The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-11-18
FOREIGN NEWS.
Affairs I'm Chill and Peru.

PANLMA, November 17.-Great excite
ment was produced in Chilli by the publ
cation OF Mr.. Hurlbuts letter to General
Lynch. The papers generally denied the
genuineness OF the document. The ex-
element extended to official circles. and
General Balnacarda, Minister OF Foreign
Affairs in Santiago, addressed note on
the subject to General Fitzpatrick. In re-
ply, General fitzpatrick categorically denied
his Lima colleague. He assures him in
the most emphatic manner that the
Gillian Government has nothing TO fear,
either from the intentions or attitude
which his Government will assume in re-
spect to the war in the Pacific. He says
the instructions sent TO Mr. lIurlbut and
himself by Secretary Blaine cannot bear a
double meaning, and to dispel all doubts
rs TO the character OF these instructions he
| copies the publication, in which he Is d.
rected in all his communications with MEM
| bors Of the Gillian Government in regard to
! the attitude OF the United States towards
/ Chill and Peru, to conform 10 known
rulings Of international law, and under no
circumstances to officially offer any advice
to the Government CT Chill which shall
not previously have been solicited by it.
The publication OF these letters in Lima
! followed in due course. and was the first
| intimation received by Minister llurlbut
that his opinions and utteranccS were so
openly .discredited and disayowed, and
that, too. by his own colleague. Mr.. llurl-
hut insists that he is right and Fitzpatrick
wrong. and that the latter Las been led
away by his well-known friendship for the
CHILEAN Republicans. He is much dis
4 tntro talon, II
j. understood to be preparing an answer to
General Fitzpatrick, which shall include
quotations from his own instructions which
were given long since.
General Il ipatrick received those which
he so freely quoted i'm his reply to the Chi
lian Minister the other day.
Messrs. Altamerano and Norya, the chi
Ian Peace Commissioners, arrived at Lima
October 2Cth. They will treat with the
Pierola Government or any other which
they consider commands the confidence OF
majority OF the people. just now the
star Of the Calderon Government is IN the
ascendant.
A Disastrous Explosion.
LONDON. November IA dispatch from
Dublin says that forty-thrcc persons were
badly injured 10y the explosion on board OF
the Severn, and four conveyed 10 the hos
pital in dying condition.
FURTHER DETAILS OF THE DISASTER.
L0NDoN, November l7.-Thc steamer on
which the explosion occurred yesterday
while on her way from Bristol to Glasgow
was the Salway, not Severn, rs before re-
ported.
Further details OF the disaster show that
IL .tttnnlp1 70 haNa ltst
their lives, including five who took
refuge in the boat and endcayored to
escape. but were probably drowned
rs the sea was heavy. The num-
Der OF persons wounded was exaggerated.
There were only thirty-thrcc persons in
all on board. The explosion was caused
by the bursting OF barrel OF naptha in
the fOrepart OF the main deck. and which
came in contact with fire in the stccragc.
six passengers were covered with burning
liquid and persisted Immediately. Their
Shrieks were awful, but assistance was I'M
possible, they being well in the fire. The
fire was got under control by means OF
donkey engine.
A Nihilistic Condemnation of Gull
fears Crime.
LONDoN, November 1.-THE -. Peters
burg correspondent OF the Daily Ielegrdph
says: The first No. OF the Nihilist jour
nal, the NGrddnQjG, has made its appear
mce. On the title-page is an editorial
paragraph surrounded with a deep black
line, in which the crime OF Guiteau is con-
demned i'm The strongest language.
II Is reported that Lieutenant SuhanoI,
who was arrested on suspicion Of supply
ing the conspirators with dynamite, has
been secretly executed.