IMPORTANT NEWS FROM CHILI.

West Coast Times, Issue 101, 13 January 1866, Page 3

IMPORTANT NEWS FROM CHILI.

(From the S. M. Herald.) Captain Wo aim. ok, of tho brig Craig KJlaehie, who arrived in Port Jackson on the 21st ult., reports thut ho left Tnlcaluiano, in Conception Bay, on the 25 th of September. Two days prior to his departure, tho Express, Courier arrived from Santiago, with tho intelligence that the port of Valparaiso had been blockaded by the Spanish ileet, and that tho southern ports were to be blockaded dinctly. The inhabitants wcro moving tho'.r valuables away from tho town into the tho interior, the militia was called out and tho troops stationed in the interior to watch the Indians) hud been recalled. The mail steamer from Vu'paraiso, which was overdue, had not ai rived. The cause of tho war is reported to have originated on some insult given to tho sensitive honour of Spain. A had feeling towr.rds Spain has exiled for some time, and culminated at last in a refusal to coal a Spanish man-of-war, and in a riot in which tho mob pulled down the Spanish ilag and insulted tho Minis • ter. An apology was tendered, which the MinKcr accepted. But when the transaction reached Madrid, tho Govcrnmont was not so easily tatislied, and recalled tho Minister and disowned his acts, What further nnology was asked tiiid to "what extent it wan rrt'uaod \w do n<H K n ow, but wfyr whs (IVlhikM.