The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-23 00:00:00

SOUTH-A7-11E.RICA.

• We have advices from Buenos Ayres to the 12th
of Nov. An arrangement was said to have been
f:perfected with Urquiza whereby he recognises Gen.
r Mitre as the Provisional Dictator of the country,
rejecting the refractory authorities which existed
C. before the battle of Pabon. The Buenos Ayrcan
army was to continue to occupy Santa Fe, and, if
1% necessary, the troops of Entre Rios to obey the r.saaa
~‘". Provisional Dictator. Derqui, after two or three
days spent in Parana, had embarked on board the
British steamer of war Ardent, with his family-,
hound to Montevideo, where he would remain ready
-to return at the call of Urquiza. Meantime Entre
Rios was being daily assimilated more and more to
Paraguay, and nobody could either enter or leave
Its territory, except as the reigning despot might
;choose. The expedition against the rebel Govern-
'alert of Cordova was about to move under Gen.
Paunero and Col. D. Marcos Paz.
On the sth ult. the Legislative Assembly of
Buenos Ayres was convened in extra session for the
purpose of considering and voting the remainder of
F, :he Budget—viz , the general estimates of the Cus-
t ,
,'omhouse for 1862 ; the law of stamped paper for
the same year; of Contribucion Directa, or real
'state tax ; estimates of municipal expenses and
as taxes for the city, and also for the Bank. After
hat, the projects for the construction of the South-
and the continuation of the Western Railways,
he buildin of wharfs and warehouses at Catalinas,
mud the laying down of a submarine telegraph cable
o Montevideo were to come upon the tapes, each in
heir order.
A memorandum of the Brazilian Minister of
Finance shows the following as the amount of the
t iebt of the Argentine Confederation and Banda
Oriental to the Imperial Treasury :
Loans to the Banda Oriental-Ist, on account of
he Convention of the 12th of October, 1857,
~020,041 dols ; 2d. To bills drawn by the Impe-
. ial Legation in Monte Video, 720,000 dols.; 3.
')n account of the protocol of the 29th of Jan. 1858,
L 19,650 dols. ; total, 1,859,891 dols.
• To the Argentine Confederation (National Go-
-7ernment)-Ist. Loan, 407,000 dols. ; 2d. ditto,
314,000 dots. ; interest on ditto, to the 31st of Dec.,
860, 233,628 dols.; total, 947,628.
In this statement the expense of the expedition
if 1854 and 1855 is not included, and is due by the
Monte Video Government, :in accordance with the
reaties of the 12th of October, 1857, and sth of
I.ugust, 1854.
The latest price of doubloons at Buenos Ayres
linged from 4111 to 413. Exchange on England,
13s. 6d.; ditto on France, 80f. to 801. ; ditto on the
United States, par to 2 per cent. discount. The bank
received currency at 6 per cent.; ditto specie at
) per cent. per annum. The bank advanced specie
it 12 per cent. per annum ; ditto currency at 8 per
'2nt. per annum. Market rate of interest, 1 to 11.
ier cent. per month ; gas shares, 771 per cent.;
• Bolsa. shares, 7 to 10 per cent. dess.
The British barque Warrior Queen sailed from
Buenos Ayres for London on the 7th of Nov., and
he barque Istria had also left for Liverpool, both
aden with large cargoes of hides, sheepskins,
-aims, tallow, &c.
Several shipping disasters occurred during a vio-
eat gale a‘ hich raged on the night of the 28th and
29th of Oct. The magnificent American steamer
‘lississippi, owned in New York, broke from her
noorings, and was stranded on the beach, but lay
n a favourable position, bows on the shore, quite
t her ease, and materially undamaged, and was
xpected to be easily got afloat on the first high
ide. The American barque Carolina run aground
pposite the Recoleta, and the Hamburg brig
tleinich Arens opposite Belgrano; both lost
. heir anchors. The schooners Rayo and Do-
ores run aground. Among the lesser craft the
ceidents were more numerous, The National
,chooner Diana was struck by the Mississippi,
osing her bowsprit and foremast. The schooner
Carolina was completely lost from a similar
:Ruse, and the pilot-boats Mariquita,Dolores, Ray°,
nd Tomasito were aground on the beach. The
Crench barque Etincelle lost her anchor.
Her Majesty's ship Ardent left Buenos Ayres on
he Ist of November for Parana.
The following intelligence has been received by
he French steamer Navarre from Bordeaux :
.
" Pernambuco, Nov. 30.
" The Oneida arrived here on the 28th, with
London dates to the 9th, and telegrams to the 11th
dam. It is almost needless to say that cotton is still
'he favourite article of the day, but prices have
72en worked up to such a height that at length,
'Caring to be broken, the pitcher would no longer
;o to the well, and for an entire week pressers did
not sell a bale. Today, however, a sale was made
it 12 dols, per arroba, equal to 111 d. per lb., ex
Creight. This is a decline of 600 reis from the
iighest point obtained. Sugars are duller; ordinary
-Towns are quoted 1,950 to 2,000 per arroba, or
17s. Bd. to 18s. ld. per cwt. ; whites, 2,600 to 4,100
235. 7d. to 355. 7d. per cwt.; hides, 180 reis per
b. ; exchange, 26d, Freights very firm, at 625. 6d.
Ind 5 per cent. Channel and United Kingdom ;
50s. and 5 per cent. sugar to Liverpool ; 7-Bths, and
.5 per cent., per lb. cotton."

