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

ETHE PACIFIC.

By the Royal mail steamer Parana, with the West
India and Pacific maik, we receive our usual journals
and despatcheS from the Pacific ports.
The Pacific Steam Navigation Company's steamer
Bogota 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
destruction caused by a great storm Which had visited

that coast. Several vessels received severe damage,
among them the British barque Balgounie ; 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 part; of the
road. It was supposed these casualties would prevent
the inauguration of the railroad as far as Limache on
the 18th Sept., as had been resolved, in commemoration
of the anniversary of Independence. The sterna was
equally severe in the south of the Republic ; the Mole
at Constitution was dOstroyed 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 cf $500,000 ihroushout the Republic.
The elections took place on the 25th and 26th June,
and on the 25th of July the electors were again to meet,
t;iben it was 'decided Senor Montt was to be proclaimed
as re-elected for the Presidency for the next five years
without opposition. _

Tue municipality of Santiago had contracted with a
company to light the city with gas.
Mr. George Smith had received his esequatur as Bri-
tish Vice Consul at Santiago.
The markets are reported as exceedingly dull, there
being no buyers, although the imports have been large.
Egpfirts were quoted as follows :—C.,pp,ir in hats, per
qql., $2l 50c.; silver in bars, per mart, $lO 310. ; bar-
ley, per fanega, $5; flour, per 200ib., $l2 ; coal, Lota,
per ton, $B.
_ _ _

'Freights—From Caldera for Swansea, per British
harque Mayola, 41. les. ; from Islay and Iquique for
Liverpool, per British shipFusileer, 61. 10s. ; from Val-
paraiso for Australia, per British brig 14.111 en Simpson,
21. 103. ; from .Chineitas for Cork, per British harque
Glenshee, 4/. ; from Valparaiso for Tahiti, per British
brig Cronkbain, $2l 50e.

The C. F. Lessing, for Hamburg,- and the Mathilde,
for Havre, sailed from Iquique early in June. There
were loading at that port the Qpbir and the Briton, for
Liverpool ; the J. Jones and the Rebecca, to order ; the
J. Caesar, for Australia ; and the Theodor, for Ham-
burg.

The Peruvian news is of little interest. No outbreak
hat occurred, The tight rein kept upon the press of
Peru by Dictator Castilla prevented the public►►tion of
any truthful statements respecting affairs. By this ar-
rival we have no further news of General Echenique's
invasion, or the prospects of his party ; he is still in
Valparaiso. Congress had returned from Chorillos to
Lima.

Freights—To England, 3/. 10s. to 4/. ; light, 61. 10e.
To France, 110 f. to 111 f. 50c. To Germany, 41.
Peruvian funds, 55 to 58 per cent. ; B inds of Inter-
national Debt, 38 to 62 per cent.

News frarn. Bolivia reports that the Republic was
quiet.

No mails had arrived frpm Ecuador.
The mail steamer Santiago had been ashore on Santa
Maria Point, and she was repaired in the island of To-

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