The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-11 00:00:00

lation had in vast numbers fled from the town, where
the deaths in one day had amounted to 100. Instead
of the attack by the Allies in conformity with their
programme, the Paraguayan Army had become
more troublesome, showing no signs of ex-
haustion, but on the contrary an increased ac-
tivity. Indeed the Brazilians appear to be in
a bad way, between cholera on the one side,
and their indefatigable enemy on the other. The
advices from Rio de Janeiro, of May 9, state, that
the mediation of the United States between the
belligerents had been formally declined by the
Brazilian Government. No doubt Brazil desires to
await the result of her last great effort, in which, if
she be defeated, her prestige among the nations
of South America, now materially damaged,
will be destroyed. The financial difficulties of
the invasion may be estimated by the fact that
the war costs her a million of dollars a day. On
the whole this enterprise bids fair to teach that
bully a useful lesson. She commenced the campaign
in concert with her allies with a fool-hardy certainty
of immediate conquest, and before she had moved
a soldier she had settled the future disposition of
the Paraguayan Republic. Two facts have been
accomplished—the one, the future abolition of
slavery in the empire ; the other, a heavy and in-
creasing national burden. As LOPEZ cannot com-
municate with the sea, we have only the accounts
of the Allies, which are meagre in the highest
degree. Had they anything to boast of we would
hear more from the theatre of battle, but no doubt
when peace is concluded General LOPEZ will furnish
to Europe--if he be still in the land of the living—
a Paraguayan history of the war. The circum-
stances of the campaigns tell strongly in his favour.
He has used the resources of his small state
so as to withstand the combined invasion of
nearly every nation around his own, led by
an empire bearing the proportion to his country
that the United States do to Kentucky. LOPEZ
exercises the most absolute control over his fellow-
citizens, who seem to devote themselves un-
reservedly to his cause. The war has furnished
numerous examples of his men electing certain death
in obedience to orders, or where an advantage could
be gained by such a sacrifice. The inhabitants
seem to act as one man, giving up their property as
readily as their lives in defence of their country.
Hence their strength ; and in future years, when
the details of their War of Independence—or of
subjugation—is told, a thrilling chapter will be added
to the History of Struggles for Freedom.—Anglo-
American Times.

THE AMERICAN CONSUL AND THE CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE.—On Thursday afternoon a deputation from
the Chamber of Commerce, consisting of Messrs. Charles
Atkinson, R. Jackson, S. Butcher, Joshua Moss, Thos.
Jessop, Mark Firth, and W. C. Corsan, accompanied by
Mr. Wm. Smith, secretary, and Ald. Fisher, had a lengthy
interview with Mr. Abbott, the American consul, with
reference to the requirements ho has been enforcing
for the verification of invoices of goods exported to the
"United States. Those requirements, as our readers are
aware, have been looked upon by many merchants as un-
necessarily severe and Vexations, and this deputation was
appointed by the Chamber of Commerce to make repre-
sentations to Mr. Abbott on the subject. Mr. Abbott, in
reply, traced at some length the rise of tho present
system of collecting the revenue, and showed from the
successive acts of Congress and from the instructions of
the Secretary of the Treasury, that previous to the com-
mencement of the present dispute he had distinct instructions
to call for invoices, and directions to use his dis-
cretion as to the means ho took for the detection
or prevention of fraud. Ho said that ho had
selected the plan of calling for the invoices as
the least inconvenient method of putting his in-
structions into effect, for he had been given to
understand that calling for samples would be par-
ticularly offensive, costly, and troublesome. He informed
the deputation that it was a mistake to suppose that the
original invoices were required only in Sheffield. They
had been demanded in both Leeds and Bradford since
July last, and he read letters received from his Govern-
ment‘ entirely sustaining him in the course ho had adopted.
The interview assumed the character of an informal and
friendly conversation. In the end it was understood that
the deputation would recommend to the Chamber of Com-
merce the drawing up of a formal document to Mr. Abbott,
suggesting a certain method, by which it was believed that
while the check the consul would have on dishonourable
traders would not be lessened, merchants would be able
to transact their business without the inconvenience or
trouble of which they now complain. Mr. Abbott under-
took to submit such suggestions to his Government,
and hopes wore expressed that the Treasury De-
partment would authorise him to adopt the proposed plan.
The above from the Sheffield Independent, will ehow that
our consul at Sheffield, Mr. Abbott, who has been so
violently assailed by certain merchants there for insisting
on the production of invoices or bills of sale, to be by him
certified there, has entirely vindicated himself, and shown
that he has acted in exact conformity with the instructions of
the State Department. If the Chamber of Commerce of
Sheffield can suggest any other method less objectionable
to the Sheffield merchants than that ordered by the State
Department, and equally efficient in checking dishonour-
able traders, we are sure that neither Mr. Abbott nor Mr.
Seward would refuse to adopt it. Meantime, Mr. Abbott
stands fully justified.—lren Age.
THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER. _Alexander the
Second has a firm carriage, almost too rapid a walk
to be called " dignified," and yet at once you feel that ho is
" every inch a king." He has moral as well as physical
dignity in his manner and address when he pauses and
speaks; his eyes are blue and luminous —but sometimes,
when the brow is drawn down, in observation, for instance,
they darken into severity. His complexion is fair, but
slightly bronzed ; his hair in youth must have been very
light—it is now a soft brown, cut short ; his moustache,
like all the moustaches of the present day, is cultivated and
cared for. His Majesty spoke little, but observed a great
deal. He passed close to us twice ; returned the quiet but
earnest salutations of the assembly, with smiles rather
than bows—very sweet smiles for a gentleman who has
numbered forty-nine years, when smiles generally suggest
wrinkles ; but the Emperor of Russia's smiles will bo
sweet to the last, because they aro not frequent, but sin-
cere, and his lips and eyes smile in harmony.—Mrs. S. C.
hall in the " Birmingham Daily Gazette."
The bars in all the hotels at Boston were closed
on Saturday night, May 18, and will remain shut for the
present. "Henceforward," says the Post pathetically,
" there will be no bitters in the morning, punches at noon,
or smashes at night—only water and lemonade, or other
anti-spirituous concoctions."

