The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-07 00:00:00

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No. 22,661.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 7, 1865.

TO PERSONS SEEKING LAN DED
ESTATES, TOWN AND COUNTRY RE 3IDENCES,
FREEHOLD AND LEASEHOLD INVESTMENTS, AND
PROPER VIES GENERALLY-

13, Great Marlb.)rough-street.
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CRYSTAL PALACE. TO-MORROW to
FRIDAY.—LUXURIOUSLY WARM and DRY.—
Arrangentents
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Mr. Stokes on " Memory" in the Lecture Room 3.0
Great Organ
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SPAIN AND PERU.

The Peruvian Government has addressed the fol-
lowing circular to its agents in foreign parts :

To BE HAD GRATIS, at the principal Railway Bookstalls
throughout the kingdom, or at the Auction and Estate Offices,
No. 67, Chancery-lane, London, Messrs. E. and 11. Lumley's
"FREE PROPERTY REGISTER," containing a varied selection
of landed and house properties now in the market, from
the nobleman's mansion, with its manorial domain, to the
cottage with its few acres.
OWNERS or, PROPERTIES wishing to Sell or Let can em-
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Estate Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London, as the Messrs.
Lumley can in most cases introduce immediate customers
where the property is of an eligible charts ter, thereby avoid-
ing the disadvantages of delay and its attendant ineon-
renienoes.

A JOURNEY from LONDON to PERSE-
POLIS, including Wanderings in Daghestan, Georgic,
Armenia, Kurdistan, Mesopotamia, and Persia. By J.
USSHER, Esq., F. R.G.S. Royal Bvo , with numerous Beau-
tiful coloured I'lustrations.

" Lima, Dec. 22, 1864

No extra charge to the Lecture Room.
The thousand and one other attractions of the Palace in-
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variety and beauty unequalled In the werld; the decorations
of the Palace, with the Great Christmas Tree; Shakespeare
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and Ships, Armour Plates and Armstrong 10-pounder, lent
by official authority; the extraordinary Chimpanzee, the
unique Aquariums. All these things render the Crystal
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Admission, One Shilling. Children under Twelve, Six-
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THE HON. GRANTLEY BERKELEY'S
LIFE arid RECOLLECTIONS. 2 vols. Bvo.. with Portrait.

" The Peruvian Government has been made ac-
quainted with thg, circular his Excellency the Minis-
ter of State of her Catholic Majesty, Don A. Llorente,
addressed to the agents of Spain abroad upon Nov.
8 last. In this document the Cabinet of Madrid ex-
plains the reasons which, in its opinion, appear to
justify the acts of coercion already exercised against
Peru, and those upon which it appears to have re-
solved.

LODGE'S PEERAGE and BARONETAGE
for 1865. Under the Especial Patronage of Her Majesty, and
Corrected by the Nobility. 34th Edition, 1 vol., with the
Arms beaut.f al y engr.ved. .31s. t d., handsomely bound.

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CHEAP EDITION of BARBARA'S HIS-
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City,

MR. and Mrs. GERMAN REED, with Mr.
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which the Sisters Pry will appear, with THE BARD and
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" His Excellency endeavours to show that Peru
has tenaciously refused to enter into amicable and
pacific relations with Spain, and throws upon the
Government of the Republic the responsibility of
the want of success of the efforts made upon either
part to establish those relations.
" It is nevertheless not difficult to show that this
responsibility is wrongly cast upon the Peruvian
Government, which has always been disposed, and
is still disposed, while maintaining intact its honour
and dignity, to increase and reconnect the ties which
naturally and in a special manner unite Peru with
Spain, as well as with all nations born and living
beneath the influence of Christian civilisation.
" In 1852 Peru accredited to the Court of Madrid
a Minister Plenipotentiary, wttirthe mission of ob-
taining the recognition of her independence, and of
settling all the questions which had arisen out of the
fact of her emancipation, and the incidents of the
struggle from which she had emerged.
" With this object the Peruvian Plenipotentiary
handed to the Madrid Cabinet the draft of a treaty
in which the Government of the Republic, using its
right, will make modifications, while giving its re-
presentative orders to reopen with her Catholic Ma-
jesty's Ministry conferences tending to obtain its
acceptance.

