The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-22 00:00:00

TIIE LIVEIt PLATE.

The following, received by the last mail, ore'
the latest particulars of the condition of affairs
the River Plate. In Monte Video the influence (n
Orihe seems again to threaten continued misge°
vernment ; but it is satisfactory to find that an
arrangement has at length been enforced of the
long-pending claims of English merchants, although
it still falls short of what the dignity of this country
should have demanded. At Buenos Ayres a re:
newal of hostilities with Urquiza is apprehended a'
a not remote possibility. Tho news of the ternal;
nation of the Russian war came unexpectedly, a!),,u
will cause losses in tallow. Nothing is said NO'
regard to the proposals of the Buenos Ayr
Government for the settlement •f their foreign
debt :

" Some attempts have been made to introduce
the reforms alluded to in my last, but the unc°l3;
stitutional and domineering influence of Oribe an
Flores render good government next to impossibilei
Everybody gives the new President (Pereira) cretl!
for the best intentions, and probably he does I'ls
best, but his power is limited. In defiance oflavit
General Dias, Colonel Tagis, and some others 1338 e
been sent out of the country on suspicion of intiiVii;
ing to overthrow the Government. Louis Lamas'
senator, and one of the best men in the country'
finding himself obnoxious, and possibly considering
himself in danger from military influences, has s°il;
cited his passport, and intends, it is said, to leave ,11
republic next week. Senor Lamas had manfully er
posed in the Senate some of the late abominable abuses
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of military domination, by which the public revenue
has been anticipated for some time. Dr. Ellis
is no longer Minister for Foreign Affairs. ia
tenure of office was short ; he has been succeeded
by Don Joaquin Requena. The office of Genelw,,,
des Armes which was abolished, has been re es
ts'
ft was stated in my last that the Gael'.
ment intended selling half of the Customs dtit.le!"
with the privilege of administration. This prOY
lege, I added, had been demanded by Mr. Thorn:et
ton, her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires, on behalfof tu
merchants, who granted a loan to this Governlnee
under the guarantee of the British and French
nipotentiaries, in 1845, on that express conditicuh;
and, on the 2d inst., he concluded an arrangement_.l
which the loan contractors are to take possession n,
administer the Custom-house department until thedii
are paid the amount due to them by retaining a;
eighth of the net product of the revenue. 11"1.0
arrangement has the sanction of the contractors
residing here, who feared that if they let this °P;
portunity pass, they might have to wait a e
more years before ~
they touched a portion of .the
heavy sum due to them ; but they do not consider
de
the arrangement a just one. The account was I:°%i
up to the end of the past month, and from
date all interest ceases. By the January aro
ment of which I wrote last month as having ueot
cancelled in consequence of this Government ,134•
having complied with it by paying the first ins'„,"lo
ment, the amount was made up on the same princui'll,
as the present, and interest at the rate of 6 per Cu,.,
per annum was to be paid periodically. WhYest
Thornton should not have exacted the in°. De
after the Government had acknowledged it t°o
due one is unable to understand. The contracwhor
are entitled to it, or they are not. If t:to
are not entitled to it, how came Mr. Thornto:o
demand it ? I have said the contractors here u'ot
sanctioned the arrangement, but they have ;ill
done so willingly, and they doubt whether it ip
meet with the approbation of their confrete,sto
England, who own about half the amount e'po,
loan ; they entertain some hopes that Lord ClartiO
don will insist upon the interest, which, for
country, is low.
" The news of Russia's acceptance of the c°.:se
tions of peace has taken everybody by surr,laili
and the dealers in tallow will, no doubt, soljtjj
heavy losses. In Monte Video, however, ye,,er,
not suffer so much as on the other side of the rio,
whence shipments have been large. Exchange,',
" Buenos Ayres struggles on. They tal'ot
lighting the city with gas the latter eud of not,
mouth. The elections have just terminated, me
however, without loss of life. The treaty entero
into with the Argentine Confederation 11351;tie
been ratified by Urquiza. It is feared host re.
will commence before the year is out. It„"tbef
ported the Indians desire peace, but, until
have been punished, it is difficult to believe o 00f,
when they have had their own way. The 6,,c)erfr
nor is somewhere in the country, but his virs) co
abouts not exactly known. All the Estanciels jo
the borders have sent their cattle to market'loo
preference to running the risk of having it '-
by the Indians.
" The province of Santa Fe, the most tliitlf
populated in the Argentine Confederation, is 'Lai
assuming more importance. Houses have
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erected in considerable numbers, and Jana "
greatly advanced in value. The difficulties beeii
tween Paraguay and Brazil are said to be settnre
amicably ; but that republic is likely to have
serious difficulties with France, in consequence
the ill-treatment of some French immigrants.

