The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-08 00:00:00

Commence at 7.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.-
OPERA CO3IIQUE.
3f. LAURENT, Sen., respectfully informs the public that,
in consequence of the non-completion of the nece,sary altera-
tions required for the production of V. Tuber's celebrated
Opera " La Part du Diable," the commencement of the sea-
son will be deterred until WEDNESDAY next, the 9th inst.

ness of the House of Commons." No, Mr. HORS-
MAN, we must think, and we imagine all your
fellow-members will think, that you " do protest

A DELPHI, NEW THEATRE-ROYAL.
Sole Proprietor and Manarrer. Mr. Real. Webster.
Engagement of the celebrated American Actress, Miss
JULIA DALY, and Mr. LEIGH MURRAY.
THIS EVENING, TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS.
Mr. Leigh Murray, J. L. Toole, C. Selby, Romer ; Miss 11.
Simms, K. Kelly, Laidlaw. and Mrs. Chatterley.
After which, OUR FEMALE AMERICAN COUSIN.
Messrs. Stuart, C. Selby, Billing,ton, Eburne, Miss Julia
Daly, K. Kelly, Laidlaw, and Mrs. Chatterley.
To conclude with the Fairy Extravaganza, THE FAIR
NE wrrn THE GOLDEN LOCKS. King Lachrymose,
r. J. L. Toole ; Count Pleniposo, Mr. P. Bedford ; Viscount
Verysoso, Mr. C. J. Amith ; Graceful, Miss K. Kelly ; Queen
Lucidora, Miss Emily Thorne ; Mollmopsa, Mrs. Billington.
Box-office open from 10 till 5.
Private boxes, £2 2s. ; Family Boxes, £l.
Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Balcony, 4s. ; Front Circle Stalls, 3s. ;
Pit Stalls, 25.; Pit, is. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, is ; Gallery, 6d.
Acting Manager—Mr. Wm. Smith.

:oo much."

With regard to the relations of the Press and the
House of Commons, we do not notice any real dif-
ference of opinion. All concur in demanding for
us entire independence. No one would venture to
suggest that the Press should be responsible to any
judgment but that of the country and its own
sense of honour. Mr. HORSMAN very clearly,
we admit, contrasted the responsibility of Mr.
BRIGHT for what he uttered publicly on the
platform, and the responsibility of the anonymous
individual who penned the article. gow we must
think that a newspaper editor both enjoys the secrecy
which tends so greatly to independence in writing,
and yet is subjected to the responsibility which
prevents the abuse of that independence. He fears
not to speak out where he ought to do so, because
his statements bring no personally unpleasant con-
sequences, Yet he would fear to indulge private
piques in public affairs, because some of his many
contemporaries would be sure to expose his unfair-
ness, and because he must either publish ex-
postulatory letters sealing his own condemna-

ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE,
King-street, St. James's. Lessee, Mr. T. B. Chatter-
ton. Directress, Miss Wyndham. The nearest Theatre to
Chelsea, Pimlico, and Westminster, the Park being open to
carriages and toot passengers all hours of the night.
THIS EVENING the pertormanceo will nommen..
with
a new and original comedy, entitled A FRIEND IN NEED.
F. Robinson, C. Young, &c.
To be followed by DIDO.
After which, A CHANGE OF SYSTEM.
Reduced Prices—Gallery, 6d ; Pit, Is. The Box-office open
from 11 to 5 daily. Doors open at hall-past six; perform
ante commences at 7.

ASTLE Y'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.-
Proprietor, Mr. WM. BATTY.
Manager, Mr. EDWIN HuonEs.
Brilliant career of the GREAT MILITARY SPEC-
TACLE. Enthusiastic reception of the renowned Artistes
of the Cirque. Second week of the celebrated Delavanti
Troupe and of the extraordinarily gifted wonder of the age,
Little MENONI.
THIS EVENING, and during the Week,
To commence with the Great Military Spectacle, in Four
Acts, entitled "TIIE HISTORY OF A FLAG," in Austria,
Egypt, Russia, and France.
Full Military Band, real Camels. The entire stud of trained
Horses. The amusements supported by the most celebrated
Star Riders of the day. The novel and elegant arrangements
of the Arena are universally admired.
The magnificent Chan ,eliers manufactured by Messrs. De-
fries and Sons, Houndsditch.
Doors open at half-past 6. performance commence at 7.
Box-office open daily from 11 till 4.
Stage Manager—Mr. W. WEST.

