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

BANKING DJ

Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000
Rest ........ . 3,131.759
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
. .

Commissioners of
Nat,onal I )ebt, Sav-
ing's flanks, and •

lAvidend Aveounti) 4.468,0;3
Other depot i 9, 13,173,482
Seven Day and other ' • .
}3lllB ........ 972,r11

£3g,298 32G

Dated the 31 day of Mai, 1855,

• AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.
The Average hie° of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, corn-
puted from the returns made in the week ending Ma 1,
1855.. exclusive of the Duties.* Customs paid or payable
thereon, on the importation thereof into Great Britain :
From the British Possessions in America 2l.s. 1,1.
Mauritius
IC CC East Indies . 21s. 9.1 d.
' The average price of the three foregoing descriptions of
Sugar, computed as above, is 21s. 31d. per cwt. i

DIVIDENDS DECLARED.
F. Smith, Standen, near Ware, Hertfordshire,
miller—
div. of 2s. lid. in the pound, any Monday, a'. the office of
Mr. Pannan, Alderma,,bury.
J. P White. Mark-lane, merchant—first div. of 3s. in
the pound, Thursday, May 10, and three subsequent
Thursdays, at the office of Mr. St insfeld, Basinghall street.
M Essinger, Old Change, straw hat manufacturer—first
div. of 3s. 4'l. in the pound, Thursday, May 3, and three
subsequent Thursdays, at the office of M. Stansfeld, Ba-
singball-street.

P.
Cattell, Long-acre, coachmaker—first div. of 2s. 6d.
in the pound, Thursday, May 3, and three subsequent
Thursdays, at the office of Mr. Stansfelil, Basinghall-street.
P. W. Hardwick, Regent-street, dealer in ribbons—final
div. of lid. in the pound, Thursday, May 3, and three
subsequent Thursdays, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Ba-
singbsll-street.
J. Harvey awl G. Pike, Birmingham, grocers—first di-
vidend of Bd. in the pound, any Friday, at the office of
Mr. Whitmore, Birmingham.
W. Jones, Liverpool, boatbuilder—first div. of 7s. 6d.
in the pound, any Monday, at the office of Mr. Bird,
Liverpool.
,aagnary,
Wednesday,
brewero—ffifirstofdivm.
nofT3tisr.neirn, the
Tyne.
npv
Saturday,
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BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
William Holladay and Jamos Clemitson, mantle manu-
facturers, Watling-street, City.

