The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-21 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21, 1859.

11 ATTEST

NEWS.

The following telegrams have been received al
Mr. Reuter's office :
PARIS, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 20.

The Illoniteur of to-day publishes the nomination
of several secretaries to French embassies abroad,
among which the Marquis Chateaurenard as secre-
tary of the embassy at London.

The state of Prince Jerome's health continues to
improve, and there will be no bulletins published
for some days.

TURIN, DEC. 20.

Al. Buoncompagni leaves to•day for Florence.

The designation of Count Cavour as First Pleni-
potentiary of Sardinia at the Congress is definite,
and will be notified to the different Powers after
the nominations of the other Plenipotentiaries have
been published.
The frigate Eurydice is about to sail for China,
to protect the interests of the Italian subjects re-
siding there.

ROME, DEC. 17 (via Marseilles.)

It is stated that on the 28th inst. Cardinal Anto-
nelli will embark on board a Pontifical corvette for
France. Monsignore Bernardi will be entrusted
ad interim with the ministerial functions of the
Cardinal.

In order to cover the deficit, the Minister of
Finance has sold two millions of francs of Roman
consolidated funds, without having recourse to a
loan.

MEXICAN MAILS.

MADRID, DEC. 20.
Abundant rains have inundated the Spanish camp
and the surrounding country.

JASSY, DEC. 18.
The National Assembly, after having received a
message from Prince Couza, has been dissolved.

THE FOREIGN MAILS.
At the hour of our going to press the French and
German mails had not arriTed.

intend to make them undergo the most terrible
tnr!rwiltq. On the 30th they wore enrupletely sur-
rounded
by the Simancas and Catalonia Riflemen,
and every one of them had to be cut down. There
are a great many of their priests among them ;
these are to be distinguished by their long beards,
their wild appearance, and their peculiar yells,
which are invocations to the Prophet. These priests
take a peculiar care to finish the wounded Spaniards
that lay on the ground, and they are seen to ad-
minister heavy blows with their muskets on the
head and shoulders of those of their own men who
show any signs of mercy. This sight enrages very
much the Spanish soldiers, and the officers have no
small trouble in preventing them from imitating
the atrocities of the Moorish priests. One of the
latter, remarkable for his dirty tunic and his terrific
screams, had killed with his " gumia" a young ensign'
and a soldier. He was preparing to stab a wounded
artilleryman, and was uttering then a perfectly
diabolical yell, when a Spanish sergeant rushed
upon him and plunged a bayonet into his opened
mouth. The death of their " saints" always causes
great discouragement among the Moors.
My friends adds that he is now obliged, as well
as the other officers, to allow the soldiers to despatch
with a bayonet thrust their wounded enemies, as
these, when they can do no more, bite the legs of
the Spaniards.
The Emperor of Morocco has offered large prizes
to those of his soldiers who should take guns. This
explains their wild and obstinate attacks against
the artillerymen.
Several Spanish officers have already been pro-
moted on the field of battle.

THE TVEST INDIA, PACIFIC, AND

PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY.

The Royal Mail Company's steamship Parana,
Commander T. A. Bevis. from St. Thomas's, Dec.
3, put into the Sound this morning short of fuel,
bound to Southampton.
Her dates are Greytown, Nov. 16; Belize, 18;
Santa Martha, 23; Colon, 23; Berbice, 24; George-
town, Demerara, 25; Carthagena, Tobago, and Tri-
nidad, 26; Jamaica, Grenada, Carriacou, and St.
Vincent's, 27; Hayti and Barbadoes, 28; St. Lucia,
Martinique, and Guadaloupe, 29; Porto Rico, Do-
minica, Antigua, Montserrat, Nevis, and St. Kitt's,
30th; Tortola, Dec. 1; and St. Thomas's, Dec. 3.
Her cargo includes 178 serons of cochineal, 60
serons of indigo, 3 cases of cigars, 156 bales of bark,
186 bags of cocoa, 5 bales of hats, and 270 bags of
mineral ore.

The specie and bullion brought are valued at
747,399 dols.—viz., across the Isthmus, in gold,
189,222 dols.; silver, 539,465 dols. ; Carthagena,
3,683 dols. ; Jamaica, 7,240; and the West Indies,
7,789 dols.

Among her 61 passengers are 36 first-class, in-
chiding Assistant-Commissary-General Blane, from
Trinidad ; the Rev. Mr. Rawle, from Barbadoes ;
and Lieutenants Campbell and Bushe, from Colon.
Her Majesty's ships Styx and Atalanta were at
Barbadoes, the Arachne at Venezuela, the Cossack
at St. Domingo, the Indus at Bermuda, and the
Imaum and Basilisk at Jamaica.

The Royal Mail Company's steamships Derwent,
Captain West, from Trinidad, and Wye, Captain
Thwaites, were at Jamaica ; the Medway, Captain
Holt, was down the Main ; the Trent, Captain
Woolcott, was in the Gulf. The Clyde, Captain
Heeman, from Madeira ; the Conway, Capt. Ham-
mack, from the Islands ; the Teviot, Capt. Gillis,
from Jamaica ; the Thames, Captain Lewis, from
the Spanish Main, and the Solent, Captain Wood.
ward, were at St. Thomas's.

