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

TILE PACIFI'c

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 raili continued -very unfavour-
able to the preset Goverment. El Comercio, which
is a strong Grivernment paper, says, " Mutiny and
riot are thr: order of . the day." The outbreaks in
Copiapr, and -Talca had been followed 'by others in
diffe,:ent provinces. .-Coneopcion, Tome, the Aran-
erziian territory, and in fact the whole country, both
i'north and'south,-appeared to be 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.
ProductS—Bar copper was held at 20 dois. per
quintal ; flour, 4 dols. ditto ; bar silver, 10 dols.
31c. per mare ; saltpetre, 2 dols. 25c. to 2 dols; 31.
per quintal ; tallow, refined, 16 dols. per ditto.
Freights , and charters-7 British ship Rose, of
England, Tongoy to Liverpool, metals, 40s. ; ditto
brig Britain's Pride, Iquique for Cork, for orders,
saltpetre, 455. ;- dittd, ship Lien*, saltpetre, for
owners ; ditto, Shakspeare, ditto ; ditto, Bogota,
ditto; ditto, Dim Diego, Tocopilla 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 c Julia. This 'vessel arrived
at Puna on' February
,10th froth Central Anierica,
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. y During the
captain's absence, a Peruvian man-of-war, of
those forming the blockade before the city of
Guayaquil, went down to Pima, 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 comnsan•
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.
tinned.

CHURCH RATES AT ST. CLEMENT
.DANES.

Yesterday a batch of church rate summonses,
disputed on the ground of their validity, were heard
before Messrs. Bailey and Stillwell, two of her
Majesty's justices of the peace acting in and for the
Strand division of the county of Middlesex.
The first case was that of Mr. Truelove.
Mr. BRADLAUGH, from the office of Mr. T.
Harvey, who appeared for the defendant, said that
as this case came equally within the jurisdiction of
the Bow-street police magistrates, would it not be
better that the case should go for decision there ?
Not that for one moment he would suppose that
that court would be influenced by any private feel-
ings, but from the fact that Mr. Isaacson, the vestry
clerk of St. Clement Danes, an interested party, and
who might in fact be called the plaintiff; was on all
points the legal adviser of the bench, it might
perhaps be advisable that they should decline to
hear the summons.

Mr. ISAACSON said it was solely on points of law
his opinion would be given. On any other he should
decline to offer any advice.
Mr. BRADLAUGH called attention to the case of
" The Queen v. Byron," L.J.,' p. 134, in which it
was decided that on a church rate which was ad-
judged bad on the face of it, the justices were not
hound to enter. In this case the first item was
balance due to the late senior churchwarden,
£4B Bs. ld. A retrospective item has always been
held bad. Again, " Charity dispensed as per
churchwardens' account, £192 Bs. 1d.," was an
item which could not come within the scope of a
church rate ; and although it must be urged that a
sum was set down as balance on the other side, yet
that was purely hypothetical. Then insurance for,
vestry-house, alms-houses, &c., had no connection
whatever with the church, and could not be in-
cluded.

The CHAIRMAN said the rate had been allowed by
the surrogate, and duly made and signed. He re-
gretted as much as any one that, in any church
rate, these squabbles and such a waste of time
should take place ; but he, as an inhubitant of the
parish, had paid the rate, and believed that it was
not only valid, but of a fair and equitable charac-
ter. -When the rate was made all the parishioners
might have been present, but by absenting them-
selves they must be assumed to have legalised the
rate.

Mr. BRADLAUGH said that for the reasons first
urged he still thought the justices then present
should not entertain the summonses. He objected
that the chairman had prejudged the legality of
the rate; and as to the signing of the rate by the
surrogate, that was purely a matter of form, granted
without the slightest inquiry into the estimates.
The CHAIRMAN said that that rate was carried
by a poll.
Mr. BRADLAUGH contended that that' did not
legalise the rate.
After some deliberation, the Chairman decided
that he should entertain the case.
Mr. BRADLAUGH then proceeded to state the case,
objecting to the rate on the above ground, announc-
ing his intention of appealing to the Ecclesiastical
Court should the decision of the justices be adverse.
Mr. NEX, one of the churchwardens, then an-
nounced that it was not his intention to ask for any
adjudication until they should have taken further
advice on the subject.

The hearing of other cases was made subject
to this intimation and deferred.

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

Mr. Alfred I`nnyson, Poet Laureate, has left
Little Holland House, Kensington, for his seat in the Isle
()f Wight:

DREADFUL ACCIDENT IN CIIATIIAM DOcKYARD:
A fatal accident happened yesterday afternoon in this
dockyard to a workman named Gallavan, 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 idnioit instantly deprived of life, his
body, before the engine could be stopped, being torn limb
from limb, wi
_presenting a frightful spectacle. His re,
1110114
.q ere colkectsd and removed to, tile .de4dielkse
await a corone'r's ii.qtiest. The • deceased was an excellent
workman and a very steady man, He has left a widow and
six children.