The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-14 00:00:00

THE WEST INDIA LIIAIL.

SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 13.
The Royal Mail Company's steam ship Atrato,
Cantain Wnnllpr. with the West India nnrl Pfw;fir,
mails, arrived this afternoon.
The British brig Belle, of Liverpool, has been
wrecked at Barbadoes—five of the hands were lost.
Captain Brooks, the master, has come home in the
Atrato.
The weather at Barbadoes had been more favour-
able ; the heat, however, continued oppressive.
Showers had been frequent, and the growing crops
looking better. The crops were nearly all finished;
few estates were converting their remaining canes
into rum. About 2,000 hhds. sugar remained to be
shipped, which would bring up the total export
crop of the year to over 50,000 hhds.
At Trinidad the growing crops were suffering
from excessive moisture, the cane pieces looking
thin and yellow, and all field operations carried
on under most discouraging and trying difficulties.
There was nothing stirring in the political world
of Trinidad.
The Local Exhibition at Demerara was closed

on the 7th by his Excellency the Lieutenant-
Governor, who delivered an address on the occa-
sion. No efforts were being spared to make the
collection of colonial products to be exhibited at
the great exposition of industry iN 1862 worthy
of the colony.
At Jamaica the question of cotton cultivation is
still kept before the public, and in many parts of
the country the small settlers had commenced
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ing. The Bank of Jamaica held its half-yearly
meeting on the 10th inst. The report exhibited a
sustained loss of £39,381 45,, consequent upon the
failure of a firm, swallowing up the nett profits of
the half-year, amounting to £4,976 Bs. 5d., and the
reserved surplus fund of £20,999 19s 10d, leaving a
balance at debit of profit and loss of £14,304 16s.
6d. Trade is reported at its lowest ebb, without a
shadow of speculative feeling in transactions; no
disposition to take up stocks to any extent prevailed,
and business was restricted to almost retail opera-
tions; prices were with difficulty maintained.
CHILI.

The news from Chili is not important. The British
ship Ann Pitcairn, from Liverpool, had put into
Valparaiso for repairs, and to enable the captain to
obtain medical advice for injuries he had received
during a gale. The Crusader, with guano from
Baker's Island, for Hamburg, had also put into
Valparaiso in distress. This vessel left at Baker's
Island seven ships loading guano for Europe.
The Russian steamer Morge had arrived at Val-
paraiso.

Senor Jose Juaquin Perez has been publicly pro-
claimed President of the Republic at Santiago, on
the Ist Sept.
The news from Peru is still more unsatisfactory
than hitherto. There appears a fair prospect of
the country getting into trouble with both Bolivia
and Ecuador.

General dissatisfaction has arisen in Lima and
Callao from the action of President Castilla towards
the ex-President Echenique. It will be remembered
that the latter was arrested last March on a charge
of conspiracy against the Government. He has since
been tried by the different tribunals and honourably
acquitted, and yet, in the face of this, Castilla has
again forcibly banished him from the country.
The officers of the navy all refused to convey
General Echenique away, on the ground that the
act would be illegal, and Castilla finally became so
enraged that he drew his sword on one of the cap-
tains, and was only Prevented running him through
by one of his ministers. Castilla finally succeeded
in getting a fellow to carry Echenique off in a trans-
port vessel by paying him 20,000 dols. for the job,
and promising him 300 dols. monthly for four years
in order to live abroad, as he dare not return to
Lima after thus flagrantly breaking the laws. This
is considered one of the most high-
handed acts of
injustice ever committed in Peru, and will not only
bring universal opprobrium on Castilla, but greatly
strengthen the cause of Echenique throughout the
country. Senores Rivas, Elespulu, and Larranaga
were also banished at the same time, •