A LARGE QUANTITY of WATCHES and JEWELLERY.
The above reward of £l,OOO will be paid to any person
giving such information as shall lead to the apprehension
and conviction of the thief or thieves and recovery of the
property, or in proportion to the amount thereof recovered.
Information to be given to Inspector Hamilton or to In-
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London, 6th February, 1865.

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WM. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary.

2d February, 1E65.

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"It was certainly not the fault of Peru if her
agent, instead of carrying out the orders forwarded
to him, opened a discussion thereupon with his own
Government, and was thus the cause that the civil
war, which a short time afterwards convulsed the
Republic, did not permit the Government to give its
attention to an affair grave and delicate in its nature.
" Internal struggles ended and peace re-esta-
blished in the State, one of the most important acts
of the new Administration was to send to Spain
another agent of the first rank, charged with the
same mission as his predecessor. Whatever may be
the faults that have been committed in that mission,
which unhappily also remained without result, it
cannot be denied that it was a new and solemn tes-
timony to the constant desire entertained by Peru
to draw nearer to Spain.
" Notwithstanding the state of the relations be-
tween the two countries, the Government of Peru
none the less willingly admitted the Consuls whom
the Government of her Catholic Majesty, in view
of the commercial interests of her subjects, thought
proper to accredit to the Republic ; and, upon its
its part, desirous of showing reciprocal courtesy,
also sent functionaries of the same category into the
Peninsula. If it decided upon recalling them, it
was because it believed itself to possess sufficient
reasons for considering the recal of her Catholic
Majesty's agents—a recal which was the cause de-
termining its conduct—had not been an accidental
measure, as has been since stated, but rather the
result of intentions displaying little friendship and
good-will. It did not therefore see in the two pro-
ceedings any difference but this—its own course was
frank, that of the Queen's Government was not.
L" Peru, in her quality of a civilised Government,
cannot refuse, and, further, did never refuse, per-
mission to Spaniards to place themselves under the
protection of the representative of his Majesty the
Emperor of the French, or of any other diplomatic
agent of a friendly nation. This is what happened
in the matter : the Hon. M. de Lesseps having
announced that he was authorised to take steps in
the name of her Catholic Majesty, to bring forward
the claims some Spanish subjects had believed them-
selves entitled to make, the Peruvian Government
explained to him the impossibility in which it found
itself of acceding to the wishes of those of her
Catholic Majesty. This was, in fact, impossible;
and the Minister. then holding the portfolio of
Foreign Affairs proved it to be so in his despatch
of Nov. 23, 1863, citing the law upon the subject,
but in terms which, far from being harsh, were
most courteous, and which only contained a peremp-
tory answer, because a reply of that character was
the only one that could be given. Further, in this
conjuncture, as in every other, Peru has neither
been able, nor has wished, to renounce the sincere
and vehement desire, the complete and incontestable
right, of coming to a direct understanding with
Spain, to establish upon solid and indestructible
bases that peace which is of such great importance
to the two nations, and to unite the bonds which
nature and history establish between them.
" The misfortunes taking place at Talambo, which
his Excellency the Minister of State, hyperbolically
styles a bloody and horribt6 iatastrdpfie—tand which,
nevertheless, reduces itself to a- death of oue inha-
bitant of the peninsular and one Peruvian, and to
wounds received by Peruvian and Spanish subjects
—have given rise to a criminal investigation, already
ended, and in which the Government, as far as its
constitutional powers permitted, displayed a diligence
and zeal for its active and prompt pursuit which will
always be honourable; and of which there is no ex-
ample in analogous cases affecting Peruvians only.
" These sad events have fatally provoked others
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" If, therefore, it can be said that there was in
this matter, on the part of the Peruvian Government,
an excessive natural and excusable susceptibility in
its position towards Spain, and in the midst of cir-
cumstances by which it Was surrounded, how are we
to qualify the conduct of the Special Commissioner?
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agreement with, and by the assistance of, the Com-
mandant of her Catholic Majesty's forces in the
Pacific, he occupied the Chincha Islands.
" Despite the incomprehensible conduct of the
Special Commissioner, and before knowing the
above-mentioned fact, the Minister for Foreign
Relations of the Republic, under date of April 13
last, addressed himself to that of her Catholic Ma-
jesty, expressing in the most moderate and most
circumspect terms the astonishment that such con-
duct had caused this Government, the nation, and
all acquainted therewith. No reply has yet been
received to this communication ; it is the last de-
spatch that was exchanged between the 'Cabinets.
" There is here one evident and incontestable fact,
viz., that the Government of Madrid has interrupted
and ceased official communications with that of Peru.
" When the latter saw confirmed in a certain man-
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successively on the above-cited 16th of the month,
respecting the act of attack perpetrated by the naval
forces of her Majesty in the Pacific, it was really in-
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yoked that right of revendication which supposed
claim to dominion, necessarily lost after forty years.
And it is of little importance now that it is said this
reason is simply apologetic, and that, further, it
occupied a secondary place-in the declaration men-
tioned, for reasons do not derive their value from
the qualifications people wish to give them, nor
from the order in which they are placed, but from
their relation to the matter of which they treat ; and
it is evident that, in eases of taking possession of,
or occupying, the question of property or domination
is the first and the principal. For this reason the
right of revendication claimed, although in despite
of all logic relegated to the second rank in the
matter now under consideration, besides the
other considerations which accompanied it, and
Which we ,despised, caused universal scandal and
alarm. It provoked the most serious and most
formal protests upon the part of Americans and
Europeans.