CONCERTS.-

CANTERBURY HALL
THIS EVENING.
C. H. GOUNOD'S OPERA,
FAUST.
First Time in this Country.
Faust Mr. Henry Herbert.
Mephistopheles Mr. C. Bernard.
Siobel Mrs. Anderson.
Marguerite
Conductor. Mr. Jonghmans.
And selections from
Dinorah, Trovatore, Macbeth, and numerous other
Entertainments.
Balcony, ls, llall, id.
Comic Vocalists —Stessrs. George Hodson (the Irish Come
dian and Mimic), and W. T. Critchtleld.
Several Interesting Pictures are added to the Fine Arts
Gallery. The suite of Halls have been re-decorated and
beautified, and constitute one of the most unique and brilliant
sights of the metropolis.
The gallery is open from 5 till Il on Sunday Evening.

THE WEATHER.--SUN OFFICE, MAY 8, 1860.

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
59—highest since noon yesterday.
3S —lowest this morning and during the night.
62—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-29.63.
WIND, South-Westerly; light, with cloudy weather.
Rain in the night.

tion, or submit to see them appear in
other journals with the intimation that he had
not the English fairness to give them insertion.
Nor is it true, if Mr. HoRsmAN needs to be told
this, that the manager of any respectable paper
dictates the articles which appear in it. He, and
his editors are, generally and naturally, persons, on
most points, of the same views, and Mr. HORSMAN
would find, if admitted to the " back parlour," that
any respectable newspaper proprietor has not the
slightest wish to influence his editors. He knows
that they feel their responsibility for exercising a
sound and creditable judgment for themselves, as
much as he could for them. The idem de repnblica
sentire is the intellectual link between them, The
charge, therefore, was substantially unjust of Mr.

WALTER, himself being responsible for doing by

another, what Mr. BRIGHT did for himself. We
certainly believe, and are sure the country may be-
lieve Mr. WALTER'S disclaimor of privity to the

article in question.

At the same time we have always felt that the de-
fence of our contemporary goes a long way in
favour of our view of anonymous voting, to which
the Times is so strongly opposed. We feel the great
advantage of not being individually recognised as
the authors of many remarks which we yet think it
desirable to make. We hope, in many important
matters, that principle would induce us to write all
we thought, whoever might be offended. Yet if we
look back we must doubt whether we should in
numerous cases have written as explicitly as we have
done, if indeed we had written at all. No one
knows what is suppressed, and we might often
have declined to say what would have brought
on us unpleasant social censequences. Surely the
poor, or in any way dependent voter, is very
much in the same position. He needs the
independence of an anonymous vote, as much as we
do of en anonymous pen. The voter, also, by ballot
has Ms responsibility. Not, indeed, to those who
have no right to command his vote, but, like the
anonymous editor, to the judgment of society and
to his own convictions. It is a mistake to think
that any man even likes, though others know it
not, to adopt the course which turns out to be erro-
neous, or to vote for the man who shows afterwards
his unfitness. Conscience and consequences are
adequate checks on anonymous voting.

