by the Municipality in 1858, and inaugurated by Governor Valentin Alsina : at the end of that year it contained seventy-nine mendicants. The first committee of direction was composed of Canon Fuentes, Dr. Pinedo, and Messrs. Martinez, Varela, Pintos, Fernandez, Billinghurst, Cabrera, Zinny, aud Señorans. The average number in the asylum is about 200, of whom three-fourths are whites, including some foreigners and old soldiers. The treatment they receive is very good. The Municipality contributes $60,000 a year, and the rest is made up by voluntary subscription. Previous to 1858 the convent was used as a barrack: the situation is very fine, commanding an extensive view over the River Plate.

Los Ejercicios is a kind of female penitentiary at the corner of Calles Salta and Independencia. The institute was founded in 1794, by a nun named Maria Antonia Paz, from Santiago del Estero, in a house in Calle Piedras now occupied by Señor Terrero: it was transferred to its present site before the death of the founder, and has since been ruled by five superioresses. In 1859 the Bishop reformed the rules. There are usually 100 persons in the house, between nuns and penitents, the latter being sent hither by the Tribunals. The establishment receives a pension from Government and various public donations.

Sociedad de Beneficencia.-This society of charitable ladies was founded in 1823, to take charge of the Women's Hospital, Foundling Asylum, Orphan School, and the State schools for girls. It was installed by Rivadavia, the founders being Mesdames Cabrera, Mandeville, Aguirre, Sanches, Ramos, Boneo, Agüero, Azcuenaga, Viamont, Luca, Izquierdo, Lasala, and Gutierrez. It was partly suppressed by Rosas in 1838, and revived under Mme. Garrigos in 1852. Since then it has rendered invaluable service, remodelling the above-mentioned institutions and establishing seventy female free schools in town and country, which are attended by 5,000 children.

Deaf and Dumb Institute, 481 Calle Cangallo: it was founded in 1857 by a philanthropic society called La Regeneracion, and placed under the direction of Mr. Charles Keil. The Provincial Government. pays a subvention of $12,000 a year, and the rest is borne by the society. The children are taught reading, writing, arithmetic, drawing, Christian doctrine, &c., but their number rarely exceeds half-a-dozen. They afterwards earn a living as cigar-makers, boot-makers, &c.

THE Calle Rivadavia bisects the city, running due west from the Plaza Victoria to the Plaza Once de Setiembre, a distance of two miles: it is crossed at intervals of 150 yards by twenty-three streets, which take different names as they run north or south. At the corner of Plaza Victoria and Calle San Martin Mr. Olivera, a cigar seller, has built a fine three-story house with a good view of the Plaza. In the first block we find the Café del Plata and many dry goods stores, besides Phillips' mineral water establishment, Cranwell's drug store, and the office of Best Brothers. The second block contains a large building belonging to Señor Anchorena, in which are some foreign merchants' offices, viz.: Messrs. Lohman & Co., Paul Pott & Co., Clark & Malm, and the hat shop of Mr. Christian Sommer. Passing these we meet, at the corner of Chacabuco, the Club del Plata, after which come the offices of Fels, Seyffert, & Co., Malmann & Co., Luders & Co., the Gas Co., Parody's clothing store, and Roldan & Amaral's agricultural implement store; pursuing our course we come to the grand coach depot of Señor Cabral. Next is the school of the French nuns; and at the corner of Calle Libertad is the splendid house of Messrs. Unzue. Three blocks further are the Plaza and market of Lorea, near which is an old wind-mill. The street widens before it reaches the Once de Setiembre, but is irregularly built. It was originally called Calle Las

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Torres, because the towers of the old cathedral were visible to wayfarers coming in from the direction of Flores: it was next called Calle Federacion, but obtained its present name on the occasion of the funeral of Rivadavia. We shall now take the streets at right angles in their order, beginning with the North end.

STREETS RUNNING NORTH.

Paseo de Julio runs along the beach, from the Custom-house northward, and has a number of ship-chandleries and whaleboat offices, viz., those of Allinson, Mahon, McLean, Herring, Eckell, Lowry, and Le Couter, besides many coffee-houses and outfitters' shops. There are back-entrances to the Commercial Rooms and Capitania del Puerto. Señor Llavallol has a fine house at the corner of Calle Cuyo, Señor Gomez at the corner of Calle Corrientes, and the Hotel du Nord is well suited for ship-captains, having a fine view of the port. There is a first-class foundry belonging to an old Spaniard named Carulla, whose son was educated at Manchester, and who purposes establishing the first cloth factory in the River Plate. Next follows the foundry of Stevens & Co. The Paseo Julio was formerly a promenade, which Rosas intended prolonging out to Palermo; part of the balustrade was knocked down by the Santa Rosa gale, August 1860. At the foot of Calle Cordoba it is proposed to build wharves and bonded stores: this point is known as Bajo de las Catalinas, from the adjacent convent. A little further we meet the ice-house, and the beach is now lined with willow-plantations among which the black washerwomen appear in great numbers. The Gas-house forms the extreme north point of the city: it is defendled by a strong sea-wall and has all the necessary workshops, retorts, &c. for its present supply of 40,000 lights in the city.

Calle 25 de Mayo runs parallel with the Paseo de Julio. Messrs. Elortondo and Bosch have two lofty edifices at the corner of the Plaza Mayo. This street contains three hotels, the Globo, Paris, and Europa, besides many houses where furnished lodgings may be obtained. The Commercial Rooms and Capitania are nearly opposite the English church. The British Consulate is at the corner of Corrientes. In this street are the offices of Deetjen & Co., Mofler & Co., and the American house of H. J. Ropes & Co.; also Dowse's steamboat agency, C. W. Benn & Co. shipbrokers, and Mulvany's coffee-house. The Southern Railway directors have their office at the British Consulate.

