The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1843-06-13 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

BUT OUR MANUFACTURES THEMSELVES HAVE NOT IMPROVED. The steam-engines—the spinning jennies—the '' mules"—the " Levcises"—all the machinery now employed in the business of mannfacturing production is incomparably better than the machinery employed towards the close of the last century. Our mechanicians, however, are not cotton, nor woollen, nor silk manufacturers; and while our mecha• nacians and chemists have dazzled the world with their discoveries, the manufacturers, to whose schemes of production our chemists and mechanicians minister, minister, in turn, less effectively than before to the necessities of their fellowmen. Our agriculturists supply better grain, and far better beef and mutton, than the agriculturists of England supplied fifty years ago ' • but our manufacturers of cotton, of woollen, and of silk goods supply the world with articles far inferior in quality to those which were suppliedto the last g. neration.,  Etherpool &tanbarb.  TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 13, 1843  We have before us the Britannia, and Monte Video Reporter, of the 11th March,--a paper printed in English at Monte Video, the capital of Uraguay,— from which, and from subsequent information received from the same quarter, vid New York, by the Great Western, we learn with regret, that, from the vacillated and indecisive, if not absolutely faithless, policy of Mr. Mandeville, her Majesty's Plenipotentiary to the Argentine Confederation, the interests, the property, and perhaps the very lives, of the British subjects resident in that city, had been (and may still be) placed in imminent peril. It appears that our minister, blinded by the representations of the Buenos Ayrean Government that the accounts of the invasions and barbarous aggressions of General Rosas on the Monte Videan territory were mere fabrications, and crediting, too, Rosa's assertions that he directed the war against the person only of General Rivera,—had, after repeated and unequivocal assurances to the British residents that her Majesty's Government (which had just concluded a treaty of amity and commerce with the republic) would put an end to the sanguinary and destructive war carried on by that chief against Monte Video, passively, and without calling upon our naval fOrces there stationed, permitted the aggressor to approach the very walls of the city, to expose under them the mutilated corpses of those who had fallen into his hands, and even to fire shot and rockets into the town, " not directed against the fortifications occupied by Rivera's soldiers, but on the dwellings of the pacific inhabitants, amongst whom .a great majority were foreigners, and a considerable number his own fellow-countrymen." At the date of the paper alluded to, Mr. Mandeville had arrived at Monte Video from Buenos Ayres, in order to be present at the ratification of the new treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation, concluded in London between our Government and the Monte Videan Republic ; and the British subjects resident in the capital had publicly met and drawn up a representation to him on the " murderous warfare" carried on against the country by Rosas, and another to the Commander-in-Chief of our naval forces on the South American station. These documents (which we subjoin) were most numerously signed, though some residents declined to do so, " lest they might suffer in their property, over which the enemy had then control, or in the persons of their immediate connections, residing at Buenos Ayres" :  " To