The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-24 00:00:00

THE PA CIFIC-

SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 23.—8 y the Royal Mail
steamer Avon we have received our usual advices
from the various Pa( ific ports. The dates from Val-
paraiso are to the 26th of October. The British mail
steamer Chile arrived from Callao on the 6:h with
specie value 96,000 dolls. on freight; the Peru arrived
on the 21st with 325,500 dolls , of which 300,000
dolls. were the productions of the silver mines of
Copiapo. The American ship Virginia arrived on
the 16th with 75,000 dolls. in gold dust from San
Francisco. In political affairs there was no novelty.
The expected extra session of Congress had not taken
place. The Finance Minister had visited Valparaiso,
and a permission to bond sugar in that port had been
granted. Don Vincente Perez had been named, by,
a decree of the 1 ith of October, agent for the coin-
' nizstion of Valdivia, and was about to take up his
residence there to afford assistance to emigrants, a
great many of whom were expected from Germany
and from various parts of Europe. A company had
been formed in Valparaiso, to whom the Chilian Go-
vernment had granted a contract for the settlement
and cultivation of the island of Juan Fernandez, with
the exclusive privilege of occupying it for a specified
term of years. A regular communication with this
island was to be established, and advantages held out
to emigrants. The iMercurio of Valparaiso gives
the following resume of the commerce of the re-
public:—
" The imports of foreign merchandise during the first
three montils of the pi esent year amounted to 2,778,666
dolls.

" The exports of fruits and national produce
amounted, during the same three months, to 2,369,528
dolls., to which must be added 322,951 dolls, of foreign
merchandi,e.

" Consequently there was a perfect balance between
the imports and the exports of the first quarter of this
year. _ _ _

" England, as usual, figures in the first line of all
the nations with whom we hold commercial connexions.
The English imports, during the quarter, amount to
948,802 dolls.—nearly 1,000,000 dolls. The national
exports to England amount to 748,884 dolls.
" California occupies the next place, whence we have
received in gold during the three months 475,201 dolls.,
and from our ports have been shipped in effects 475,975
dolls., of which the sum of 540,961 dolls. is Chilian
produce.
"North America, including California, is our grerdest
consumer, as England is our prim ipal purveyor. In the
first quarts r England imports 948,802 dolls., and ex-
ports 748,884 dolls.; the United States imports 684,528
dolls., and exports 94,179 dolls."
The department of public credit in Santiago had
given notice that the funds of the 3 per cent. home debt,
consolidated up to the 9th Oct.,amounted to 1,765,925
dolls., from which had been liquidated 301,075 dolls.,
leaving in circulation 1,464,880 dolls. The rains this
year had been unusually heavy, and in the south of Chili
great distress prevailed. In the Chilian papers the
subject of coinage was under frequent discussion, and
much was said about the relative value of silver and
gold. The Valparaiso Neighbour of the 24th of
October contains an article, recommending the estab-
lishment of an efficient mail communication between
Chili and the United States by American packets,
ria Panama. The Valparaiso Mercantile Reporter
publishes a paragraph detailing the steps taken to
establish the proposed Santiago and Valparaiso Rail-
way. Part of the line had been inspected by Mr.
Allan Campbell, who proposed to lay the line by way
of Concon, Quillota, and .San Felipe.

From Peru we learn that the candidates for the
Presidential chair are Echenique, Vivanco, Osma,
and Elias, the first of whom it would appear com-
mands a mijority in the south of the Republic,
although at present it is a mere matter of conjecture
as to who will he the successful aspirant.
Business wears but a gloomy aspect, although the
markets are well supplied. The uncertainty of affairs
in Bolivia is sensibly felt; nor can we anticipate
brighter prospects until confidence in that Govern-
' merit is re-established.
Our accounts from Bolivia state that General Belzu
was progressing favourably. A permanent court-
martial was sitting, from whose sentence there was
no appeal. Colonel Laguna, President of the Senate,
has been found guilty as an accomplice in the at•
tempted assassination, and was shot on the 19th of
September. Seven deputies, leaders of the Opposi-
tion, had been arrested, and it was feared would be
condemned to the same fate by the same court. Ar-
rests and sentences of banishment were matters of
daily occurrence, but tha principal conspirators were
supposed to be lying concealed at Sucre, with the
exception of Morales and Lopez, who it was thought
had crossed the frontier at Tarija. Reports had been
circulated that General Ballivian had made his ap-
pearance on the southern frontier at the head of 1,000
men, but nothing certain is known.
The French corvette &dense, 25, arrived at Val-
paraiso, on the sth of October, from Talcahuano.
The French corvette Capricieuse, 26, arrived on the
13th, from the same port, and sailed on the 16th for
China. The United States store-ship Fredonia sailed
on the 10th, for the United States. The American
corvette Preble sailed on the 22d.

The Hamburg barque Steinwaerder, from Cuxhaven,
with emigrants from Valdivia, was seen in distress,
and in a dangerous state, in the latitude of Cape
Horn, by an English ship arrived at Valparaiso.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
VALPARAISO, OCT. 26.
(From the Valparaiso Mercantile Intelligencer.)

