The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-23 00:00:00

SOU2H AMERICA.

By the French mail steamer Navarre we have
received advices from Buenos Ayres to the 15th of
November. The Patagonian mission, under the Rev.
Mr. Stirling, had met with sympathy from all
classes of foreigners, both Protestant and Catholic,
and it was hoped they would succeed in civilising
Terra del Fuego. The new capital of Mendoza was
fixed upon, and plots for building sold at 10 dollars
silver. The Buenos Ayres Northern Railroad was
completed to Belgrano, but the contractor did not
think it safe to have the road opened to the public
for a week or ten days, to avoid the risk of an acci-
dent, owing to the peculiar nature of the earth-
works and the soil itself. The line was expected to
be opened for traffic in the last week of November.
The Western Railroad was doing a good passenger
business.

Exchange transactions by this packet had been
very active, although not so numerous as per last
English mail.

The demand for cotton goods was singularly
limited, which was attributed by many parties to
the fact of old stocks existing in the country dis-
tricts. In reference to the important question of
cotton culture, the Standard of the 13th has the
following :
" Senor Cullen, in the province of Santa Fe, hab
called upon us to say that he is trying to organise
an immigration company, composed of all the land-
holders in that province, that the fertile lands along
the banks of the Salado are about to be divided into
farms for cotton growing, and that the Governor of
Santa Fe had pt omised to assist in every possible
manner the introduction of cotton growing. Senor
Gimenez, a large property holder in Corrientes, has
favoured us with the following account of cotton
planted on his estancia :
"Return of cotton (planted up to this date)—

Plots.

Ild. Brest—Egyptian seed 47
Georgian ditto 23
English ditto 202
f t Naon (Nankin)

f f Correntine

200 ridges with plots
Eugenio Lopez—Correntine seed, 96 ridges, with
plots ..
Total number of plots
"Estancia San Juan, Province of Corrientes,
October 20, 1862. _ _

" JOHN R. XIMINEZ."

The new clip of wool had begun to arrive in small
lots, amounting to about 25,000 arrobas, which
sold at 90 dols. to 110 dols. for fair mestizo. The
greater number of sales, however, had been effected
at 100 dole.

Latest dates from Asuncion (Republic of Para-
guay) received at Buenos Ayres are to the Ist of
November. General Francisco Lopi z, son of the
late Dictator, was unanimously elected President
for ten years, on which occasion there was a
solemn Te Deum (October 23), and several
balls and other rejoicings celebrated his acces-
sion to power. The railway to Luque runs
three trains daily, and the other industrial enter-
prises were going on rapidly. The Chambers has
sanctioned all the acts of the late ruler, and the new
Government returned public thanks to the citizens
for their patriotic confidence. The treaties with
Prussia and the United States had been ratified,
and friendly relations were completely restored with
Great Britain. A terrible hurricane had visited the
coast of the Parana, sweeping away houses, trees,
&c., but no lives were lost. The new Cabinet was
thus framed—Foreign Affairs, Berges ; Interior,
Sanchez; Finance, Gonzales; War, Venancia Lopez.
The monthly import dues 'amounted to 11,912p5.;
export dues, 10,735p5. A State banquet was given
on the 30th of October, at which the President,
Ministers, and foreign agents assisted. Mr. Wash-
burne, United States Commissioner, gave the follow-
ing toast, "May the policy of the new President
be as honourable to himself and beneficial to the
Republic as has been that of his predecessor and
father." The Br.zilian Envoy also toasted the Go-
vernment and people.

iThe pleadings in the case of the British steamship
Bermuda, captured off Nassau by the Federal war steamship
Mercedita, in April last, terminated on the 16th of August,
but no decision had been pronounced at the date of the de-
parture of the Africa from New York on the 10th inbt., and
the Bermuda remains in the custody of the Marshal of the
United States Prize Court, at Philadelphia.
or
',MANSION-110116E. Two resprcl
young men, natives of Poland, describing
themselvesress eads
brothers, and who gave their names as
beforeßerm
Herman
nhe Lord
Softer
and Mamas Stiller, were brought up
Mayor yesterday, in custody of Sergeant Brett, to undergo
a preliminary examination upon a charge of forging Polish
coupons, and with having
firty forged coupons in their pos-
session. After some evidence bad been given the prisoners
were remanded.
THE CONDEMNED CONVICT AT DURnAm.—The
Home Secretary has had under his consideration for son. e
days past two memorials praying for the commutation a
the sentence of death passed upon John Cox at the .ant
Durham Assizes for the wilful murder of Ann Halliday,
and yesterday afternoon Sir George Grey finally decided
that no sufficient grounds existed to justify the extension
of the clemency of the Crown. Nine o'clock this morning
vow the hour fized for the execution,