The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-25 00:00:00

AFFAIRS of the RIVER PLATE

LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.—The following reply has been made
by the Earl of Aberdeen to an application for redress from the
owner of the Sultana, which was refused admission into Buenos
Ayres on account Of her having touched at Monte Video, and
lately returned to this port with her outward cargo
" Foreign-office, Sept. 22, 1845.
" Sir,--I am directed by the Earl of Aberdeen to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter of the 15th inst., in which you complain
of the loss you have sustained by your vessel, the Sultana, having
been refused entry at Buenos Ayres on the 9th of March last, on
account of an alleged infraction of a decree of the Buenos Ayrean
Government of the 13th of February, prohibiting entry at that
port, after the Ist of March, to any neutral vessel that should hare
called or touched at Monte Video.

" I airs to state to you in reply, that although every state has,
strictly speaking, a right to interdict communications between its
own territories and those of another state, nevertheless as the
treaty of 1825 between Great Britain and Buenos Ayres contains
an express stipulation for the freedom of commerce between the
two countries, it appears to her Majesty's Government that it was
contrary to the spirit of the treaty to exclude the Sultana, a Bri-
tish vessel, from the ports of the republic, merely because she had
touched at Monte Video, in contravention of a decree of the Go-
vernment of Buenos Ayres, which was not issued until after the
Sultana had sailed from England, and was not known to the master
of the Sultana at the time when he is alleged to have infringed its
provisions.

" Her Majesty's Minister at Buenos Ayres will therefne be in-
structed to represent the case in strong terms to the Buenos
Ayreln Government, and to express to them the confident ex.
pectation of her Majesty's Government that proper compensation
will be made to you for the losses which you have sustained by the
prohibition enforced against your vessel in the port of Buenos
Ayres. --I am, Sir, your humble servant,
" H. U. ADDINGTON.
" Charles Holland, Esq , Liverpool."

How TO GET A TIGHT RING OFF A FINGER
Thread a needle flat in the eye with a strong thread : pass
the end of the needle with care under the ring, and pull the
thread through a few inches towards the hand : wrap the long
end of the thread tightly round the finger, regularly, all down
to the nail, to reduce its size. Then lay hold of the short end
of the thread and unwind it. The thread pressing against
the ring will gradually remove it from the finger. This
never-failing mrthod will remove the tighest ring •without
difficulty, however much swollen the finger may be.
It is the popular belief in some parts of Hamp-
shire that the black fever, mercifully sparing human beings
has seized upon the potatoes !—Sherborne Mercury. ,
LORD DOWE.— We are authorised to state that
Lord Howe is not a supporter of the " Rugby, Derby, and
Manchester Railway" project. A declaration that he was,
renders it necessary that publicity should be given to his
Lordship's " contradiction of such a barefaced statement."
THE MASTER PASSION.—The name of the principal
story in the work just published by the author of "Highways
and Byways," though belonging especially to one of love and
ealousy, applies equally to another extraordinary narrative
in the same collection, called "The Gambling-house at Brus-
se!s," which is a striking and highly effective illustration of
the engrossing influence a propensity for gambling exercises
over the mind. Among the numerous visitors the gay capital
of Belgium has received from England, there can be few who
will not be interested in this remarkable story, as it has been
confidently stated that the incidents, extraordinary as they
are, which Mr. Grattan so cleverly narrates, are actual cir-
cumstances, the recollection of which has not yet faded from
the minds of those who were staying at Brussels at the period.
PRICE:OF FLoun.—We understand that the millers
ittie neighbourhood of Cambridge have, in consequence of he
defi-
cientyield in corn, raised the price of flour 5i er sack To what
fearful odds against distress an f
restrictions on food reduced us- ine
.have .nnpwise and' rernicious
fambrldge Advertiser.
letter, dated Somerset-bouse°,l:epit-Mr,
THE ANDOVER Um. appears by a
and addressed by Mr. Coode,
the Assistant-Secretary to the Pr-law Conimi luioners, to Mr.
lirDougall
hmoafrs neceziarily
Westlake, that in consequence ofthe rest
having been accepted by the Guardians, the igirutiryg
terminated, inasmuch as any order dismisqsin
M'Dougall would be a nullity, as there is no longer anY mastsrs. matron on whom an order of dismissal could take eft' et. 7e
letter concludes with the following announcement :—" What am
ther proceedings it may be incumbent on the Commissioners to
lake in this matter, after a perusal of the evidence now for the first
ime before thew in any official ibape, they will proceed to con.
alder."