The Express.
London, England, 1850-10-22 00:00:00

CHILL

The advice, from Valparaiso extend to the 29th of
August. The event anticipated with the greatest
anxiety throughout the country was the presidential
election ; and although the contest will not be decided
till the month of July next, it was the great topic of
the press, and formed the chief subject of discussion
among all elegies. It is stated that tne advincement
of the government party has been very marked of
late, whilst the prospects of the opposition were con-
sidered the reverse of encouraging; but the govern-
ment had not yet nominated their candiaate, teeming
inclined to await a more full expression of public
feeling. Very recently there was a sheet published
in Santiago, in which General Pinto was nominated
as a candidate for the presidency. Other papers of the
opposition party then stated that if the president would
expel Senor Montt from the ministry, the opposition
would not oppose; or, in other words, would give
their support to General Pinto. This was immediately
responded to by General Pinto, in a letter declining
the distinguished honour proffered him, and stating
es his reasons-1. Because he had teen President
during the Revolution ; 2. Because of his relation-
ship to the present President; and 3. Beaune he felt
himself unequal to the exigencies of the times, and
the necessities of the country. The latest accounts
were to the effect that Don Ramon Erraturiz, the
opposition nominee for the Presidency, had declined
to serve, and withdrawn his name.
On the 31st of August, the chambers were to ter-
minate their session agreeably to the requirements of
the constitution, and the president, having authority
to do me, would, it was confidently stated, convoke
them to extra session on the lit of October.
The law of primogeniture had been rejected by 16
to 14 votes. This result was anticipated owing to
the inapplicability of the law of Chili, in respect both
to the extent and character of the country. The law
requiring passports had been abolished. As regards
the other measures which have been referred to by
byus fromagotivemLmtoetinmt.e, no further steps had been taken
As regards the future political prospec's of the
country, a local paper (a partisan of the government)
essearhs as follows:
floweewa unsettl d the condition of other parts of South
Ameba may be, this country is safe. The opposition which
les bola made to the preeent government will be anal-
Mad. No revolution will take place but that silent,
lwahlgal revelation of time, whose eoune is marlutl, sot by
.ssilesse sad bloodshed, bat by improvement, and whose old-
Mitlem is the consolidation of government upon the secure
liaadetloae of equal Pune, and the emancipation of the
sesatry from evils and abuses of the past.

THE CAPE Or GOOD HOPE MAIL PACKET STA-
stow.—Tha government authorities are now deliberating as
be what port shall be selected for 'gnaw and embarking the
Cape of Good Hope mails, which are about to be conveyed
for 110,0001. a year by a saw stem packet company. There
appears net au* doubt but what a authors or south-
western pert will be 'sleeted as the Cape of Good Hope
mail packet statics, and that Other Plymouth or South-
ampton will be chase. The former port would be preferred
by the coalmen., and the latter by the government. If
Southamptoa be abeam, It will Mowing to the circumstance
that expensive and troublesome Pat-efiles and Admiralty
departments for superintending the leading and embarking
of foreign mails are already atablished there, on account of
that port being the packet station for the snails to and from
the Eta and West Indies, China, Basil, the Pacific,
Amadei, the Reditenanean, the Pealnalle, and the Channel
Elands.