The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-06-28


OF manufactured goods, the importation of the
mcnth under review has been uncomfortable; but
the effective demand or actual consumption has been
still less, there is . positive addition to existing
stocks, that is much to be regretted; it only de-
presses the general market entaiing direct loss on
both importer and retail dealer, without proper
tionate or apprecable benefit to the ultimate con-
sumner.
following manner:-That goods once prepared for
the River Plate market may as well be forwarded to
their destination, so as to be Ia readiness when
wanted. They are only dead stock in England, for
example, and the additional amount OF freight and
charges Is balanced by the chances of . sale.
Were they new articles. the only articles of the
same kind in the market Of their destination, this
argument would be plausible; and the probabilities
Of the adventure legitimate problem OF mercantile
calculation. But circumstances alter cases, and il
the market be supplied, and abundantly supplied,
with the same similar goods, the hazards OF the
adventure are no longer confined TO the direct remit
lance, but react on the whole previously existing
stocks This has been the effect of the late arrivals
and must continue to be the consequence so long as
the present state OF things lasts
Some inquiries were being made for the interior
provinces but the decree declaring the city in state
Of rigorous SIEGE with the consequent closing Of the
custom house prevented their execution at the mo-
ment and it is not unlikely that the parties interest
ed may have had recourse to Montevideo, some
other point where the articles colld be procured by
q recent decree, the government has reOpened the
custom house both for shipping and discharging; an
arrangement that ought not to be deviated from, ex
cept in cases of extreme emergency. In attention
also to exceptional circumstances 1t has declared
the port open forthe introduction OF wheat -four and
provisions of every description for man and for beasts
abOlishing Professionally the established duties, and
ordering every facility and encouragement to be
held out for the traffic.
In this department the general market has hither-
to been abundantly supplied with less variations in
prices than might have been expected in the cir
cumstances The articles most in demand are
-four and coal; which at present command exorbi-
tant prices
AS to retun-cargoes, prospects are as bleak and
unsatisfactory our bitterest enemy, General Ur.
quiza himself not excepted could possibly desire.
Stocks of export produce in the city completely
exhausted, and we believe that few Of the foreign
vessels-certainly none with any pretensons to de-
cency-have avaed themselves of the illicit contra
band Of the besiegers.
Many have left in ballast, but we ATE not aware
that any has repaired to either of the ports
licensed by General Urquiza, not as Provisional Di
rector OF the Republic, but in his new capacity Of
recognized head Of our provincial rebellion. 1t is
melancholy and exasperating to reflect amidst the
conflicts Of foreign commerce, and the arrangement
of many important correlative interests that the
finest season with which Providence has favored
for the last twenty-five years, has been sacrificed to
the burlesque preIensons OF regenerators,
who invoke peace, order, guarantys. and organza-
ton, watchwords and preteXts for devastation.
robbery murder, and all the concomtant horrors Of
int war