The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-28 00:00:00

CENTRAL AMERICA.

A sharp shock of earthquake was experienced in
Guatemala on the 9th August.
There was a grand celebration in Salvador from
the 2d to the 6th of August, which was concluded
by a splendid ball given by the President.
The Constitucion speaks in flattering terms of the
progress Salvador is making in commerce and in
the various branches of agriculture.

The newly elected President, Castro, of Costa
Rica, is spoken of in the highest terms by the press
of that State, for the judgment he has shown in the
administration of the Government, and the steps he
has taken to reduce the expense of the different de-
partments of the Republic.

All the Central American States are at peace.
IMPORTANT DECREE.

Jose Maria Castro, President of the Republic of
Costa Rica, aware that the cholera-morbus has ex-
tended to certain points of North America whence
it can easily pass to the States bordering on Costa
Rica, and from them to that Republic, unless the
necessary precautions are taken in time to pre-
vent it.

Decrees. Art. 1. The introduction, by whatever
route, into the territory of the Republic, of all per-
sons or goods proceeding from places infected with
cholera-morbus, or which may have touched in such
places, is prohibited, unless 40 days have passed
without any accident from cholera having happened
to the said persons.

2d. The only deviation from the preceding article
is, that vessels and mails carriers are permitted to
land the correspondence which they bring, deliver-
ing them to the employees appointed to receive
them in the place and form indicated in separate
instructions.

Art. 3. Sanitary regulations shall be established
by the respective Secretaries at the different parts
of the Republic most convenient, and all the requi-
site measures will be taken which the danger de-
in ands.

Art. 4. Persons breaking article Ist will be
treated as criminals operating against the public
health, as also the employees of the Government,
through whose negligence such infraction may be
committed.

Given in the National Palace, San Joso, Costa
Rica, 23d August, 1866.
(Signed) JOSE MARIA C.ASTRO.
Secy. of State,
A. Esquivel.
The Villa de Madrid and Blanca of the Spanish
squadron were at Rio Janeiro, with most of their
crews down with scurvy ; many of them had died
of the disease.

The loan finally contracted for by the Chile Go-
vernment amounts to $4,539,000.
The Minister of Foreign Relations in Chile has
written to the Chile Minister in the Argentine Re-
public to appoint an agent to propose to Admiral
Nunez the exchange of Chile prisoners on board
the Covadong a for Spanish prisoners held by the
Chilians.

Gottschalk was creating great sensation in San-
tiago.

The Pacific Steam Navigation Company's new
steamer Panama, Captain Thomas, arrived at Val-
paraiso on the 7th, from England in 31 days, run-;
ning time.
The new Chilian man-of -war Ne-Shau-Nock had
arrived at Valparaiso from Philadelphia on the 9th.
She passed the Isabella, also a Chile man-of-war,
in the Straits.

The Ne-Shau-Nock reports passing the Spanish
ship Resolucion in the Straits, with nearly all on
board sick with scurvy, without a rudder, and short
of provisions.

A revolutionary movement took place at Puno
in Pero, but was speedily suppressed.
The Italian ship Canube Cavour arrived at Callao
from Macao on the 17th instant, with a cargo of 503
coolies. One hundred and thirty died on the pas-
sage.

Commandante Montero and all the officers and
officials of the Peruvian Navy who refused to ac-
knowledge the appointment of Vice-Admiral Tucker,
have been brought from Valparaiso to Callao as
prisoners, on the war steamer Chalaco. No com-
munication was allowed with the ship after her
arrival.