'BANKRUPTS.
James Verity, boot and shoemaker, Leicester-street,
Regent-street, to surrender, May 11, at half-past twelve,
and June 15, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Aldermanbnry ; Story
Great James-street, Bedford-row.
Catherine Dixon, tailor and mercer, Lymington, South-
ampton, May 19, at twelve, and Junels, at half-past one,
at the Court of Bankrutcy. Whitmore, official assignee,
Basinghall-street; Thomson, Gray's-inn-square; Brown,
Lymington, Hants.
William Harding, baker, Holborn, May 18, at eleven,
and June 15,.at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Pad-
more, Marylebone.
Henry Oppenheim, ship chandler, Etamsgate, May 15,
at two, and June 18, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Lee, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Buchanan, Guild-
hall-chambers.
John Platt, draper, Saxmundham, Suffolk, May 15 and
June 12, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. John-
son, official assignee; Poe nail, Son, and Cross, Staple Inn;
South well, Saxmundhatn.
Samuel Hodgson, stationer, Great Marylebone-street,
May 15, at halt-past two, and June 18, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sam-
brook-court ; Leigh, George-street, Mansion house. •
George Edward Neal, innkeeper, Pernbury, Kent, May
10, and June 15, at One, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Whitmore (and not Ginnan, as formerly advertised), offi-
cial assignee, Basingliall-street ; Church and Langdale,
Southampton-buildings, Chane.ery-lane ; Cripps, Tun-
bridge Wells.
Hansard Jackson Bridges, brewer, Vauxhall Brewery,
Wandsworth-road, May 15, at eleven, and June 13, at
one, at the Court of Bankrnptcy. Stansfeld, official
assignee; Trinder and Eyre, John-street, Bedford-row ;
Archer,' S to win arket.
William Hoe, stationer, Bishopagate-street Without,
May 14, and June 19, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptc
lay. Lee, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Linklaters,
Sise-ne.
George Frederick Lillicrap, grocer, 20, Bishopcgate-street
Without, May 11, at half-past one, and June 23, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Ni..holson, offici 11 assignee, Basinghall-street ; Howard and Dollman, Penchurch-st.
Henry Robinson, maltster, Brewood, Stafford. May 19,
and June 8, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court.
Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham ; Turner, Wol-
verhampton ; Motteram and Knight, Birmingham.
Henry Barber, licensed victualler, Kidderminster, May
16 and June 11, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham Dis-
trict Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham ;
Motteram and Knight, Birmingham.
Jose Rickard, draper, Boscastle, Cornwall, May 14, and
June 21, at one, at the Exeter D.strict Court. Hirtzel,
official assignee, Exeter ; Bevan and Girling, Bristol ;
Stogdon, Exeter.
Richard Morgan, grocer, Dowlais, May 15, and June
18. at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acratnan,
official assignee, Bristol ; Bevan and Girling, Bristol.
Samuel Lowe, silk manufacturer, Derby, May 15 and
JllllO 12, at ten, at the Birmingham District Conit
Harris, official assignee, Nottingham • Crowder, Maynard,,ot,
ys
Son, and Lawford, Coleman-street, city; Freeth, Ra
and Brown, Nottingham.
Thomas Meddings, miller, Chadwell-court Mill, Stafford-
shire, May lsl, and June 8, at eleven, atthe_Brimrundgn.m ;
gaham
District Court. Chrhtie, assignee,ma Turner, Wolverhampton; Motteram 1
Bir-
mingham.
Edmund Stevens, draper, Walsall,Dis
District Court.
ul79t
.an dcJhar
inset
iBe;
at eleven, at the Birmingham.
official assignee, Birmi.ng,haanim,. Bell, Manchester; Motte-
ram and alright,
spinner,Birmin,b
Little Bolton, Lancaster,
Joseph Bell, cotton
tw twelve, at the Manchester District
May 17 and JunceoBonat
assignee, Manchester; Rushton
Court. fiernainan, official
and Armitstead,
Burton and it BoleM.-11Elodowrsar. d
Rees,
barge
and
;vat
.70bia

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I PRICE SD.

.....—,
buildersi South . Hamlet, Gloucestershire, May 15, and
June 18,
.at ,eleven, at the Bristol District. Court. .Miller,
official assignee, Bristol ; Smallridge, Glouceiter.
John Hoskin, currier and leather . cutter, Blackburn,
Lancashire, May 17, and June, 7, at twelve, at the Man-
Mchester District Court. .- Heittathan, official assignee,
anchester ;. i&rer, Liverpool.: : _.; , . ' •
.:,. , .
Henry Hawken Dyer, grocer and draPer, Boscastle,
Cornwall, May 14 and June 21, at one, at the Exeter Dis-
trict Court. . Rirtzell, official assignee, Exeter ; Hender-
son, Barham, tifid:Wilcobks; Bristol ; Stogdon,'Exeter.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRA.TIONS.
David Nicol, .merchant, Linlithgow.; credi ..
tois meet
May 18, in the Star and Garter Inn, Linlithgow. . Richard Matthbw Peare steam-packet agent, Glas
May 14, in the Globe Hotel, Glasgow. gow;
John Craig Wylie, codithisaion merchant, Glasgow;
Ray 14, in the Queen's Hotel,.Glasew.
James Campbell and Co., machine makers, Glasgow;
Rooms.
May 16, in the Glas'-o* Stock Exchange

