The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-12-09 00:00:00

THE RIVER PLATE

Advices from Buenos Ayres to the 27th September,
and from Monte Video to the 20th, have been received
by the arrival in the Channel of the Sara Johanna.
A private letter dated Sept. 23d, alluding to the official
notification of the blockade of Buenos Ayres (subjoined)
says that "The Ministers have not been moved to the
adoption of this measure solely by the late decree of this
Government prohibiting intercourse with British and
French vessels of war, but from a general consideration
of the various grievances of which they have to complain,
and which have been embodied iii a declaration sent in to
this Government. The charges brought against the
Government in this document are of so serious a charac-
ter, and, we understand, are so minutely stated, that it
will be, hereafter, almost impossible for Ministers to
resume any amicable relations with the Government of
General itosas. There is every prospect that a trade will
now be opened from Monte Video to Corrientes and
Paraguay ; and as individuals in Monte Video are desirous
of chartering foreign vessels for this trade, it would ap-
pear probable that all flags will be protected in the navi-
gation. Another letter dated Sept. 26th, says, "There
is a very general report to-day .that the force under
General Urquiza has gone over to the Monte Video
party. If true, it will not be long before we have a satis-
factory settlement of affairs. There is evidently some•
thing wrong with Rosas' troops in the Banda Oriental.
There is no popular excitement ' in this city, and no
molestation has yet been offered to foreigners. Another
letter dated a day later, says, " Captain Hope, of the Fire-
brand, landed here yesterday morning, and, we under-
stand, communicated that an extension of fifteen days
time would be granted for vessels to leave the port, which
term will expire on the 24th October; but no official
notification has yet been made of this extension. We
have accounts from Monte Video to the 20th instant. A
meeting of the merchants had been held at the house of
Mr. Ouseley, to hear propositions for making a loan to
the Monte Video Government of 300,000 dollars, Monte
Video currency, repayable from the duties of the sear
1848, with thirty or forty per cent. premium, repayment
guaranteed by the British and French Ministers. The
terms were not, however, definitely settled. A question
was asked at tibia-meeting as to the opening of the naviga-
tion of the river Parana, to ishich Mr. Ouseley replied,
that possibly in a fortnight's time a convoy of British and
French and Oriental vessels of war might be given to
merchant vessels, but that he would make an official com-
munication as soon as anything was decided upon. There
is, consequently, a prospect that the navigation will short-
ly be opened and efficiently protected, and an extensive
trade established from Monte Video to Corrientes and
Paraguay."
We further learn, that all the British vessels in Buenos
Ayres had been chartered, at 90s. per ton for salted hides
and tallow, £7 to £8 for dry hides, and 70s. for bale
goods.
The Alciope, from this port, had been refused admis-
sion from the blockading squadron.

