The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-06 00:00:00

THE PACIFIC.

Files of the Panama 'Star and Herald to the 10th
of March have come to hand by the West India
steamer Magdalena, arrived at Southampton.
The steamship New Grenada, from the South
Pacific ports, only reached her anchorage in Panama
Bay at 12 o'clocK at noon on that day, so.that the
news is very scanty.
The news from Chili continued very unfavour-
able to the present Goverment. El Comereio, which
is a strong Government paper, says, " Mutiny and
riot are the order of the day." The outbreaks in
Copiapo and Talca had been followed by others in
different provinces. Concepcion, Tome, the Arau-
canian territory, and in fact the whole country, both
north and south, appeared to be up in arms against
the existing Government.
Business appeared in a perfectly stagnant state,
and, although the crops were favourable, it was re-
ported that, owing to the disturbances, hands could
not be procured to save them, and they would be
entirely lost.
Product-4—Bar copper was held at 20 dols. per
quintal ; flour, 4 dole. ditto ; bar silver, 10 dole.
310., 'per marc ; saltpetre, 2 dols. 25c. to 2 dols. 31.
";.,er quintal ; tallow, refined, 16 dols. per ditto.
Freights and charters—British ship Rose, of
England, Tongoy to Liverpool, metals, 405.; ditto
brig Britain's Pride, Iquique for Cork, for orders,
saltpetre, 455. ; ditto, ship Llama, saltpetre, for
owners ; ditto, Shakspeare, ditto; ditto, Bogota,
ditto ; ditto, Don Diego, Toeopilla for Liverpool,
metal, 455. ; ditto, brig Imogene Bolivia, ditto, 40s.
The naval forces of Peru, blockading the port of
Guayaquil, had seized, before the island of Puna,
the Spanish bark Maria e Julia. This vessel arrived
at Puna on February 10th from Central America,
loaded with a valuable cargo of indigo, and, the
mate being in a dying state, the captain went up
to Guayaquil in his boat, with the purpose of leav-
ing his mate in that city, and taking another for
going on his journey to Europe. During the
captain's absence, a Peruvian man-of-war, of
those forming the blockade before the city of
Guayaquil, went down to Puna, and ordered the
second mate of the Maria e Julia to leave the ancho-
rage. The second mate told him that he was un-
able to navigate the ship. The Peruvian comman-
der then took possession of the ship, pulled the
Spanish flag down, hoisted the Peruvian, and sent
the vessel to Paita with a Peruvian crew, putting
the Spanish one on shore in Tumbes. The Spanish
Consul in Guayaquil made his claim, protesting
against these outrages,_ as the vessel, far from
forcing the blockade, had remained quietly in
Puna.

The blockade of the ports of Ecuador still con-
tinued.

The Countess of Longford and Lady Louisa
Pakenham have left town for Tunbridge Wells.
Lady Susan Leslie Melville has succeeded Lady
Fanny Howard as the lady in Waiting to her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Kent.

Mr. Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate, has left
Little Holland House, Kensington, for his seat in the Isle
of Wight.

Count de Jarnac has left Claridge's Hotel for
Thomnastown Castle, Ireland.
HER MAJESTY'S SHIP ARDENT ON SHORE.—
By advicee received from St. Vincent, Cape de Verd, dated
March 22, we learn that her Majesty's ship Ardent got on
shore in the Bight of Benin, but did not sustain anyserious
damage.
At the Court of Bankruptcy yesterday a winding
up order was granted in the case of the
European and
American Steam Company.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT IN CIIATIIAM DOCKYARD.
A fatal accident happened yesterday afternoon in this
dockyard to a workman named Genevan, employed in the
machinery department. The deceased was engaged in doing
something to one of the pumping engines, when, from some
cause which cannot be explained, his clothes came into
contact with a portion of the machinery, and he was imme-
diately drawn in and almost instantly deprived of life, his
body, before the engine could be stopped, being torn limb
from limb, and presenting a frightful spectacle.. His re-
mains were collected and removed to the dead-house to
await a coroner's inquest. The deceased was an excellent
workman and a very steady MAIL lie has left a widow and
six, children.