The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-02 00:00:00

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WEST INDIA, PACIFIC, AND MEXICAN
MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY, DEC. 1.
The Royal Mail steam-ship Magdalena, Captain
Abbott, arrived here this morning, brings the West
India, Mexican, and Pacific mails in charge of
Lieutenant Purver, R.N., Admiralty agent. Her
dates are,—

Vera Cruz
Tampico
Havannah
Santa Martha Oct. 25
Greytown (Mos-
quito)
Carthagena — 10
Chagres
Kingston (Jamaica) 10
Jacmel (Hayti) 12
San Juan (Porto
Rico)
Berbice (British
Guiana) — 8
Tobago — 8
Trinidad

Georgetown (De-

merara)
Barbadoes
Grenada
Carriacou — 10
St. Vincent's
St. Lucia - 11
Martinique
Guadaloupe — 12
Dominica — 12
Antigua
Montserrat• — 13
Nevis
St. Kitt's — 13
St. Thomas's

The Magdalena brings 75 passengers, and on
freight specie, value $2,412,603, or say 483,0001.,
sterling. Of this $2,088,336 is in silver and
$321,067 in gold. The remittances for account
of the Mexican dividends are $36,000. The
freight list also comprises precious stones, value
4601., 30 serons of cochineal, 6 serous of jalap, 103
cases of cigars, 12 bales of tobacco, 68 bales of sar-
saparilla, 5 boxes 'of ginger, 9 of live turtle, and 97
packages of sundry merchandise.
The Pacific Stearn Navigation Company's steamer
Santiago arrived at Panama on the 3d of Novem-
ber, with 'the mails from the south, 300,000 dols.
in treasure, and dates from Valparaiso October 14,
Callao, October 25 ; Payta, October 27. This
steamer brought up 40 bags of Australian mail
matter, received via the Sandwich Islands and Val-
paraiso.

From Chili we learn that the Chamber of Depu-
ties had been engaged in discussing a bill for the
regulation of Joint Stock Companies. The report
of the Minister for Foreign Affairs states that,
owing to the increased trade between England and
Chili, a new treaty had been negotiated, and would
be signed and presented to Congress. Peru and
Ecuador had accepted the mediation of Chili for
the settlement of their differences. Messrs. Alan,
Campbell, and Buschenthel had returnedfrom their
inspection of the country between Valparaiso and
Rosario, with a view to its suitability for a railway
to the base of the Andes, and then across the Pam-
pas to Buenos Ayres, and had reported favourably
thereon. The estimate of cost is 26,000,000 dols.
M. Lafosse, first lieutenant of the French ship-of-
warAventure had been killed by a fall from a horse.
A vein of gold has been discovered in the streets of
Santiago, in the very centre of the city, and ar-
rangements were being made to work it. The state
of the Valparaiso markets is thus reported :
" Business is reported brisk. Large arrivals of goods
have taken place, while extensive purchases have been
made at the same time for Mexico and Guayaquil. The
Bolivian trade has also revived. The sales of expor-
tation have amounted to $300,000 during the fortnight.
The home trade is dull. Some descriptions of cotton
are held at an advance. Stocks of silk, wonting and
linens full ; steel, iron, copper, yellow metal, zinc, and
cut nails in brisk demand ; lead plentiful. Stocks of all
classes of oil low, brandies unaltered, claret in wood and
port dull, sherry in demand, with cargoes on their way.
In provisions generally ttestocks are abundant and sales
moderate.

"In active produce flour still continues dull, with
large stocks a fall of 25c. to 50c. per bag of two quintals
has been submitted to this article, is now quoted at 7 50
six months' credit. Wheat and barley are also very
dull. Hides saleable ; copper very. scarce, at advanced
rates. Nitrate is quoted at 18 nab!. No sales.
. .

"Freights.—Ores Tongoy to Liverpool, 51. 40s. ;
guano to Liverpool, 4/. 10s. San Francisco, 10 dols. to
12 dels. Nothing doing to Australia.
" Her Britannic Majesty's steamer Dido arrived on
the 11th from a cruise. The French corvette Aventure
sailed on the 7th for. Callao and Marquesas."
The revolution in Peru is progressing. The
Government forces, which held a position near
Janga had been taken by surprise, and forced
to fall back upon Lima by a flank movement
of General Castilla. President Echineque reached
Lima on. the 25th of October, with 500 cavalry,
leaving the artillery and infantry to follow. Cas-
tilla was at the head of 3,000 men. On the return
of the President becoming known to the people,
great dissatisfaction was manifested, and crowds
gathered in the streets shouting for Castilla. The
troops were called out, and guards placed over the
Palace and other publics buildings. Various revo-
lutionary proclamationsand placards were published,
and in a few instances the people and the soldiers
came into collision. The _Herald° does not mention
that any lives were lost, but private advices state
that six or eight were killed on both sides. All
business was suspended, and the stores and shops
closed. In Callao, likewise, the popular feeling in
favour of Castilla was very apparent. Private ad-
vices inform us that, at the moment of the steamer's
leaving Callao, Castilla was very near Lima, if not
actually in the city.

