The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-21 00:00:00

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NIICHAEL SAWARD, See,

The late heavy and continued rains, we fear,
will be attended with serious injury to . the graziers, and
also ultimately to the public generally, for if the sheep
should in consequence,
as seems probable, be affected with
the rot, the scarcity of meat will be alarming, when it is
remembered that we have not vet recovered from the effects
of the continued drought of the summer of 1826, which
was the cause of a greater destruction of animal food than
has taken place perhaps in the recollection of the oldest man
The waters • are so much out on the low
landsnox v living.
th rou g
h which run the rivers Nene and Welland, that
from Peterborough to Northampton, and at Whittlesea,
Crowland, and all' the' fen countries, the appearance re-
sembles that of an immense lake. The paper and corn
mills on these streams are at a stand from the great influx
of water, and have been so for some tinie,....Staniford News.

BEAUAIONrS TRAVELS IN BUENOS AYRES.I
LONDON, 1828.
Mr.. Beaumont is a very plain straight-for'
ward writer, :whose remarks, as they regard the
climate, commerce, manners, aborigines-, &c.,' of
the -comitry which he professes to illustrate, are
all bottomed on good sense. He has no fork!
or vague descriptions—no unmeaning quotationS
—no invidious attempts to underrate the labouri
of other gleaners in the same wide fields of disi
covery and thereby exalt his own—he standi
etinfidentlY yet Modestly on the ground of hiFI
own
.merits, and the foundation 'is strong. enough
to bear him,,: His • present little volume is a
sketch—nothing more—of the country round
Buenos. Ayres, whither he was sent under the.
auspices of an association formed in England for;
the purpose of establishing there an agricultural'
colony.. of Emigrants. This, unfortunately,!
failed—and the majority returned home ;
but Mr. Beaumont„ who had spirit enough, to re-;
`main behind—employed a few months' leisure in
. rambling. over Buenos Ayres and its adjacent
provinces—the result of which is the volume,
before us. The greater portion is taken up
with details of the commerce of Buenos Ayres,
which; as it presents no very great novelty be-
yond • that of other infant American States,
we shall forbear to enlarge on, further than
to state,. that it is sadly cramped by the in-
vidious policy of its government. The cli-
nide is on. the whole favourable, except to
consumptive invalids; the face of the country
presents a series of extensive undulating plains,
admirably adapted for pasturage, and well wa-
:tered with immense mid numerous rivers. The
Rio de'Parana alone is navigable for ships of a
hundred.and fifty tons burden, for at least 1500
miles inland. The fruits are innumerable, but
scarcely of value, ()tying perhaps more to neglect
than any natural deficiency of soil. Clover,
however, grows in the most luxuriant abundance,
and is so high that cattle may wander through it
in herds without being' seen till they approach
within a few feet of each other. But on this
interesting topic let us hear Mr. 'Beaumont
himself.

" As the whole of this portion of the globe is so nearly
on a level, communications may be made from one part to
another in straight lines; and, in the progress of popu-
lation, by canals, in places where the navigable rivers do
not reach. But navigable rivers extend throughout the
greater part of this region, and frigates have sailed from
one thousand five hundred miles inland up the Rio de la
Plata to all parts of the globe. There is no place in the
world, therefore, so well adapted by nature for the support
and commercial intercourse of an extensive population as
the Rio de la Plata provinces. The produce of the soil at
present is chiefly a luxuriant herbage for cattle, and the
wild clover-grass frequently rises so high that men and
cattle passing through it within a short distance, cannot
see each other ; but in other places, foreits of thistles pre-
sent themselves, and if these are near large towns, being
used for fuel, they add to the value of the estate. The
country generally is singularly bare of wood ; but the pro-
Vince of Entre Rios, and the banks of the rivers in the Banda
Oriental, are well supplied with trees, which, although of
stinted growth, are used for the ordinary purposes of cabinet
work, carriages, and small habitations, as well as for fuel.
The banks of the rivers are also richly fringed with beautiful
and odoriferous Aruba. The higher parts of the provinces
bordering on Brazil abound with forest trees of great mag-
nitude, and of the first quality, for ship-building and other
purposes. Every fruit which grows in Europe thrives in
this country. Wheat in many places yields a hundred-fold,
but scarcely any attention is paid to the cultivation of the
earth ; the inhabitants generally find their simple wants so
easily supplied by the profit of their flocks, that they prefer
importing wheat and flour, subject to a duty of nearly cent.
per cent, to being at the trouble-of raising corn on their
own land."

