Strange and most disgraceful acts are imputed to the Govern-
ment of Buenos Ayres. Few letters, and none of the journals, have ventured to speak openly on the matters alluded to ; but the Times gives the following accounts, derived from a gentleman re- cently. arrived from Buenbs Ayres— it appears that, about the 25th of June last, a Colonel Man, who com- manded one of the regiments in the country, was called to town by order of General Roses, the President, as if to confer some favours upon him, he hav- ing been one of his decided supporters ; instead of which, lie was imprisoned on a charge of heading a conspiracy against him. When this event reached the ears of the father of Colonel Masa, who was the President of the House of Representatives, he prepared to send in his resignation ; but that Mille night, his house, in the outskirts of the town, was surrounded by armed men, who fired into the windows and entered the house in search of him, but were not able to find him. Notwithstanding this, he presided next day at the House of Representatives, and at the Supreme Tribunal of Justice; and in the evening, not daring to return to his own house after what had occurred, be remained in one of the offices of the House of Representatives, where it seems he was writing a letter, when four men in disguise entered the room and stabbed him to the heart, and left the body there. That night the Representatives met to inquire into the death of their President ; but the Under Secretary Mr the Borne Department told them that he was no longer their President, having given in his resignation, (which was not true, though he was writing the letter of resignation when he was murdered,) and that they had nothing to do with the matter; when, like submissive slaves, they separated. Next-- morning at daylight, Colonel Masa, the old man's son, was shot in the prison in which he had been confined ; and both bodies were carried to the burying-ground in a scavenger's cart, and shot in at the gate. Maza in former times had been Roses' legal adviser ; and when he came to power, he promoted :Masa to the Presidency of the Representatives and High Court of Justice. * * * Such was the state of terror in Buenos Ayres, that people walking in the streets durst not speak to each other, and aH confidence was at an end."
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