.4VAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

The flag of Rear-Admiral Baynes, on board the steam-
frigate Retribution, at Spithead, as third in command of the
Baltic fleet, was saluted yesterday evening for the first time.
The admiral will sail with the third division as soon as the
ships are manned. A court-martial is ordered to be held on
Monday on board the Victory, to try a chief engineer for
neglect of duty. The Malacca, 17, Captain Farquhar, went
to Spithead yesterday, and joined the fleet. The troops enu-
merated in The Sun of yesterday embarked on board the
Great Tasmania transport, Captain Crowe, yesterday, from
' Portsmouth dockyard. Among them is Corporal Cumpton of
the 77th Regiment (" R " company) who has been 17 years in
Russia as a civil engineer, and been in almost every important
place in the empire; he has in his knapsack 10 Russian (good)
characters from officers and departments in which he has been
employed ; he is a native of Maidstone, a fine, hale, stalwart
fellow, and says he has 2,000 dollars in a Russian bank. He
says he was three days in one of the battalions of British
Guards three months ago; but not entered, because the
polonel suspected him of being a Russian spy—he speaks and
writes Russian so perfectly; he was consequently rejected,
and has only been enlisted in England three months. He came
over from Packhurst depot, with the detachment of the ,77t1i;
yesterday. He is a well-spoken,- respectable-looking soldieri
and bears is good charader among those whom he has so re-
cen tlyjolued. The Great Tasmania leaves Portsmouth harbour
this afternoon. • This extraordinary ship is the first that has
had the -attention of a regularly appointed and authorised
agent tir transports at Portsmouth, the Lords of the Admii
ralty having selected Lieut. Abrm. Parks, of the St. Vincent,
and made him " additional" of that ship, to assist in the or 4
ganisation of the transport service at Portsmouth. In early lift
he did much work in the merchant service ; he therefore enjoys
the combined advantages of .a thorough knowledgq of. both,
the Royalland mercantile marine. He entered, the navy o
the 24th of December, 1806, and was in the Sims,' 3,6, unde
Captain Samuel Pym, at the reduction of the town of St.
Paul, in the Ile de Bourbon (1806), and subsequently served
in the Raisounable, 64, the. Melpomene, the Chesapeake, thee((
Portia, the Julia, the Vibtdry, and later' commanded they
Pike, the Cuckoo, and the Dasher steam-pkeleeta.

. .
RETURN CF FOUR GUN-BOATS.-REPORTED LOSS
4)1? Tilt DAPPEk.
• The Pylades. and Volcano, which left Sheernpss on Thursday!
with the gun•boats'Rehwing, Taistle; Starling, Dapper, and'
Badger, , wore olitigiztd ,(in consequence of the gale of wind
which came ou suddenly in the evening) tio, cast off the gun-1
boats, and all anoffoiecl Widtr the Gunfleet between 10 and'
11 p.m, John, Barnett, master of the smack Concord, of
Colchester, then riding near the Gunfleet, had his attention.
called to a number of rockett that were sent up i a ,
south-
easterly direction from jais vessel, apparently, from i some ves-1
set in distress in the Black Deeps. Shortly after Wards fiver
guns were fired from the same vessel, and-.both thro Kentish'
Knock and the Sunk Light-vessels continue&at intervals dur-
ing the night to fire; rockets and burn blue lights: At mid-.
night the master of tilg Concord slipped.Aom his, anchor anl'
70 fathems of chain (The sea beqls too -heavy to get it), fori
the purpose of going into the Black Deeps to ascertain what'
vessel it was, and So render. assistance to her; while under'
way she passed two large steamers, the Pylades and Vol-,
cauo, also two gun-boats,;then riding very liekily under the'
Gunfleet. At dawn of day she boarded rthe vessel in the
Black Deeps 't which proved- to be 'the Redwing gun-
boat, commanded ))3, Lieutenant Forlios. .The Redwing was
then under steam, proceeding up from the Sunk Light-vessel,
steering for the Gunfleet Light.' Who Redwing spoke the•
Pylades, and Obtained leave to proceed to Sheerness, haring'
lost both bower anchors, when Larnett was engaged to act as
a pilot to, Sheerness. He boarded tie Retdwing about four
miles above the Gunfleet;and piloted her litto`Sheerness, ar-
riving there about 9.30 a.m. The Badger spoke the Dapp,,r,
the latter then being on shore, with tie sea making a breach
over her. The 'weather at the time brovltntecr the Badger
rendering any asAstance .to the Dapper, tlze officer in com- I
nand of the Dapper stating that she was pii.shore, striking
heavily. It appears that: the Volcano,'Whbn towing, fouled 1
several of the gunboats by driving' athwart their hawser, and
did damage to each of them. The Red Wing, to prevent
damage, cut her towing hawser and. clearea. f His feared that
all on hoard the Dapper have peTished. • There appears some ;
uncertainty where the Dapper was on shore;' from the best
information that can be obtained she was on the West Rocks.
The Pylades and Volcano remain riding near the Gunfleet.

