The Sun.
London, England, 1839-11-14 00:00:00

BOGOTA PAPERS.

We have received papers from Bogota to the end
of August. An extraordinary publication, or Second
Edition of the Gazette of the 14th of that month, con-
tains the following article relative to the state of Pasto,
an account of the breaking out of the insurrection,
which we some time ago gave from the official autho-
rity of the same Gazette :
STATE OF PASTO.
" BOGOTA, AUG. 14.—The post from the south,
which reached this capital on the 12th inst., informs the
Government of the continuation of tranquillity in the
canton of Pasto, and that as hostilities were not likely
to be recommenced, there was only a small body of the
National Guard, composed of twenty men by day, and
forty by night, for the purpose of guarding the park.
" The Governor of the province was still in the
canton of Fuguerres, taking measures which were likely
to bring the revolters to their duty. The same Go-
vernor, wishing to render measures of severity unneces-
sary by a conciliatory course, and to rescue from the
influence of fanaticism the simple inhabitants, who have
been deceived by the monks and leaders of the insurrec-
tion, sent to Pasto a commission, composed of some ec-
clesiastics, who, after a conference with the priest Villota,
Lieutenant-Colonel Alvarez, and some monks, chiefs of
the sedition, were obliged to withdraw without having
obtained success. Nevertheless, it seems that the ex-
citement at the commencement of the sedition is
disappearing, and that the number of its partisans is
considerably diminished. This circumstance has encou-
raged the friends of order and of the laws, and the
well-disposed voice of the majority of the population
begins to be heard in favour of peace and obedience to
the Government.

" General P. A. Herran arrived at Popayan on the
27th ult., and, after having received information re-
specting the state of Pasto, and expecting to be able to
pacify the Canton, and to re-establish in it the full obe-
dience to the laws, without recourse to coercive mea-
sures, resolved to start for Pasto on the 30th, without
taking any military force, being only accompanied by
two or three officers. Within a few days a commission
was also to be sent by the Right Rev, the Bishop of
Popayan, composed of the Dean, Dr. Mariano Urrutia,
and of the Secretary to the Prelate. These Commi-
sioners go in the character of visitors, and are authorised
by the Right Rev. Bishop to suspend from office and
benefice every ecclesiastic who opposes the authority of
the Government, and even to use for that purpose all
the other arms of the Church.

" If these measures for pacification, dictated alone by
the sincere desire of sparing those towns from ruin, and
the rest of Nueva Granada from sacrifice and expense,
be not sufficient for restoring these misled people to
the obedience of the laws, Government is resolved to
use public force, and to order out all the military• re-
sources of the nation, if necessary, to effect that object,
so desirable and indespensable to the consolidation of
the national institutions."

The Duchess of N ontrose will pass the winter
months at Brighton.

On Thursday last the first general meeting of
the Norfolk and Norwich Protestant Association took
place in St. Andrew's Hall, and a more numerous and
respectable assemblage was never witnessed in that noble
building. Accommodation was provided for the ladies
in the centre aisle, and the female branches of some of
the first families in the city and the neighbourhood were
present. A very large body of both clergy and laity
occupied the ochestre, the side aisles, and other open
spaces.