It could hardly have been deemed extraordinary
by CHARLES LAMB had he while travelling
nowadays in a railway carriage instead of a quarter
of a century back in a mailcoaeh—been accosted at
last by his taciturn fellow-passenger with an unex-
pected inquiry as to the position of the market in
regard to Indigo. It is one of the most vitally
important considerations at this moment, because
it is one intimately affecting the relative position
of British authority and Asiatie obedience. Unless
some wholly unlooked for incident should arise to
dissipate our anxieties instantaneously, we have a
tolerably distinct prospect before us of being able to
test in some measure the loyalty of a considerable
portion of the Indian population by means of the
fluctuations of the indigo market. For hard upon
the heels of the Sepoy mutiny has come, oddly
enough, a riot among the ryots of Bengal. The
former calamitous rising in arms against our
authority in Hindostan has scarcely been sup-
pressed when another rebellious movement sud-
denly becomes apparent in nearly the same
quarter of the great Asiatic Peninsula:
Only, 2nirabile dictu, the outbreak here
has been caused, not by a wanton out-
rage upon a anatical prejudice—no excuse
has been afforded to the ryots, who are the rioters,
by constraining them them to oontaminate their
lips with the pig's grease saturating the bitten
cartridge. They have been actually it is not
exaggeration to say it—goaded into insurgents by
the insensate insults directed against them by a
bungling official of the Government. A circular
recently issued by the Hon. Mr. EDEN has abso-
lutely induced the agricultural population of Lower
Bengal to believe that the administrative authority
at Calcutta disapproves of the further cultivation of
indigo as burdensome or unremunerative ! The offi-
cial representatives of the Government scattered
through the provinces having derided them
as poltroons, for inasmuch as they have never given
any token whatever of vigorous resistance. The
agricultural population have in consequence of this
risen—as a matter of course they have risen and
are rising. The disastrous movement threatens to
spread—the ryots recognising in those reiterated
taunts, coupled with this most rash circular of Mr.
EDEN, a positive signal to them to declare openly
against their employers, the indigo planters !
It has seemingly been forgotton at this juncture
by the authorities what is precisely the character
of the population with which they have to deal in
these and other delicate administrative proceedings.
The Correspondent of our chief morning contem-
porary has significantly declared but very recently
of this identical class of the population now hurried
and goaded into rebellion against their English em-
ployers the indigo planters : " A Bungalee ryot is
the most trying of human beings :" adding, " He
is always doing small swindles, and he regards
the kottree, or factory, as an entiety it is his moral
duty to cheat." But what in point of fact is the
character given long since of this very population
by a masterhand when that masterhand was writ-
ing his admitted masterpiece? The late Lord
MACAULAY in his essay on Warren Hustings has
thus spoken of the Bengalee—" The physical
organisation of the Bengalee is feeble even to effe-
minacy. He lives in a constant vapour bath. His
pursuits are sedentary, his limbs delicate, his move-
ments languid. During many ages he has been
trampled upon by men of bolder and more hardy
breeds. Courage, independence, veracity, are qua-
lities to which his constitution and his situation
are equally unfavourable. His mind bears a sin-
gular analogy to his body. It is weak even to help-
lessness for purposes of manly resistance; but its
suppleness and its tact move the children of sterner
climates to admiration not unmingled with cm -
tempt. All those arts which are the natural de-

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THE SUN.
LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1880.

In the case of HORSMAN versus " THE TIMES,"
heard last night before the House of Commons, we
are constrained to concur in the judgment of the
House, as delivered by its two leaders—which
judgment, we understand, to be for the defendant.
In the words charged as libellous to the House,
through one of its members, we really can see
nothing which the House, when most conscious of
its dignity, or the hon. member himself as a public
man, has the slightest occasion to resent. If we
remember rightly, we smiled when we read the
happily illustrated idea of members all desiring
what they would not like to ask openly, end of
their being influenced by the motives com-
mon to all men—and, as things stand, members may
reasonably dislike frequent elections. Were our
elections even annual it would be far less tax upon
the purse and time of candidates. More would be
returned without costly opposition, because the prize
of a year's membership would be comparatively
small ; but when membership may last seven years,
and elections are repeated frequently, they require
all the cost of the greater prize to secure the lesser
one. We all know, too well, that the last election
was not inexpensively fought. We must agree,
therefore, with our contemporary, that without
thinking at all worse of representatives than he
thinks of himself, not merely ninety-nine, but one
hundred Englishmen out of a hundred would think
that perhaps every member of the House, so
far as he is perionally concerned, wculd have
thought none the worse of the house, or of Mr.
HORSMAN, merely because recent public events at
Stroud had made his name a suitable one with
which to point the closing sentence of the paragraph.
If, indeed, the 1 imes were guilty of insulting the
house, we also must humbly beg its pardon for in-
nocently doing the same thing. We had before we
saw Mr. WALTER'S speech in the Times article
surmised that it could not be very agreeable to
members to hazard, so soon in some cases, the loss
of their seats, and, in all others, to incur so
soon again the cost and trouble of another
election. It is not much of a libel to suppose,
even members of the House of Commons would
prefer that this Parliament should sit another year,
and do not doubt: that an understanding to that
effect would have a mollifying influence on the re-
pugnance of too many to the bill.