In Chili the excitement caused by the late dis-
turbances continued unabated, but no further out-
breaks had occurred.

The damage done by the earthquake at Copiapo
is estimated at 1,500,000 dols.
On the 31st of October a fire destroyed consider-
able property at Valparaiso. It broko out in the
Calle de la Planchada. The principal sufferers
were Besson Brothers, Ajacio Brothers, Manuel
and Co., M. Martineau, the Hotel de France, J. V.
Sanchez, and Dickson, Harker, and Co.
The accounts from Peru are unfavourable ; there
is every prospect of the countrybeing soon involved
both in a foreign and civil war.
The troßbles between the State of Ecuador and
Peru appear to be drawing to a crisis. On the 7th
General Castilla sailed from Payta for Guayaquil,
with nearly 10,000 men and 14 vessels of war, in-
tending to invade the country. The next advices
will probably bring intelligence of an engagement.
Captain Grenfell, of her Majesty's ship Ame-
thyst, has seized two Mexican cotton-laden ships,
and has threatened to take more if Mr. Allsop, the
British Consul at Tepic, is not immediately released
by Conorado and Rosas. Senor Don Placido Vega;
the Governor of Sinaloa, professes to have no means
of inducing those Generals to comply with Captain
Grenfell's demand.

Business at Jamaica has latterly been much re-
stricted, through the meagre supply of American
stuffs. Supplies of produce have been limited, and
the markets in consequence are very quiet. The
coffee plant has not yet recovered from the effects
of the protracted rains. Jamaica is healthy.

Occasional showers have fallen at Barbadoes.
The crops are good. A strong force of yeomanry
cavalry is enrolled.
In the island of St. Lucia a slight earthquake
was experienced on the 17th of November. No
damage was done. The canes were looking well.
The Legislative Assembly at St. George's, Gre-
nada, has made application to the home Govern-
ment for some soldiers of the line to be garrisoned
there.

The Marion Moore, from Calcutta, with 375 im-
migrants, arrived at Georgetown, Guiana, on the
23d of November; the Henry Moore, with 359
statute adults, returning emigrants, sailed for Ma-
dras a few days previously. They left with their
agent 35,982 dols.

The crops at Trinidad are much improved, but
trade is dull and freights are lower. At Demerara
the weather had been fine, and the planters were
busily occupied gathering the crop, which this year
is much retarded by continued rains. The produce,
notwithstanding, may exceed the average.
St. Thomas's continues to suffer severely from
the effects of yellow fever, which has caused many
deaths among the shipping.
Her Majesty' ship Gladiator, which coaled and
left on the 10th of November, proceeded as far as
St. Kitt's, where the fatal disease appeared, and
she landed four men. Two days after other cases
occurred off Tortola, and one man died. She re-
turned to Bermuda with 22 cases. Assistant-
Surgeon G. H. 13ellringer fell a victim.
The Gladiator has left Bermuda for Halifax. The
Parana put four men into hospital at St. Thomas's,
and has lost one mar, Edmund Woodruff, since.
Several of the crew suffered severely. She expe-
rienced strong hendvvinds and heavy seas all the
passage home. On the 10th inst. she spoke the ship
Essex, homeward bound.

AT SEAHAM.—A murder.
SHOCKING MURDER
under painful circumstances, is currently reported to have
taken place at Searttlin a m on Saturday night or Sunday morn-.
that inge It is said
party of pitmen were drinking in °Re of
the public-houses of the town, when a quarrel ensued between
one of them and a couple of young women of the company.
The women, it is said, followed him out, and again attacking
the drunken pitman, battered his skull in, and left him
helpless near the sea beach. They were seen leaving him,
and on the body of the pitman being found on Sunday
morning, inquirywas made into the circumstances, and the
two your women haVe been apprehended. The names
g
he parties are known, but till the whole case be ex-
°i t
am. ined it is not prudent to be more particular.—Setecastle
Chionicle.
THREE FlRES.—Yesterday morning, about two
o'clock, considerable alarm was caused in the neighbour.
hood of Trafalgar-square, in consequence of a fire breaking
out in the Union Club-house, but owing to the timely
arrival of the firemen, the flames were soon extinguished.
Another fire took place at the residence of the Rev. J. P.
M. Halvey, 14, Upper Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square,
• causal' by the overhea4g, a stove in the next house. For-
tunately, the fire was soon subdued. A fire on the pre-
mises of Mr. J. Giles, hat maker, 74, Great Suffolk-street,
Borough, burned the shop and stock. The firemen managed
to confine the flames to the lower part of the house. Some
excitement prevailed yesterday, in consequence of its being
suppoecd that the whole of the marriage certificates and
other church records had been destroyed in the fire which
consumed the church of St. Matthew the previous day. The
firemen, upon cooling the ruins, found two immense iron
safes, and upon opening them the whole of the registers,
books, and documents, with the sacramental plate, although
the saf:s were exposed to enormous heat for hours, had not
sustained the least injury,