The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-05 00:00:00

RIVER PLATE-SUSPENSION OF

HOSTILITIES.

The following is a translation of a dispatch from
Senor Ara' to General Mansilla, commanding the bat-
teries at San Lorenzo on the Parana:—
" His Excellency the Governor, in reference to your
note has ordered the undersigned to state to your Ex-
cellency in reply, that Thomas S. Hood, Esq., has, in
fact arrived in this city, accredited confidentially by the
Government of her Britannic Majesty, to that of the Ar-
genuine Confederation, on a special mission for the ar-
rangement of the pending differences in the River Plate.
The dignified and honourable course which the Govern-
ments of England and France have adopted, the import-
ant friendly explanations which their envoy has trans-
mitted to this Government, and the satisfactory guaran-
tees which the Governor attributes to the said Mr. Hood,
on account of his former dignified conduct in the repub-
lics, call for a corresponding Course on the part of the
Confederation, and that its Government should testify
to its specific views, and to the sincere friendship with
which it is animated towards those high Powers.
" Under such circumstances his Excellency the Go-
vernor orders that your Excellency, with the forces
under your command will not take any hostile step
against the merchant vessels which remain at Corientes,
and may be returning, nor against the Anglo-French
vessels of war which which may go up or down the
river Parana, but permit them to pass without molesta-
tion until otherwise ordered, and only in case of their
attacking, your Excellency will defend yourself with the
same spirit as hitherto.

" His Excellency will modify these instructions ac-
cording to circumstances, and should such become neces-
sary, revert to the previous orders communicated to your
Excellency. In the mean time a prudent vigilance on
the part of your Excellency is recommended, in order to
avert any untoward consequences resulting from a mis-
placed confidence.
" Buenos Ayres, July 15, 1846."

EXPOSURE OF HUMAN REMAlNS.—Throughout the
whole of yesterday, the greatest excitement and disgust
pervaded the neighbourhood of the Caledonian road,
Islington, Maiden-lane, and King's-cross, en the disco-
very of a large quantity of human bones and
pieces of. coffins exposed in the public thorough-
fares of these localities, under circumstances of
a most suspicious and mysterious character. The
secresy observed in bringing the remains to the various
spots has been such as almost entirely to prevent
the detection of the parties who have been guilty of
this gross act. In Albion street, a new street running
from the Wharf-road, Maiden-lane, to the Caledonian-
road, a cart-load of earth, &c., was shot on Saturday in
the middle of the road, which is in the course of con-
struction, and emitted a most disgusting effluvium, but
was not noticed to contain the remains of human beings.
The stench caused an examinatisn to be made, and seve-
ral other portions of coffins half rotted, and human
bones were found. In Bath-street and River-street, two
new streets in the course of formation on the north side
of the Regent's Canal, a more disgusting proceeding
has been resorted to—upwards of three waggon loads
of black earth, intermingled with human bones,
have been deposited in these streets, and men
have been employed to sift the earth for the
purpose of mixing portions of it with lime. The bones
left in the sieve, composing all parts of the human frame,
were thrown on one side and partially buried under clay.
The stench arising is of a most dreadful description, No
one can tell where the bones, &c., have been brought
from, nor who are the parties concerned. The reporter
was present at the various spats, and saw leg and arm
bones and portions of human skulls thrown about in all
directions. What the police could have been about in
allowing such a proceeding to take place without inter-
ference is asked by every one, as it is stated that two
cart loads of the black earth, &c., were deposited in
River-street yesterday morning at two o'clock.
THE 'WELLINGTON STATUE. The manner in
which Mr. M'Cullum, boatswain of the Woolwich Dock-
yard, and the riggers under his direction, accomplished
the raising of the great weight of this statue, has sur-
prised many persons, but Mr. M'Cullum does not
consider the feat more that an ordinary task, as he would
have no hesitation in undertaking to raise a body of
one hundred tons weight to a similar height of one hun-
dred and five feet, which the base on which the eques-
trian statue of the Duke of Wellington now stands
is from the ground. The work of raising the
statue was accomplished by forty-four men, eight at
each Of the four " crabs" for coiling the ropes, two
holding on, and one at each stopper. Some idea of the
strength of the framework may be formed, when it is
computed that it supported a weight of about ninety tons
at a height of upwards of 105 feet from the ground.
This is ascertained by calculating the weight of the
statue, the ropes and tackling, and the number of per-
sons, of whom there were always upwards of sixty, in-
ducing strangers, on the scaffolding, until the statue was
raised to its proper position. So excellently were all
the- parts adjusted, that four men, with two single
ropes, moved .the statue backwards and forwards
on the tramway, when Mr,. Wyatt adjusted it on the
Thursday after it was raised to the top of the arch. The
framework required 250 loads of timber, the whole of
which was supplied by Woolwich Dockyard, and the ex-
pense of ironwork and labour, including the carriage,
exceeds 5001., and with the timber the total expense of
raising the statue will exceed 9001. Admiral Byham
Martin, Vice Admiral Matson, Commodore William
Henry Sheriff, late Captain Superintendent of Chatham
Dockyard, and a number of naval and military officers,
visited the statue since it has been placed on the top of
the arch, and expressed their entire approbation of the
way in which the whole of the arrangements were made
and carried into execution.
EXTENSION AND COMPLETION OF THE OVERLAND
ROUTE TO INDIA, AND THE WHOLE EASTERN ARCH'.
PELAGO.—We believe that we can safely affirm that the
East India Company have given their sanction to a line
of railway across the southern continent of India, with
the view of facilitating our intercourse with the East,
with China, and with our Australian possessions. The
forthcoming report of Mr. Simms suggests the necessity
of intersecting the presidencies of Madras and Bombay
by a line of railway, and thus bringing within a month
or six weeks journey to England the most distant pos-
sessions in the southern hemisphere. If this project be
carried out, it will change the commerce of the whole
world, and consolidate our vast and scattered fragments
of empire into something like a tangible whole. To
reach China in one month, Australia in six weeks, and
to traverse the Mediterranean, thalndian Ocean, and the
vast sweep of waters in the southern hemisphere in the
same space of time, may truly be said to be a grand and
gigantic scheme.
Sir Robert and Lady Peel have arrived at Drayton
Manor, from town, after visiting her Majesty at Windsor
Castle. The Right Hon. Baronet's mansion in White-
hall-gardens is undergoing a course of thorough repair.
THE IRON TRADE.—BIRMINGHAM, SATURDAY:"...
In anticipation of the usual quarterly meetings about to
take place, it appears that the ironmasters of South
Staffordshire, have held a preparatory meeting at
Dudley, and after maturely weighing every circumstance
connected with the trade, particularly in reference to
the anticipated demand for rails, and to the operation of
the New American Tariff, resolved unanimously not to
advance the prices, but continue them at the ensuing
quarter at the same rate as the past, viz., bars and rods
10/. per ton; hoops, 101. 10s.; sheets (single), 11/. 10s.
and in other descriptions, in the usual proportion.
FEARFUL ACCIDENT AT A BREWERY.-011 Sa