We must remind Mr. HoaSMAN too, and he
knows that we have been ready enough to do him
jultice on other questions, that his cue looks alto-
gether like one of constructive libel. The allusion
to his name wag founded on public and notorious
occurrences—th O&3 who, as we did, might censure
the electors of S ;ruud, might get with equal pro-
priety advert to. the presumed unwillingness of
their represonse nt ative to become a candidate there
before next sc ssion. Surely there would be in
this no reason to put the least favourable construc-
tion on the allu sitm, and to wrest from it the infe-
rence that he N rag " personally brought in for no
other purpose bl se illustrative of the general mean-

ion.

fence of the weak are more familiar to this subtle
race than to the lonian of the time of JUVENAL,
or to the Jew of the dark ages. What the horns
are to the buffalo, what the paw is to the tiger,
what the sting is to the bee, what beauty, ac-
cording to the old Greek song, is to woman,
deceit is to the Bengalee. Large promises, smooth
excuses, elaborate tissues of circumstantial false-
hood, chicanery, perjury, forgery, are the
weapons, offensive and defensive of the people of
the Lower Ganges." And yet it is this treacher-
ous and deceitful race—it is about the
lowest and the most degraded and the most ignorant
class of this treacherous and deceitful population
that the Indian Government has been carefully
driving into rebellion against their absurd and in
every way (from their comparative insignificance in
point of numbers, and from their peculiar isolation
in their wide Zemindarships) defenceless employers,
the English indigo planters. Besides which, it has
been sagaciously and accurately observed that the
Bengal farmer has hitherto all along regarded the
necessity of cultivating the indigo-patch somewhat
as our sturdy English yeoman looks askance upon
that "reserve" in the lease setting apart the little bit
of land for buckwheat. Yet these are the men now
tempted to set at defiance the rights and the
authority of those widely scattered indigo planters,
each of whose households settled here and there,
far and wide over Lower Bengal, is, so to speak, a
veritable English Family ROBINSON. The folly,
the crass and insensate folly, of any such proceed-
ings absolutely beggars description. More espe-
cially when it is remembered that the wanton
sneers indulged in by the Government officials when
taunting the ryots with cowardice, and the wholly
uncalled for circular of Mr. EDEN, capping the climax
of irritation to the Hindoo farmer thus antagonis-
tically placed in regard to the English indigo plan-
ter—have followed hard upon the heels, as we have
said, of the bloody Sepoy Rebellion, An end to
this folly there must be, or the sceptre of VICTORIA
will be liable periodically, if not continuously, to
be employed but as the handle for a death-dealing
scourge, to be wielded in terror over the Hindoos,
but more peculiarly over the Bengalese, to bring
them back for a while by the mere brute influence
of terror, to a purely fugitive state of subordina-

la A ff E S

NE\Vb.

The following telegrams were received at Mr.

Reuter's office :

PARIS, MAY 8.

The Noniteur of to-day announces that a decree
modifying the project of law concerning sugars and
coffee has been submitted to the Legislative body.

PARIS, MAY 7.

The Patrie of this evening says :—" We learn
hat General Garibaldi has left for Sicily with an

expeditionary corps d'armee."
The Patrie adds :—" General Garibaldi by acting
thus commits an act which falls under the applica-
tion of the law against piracy." The same journal
further says,—" The Sardinian Cabinet has ordered
the Sardinian vessels off Sicily to oppose with armed
force any attempt which may be made by persons
who have embarked in vessels hoisting the Sardi-
nian flag."

ROME, MAY 5 (VIA MARSEILLES).
1,000 Irishmen have left Trieste for Ancona, in
order to be enrolled in the Pontifical army.
Letters deny that M. de Corcelles has been ap-
pointed Minister, and state that he will soon return
to France.

MADRID, MAY 7.

Count Montemolin and his brother left Tortosa
to-day ; they will embark on board the steamer
Colon, the destination of which is unknown.

VIENNA, MAY 8.

The report that Prince Metternich would shortly
resign his post as ambassador to the Imperial Court
at Paris is entirely unfounded.
The inauguration of the newly-organised Coun-
cil of the Empire will take place in the course of
this month.

