The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-23 00:00:00

The War in Paraguay.

The Nacion Argentine, the official organ of the
Argentine Government, publishes a letter from its
own correspondent at the seat of war, which throws
a light upon the actual condition of the allies, and
needs no comment to be intelligible :
Corrientes, Nov. 21.
Two days ago I came from Curuzu, and to-morrow
I return thither. I believe the Brazilians are going to eva-
cuate the place, as proposed to the Marquis Caxias by
Baron Port Alegre, who returns to Brazil to-morrow in the
Presidente. On the 19th the Paraguayans bombarded
Curuzu, causing some losses to the Brazilians. The fleet
replied until the enemy's fire slackened.
The Marques Caxias went first to Polidoro's encamp-
ment, then to visit Gen. Mitre, and to-clay ho is at Curuzu.
Mitre and Caxtlas are said to be entirely of accord as to
the most speedy and honourable way of ending the war.
Hitherto the success of Lopez has resulted chiefly from the
dissensions of the allied Generals, but now things seem
likely to mend, although I have not much faith in this
either.

The Greenhaigh has come in to-day from Curuzu and
reports a Paraguayan Major passed over to us who says
Lopez's army is quite dispirited. I do not believe it. I
have seen the Paraguayans fall under a shower of shot
and shell, crying with their last breath "Viva Lopez!"
I have seen them treated with every kindness in our
hospitals and still refuse to say " Muera Lopez !" I
have seen them refuse to know their dearest relatives
because enrolled in our service ; I frankly believe the
war has hardly yet begun, and blood must flow like water
ere the allied banners float over Asuncion. There is much
talk here of future operations; it is all "bosh." Nothing
can be attempted before February, and the barriers of
Curupaity and Tuyuty can never be surmounted by our
troops, because they are beyond human skill and valour.

It should bo the study of our Generals to change the
tactics, and as far as possible render useless the immense
military works of the enemy, instead of exposing our mon
to their deadly bullets, and piling up still higher the pyra-
mid of our dead before their fatal breast-works. It is a
fact that up to the present the allies have pushed forward
the campaign by the very route that best suited the enemy.
There aro many sides on which Paraguay is vulnerable;
lot us lead our troops by some of them and got out of
the reach of Lopez's impregnable trenches, woods and
marshes.

I learn that Tamandaro remains in command of the fleet
till his successor arrive from Rio Janeyro ; Barroso and
Elizario both declined the command; the former proceeds
in the Amazonas to Montevideo, to form there a reserve
flotilla. The Marques Caxias says he finds things at head-
quarters not at all so bad as is believed in Rio Janoyro.
I hope 110 will be able to do something, but, really, I prefer
waiting for deeds instead of promises.
We have also details of the fearful extent of the
irruption of Indians at several points of the Argen-
tine provinces. At Rio Quarto they murdered 50
Christians in cold blood, and carried off from
80 to 100 women into captivity. At Frayle Muerto
they perpetrated frightful atrocities, and carried
off many of the inhabitants. The gravity of the'
disaster was so great that the Minister of War
whose presence in the capital was so necessary, in
the absence of the President at the seat of War,
and more especially in face of the new complica-
tions and arrangements required by the revolution
in the province of Mendoza, proceeded personally
to the Rio Quarto.

TILE" TICHBORNE BARONETCY.—Mr. J. Holmes ,
of 25, Poull ry, London, solicitor for Sir R. C. D. Tichborno,
Bart., in a letter to the Morning Post, says:—" So many
vague statements having appeared in the press with refe-
rence to Sir Roger Tichborne, I think it right to inform
you that I accompanied him and another gentleman to
Paris on the 10th inst., where his mother, the Dowager
Lady James Doughty-Tichborne, instantly recognised and
acknowledged Sir Roger as her son, and has spent the last
ten days with him. I only returned yesterday (Monday)
evening, and have brought with mo the necessary declara-
tions for Sir Roger's identity, taken at the British Embassy,
in his presence and that of her ladyship and the two most
distinguished English physicians in Paris. Acting under
the advice of counsel, Sir Roger will now take the requisite
steps to obtain possession of his estates."
TIIE TRADES SOCIETIES AND TILE REFORM DEMON-
STATION.—The trades societies of the metropolis are
rapidly giving in their adhesion to the movement for get-
tiag up a great National Reform demonstration in London
on the 11th February. The Society of Amalgamated
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conductors and drivers and the cab drivers of the metro-
polis, who are about to make application to their employers
for a holiday on the 11th, which means an entire cessation
of omnibus and cab traffic in the metropolis on that day.
At the delegate meeting to be held this evening many
trades, from which delegates did not attend last week's
meeting, will be represented. Already, owing to the plan
of systematic organisation adopted by the Reform League,
the branches are forming themselves into district commit.
tees for arranging local practical details preparatory to the
demonstration. Last evening a crowded mooting for this
object was held at the King's Head, Kentish-town, where
addresses were delivered by Messrs Odger, Leno, Tlonwood,
and others.

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We are authorised to state that the rumour of
preparations for an expedition against tho Emperor of
Abyssinia is entirely without foundation.—herald.

THE BARONESS WlNDsoit.—lt is gratifying to
find that the announcement of the death of the
Blironerts Windsor, which we copied from last Friday's
Camb:l774 Lader, is incor:cct. We aro informed
that her ladyship, who is at present residing at St.
Leonard's, is in her usual health. According to our local
contemporary the bells of Penarth rung a muffled peal ;
and a general sensation of gtief was felt throughout
Glamorganshiro, where her ladyship has a large estate, and
was greatly beloved and respected by all classes.
A. man hes just lost 1):',3 life in a paraffin candle
manufactory at Zachlersdorf, in Austria, by falling into a
vat of boiling oil.
" Vienna," says the Nord " is the only city in
the world where the snow is removed as fast as it falls,
but a'. an enormous expense. All the men out of work
are set to sweep the streets at GO kreutzers (about if. 80c.)
a day."