CENTRAL AMERICA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume IX, Issue 560, 17 March 1858, Page 4

CENTRAL AMERICA.

The Gaceta Official " pf Managua, Nicaragua, contains a declaration of war against Costa Rica, in which it states that the Government is determined to preserve its rights to the whole line of transit, from San Juan del Norte to San Juan del Sur, as well as to the district of Guanacaste.

Another decree in the same paper, names

Don Crogorio Jerez and Don Rasario Cortes as chief in charge of the Government, during the time the Generals Martine and Jerez take charge of the army. Don Mariano Alvarez is named Secretary of War. Gen. Thomas Martinez has been appointed Comman-der-in-Chief of the army.

A letter is published from Col. G. F. Cauty (no date or place) calling on Col. Segundo Cuaresma, commander of the Fort of San Carlos, to surrender to him in the name of the Costa Rican Government; in case of non-compliance, his orders are to blockade the port and starve it out. Report says that Col. Cauty is on the lake in one of the steamers, and that he has been fired upon by the Nicaraguan forces. It is also said that Mr. Carey Jones, who is in Gianada, supports Nicaragua in her resistance to the claims of Costa Rica.

GUATEMALA. The cholera is again raging with great fatality in Guatemala, Aged people in particular are being rapidly swept off. SAN SALVADOR. The Government of San Salvador has entered a formal protest against the British occupation of the Islands of Rutan, Bonacea, Utila, Barbaratta, Morat, Elena, etc., possession of in August last, by Lieutenant Jolly, of H. B. M. schooner Bermuda.