The New Hampshire Gazette

From Lima.—By the arrival at Baltimore of the ship Benj. Rush, Capt. Duff, from Valparaiso, 95 days from Callao, we have received a file of the Mercurio Peruano, published at Lima, from the 2d to the 14th of January inclusive, politely forwarded to us by the editor of that paper.

There is great complaint of the increase of robbers and other malefactors, who, infest the roads and vallies in the neighborhood of Lima. Their depredations have become so frequent and systematic that neither couriers, merchants, proprietors nor even those who supply the city with provisions can travel the highways without danger, and they have even ventured to perpetrate their crimes within the walls of the city itself. Orders have therefore been issued for parties well armed and mounted to scour the country and cross the public roads in every direction. The proprietors of plantations have been, directed to keep their slaves within the limits of their estates, and to give information of malefactors, deserters or suspected persons, taking refuge with them. In the mean time, a party of the police are to patrol the streets of Lima continually day and night. The keepers of pulperias or drinking houses, are ordered to close them at the hour of nine.

A private letter from Madrid giving an account of an interview between Ferdinand and a kind of embassy from the Indians of the South-American continent, with a project of recovering the South-American provinces to the Spanish dominion, by means of an expedition of 25,000 men from Havanna, has occasioned some speculation at Lima.

These papers contain no intelligence respecting the political relations between Peru and Colombia. Neither Bolivar nor Gen. Sucre is spoken of very respectfully in them.—N. Y. Evening Post.