8 MAY 1869, Page 3

It appears from the latest advices from Buenos Ayres that

Lopez still maintains the war, carrying off small detachments, holding kis railroad and making forays in railway waggons, and keening, at least, 6,000 men in the field. The Brazilians have not yet ventured to leave the river, and the Paraguayans are still so _faithful that they desert any village entered by the enemy, and Assumption itself is full of Lopez's spies. The Brazilian Army apparently waits for its new Connuander-iu-Chief, the Comte d'Eu, the Emperor's son-in-law.