The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-02-18 00:00:00

THE SOUTH PACIFIC

We have dates from Valparaiso to the Ist and
froth Callao to the 11th January. We take the
following tummarY of dhilean news from the
Mercurio :

The Republic seems reposing for a moment, at its close,
earnest and confident to commence the new year, which is
at hand, as prosperously and as peacefully as it has gone
through the list. During the fortnight the ettra session
of congress as bean cbsed. The laws passed have
received the Executive sanction, and been pro-
mulgated. Reviewing the year, it may be said, our
roads are improving in every directi•)n. The
Valparaiso and Santiago railroad is advancing in length;
and as to the part already in operation, the company have
hitherto succeeded in uniting security and speed to the
satisfactioil of the public. The railroad proposed from
Santiago to Tales, 200 miles, has 'been preliminarily coin-
nienced. Mr. Chevalier, the engineer appointed by the
directors td the Survey, has already practised the first survey
as far f.s Itancagtia, actiompanitd by the, minister of the
as well as by other engineers. His report is every
interior,wa
ysatisfactory, as respects the facilities for constructing
the work. We hear that orders have been forwarded to
Europe on account of the company. The Cachapoal bridge,
which the road is to pass, is to be reconstructed

aim is to celebrate the nrxt anniversary of the
independenoe in September, 1856, with the opening of a
Dori of this road.. Agriculture has bad .a year di prosper-
ity, both as to (Imlay and quantity, and especially in the
returns. Commerce has also enjoyed a year of fair anima-
tion combined with safety. Its regular course has been
disturbed by nn crisis. Discounts, instead of rising, as in
Europe, have remained at usual rates, und, if anything, have
grown more easy rather than more difficult. Mining interests
are the only ones that we must give a poor account of, and
that have not made a marked a:lvan& during the year.
However, the whole yield has not been much
less than of former years, although several mines
are not yielding. Of late a conipany for exploration
has been formed, and has gone into the mountains under
the direction of George Schmidt, to examine some deposits
of ore discovered by hid'. Our copper mines become daily
more important, and next year will be wrought with
redoubled activity. The new custom house valuation of
merchandise imported, will take effect on the Ist January
next. Valparaiso has been visited with a distressing fire.
It occurre4 on Christmas day, about five in the afternoon.
It was near the San Francisco church, away from the sea.
Water was therefore scarce, and the houses being
frame buildings mostly, the fl Imes made rapid
Progress. The engines of the city laboured
most assiduously. So the Hook and Ladder
Company, the captains of ships of war, English, French,
and American, sent men on shore promptly and generously,
to aid in checking the flames. Ten or twelve edifices, how-
ever, were destroyed. And a more distressing fact is the
loss of five or six lives of foreign seamen or citizens, who
exposed themselves bravely to danger, in order to arrest the
devouring element.

TREATY WITH THE UNITED STATES.—We are happy to
be able state that a new, treaty of amity, Commerce, and
navigation has been formed by Mr. Sylvesrre Ochrgavia,
appointed minister to this government ad hoc, and his
Excellency David Starksveather, minister plenipotentiary
from the government of the United States: This important

the terms of which ar

vet unl

,
presented to the congress of 1856, which
Till then it will probably remain out of fl

In .1 unE

SLOOP. OF-WAR ALARM.—Her Britanic Majesty's corvette
Alarm, 26 guns, came in on the 164 h instant, 108 days from
England, having touched at Rio and Falkland Hands.
She will reievethe Dido, soon to return to Ragland, say
by the end of January.

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RED GAUNTLET.—the American ship Red Gauntlet came
in on the 17th to make repairs. She was 120 days from
New York, and will proceed to San Francisco.
TREATY WITH GREAT BRITAIN.--OR the 31st the
ratified copy of the new treaty with Great Britain will go
forward to England in the mail steamer.