" The following, once more, are the facts which
constitute this offence, presented under their verit-
able aspect. With an ostentation and array of forces
which, considering the weakness of the garrison of
the islands, is only explicable by the desire of ren-
dering the outrage more irritating, a ship of the
national marine was seized ; the Governor and other
officials, of the public administration wore kept hos-
tages, as well as the captain and officers of the
captured ship.

" But all these offences and all these vexations
are nothing in comparison with the humiliation of
the national flag, the symbol of the sovereignty and
emblem of the independence of the Republic—the
flag which was replaced by that of Spain. It is the
most painful and most bloody insult which could
ever be inflicted upon a free people. In acting thus,
the honour and dignity of the very person of Peru
have been humiliated—her honour and her dignity
have been played with.

guide and animate the Government o
llie.Republid-71-P
in whose name I declare in conclusion-i-- _
.___
" 1. That Peru considers herself in hOp_perfa t- s
right in. requiring satisfaction from Spain.
" 2. That she will not refuse that nation any-
thing just 'arid reasonable ; and
" 3. That she is determined to make every species
of sacrifice, rather than consent to the diminution
of her honour and her dignity.

" I request your Excellency to be good enough
to read this despatch to the Minister for Foreign
Affairs at and to leave him a copy if he so

" Can Spain, who calls herself offended by us,
oppose any similar outrage ? Supposing true and
proved allthe grounds of complaint she believes
herself to have against Peru, can all of them toge-
ther counterbalance this single one ? Thus then,
in the eyes of a just and impartial judge, who shall
take insults and satisfaction into account, it is in-
contestably Peru who will have the right of claim-
ing satisfaction in the last place.
" The law of nations has been violated ; the
commonest rules arising out of it have been de-
spised ; the forms which guarantee its observance
have been infringed. After all this, Peru and the
other nations of America, the representatives of
those of the Old World acquainted with these trans-
gressions, still hoped for a moment that the Govern-
ment of Spain, thus rendering homage to justice
and to its proverbial magnanimity, would repress
and condemn them.