ME SYSTEM OF ookRUPTIOS IN

FRANCE.

[By the Paris Correspondent of the Mane'7 /''gstv
Guardian.]
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Before I go further, let me open a parent
and tell you an anecdote, too illustrative efai!p
resolute system of denial--and belief in the
us
ciousness of falsehood, to be passed by. Just d
the Emperor's marriage, a grocer, possessed of aj'enis
handsome house at Versailles, in which gairst
de Montijo and her daughter had occupied thehoot
floor for some weeks, very innocently went el' 01
saying to every one he met :—" Only thill-foil
M. demoiselle do Montijo being the ErcPe:niS
wife ; slie lodged in my house, and I saw 11014-0,
and out every day." No great harm, you WI"
But the grocer was sent for to the prefecture,
thus addressed :—"*So and so, you say the bet
press lodged in your house?" " Yes, sir, with reio
mother, at such a date." "So and so, the Ent I
never lodged at your house---" "But, 9'r
assure you---" "I tell you her Majesty news„S't'etses
set her foot in your house ; nor did you everstiiio
her. You had best become quite convinced
old
fact ; for if you should ever again repeat 3700`„ii,
invention it will be much the worse for liiief
Upon this the grocer, frightened out of his ,1,
retreated, and with visions of Cayenne in his 13:0
went about Versailles swearing gratuitonslYbia
he never saw the Empress in all his life. The "l
got about, and I know men in my own pers' the
acquaintance who used to delight in invadmhots
wretched grocer's shop, and saying to him-- 11l
don't remember me, but I used to visit conste 'to
the Mesdames de Montijo, when they lodged 1,12 fits
first floor." The agonised grocer would go iulefet
of terror, declare that the ladies in question Dew
lodged there, et cetera, and sometimes end hYf 0,00
Claiming—" For God's sake, don't betray rae-7,105,
undone if you do." Now, this is merely an "00'
tratiou of Louis Napoleon's belief that a facts ,OJ,
ciPntly well denied ceases to have ever q,,,i5,118,
What harm, in the first place, was there in Jou.„00
de Montijo's having lodged in a very handesid
house, the proprietor whereof was a grocer ? 11 eSt
next—how, when a whole town, like Versat",„o
could witness the thing, was it to be effaced ,w 0.4
public memory ? Still, the use of the denial to
so thoroughly admitted, that the denial was ass!), 1
and maintained. This little anecdote, for whietbe
and many, many others, can vouch, just sboviLe'
spirit of this government on some points, and t'
fore I relate it.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, May 21;b0
It is a remarkable sign of the times that
term, which commences to-morrow, the 22d IP,-;
there is not even one application to the barp,..,.3
cumstance which has not occurred before cf3L—
the present generation.
_Thy i 0
Several properties were disposed of yester'io'
the Incumbered Estates Court, and in rore,iteo
stances than have occurred for some time the
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were below 20 years purchase, several lots halt 0
been withdrawn for want of competition. of
probable that this indicates a turn in the tide
the value of Irish land.
cleo
In the case of the late frightful boiler acel
on board the Nimrod steamer, in Cork, a corn...
jury returned the following verdict yesteratoc'
"That Hugh Connolly and Timothy MeanY,relrved
tively, came to their death by injuries rnef,-0,
from a steam-boiler explosion, on board the s"'"io.
,hip Nimrod, and we further find that said OP
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sion was owing to the safety valves not having be of
properly attended to by the engineer in ebargeo
the engine-room, whose duty it was, and Wil°
s nce died."

SINGULAR DEATH AT SHEFFIELD.-0a Iliondaj
inquest was held at Sheffield, on the body of Jas. play,
labourer, Atter°We, who died suddenly on Sus
The deceased, who had been a brewer, and who *Os
years of age, called on Sunday at the Norfolk Brewe'd f
t°
belonging to Messrs. Greaves and Co., and asked one °v,
the bre werymen, named John Brackenbury, 3114.
him to look round, as they had been making some alts,
rations. Brackenbury, contrary to the orders (3 0
employ ers, permitted him to do so • and while be r
leaning over the "harm squares," which' are placed 111
the vats of fermenting liquor to catch the berm, u° be
forward.. His face did not touch the yeast, but whet' d.
was raised up immediat,ly afterwards he was' quite dea d
A post mortem .xamination of the body was made,'
the surgeons found that death bad re.ulted from the
.halation of carbonic acid gas, generated by the fermefv;
ing liquor, acting upen the deceased's heart, and csui;l,,re
instant stoppage of its pulsations. The jury tberew
returned a verdict to that effect.