The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-14 00:00:00

TILE ',4I.R.ES 2RIAL.

The expulsion of Mires from court at Douai
seems to have raised a very puzzling legal question.
The Procureur Imperial, seeing the mess into which
the court had got itself, moved that the proceedings
should be wholly or partially annulled, and the
trial commenced de novo, either from the beginning
or from some particular stage, as the court might
see fit. His object evidently was to prevent the
expulsion of Mires by the President alone, and with-
out a decree of the court, from forming a ground
for Cassation. The advocates of Mires contended
that the court was bound to place upon record en
their motion the facts which had taken place, and
that the legal consequences of those facts, whatever
they might be, must be reserved for the apprecia
tion of a higher tribunal. The court deliberated
for two hours and a half y.sterday without hav-
ing come to any conclusion. This morning, as we
learn. by telegraph, they refused the Procureur-
motion, and granted at of Mires' coun-
sel.h
e trial, therefore, goes on, and if a fatal
e Procureur-
General's
The
m
error has been committed, Mires will get the benefit
of it before the Coart of Cassation.

1171%5T INDIA AND PACIFIC 111.41L,5%

SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 13

The Royal Mail Company's steamship Atrato,
Captain Woolley, whose arrival was announced in
?he Sun ot Saturday, brings 130 passengers, in-
cluding his excellency Governor Darling, of
Jamaica, lady, and family. The Atrato has on
freight specie to the amount of 533,265 doll.
The dates brought by the Atrato are, Jamaica,
26th; and St. Thomas, 30th March.
H.M.S. Edgar, Rear-Admiral Dacres, was at.
Jamaica. IThe Immortality arrived at St. Thomas
from Bermuda on the 28th March, to relieve H.M.S.
Cadmus. The Melpomene arrived at Aspinwall
on the 15th, with 136 sailors for the Termagant,
and was to sail for Jamaica on the 26th.
H.M.S. Clio was to sail from Tobago for Acapulco
on the 13th. In the port of Acapulco were H.M.
ships Tartar and Camelio. The ship Success, of
Liverpool, was wrecked in Ventry Harbour, Deme-
rare, on the 21st. Nine of her crew were drowned.
The steamship Bogota, from the Pacific coast of
South America, arrived at Panama on the 22d, with
dates from Valparaiso, March 3.
In addition to her Majesty's mails, the Bogota had
about 500 bales of cotton for transmission to Liver-
pool by the West India line of screw steamers.
This article is now arriving at Panama in large
quantities, and is brought from the ports of Peru
by the Pacific Company's steamers. The impulse
given to the production by the late events in the
United States is already producing its effects in
Peru. The quality of the cotton is described to be
of the very best description, and each plant yields
four times as much as in the Southern States of
America. Next year it is expected the export
from Peru will be over a million of pounds weight.
The news from Chili by the Bogota, although not
very important, is encouraging. The agricultural,
commercial, and mining interests were prospering,
confidence was being restored, and great expecta-
tions formed of the benefit to be derived from the
new Administration. President Perez was still in
Valparaiso, having been received in public and pri-
vate with the greatest demonstrations of enthusiasm.
A grand ball in honour of the President was to be
given by the foreign merchants on the day after the
steamer left.
There are two great projects in public favour in
Chili—the improvement of the harbour by means
of an immense breakwater, and the establishment
of a line ot steamers to connect the Chili ports with
those of the republics of Uruguay and Rio Plata
provinces. The latter project, it is said, would be
of immense importance to the trade of Chili, and
the Government have shown themselves in favour
of its being carried out by a British company.
The news from Peru is not important. President
Castilla had issued a decree convoking the electoral
colleges to meet on the 4th May for the election of
a president for the next six years. It was expected
that the election would fall on General Sankoman,
but it was thought by those best acquainted with
General Castilla that he will find some pretext to
vitiate the election and remain in power.
The news from Central America states that six
persons accused of the assassination of General
Guardiola, the President of Honduras, had been
shot by order of the Government. There were se-
veral aspirants for the new presidency.
The Haytian newspapers contain lengthy accounts
of the movements of President Geffrard, who is
making a tour of the southern portion of the repub-
lic. The President was everywhere meeting with
a most enthusiastic reception from all classes of the
population, and numerous municipal and other
addresses, expressive of entire confidence in his
administration, were being presented to him. At
Jeremie his visit excited the greateat enthusiasm
among the inhabitants. Triumphal arches were
erected, and the town splendidly illuminated.
The Barbadoes House of Assembly met
on the
18th, but nothing of importance was done, beyond
the presentation of the addresses on the opening-
speech of the Governor, when the house adjourned
for six weeks. The weather is reported as very
dry, and rain touch wanted for the young cane
crop, which was suffering from the drought.
In Jamaica the cotton-growing movement is re-
ported as progressing favourably, the feeling in AS
favour being on the increase. His Excellency Go-
vernor Darling had visited Muirton Estate, leased
by the Cotton Company. 130 acres are planted in
cotton, 50 acres of which are eupected to yield
cotton this season. The cotton looked healthy
and the trees were covered with pods, and great
care is said to be taken in the cultivation.