It was not the comparatively large size of the buildings, their gaudy coloring, or the absence of the familiar weatherboard ; it was not the narrow, gloomy, kouhbly streets, tbe people of all ages, sexes, colors, and costumes, that crowded them; the sombre, stealthy-gliding priests ; the sallow, puny little bits of soldiers ; the merchant* of many nations ; the negroes, mnlattoes, natives, cub-natives, and varieties; the Spanish women, with their pasty complex ions, brilliant eyes, tendency to en bon point, and exquisitely folded blsck mantles ; the men ; Panama-hatted, cigarette smokers, sallow, III ; made, and effete, habitually gesticulating, yet to all appearance never busy ; it was not the long-suffering, water-carrying mules, going in strings about the streets, or standing still as jaded steers between their burdens; nor the ragged, noisy, gaudy-pouchoed muleteers, with sheepskins for saddles, wooden boxes for .stirrups, and spurs a couple of inches in diameter ; nor yet the cool, dark, lofty, door less and windowless stores, running in deep shadctfrom one street across to another like a tunnel ; nor the taudry cob, or lath-and-plaster bouses ; nor was it even tbe thousand and one impure odours of a Freucb or Italian town, tbe combination of so much that was strange and so much that Was familiar came strangely and depressingly on us as we sauntered about in the dull quiet afternoon, but no sensation was so strong as that of finding ourselves again linked ou ta> history and to associations from which we had been to long detached, of feeling that we had entered through the portals of the old World, and that the new was now fairly left behind vs. I imagine that Callao would be a mo|t ■fitatercstiog place to live in. The httust* are birilt of very unsubstantial materials that they nay be aafer in the constantly recur ring earthquakes. There was a smart shock the morning after oar arrival ; we were sleep ing on board our ship, and she gave a lurch

I The Home met at two o'clock. After re turning from hearing the Speech in the Upper House, some routine business was gone through, petitions received, &c., and then came a refer ence to ' THE MINtstERIAL STATEMENT* Mr. 