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

THE PACIFIC.

SOUTHAMPTON, DEC. 23.—8 y the Royal Mail
steamer Avon we have received our usual adviees
from the various Paeific ports. The dates from Val-
paraiso are to the 26th of October. The British mail
steamer Chile arrived from Callao on the 6th with
specie value 96,000 dolls. on freight ; the Peru arrived
on the 21st with 325;600 dolls , of w hich 300,000
dolls. were the pro44.lctions of the siliar mines of
Copispo. The Arnesican ship Virgittja arrived on
the 16th with 75,00010115-in gold just from San
Francisco. In polititaiiiffaira there was no novelty.
The expected extrasiessioneof Congressliad not taken
place. The Finance -Ministerlead-viOted Valparaiso,
and a permission to bond sugaritsethat port had been
granted. Don Vincente Perez laid been named, by
a decree of the 11th: of October, agent for the colo-
nization 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 hod
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, at el advantages huld cut
to emigrants. The Mercurio of Valparaiso gives
the following resume ot the commerce of the re-
public:—
" The imports of foreign merchandise during the first
three months of the resent 3 car ameanted to 2,778,666
dolls.
" The exports of fruits and national produce
amounted, during the same three months, to 2,369,528
dull=., to which must be added 322.951 dolls, of foreign
inerchandiLe.
"Consequently there was a perliet Wane° between
the imports and the exports of the first quarter of this
year.
" Eagbncl, as usual, figures in the first liue of all
the nations with whom we hold commercial connexions.
The English imports, during tLe quarter, amount to
948,802 dolls.—nearly 1,000,000 dolls. The national
exports to England amcunt to 748 884 dolls.
" California occupies the re xt place, whence we have
received in gold during the three months 475,201 dons..
and from our ports have been shipped in effects 475,975
dells., of which the sum of 540,961 dolls. is Chil:art
produce.
." North America, including: California, is our greatest
consumer, as England is our principal purveyor. In the
first quarter. England imports 948 802 dolls., and ex-
ports 748,894 dolts.; the United States imports 684,528
dolls , and cxporta 94,179 dolls."
The department of public credit in Santiago had
giieu notice that the funds of the 3 per cent. heme debt,
consolidr.ted up to the 9th astaumounted to 1,765,925
dolls., from which had been liquidated 301,075 dolls.,
keying in circulation 1,464,880 dolls. The rains this
year had been unusually heavy, and in the south( f Chili
great distress prevailed. In the Chilian papers the
suhject of coinage was under frequent discussion, and
much was said about the reletive value of silver and
gold. The Valparaiso Neighbour of the 24 h ot
October contains an article, recoluteeeding the estab-
li,hmeat of an efficient mail communication between
Chili sad the United States by American packets,
via Panama. The Valparaiso Mercantile Reporter
publi-hes a paragraph detailing the steps taken to
establish the proposed Santiago and Valparaiso
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
From Peru we learn that the candidates for the
Presidential chair are Echenique, Vivanco, Osrea,
and Elias, the first of whom it would appear corn-
mends a majority in the south of the Republic,
although at present it is a rrere matter of conjecture
as to who will be the successful a-pirant.
Business wears but a gloomy astir et, although the
matkets'are well supplied. The uncertainty of affairs
in Bolivia is sensibly felt ; nor can we anticipate
brighter prospects until confidence iu that Gorern-
ment is re-established.
Our accounts from Bolivia state that General Belzu
was progres:rieg 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 19:h 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 the 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 bad been
circulated that General Ballivian bad made his ap-
pearance on the southern frontier at the head of 1,000
men, but nothing certain is known.
The French corvette Serieuse, 25, arrived at Val-
paraise, on the sth of October, from Talcahuano.
The French corvette Capricieure, 26, arrived on the
13th, from the same port, and sailed on the 16:h 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 Stein waerder, from Cuxhaven,
,with emigrants from. Valdivia, was seen in distress,
and in a dingerous state; in the latitude of Cape
Horn, by an English ship arrived at Valparaiso.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
VALPARAISO. OcT. 26.

(From the Valparaiso Mercantile Intelligences.)
Our market during the entire mouth has been inac-
tive, and without animation, so that the hopes enter-
taietd in our last report for a better trade have not been
real'zed.
The chef causes of this meat tivity 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 acme remark is also
applicable to Peru, where little will he dune until after
the Presidential election. The unprecedented long rainy
season and the consequent bad state of the roads ha% e
prevented our smaller dealers from the 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
cLuntry. 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 sldrtieg, 80. to
Sic., and 1,700 pieces of platillas at 4 dells. Prints for
home consumption in good patterns realize fair prheF,
but old patterns are without demand. Cotton drills,
which are not abundant in the market, have fetched 16 %
to 200. in bond, but only a small quantity, say 100,000
yards, have been placed during the month. Digital
detains are gaining ground in the market, and preffrred
to the American detains. Some sales have been effected
at 13e. to 13ie., whereas the Americans cannot tie sold
The stock of bed-ticks is small in first hands.
under 14c. to 15e.
The stocks in general, however, in first, ai well al in
second bands, are not consul( ra le, prices are firm, and
the country being in a peaceful nod prosperous state a
good home trade during the next month rtu,t necessarily
follow. We have had our price current revised, hut
from the ali.ive reasons we only find a few alterations in

prices.
Our quotations of sugar w;11 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-

gumption.
(Mice may be quoted at 10 dolls. 3c.; sales limited:to
about 20,000 quintals.
Saltpetre—Firm at 14 resls, :nd little stock on band.
Conception 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 California 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 set.
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,
Silver in bars, 9.7; all in the market bought up.
Hard dollars, premium, 64; all in the market bought up.
Exchange on London, 464 90 days.
Freights—To Liverpool, 3/. 10=. 6d.; France, 95f. to
1001.; Continental, 41.4'.; London, 31. 12i. 6d.; San
Francisco ps., 16 dolls. to 17 dolls. to load in Talca-
huano, 31. 10s. to Si. 15J. to load guano fur a direct pott,
31. 12s. 6d. to 31. 17i. 6d. to lord in Pequica for orders
in the Channel to a safe pott—A 1 English vessels.
Importation of gold dust from Cali,ornia during the
mouth, 100,000 dolls.

CASE OF DEATH BY AN INFURIATED BULLOCK.—
Yesterday evening an it quest, adjourned from Thursday
last, was concluded on the body of Moines Fagan, labourer,
who was gored in the abdomen by a bullock, on Monday
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 M•Donald, G 150, said that
he bad 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 Liud quarter
Frederick White, sergeant in the City police, said if a sales-
man Yells a beast tint 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 conklered an adjournment unnecessary. Ver-
dict—' Accidental death." The animal is worth about 251.
ENTHRONISATION OF THE NLW ROMAN CATHOLIC
BIEHOP of CLIFTON.—On Sunday week, much to the
surprise of even the Roman Catholic congregation pre-
sent, who bad 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.

SIJADWELL CDTECEL —We underbtand that the
Bishop of Ripon has positively forbiOden the continuance of
the of jectiouable observances introduced into the services
by the incumbent, and which formed the ground of coin-
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 pt.,- aching and teaching to the pure
Word 41 God, and that the introduction of. Romish doctrine
into a Protestant church will no longer be practised, as it
will certainly be no longer tolerated..—Lteds Alercury.