The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-11 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

" CORRIENTES, MAY 15 --On my first arrival here,
the prospects were not of I:he most flattering kind, but
little by little they have improved, owing partly to the
arrangements which we English made amongst our-
selves, and partly in consequence of the parties who
brought up small facturas having retailed them then-
selves or otherwise disposed of them, thus leaving the
market open to those who had any quantity of goods,
and who were not over urgent to effect se.les ; but
the greatest mischief was, in the first instance, done by
those of the convoy who arrived first; they knowing
that more goods were coming up, an' fea:rful of being
undersold, disposed of their goods at the hest prices they
could obtain. This for a time kert prices low. Those
who arrived afterwards soon found out the state of the
case, and the greater part then took shops, which kept
the goods out of the har.ds of the dealers. I was all
along under the impressis,n that the dealers must even-
tually pay us good pric'Js for our goods, or else do with-
out them; but as it was necessary to be doing something,
without pushing sales, I sold whenever I could obtain a
price to leave a Fibir profit. You will be aware of the
prices from *,:ae notes of sales I have sent down, and
which I trr,st will be satisfactory. The dealers here
are for the most part young men, who came
up frord Buenos Ayres with facturas, by the
former convoys from that place. They este-
blisb'ed themselves here, collected hides, &c.,
an,:i are now sending down part to pay for the goods
t'aey brought up; the remainder they have sold to raise
funds for purchasing goods here, and having but small
capital they can only buy in proportion to their means.
Some few of the dealers have been established here for
a long time ; these complain of bad times, and it is evi-
dent they have to make way for younger andmore active
men. I trust you will be satisfied with my proceedings
in having taken a shop, for I see it is the cheapest way
I have of collecting produce at the lowest prices ; being
in small lots they can always be bought cheaper than in
la-rger quantities, and the extra profit on the goods will
ear more than cover the additional expense. The amount
or value of the goods purchased by the Paraguayans in
this market, from my arrival to the present time, I cal-
culate at 6,000 dollars, or at most 8,000 dollars ; they
would have bought more had. they brought more money,
but tho export duty of 10 per cent, on specie out of Pa-
raguay is a great drawback to money being extracted
from that republic. The Correntine Government have
not yet arranged the duties on imports, and the Congress
is not sitting. I spoke to-day with the collector, who is
also treasurer, and he will regulate the duties as soon as
he has a little leisure ; he is at present quite occupied
with the accounts of the imports and exports.
" I wrote down on the 11th, with particulars of some
goods which I consider will do well here in the course of
two, three, or four months hence ; and it would be well
to have them ready, especially if we determine on
establishing a house here. Several persons have gone
down, with the intention of returning with articles suit-
able for the market.
" Hides have fallen in price to 24 to 26 /reels, and I
expect to buy very soon at 20 reels, as there are now
scarcely any purchasers. If I could be sure of your
sending up a letter of marque, with salt, comestibles,
and a general assortr,,ent of goods, such as grey and
bleached calicoes, 'prints, baizes, sewing thread, hand-
kerchiefs, and shawls, &c., I would go down to the
Bajada in two .4nonths hence to meet the vessel, and I
might there 'oe able to dispose of the cargo, or a part of
it. to advaratage ; or, if not, I could come on here with it.
The goo's for Paraguay will be away in a few days ; one
small 'v'essel is already laden, another begun with, and I
hard rA third ready in case of need.
" 'Captain Hotham has said that he cannot give con-
voy to single vessels ; now I do not think that it has
over been the intention of their Excellencies the Minis-
ters Plenipotentiary of England and France that a
convoy should be given to vessels to come up the river,
and then that they should be left here because they can-
not be ready laden by a given time. They could not
suppose that we can get on so quickly here, where every-
thi'ag is out of order, out of place, where there are so
Many impediments, and so many vessels to be got
ready, as could be done did the commerce flow in its
proper and regular channel ; and I feel convinced that
when their Excellencies are made acquainted with the
particulars, there will not be any detention, for want of
convoy, of the vessels now left behind.
" Political affairs have taken a very favourable turn,
much more so than I anticipated; this is so much
more favourable for us in the sale of our goods. On
the Ist instant we had notice that General Juan Made-
Viaga, with five others, had made his escape from Entre-
Rios, and was at that time in communication with the
captains of the naval forces who were then off the Es-
quma. The escape of Don Juan from Entre-Rios must
have been with the connivance of Urquiza ; for I heard,
sorne five or six days previous to that, that he was ex-
pected to arrive here in the city on the Ist, which
proves that they were aware of his coming. The Go-
vernor, Don Joaquin Madariaga, had been already at
Esquina, to see the commanders. Since that time I
have heard from various persons that all is finally set-
tled between the Madariagas and Urquizas ; but upon
what terms or conditions is not exactly known, though
there is a report in town that the treaty will be pub-
lished en the 25th instant. I have just been informed
on gocoa authority, that communications have been re-
ceived today from Captains,' Hotham and Trehouart,
coTataining the conditions upon which the peace is to be
eistablished, viz.:—

