The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1843-10-10 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. 10, 1843  The British packet has arrived, 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 provisions 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 account of outstanding debts, and hence the losses to merchants generally of that city cannot fail to be most serious.  From a perusal of the Britannia newspaper of 22nd July, it would appear that, notwithstanding the united representations of the French and British admirals to General Oribe, he continued to treat his prisoners with the most relentless cruelty, characterized by the British Admiral (Purvis) as being such " as would disgrace even the petty states of Barbary." But we extract the following remarks as to the murder of two Frenchmen, taken prisoners by Oribe on the sth July :  " We must, however, not omit to mention the atrocious  two Frenchmen, who were taken prisoners by sth instant, seven days after that General ed a solemn promise to Commodore Purvis and Admiral de Clerval that he would no longer persist in his practice of sacrificing his prisoners of war. The We have given elsewhere a full account of the manner in which these two unfortunate Frenchmen were proceedings of Government in their effort to put put to death, and the nature of the torments they were down the repeal agitation in Ireland ; and, although previously made to undergo, involve details of so disgusting and monstrous a character, that decency obliges we have not withheld our admiration of the vigour us to refrain from their description. and excellent arrangement, with which that effort " Admiral de Clerval is understood to have sent to has thus far been conducted, we cannot even now General Oribe to inquire into the truth of what has been here stated relative to those individuals, and the answer withdraw our past expressions of dissatisfaction at given by Oribe was simply, that they had been ex eted the want of promptitude in adopting the step which by his orders. On the following day M. de Clerval dispatched a vessel to Buenos Ayres, it is supposed with it has now at length been found necessary to take. -'cations on the subject to the French minister, If meetings, such as that which was, on Sunday It remains to 1 e seen whether he will last, to have been held at Clontarf, are now, in the amefu .ncle It coup adopted by tie. or if, bs lrne e Tgeti, emonstration, words of the Government proclamation, "calculated '°sas has and intended to excite discontent and disaffection in of i the minds of her Majesty's subjects, and to bring  Oribe on the had convey(  same shamefully indolent cours  at the pesti