14 MAY 1864, Page 3

Music, it seems, has still the charms the poet ascribed

to it. Mr. Cox, son of an English physician of Valparaiso, had been explor- ing an almost unknown inland sea in Chili and the river Limay, when the party fell into the hands of a tribe of wild Inclians. The Cacique wanted to kill him for visiting his dominions without permission ; but Mr. Cox played him a tune on the flageolet, and the chief relented and let him go. Surely that Cacique must be an Austrian in an inchoate state, with tendencies which will ultimately develop into a passport system and a love for opera. Admiral Fitzroy, we perceive, thinks there is some- thing in these regions more valuable than Caciques, namely, three new varieties of the potato.