornwall .• •• •• •••, ' " 345 319
25 .. • • • • • • • •
Whitehaven Junction .••
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682 d & Leeds.. - -
Yoyroarkanand NdeNwocratsitl,
me,
roasicue.
..... 1,210 1,203
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iadinutd"Berwick &
57 'IA Dutch Rhenisfeh
diterranean •• • • •• • • _ -
2E-
and Liege .. •• •• •• •• ••
•• ••
•• - -
63 • Namur Franc© „ .............. 28,300 36,077
Northern of
445 . Central* •. ..... - _ _ ••
Orleans and •
63 ML7nntereas and
u :nd Troyes .......... •• ..
697 • s and Lyons . •• • ....• -
24C I Paris _,82
Paris and Rouen. - ~, - .. _ •• ••
.... 7,773 10,373
Paris and Strasburgh • •
• .. • • • . _
.. . -
9: -
3 I
6, ) Rouen and Havre •• ...•
is; [ Western of France 16,170
• '••• •• •• 7,.41i

10,373

4,2 Rs
7,419

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TO TEM EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—Prevented by illness from visiting London, I
was obliged to write to a friend to call at the rooms of
the Spanish American Committoe,-to-aeok.some explana
tion of the intelligence per last mail, referred to in your
valuable journal of the 16th inst. I had heard that
! Mr. Giro had some months ago published a bond in
xtenso, and had much offended the local journals, or
perhaps the Government itself, by a rather hasty reply
to some observations in the papers ; and some persons
condemned, and do still condemn, Mr. Giro. His great
and only offence appears to others to be his assertion,
that the loan, being contracted at a very high price, every
principle of justice, sound policy, and honour made it
incumbent on the Buenos Ayres Government to settle
the question, especially after near 30 years' delay. It
seems the journal called the Tribunal contradicts Giro,
and tells him " he lies," and a letter of Messrs. Baring
is published to prove that all the money the Buenos
Ayres Republic obtained was only 700,0001., or at the
rate of 701., instead of 850,0001., or at that of 851. per
cent. on the 1,000,0001. of bonds originally issued. Cer-
tainly the discrepancy of 150,000/. sterling is very mon-
strous one, as no commissions, percentages, printing,
or other charges, &c., &c., against Buenos Ayres could
absorb such a sum, or, indeed, one might suppose even
a third of it. Messrs. Baring's letter must evidently
have been supplied by-the Finance Minister, and have
been dislodged from the Archives of the Hacienda for the
express purpose of refuting Giro. As might have been
ebxpectect,hlitokhleedleeerstbtaetorar ofMessrs.Baring is one of a thorughly
learn n,and
under i
theus ibnoens sd-
the Buenos Ayres Governmenttrmheeuciesritvsebigdengathinteiaslfacle7tahand
evtaelrulainblel adAvadnraceittoifngn,eaaralyththeeg
r e rters of a million
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they received this large sum, it is vuear
m n
refusing to make a iroper arrange'
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discreditabledoe s,
that
mtoenfitnwdiththem
Mr. Giro, or even with Messrs. Baring
themselves. It has even been reported the latter had,
,
through their English agents Captainarbitrators,
sand White and Mr.
White, offered to act as arbitra
that should satisfy at once the English bondholders and
the Buenos Ayres Government. But I only have this
last point as a mere rumour, though it seems by no
means improbable under the circumstances.
The discrepancy above alluded to, though very large,
may admit of a satisfactory explanation ; and really,as,
out of 30 years since the loan was contracted, we have
to count 26 years of suspended interest, it is immaterial
whether 85, 75, 70, or even 50, nay 30, per cent, was
received by the non-paying and defaulting Government.
It is clear, however, beyond all doubt, dispute, and ca-
vil, that at least 700,0001. of English money were sent
to Buenos Ayres. She now remits monthly 5,000 dols.,
or 1,0001. only—i.e., 12,0001. annually, and actually
boast' of sending this paltry sum, scarcely 1 per cent. on
1,000,000/. of bonds. I think, sir, Mr. Giro has great
reason to complain, and great cause to use, even if he
did, violent upbraidings. But nothing of the sort. He
is only much too mild and gentle. Mr. Giro, no doubt,
received his instructions from the committee, and if he
asserted that 851. per cent. was actually paid by the
English subscribers to the loan, he perhaps took his
hint from the book of admitted authority—viz., Mr. D.
M. Evans's excellent edition of "Fortune's Epitome of
the Foreign Funds," which state that the contract of this
loan was 851. per cent. Let any one, who may feel an
interest on the subject, refer also to the journals of the
7th July, 1824, and other dates, the same typo of 85 is
given with the additional remark that, on the first day of
issue of this unfortunate contract, it was done at 311
premium, or at 881 ; soon after it was at 07, and even as
high as 102 ex div. Indeed it stood most in favour of
all the South American bonds, Brazilian and Chilian not
excepts 1. I perceive the bonds are signed by Parish Ro-
bertson and also by one Felix Castro, probably a Buenos
Ayrean by the name. They are countersigned by Messrs.
Baring. What I insist on is, that whether 700,0001. or
850,0007., were obtained in the London market, it is too
bad to find the defaulting Government positively adding
insult to injustice, and sneeringly advising Mr. Giro and
the creditors only to use patience a little longer after 30
years' trial, and when Buenos Ayres is the only one of
the once numerous defaulting republics that pays nothing
or next to nothing. To suppose tbat Robertson and
Felix Castro ran away with 150,0001. would be, as our
French friends call it, use peu (rep fort; but those gen-
tlemen may really throw some light upon this now inter-
esting subject should they be still in existence. Perhaps,
sir, some of these remarks may draw forth explanations
from others and original bondholders. This lam not,
though I am a considerable bondholder, and a very great
loser by having purchased these dishonoured Buenos
Ayres bonds.
_

