The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-15 00:00:00

THE PACIFIC.

We have received by the West India mail
steamer Atrato, arrived at Southampton, files of the
Panama .'tar and Herald to the 24th ult.

The Pacific Railroad Company's steamship Colum-
bus had been totally lost at the entrance to Sonso-
nate Roads. She was 'tinning for the port of Aca-
jutla, on her way up the coast from Panama, on*
the night of Dec. 8, when she struck on a reef
known as Punto Remedios, close to the port, on
which there is at all times a very heavy surf, and•
commenced breaking up so fast that on the follow-
ing day nothing was to be seen of her. The Columbus
had a cargo of 1,250 packages of merchandise on
board for Acajutla and Guatemala, valued at about
150,000 dols., and supposed to be insured, all of
which was lost with the steamer. The vessel hnd
recently undergone repairs to the value of 40,000
dots., and was, at the time of the accident, in excel-
lent order, but unfortunately she was not insured,
and will be a heavy loss to the company. Fortu-
nately the passengers and crew were all saved, And
the latter were taken to Panama by the Guatemalti,
The Panama Railroad Company have been building
a new steamer in the United States, intended to
take the place of the Columbus, and which will sail
from New York about April next, and the Guate-
mala will probably be able to carry on all the trade
of the coast until that time without much inconve-
nience to the mercantile community.

Affairs in Chili were much improved in a busi-
ness poio of view. Large shipments of flour and
wheat were being collected for shipment to
Europe.

Mr. W. F. WINDHAM.—Aboui six o'clock on
Saturday evening, as Mr. Windham was driving his coach'
and-four along Magdalen-street, Norwich, the vehicle
came in contact with a donkey cart, belonging to Robert
Coggle, chip carter, Sprowston, and knocked off o.Se 01 the
wheels. No other damage was done.
EXTRAORDINARY DISAPPEARANCE OF A LADY.----
Mrs. Buxton, the wife of Mr. Frederick Buxton, of Leeds,
at present one of the staff of resident engineers of the
Tudela and Bilbao Railway, in Spain, departed from Spao
on a visit to her friends at Chapel-Allerton, near Leeds, iv'
England, in consequence of her physicians advising her to
y if LLr air 'T O,,''
had suffered seriously from the climate. It is ascertained
that she reached London in safety on the 22d of January
last, at 2.35 p.m., and immediately drove to the King's-
cross station, where she waited for and left by the 5.0 p.m-
train for Leeds, -ince which time nothing has been heard
of her, and from the evidence and facts already collected by
the detectives and police both in London and Leeds, no
other conclusion can be arrived at but that some foul deed
has been perpetrated on her between the King's-cross sta-
tion and Leeds. It is supposed the valuable jewellery on
her person, and the considerable luggage she had with her,
have led to the commission of a crime which time alone
can reveal. The age of the missing lady was 22 years-
One conjecture is that Mrs. Buxton was probably removed
from the train at some intermediate station between Lon-
don and Leeds, whilst insensible from the effects of chloro-
form, and that the villains wh6 had placed her in that con-
dition, assuming the attitude of friends having her in their
care, robbed her of all she had, and probably dealt more`
foully with the lady herseIf.—DISCOVERY OF THE LAPS
—A telegram was received last evening at Manchester,
from Mr. Field, of London, to the effect that the lady had
been found, and was in the hands of her friends. No ex-
planation of her long silence is yet afforded, but it is added
that " all is well."

THE " ACCIDENT" TO THE ELECTOR OF LIES3Z
CAssEL.—The incident at the Chateau of Cassel, of which
only a vague account has been hitherto published, is thns
described by the Berlin Gazette de la Bourse : —‘‘ The
Elector surprised his wife reading a number of the Elad-
deradazsch, in which thei e was an article purporting to
comment on the attention shown at a ball by the Prince do
Harlan to the dhughters of the President of the Chamber of
Deputies, and which contained some ironical allusions to
the Prince's father. The Elector's anger at this affront
gave rise to vigorous reproach( s and finished at last by PO:
yoking one of those domestic sanes which usually termi-
nate in cries of ' Help,' or ' Fire,' from the feeblest party'
At length a valet who was in the antechamber thought, Or
sense reason or other, that his assistance was wanted, and
ran into the room. His sudden appearance was far fronl
agreeable to the Elector, who attempted to show his feel",
ings by a movement which allowed the valet to seize hold e'
his foot. This act of legitimate defence occasioned an tin-
pleasant fall, and resulted in a rather rude contact between
a head, a hand, a table, and a mirror."