turday afternoon, between the hours of five and six
o'clock, an accident of a most fearful character, and
which it is feared will prove fatal, occurred to a man
named Edward Windsor, a bricklayer, who was engaged
at work_ at Messrs. Harrison's, the extensive brewers,

in the Hampstead -road. The unfortunate man was at
the period in question on the top of the building, and
by some unaccountable means lost his footing and fell
into a well, from a height of above 250 feet. He was
conveyed in a cab to the London University College
Hospital, when it was ascertained by the house sur-
geon that he had sustained a broken leg, fractured
both arms, and other serious injuries, so as to leave no
hopes of his final recovery.
WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL.—On Saturday afternoon
a meeting of the medical and managing committee of the
Westminster Hospital was held at the institution, near
Westminster Abbey, for the purpose of commencing
the winter session of the school of medicine, and on
other business. Mr. Ericbsen took the chair, and after
wards delivered the introductory medical address to a
very full court. From the report of Mr. J. Wilson, the
secretary, it appears that since the establishment of the
Westminster Hospital, in 1719, it has afforded the re-
quired relief to upwards of 323,000 patients. During
the past year the number of in-patients amounted to
1,580, having, since the establishment of the hospital,
progressively increased from 771 annually to that num-
ber: the out-patients were upwards of 8,400, of which
it is stated 5,6'39 were accidents and urgent cases, ad-
mitted without letters of recommendatio❑ at all hours.

The number of inmates at present maintained is 164

namely, 77 males, and 87 females. Four wards, capable
of receiving 60 more paue:its, are now vacant, in conse-
quence of the financial position of the charity not justi-
fying the governors re-opening them.
ST. MICHAEL'S MOUNT.—It is rumoured among
the different circles of society in the west of this county,
that our most gracious and beloved Sovereign has offered
55,000/. for St. Michael's Mount, but that the sum asked
is 75,000/. Western Times,

TRUE BENEVOLENCE.--At the meeting of the
Ballinsloe Union Agricultural Society, on Tuesday, Sir
M. D. Bellew, Bart., on being awarded a prize for the
best drainage of a certain number of acres, said he de-
,

served no credit whatever on the occasion ; the merit
was entirely duo to his son, who, when the distress be-
came so prevalent in the country, resolved to abandon a
tour which he was about to make through Greece and

Turkey, in order to expend the money which his journey
would have cost him in giving employment to a number
of puor people in currying on this drainage. This an-
nouncement was received with loud applause.—lrish

paper.
We understand that a department of the Govern-
ment, hitherto carried cn under a chief; is for the future
to be managed by the same chief, assisted by a board of
unpaid commissioners. The names of the latter we are
not yet at liberty to disclose ; but, if wo mistake not,
they will throw a very curious light on the present state
of parties in this country.—Post.
THE NEW RIVER COMPANY.—Yesterday, by order
of the board of directors of the New River Company,
the plugs connected with the mains throughout the dis-
trict that receives the supply of wattr from that source,
were pulled up, the object for such a course being stated
to be to allow a rapid flow of water in order to cleanse
the pipes, a great length of new pipes having been laid
down.

A large Bull Seal, measuring from the snout to
the tip of the tail upwards of seven feet, and nearly six
feet in circumference, weighing upwards of cwt., was
shot by Stephen Evan, a fisherman, in Newport Bay, on
Thursday last. From 10 to 12 gsllons of oil have been
extracted from its fat.—The Welshman.