The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-26 00:00:00

THE WAR 1N PARAGUAY.

The mails from the Brazils and the River Plate,
by the French packet Navarre, bring news of the
change of Ministry at Rio -de Janeiro ; which is
Conservative, composed of men known to be
favourable to peace with Paraguay, and it was
hoped in Brazil that the war which has cost Brazil
so much will now come to an end, either through
negotiation or mediation. The Chambers having
refused to vote the necessary supplies have
been dissolved, and a new one is to be
convoked on the 3d of May next. This is
a long delay for a country situated as Brazil now
is. The new Cabinet (considered to have been
elected unconstitutionally) will have to issue pacer
money, without any authority to carry on the war,
which, if not ended through negotiation of some
kind, appears as far from a termination as at first.
The last accounts show that the Paraguayans are
as determined and brave as ever. On the 9th of
July two hundred and fifty Paraguayans, in
open canoes, attacked two of the Brazilian ironclads.
Nearly all the officers and men of the Rio Grande
were killed ; but owing to the fire of the bat-
teries of •Tayi sweeping the decks of the ironclads,
the Paraguayans were unable to carry away their
prize, but destroyed the machinery of the steamers.
Ilumaita still holds out, and its communication with
the Chaco is uninterrupted. Its fall "is still a
question of time," as the Brazilians say ; but. that
time so anxiously expected during the last three years
has not yet come. As usual it was reported that a
grand attack wourd be made on the 10;1 of July
(the day after the sailing of the steamer) on Timbo,
the Paraguayan fort in the Chaco, and " if " curie 1
an assaulton lltunaita would take place immediately.
Meanwhile the Province of Corrient3a, whence
the Allies get most of their supplies, has been for
weeks is open revolt against the Federal Government,
and General Caseres has been ravaging and de-
stroying all the military stores he and his lawless
band could get hold of. General Urquiza, the Go-
vernor of Enter Rios, the neighbouring province of
Corrientes, has been calling out the National
Guards of his province, and is said to have 16,000
men in arms to oppose the entrance of Government
troops into his province; and, as others state, to
oppose the election of Senor Sartniento as President
of the Confederation. 'Whatever reason General
Urquiza, the most powerful military chieftain and
friend to Paraguay, had for calling out his troops,
the Argentine Confederation seems to be again on
the eve of a long and bloody internal strife. At
Buenos Ayres the Chamber of Deputies had re-
jected, by twenty-four against seven, the Protocol
annexed to the Treaty of the Triple Alliance. This
and the nomination of Sarmiento and Alsina for
President and Vice-President, the personal and
political enemies of Mitre and his party, was ex-
pected speedily to break the alliance with Brazil,
which is highly unpopular in the River Plate. The
monetary crisis in Montevideo still exists, and has
greatly affected the money market at Buenos Ayres,
where National Bonds are quoted 432, and discount
to 2 per cent. per month. The Government at
Montevideo ordered that paper money shoald still
be taken, and that the banks have as yet no need to
resume specie payment, but must redeem 3 per
cent. per month of this paper circulation, which is
a very heavy amount considering the immense
quantity of paper afloat. All the gold has vanished
from the market, and people have no money to buy
the every-day necessaries of life. News to the 31st
July has been received from Rio de Janeiro, which,
if confirmed, will finally settle the question between
Brazil and Paraguay. The long-delayed attack on
Ilutnaita was at last made on the 16th July by
10,000 Allied troops, who were disastrously re-
pulsed. Their loss is stated, even by the Brazilians,
to be 3,000 men ; and therefore when the whole
truth is known, will be found to be far more. Au
attack had also been made on the position at Chaco,
which met with the same result. This furnishes
the best proof of the reliability of Brazilian news—
the fall of nutnaita having been regarded as a cer-
tainty ; the only question being the number of
days before accomplished.

The Chinese Government has employed Dr. J.
M‘Gowan, who visited San Francisco some two years ago,
to write a book on mining and metallurgy. A Mr. Martin
has also been called upon to prepare a work on natural
philosophy ; and a Mr. Fryer to make translations of seve-
ral scientific treatises.
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