Our market during the entire mouth ha; been inac-
tive, and without animation, so that the hopes enter-
tained in our last report for a bettcr trade have not been
realized.

The chief causes of this inactivity we ascribe to the
following motives :
The orders for Bolivia, one of our principal customers,
have not been executed, owing to the critical and un-
settled state of that country. The same remark is also
applicable to Peru, where little will be done until after
the Presidential election. The unprecedented long rainy
season and the consequent bad state of the roads have
prevented our smaller dealers from tho interior making
their purchases, as they were wont to do, in the month
of October. The season for shipping to California has
too far advanced, and little has been done to that
country. The only sales of any moment have been
effected for Mexico at the beginning of the month, con-
sisting of 400,000 yards 36 inch white shirting, at Bc. to
Bic., and 1,700 pieces of platillas at 4 dolls. Prints for
home consumption in good patterns realize fair prices,
but old patterns are without demand. Cotton drills,
which are not abundant in the market, have fetched 160.
to 20c. in bond, but only a small quantity, say 100,000
yard, have been placed during the month. English
demins are gaining ground in the market, and preforred
to the American dealing. Some sales have been effected
at 13c. to 13ic., whereas the Americans cannot be sold
under 14c. to 15c.
The stock of bed-ticks is small in first hands.
The stocks in general, however, in first, as well as in
second bands, are not considerable, prices are firm, and
the country being in a peaceful and prosperous state a
good home trade during the next month must necessarily
follow. We have had our price current revised, but
from the above reasons we only find a few alterations in

prices.
Our quotations of sugar will be found 12 to 15 per
cent. lower than last prices owing to heavy importations,
amounting to 8,000 barrels during the month, 24,004
arrobas of which have been dispatched for home con-

sumption.
Coffee may be quoted at 10 dulls. 3c.; sales limited:to
about 20,000 quintals.
Saltpetre—Firm at 14 reds. and little stock on hand.
Ccnception Flour—ls firm at our quotation, and has
undergone no change.
The contractors are selling here for home consump-
ti,n at 7 dolls. at six months' credit, and are shipping
from Talcahuano to Califirnia in proportion to its de-
mand. The crop promises to be good, though we have
had heavy rains in the south, but the grain not having
far enough advanced no injury has been done as yet.
We have only few vessels in the bay, but as little
freight is offering prices keep down to our quotation in
the Price Current—

Copper in bars, 14.50 14.62 on board.
Copper ores, 2.50; 25 per cent.
Gold above ley, 11.
Silver in bars, 9.7; all in the market bought up.
Hard dollars, premium, 6-k: all in the market bought up.
Exchange on London, 46-90 days.

Freights—To Liverpool, 3/. 10?. 6d.; France, 95f. to
100 f.; Continental, 41.4'.; London, 31. 12s. 6d.; San
Francisco ps., 16 dolls. to 17 dolls, to load in Talca-
huano, 3/. 10s. to 31. 15s. to load guano fir a direct Lott,
3/. 12s. 6d. to 31. 17s. 6d. to load in Paquica for orders
in the Channel to a safe port—A 1 English vessels.
Importation of gold dust from California during the
month, 100,000 dolls.

CASE OF DEATH BY AN INFURIATED BULLOCK.—
Yesterday evening an inquest, adjourned from Thursday
last, was concluded on the body of Thomas Fagan, labourer,
who was gored in the abdomen by a bullock; on Month),
last, and whose death took place on the following Wednes-
day. The inquiry was adjourned to give the police an op-
portunity of discovering the owner or the drover of the
animal. Evidence as to the circumstance of the accident
having been given, policeman INl'Donald, G 150, said that
he had not been able to discover either the drover or owner
of the animal, which was still impounded in the parish of
Islington. There were the letters" E. B." with two clips
on the upper part of the B cut in the near hind quarter
Frederick White, sergeant in the City police, said if a sales-
man sells a beast that is wild, he is liable to a penalty.
He thought that the animal would not be owned in con-
sequence of the liabilities to which the owner would be sub-
ject from the extensive injury done by the beast. The jury
said that they considered an adjournment unnecessary. Ver-
dict—" Accidental death." The animal is worth al.)(,ut 251.
ENTHRONISATION OF THE NEW ROMAN CATHOLIC
Bismor of CLIFTON. —On Sunday week, much to the
surprise of even the Roman Catholic congregation pre-
sent, who had no previous notice of the new Bishop of
Clifton, Dr. Hendren, was enthroned at the Church of the
Holy Apostles, Meridian-place, with no pomp whatever
beyond the ordinary routine of investiture, &c. Bristol
Journal.

SHADWELL Cnuaca. —We understand that the
Bishop of Ripon has positively forbidden the continuance of
the objectionable observances introduced into the services
by the incumbent, and which formed the ground of com-
plaint to the bishop. It is to be hoped that the incumbent
will not only obey the injunctions of his bishop in this re-
spect, but will confine his preaching and teaching to the pure
Word c f God, and that the introduction of Romish doctrine
into a Protestant church will no longer be practised, as it
will certainly bo no louger.tolerated,—Leeds Mercury.