The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-14 00:00:00

PARAGUAY AND BRAZIL.

We have been surprised to see Mr. Balcarce, the
Argentine Minister at Paris and London, has
thought fit to address himself officially to a
French journal impugning the correctness of
the recently published news from the seat
of war in Paraguay—news, be it understood,
received mostly from the Allies themselves. In un-
dertaking this task Mr. Balcarce,',allowing himself t
be carried away by an extreme of zeal, has attacked
Paraguay and its Government in terms not at
all of a di;!lomatic character. This is an unusual
proceeding of the Argentine Minister, and it is
not the first time he has taken a similar
course. The representative of Paraguay is placed
under the necessity of showing the false position to
which Mr. Balcarce has committed himself. As
etiquette will not permit foreign diplomatic agents
to enter into controversy in a neutral and friendly
country, the following editorial remarks have
appeared in the Gazette de France:—
" We find ourselves all at once engaged in a cor-
respondence with the Ministers of South America.
The day before yesterday we have published a letter
which Mr. Balcarce had directed to us. To-day
we receive one from Mr. C. Bareiro, Minister for
Paraguay, who thought proper not to let pass
without protest the attacks directed against
his country by the Minister of the Argentine Re-
public. Mr. Bareiro, understanding perfectly
well that diplomatic agents could not well enter
officially into the discussions of newspapers, his pro-
test is only made as " citizen" of Paraguay. As we
have opened our columns to the Argentine Minister,
we cannot do less than to open, them also to the
Minister of Paraguay.

(Signed)

"AUBRY FOUCAULD."

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A Mr. le Directeur de la Gazette de France.
Paris, le 8 Decembre, 1866.
Mousieur,—l have read with much surprise the
letter which Mr. Balcarce, in his official character,
as Minister Plenipotentiary of the Argentine Confe-
deration, has thought proper to direct to yo• for the
sake of making France believe that the defeat of the
allies at Curupaity was only a very slight repulse,
and that Paraguay was a country hermetically
closed to foreign commerce and systematically hostile
to the European element. Through this open official
act it seems Mr. Bale arce wan ted to put the represent-
ant of Paraguay under the obligation of contradicting
his assertion publicly and officially. The represen-
tative of Paraguay is fully aware that he would act
with very little civility if he would enter into a
controversy, because he cannot forget that he as
well as his colleague are on neutral ground, par-
taking of the hospitality of a friendly nation, and
has therefore to leave the entire responsibility to
Mr. Balcarce, as to allegations which the ordinary
usages of society will not allow to be treated officially.
The representative of Paraguay has nothing to
add, as the report speaks clear enough, and will be
still clearer yet. I will allow myself only one simple
and last question : Because General Mitre has been
unlucky on the battle-field, has his representative
at a foreign Court the right to forget so far that
reserve which his public and official character should
oblige him to observe ?

The above observations do not emanate from the
Paraguayan Legation, but are entirely and per-
sonally my own. In asking you for the insertion
of these few lines, I appeal to your high sense of
impartiality, and beg of you to accept, &c.--C,
BAREIRO, Citizen of Paraguay.

M. PEAK ON POLITICAT, DEMONSTRATIONS.—The
Moderate party in iTtingary, wishing to manifest its sym-
pathy for Ms Dettk, that statesman declined the demonstra-
tion, and explained his reason in the following language :
"It is not seemly to manage public affairs in the streets.
Those manifestations might be admissible when public life
was at a deadlock, but they aro useless when the represen-
tatives of the country are deliberating."
THE WAR OFFICE CLERKS' WIDOWS' FUND.—
We hear that it is in contemplation at the War-office,
where there are numerous grades, to establish a widows'
fund, on equitable principles, such as will provide a decent
c3mpetency for the widows of clerks who may require such
aid. The Civil Service Superannuation Fund, for which
a small percentage is deducted from every clerk's salary
in the Civil Service, does not include widows or orphans,
only providing for the superannuation of civil servants on
retirement from ill-health or old age.

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