In a coal mine, near Akron, Ohio, recently, a
miner, having prepared a blast and set fire to the match,
retired to an adjoining "room" for safety. After waiting
a reasonable time, and the blast seaming to " hold fire,'
ho approached to a point where he could, with his body
protected, peep around a corner to see what was going on.
Just then the charge exploded, shooting the priming rod
(a piece of gas pipe) through the man's head. Strange to
say, he was alive and answered some questions more than
24 hours after the occurrence.

Shubael Hutchins, of Providence, died on Mon-
day, May 20, aged 71 years. Ile was President of the
American Bank, and represented the city for several years
in the Legislature.

John E. Butler, of Jamaica, a leading member of
tho Windham county bar, and for four years a member of
the- Legislature, died suddenly at Beaufort, South Caro-
lina, on. Thursday of last week, where he had gone to visit
a sick son.-

The Comptroller of the Currency has appointed
E. M. Sherman, President of the Old Colony National bank
of Plymouth, Examiner of National Banks in the Counties
of Berkshire, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Worcester,
Bristol, Plymouth, Barnstable, Dukes, and Nantucket, in
place of C. R. Ransom, resigned. The latter retains his
office for the rest of the State.

The Ames fathily of Easton return an aggregate
income for 1866 of $237,312, as follows :—Oakes A. Ames
$27,854, Oliver Ames $156,123, Oliver Ames, 2d, $25,831,
Frederick L. Ames $27,514. The making of shovels and
speculating in railroads are the sources of these princely
incomes.

Ex-President Pierce is just completing his new
summer residence at Rye Beach on the picturesque bluff
known as Little Boar's Head, near the Atlantic House.
[ADVERTISEMENT.] Consumption, and all nervous, bilious,
stomach and liver complaints in every stage are only aggravated
and accelerated by drugs of every description, but perfectly
curable by Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabic°. Food,
as proved by thousands of cases which had been considered
hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, con-
sumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric derange-
ments, hemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervousness,
biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, in-
fluenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impu-
rities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness,
acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy,
cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in pregnancy or at
sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest,
pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders, &c.
We quote a few.—The Pope's health restored by Du Ram's
Food. Cure No. 68,413.—" Rome, July 21, 1866.—The health of
the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all
other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's
Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he. consumes a plateful
at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly beneficial
effect on his health, and his- Holiness cannot praise this*,
excellent food too highly." From the "Gazette du Midi."
July 25. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, timber mer-
chant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lungs,
spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness.—
Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of
Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. " Fifty
years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness,
asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness and
vomiting.--MariaJoly." Important Caution.—Beware of the many
unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without
authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached.—
In tins at ls. lid.; 9. lb., 2e. 9d.; 2 lbs., 4s. 6d.; 5 lbs., lls. ;
12 lbs., 225.; 24 lbs.,-40s.—BARRY Du BARRY and Co. No. 77,
Regent-street, London; also Fortnam and Mason, 182, Piccadilly
and at 61 Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapside ; 63, 150, and 298
Oxford-street.; 830 Strand; and all grocers-and Cholltists.l