The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-22 00:00:00

MONTE VIDEO

PLYMOUTH, JUNE 21.—The merchant bark Minstrel,
Captain Simpson, belonging to Plymouth, came in this
morning from Monte Video, with 700 hides and 300
pipes of tallow, for the owners, Messrs. Haycroft and
Pethick. The Minstrel left on the 16th of April, in
company with the barque Caroline, brig Belgrano, and
screw-steamer Fletcher, bound to Liverpool, and the
barque George IV., for Havre-de-Grace. About 150
merchant vessels were at Monte Video, only three of
which, the Melody, Ipswich, and Clio, were English.
The Anastino, an American barque, under Monte
Videan colours, was to sail in ten days for Liverpool.
Freights—Hides, 4/. 10s., and tallow, 5/. 10s. per ton ;
current dollar, 45d. Beef, ls. per lb. Bread scarce ;
the American barrel 255.

General Oribe continued to invest Monte Video,
whose inhabitants were occasionally shot by his forces.
About a fortnight before the Minstrel left, an English
quartermaster was murdered, and the carcase of his
horse sold for beef in the market-place. Various
opinions exist as to the intervention of the British and
French authorities. A very general impression now
prevails, that if those Governments had not interfered,
the troublesome affairs of the River ?late would have
long since been settled. The French are much disliked
by the inhabitants of Monte Video.

At Monte Video—Her Majesty's frigate Vernon, 50,
Captain John C. Fitzgerald ; her Majesty's frigate
Raleigh, 50, Commander Sir Thomas Herbert ; her
Majesty's 18-gun brig Satellite, Commander Robert H.
B. Rowley ; her Majesty's 16 gun brig Grecian, Corn-
mlnder Alexander L. Montgomery, and a number of
Government steam-vesseli.

Her Majesty's steamer Rattler, Commander R. Moor-
man, with Lord Howden, had not arrived. Great hopes
of an amicable arrangement were anticipated from the
presence of his Lordship. Several English and French
men-of-war steamers were cruising about, conveying
troops, &c., between Maldonado and Colonia.

The united forces of England and France still kept
Buenos Ayres under blockade. All her salderados
(salting houses), were in full employ, trade was very
brisk. There was an immense store of produce at
Buenos Ayres, large quantities of which were conveyed
by small craft to Monte Video.

The Min:trel brings passengers Mr. John and Mr.
Peter Jackson, residents at Monte Video, Mr. Ridley,
of Plymouth, his sister, and child. On the passage home
spoke the American barque Baltic, from Cork, for
Llavannah, out 56 days, short of water ; and the brig
William Flitton, or William Pitt, out twelve days from
Newfoundland, bound to Demerara; all well.

GREECE AND TURKEY.
The following telegraphic dispatch has been received
by the French Government:—

" MALTA, JUNE 13.

" The Porte has accepted the proposition of Prince
Metternich fur settling the difference between Greece
I,rid Turkey. The Grand Vizier's letter has been handed
to the English Minister, and by him forwarded to
Vienna. The difference is regarded as settled. M
Mussurus will return to Athens, but will not, it is
thought, long remain there. The English vessels, the
Vanguard and the Albion, would soon return to Malta.
The Rodney was to remain at the Pincus. The Egyptian
Government steamer, the Nile, touched at Malta on her
way to Tripoli, with 800 soldiers."

PORTRAIT OFPISNIIPII
by Henry Moseley. Lithographed by Thomas Fairland.
A portrait of the hero of Miwai, Major-General Sir
AißitliTyS.
S MITH. Painted
harry Smith—and, what is mere, a faithful and charac-
teristic portrait—must be peculiarly acceptable to his ad-
miring countrymen. Such a portrait has come from the
easel of Mr. Moseley, and has been excellently pencilled,
from the original painting, upon a lithographic stone,
by Mr. Fairland. The countenance of the gallant officer
is indicative of that intelligence and audacity which
might have been anticipated in the features of the con-
queror of Aliwal. The engraving is as simple and
natural as a daguerreotype.

ERRATTIIIT.—Tn the concluding paragraph of Mr.
Samuel Browning's letter on the Navigation Laws, pub-
lished in our impression of yesterday, for "minor ad-
vantage" read "minor disadvantage."

REDUCTION OF SHIPPING RATES IN LIVERPOOL.—
A special meeting of the Liverpool town council was
held at the Town-hall yesterday, for the purpose of
taking into consideration certain reductions on cotton,
iron, coal, and shipping, recommended by the dock com-
mittee. The mayor presided. The sub-committee re-
commended reductions as follow, namely :—On goods,
24,580/. ; tonnage, 14,1361. ; total, 38,7161. A schedule
of the proposed reduction was produced and approved
of, as also a reduction of tonnage duties charged for
certain classes of voyages.
CALLS TO THE BAR.—INNER TEMPLE, JUNE 11.—
C oeu id e.
The following gentlemen were this day called to the bar
by the lion. Society of the Inner Temple, viz., William
Henry Leathley, Esq., of Trinity College, Cambridge,
B .Al
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gent's-park; Samuel Ste
Esq., of St. John's College, Cambridge, 8.A.; Elliott
Grassett, Esq.,
of Emanuel College, Cambridge; and
Y College,
Edward lloare Sirr, of Trinit Dublin. B.A.
An experiment took place yesterday at Woolwich
dockyard by Mr. Bennett, of the Hon. East India Com-
pany's service, at the request of Commander Ryder, who
recently commissioned the Vix- n, to ascertain the capa-
bilities of the Nautilus as a life preserver when attached
to boats. Two of the Nautilus were attached to the
commander's gig, and ten men put on board, and the
plug withdrawn; but the upper part of the boat remained
above two inches out of the water, and although the yes-
,el had been glled by any surf she would not have upset,
being still capable of conveying that number of men oa
shore.

THE CONSTABULARY FORCE OF IRELAND —The
effective strength of this force in the counties, cities, and
towns of Ireland on the Ist of January last, was 10,639
(general force, and 372 reserved force). The expendi-
ture upon the said force for the whole of Ireland in the
year 1846 amounted to the sum of 483,6461. Tho total
amount of the force employed on the Ist of January,
1847, was 11.404, and its total expense 492,8811., of
which 340,8331. is the proportion borne by the Consoli-
dated Fund, and 152,0471,, the amount borne by coun-
ties, cities, and towns,