" It has indeed reproved them by rejecting the
principle of revendication set up by their originators;
but it has nevertheless not ceased to occupy the
islands--a measure which ought to be the conse-
quence of its reprobation ; it has neither given nor
offered any satisfaction.

" The condemnation of a principle which has served
as basis to the consummation of an aggressive act,
and even the amendment of that act, is only a nega-
tive satisfaction. Rights and equity require posi-
tive acts which re-establish the moral and juridical
order changed by the offences committed.
" Further, not only has the Cabinet of Madrid
stopped short in its first steps upon the way of jus-
tice, but it has also converted satisfaction into com-
plaint. In consequence of a statement in all men's
eyes prejudiced and improbable, it has caused to be
forwarded, in defiance of usage, to our consul at this
Court, the proposals with which your Excellency is
already acquainted, and the moderation of which it
has been attempted to support in the Circular of
June 24 last, signed by Don J. F. Pacheco, and in
that which occasions the present Note.
'• Supposing that Senor Moreyra in reality pos-
sessed that diplomatic character the Government
has constantly denied him, for that very reason he
had a right that the proposition should be commu-
nicated to him in an honest and suitable form.
How was it possible that a Government treated up
till then with such contumely that a despatch relat-
ing to a matter of the greatest gravity had been left
unanswered, which had not even been replied to
while disapproving the principle in whose name it
had been outraged—that a Government, thus
treated, I say, should accept the unusual and con-
temptuous method employed to bring it into dis-
cussion ? Nevertheless, a new complaint was
brought against it for not having accepted under
these conditions. The enlightened judgment of
impartial Governments will appreciate the injustice
of this mode of action.

desire.

"In addition to this complaint, and so many
others as little justified, another has been brought
forward. Peru is accused of cruelty towards
Spanish subjects. This is an accusation long"since
prepared ; but as it is generic, I have left it till the
close.

"To render it possible of belief, it is really neces-
sary it should be publicly and solemnly-prefetred.
rdo not reply to it. I yield the woril to the hun-
dreds of Spaniards, who, settled in Peru in pease
and tranquillity, pass their pleasant and agreeable
lives ; to those who, in large numbers, have made
considerable and secure fortunes upon that hospi-
table soil ; to those who greeted General Pinzon on
the day of his arrival in the port of Callao ; to
those who publicly and spontaneously signed the
memorial addressed to their Sovereign in conse-
quence of the occupation of the Chincha Islands.
Let those reply who, from April 14th until now,
have continued to live in Peru with the same
tranquillity and the same calm as before, devoting
themselves to their affairs without being disquieted
by the most just and most universal emotion.
Lastly, let the public conscience and the notoriety
of -facts respond.
" After this, what remains of the accusations and
complaints of Spain against Peru ? What has been
the conduct of the Governments of the two nations
respectively ?

" May God preserve your Excellency.
(Signed) " PEDRO JOSE CALDERON."

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The official inspection of the new Herbert Hospi-
tal, in course of completion on Kidbrook Common,
near Woolwich, was terminated on Saturday. The

committee consisted of Capt. D. Galion, F.R.S.,
Under Secretary of State for War ; Col. J. S.
llawkins, commanding Royal Engineer at Wool-
wich ; Capt. W. Newsome, Royal Engineers, &Vi-
sional commanding officer ; Mr. Mennie, surveyor
to the War Department ; Mr. Ware and Mr. Tait,
clerks of the works ; and Mr. G. Myers, the build-
ing contractor. The inspection occupied a period
of nine days, when the committee at length resolved
on the necessity of recommending that the eastern
pavilion and other portions of the building should
be partially reconstructed, and that other measures
should be taken to remedy as far as possible defects
at the base of the building, many portions of which
are tottering and unsafe, in consequence of the
yielding of the yielding of the soil. The cause of
this is that the drainage, by an extraordinary over-
sight, was ordered to be laid down below instead of
above the deep layer of concrete and rubble form-
ina be artificial foundation. The occurrence, for
which, it is stated, the contractor is in no degree
responsible, is exceedingly unfortunate, as the struc-
ture, in its present state, is said to have cost the
Government upwards of £300,000. The pavilion
has been " needled" or propped up, with a view of
forming a new and more lasting
.and solid founda-
tion without delay.