1 14ILITARY., , • '" •-, , •
On Wednesday a company of Artillery arrived at Liverpool
from Dublin, and proceeded on the 'following morning to
Portsmouth, whance they were to embark for the Crimea.
The 15th Hussars, now stationed at Exeter, consist of 348
men amt 2,70 horses, audit isunderstood that theyare tip hold
tbeßkselt-es in readiness to depart for Ow Crimea, though the
route hits not yet been retetv6d. In The 'same-barracks are
also f...,' 0 horses and 41 recruits lielonging to the 11th Hussars
who aro being trained for active service. 17 recruits, with 1
lieutenant and 1 sergeant, from the depot, are expected to
start from Plymouth for the 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 th. Crimea by two
regiments' of cavalry of 700 sabms each and five battalions of
infantry, each mustering 1,2G0 bayonets, making a total of
7,4(10 cavalry and infantry. In addition to the above the
horse brigade, siege and field trains of the Royal Arti lery,
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 are 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 Guard volunteers. There
has been a meeting 'of seamen and fishermen at Sunderlan,l,
and it is thr ught that the captain will succeed better among
the fishermen and watermen this year thax last.

RAILTYAY TRAFEIC RETURNS.

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE PAST WEEK.

tteceipts.

1864.

Y4`

_ UENOS Arna.,LOIN OF 1824

I will, in conclusion, remark that this case now as-
sumes a character perfectly incomprehensible. Here is
the 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 Euglish creditors, offering schemes
of arrangement to Mr. Giro, that the Minister knows
moat he rejected ; as, for instance, last year, proposing
an annual remittance of 60,0001. sterling to the house of
Messrs. Baling, in liquidation of principal and interest;
but also proposing, as a counter-ba'ance, and a bar to
settlement, that all interest on 1,750,0001. should cease
No wonder Giro publishes their bond in extols°, after
suspension of 30 years ; and the best thing the cunimitte
can do, and I hope will immediately set about, is t
imitate the example, and publish the bond, letters, an I
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 Poet. It is a case, in 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 paymen
of an admitted receipt of three-quarters of a million ate c-
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 TBE RUSSIAN.
FORTRESSES.

It is understood to be the intention of the British an '
French Governments to send a strong force of artillery,
and infantry to assist in .the operations about to be re-
sumed against the RusiAau fortresses in the Gulfs of
Finland and Bothnia, and the Baltic. It is btited 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 hufficiently 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.

According to the Wanderer of Vienna, the real cause
of the insurrection in the Ukraine was, that the resources
of the peasants were completely exhaustel by the tre-
mendous supplies which they had been obliged to provide
for the southern army. The poor creatures, who'have
hitherto been obliged to transport all the supplies, and
give food to the passing troops without remuneration,
refuse to work, declaring that they will rather die of
eonstipation ,
hunger than longer bear such heavy burdens. The in.
Count Branitzki, who is related to the Imperial family.
y.
surrecticn has spread most on the immense estates
l of
[ADvEnrisEmErrre.(l—Many
effected without m icine, by Du Barry's Delicious Revs.
thousand cures have
_been
len ta Arabi c.a Food,
nervous, bilious, and liver complaints,
_paralysis,_ &c. wo
, ~ No. 52,611!.---From the Dowager
quote a few :---,_•ur
" Bo.strevor Count
Countess of Castlestuart.;3-51._ . Y of Down,
The D I
of indigestion(lrpepsia),
Ireland, 9th December, 1_ ..
the .
.Dowager countess
of
Castlestuart feels induced, in interest of suffering Int.
manity, to state that Du
after all
excellent Revalenta A
Lica Fuod
.has cured her, all medicines had fall' digestion, bile, great nervousness and irrit b. .-.
of ln years'standing. This
many
a daof •
of all sufferers, and may be considered
Inquiries will be cheerfully answered." a real blessing.
Of dyspepsia, from the Right Ron. the Cure NO' 7' -- .
Decies.—'' I have derived considerable Lord Stuart de ,
Barry's Revalenta Arahica Food, benefit from Da
yourselves and the public to and consider- it ins t •
these lines.—Stuart de D • amiss the publication o "
ecies. ' of.
the Venerable A 1 I Cure N 0.9
re rt eacon of 11. c ' 3-.'B36.—Frjni
sire nery onsness with pain,: ,ss.- " Three years exces.
ni eral debility, which re 1 ilinlYn"l"d left arm "d/e.
been radicallyrerno ?Atered ray life very miserable,! has '
—Alex. St Yo,l by Du Barry's 1, 1+ Is '
• • Stuart, ArcisA 8 -ea...-reF.oring Food. '
, . •,,tuteon of Ross Sl;ibe . " C NT ' psia,• TOM, ure _o.
with crainp,, ner.vonsness, debility, '
tually rcmoved spasms
and
'nausea'
have
been
elle°
short time.—P
-ev. yJohu parry's delicious Food in a very
Norfolk." el Cure N•o. sj, 41'6_
Flavell, Ridliugton Rectory,
Fifty Years' indescribable
agony from dyspepHa, nervousa"ess asthma, cough, consti•
patios, flatnlenev, ~ spasms, sickness at the sto•li and vo-
rattings, have been removed by Du Barry's excellent Ex.].
—Maria Jolly, Wortham, Ling, near Digs, Norfolk." Curs
No. :OK—Thirteen years' cough, indigestion, and gene-
ral debility have been removed by Du Barry's excellent
Food.—James Potter, Athol-street, Perth."—ln canis. •
tors, suitably packed forall climates, and with full instruc-
tions -11 b., 2s. 9d.; 21b., 48. 6d.; 51b., I.ls. ;121b., 225. •. '
super-refined, 11b., 65.; 21b.,.115. ; 11b., 225. ; 101 b., 338,
The 101 b. and 121 b., carriage free, on receipt of post
office order. Barry do Barry and Co., 77, Regent.
street, London; Fortnum, Mason, and (1-.
''''"°, Purveyors o
her Majesty, 182, Piccadilly; also ut 68, Cornbill ; 60.
Gracochurch-Street ; P•3O and 451, Strand ; 63 and 150,
Oxford-street • 55, Charing-cross ;4, Chsap-sido ;25 and
44, Upperßrikisr-rtreet.