line.
The Morning Chronicle says a project is in contempia
tion for laying along the line of the Birmingham and
Gloucester, pipes for the conveyance of brine from the
salt-pits of Droitwich and Stoke Prior, to the port of
Gloucester.
As one of the coal trains was proceeding on the Stock-
ton and Darlington Railway, near Sbildon, on Friday
last, the fireman, William Preston, got up to alter the
chimney, to make it pass through under a bridge, when
his head came in contact with the bridge arch, which
caused instant death.
RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—A serious accident took place
on Tuesday, at the Barnsley statime by an express train
NOTIFICATION OF BLOCKADE. (with three gentlemen from Derby) running into a luggage
"Buenos Ayres, September 22d, 1845. train, which was standing on the down line ready for
" SIR,—I have the honour to intorin you, that, in con- starting. The driver of the express train was solely in
sequence of a decision which the Ministers of England 9 fault he having paid no regard to five red lights attached
and France in Monte Video have found necessary, a to the luggage train. Fortunately no one was seriously
blockade of the ports and coasts of the province of Buenos hurt. The engine of the express was completely disabled.
Ayres has been declared, and that such blockade will be Few of the luggage waggons were left whole. Some 20
enforced by the combined squadrons of England and sheep were. dreadfully injured, and many killed on the
spot.
France forty-eight hours after the date of the present
The Committee of the Boston, Newark, and Sheffield
notification. Railway announce that " the plans and books of reference
"Fifteen days, however, will be allowed for the de-
of the line were duly lodged with the Board of Trade, and
parture of vessels from Buenos Ayres. with the clerks of the peace, on the 30th ult. ; but, in
" I have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient
consequence of the fraudulent abstraction of twenty
bumble servant, (Signed) sheets of the sections from the premises of the lithogra-
" FRANCIS LEESON BALL, p- her (a fact which the Committee are in a position to
"Her Britannic Majesty's Charge
substantiate, and for the discovery of the perpetrator of
d'Affaires. I which felonious proceeding they have taken the most de-
WEST INDIES.—By the Medway we have received our ; cisive steps), the sections, though deposited at the Board
usual files of West India papers, but they are remarkably of Trade, were a few hours too late at the offices of the
destitute of interest. The islands were all healthy, and i clerks of the peace; they were, however, deposited before
had not been visited with hurricanes this season. The office hours on the following morning."
crops were generally looking favourable. The Jamaica THE HUNGERFORD-BRIDGE RAILWAYS.—The report
papers are still fully occupied with the discussion of rail- of the Directors of the Hungerford-market Company,
ways in the islands and immigration, both popular sub- laid before a general meeting of the proprietors, stated
jects with the colonists. An influential meeting of the that an agreement for the sale of the Hungerford and
parish of St. Mary had been held on the latter subject, Lambeth Suspension Foot-bridge, for the sum of £226,000,
and petitions unanimously carried, praying the House of reserving the rights of the Hungerford-market Company
Assembly to offer every encouragement to immigration therein, had been entered into. The report further stated
on an extended and efficient scale. In the action " Sal- that negotiations had been pending for the sale of the
teil v. Bravo," to recover damages for a libel published market to the same parties as had purchased the bridge,
in the Portuguese Synagogue, at Kingston, the plaintiff but as the terms were such as the market directors could
obtained £2OO damages ; two gentlemen of the Hebrew not recommend the proprietors to accept, the negociation
persuasion applied for permission to retire from the fury i was now at an end ; but the directors had given notice of
box, after much trouble to complete the number, the application to parliament for power to dispose of the mar-
cause was tried by eleven only. ket property, in case such a course should be finally de-
The ceremony of laying the corner-stone of the cathe- termined upon.
dral and parish church of St. John's, Antigua, was per- 1 RAILWAY LITIGATION.—At a meeting in London last
formed on the 9th of October, by his Excellency Sir Chas. week of persons interested, D. W. Harvey in the chair,
Fitzroy, the Governor-in-Chief of Antigua, in the pre- it was resolved, that proceedings at law having been
Bence of a large attendance. threatened in various railway matters, it is very desire-
MexlCO.—We have received from Mexico advices to hie that with a view to the equitable arrangement of just
the 30th of October. The Mexican Government had demands, and the resistance of claims obviously made
agreed to a Minister of. the United States, and to nego- under the impression that the dread of ruinous law
tiate for frontiers and the settlement of claims. The charges will induce compliance, as also to ascertain the le-
American fleet had left Vera Cruz, that being the first gal liabilities of committee-men, shareholders, and appli-
step of the arrangement. The city of Mexico was cants for shares: and further, to elicit the actual circum-
tranquil, though reports of Federalist conspiracies were stances of various railway projects (matters far too weighty
frequent. The Indians called Camanches had ravaged for individual responsibility), a confidential meeting be