The protocols of its sittings will be regularly
published in the official Weiner Zeitung.

TURIN, MAY 7.

The Piechnontese Gazette contains the following
despatch, dated Palermo, Thursday, the 3d inst.:—
" The inhabitants are re-opening their shops.
The agitation is diminishing. The Lieutenant-
General has published a proclamation declaring the
town to be no longer in a state of siege.
" The result of the elections which are known up
to the present time shows a considerable majority
in favour of the Ministry. General Garibaldi has
only obtained 30 votes at Turin, and Signor Lau-
renti only 14."

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has no alterna-
tive. He must sell his cheapened wines—to sell
them he must have abundance of places where per-
sons can get them easily—therefore, he must make
it the interest of ten times more persons than can
do it under the present licensing system, to tempt
the public to buy them. No demonstration in
EUCLID can be more complete. Opposition is
useless. Revenue must be had, and another
penny in the pound to the income-tax would be the
alternative of rejecting the bill which was read a
second time last night. We advise all parties,
therefore, teetotallers and publicans, brewers and
magistrates, to acquiesce with a good grace, for if
not they will have to do it with a bad one.
But, as in many similar cases, we cannot think
that any legitimate trade will suffer. The classes
which use the present houses of refreshment of all
kinds will continue to do so still. In a few cases
the licensed Louses may have made a hardly fair
profit at the expense of some eating-house which
was not allowed to sell intoxicating liquors ; but,
generally speaking, we believe the result will
be the creation of a new trade rather than
a subtraction from the old. Then, again,
we are Free-traders all of us now, and how can we
reconcile with this, entrusting to magistrates the
power to decide how many refreshment houses of
any kind a neighbourhood needs. Surely in this,
as in other matters, demand and supply is the good
old rule. There can be no propriety in limit-
ing magisterially the number of publicans,
any more than that of grocers, butchers, or
or bakers. Of course, no one objects to a super-
vision of houses where intoxicating drinks are con-
sumed on the premises. That, however, is a part
of the bill, and will be' impartial in its bearing on
all. It cannot be denied, we think, that the class
of refreshment-houses contemplated by the bill are
likely to arise, because they are wanted ; and, it'
wanted, free trade principles demand that they
should be allowed. We believe, therefore, that in a
short time all parties will approve the proposed
plan and none be sufferers.

NAPLES, MAY 4 (via Genoa).

No news has been received from Sicily for a week.
Neither Government nor merchant steamers have
arrived. The telegraph lines are interrupted. It
is believed that the insurrection still continues on
the coast and in the interior of the island.

Serious apprehensions are entertained as to the
state of affairs in Sicily. It is not the Count of
Syracuse, but his secretary, who has been exiled.

MUNICH, MAY 7

King Ludwig will leave on the 15th inst. for
Vienna. It is believed that this journey of the aged
Prince is not entirely without a political motive.

THE BOMBAY AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS
SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Massilia, Captain Black, with the heavy por-
tion of the above mails, has arrived. She brings
146 passengers and a cargo of 1,000 bales of silk.
A large Russian frigate had arrived at Alexan-
dria just as the Massilia was leaving.
The Ceylon, with the outward Calcutta mail, had
left Malta for Alexandria on the 29th ult. The
Delta, with the outward Bombay mzil, left Gibral-
tar for Malta on the 2d inst.

On the sth inst. the Massilia spuke the brig Eliza-
beth Maclean, steering south.
The Massilia brings the master and nine men of
the North Wales, of Carnarvon, which was run
down and sunk in lat. 35 31 N., long. 8 26 W., by
some ship belonging to Boston.
A private letter from the camp before Ceuta
states that, in consequence of everything being
amicably settled in Tetuan, and the first instal-
ment of the indemnity having been already paid,
General Echague'i corps had received orders to
proceed to Madrid, leaving a sufficient garrison to
guard the Ceuta lines. General Echague started
on the 23d for Valencia. General Gassett remained
in command of the forces around the Serrallo.

