The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-11 00:00:00

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THE BUENOS AYRES:" STANDARD."

This is a handsome sheet, larger than the Times, I
and printed on good paper, and with fine, clear •
type. If any one desires to know what the influ-
ence of the Anglo-Saxon race is, he ought to send
for such journals and read them from beginning to
end—paying especial attention to the advertise-
ments. There are no books of travel which will
convey more accurate impressions, or. give more
correct ones, than the columns of advertisenients in
the organs of distant colonies and communities.
The first question presented to the mind is why
this great paper, printed altogether out of the way
of England and the English, should not only be in
English, but English so thoroughly that there is a
difficulty in believing that it is a Buenos Ayres
paper. Even on its heading is the Royal Arms, be-
neath which the Queen Fire and Life Insurance Com-
pany; Liverpool and London, announces itself. The
great Southern Railroad is ready to pay a dividend,
declared in London June 17. Gumss'steut,BAS3' ale,
FRENCH'S watches, COLLIS BROWN'S chlorodyne,,,.
GUILLOTT'S pens, ELI'S ntrtridge, the Worcester-
shire sauce, Smyrit's saddles, with addresses fami-
liar in London, are all advertized. There is a change,
however, when we get into Buenos Ayres adver-
tisements, where many banks announce the terms on
which they do business " for balances in our favour
12 per cent.ds charged"—" for balances in favour of
customers 6 percent. is allowed," a margin calculated
to make the mouths of London bankers water. Nor
are the sober advertising columns of the Standard
wantingiu fun. The " properest thing to do" is
to take Pick-me-up at the Mineral Water estab-
lishment between 9 and 10 a.m., to be followed by
a cock-tail between 11 and 12 ; after this is the
"American free lunch" which does injustice to Ame-
rican fare, as it consists only of biscuits, bread and
cheese, followed, however, by Tardecito bitters, to
be taken between 3.and 5 p.m., when the evening
lounge commences; conversation-room, free library,
splendid piano, Viva el Presidente ! GOD Save
the QUEEN ! Hail Columbia ! What fervent
and wide-spreading loyalty. Although we thus
glance at the Standard as a paper, its interest
centres in the news it records from Para-
guay. We fear that LOPEZ has gone mad,
otherwise he could not haVe acted his late cruel
and suicidal part. He was still encamped with the
bulk of his forces at Valeta, a few leagues below
Ascuncion, and the belief was that on the advance
of the Allies he would fall back into the interior,
establishing his head-quarters at Cerro Leon, where
the country abounds with provisions. His force
is variously estimated, the best accounts placing it
at from 8,000 to 10,060 men, well supplied with ,
ammunition.' Mr. NEUMAN, a leading German
merchant in Ascuncion has . been in arrest for
twelvemonths, and it is feared that all the foreigners
will be swept into the interior on the advance of
the Allies. The total nurnhcr of those speaking
English in Paraguay is said to be 10.), while all
the foreigners would exceed that by ten times. Mr.
GOULD, the British Secretary of Legation, was ou
board the Linnet in the Paraguayan River, trying to
rescue some of the English from the power of
LOPEZ, but it was feare 1 he would fail owing
to the precautions against their escape taken
by the Dictator. Mr. GOULD was• expected
almost immediately at Buenos Ayres, when later
particulars of the state of Paraguay would be made
known. The event of the for:night had been the
arrival of the United States gunboat Wasp from
Paraguay, with • the American Minister-resident,
Mr. WASHBURN, on board. Mr. WASABURN'6
notes would fill a whole column of the Limes, and
they give very full but unsatisfactory intelligence
of the proceedings of Marshal LOPEZ. One long ac-
count was addressed to the British Min ister at Buenos
Ayres, the Hon. WILLIAM STUART, wherein it was
stated that he (Mr. WAstmitN), being the only
foreigner beyond the reach of LOPEZ who was
acquainted with the situation of foreign residents iu
Paraguay, had thought it necessary to inform
the Representatives of the dangerous position of
their countrymen that measures might be taken to
extricate them if possible. Mr. WASHBURN then
goes on to detail events since the 21st February
last, from which it appears that the change iu LOPEZ
dated from the passage of Hutuaita by the Brazilian
ironclads, when the Paraguayan Government deemed
it necessary to remove the c tpital to a village
ten miles in the interior. Many of the acts of
LOPEZ thenceforth appeared to be dictated by mad-
ness. Under the impression that foreigners were
conspiring against him, he violated the rules of
civilized intercourse. The Portuguese Consul had
to fly to the American Legation, and was eventu-
ally arrested, .as were Messrs. Buss and MASTER-
MAN, attached to that Legation, and it was with
great difficulty that Mr. WASHBURN himself was
able to get away, leaving all belonging to the Ame-
rican Legation in charge of the Italian Consul. It
is asserted that a letter addressed by Mr. BLISS to
Mr. WASHBURN, and handed to him just before the
Wasp weighed anchor, had been wrung from the
writer by LOPEZ on the application of torture.
What the full story is we cannot undertake to say;
nor have we had time carefully to read Mr. WASH-
BURN'S despatches. Doubtless they will furnish a
subject of close investigation at Washington; and
while it appears to us that the American Minister
acted as became a citizen of the great Republic,
he seems at the same time to have brought down

upon himself a storm of abase at Buenos Ayres.
The Standard defends him, and we do not see
the point on which he is attacked, unless it be in
having left Ascuncion while his countrymen and
other foreigners were in a position of such danger.
In one of the letters addressed to the editors, LOPEZ
is spoken of as a bloolthirsty coward, who never
dared to expose himself during the war, and whose
present course is dictated by drea 1. This is, how-
ever, opposed to what is known of the character of
LOPEZ, as well as to probabilities, as no wholly un-
worthy man has ever commanded such devotion as
shown for the Dictator by his people. The Stan-
dard, after asserting that LOPEZ had expressed his
determination to fight to the very last, and the
steadfastness of his soldiers and people to his cause,
adds—" The terrible state of things in Paraguay
can be realised by a close perusal of Mr. WASH-
BURN'S note, which speaks for itself. We deplore
the fact that the news about the execution of
BERGES and others is fully confirmed ; but it is a
grave error to delude the public by misrepresenta-
tions as to the done-up state of Paraguay, &c.
From all we can gather, LOPEZ still posiessa
powerful elements of resistance ; and 'tis at best
but a dream all that is said about an immediate
wind-up of the war."—Anglo-American limes.

The Diario of Lisbon publishes the text of the
now postal treaty between Portugal -and Belgium. The
department of weights and measures aul the corps of
Civil Engineers hava been suppressed for the sake of
economy.

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