The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-18 00:00:00

STHE PACIFIC.

- By the Royal mail steamer Parana, with the West
li2d!a.and Pacific mails, we receive our usual journals
and despatches from the Pacific ports.
The Pacific Steam Navigation Company's steamer
B ,cota arrived at Panama on the 21st ult., with 24 pas-
sengers, $405,000 in specie, and dates from Valparaiso
to the ist, and Callao to the 11th of July.'
Valparaiso intelligence furnishes full reports of the
dostruc`ion caused by a great storm which had visited
that coast. Several vessels received severe damage,
among them the British barque Balgonnie ; the other
vessels belonged to the coast. Fourteen launches and a
sloop were entirely lost. but fortunately no lives perished.
The barometer fell to 29.50 ; the mountain streams over-
flowed their channels and inundated some parts of the
city, damaging considerably the houses on the beach.
The railroad suffered very severely from the overflow of
the rivulet Vina del Mar, which rose 15 feet above its
level, carrying- with it everything upon its banks. The
iron railroad bridge across this stream was swept away,
impeding the works along the line for some days.
Lighter damage was sustained on other parts of the
road. It was supposed these casualties would prevent
the inauguration of the railroad as far as Limacbe on
the 18th Sept., as had been resolved, in commemoration
of the anniversary of Independence. The storm was
equally severe in the south of the Republic • the Mole
at Constitution was destroyed and several bridges carried
away ; six or seven ships went ashore to avoid sinking ;
the fl3od of the Maule was one of the largest on record.
The losses sustained by this calamity are calculated at
upwards of $500,000 throughout the Republic.

The elections took-place'on the 25th and 26th June,
and on the 25th of July the electors were again to meet,
when it was decided Senor Montt was to be proclaimed
as re-elected for the Presidency for the next five years
without opposition.'
The municipality of Santiago had contracted with a
company to light the city with gas.
Mr. George Smith had received his exequatur as Bri-
tish Vice Consul at Santiago.
The markets are reported as exceedingly dull, there
being no buyers, although the imports have been large. i
.Exports.were quoted as follows :--C .ppir in bars, per
qql., $2l ; siivee in bars, per mare, $lO 31n. ; bar-
lay, per fanega, $5; flour, per 2001 b., $l2; coal, Lota,
per ton, $B.

Freights—Fran Caldera for Swansea, per British
;
barque Mayola, 4/. 10s. from Islay and Iquique for
Liverpool, per British ship Fusileer, 6/. 10i.; from Val.
paraiso• for Australia, per British brig. Ellen Simpson,
21. ; from Chinohas for Cork, per British harqua
Glenshee, 4/. ; from Valparaiso for Tahiti, per British
brig Cronkbain, $21.50e.

The C. F. Leasing, for Hamburg, and the Mathilde,
for Havre, sailed iroln Iquique early in June, There
were loading at that port the Ophir and the Briton, for
Liverpool ; the J. Jones and the Rebecca' to order ; the
J. CJe.tar, fur Australia ; "and the Theodor, for Ham-
burg.

Tue Peruvian news is of little interest. No outbreak
hall occurred. The tight rein kept upon the press of
Peru by Dictator Castilla prevented the publication of
any truthful statements respecting affairs. By this ar-
rival we have no further news of General Echenique's
invasion, or the pr,ispects of- his parly-; he is still in
Valparaiso. C mgress had returned froin Chorillos to
Luna.

Freights—To England, 31. 103. to 4/. ; light, 61. 10s.
To France, 110 f. to 111 f. 50J. To Germany, 41.
Peruvian funds, 55 to 58 per tent. ; Binds of Inter-
national Debt, 38 to 62 per cent.

News frJm Bolivia reports that the Republic was
quiet.

No mails bad arrived from Ecuador.
The mail steamer Santiago had been Ashore on Santa
Maria Point, and she was repaired in the island of To-
bago. s