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From Chili and Peru--the Situation.

New York, December 13.
--The steamer Baltic has arrived from Aspinwall with the California mails and seven hundred and thirty-eight thousand dollars in treasure.

Valparaiso dates of November 7th, and Callao November 21st, are received. There was no change in matters in Chili. The blockade continued. The Spanish fleet was supplied with provisions by a transport.

The United States steamer Wateree is at Valparaiso.

In Bonvia. the with more favorable prospects for the revolutionists. General Lamer has taken Cobria, killing the commander. The President was occupying Potosi with one thousand five hundred men.

Peru is at peace; and the new government is being rapidly organized. All the ministers and consuls in Europe, and in the United States, have been superseded; all the officials at home will be suspended and tried for political crimes, unless they have, by acts, proved themselves in favor of the revolutionary party.

A demand has been made on the British Minister for President Pezet and some of the members of his cabinet, who have taken refuge in British ships, on the ground that they are guilty of treason and criminals. The British Minister's reply was only that the vessels had sailed. The Spanish Minister is living aboard a Spanish frigate, owing to a conspiracy discovered among some Chileans to assassinate him.

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