In the minds of many persons a question will naturally
arise—via., was there a tacit agreement with the Finance
Minister of the time (one Senor Garcia) that, if 70 per
cent., or 700,0001., was obtained, or 3,500,000 hard dol-
lars, the contractors, Robertson and Felix Castro, with
others—perhaps of Buenos Ayres—were welcome to
pocket all the money they could ,extract beyond it ! The
700,0001., then, was what they wanted to touch for their
unpaid worthless 1,000,0001. (*paper. This Garcia was
considered an honourable Minister, or, of course, Messrs.
Baring would never have meddled with this (to the Eng-
lish creditors) most disastrous transaction.

All the resources, revenues, &c., are solemnly pledged
in these bonds. Has Buenos Ayres no revenues I and
has she bad none for 30 years ? She has ample revenues.
Is her home debt paid ? Yes, most punctually, and
always has been. Where does the responsibility of this
loan lie ? Clearly with Buenos Ayres. For P. Robert-
son and Felix Castro were the authorised agents of the
Republic, and if dissatisfied, after keeping the money
30 years, or that they could not contract a loan on even
better terms than they effected this, why do they not
find out and attack Robertson and Felix Castro, and
make them disgorge, if they complain of shortcomings,
to the Treasury, instead of tauntingly and derisively
attacking Giro, Lord Palmerston, and the poor duped
bondholders, in language I will not repeat ? A pre-
cious robbery it has proved, for it is clear that neither
700,0001., and much less 850,0001. (that was the astound-
ing sum really raised in London in 1824), was never in-
tended as a free gift to this most ungrateful people, but
such it has proved, to the great loss of the lenders, up
to this time.

I will, in conclusion, remark that this case now as-
Burnes a character perfectly incomprehensible. Here is
th• case of a debtor that can pay, and will not pay, al-
ways giving fraudulent preferences to its home and other
debts, and defying its English creditors, offering schemes
of arrangement to Mr. Giro, that the Minister knows
must be rejected ; as, for instance, last'year, proposing
an annual remittance of 60,0001. sterling to the house of
Messrs. Baring, in liquidation of principal and interest,
but also proposing, as a counter-balance, and a bar to
settlement, that all interest on 1,750,0001. should cease I
No wonder Giro publishes their bond in extenso, after a
suspension of 30 years ; and the best thing the committee
can do, and I hope will immediately set about, is to
imitate the example, and publish the bond, letters, ani
all the correspondence, in every city of Europe and
America. This is a case not unlike that Spanish chaos
of bankrupt rascality exposed this very day in the co-
lumns of the Morning Post. It is a case, iu short,
calling strongly for the interference of the British Go-
vernment in favour of its defrauded subjects, who, for
return for 30 years' patient endurance, and in payment
of an admitted receipt of three-quarters of a million ster-
ling, so far back as 1824, are taunted with low ribaldry
and insulting defiance.—l am, sir, your obedt. servant,
Brighton, April 27, 1855. G. W.

OPERATIONS AGAINST TIIE RUSSIAN
FORTRESSES.

It is understood to be the intention of the British and
French Governments to send a strong force of artillery
and infant!), to assist in the operations about to be re-
sumed against the Russian fortresses in the Gulfs of
Finland and Bothnia, and the Baltic. It is stated that
the expedition will number 25,000 men, France supply-
ing the greater portion ; but, as a set-off, the British
Government is to increase the naval forces, and to fur-
nish tonnage for the conveyance of the troops, which
will embark sufficiently early to reach the scene of ope-
rations before the ice breaks up. The British will em-
bark at Leith, and the French at Brest or Boulogne.

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