A regiment of Cuirassiers of 450 sabres bad
embarked at Ceuta for Cadiz. Some infantry
corps had also departed in Spanish steamers to
Valencia and Corunna. The French and other
foreign steamers of war were being rapidly paid
off. The troops in the Serrallo camp were daily
diminishing in number.
In Tetuan much misery prevailed among the
poorer classes of the Hebrew community, owing to
the want of employment. All trade with the
interior was stopped by the Spanish occupation,
and was not expected to be resumed till the town
shall be restored to the Moors. Provisions for the
Spanish• army and for the consumption of the
town population were brought from Spain.
General Prim left for Madrid on the 28th,
the day after Marshal O'Donnell. The remainder of
the Catalan volunteers were daily expected to return
to Barcelona, where a grand ovation was preparing
for their reception. 'General Rios, the Governor
of Tetuan, is now the commander-in-chief of what
remains of the army of Africa. Great rejoicings
had taken place at Mogadore on the news of peace.
Trade, -which had been in a very languid state, had
become brisk. The British steamer warrior had
touched at Mogadore, and after landing her cargo,
proceeded to the Canary Islands.

Gibraltar exchanges were—On London, 90 days,
501 ; on Paris, sf. 31e. ; Marseilles, sf. 32c. ;
Genoa, 5 32 ; and Madrid, eight day's sight, I- per
cent. diccunt.

FRAN CE.

PARIS, MONDAY.

A letter from Marseilles of the sth instant an-
nounces the departure for Constantinople of the
Marquis de Lavulette and suite. The Treaty of
Commerce between Great Britain and France had
produced an excellent effect in the south of France.
Fine wines are rising daily in price. Large quan-
tities of hermitage had been purchased for the
London market, and the wine growers in the valley
of the Rhone arc planting additional vineyards.
Mulberry trees, which had erased to produce food
for silkworms, have been taken up, and vines
planted in their place. The Spanish Government
hal sent bask to Nlaneilles several of the steamers
chartered for the conveyance of troops and stores
to Morocco. Among the number is the magnifi-
cent Transatlantic steamer Torino of Genoa. In
consequence of the largo sums allocated by the
French Government for the improvements of the
seaports of trance, the works being constructed at
Marseilles are being pushed forward w;th the
greatest despatch. The quay of the Joliette is
being raised more than three feet.
BoußsE, May 7.—The market has been heavy
to-day, and sales for realisation were general.
Threes, after having been done at 71f 25c, are now
71f sc. Mobilier varied from 712 f 50C to 697 f 50c ;
Austrian, 532 f 50c to 528 f 75 ; Lombard, 525 f to
522 f 50c; Lyons, 8871 50c to 880 ; Orleans, 1350 f

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 8, 1860,

to 1342 f 50c; Northern, 997 f 50c to 992 f 50c;
Eastern, 602 f 5c to 597 f 50c ; Southern, 525 f to
523 f 50c. The following are the last quotations :-
41, per Cents. .... 95 GO Credit Foncier 787 50
Do. end month .. `Belgian 4i
3 per Cents 7l Piedmontese (5) .. 84 25
Do. end month 7l —1 Roman B5 25
Bank Shares 2863 ' Austrian
Cridit Mebilier 703 \ Spanish Threes 48 50
Do. Account ..... 793 75 Home Debt 47 50

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MAY 7.

REFRESHMENT HOUSES AND WINE LICENSES.
Order read, for resuming adjourned debate on amendment
proposed to question, " That the bill be now read a second
time," and which amendment was, to leave out the word
" now," and at the end of the question to add the words
"upon this day six months." Question again proposed,
"That the word now' stand part of the question." De-
bate resumed ; question put. The house divided—Ayes,
267 ; Noes, 193.

AYES —267.
Acton, Sir J. Fortescue, C. S. Napier, Sir C.
Adam, W. I'. Freeland, H. W. Norris, J. T.
Adderley, C. B. French, Fitzstephen North, F.
Adeane, H. J. Gaskell, J. 31. Northcote, Sir S.
Agar-Ellis, Hon. L. Gavin, Major O'Brien, P.
Agnew, Sir A. Gibson, T. M. O'Connell, D.
Alcock, T. Gifibrd, Earl of O'Conoi Don, The
Angerstein, W. Gladstone, W. E. Ogilvy, Sir J.
Antrobus, E. Glyn, G. G. Onslow, Guildford
Archdall, Capt.M.E. Goldsmid, Sir F. Osborne, Bernal
Ashley, Lord Gordon, C. W. Padmore, R.
Atherton, W. Gower, F. L. Paget, Lord A.
Bagwell, J. Greaves, Edward Paget, Lord C. E.
Baring, H. B. Greene, Capt. J. Paget, C.
Baring, Thos. Geo. Greenwood, J. Palmer, R. W
Baxter, W. E. Gregory, W. IL Palmerston, Visct.
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PROGRESS OF PARAGUAY AND TU.