14,7 S \P PR

r -:,i:i..jf N:,,,i,\
TO THE EDITOIt OF THE SUN. /,- ..,,7'•-,-t_,?.,•,,,.;, \:,,,,-,,
f4:4-, `,.-;!,;':-',,,.Z.-:? -
'- Ste,—Prevented by illness from • visitih Ovvis) se ke, teeee-.
le . ...
..,
was obliged to write to a friend to call at fe ii i le'srie .leie
the Spanish American Committee, to seeks es" _ e_e‘444.e.'if, ei,W,:.'
then of the intelligence per last mail, referre Stt4lolllM. ee4'-;,;!S'Y'S".
valuable journal of the 16th ha. .1
liiii-helldkait'''' '''''''''' . '
Mr. Giro had some months ago- Published a boa* ies
a S
xten,.9o,_ and had much; offended-the :local journals, or
perhaps the 4overninent itself, by a rather hasty reply
to some observations in the papers ; and 'seine pergola
conileinned, and do still candentn,-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,
an d teblilis published
dm:o
and a letter of Meisre. Baring
is
"he
prove that all the money the Buenos
p o
Ayres Repeblic obtained was only 700,000/e cr at the
rate of 701., instead of 850,0001., or at that of 851, per
cent, on the 1,000,000/. of bowie origivally -issued. Cer-
tainly the discrepancy of 150,000/. sterling is very mii-
strous one, as no commissions, percentages, Trinting,
or other charges, &c., &c., against Buenos Apes 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
expected, the letter of Messrs. Baring is one of a tborughly
business-like character, and it must be satisfactory to
ttvohael
yufienbd_le receivedat
hd_evma_nt
ntchre,
the bondholders to learn, under their sign manual, that
the Buenos .Ayres Government received the large and
sterling I Ad :4,'
of nearly three-quarters of a million
isestficilnasgir mating, as
stuotmhe,m
iateivsearinn mopsretonptdeirBdnoraendrs that,riatan gbele.
treat with Mr. Giro,"
themselves. It has even-orbeeenvenrepworittied the latter
White, offered to act asas4l3' '
through Their Engeish
that should satisfy at agents Captain White and Mr
last
BpouienntoossAaymreesrGe orvnemomnernt. But I only
once the English bondholders and
Baringhic‘
ar arbitrators
and propose terms
thisno
meats improbable under the'
The discrepancy above alluded tuonristthaonuce; very large,
omnityoaid3moityeoafras ssaintinsefatchtooryinaexnp
waslln act ioorint r;
pcaestilerddi
ni,creeawnetn.ye'wi:::
thoughc it seemhsavbey
to count 26 'years of suspended interest, itai ' material
whether 85, 75, 70, or even 50, nay 80,
received by the non-paying and defaulting Government.
It is clear, however, beyottd all doubt dispute n'annldegt.
sererkeeeit;e ;islet:700,0001W
Ca-
Eagliela
'ln"
eYc:'sarect ueeallly. t -"*".44164-.
41
to Buenos Ayres. She now remits monthly 5,000 dols •
or 1,000/. only—i.e., 12,000/, annually,
boasts'of sending this paltry sum, scarcely tap
epr cent. on
1,000,000/e of bonds. I think, sir, Mr: Gino hastreat
reason to complain, and great cause to use, even dile.
did, violent upbraidings. But nothing of the sort. tea
is only much too mild and gentle. Mr. Giro, no doubt,
received his instructions from the committee, arid it 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. Evaes's excellent edition of 'Fortune's Epitome of
the Foreign Fund," which state that the contract of this