The officers of the Select Committee of Ordnance
in Woolwich Arsenal having recommended the ex-
periment of trying the advantage of wrought iron
in the place of wood, now in use, for gun carriages
for field use, their recommendation is ordered to be
put in force by the manufacture of a 9-pounder
field battery complete. A sample gun carriage in
wood, which has been made for that purpose, was
on Saturday transmitted to the fitting branch of the
carriage department in Woolwich Arsenal, with in-
structions to carry out the design from the pattern.
The framework is to be made hollow and as light as
possible, consistently with the strength required.
The wheels, limbers, ammunition boxes, and the
whole of the materials are to be exclusively of ham-
mered iron and copper, and the battery, it is calcu-
lated, will be more serviceable and durable, and will
cost less, than the appurtenances hitherto made of
wood.

In accordance with instructions from the Admi-
ralty, a formal report has been prepared by the
officials of Chatham Dockyard of the result of the
trials made at that establishment to test the working
of Aveling and Porter's, steam traction-engines, one
of which has been in constant use in Chatham Dock-
yard for several weeks past for experimental pur-
poses, during which it has been put to some of the
most severe testa in all descriptions of labour. The
results have been invariably most satisfactory. The
reports made by the several heads of departments all
speak in the highest terms of the advantages result-
ing from theme of the steam traction-engine in such
an extensive establishment as Chatham, as com-
pared with the ordinary manual and horse labour.
On the score of economy the comparison is still more
favourable, the average cost at which one of the
steam traction-engines can be supplied for use in the
dockyard being 13s. 6d. per day, which is little more
than the contract price paid by the Admiralty for a
team of horses ; while day after day, for some weeks
past, the traction-engine has been engaged in trans-
porting loads from one end of the dockyard to the
other. This, in the ordinary way, would require as
many as 20 horses. The plans are now being the
Admiralty for laying down iron tramways through
the principal parts of Chatham Dockyard, at an
estimated cost of between £20,000 and £30,000.
Experiments have, however, shown that three
powerful traction-engines, the cost of which would
be some £1,500, would, for all necessary pur-
poses, 'entirely dispense with the proposed tram-
ways, the engines answering all practical purposes,
and at the same time doing away with the large
outlay now required for the hire of the number
of horses requisite to carry on the work at that
establishment.

" Regarding the first of these points, that un-
justifiable aggression on the 11th April—surpassing
all the offences Spain believes herself to have re-
ceived from Peru, even supposing those offences
were real and proved—is the most eloquent and
most triumphant reply that can be made. As for
the second, two successive missions by Peru to obtain
the recognition of her independence and the friend-
ship of Spain ; on the part of the latter Power, one
single mission, entrusted to a person evidently pre-
judiced against Peru, frivolous and of a turbulent
temper. Peru making, lastly, a final effort, in the
communication of:April 13th, to re-establish the
official relations thrice interrupted with Spain ;
Spain disdaining to reply to this despatch, and as-
suming nevertheless that Peru would enter into dis-
cussion with her under an at least irregular and
unusual form ; lastly, noisy complaints and
re-
iterated threats.
" Peru, free and independent by naturalteofficial right and
justice, does not nevertheless refusethe h
law of custom
re-
cognition known to etiquette which
who emancipate
has established against peoples
above all the Christi-
anity she professes, is not themselves., Peru, reverencinginsensible to the immense
benefit she owes to Spain, who first brought her
that Christianity, equally
as Spain and other nations
success
of the modern world bay. e received itsuccessively
designs of Pro-
vidence. i
from one another, according to the
With Christianity Peru has received the
principle of civilisation and of intellectual culture ;
this it is which has inspired her with the holy love
of independence and liberty, and which has given
her the consciousness of her rights. The religion
which has endowed the martyr with courage and
inspired him with heroism, which creates the veri-
table civic virtues, fortifies Peru, and will prevent
her ever falling into abjectness.
" such are the reasons and the sentiments Which