the departments of Durango and Zacatecas, and one body speedily convened of parties who are interested in these
was within seven days of the city of Mexico. The objects. Messrs. Amory and Co., Throgmorton-street,
financial state of Mexico was deplorable. The one- were appointed solicitors.
third of the new Congress to be renewed on the Ist of LODGING OF RAILWA Y PLANS.—Most commendable
January was composed of Radicals and friends to exertions were made in many quarters by the officials to
Federation. The Minister of Justice had resigned ; he secure their arrival in due time, while every trick of ri-
was succeeded by Senor Montes de Oca. We learn that valry was resorted to to delay and embarrass opponents.
the French Minister had left Mexico, in consequence of ' Forestalling post horses is an ancient trick, so is making
the disturbances that occurred four or five months ago. turnpike men drunk, and leaving the rivals in the rear to
He came passenger from Vera Cruz in the Medway, and knock at the gates. One ingenious individual we heard
landed at Havannah to await the instructions of his Go- of, who, to provide against such a contingency, carried an
vernment. Santa Anna was still at Havannah. axe in his post chaise. A celebrated engineer, bringing
The Emperor of Russia has put in a claim to part of the his plans from Ireland, arrived at Bristol at eight o'clock
disputed Oregon territory ; he contends that his posses- , in the evening, took an express train at Bristol, for which
sion extends to 54 deg. 40 m. I he had to pay £l5, and five guineas as a refresher to the
The renowned General Tom Thumb bad the honour to ; engine driver. Great Western energy, however, carried
wait on their Majesties the King and Queen of the French 1 the day, for he arrived in one hour and fifty minutes, and
on Friday, at the palace of St. Cloud. I deposited in time. One party only arrived just in time to
The Hendrick Hudson, a new steamer plying between make his lodgment, by throwing the bags into the closing
Albany and New York, has accomplished the distance, doors of the Board of Trade, as a crowd of applicants
150 miles in 7 hours 40 minutes. were at the door, and the Horse Guards struck twelve.
BORNEO.—The Government of Holland have demanded An arrangement has been entered into between the
of the English Cabinet an explanation of their intentions Manchester and Leeds and Leeds and Bradford for an
with respect to Borneo. They have even threatened war, , amalgamation of the two companies, in virtue of which
should England take possession of that island. the Leeds and Bradford and Leeds and Bradford Eaten-
The King of Bavaria has issued a decree, ordering that 1 sion shares become Manchester and Leeds stock to the
in future all persons killed in duels or who had committed extent of their share of the capital, namely, £900,000.
suicide shall be interred without religious ceremony of The Leeds and Bradford proprietors are also to have 75
any kind. per cent. additional on the £900,000, which per centage
The Queen of Spain and her sister have just completed is to be issued as follows, viz.: £300,000 in £2O shares,
two pictures, under the direction of their master, Bernardo which will realize, when paid up, the amount authorized
Lopez' which they intend to offer as presents to the Queen to be borrowed by the Leeds and Bradford. The re-
of the French. mainder of the 75 per cent., viz. £375,000 will subse-
Lord Cowley, our ambssador at Paris, met with a se- sequently be issued to the shareholders, subject to a call
rious accident on Wednesday. In descending seer steps at the time of £2 per share, in addition to the calls of £5
on the Boulevards his lordship missed his footing, and on the original shares, and £lO on the extension shares,
had the misfortune to dislocate both shoulders. Several now due, which will make £2O paid up on each; it is in-
physicians were immediately in attendance, and reduced tended to call for a further sum of £2l per share in the
the dislocations. course of next year, which will then make the paid-up
It is said the Jewish Reform Committee sitting at capital £4l per share. Both the old and the new shares
Frankfort, at the bead of which are Messrs. Goldschmidt, are to remain unproductive till the opening of the railway,
advocate ; Greusenach, professor ; and Schwarzchild, when they will begin to receive dividends in proportion
physician ; and to which all the most eminent Jews of to the extent and cost of the lines that shall be in opera-
Germany are attached, have decided that the Jewish Sab- tion.

1;alhsha111; kept on Sunday.
WILL NOT ANSWER.—We mentioned on Saturday that
the wires of the e;ectro••magnetic telegraph were laid on
the bed of the East River, encased in a leaden tube. We
regret now to announce that the connection between the
shores is already severed. The ship Charles, from
Liverpool, on Saturday afternoon, brought up the ccil
on the flukes of the anchor. The great weight caused

THE

CHASE

THE CHESHIRE HOUNDS will meet on
Wednesday, Dec. 10, at ...........
Thursday, Dec. 11, at • ............
Saturday, Dec. 13, at ...........
At half-past ten.
SIR W. W. WYNN'S FOUNDS will meet on
Tuesday, Dec. 9, (this day,) at Penlev
Friday, Dec. 12, at Nescliffe
Saturday, Dec. 13, at
• At half-past ten.

Withington
Minshall Vernon

the sailor boys to Cea;;;:ith a will, and when it began to
wriggle and writhe near the surface, they thcught they had
i
caught the veritable sea serpent himself. Ropes were n
immediate demand, but before they could be used the
pipes and wires parted, and the two shores are as distant
as they ever were.—New York Commercial.