The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-14 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

SOUTH AMERICA.
FALMOUTH, SEPT. 4.—Her majesty's packet Hope, Lieu-
tenant Rees, arrived to-day from Rio, July 11th; Bahia, 20th;
Pernambuco, 29th; on freight 750,000 dollars. Among other
passengers is Dr. Mora, Private Secretary to Gen. Santa
Cruz, and now on a mission to England as Consul-General
of the Peru-Poliviau Confederation. From letters received
by this packet it is learned that the visit of this gentleman,
and the business connected therewith, is of the utmost im-
portance, and connected with the existing war between the
confederation and Chili. From Valparaiso advices to the
end of May are afforded, of an expedition of 2,500 men being
in preparation to land in the north of Peru; the Chilian
go-
vernment having refused its approbation to the treaty of
peace made between Generals Blanco and Santa Cruz on the
17th of November. The new expedition was commanded by
General Gamara, and the supposition that it would meet with
a warm reception in that district would probably prove true.
The rancour existing between the two governments may be
estimated from the fact, that Dr. Mora's arrival at the port of
Valparaiso, on board her majesty's ship Fly, excited the loud-
est expressions of dissatisfaction on the part of the Chilians,
and many complaints were made to Admiral Ross against
Captain Eliott for the service he had rendered, exemplifying,
as they declared, partisanship on the part of the English. Dr.
Mora, notwithstanding, was admitted as passenger on hoard
the Stay, British frigate, Captain Sullivan, from thence for
Rio de Janeiro. A Chilian squadron of four men-of-war was
blockading Lima; and General Santa Cruz had officially no-
tified to the foreign consuls, that the ports of the enemy would
be blockaded on August 20th. The government of the con-
federation had bought two beautiful sloops of war at Balti-
more, which passed round Cape lions in the beginning of
June- General Santa Cruz was, about the 15th of May, at
Arequero, when a congress, composed of deputies of the
three confederated states, was convened to introduce some
reforms into the fundamental laws of the confederation ; mean-
while, the state of trade in Peru is said to be prosperous, se-
veral large exportations of cotton being in preparation, also
of wool. A considerable cargo of quicksilver had arrived at
Arica, and it was generally calculated that during the six fol-
lowing months 5,000,000 of dollars would be coined in the
mints of Lima, Cuzco, and Potosi. It was generally be-
lieved, that the Bolivian Congress, who were accused of not
being very partial to the confederation, were anxious to afford
a proof to General Santa Cruz of their unbounded confidence
in him; and generally, the whole Bolivian nation is most en-
thusiastic in favour of their natural chief, who not only has
exhibited the solidity of his political views by the complete
pacification of Peru, but has fixed on himself the attention of
the peninsula of South America as the only man capable of
introducing stability and order in the country. From Buenos
Ayres accounts state that General Rossas, dos president, is
at war not only with the French, but also with a very in,
portant and numerous party at Uruguay. General Riheiro,
who commands the insurgents, had completely eaten the
troops of the government in the beginning of June; and it
was believed that Rossas would be obliged to resign his place,
or to expose himself to the vicissitudes of a bloo(IY revolution.
—Globe.