The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-03 00:00:00

BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE MAILS.

The Royal Mail Ship Shannon, with the mails
from Brazil and River Plate, arrived at Southamp-
ton yesterday, and brings a fortnight's later intelli-
gence from the seat. of war in Paraguay. This
news is but a continuation of the extensive prcpara-
Cons that the allies are making for a combined
attack. General Osorio, who was to have marched
against Paraguay, and make an attack on Cande-
laria, had gone back to Itati, and was to occupy
the position of Tujuti, which Marshal Caxias Was
leaving. The force of Osorio consisted of 4,700
men and 500 women.

H. M. gunboat Doterel was to leave for Paraguay
on the 27th July, to ascertain if any Englishmen
wero confined there as stated in some letters pub-
lished in the Times of London, but of which no ono
at Buenos Ayres was aware.
Discussion and bad feeling has already commenced
on the vote of the Argentine Congress for £BO,OOO,
to fortify the island of Martin Garcia ; and it is a
curious fact that while the allies are engaged iu a
war, the purport of which they pretend is to destroy
the fortification of Paraguay, and so open up
free navigation, one of these same allies is
getting up collossal fortifications 600 miles
lower down to threaten the navigation •of the
Pavana and Nouquay. In the interior Argentine
provinces the revolution has not yet been smothered,
and at Tucuman a new revolution had taken place/
and as an exc.mple of the rapidity with which one
succeeds another we take from the Standard of
Buenos Ayres the information that the province of
Riossa has had no fewer than fifteen governors in
seven months, and in Catamarca the vicissitudes of,
administration are not less remarkable, having bad
seventeen governors in less than four years.
Great fears were entertained at Buenos Ayres
that, upon the question of the removing of the
capital from that city, a new civil war would coin'
mence, as Buenos Ayres is determined to keep a
strong hold on the customs and revenues of the
nation, and will not give these up. It is greatly tici
be regretted that a coantry so rich as the Argentine
Confederation, and which only needs peace for
development, should, when engaged in a disastrous
struggle for over three years, and having revolution
at home, finds time to commence discussion upon sf
new civil war and a repetition of the scenes 13'
Cepeda and rayon. •

DESTRUCTION OF THE ARCADI

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ATHENS, Aug, 24.
The French Admiral Simon, just arrived here'
brings details of the total destruction of the blockade
runner Arc Ali by Turkish cruisers off Crete. Th°
admiral, cruising at the time in Candian water*
was an eye-witness of the affair. It appears that
after having landed part of her cargo upon the
Cretan coast the Arcadi, for some unknown reasoill
put off towards Gaudo, an islet at no great distance,
the captain announcing that he would shortly return
to complete discharging cargo, and to take refuge°
families on board. Upon her reappearance the
Arcadi was stopped by the Turkish steamer Izzeclio!
the same vessel which had previously chased her at
Cerigotfo. Admiral Simon states that an engage-
meat of the most daermined character ensued, last-
ing upwards of two hours. The Greeks were aPPa‘
rently gaining the advantage, when two large
Turkish ironclad frigates attracted by the cannonau°
came to assist the Izzedin. The foremost ffigllte
immediately sent a broadside into the Arca"
causing her to heel over and begin to settle. rre‘
ferring to beach his vessel sooner than fall into the,
hands of the Turks, the commander of the Arcad;
put on fall steam and ran her ashore. Admiral
Simon adds that upon leaving the following morel
he saw the Arcadi iu flames; but whether she la
set on fire by her own crew or the enemy he CO
not tell. A Prussian steamer, also occupied 1.
carrying refugees to Greece, and which has co one 1
since the admiral, brings news that the captain °f
the Izzedin and several of her crew have been taltelh
wounded, into hospital.
The Greek Government still continues to pro?i'
1,;00,
sion its arsenals, to purchase and order war
and to complete its army. Brigandage may be °3l
to be extinct.
The loss of the Arcadi will not prevent Greect
houses from still throwing supplies into the 1515,9,,
as two other steamers, the Union and the Cnaul"
are actively engaged in the service.