The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-10 00:00:00

TUESDAY MORAING, OCT. 10, 1843

The British packet has arriverl, bringing letters
from Buenos Ayres to the 20th July, and from
Monte Video to the 29th July. Mention is made
in letters from the latter place of the total defeat of
600 men, under the command of General Nunez,
who himself, with only 20 men, escaped to Calaccia.
It appears that he had been sent out by General
Oribe to endeavour to bring in cattle for the supply
of the Buenos Ayrean army, which is represented
by numerous deserters to be so badly off for provi-
sions as to be under the necessity of eating horse
flesh. It was fully expected that the Monte Video
Government would be successful in farming half the
custom's duties for the year 1844, and this, it is
said, would supply the means of carrying on the
war for six months, by which time it was confidently
believed that Oribe would be compelled to retreat,
if, indeed, retreat should then be practicable. The
trade of Monte Video continues at a complete stand,
nothing is being sold and not a shilling paid on ac-
count of outstanding debts, and hence the losses to
merchants generally of that city cannot fail to be

alone; the two remaining branches of the constitu-
tional fabric are to be insultingly passed by, and the
voice of the masses is to be raised, in threat, to de-
mand the exercise of the power of the Crown in dis-

solving the present Parliament.
There may, we admit, be much of this bombasti-
cally-devised scheme of operation, which is hopeless
of immediate execution. We see, however, what
the League has already effected. We know the
daring ambition of its leaders, and their utter want
of scruple as to the instruments with which they
work; and we are compelled, therefore, seriously to
ask of the Conservative party, is this an agitation
which they should content themselves with despis-
ing ? Are these designs which Conservatives should
regard without fear ? They are not. On the con-
trary, they demand from us, if not a counter-agita-
tion, at least a watchful energy, and the adoption of
every legitimate weapon within our reach, to guard
the mind of the public from the attacks with which
it is threatened. Lethargy now becomes not only
mad, but criminal. Every man who loves his country
and his country's liberties must now be at his post,
to aid in snatching them from the rock ahead which
threatens them with destruction.

But in what direction, it may be asked, are the
efforts of Conservatives to be made ? We answer,
they must throw off that fatal lethargy in which
they have been held since they succeeded in over-
throwing the domination of the Whig and Radical
faction. They must show to their fellow country-
men that it was not to carry out Whig crotchets or
to feed Whig rapacity, that they were placed in the
possession of place and power. They must carry
out a Conservative policy; and, above all, they must

rely upon Conservative aid to maintain them in so
doing, rather than endeavour to strengthen them-
selves by buying off their opponents. They must no
longer pander to a hostile press and neglect their
own. They must no longer court Radical applause,
whilst they grieve and alienate their most faithful
friends and supporters. By such a course, their
position may be held in security, and the institutions
of their country kept intact and whole. By any
other, they are slowly, but surely, preparing the way
for a fall more utter and fatal than ever hefel any
great party, with the certainty before them that their
prostration will be alike unpitied and unaided.

We have given elsewhere a full account of the
proceedings of Government in their effort to put
down the repeal agitation in Ireland ; and, although
we have not withheld our admiration of the vigour
and excellent arrangement, with which that effort
has thus far been conducted, we cannot even now

withdraw our past expressions of dissatisfaction at