With regard to the gold and silver mines,
about which so many erroneous statements have
gone forth to the world, Mr. Beaumont asserts
that they are chiefly to be met with among barren
and inhospitable mountains at the foot of the
Andes. He adds, that they are poor in qua-
lity, and never likely to be worked with advan-
tage, by reason of the almost insuperable diffi-
culties of land-carriage ; the ore, it seems, " must
lie removed across the immense plains, a distance
of, perhaps, a thousand miles, before it can
have the benefit of water-carriage on the River
Parana." This one fact is worth a thousand
fine-spun theories on the subject. The animal
productions of Buenos-Ayres are various, but
grow to no very considerable size : the lion—
sadly dwindled in majesty, and shorn of his
noble inane—is sometimes to be met with ; a
small species of tiger abounds ; hugs of every
size and quality ; fleas with the appetite of Al-
dermen ; and, above all, a destructive species of
ant, with an account of which we shall close our
notice of Mr. Beaumont's intelligent volume.
" There are many species of ants in the provinces.—
The common house ant is very small, of a dark brown
colour, and one of the most mischievous insects in this
country. These vermin build their nests in the walls of
the house, and penetrate so far that it is utterly impossible
to destroy them without pulling down a great part of the
walls. If anything sweet is placed in the room, thousands
are immediately on their march to attack it, and, unless
destroyed, they will not quit until something else attracts
their attention, or the stock be exhausted. I have seen
instances where a basin of sugar has been placed in a larger
vessel of water, leaving a moat of two or ttArt,e inches of
water in width round the sugar-basin ; this they have at,
last arrived at by means of a bridge, formed of the dead
bodies of hundreds of their companions who had first ven-
tured in. They sometimes eat linen, but oat very fre-
quently. The natives have tried many expedients to get
rid of them, but if once they gain a footing in a house,
ejectment is impossible. There are several species of gar-
den-ants, which are not less destructive; these build their
nests within a few inches of the surface of the ground ;
their nests are generally two or three feet square, and as
much deep; they arc the cause of frequent accidents.—
Azara mentions having seen a horse almost covered by
falling into one. I have frequently seen twenty nests dug
up within the space of half an acre of land. These ants
are of a dark red, or a jet black colour, and are about half
an inch in length. It is by no means uncommon to see
trees and shrubs completely bared of their foliage by them."

LOUGHBOROUGH ANNUAL BALL.—The
annual ball waft held on Tuesday at the Anchor Hotel.

BIGGLESWADE, JAN. 19.—During the past
week this neighourhood has been enlivened by a succession
of gaieties of the season.
About a fortnight ago, as a roan in the em-
ployment of Mr. muitTON, the landlord of the Derby
Arms, at Croydon, was engaged cleaning a horse in Lis
master's yard, a tame fox, which was kept chained on the
premises, bit him on the calf of the leg. The wound,
which was very slight, was dressed ; but in a few days
afterwards the unfortunate man began to show evident
symptoms of hydrophobia ; and although the usual means
were adopted for mitigating the paroxysms, the unhappy
patient expired, after suffering all the tortures produced by
that dreadful malady. Previous to the fox having bitten
the deceased, the animal was not considered mad, and the
men were in the habit of playing with it continually with-
out any appreheirsion. Even after it had bitten the de-
ceased it exhibited no more ferocity than before the acci-
dent. Mr. MORTON had the animal destroyed immedi-
ately on ascertaining the danger of keeping it any longer on
his premises.

