20 SEPTEMBER 1845, Page 2

The protracted hostilities on the banks of the Rio de

la Plata have assumed towards the English a very ugly aspect. The par- ticulars are not generally known ; but the main facts prove that the state of matters is very bad. Rosas, the sanguinary tyrant of Buenos Ayres, formerly professed great friendship for the British ; but now his soldiers have turned their weapons against them, and some have been not only murdered, but subjected to the most atrocious indignities that can reconcile terrified women to death. A Scotch family named Kidd has thus been sacri- ficed, in the district of San Vicente. Nor in commercial affairs has there been any improvement. Mr. Gore Ouseley arrived on the 23d of June, as the successor to Mr. Mandeville, and opened negotiations for the removal of obstructions to British commerce : he was met by no friendly spirit in the Argentine Government ; and he has sent home for instructions—until his receipt of which, British vessels were to remain with full cargoes undischarged ! What kind of instructions could Mr. Ouseley 's have been, if they did not prepare him for the alternative of a hostile reception ! Is he as incapable as the Minister whom he was sent to supersede; or is the Foreign Office as incapable as—the Colonial Office ?