The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-02 00:00:00

Alarming News from the River Plate.

A telegram from Monte Video, via Lisbon, con-
tains the following alarming news front the seat of

war :
" Heavy firing between the fleet and Curupaity,
without result to either side.
" The revolution at Mendozi completely suc-
cessful, and the Governor of Rioja forced to retire
with his men to San Juan, also in a state of revolt.
" General Paunero with the Government troops
in a precarious situation at San Luis.
" Great alarm reigned at Buenos Ayres. National
Guards under arms. Three papers suppressed, and
editors and others imprisoned.
" A decree published declaring the revolutionists
traitors.
" Two thousand soldiers expected from Paso de
la Patria to march into the provirces.
" Trade paralysed. Government of Cordoba
shows signs of hostility.
" Attitude of General Urquiza, very dcubtful.
Mutiny of the contingent from Tucuman at Rosario,
and another on board the steamer Chacabuco."

SHIPPING INIELLIGENGE.

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LospoN, March 2.—Wind this day at noon, South-
Easterly; strong breeze and Hue weather, but rather
cloudy.
FALMOUTH, March I.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Victor,
fr_m London fur Kurrachee ; the crew refusing to do
duty.
PLYMOUTH, March I.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Suffulk,
for Melbourne.

(By Telegraph.)
GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Arrived, March I.—Lion, steamer, from Geestemunde ;
May Queen, from New York.
Arrived, March 2.—Moselle, steamer, and Taurus,
steamer, from Antwerp; Rhine, steamer, from Boulogne;
Albion, steamer, from Ostend ; Cosmopolitan, steamer,
from Hamburg; Alford, steamer, from Charente.
Sailed, March 2.—Susan Pardew, for Cape of Good Hope.
DEAL, Saturday Morning.

Passed, March I.—Heli, and Freman .Denis, from Lon-
don, for Boston ; Red, White, and Blue, from London, for
Havre ; Latona, steamer, from Palmermo, for London.

LINCOLN'S-INN.—The Warburtonian Lecture will
be resumed to-morrow morning by the Rev. Morgan Cowie.
The afternoon sermons will be preached during the illness
of the chaplain by the Rev. Henry White, chaplain of the
Chapel Royal, Savoy.
STEAMSHIP BUILDING ON THE CINDE.—MessTS.
Barclay, Curie, and Co. have launched an iron screw
steamer of 2,500 tons register, named the Austrian, and in-
tended fur the Montreal Ocean Steamship Company's line
of Transatlantic steamers. The Austrian is an exactly
similar vessel to the Nestorian, constructed by the same
firm for the same company at the close of last year. The
Austrian will be propelled by a pair of direct-acting en..
gines of 350 horse power, which will be supplied by
Messrs. Barclay, Curie, and Ucmpauy. It is expected that
the Anerian will be placed on the mail service between
Liverpool and Montreal at an early date. The Wemyss
Bay Steamboat Company is about to build one if not two
new steamers, to be ready for service at undeummer, 'and
intended to accommodate an increasing passenger trade.
Messrs. R. Napier and Son have launched from their
Govan yard a screw of 15,000 tons, built for Messrs. Jar-
dine and Co., of London, and intended to be devoted to
the Indian trade.

The experiment of universal suffrage is at length
to be tried in one American state. Both branches of the
legislature of Kansas hare adopted amend►nents to the state
constitution, granting the right to vote to all persons,
male or female, white or black. This is the first success
the agitators for female suffrage have yet achieved In
Washington a negro has been made a clerk in the Treasury
department.

THE POOR-LAW MEDICAL OFFICERS.--Yesterday a
large number of the metropolitan Poor-law medical officers
met at the Freemasons' Tavern to consider the provisions
of the Metropolitan Poor Bill. Dr. Rogers, of the Strand
Union, presided, and there were present many gentlemen in-
terested in Poor-law questions as visitors, among whom were
Dr. Carr, Mr. Ernest Hart, Rev. Mr. M'Gill, Dr. Goddard,
Dr. Atstie, and Mr. J. C. Parkinson. Letters of apology
were read from Mr. Thomas Hughes, M.P., Mr. Davenport
Bromley, M.P., and others; and the hon. secretary, Dr.
Dudfield, read a very able report upon the bill, which was
generally approved, and it said, "No part of this statesman-
like scheme has excited more lively pleasure than the clauses
which propose to put the treatment of the outdoor sick poor
upon a proper footing. Efficient medical attendance, to-
gether with adequate relief, would keep many a family out
of the workhouse, and so largely tend to diminish pau-
perism. For it is too true that the first plunge is all that
is dreaded in this case as in many others; and the honest
poor man who shrinks from the thought of entering the
workhouse for the first time, after he has taken that fatal
step is too prone ever after to regard the house as an easy
resource in time of difficulty, and as a comfortable home,
so pernicious is the loss of a proper sense of independence."
The chairman moved the adoption of the report, and in
doing so detailed the struggles the Poor Law medical of-
ficers had for a period extending over 11 years maintained
against the guardians in the endeavour to maintain rights
for themselves and the proper necessaries for the sick under•
their charge,. Ho then referred to the establishment of the
Association for assisting the Sick Poor in the London
Workhouses, and dwelt upon the vast good which that as-
sociation, by the assistance of the press, had been able to
accomplish in a very short time. He also referred to the
labours of Dr. Anstie, Dr. Carr, and Mr. Ernest Hart, in
visiting and reporting upon the London workhouse in-
firmaries, and said the value of those reports was to be soon in
the great exposures whichhad followed as to the manage-
ment of those workhouses. He expressed himself as greatly
pleased with Mr. Hardy's bill, but urged that there wore
points which would have to be considered in committee. Dr.
Welsh seconded the adoption of the report,which was carried
unanimously. Dr. Dudfield then moved the following re-
solution :—" That this meeting is of opinion that Mr.
Hardy's Metropolitan Poor Bill will effect considerable im-
provement in the medical care and treatment of the sick
poor; and they recognise with great satisfaction that it
embodies nearly all the recommendations suggested by
this association." Mr. Eugene Goddard seconded the
motion, which, with an addendum proposed by Dr. Fow-
ler, seconded by Dr. Carr, that all the charges of the in-
door sick poor should be defrayed out of the common fund,
was carried unanimously. Resolutions were also carried
that the bill should be watched and endeavours made to
obtain life appointments for medical officers and for other
purposes, and the proceedings closed in the usual manner.