" Entre-Rios and Corrientes to act together against
Itosas and all parties.

" Corrientes and Entre-Rios to be two separate pro-
vinces or republics ; to be in all respects independent of
Buenos Ayres.
" Urquiza to take the command of the combined armies.

" Paiaguay to have the option of entering into the
league, upon condition of not allowing General Paz to
have anything to do or say in the matter."

(From the Pen ayuayo lndependiente.)
The press has, in many places, long since discovered
and exposed the gross imposition by which the policy of
Rosas is sustained; but truth labours in vain where
blindness and vice hold inflexible dominion; "none are
so deaf as those who will not hear."
History shows that in different communities or govern-
nents certain fixed views or passions have always
directed their tendencies. Rome adopted conquest as
her principle of government; Greece conferred crowns
on her wise men, and made of philosophy and the
sciences an idol; Tyre, Venice, and the United Pro-
vinces of the Low Countries gave all their application
to commerce ; Spain and Portugal were led on by the
spirit of discovery; England pursued maritime predomi-
nance; France glory; in a word, each has its peculiar
passion or ambition, its favourite ruling principle.
Rosas, right or wrong, is a Government; consequently
must have, and has, in fact, the attribute. As the moral
course of human affairs is ever consequential—that
which, at times appears to our imagination to be dis-
order not being disorder, but the natural consequence of
certain principles and antecedent acts—it is evident that
he must manifest some tendency singular and harmoni-
ous with his system.
His flags fluttered forth the imprecation, " Death to
the savage Unitarians ;" from that moment his soldiers
were armed with knives, and.became expert cut-throats.
He called the civilised Argentines savages ; Gauchos
from the Pampas then became the representatives of
civilization. He styled himself "Hero of the Desert ;"
what more consentaneous with the title than the wish to
reduce the city of Buenos Ayres and all the Confedera-
tion to one grand universal waste, by that means to
strengthen and enlarge his claim to the coveted glory?
A principle of death and destruction was set up, and it
has been strictly followed.
Inspired with such ideas, and the insatiable thirst of
conquest, it was still impossible for him to openly con-
fess and defend them. He must then have recourse to
falsehood—altering the signification of words, calling
crime virtue, ambition right, cruelty justice, and madness
reason. Falsehood had necessarily to become his prin-
ciple of government; and it is so.
Now, falsehood, extermination, and a desert, are
things irreconcileble with civilation ; Rosas must, there-
fore, be hostile towards all who raise the standard of in-
telligence. What wonder that he is at war with his
neighbours, the Orientales, the Paraguayans, the Boli-
vians ? Who can feel astonished that he is at war with
the English and French? " Hero of the Desert!"—bow
could he consent to neutrals navigating the Parana,
which he wishes to preserve a desert for ever?
But his most scandalous falsehood is that political
bliaphemy which he has just committed in his last mes-
sage to the Legislative Chamber of Buenos Ayres_that
Paraguay would unite. herself with the confederation
And his -,.. /kialtwhich says nothing except by his
raguay would make common cause
IgrAulaincifilltnizane and just dictator !
vaue la waiiittisring these fraudulent words, there
vozpolaat o every hill and valley of Paraguay,

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