The long war between Chili and Peru appears at length
to have ended. The Peruvians, it will be remembered, refused, in face of the Chaim' demands, to form a Government which could either accept or reject them, and the Chilians therefore treated Peru as a conquered country. Wearied out at length with the occupation, which was deliberately made painful by every inci- dent of military, tyranny, the Peruvians of the cities at last accepted General Yglesias as President, and called a General Assembly, to support him. The terms agreed upon. are aot yet known, bat_ it is 13 elievs4 that the principle adopted is the cession of the nitrate-yielding territory to the conqaerors, sub- ject to ultimate redemption eit a fixed price; and the Chilians have consequently evacuated both Lima and Callao, retiring
to their own land. The war has been remarkable for its. ferocity, and for the revelation it has afforded of the great superiority of the Chilians, who are of nearly unmixed blood,. and who have conciliated their Indian tribes, to the mixed people of Peru, under whose rule, we suspect, the native popula- tion cared little whether it were conquered or no. The hatred between the old Spanish Colonies is now quite as great as between any European States, while the rights of war are pushed farther than has been usual in the West since the middle-ages.
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