MARITIME Naws.—The captain of the British barque
Belisama, came in on the 24th from Liverpool, and reports
having seen an English barque with only her mizen mast
standing, having lost the other two. This was in lat. 57
16 Soutb, and long. 71 53 West. No people could be seen
on board, and a nearer approach to the vessel was impos-
sible, because of the violence of the wind blowing.
SHIPS OF WAR IN THE BAT,—English line of battle
ship Monarch, Admiral Bruce, 74 guns; sloop of war
Alarm, Capt. Douglass, 26 guns.
In business, the transactions of the fortnight ending
31st Dec, produced mere animation than tha previous one.
Numerous sales of dry goods for Bolivia bed been
effected, and large orders for merchandise for
the Argentine republic had been executed.
The export trade is at present limited to silver and copper
in ores and bars, the high price of wheat and flour pre-
venting speculation in that branch.
The most important arrivals during the fortnight were—
Hamburg sch. Stiotfang, French ship Mineria, Hamburg
bark Henrietta. American ship Silver Cloud, British barks
Wm. Fisher, Urgent, Gardyno, French ship Ile Marie,
British bark Belisama, American ship Harriet Erving, Bri-
tish bark Princess Helene.

FRRIGHTS AND CiaAaTans.—For Liverpool : British birk
Wreath, copper ore from Tocopilla, 17s 6d. British
ship City of Kandy, copper ores from Caldera, 15s.
British bark Ursola, silver and copper ores from Caldera,
and saltpetre from Iquiqin, ss.
FROM PERU: The papers, as usual contain little news.
Public feeling against Castillo appears to he gaining ground,
and it is thought Echenique will be recalled.
FROM ECUADOR we have nothing worth noticing.

The Earl and Countess of Clarendon left London on 1
Saturday, by the one o'clock train of the South Eastern
Railway, in order to catch the tidal train, and reached ,1
Paris a little before twelve o'clock on Saturday night, instead 1
of stopping at Boulogne, as some of the papers alleged.
His lordship was accompanied by Mr. Villiers Lister, of
the Foreign Office.
It may be remembered that M. Isidore Geoffrey S tint
Hilaire, the naturalist, recently called public attention to
the fact that there was no reason why horse flesh should
not be consumed as food. M. I/ivocat, professor of ana-
tomy and physiology in the school at Toulouse, has since
made several experiments, and owing to the successful
results, many families of Toulouse have given dinners of
horse flesh, and others are preparing to do so.
Tits BISHOPRIC OP CARLISLE. —The Hon. and Rev. H.
Montagu Villiers is nominated for the Bishopric of Carlisle.
Mr. Villiers is the fifth nephew of the late Lord Clarendon,
in the 43rd year of his age, and brother of the present
Lord. By his promotion the rectory of St. George's,
Bloomsbury, and a canonry at St. Pant's, become vacant.
Mr. Villiers is considered a very decided member of the
Evangelical party in the Church, and will prove, when
he reaches the House of Lords„ a powerful opponent
of the Bishops of Exeter and Oxford. It ought to be
generally known that the appointment took Mr. Villers's
family by surprise. Even Lord Clarendon was only
told of it after the appointment had been made. Mr.
Villiers was not personally known to Lord Palmerston.
TILE C3NVICT CORRIGAN.—EIeven of the jury who
found Thomas Corrigan guilty at the late session of the
Central Criminal Court having signed a memorial to the
Queen, praying that his life may be spared on the ground
" that there were no apparent motive for such a dreadful
crime, which must have been committed under temporary
aberration of mind." The execution is fixed for this day.
Proceedings have been commenced for the erection of the
gallows. The convict, being apprised that the execution
would take place on the day named, expressed a desire to
see his family, and the children, aged 8,6, 4, and 21 years,
were introduced into the condemned cell, accompanied by
Mr. and Mrs. Burton (the latter, it will be recollected, was
wounded by Corrigan on the day of the murder). The
scene was most affecting and the condemned man was very
greatly agitated. The order of Foresters, of which the
convict was a member, has provided for his childros.