The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-24 00:00:00

SOUTH AMERICA.

The brig Franklyn, of Exeter, Captain Cumming,
arrived o't Falmouth on the 22d inst. from Monte
Video, for orders, having sailed on the 17th July.
Exchange, 42d.
Confidence was being restored at Monte Video.
Riveira had returned to the town, which is regarded
as auguring well in favour of the Monte Videans,
who, from some late successes against the Buenos
Ayreans at different points, felt encouraged in resisting
the yoke to which Rosas wishes to subject them.
Some of the vessels under Garibaldi had forced the
passage of Martin Garcia, though exposed to the fire
of two batteries, and besides they had captured three
small vessels under Buenos Ayres colours, but which
were only in ballast.
The Buenos Ayres vessels, which had been sent
igainst the Monte Videan force in Martin Garcia, got
aground on a shoal.
If all accounts be true, the tyranny of Rosas is
working his downfal. Chili, not being able to ob-
tain
redress for the injustice done to her subjects, has
declared war against the Government of Buenos
Ayres. Rioja and others of the upper provinces had
in consequence taken up arms against Rosas, and by
letters from Corrientes to the 19th of June, that Go-
vernment had also called upon all the inhabitants, be-
tween the age of 14 and 50, to resist allegiance to the
authority of the Buenos Ayres Governor.
Mr. Gordon, agent for the British Government, and
who has been deputed to proceed to Uruguay, had re-
turned to Monte Video, Rosas having refused him per-
mission to pass through the Argentine territory, thus pre-
venting him to proceed on his mission. Rosas lays claim
to the right of directing the foreign relations with
Uruguay. It will now rest to be seen whether Eng-
land, France, &c., will submit to the caprice of the
Buenos Ayrean Government, which prevents the ca-
pital of their merchants being profitably employed,
as also closing not only an extensive field for the con-
sumption of their manufactures, but likewise placing
a barrier to the employment which their shipping
would enjoy.
H. Mandeville, British Envoy to the Argentine
Republic, had arrived at Monte Video, and we hand
you herewith a copy of his communication to the
British merchants respecting the treaty :
" Monte Video, July 15, 1842.

" Gentlemen—ln the month of December last you
delivered to me a memorial, signed by the British
merchants and residents in Monte Video, expressing a
hope that on the occasion of my visit to this city the
amicable relations between her Majesty's Government
and the Republic of the Uruguay might be more firmly
cemented and protected, by the conclusion of a treaty
of amity and commerce.
"I have the satisfaction to acquaint you, that yes-
terday evening I concluded and signed a treaty of
amity, commerce, and navigation on the part of her
Majesty and this Republic.
" I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, your obedient
humble servant, "H. MANDEVILLE.
" To John Gowland, Esq., F. De Lisle, Esq.,
J. Steward, Esq."
Trade in manufactured goods was improving.
SHIPS OF WAR IN PORT.
BRITISH.—PearI, Commander R. Stopford, 20 guns ;
Partridge, Lieut. J. T. Nott, 10 guns.
A MERIC AN•—D claw arre,CommodoreMorris,93g uns
FRENCH.—GIoire, Captain Jourdan, 50 guns ; Are-
thuse, Captain Penansos, 28 guns.
Also one Sardinian frigate of 44 guns, and four
Brazilian corvettes.

LORD ASHBURTON'S ARRIVAL

FROM NEW YORK.

PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY AFTERNOON.
The Warspite, 50, Captain Lord John Hay, arrived
at Spithead this afternoon, bringing home Lord Ash-
burton from his mission in America. His Lordship
left the Warspite between two and three o'clock, and
landed at Gosport, the ship saluting him when he
left her, and the batteries upon his landing.

The Warspite has been seventeen —days from
America, having left on the morning of the sth inst.
She was becalmed two days, or would have made the
run in fifteen days. Lord Ashburton upon his landing
at Gosport, immediately proceeded to his residence at
Anglesey, where Lady Ashburton has been waiting
his arrival.