Calle Reconquista begins at Colon theatre: it was formerly called Defensa. but in 1809 received its present name to commemorate the recovery of the city from General Beresford. The old house, formerly occupied by J. C. Thompson & Co., was the residence of some of the vice-roys, and is of remarkable construction. In this same block we find the offices of Samuel B. Hale, Latham & Co., Mr. Dowdall, broker, Gowland & Co., and the hardware store of Mr. Dakin; on the opposite side the Portuguese Consulate, the offices of Rossi & Co., Tay and Upton, American shipbrokers, and the grocer's shop of T. Moore, who does a large business with Irish sheepfarmers. The new London and River Plate Bank is a fine structure, at the corner of Calle Piedad. In the same blcck we find the residence of Canon Fahey, the patriarch of Irish residents; the apothecary's shop of Cranwell and Murray, the offices of Moore Punch and Tudor; H. A. Green & Co., shipbrokers and agents for the Liverpool steamers; Hughes & Peters, produce-brokers; J. C. Thompson & Co.; Bemberg & Co.; and Rick & Co. Opposite to Cranwell and Murray's is the fine mansion of the late Señor Ocha, an old Spanish merchant; and next door is a stately pile erected by Dr. Costa, late Minister of Instruction, who has now let it out in offices; those of the Central Argentine Railway and Mr. Coghlan, C.E., are in the upper story. At the corner of Calle Cangallo is the Hotel de la Paix. Next comes the Merced church, with orphan asylum attached. The architect was a Jesuit priest named Andrea Blanqui, who built several churches in this city. In the chancel is still seen a portrait of the chief benefactor and his wife, with the date 1769. Opposite is the luxurious residence of Señor Anchorena. Mr. Kelly, the apothecary, has a shop at the next corner, opposite Risso's steamboat agency. The Italian Bank was in the fourth block, but after a brief existence of two years it was closed up and the furniture sold by auction. In this block are the offices of Folmar & Co., American merchants; Dr. Nelson, a resident physician of long standing; Sassenberg & Co.; Bunge & Co.; and Warnholtz & Co; this last firm has taken much interest in the importation of Angora goats from the Cape of Good Hope. In the fifth block is the Model School, founded in 1859.

Calle San Martin begins at Plaza Victoria: in the first block are the Foreign Club and Mackern's book-store, where strangers may find it convenient to ask information; also the offices of Russell and Anderson, produce brokers; Aguirre & Murga, the great landed proprietors of Bahia Blanca; Woodgate Brothers, ship-brokers and agents for Tait's line of steamers; and the haberdashery of Mr. Flower. The next block contains the Provincial and Argentine Banks, the handsome residences of the Pacheco

and Tejedor families, and the offices of J. P. Boyd & Co., ship-brokers and agents for the Liverpool steamers; the grocers shop of Feely & Wilson, Grieben's casino, the American store of Bate & Livingstone, Clausen's cigar shop, and several offices of money-brokers, including that of Mr. Henry Hart. Further on we come to the Bolsa, the Universelle lodging house, public baths, Loedel's English book-store, the German photographic studio, the printing offices of the German paper, of Señor Estrada, and of the Nacion Argentina: in this block there are two Casinos or lunch. saloons. The fourth block contains the Louvre Hotel, the house of General Mitre, the office of Haycroft & Co., and the residence of General Paz's family. The fifth has a beautiful mansion belonging to Señor Anchorena, No. 137, and opposite is the two-story terrace of Señor Miró, which is rented out in very neat and commodious English lodgings. Crossing Calle Parque we find another princely house of the Anchorena family at the corner of Tucuman is a range of houses belonging to Mr. Armstrong; and the next block shews us the convent of Catalinas, with church attached. The founder was Dr. Dionisio Briseño, and the architect Juan Narbana, from plans by Padre Blanqui. At the end of the street is the quinta Laprida, now Dr. White's school.

Calle Florida is perhaps the best street in the city. The residence of Mr. Lumb, an old English resident, that of the Dorrego family, and many fashionable shops, along with the offices of Russell Shaw, Mitchell & Co., and E. Glover make up the first block the second has also numerous jewellers' shops and bazaars: the third has Alzaga's fine house, after which comes that of Mr. Plowes, and then the office of Darbyshire, Krabbé, & Co.: the fourth contains some lodging-houses and a German Club, after which comes the Spanish Consulate the fifth comprises some of the most elegantly finished houses in town. The rest of the street as far as the Retiro comprises the most fashionable quarter: here we meet the houses of Ocampo, Jackson, Blaye, Mackinlay, Riestra, &c. At the corner of Calle Tucuman is the apothecary shop of Espinosa & Kyle. In the ninth block Señor Madero built a market in 1865, but it has been closed: opposite is a very pretty nursery. At the corner of Calle Paraguay is a block of houses belonging to Mr. Armstrong. There is a wooden draw-bridge across Calle Paraguay, for foot-passengers in time of rain: there being no streetdrainage the stream that comes rushing down here after heavy rains is so great that a man was drowned here in October 1868. One block now takes us to the handsome promenade of the Retiro.

Calle Maypu is called after the victory over the Spaniards in 1818. The blocks near the centre have some English offices, viz., Kohlstedt & Co.,