('NAMES E3IBANEMENT-SODTH SIDE

The Commissioners for considering the propriety

)f embanking the south side of the Thames met on
'aturday aaernoon at the Westminster Hotel.
Col. Galton presided, and the other commissioners
vere present.
Mr. Frederick Doulton, of the Board of Works,
vas first examined. He said that the embankment
,f the Thames on the south side was rendered neces-
sary or desirable from the fact that floods frequently
rook place on the south side of the Thames. The
Moods affected the poor inhabitants and the wharf-
ngers. In the case of the poor, they were driven
)ut of their dwellings between Nine Elms and
Westminster-bridge, and immediately after the
',liter subsides, when they return to their dwellings,
iisease was generated by the dampness of the
swellings. It was obvious that the wharfingers
oust suffer considerably by being flooded out of
-heir places of business. These things could be
:)revented by an embankment, and by that means
mly. He pointed out further that the crowded
•tate of the thoroughfares on the south side of the

iver between Vauxhall and Westminster rendered
to additional roadway necessary ; and the crowded
tate of the thoroughfares would be increased by
he construction of Lambeth-bridge, which would
3e opened next year. A new street was undoubtedly
iecessary, and it might be made by an embank-
ment, or by widening the waterside thoroughfare.
As to the north side of the river above Westmins-
'er, it was already embanked. As to lighting the
.vharfs on the rive: side, it would interfere with all
-he existing thoroughfares and the neighbourhood,
and would entail the entire reconstruction of the
vharves—and, indeed, most of the existing wharf
swills were so bad that any attempt to patch up the
, natter would be a failure, and would not remove
I-he evils of flooding, nor remedy the evils of over-
3rowding ; there was great doubt, therefore, that
lily other course than an embankment would re-
Inedy the existing evils. It must be remembered
1
-hat those on the south side contributed a large
. mount of coal tax, which goes to pay for the em-
-)ankment of the north side.
Capt. Galton—lf that argument would apply;
' hen every district should have someimprovein
Witness—Well, by the north embankment
whole of the north districts are improved, the
by
he south embankment the whole of the south and
dis-
-1
'ricts will be improved. The floods come ever the
.‘nbankment, and out through the sewers. It would
._.
'3e most injurious to abolish the free landing places.
From one of them
'4 1,000 tons are carted a week, and
road on the south side must
be constructed in
.;,. irly -
,onnection with free landing places. The objee-
En
Vtionable nature of the mud banks is due to the
,e wage.
By Sir S. Jebb—The road between my wharf and
'works is sometimes flooded,
,and the embankment
would remedy the evil.
Dr. Odling, medical officer of health for the parish
lof Lambeth ; Mr. IV. F. Godered, vestryman ; and
other gentlemen of local position and influence, were
lalso examined, and the commission NI as further ad-
-1 j ouraed.