The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-06 00:00:00

THE RIVER PLATE.

The following memorial has been forwarded to Go-
vernment relative to the affairs of the River Plate :
"TO THE RIGHT HON. VISCOUNT PALMERSTON, HER
MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOR
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, &C.

" Liverpool, Dec. 31, 1846.
" My Lord,—We, the undersigned merchants, ship-
owners, and others, of the port of Liverpool, beg respect-
fully to state to your Lordship that, having seen in the
London newspapers of the 30th instant a copy of a me-
morial from the merchants of London, drawing your
Lordship's attention to the serious injury inflicted upon
the commercial interests by the joint blockade of Buenos
Ayres and other ports in the River Plate, by the naval
forces of Great Britain and France, and intreating your
Lordship to take effectual measures, in conjunction with
the French Government, for speedily raising said block-
ades, and re-opening to foreign commerce the ports so
long closed by them, we hereby desire to express our
entire concurrence in the terms of said memorial, and
our earnest hope that your Lordship may see fit to com-
ply with its prayer.
" We have the honour to remain, your Lordship's
most obedient and humble servants,

(Signed by)
" C. Tayleur, Son, and Co., Dicksons, Boardman, and
Co., John B. Moore, and Co., Thomas Duguid,
William and Joseph Myers and Co., Todd, Naylor,
and Co., Rowand and Dunlop, Thomas and John
Brocklebank, Ashley brothers, Buchanan, Browne
and Co., Robinson and Hadwen, John and • Samuel
Beckwith, Jones, Mann, and Foster, Frederick
Huth and Co., Rawson and Co., Hughes and
Ronald, Edward Jones and Co., William Moon,
W. Rotheram, IVl‘Tear, Hadfield and Thompson,
Sands, Turner, and Co., James Dalglish and Co.,
George Nuttall, Taylor, Potter, and Co., George
Kendall, Brownells, and Co., Samuel Johnston and
Co., Jamieson brothers and Co., Joseph Green and
Co., Fiel ten brothers and Co., Joseph Began and
Co., Cotesworth, Wynne, and Lyne, A. W. Fowles
and Co., Dudgeon, Balleny, and Co., Thomas and
William Earle and Co., Leech, Harrison, and For-
wood, Abram Gartside and Co., William and
James Tyrer, Jevons, sons, and Co., Chapman, Bow-
man, and Co., Nicol, Duckworth, and Co., Peel and
Co., Charles S. Middleton and Son, Brown, Shipley,
and Co., John Downes, Rathbone Brothers and Co.,
Charles Ironside and Co., Samuel Lang and Cu.,
Ewart, Myers, and Co., James Aikin."
The following memorial on the same subject has been
adopted and forwarded by the Manchester Commercial
Ass.ciation:—

"TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE VISCOUNT PAL•
NEWTON, &C., &C.

" The Memorial of the Directors of the Manchester Com-
mercial Association, by their Chairman,
" Respectfully showeth—That in the month of June,
1845, your memorialists called the attention of her Ma-
jesty's Government to the unsatisfactory position of our
commercial relations with the United Provinces of Rio
de la Plata.

" That shortly afterwards it was attempted by her
Majesty's Government, in conjunction with that of
France, by mean:, of an armed intervention, to heal the
differences which existed between Buenos Ayres and
Monte Video.

" That notwithstanding such intervention, there is
not, so far as your memorialists are aware of, any pro-
spect of a speedy termination of hostilities.
" That the protracted warfare between the Argentine
and Oriental republies has been the source of much loss,
and of serious destruction of property to the subjects of
her Majesty trading to the River Plate, and has been
otherwise injurious to the commercial interests of this
country generally.
" That under these circumstances, renewed efforts on
part of her Majesty's Government to restore peace
in the opinion of your memorialists, strongly called
for, and are hereby earnestly solicited.
" That while your memorialists do not seek to pre-
scribe to your Lordship the steps desirable to be taken
for this purpose, they at the same time respectfully sub-
mit that the guaranteed independence of the Oriental
republic should be the foundation of whatever arrange-
ment may be adopted, as otherwise the territory of that
republic wi)l be a perpetual object of dispute between
contending parties, to the great detriment of all com-
mercial intercourse.
6' Your memorialists therefore humbly pray your
Lordship's immediate attention to this most important
subject, with a view to adopting such steps as in your
Lordship's wisdom may seem to be advisable.
"And your memorialists, &c. &c."

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