The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-19 00:00:00

TDB WEST INDIA, MEXICAN, AND
PACIFIC MAILS.

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BETTING AT IVIANCHESTEIL—YESTERDAY.
The settling upon the Doncaster events was resumed,
but did not proceed so rapidly as many could have
wished ; and as regards betting upon future events,
we have not for some time upon a regular betting flay
seen it so dull ; backers of horses were alarmingly
scarce, while, on the other hand, book-makers were ex-
cessively thick on the spot, and more than the usual
number have commenced large books upon the Cesare-
witch Stakes ; but unless their offers to bet are more re-
sponded to than they were to-day,. we are apprehensive
that they will have cut out more work for themselves
than they will be able to get through. This state of
things generally occurs after any great event has been a
" turn up." The only wagers we saw laid was 25 to 1
to a "pony" each against Mr. Sykes and Brother to
Grey Tommy, that price in each case being afterwards
offered ; 500 to 8 was laid against Mr. Greville's Morti-
mer and offered ; 1,000 to 20 was offered against any-
thing of Morris's ; and 30 to 1 would have been laid
against Saucebox, but as offering against horses was the
order of the day, we shall conclude with the following
st of quotations :
CESAREWITCH STAKES.
9 to- 1 agst Robgill (offered)
200 to 15 agst Scythian (offered)
100 to 6 agst Meeanee filly (offered)
100 to 6 agst Siding (offered)
100 to 6 agst Neville (offered)
200 to 9 agst Weathercock (offered)
25 to 1 agst Mr. Sykes (taken and offered)
25 to 1 agst Brotherto Grey Tommy (t. and off.;
25 to 1 agst Early Bird (offered)
25 to 1 agst Veteran (offered)
25 to 1 agst Monarque (offered)
25 to 1 agst Joe Miller (offered)
30 to 1 agst Saucebox (offered)
190 to 3 agst King Toro (offered)
40 to 1 agst Muscovite (offered)
50 to 1 agst Exile of Erin (offered)
50 to 1 agst Eulogist (offered)
50 to 1 agst Gamekeeper (offered)
50 to 1 agst Indian Warrior (offered)
Owing to there originally being two Mortimers entered
for the Cesarewitch Stakes, some little confusion has
arisen as to which of the two had really accepted; we
therefore deem it necessary to state that Mr. T. Parr's
Mortimer has paid forfeit, and that it is Mr. Greville's
Mortimer, by Alarm, that figures in the betting.
Nothing was done upon the Cambridgeshire or the Derby.

PONTEFRACT MEETING.-TIIESDAY.

Badsworth Hunt Stakes.

Tom Perkins
True Girl

Rifle Stakes.

Excitement
Inc filly .
Gold Cup.

Indian Warrior
Adelaide

Three ran

LICHFIELD RACES.—TIIESDAY.
Biennial Produce Stakes.

Luno .

S. Dunstan
f by Heron—Countess of Lichfield
Queen's Plate.

Rataplan

walked over.

Gold Cup.

Polestar
Rocket

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1855.
SEPTEMBER.
Lanark 2O I Walsall ................ .... 26
Newmarket F 0 25 I Northallerton ........... 27
OCTOBER.
Chester 2 Warwick Autumn l6
Wrexham ...................4 Richmond 17
Bedford ..... ... ... . ...... 4 Newmarket 22
Newmarket S 0 . .....'.. 8 Worcester 30
1 Royal Caledonian Ilunt..lo
ROVE
liiverpool ............

IMBER.
1 Shrewsbury ,, 13

SOUTHAMPTON, SEPT. 18.
By the Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Tamar,
Captain J. G. Parker, with the West India, Mexi-
can, and Pacific mails, in charge of Lieutenant
Fuge, R.N., Admiralty agent, we have dates
from—

