The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-10 00:00:00

7'llE PARAGUAYAN 11'-112.

• EXPEDITION BY ITAPDA.
(Front the Standard of Buena; Ay es of June 2G.)
A paigul exp.:Hence has already shown bow use-
less and dangerous is any attack on the lines of.
Curipaity, which' is only an outwork of Fort Hut-
mayta. Iu the assault of September 23d the allies
lost seven to eight thousand men, mostly troops of
the line, leaving little better than raw recruits as
survivors.- Since then the cholera has carried off
eight or ten thousand men, and the s::ourge has re-
cently- broken out afresh with much violence at
Tuyuty ;. all owinng to the pestilential taarshei where

the allieJ are encamped.
Moreover an extraordinary and unexpected inun-
dation has forced the Brazilians to evacuate Cu-
ruzu, with immense loss of men and war material;
for, as soon a 3 the enemy noted the movement of
the Brazilians, they opened a new masked battery of
heavy guns, and caused awful havoc among the ill-
fated Brazilians, who had numbers killed, wounded,
and drowned.
At the same time the. flood caused great losses in
the Argentine camp ; 3,000 bales of hay, 10,000
arrobes of corn, a number of horses drowned, and
a quantity of coal, have been the losses caused by
this disaster, which has been as fatal as a great
defeat. No wonder that the cholera has returned
among the poor soldiers who are
_encamped in such

morasses.
But apart from these devastations, what hope is
there of forcing the lines of Curupaity ? They are
defended by the Estero Tuyuty, which is 500 yards
across, and ten or twelve feet deep. Then the
Paraguayans have a fosse thirty feet wide and
eighteen deep, which communicates with Lake Piris
and is full of water, running six miles all around
liumayta.. After this they have a line of abattis,
from 100 to 120 feet deep; then another ditch like
the first, thirty feet wide and eighteen deep ; before
we reach their grand parapet fortification of Curu-
paity, which is protected by " chevaux-de-f rise,"
and surmounted by splendid batteries of heavy guns,
well served by expert gunners, and the whole de-
fended by 30,000 valiant soldiers determined to do
or die for the independence of their country.
Seldom in the annals of history do we find a
people subdued when fighting for the;ndepeTiderice
of their country. In Buenos Ayr in 1807, we
repelled an army of 12,000 British troops.
But passing over such ionsconsiderans, it is evident'
that the allied position at Tuyuty is tnbe ; far
from obtaining any advantage, the allies will gra-
dually melt away in those swamps, and the grand
Brazilian fleet, now useless for more than a year,
shows itself powerless to overcome the obstacles
placed by the enemy. Some other route must

therefore be taken.
Supposing the Allies consider their honour at
stake, to continue the war they must adopt speedy
and energetic means to carry it on, and immediately
abandon the position of Tuyuty, to change the seat
of war to Misiones, invading Paraguay by the pass
of Itapua. As to any fears of. the Paraguayans
then invading Corrientes, this cannot take place so
long as the Brazilian fleet holds the Tres Bocas ;
and the bulk of the enemy's army would have to
march inland through Paraguay to oppose the in-
vading forces from Misiones.
For an invasion by Itapua let us consider the
elements necessary. The allied armies can still
muster 25,000 fighting men, not counting 14,000
sick of cholera, chucho, typhus, &c. The Argentine
Republic, they say, can raise new levies of 14 or 15
thousand men in Buenos Ayres and the provinces ;
and Braid promises to send 30,000 negroes ; this
would make in all 80,000 men, besides those in

hospital.
Now, for the maiutenan,v, of these 80,000 men
during three mouths (thes-thne requisite for march-
ing from Itapua to Asuncion) we shoull need 3,000
bullock waggons, to carry 300,000 arrobes of dried
beef, allowing lib. a day to each soldier. For 3,000
waggons we should have at least 30,000 oxen ;
besides 50,000 horses for an artillery train
of 200 guns and the cavalry. It would be
indispensable to have all these elements ready
before commencing such an expedition through
an inhospitable country and a fanatical popula.-
tion. But we could never procure such sup-
plies of animals in Corrientes, that province having
already borne the brunt of war for two years; they
could not be found nearer than Entre-Rios, or about
600 miles from the seat of war, and before reaching
their destination would have to cross the rivers
Corrientes, Batel, Santa Lucia, and Parana, and a
number of swamps. After such a journey it would
be necessary to give the animals a few mouths' re-
pose among the fine pastures of Misiones.
Supposing that after twelve months the Allies
got together all these elements, and that we invade
Paraguay by the -middle of 1868, the line of march
will not indeed offer such obstacles as by Curu-
paity, but there will be found many and great diffi-
culties. Besides numberless swamps and fens
there are two steep and rapid rivers, the Tibicuari
and Paraguari, which can only be crossed by pon-
toon bridges.
These are briefly the dangers and obstacles that
await the Allies in this remote expedition by Itapua.
We need hardly call to mind the plagues and pes-
tilences prevalent in those swamps, under a scorch-
ing sun, the countless ambuscades that the enemy
could everywhere make in the woods, the mines,
and other artificial impediments, and the probabi-
lity that the enemy would burn down all the coun-
try south of the Tibiquari, and expose our troops
of cattle to certain death.
But even taking it for granted that after losing
one third of our great army in sickness and battle,
we ultimately reach Asuncion, what security have
we that the Paraguayans will not barn down their
capital and leave us nothing but the smoking ruins?
The Russians burned .lloscow in 1812, to save their
national independence, and if the Paraguayans do
the same with Asuncion the Allies will be ruined.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The A battery, C brigade Royal Norse Artillery,
under the command of 111 a or Sladcn, is under
j
Dorchester on
orders to proceed from Aldcrshott to
Monday.
It is understood that the old colours of the 54th
iu All
and 70th Regiments. will be depositeearl d
date, and
Saints'
Military Church at Aldershott at an
y
with the usual military ceremony.
pot Rifle 13,Lttalion, which has been
The 7th De
stationed at Aldershott for some time past, struck
tents on Cove common on Wednesday, and has
since returned by detachments, on different days, to

IVinehester.
The 2d battalion of the 7th Regiment, which
arrived on Thursday at Spithead on board the hired
steamship Belgique, disembarked from that vesse
yesterday at Portsmouth, and joined the depot it
quarters in the detached forts in advance of Gosport

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