loan s.as 851. per cent. Let any one, who may feel an
interest on the subject, refer also to the journals of the I
7th July, 1824, and other dates, the same type of 85 is
given with the altlitional remarithat, on the first daynf
issue"of this uuforidnate contract, it was done at Si
premium, or.etBBl r; soon after it was at 97, and even as
high as 102 cx div. Indeed it stood most in favour of ;
all the South American bonds, blaz i lia n and Chilien not t
excerte.l. I perceive the bonds are signed by Parish Ro-
bertson sips) also by-one Felix Castro, probabljr a Buenos
AytearrbYthe name. TM y are countersigned by Messrs.
Baring, What I insistent is, that whether 700,0001. or
850,000'. were obtained in the London market, it is too
bad-to. find the defaulting gisverninent positively addiug
insult to injustices inerseeer:ngly advising Mr. Giro and
thii-ereditori-o-nly to use petierce a little longer after 30 •
years' trial, and when Buetuis Ayreseis the only one of
the once nuinerotis defaulting republics thee pae s nothing .:7"
or next to nothing. To suppose that Robertson and ft ,e'
Felix Castro 'ran away with 150,000/. would be, as our
#, ."7
French .friends call it, un..pea trop fort ; but those gen-
tlemen may really throw some light upon this now inter-
esting subject should they bake! it' -existence. Perhaps,
sir, some of these remarks may-draw forth explanations
from others and original bondholders. Thief am not,
though I atn a considerable bondholder, and a very great '
loser by baying purchased these dishonoured Buenos '
Ayres bonds.
In the minds of many persons a question will naturally s-
arises-viz., was there a tacit agreement with the Finance
M4sietee of the. time (one Senor Garcia) 'that, it 70 per ,
ceiii.eor 700,0001., was obtained, or 3,500,000 hard dol.. .*
Istra,, the contractors, Robert oir and Felix Castro,' with
otkers-7 pet haps
.pf Buenos, Ayres—were weloeme #o
pocket all the money they couid extract beyosid ite Tise 701,00/4 tfien, was what they wanted to touch for their
enpaid worthless LOOO,OOO/. of paper. 'This Gareiewis ---
considered an honourable Minister, or, of coileaeOVlessre.
Baring would never have meddled with tleieSto the Ens-
Ugh xrediters) inost *estrous transaction. . . ~
All the resources, revenues, &e..,-aresolemeily pledged
in these bonds. Has Buenos ,Ayres no revenues ? and
has aide had none for 30 years'. She has ample revenues.
Is her home debt paid ? Yes, most punctually, and
loan
alwayshas been. Where does the responsibility of this
li Clearly with Buenos /kens; For P. Robert.
son and Felix Castro were the authorised agents of the
Republic, and it di.s6atistied, ' after keeping the euestey
30, yeare ortliats-theY c6nisl-irr,t cony/want-a Itian'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 ahoiteornings,
to tire Treasury, instead of tauntingly and derimively ..ttacking Giro, Lord Palmerston, aad the poor duped
bondholders, in language I will not repeat ? A pre-
cious robbery it has proved, fir 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, hut
such it has proved, to the great loss of the lenders, up
to this time.

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