The Sun.
London, England, 1824-09-14 00:00:00

INTERNAL GOVERNMENT.

The provinces on the Rio de la Plata, though independent
of Spain for the last 14 years, have not as yet adopted a stable
system of Government. Great disputes have at different times
arisen between the partisans of a Central General Government,
and that of a federal union of independent provinces. The
great influence and arrogant pretensions of the province of
Buenos Ayres have always excited the jealousy, and sometimes
provoked the hostility, of the more distant provinces. The
wise, moderate, and judicious conduct of the late Government,
directed by 111 r. Ribatlavia, has allayed these heats. 'rhe great
point was, in what province the National Congress should
meet in June last. The following is the state of the votes on
the question what should be the seat of this National As-
sembly :—Santa Fe has not yet voted ; Entre Rios, Corrientes,
Missiones, Cordoba, Santiago de Estero, Tucuman, Salta,
Moja, Catamarca, have voted- for Buenos Ayres; San Luis,
for Tucuman; and Mendoza and San Juan for Buenos Ayres.
Thus there seems almost a unanimous feeling in favour of
Buenos Ayres, and there the National Body is expected soon
to meet.

The rapid increase in the amount of money
expended on the poor, at the commencement of the late war,
and during its continuance, was the subject of mach declama-
tion amongst a class of political economists, who considered it
as a proof of the truth of their doctrine, that any attempt to al.
leviate the distress of the poor by a legal provision infallibly
adds to their number and their misery. It was in vain to tell
them of the increase of taxation—the increase of population—
the fluctuations of commerce in that agitated period —the ope-
ration of the Corn Bill—and the depreciation of the paper cur.
rency. " Poverty," they replied, " gross in proportion to
the means provided for its relief." War and its train of at-
tendant evils had exposed the poor man to the necessity of re.
ceiving assistance from the hand of his more fortitgate neigh.
hour ; and they assumed that after committing this crime, he
would ever afterwards be guilty of the sins of poverty and de-
pendence, and that consequently the poor-rates. would go on
increasing. The reductibn in the amount of rates, which has
gradually been taking place during the last six years, has con.
tradicted their theory ; and now they turn round, andcompute
the expenditure on the poor, not as before, when it suited their
purpose, by its amount in money, but by the quantity of food
which can be purchased with it; and they say that it is now as
great in proportion to,the produce of the land and labour of the
country as it was in 1817. We have had the curiosity to exa-
mine bow far this assertion is correct, as regards the expendi.
otufrtehoonoothoeopooloproyofm 3oloatsncfloiersttehre.losTtheehcfhotllyoeweiring:—ls a statement
1810-17 £50,488 1820.21 428,380
1817-18 - 47,340 1821-22 - 24,459
1018.19 - 84,543 1822-23 20,550
1819.20 - 31,022 1023-24 - 19,748
Manchester Gazette.

We wonder that some means have not been
found of getting rid of the mud, which was last
year taken. out of the canal in St. James's Park,
the greater part of which still remains iu un-
sightly heaps along the banks; •