In order to ascertain the amount of means and
assistance which could be suddenly brought to bear
upon a fire occurring in Chatham dockyard, direc-
tions were suddenly issued to the police and other
officers at that establishment by Capt. Stewart, C. 8.,
yesterday afternoon, to attend at a fire which was
supposed to have broken out at the extensive range
of buildings known as the storehouses, abutting on
the Anchor-wharf, and facing the river. Within
only a very few minutes after the order had been
given the whole of the police not on duty were on
the spot in their fire-clothes, with their sergeants and
inspectors, under the direction of Mr. Superintendent
Strength, to whom all the operations were confided.
In less than 5 minutes from the alarm being passed
through the yard, five fire-engines and ten hose-reels
were before the premises stated to be on fire, and
200 men and labourers at work at the engines. At
the same time the powerful floating engine was
brought up the harboui, and within ten minutes the
floating engine, five hand-engines, and ten hose-reels
were deluging the block of buildings with water, the
supply being apparently only limited by the capacity
of the reservoir from which it was obtained. Enough
water was thrown from the river and land engines
in a quarter of an hour to extinguish the most serious
fire which could possibly occur.
The Edgar, 71, screw line-of-battle ship, Captain
Geoffrey, T. B. Hornby, flagship of Rear-Admiral
S. C. Dacres, C. 8., is preparing at Portsmouth for
a voyage to Lisbon on special service, understood
to be the investiture of his Majesty the King of
Portugal with the insignia of the Most Noble Order
of the Garter. It is stated that the Earl of Sefton
goes out to Lisbon in the Edgar as the representa-
tive of her Majesty and the bearer of the Garter to
the King of Portugal.
The court-martial on such of the offictehres
Lanedrdscreowf
of her Majesty's late ship Bombay as
the Admiralty may direct will assembly on board
her Majesty's ship Victory, atPortsmouth,
to-
morrow (Wednesday), at 9.30
a.m.,
nl., under the pre-
sidency of Rear-AdmiralSydney
Colpoys Dacres,
C. 8., the Commander-in-Chief of the Channel
Fleet.
w troopship, Capt. Lacy, will
and, if
offekpoatssPortsmouth
The Himalaya, sere
Valiant will afterwards
be placed in the same
beto-
duanyd,o
and
dd
tfhreo iron efrid/ogVcaakterl:
the same tide.
In the Royal Naval Reserve, Robert William
Evans has been appointed honorary lieutenant.

The General Provident Assurance Society
Amongst the many novelties introduced into tife assur-
ance business none are of more importance to the co er-
sickness minx
cial and classes than those for providing against
pacity. In the prospectus of the
General
Provident Assurance
Company, which will be found in
another column, it will be seen that the directors are now
prepared to issue policies to meet both the above cases.
Their present annual income amounts to £20,000, and the
di rectors being men of business habits and commer-
cial standing,
a sufficient guarantee is given for
the faithful discharge of any liability the company
may incur. In addition to the new features we have alluded
to,' the directors have carefully elaborated several other
novelties in business, which enable them to offer paid-up
policies to insurers on equitable terms; also to grant deposit
policies in lieu of fixed sums paid down, and this of itself
cannot fail to procure the General Provident a large acces-
sion of new assurers. The directors further propose. to
make advances on real or personal security :in connection
with life assurance, but they wisely intend to abstain from
entertaining purely speculative proposals, where large pro-
fits are only to be secured by immense risk. The active
steps the directors are now taking to extend the busines
of the society show that they are in earnest with thec.
matterom
they have in hand, and with the means they have a
wand mecca must be certain.