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

THE IRISH MILITIA.

The adjutant of the Dublin militia will proceed to
enrol volunteers for the infantry corps on Monday next.
He calls for 800 "spirited young men." A regiment of
artillery is to be raised for the county Dublin. No rifle
corps is reported.
Lord Stuart de Decies has appointed William C. Bo-
naparte Wyse, son of the British Minister at Athens,
and John Esmonde, DI., M.P. for the county Water-
ford, to be captains in the Waterford Light Infantry.
Captain Callaghan has intimated to the master of the
workhouse his readiness to take 12 boys who can read
and write, as buglers for the North Cork Regiment of
Militia.

• 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 Nov. 5 Georgetown (De-
- I

Tampico
Havannah
Santa Martha Oct. 25

Greyto wn (Mos-
quito)
Carthagena — 10
Chagres
Kingston (Jamaic4) 10
Jacmel (Hayti)

San Juan (Porto
Rico) ' — 15
Berbice (British
Guiana) — 8
Tobago — 8

Trinidad

merara)
Barbadoes
Grenada
Carriacou — 10
St. Vincent's
St. Lucia — 11
Martinicifte
Guadaloupe — 12
Dominica — 12
Antigua
Montserrat — 13
Nevis
St. Kitt's IL
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
$321,967 in gold. The remittances for account
of the Mexican dividends are $36,000. The
freight list also comprises precious stoma, value
4601., 30 serons of cochineal, 6 serons 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 Steam 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-
war Aveuture 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 1,300,000 during the fortnight:
The home trade is dull. Seine descriptions of cotton
are held at an advance. Stocks of silk, wellens 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 tLestocks 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 reels. No sales.
"Freights.—Ores Tongoy to Liverpool, 51. 10s. ;
guano to Liverpool, 4/. 10s. San Francisco, 10 dole. to
12 dols. Nothing doing to Australia.
"Her Britannic Majesty's steamer Dido arrived ox
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
Janua 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,
laving 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 public buildings. Various revo-
lutionary proclamations and 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 advises 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 ii 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 on 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 American advises. Bread-
stuffs maintain their position, and, with the exception
of flour, are scarce. Co], iu tierces, has with difficulty
held 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 are reported at 30s. to 30s. 6d.
per 1001 b. ; 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-the 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 toll upon the 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 bad been issued.
Tho 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_J, a.cme.l. Her
Majesty's ships Imauns, Vestal, \I, (Avenue, and
Bermuda were at Jamaica, and the Devastation at
St. Thomas's.

TIIE NORTHERN SHIPWRIGHTS.—SUNDEELAND, 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 northeast 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 Howdon. At Hartlepool the notice of a re-
duction of wages was given by the masters, but in one or
two instances withdrawn. At Blyth there has been no
change. On the Wear live or six yards are at work at
the old wages of Os. 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.