Government, on being apprised by that of Cordoba of these enormities, took efficacious measures to overpower the rebels, to chastise them, and to restore order. Retribution followed the offence. The invaders were subdued and fled for refuge to the mountains of Rioja, where they will be pursued by the combined national forces under the Governor of San Juan. The northern Governments will also lend willing aid to reinstate the legal authorities of Rioja, and quell the seditious elements which have kept the neighbouring provinces in alarm, and the Government of Rioja in continual conflict. The Government fulfils a just obligation in recommending to the consideration of Congress and the country the valiant soldiers of the nation, who, under Colonels Sandes and Iseas, crossed at forced marches the immense distance intervening between them and the localities invaded by the bandits, falling upon them, and reestablishing the reign of peace and order. The same may be said of the militia of the province of Cordoba and part of the national guard of the city, who hastened, with patriotic zeal, to support the laws; the forces of San Luis also responded to the summons of authority, and those of Mendoza and Catamarca deserve honourable mention for their gallantry.. To attend more actively to the turn of affairs, the Minister of War removed to the town of Rosario, and after concluding the objects of his mission, returned to the metropolis, leaving the Commander-General at Arms in his place, to give the rapid and proper impulse to military operations. The national navy has been reduced according to the requirements of the service, only 3 vessels remaining on a war footing, and the rest being hired out to private persons, thus combining economy with facilities for commerce. Captaincies of ports and sub-delegations have been created, in divers places where necessary, with all the customary appurtenances for their regular working; attention has been likewise paid to other works in order to facilitate maritime trade in the various ports of the Republic. The regulation of the police of those ports was of urgent necessity, and the Government, after due deliberation, issued the regulations which are now in force. Fellow Citizens! Such is the picture, giving, in broad outlines, a review of the labours of Government in the brief interval just elapsed; and such is actually the political and administrative condition of the Republic. The Ministers of State will place before you, in detail, in their respective memorials, all documents and information relative to each particular branch of the administration, fulfilling thus the double duty of submitting all public acts to your deliberation, and furnishing the necessary elements to enable you to proceed judiciously in every case. Meantime, as I have fulfilled the duty imposed on me by the Constitution, it affords me sincere pleasure to salute and congratulate you on the present inauguration of your legislative labours, hoping that you will, as heretofore, lend to Government the aid of your prudence and wisdom, in order to advance the country towards the grand destiny which awaits it, under the protecting shelter of its institutions, in the midst of liberty and peace. I have moreover a lively confidence that the Most High will continue to have us in His holy keeping, and to shower down blessings upon the great Argentine family. BARTHOLOMEW MITRE, CORRESPONDENCE of Great Britain, relative to the Slave Trade, 1861, 1862; viz.: CLASS A.-CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE BRITISH COMMIS Page No. Date. SUBJECT. Page 45. H.M.'s Commissioners to Earl Apr. 8 Emigration of free ne groes from Loanda to 1134 1136 1137 1142 Apr. 15 Refusal of Governor and communications Cor 1152 49. Consul Sir H. Huntley to Earl Apr. 30 Respecting correspondRussell. ence between authori- 1176 50. Earl Russell to H.M.'s Commis- July 23 Correspondence with sioner. Governor General. Russell. Steps taken by Portu 56. H.M.'s Commissioner to Earl July 10 Slaves to St. Thomas. guese Government to 1194 Sailing of Dona An 81. Commodore Edmonstone to the Nov. 18 Respecting Emigration Secretary to the Admiralty. search within 200 miles 135. Lieutenant McHardy to the Nov. 13 Murder of Lieutenant Secretary to the Admiralty. L CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. No. 26. Mr. Layard to Her Majesty's Commissioners. GENTLEMEN, Foreign Office, November 5, 1862. I AM directed by Earl Russell to acquaint you that The United States' Secretary of State has informed Her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at Washington that Mr. Alonzo S. Upham has been appointed to the office of United States' Judge in the Mixed Commission Court established at the Cape of Good Hope, under the provisions of the Treaty concluded on the 7th of April last* between Her Majesty and the United States of America for the suppression of the Slave Trade. Lord Russell has requested Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies to make known this appointment to the Government of the Cape of Good Hope, and also to give directions that Mr. Upham may be received with the courtesy and attention due to his official position. I am, &c. Her Majesty's Commissioners. A. H. LAYARD. * Vol. LII. Page 50. LOANDA. No. 33.-Consul Sir H. Huntley to Earl Russell.-(Rec. Feb. 1, 1862.) J i. I HAVE the honour to place before your Lordship copies of a correspondence which has passed between the Secretary of the Government, under the direction of his Excellency the GovernorGeneral and myself, upon the subject of a protest, herewith transmitted, which has been presented by the master of the Portuguese brigantine Tarugo Secundo, representing that his vessel was illegally boarded and searched in the Bay of Equimina, when lying at anchor there, south of Benguela, in waters subject to the dominion of the Crown of Portugal, by Her Britannic Majesty's ship Alecto, on the 11th April, 1861. The only positive information that I am able to convey to your Lordship with relation to this affair is, that Her Majesty's ship Alecto could not have been the vessel of war which boarded the Tarugo Secundo, because, at that time, Captain Raby, who com mands the Alecto, was with his ship to the north of the equator, then commanding the division of the British ships of war stationed in the Bights of Benin and Biafra. It is, however, the case that Her Majesty's ship Prometheus was at the time specified in the locality of the bay mentioned, and possibly the Tarugo Secundo may have been boarded by that cruizer. Your Lordship will, I trust, approve of my having forwarded copies of the several papers to Commodore William Edmonstone, whose inquiries probably will fully illustrate the case. I may point out a discrepancy in the statements of the Secretary of the Government and the master of the Tarugo Secundo, the Secretary stating that the master was "obliged to go on board the steamer Alecto," the master declaring that he refused to leave his vessel, and that the officers of the vessel of war went away I have, &c. without him. H. V. HUNTLEY, Earl Russell. (Inclosure 1.)-The Secretary-General to the Government to Consul (Translation.) SIR, Sir H. Huntley. Loanda, November 18, 1861. By order of his Excellency the Governor-General of this province, I remit to you a copy of the protest which has been presented by the captain of the Portuguese brig Tarugo Secundo against the proceedings of the English steamer of war Alecto, towards her. At this time the said vessel was anchored in the Portuguese port of Equimina, to the south of Benguela, and was entered by an armed force, rigorously examined, the papers many times threatened to be seized, the captain obliged to go on board the steamer, so that he |