According to the Registrar's-General's report for
1866 we find that during last year the births in
London were 107,992, while the 'deaths were only
80,129, the annual rate of mortality being 2.647
per cent., showing an average length of life of about
38 years. The usual weekly return shows 2,342
births and 1,337 deaths. Whooping cough appears
to be prevalent.
On Monday the steamer Africa arrived in Liver-
pool, and reported recent severe weather in the
Atlantic. The American ship Resolute, on her out-
ward passage to New York, found the emigrant
ship. Bavaria, from Havre to New York, dismasted
and in great distress in lat. 39.30 N., long. 68.10
W., on Friday, January 25. The Resolute took 170
persons from the wreck and some bedding. Nu-
merous other shipping disasters are reported.

PRESENTS AT PARKINS AND GOTTO'S.--Photo-
graphic Albums, a choice of 3,000; despatch-boxes, writ-
ing-cases, dressing-cases, travelling-bags, envelope-cases,
blotting-books, ink-stands, desks, book-slides, work-boxes,
tea-caddies, hand-bags, and reticules, card-cases, purses,
stationery-cabinets, scent-bottles, albums for postage
stamps, crests, &e. ; cigar-cases, card-baskets, pocket-
books, electto-gilt and elegantly-mounted articles. Bibles,
Prayer-bOoks, and Church Services, in every typo. Par-
kins and Gotto, 25, Oxford-street The public supplied
at wholesale prices from the largest stock in London.

rgEFERENCE /SHAKES.
North Eastern, York, H. and Selby:purchase, 10

PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS.
London Brighton, &c., 4i per cent. 1.851. 811
London, Chatham, &0., Metrop. Ext. B, 6 per cent., 361

LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS.
London and Chatham, 4i per Cent., 65
Nottingham and Grantham it. and C, 91
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Dutch Rhenish, 18/

Ditto, new, 23
South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 161
Southern of France, 221

FOREIGN MIAES.
St. John del Rey. lim.. 53}
United Mexican, lira., 2 3}

BANKS.

Alliance. litn., 161 1
Anglo Austrian, 7
Consolidated Bank, Um., 41 /
Imperial Ottoman, lint, 11
Land Mortgage Bank of India, lim., 2;
London Chartered Baltic of Australia, 221 2
London and County, 54
London Joint Stock, 431
London and South-Western, lira., 18/
London and 11 eatminster, 93/
Midland Bank, lim.. 181
Union of London, 431 5
MISCELLANEOUS;
Anglo-American Telegraph, 151 /
Atlantic Telegraph,
flit o, 8 per cent., 531
Ceylon Company, 104
Credit roncier ut England. lim . 31
Ebbw Vale, 9
English and Australian Copper 1
Credit and Discount,liiia.. 4
Imperial Land Company ot Marseilles, lim., 10 d
tt Laudon UeeralOulaibus Company ,:lim, t 5
Nrtional Viscount I .ornpany, 13
Ditto, new, issued at 5 prem., of which 24 is to pay, 1( f
Nerbudda Coat ant Iron, Inn., 41
Ocean Ai :trine insurance), 191
reniusula and Oriental Steam, 66
Royal 11.411 Steam, 106 1
Tee raph Cons; rue. and Mainten., Ern.,
Ditto, diLto, i2l 13
Thames and Mersey Marine, Insurance, lira., 54
Vicer4 of Egypt, Mortgage, Loan, 72

COURSING.

COURSING MEETINGS TO COMB.
MARCH.

Name. Judge. Days of Running
Irish Grand National (Open),
county Louta
Ardrossau, Sharphill
South Lancashire (South-
port) Champion Mr. Wostropp l4, 15, &
Leinster (Open) Courtovrn... Mr. IL Springall l9, 20
Scottish Opon, Lanarkshire - 26, Jo.