LOSS OF A RUSSIAN LINE-OF.
BATTLE SHIP.
SUPPOSED LOSS OF 400 LIVES.

LEITII, SEPT. 22.—The following is a translated
extract of a letter, dated Christiansand, 15th Septem-
ber, 1842, addressed to Mr. Dahl, of the firm of
Ferguson, Davidson, and Co., merchants here
(Leith) :
" The dulne3s here (Christiansand) has been inter-
rupted by the circumstance of the Russian line-of-
battle ship the Ingermanland having been wrecked,
on the night preceding the 12th instant, on the small
rock called Groningen, about two English miles off
this place.
" The weather was fearful, a severe gale blowing
from the east, with a heavy saa. About half-past
ten o'clock on Sunday morning (the 11th) we heard
uninterrupted firing of heavy cannon, which con-
tinued till two, a.m., the following day. Twice
during the night the Government steam-packet North
Cape was sent out to discover the cause, as also
several pilot-cutters ; but it appeared the ship had
got off the rock, and driven rapidly to the westward,
so that they did not see her.
" On Tuesday morning accounts were received that
a line-of-battle ship was drifting westward off the
Naze, and the Government steam-packet was again
sent out, and, having come up with her about 36
English miles west of the Naze, she succeeded in
saving 150 of the crew. By crafts from Mandahl and
Fahrsand, 300 men and several of the officers had
been previously saved. The captain of the ship had
been amongst the first to leave the vessel, and in her
was his lady, who remained on board, and was subse-
quently saved by one of the Mandahl boats.
" The merchants of Mandahl, at their own expense,
fitted up and sent off two vessels, which saved as
many of the Russians as they could carry, until the
steamer arrived and took off the remainder. It is said
the crew consisted of 936 men, of whom about 500 are
saved • but this requires confirmation.
"Thei ship is now drifting with two anchors out,
which were let go when she struck, in the hope of
keeping her near the rock. The Ingermanland is now
lying with her deck level with the water, the fore and
mainmasts gone, and only her wizen standing. She
is in a very dangerous place for shipping, being in the
direct track. Should she get as far as the reef or
Skajerack, she may ride there during the whole win-
ter, should her anchors hold.
" Her guns were all thrown overboard."

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tnat there is at length reason to hope for the realiza-
tion of the wisely conceived ameliorations so ably
recommended three or four years since in the work
published on the subject by M. Pirou, Deputy Post-
master-General of France. We feel warranted thence
in anticipating the satisfactory conclusion of a nego-
tiation calculated at once to draw closer the friendly
relations of the two countries, and to facilitate
epistolary correspondence, by reducing the enor-
mous charge at present imposed upon it; for it is
but justice to those who direct the affairs of the
British Post-office to state, that all the propositions
for that desirable change originated with them. Let
us hope that their French contemporaries will perse-
vere in the line of liberality and good thense that they
have entered upon, and that all the grounds of com-
plaint hitherto advanced against them will disappear.
For the alteration of the postage duties, the necessity
will become obvious, when it shall be known that the
smuggling of letters into England and France reci-
procally is carried to an almost incredible extent. The
postage on a letter from Dover to London is only ld.;
the duty on a letter from Calais to Paris 10 sous
(something less than 5d.) ; while the charge on a
letter from Paris to London (or from London to
Paris) is Is. Bd. (or 40 sous). The French authori-
ties are, however, it appears, now converts to the
principle that reduced duties diminish smuggling, and
are earnest in their desire for at least a trial of it.
No doubt need be entertained that their advances
will he met in the best spirit on this side the water.—
Times.
The Phare de la Rochelle states that two women,
mother and daughter, residing near the high road be-
tween Marennes and Saintes, were, some days back,
bitten by a cow, which one of them was milking, and
hydrophobia having ensued, they both died in dread-
ful torments.