Vera Cruz Aug 5 Barbadees Aug. 27
Tampico
Havannah — 21 Carriacou
Nassau
Belize — 17 St. Lucia
Puerto Cabe11a...... 26 Martinique
Greytown ....... —2l Guadeloupe
Carthagena — 25 Dominique
Chagres — 23 Antigua — 30
Jamaica — 26 I Montserrat
Jacmel — 29 Nevis — 30
Porto Rico Sept. 1 I'St.'Kitt's
Demerara Aug 261 Tortola
Tobago
Trinidad
The Tamar brings 97 passengers, among whom
are General Camba, ex-Go'vernor of Porto Rico ;
Major-General Sir Richard Doherty, ex-Lieu-
tenant-Governor and Commander of the Forces at
Jamaica; Captain Hawtayne, 3d West India Regi-
ment; Captain Allen, sludge Davoren, Lieutenant-
Colonel Damas, Lieut. Crispin,. 67th Regiment.;
Lieut. Bancroft, 16th Regiment ; and Dr. Dakyns.
On freight there is 1,867,444 dols.—say, 353,0001.,
viz., from Tampico, 1,095,231 dols. ; Vera Cruz,
174,563 dols. ; on account of Mexican dividends,
12,500 dols. ; from tho Pacific ports, 141,755 dole. ;
Panama, 35,832 dole. ; California, 277,701 dols. ;
Carthagena, 77,001 dols. ; Jamaica 6,894 dols. ;
Santa Martha, 13,141 dole. ; other parts of the
West Indies, 32,823 dots..; and jewellery, value
1101. Tho cargo consists of 152 serous of cochi-
neal, 3 serons of jalap, 105 cases of cigars 5- oases
of tortoiseshell, 3 cases of succades, 3631;aTes of
bark, 3 barrels of copper ore, avid 96 packages of
sundries.
The Tamar brings the Mexican and other mails,
which should have arrived by the Atrato, the last
mail steam-ship from the West Indies.
Intelligence from Jamaica to the 26th ult. says:—
" Matters continue much the same as when the last
packet left.
"The Lieutenant-Governor and Commander of the
Forces, Major-General Edward Wells Bell, arrived in
the steamer on the 23d inst., and was received by a guard
of honour and the bard of the Ist West India Regiment.
His predecessor, Sir Richard Doherty, also repaired to
the Steam Company's wharf for the purpose of escorting
him to head-quarters in his carriage. Much regret is
manifested at the departure of Sir Richard Doherty and
Commodore Henderson from their respective commands.
The gallant commodore, it appears, is in bad health, and
was to have left Jamaica in the last packet, up to the
latest moment ; 'but, it appears, altered his mind, under
the impression that his successor would have arrived in
the present steamer. This, however, is not the case, as
the new'commodore did not come. Indeed we are not
aware that any one has been appointed as yet.
"The Legislature was still prorogued, and not expected
to be in session before October next, the usual time,
" Trade is extremely dull, and there appears no chance
of matters being better for some time yet, although we
hear it stated that the crops will be much better this
year than last.
" Fever is very prevalent just now, as it always is at
this season of the year, but the mortality is nothing to
speak of in any way, it being chiefly confined to children
and old people.
"The weather has been intensely hot for the last ten
days, and we have scarcely a breath of air, which pro-
bably may be assigned as the cause of the prevalence of
so much fever. There have been some slight showers of
rain, but they appear to have made no improvement in
the state of the weather ; and, on the contrary, tended
to make it hotter, instead of cooler. They appear to
have had a good deal of rain, however, in the interior,
from the appearance of the mountains and from the
sound of distant thunder, which has been heard re-
peatedly."
In the Jamaica markets business was very dull.
Flour had been in small supply, and had therefore
realised good prices. Bread was abundant. Butter
was very scarce. Corn was plenty, but exceedingly
dull of sale. In the money-market exchanges on
London wero quoted for bills at 90 days' date 1
per cent. premium ; 60 days', 11, per cent. pre-
mium ; 30 days', 2 per cent. premium.
Her Majesty's steamer Blizzard., which arrived
at Port Royal on the 22d ult., reported the total
wreck of her Majesty's brig Wolverine on the Con-
form Cove, about 160 miles to the north of Grey-
town, on the 11th ult. The whole of the officers
and crew were saved.
At British Guiana the memorial against the
irregularities of the Royal Mail Steam-packet Com-
pany had been numerously signed, and was to be
forwarded to the Secretary of State for the Colo-
nies, accompanied by a representation from the
Governor and the Court of Policy upon the subject.
In reference to this document the Royal Gazette
says—
" The memorial is drawn up with great ability, and
is accompanied by tables showing the dates of the arrival
and departure of the mails in the years 1853 and 1854.
From these tables it appears that the steamers arrived at
their proper dates 19 times only during the two years,
and that they wore overdue 29 times for periods varying
from one day to 13. There are six grounds of complaint
embodied in the memorial—namely, the withdrawal of
so many of the Transatlantic steamers and the substitu-
tion for them of smaller vessels, intended only for the
intercolonial route ; the inefficiency of the vessels em-
ployed for the interco'onial service ; the want of a suf-
ficient number of steamers to perform the service ; the
time wasted in coaling at St. Thomas ; the employment
of only one steamer, instead of two, between St. Thomas
and Trinidad and St. Thomas and this colony, in conse-
quence of which the mails are not delivered here until
the mails for England are closed, thus preventing the
inhabitants from replying by the same packet, as they
ought to be able to do ; and, lastly, the non-enforcement
of the penalties provided for breaches of contract. The
copy of the memorial and the resolutions of the public
meeting were laid before the Court of Policy, with a re-
quest from the secretary of the meeting that the Court
would make a representation to her Majesty's Govern-
ment upon the subject. The following resolution was
entered upon the minutes of the Court That his Ex-
cellency be requested to forward the memorial and reso-
lutions to her Majesty's Government, with the expres-
sion of the full concurrence of this Court in the prayer
of the said memorial, and the earnest hope that her
Majesty's Government will give effect to the said
prayer.
Tho Court of Policy re-assembled on the 15th
ult., and, after sitting three days, adjourned until
the 3d of September. Some differences had arisen
between the Government and Messrs: Booker,
Brothers, and Co., respecting the Demerara Ferry
Contract, in consequence of an accident which had
occurred to the Rattlesnake steamer while convey-
ing convicts from Essequibo. The Court of Policy
ordered that no arrangement should be entered into
until the necessary repairs to the vessel had been
effected. His Excellency the Governor had pro-
posed to apply to the Imperial Government to
grant to the colony permission to appropriate
the military buildings in the garrison at Fort
Canjo, Berbice, for an hospital, and also for the
reception of pauper lunatics of the colony, instead
of sending them, as had been previously pro-
posed, to the penal settlement at Massaruni. Tho
buildings at Fort Canje originally cost 370,0001.
for their erection ; and some years ago about one-
half of them were taken down and the materials
sold for about 1,0001. It was hoped that her Ma-
jesty's Government would accede to the applica-
tion. A bill had been prepared by his Excellency
to amend the laws and constitution of British
Guiana, which had met with the general approval
of the colony. The Court of Policy haVe passed
the bill for authorising the incorporation of the
London and Demerara Railway directors and for
altering the places of the general meetings of the
company from London to Liverpool, and for em-
powering the company to raise the sum of 20,0001.
to pay off the existing liabilities of the railway an
eon
to put the line in good working order betw
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to compel the company to complete the line
to Mahaica within two years, and for providing
that the colony shall guarantee interest on any
sum not exceeding 20,000/., to be expended in
completing the line from Belfield to Mahaica.
The weather at British Guiana was very hot
and sultry, and there was very little rain. The
canes were thriving luxuriantly, and the planters
were beginning to get busy with the operation of
cutting their crops. There was not much sickness
in the colony. The exports since the departure of
the last mail amount to—sugar, 1,532 hogsheads,
121 tierces ; 268 barrels ; rum, 972 puncheons, 162
hogsheads, 63 barrels ; molasses, 32 puncheons ;
shrub, 1 barrel; coffee, 1 barrel; cocoanuts, 12,200;
ox bides, 350 ; ox horns, 1,877 ; charcoal, 53
tierces, 1,232 barrels ; shingles, 114,000 ; green-
heart timber, 134 logs ; firewood, 17 cords ;
oranges, 20 barrels ; plantains, 50 bunches ; cassa-
rippo, 1 bottle ; herrings, 50 barrels. Business
among the merchants continued dull.
At Grenada a want of labour for the cane culti-
vation still continued, but hopes were entertained
that the 7,000/. loan which had been granted by
Parliament for the introduction of coolie immi-
grants would help to assist in the procuring of