P° JAN. 19.--This morning arrived
the Orestes, Capt. W. Jones (c), from the
North American station, to be paid off, having been
three years and a Jialf in commission. She left Ber-
muda on the 31st ult., when the Hussar, the Tvne,
Acorn, Columbine, Contest, Coromandel, and
Aurora, were lying there ; . the last named ship was
,to sail on the -Ist instant, on her return to Barba.
Halifax,. waiting to be relieved by. the f.tlng.d„,;
does.—The Alligator, 28, Captain Caniiino. was at
which ship sailed on the 29th tilt. for that purpose.—
The Manly was at Newfoundlanti.-,The works at.
BeratudaDock-yard were going on rapidly.
On Wednesday the Beaver, Capt. David Ed.
wards, . arrived •at Falmouth. For the last three,
weeks we experienced very severe gales from the
Westward; so heavy was the sea, that, on two oc-
casions, she was nearly going down, and was ob-'
liged to throw overboard her guns; the boats were,
washed from the quarters, and her upper works'
stove in.
When the Beayfik 4F,It Non ,Rey4l., Ow flag o
Vice-Admiral Fleming was hying on board the
Magnificent. The Druid, Harlequin, Fairy, Ferret,
and Pincher, were refitting there; the Aurora and
Valorous were daily expeAitto arrive. The Bar-
ham sailed the 20th of November, , with specie for
Barbadoes ; the Espeigle had gone with convoy to
St. Jag Ode Cuba; Bustard to Carthagena and
Chagres ; Union, to Maracaibo.; Pylades, to Vera
Cruz, on her way home ; the Slaney was on her re-
turn from Vera Cruz; the Scylla, Skipjack, Speed-
Well, and Nimble, were on the Bahama station; the
Arachne, Pickle and Monkey, to windward.
The whole squadron had been particularly heal-
thy, which is attributed to the judicious means used
by the Commander-in-Chief, in having kept the ves-
sels out of Port Royal during the sickly months.
The only deaths in the Naval Department have been
—Commissioner Shorthand; Mr. John Burdwood,
master shipwright; and Mr. Castles, boatswain of
the dockyard. The Commissioner had• suffered
nearly three months; he died on the 23d Novem-
ber. His eldest daughter, Elizabeth, died on the
25th, and both were interred in one grave,' at Half-
way Free Church.
The army have suffered most severely this season,
particularly the 22d and 84th Regiments; the for-
mer had not got free from fever, at Stoney Hill.
The other Regiments had become more healthy.
The following were the recent promotions on the
station :—Capt. Pettman, of the Arachne, appoint-
ed Captain of the Magnificent (she being now a
rated ship); Commander Courtney, removed from
the Fairy to the Arachne; Commander O'Brien,
from the Beaver to the Fairy; Commander Edwards,
from the Barham to the Beaver; Lieut. Colquhoun;
of the Barham, to be Flag Commander; Lieut. Sir
Thomas Paisley, from the Fairy to the'Barham;
Mr. Dickenson, Mate of the Barham, promoted to
be a lieutenant of the Fairy; Mr. Watts, of the
Pickle, promoted to the Ferret, vice Gurley, invalided;
Mr. John Bell, Purser of the Magnificent and Super-
intendent of Victualling at Port Royal, had been
appointed Acting Agent of the Hospital at Port
Royal, vice Mr. Macleod, returning to England
through ill health; Mr. M'Laughlan, Boatswain of
the Barham, to be Boatswain of Jamaica Yard.
Mrs. Shorthand and family are come home in the
Beaver, and landed at Plymouth.. The.Beayer- has
brought home about 100,000 dollars, on merchants'
account. On the 14th January, about 200 miles
westward of Scilly, 'spoke the Dutch ship_ Fortitude,
for Barbadoes—all well.