RIVER PLATE.

The news by last mail from the River Plate,
under dates March 20 from Asuncion, March 29
from Buenos Ayres, and April 1 from Monte Video,
may, on the whole, be considered satisfactory.
Commerce was very active at Buenos Ayres, and
large transactions had taken place, both in imports
and exports. The annual elections for the renewal
of one-half of the Chambers were over, giving as
the result the triumph of the Liberal party. It
w-,s believed that the present legislature would
secure to General Mitre his election as Governor of
Buenos Ayres, which was to take place on the Ist
May. In the Confederation, Derqui's Ministry
had been organised as follows :—lnterior, Pujol ;
Exterior, Alvear ; Finance, Alberdi ; Worship and
Instruction, Amos ; War, Victorica. All the States
were progressing, and it was expected that the re-
conciliation of Buenos Ayres with the Confederation
would, by restoring peace, give a stimulus to indus-
try and enterprise. Paraguay continued its on-
ward progress. Railways through the most pro-
ductive districts were vigorously carried on. Two
new steamers, the machinery of which is being
made in London, were in course of construction.
Trade was prosperous, and the general entries were
50 per cent. more in February than in the corres-
ponding period of last year. The Government
had issued a decree against the introduction of
false notes, and bad succeeded in discovering the
offenders, three of whom were in custody. Benito
Hortelano, another of the offenders, had been ar-
rested at Buenos Ayres, at the request of the Para-
guayan Government. The result of the mission of
Senor Calvo to England was awaited with interest
throughout the Platine region. The clemency
extended to Canstatt created hopes that the outrage
committed on the national flag by H.B.M. s
steamers Buzzard and Grappler would be reproved.
Mr. Henderson's demands on behalf of Canstatt
had caused serious disquietude, and to them are
attributed the exertions that are being made for
a South American Alliance, with which project
the journals of Ascuncion, Buenos Ayres, and
Monte Video were warmly occupied. The agita-
tion of this question had extended to Brazil, and a
Rio journal thus comments upon it :
" The alliance question has given rise to explana-

tions from the Asuncion journal, which, in our
opinion, expresses the exact views of the Para-
guayan Government on that important topic. Its
observations thereon having produced some alarm,
from the supposition that Paraguay favoured the
alliance with hostile views towards Brazil, the
Semanario denies that its article had such tendency,
and adds that Brazil ought not ignore that
Paraguay may have enemies and aggressors every-
where. Perhaps those whom the Alliance has
alarmed found their apprehensions on the fact that
Brazil has not been invited ; but this may be
easily understood when it is borne in mind that
the three republics have mutual interests, and
that their alliance might eradicate the dissensions
wherewith they so frequently mortify each other.
Brazil is too strong to need our feeble co-opera-
tion, and may believe, moreover, that Paraguay
looks at such alliances with sufficient caution. At
a period not remote, an invitation was tendered
to Paraguay to form a quadruple alliance with
Brazil, Uruguay, and the Argentine Confedera-
tion. The Brazilian Government may remember
the reply made by Paraguay to that invitation, and
the consequences that would have resulted from
such an alliance of the republics with a more
powerful empire having strong territorial preten-
sions with each of them.' It would be deplorable
that England should enter into new complications
with those warlike peoples who gave us so much
trouble in the time of Rosas, without other result
to us than the loss of our influence, and the ruin of
British commerce, which is the most important in,
those regions. It behoves the Government, there-
fore, to take care of British interests, and not to
sacrifice the general good to a mistaken self-love
by persevering in protecting a foreigner, and per-
haps an adventurer, for such have generally been
those who have promoted these difficulties."