At .Acatigua a want of labour was felt. The wea-
ther, which for some time was dry, had changed,
and a great quantity of rain had fallen. The
bark Gleaner, of Glasgow, which left Trinidad on
the 20th of July, with a.cargo of sugar, rum, and
cocoa, stuck on the Horseshoe on the night of the
24th. The sugar was entirely lost.
Barbadoes and .the other northern islands had
been visited by a hurricane of unusual severity,
and a severe shock of an earthquake was felt at
Trinidad. At Barbadoes the brig New City of
Cork, Baynes master, dragged both anchors, and
went ashore on the pierhead, and was dashed to
pieces. The captain and boatswain were washed
overboard and drowned. The bark William Large
and schooner Koh-i-noor went on shore at the
same time ; the former was wrecked, but the latter
would, it was expected, be got off. At St. Vin-
cent's two vessels were likewise lost, at Martinique
two, and at Dominica two. There was no damage
done to the town or country beyond the blowing
down of a few trees.

The following is the published amounts of ex.
ports and imports for the Windward Islands during
1854 :—Barbadoes imports, 596,843/. ; exports,
945,849/. ; Grenada imports, 11,210/. ; exports,
138;897/. ; St. Vincent imports, 145,7721. ; exports,
176,797/. ; Tobago imports, 52,307/. : ,xp.;rti,
49,7541. ; St. Lucia imports, 96,2781. ; exports,
55,8361. Total exports, 1,366,633/. ; imports,
1,003,6101.
Mr. W. J. Emerson, her Majesty's British Con-
sul, died at St. Thomas on the 30th ult., from lock
jaw, caused by an injury to his knee in being thrown
out of his gig.
No cases of yellow fever are reported from Bar-
badoes since the hurricane.
During the homeward voyage the Tamar spoke,
on the 10th inst., in lat. 38 N., long. 43 W., the
English barque Emily, steering for England ; 13th,
in lat. 44 N., long. 29 W., exchanged colours with
the English ship Washington Irving, from Sydney
to London ; 16th, lat. 48& N., long. 171 W., spoke
the English barque Planet, and in lat. 48i. N.,
long. 171- W., exchanged colours with a Swedish
barque showing the third distinguishing pendant,
No. 572.
At Jamaica were her Majesty's ships Termagant,
Eurydice, Imaum, Medea, and Mariner ; at An-
tigua, the Vestal ; at Vera Cruz, the Daring ; at
Havannah, the Arab, and three Spanish frigates,
three brigs, and three steamers, laid up for the
hurricane months.

THE ORDER OF THE BATH.