The Primrose, 18, Captain Griffinhooffe, arrived
at Sierra Leone, on the 16th December, from Spit-
head, the Esk, 20, Captain Purchas, was refitting,
being ordered to sail about the Ist of January', to run
down the whole coast, and return to England.
It is with much regret that we notice the fears
that are expressed respecting the Hearty packet,
Lieut. Jewry : she sailed from Falmouth in Sep-
tember last, with the mails for the West Indies, and
has not been since heard of, though there are ac-
counts from both the Leeward and Windward
Islands of three months' date subsequent to her
leaving England.

MALTA, DEC. 3.—The stream having turned
since the late battle, we are anxiously looking for
something both from the Eastward and Westward;
from the former, to know what impression it has
made on the Sultan—from the latter, to know how
the news has been received in England. Here, as a
political act it is regretted ; as a gallant naval ex-
ploit, it is admired. Our harbour looks very for-
midable, with so many ships of the line and frigates
before us. We have thirty pendants flying, viz.
seven sail of the line (three English—Asia, Albion,
and Warspite), nine frigates (four English), three
corvettes (one English), four brigs (all linglish),
one schooner, two cutters, two transports, one
store-ship (French), and one packet.—The havoc
among the spars of all the ships has been extremely
great, and our dock-yard exhibits a scene of the
bustle and activity of war, all the ships requiring
very considerable repairs in both furniture and hull
—indeed, such has been the strength of the
squadron kept up of late years, that it has scarcely
seemed like peace to us, the dock-yard establishment
having been cut down so extremely low. The
wounded of the squadron are for the most part in a
state of convalescence. The French double-banked
frigate L'lphigenie, two corvettes, and a brig ar-
rived on the 30th ult. from Toulon. The Glasgow
lately destroyed a pirate at Carabusa. The Cam-

bria;], I sleigh, and Zebra, are at Smyrna. Thu
Dryad, Rifleman, and Camelion, off the Dardanelles,
attending upon our A►ubassador; the Parthian, off
Navarin. The Dartmouth, Rose, and Gannet, are
among our last arrivals. By the ship Evelina, from
Alexandria in twenty days, we learn that the Cap-
tain of the Egyptian corvette which arrived there
with the news of the victory of Navarin, reported to
the Pacha that the battle was caused by aggression
en the part of the Turks. The Government did not
show any resentment against the Europeans. We
hear from Constantinople of the 28th ult. that the
Sultan had decided on sending the Greek Patriarch
into the Morea, to open a negociatie.u."
Letters from Malta, dated Dec. 17 (received yes-
terday, via Genoa), state that the Rose, 18, Capt.
Wellesley (aulag), was to sail on that day for Eng.
land,

We understand, that it is the intentkin of the
Lord High Admiral to make a visit to this port, OH
his
islVijesty's sips Asia and Albion
Rod al Highness is desirous of
personal inspection of their losses, and of
ft
from
making ar arrival a
their condition for a continuance of active service.
The hurricane of wind, attended with thunder,
lightning, and rain, which did so much damage at
Plymouth, on Sunday last, did not extend in it, I
violence to this place. On Monday morning "'C
were, however, presented with a most strikingiEr°°`r
of the tempestuous character of the storm, ni the
arrival of the free trader, General Palmer,
Truscott (R.N.), which ship had left St. Helen's Qn
Saturday morning, on her passage to Madras and
Bengal, which she had done often before) Pelf-rmin
the voyage in remarkably short periods of time
The wind was from the Southward and Eastward ;
she made a good offing, but, after nightfall, the wind
constantly headed her and freshened, which circum-
stances kept Captain T. and the whole crew on
deck during the night, shortening sail, making the
ship snug, and every thing secure. At six o'clo4
on Sunday morning, when about fifteen miles oil
Portland, the ship was wore, laid with her head oil