Bolivia was quiet, and the President Belzu had
furnished the Peruvians with all his spare arms and
ammunition.

El Progresso of Guayquil, under the head of the
"New California is Ecuador," says :
"Gold is found in abundance in the province of
Cuenca. Dr. Mariano Marino has taken out five aro-
has (251 b. each). At the present time many companies
are formed, to one of which Colonel Casilari is attached,
and we know that, after a few days' work, a dividend
of 20oz. each was paid. The city of Cuenca is situate
in a most beautiful valley ; it contains about 20,000 in-
habitants."

Respecting the revolution in New Granada, we
learn that en the 21st of September Colonel Pena
had been defeated, and the capital of Tunja occu-
pied by the Constitutional party. The project
relative to the formation of an independent state
of the Isthmus was to be brought forward in Con-
gress. •

- From Jamaica there is no news. De Cordova's
Intelligencer says :

"Our market retains a steady aspect with rather an
upward tendency of prices. Importations have been
light during the last fortnight, and demand perceptibly
checked by our English and A merican advices. Bread-
stuffs maintain their position, and, with the exception
of flour, are. scarce. Co.), in tierces, has with difficulty
,hold its ground at 18s. Other descriptions of fish are
firm. Exchanges are at last quotations, and in the pro-
duce market a slight elevation is perceptible."
In pimento, sales aro reported at 30s. to 303. Gd.
per 100 lb. ; sugar, 15s. to 18s. ; rum, 3s. 9d. to
3s. 10d. per gallon, for proof 18, in bond ; log-
wood, 40s.
The brig Flora, bound for Baltimore, had got
on the reef facing tho barracks at Falmouth, and
remained stranded with no hopes of getting off.
From British Guiana we have accounts to the
9th of November. The drought still continued
and was beginning to tell upon ihe young canes,
although sugar-making progressed favourably. The
crops of every description except sugar had suffered
severely. The crop of sugar would be a heavy one,
as 38,000 hogsheads had been shipped to the end
of October. The colony was healthy. Trade dull.
Tonnage was in demand, but the rates of freight
unaltered.

Clean bills of health are now given in Barbadoes.
The Barbadoes Globe, in reference to the state of
the island, says :
" The agricultural prospects of the island are most
cheering. The long drought which preceded the advent
of the cholera told upon the canes, but they rapidly re-
covered under the influence of the wet weather which
followed the cessation of the sickness ; and the heavy
rains which we have had during the last several weeks
having restored them to a condition of vigorous health-
fulness their present appearance fully warrants us in
predicting a large sugar crop.
"There have been several arrivals of breadstuffs during
the last fortnight, and prices have somewhat declined ;
trade, however, continues dull, owing to the prevailing
scarcity of money, and the continued abundance of na-
tive ground provisions."
• The cholera has entirely disappeared from St.
Lucia, and clean bills of 'health had been issued.
The weather was very unsettled and rainy. The
Lieutenant-Governor had issued a commission
nominating a local committee for the Patriotic
Fund.
On the 4th the Magdalena communicated with
her Majesty's ship Buzzard, off Jacmel. Het
Majesty's ships Imam's, Vestal, Wolverine, and
Bermuda were at Jamaica, and the Devastation at
St. Thomas's.

THE NORTHERN SHIPWRIGHTS.—SUNDERLAND, NOV,
30. —The strike of the shipwrights, at first confined to
Sunderland, now extends in a greater or less degree to
most of the ports along the north east coast, and there
seems little prospect at present of a termination to it.
All hands on the Tyne are off, with a few limited excep-
tions, as at Howdoc. At Hartlepool the notice of a re-
duction of wages was given by the masters, but in one or
wo instances withdrawn, At BlSith there has been no
Ohange. On the Wear five or six yards are at work at
the old wages of 6s. a-day, but there are only a few men
at each. The total number of men idle in the several
ports is about 1,870.