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

SEPTEIVIBEit 19, 1855.

.N, AND

SEPT. 18.

.sliip Tamar,
Endia, Mexi-

1 ' Lieutenant
have dates'

Barbadoes . - Ang. 27
Grena,da••• - 28
Carriacou .
St, Vincenti's..
St. Lucia ... . .•••
Martinique
Guadeloupe ..
Dominique .-.
Antigua
Montserrat ...
Nevis

§t:Kitt's
Tortola.

. - 30
. - 30

—271 La Guayra
28 St. Thomas's...

Sept. 3

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A eFoiat
The Tamar brings .97 passengers, a mong whom
are General Camba, ex-Governor of I, 'orto- 'Rico ;
tenant-G-overnor and Command
Major-General Sir Richard Dohert T, ex-Lieu-
Janiaica'; Captain Hawtayno, 3d West India Regil
ment; Captain Allen, Judge Davoren, Lieutenant-
Colonel ;.Dawas„ Lieut....Crispin,
"6o7f.thtl Forces t
;
Lieut. B;anoroft, 16th Regiment; and I )r. Dakyns.
On freig lit there i5.1;867;444d015.—5a3 -, 353,0001.,
viz., frocm - Tampico; 1,095,231 dots. ; Vera Cruz,
174,563 4.1015. ; on-account of Mexican dividends,
12,500 d ols: ; from the Pacificports, 141 ~755 dols. ;
Panama„, 35,832 dols. ; California, 277 j';C:ti. do's; ;
Carthaviqa; 77,001' dels. ; Jamaica, 6. (894 dols. ;
Kanto. Martha, 13,141 viols. ; other p arts of the
West Ladies, 32,823 dols. ; and jewel lery, value
1101. The cargo consists of 152 seron ts of cochi-
neal, 3 sorons of jalap, 105 cases of ciga u-s, 5 cases
of torto itieshell, 3 cases of succades, 3 53 bales of
bark, 3 birrels of copper ore, and 96 1 ackages of
sundries.

The T'a mar brings the Mexican and. o &her mails,
which slic.uld have arrived by.the Atra k), the last
mail steal a-ship from the West Indies.
Intell ig anoe from Jamaica to the 26th • alt. says:--
" Mattma s continue much the same as wl ten the last
packet left..
" The v'f., ieutenant-Governor and Comma- ader of the
Forces, 314 ajor-General Edward Wells 8e11,.. arrived in
the steam a r on the 23d inst., and was received by a guard
im en
tot
of honour . and the baud of the Ist West India
Rethe giment,
His
Company's
c e sso r, Sir
wßichardharwharf
f rDoherty,the pur paol
ss
e :)f escortingo 'epaired
him to ha: id-quarters in his carriage. Mucl it regret is
manifeste d at the departure of Sir Richard Doherty and
Commodar e Henderson from their respective commands.
The gallan t commodore, it appears, is in bad health, and
was to ha.' e left Jamaica in the last packet, up to the
latest mor o ent ; but, it appears, altered his mind, under
the impre a sion that his successor would have arrived in
the preseu t,t steamer. This, however, is not the case, as
the new c o mmodore did not come. Indeed we are not
aware thr any one has been appointed as yet.
"The :Jt igislature was still prorogued, and not expected
to be in E ;sion be:*ore October next, the usual time,
" Trad e is extremely dull, and there appears no chance
of matter Is being better for some time yet, although we
hear it st at .ed that the crops will be much better this
year than . last. •
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" Feve r is very prevalent just now, as it always is at
this seas' tof the year, but the mortality is nothing to
speak of i n any way, it being chiefly confined to children
and old p o 3ple.
" The • w eather has been intensely hot for the last ten
days, and; we have scarcely a breath of air, which pro-
bably ma be assigned as the cause of the prevalence of
so much to Iver. There have been some slight showers of
rain, but hey appear to have made no improvement in
the state.* if 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 ha,d. been in small supply, and had therefore
realised good prices. Bread was abundant. Butter
was very, scarce. Corn was plenty, but exceedingly
dull of s ale. In the money-market exchanges on
London were quoted for. bills at 90 days'. date 1
per cen't,. premium ; 60 days', 11 per cent. pre-
mium ; 30 days', 2 per cent. premium.
Her Majes'q's steamer Buzzard, which arrived
at Port Roy; d on the 22d ult., reported the total
wreck of her Majesty's brig Molverinwim th&Oan-
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 fur 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 were 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,Transatiantie 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 nut delivered here until
the mails for England are closed, thus preventing the
inhabitants from replying by the same packet, as they
ought to be ab le to do ; and, lastly, the non-enforcement
of the penalt'.es provided for breaches of contract. The
copy of the -memorial and the resolutions of the public
meeting wore laid before the Court of Policy, with a re-
quest from the secretary of the meeting that the Court
would rn?,ke a representation to her Majesty's Govern-
ment up' in 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-
luticeAs 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. "
The 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 bad
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
CanjeJ, Berbice, for an hospital, and also for the
reception. of pauper lunatics of the colony, instead
(Ji sending them, as had been previously pro-
posed, to the penal settlement at Massaruni. The
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, veeich 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
i the sum of 20,0001.
to pay off the existing liabilities of the railway and
to put the line in pod working order between
Georreetown'and Belfield. The bill was sent home
by the Tamar for the sanction of her Majesty's
Government. Another bill is shortly to be intro-
duced 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 20,0001., to be expended in
completing the line from Belfi.eld to Mahaica.
The weather at British Guiana was very hot
and sultry, and there was very little rain. The
Cauca 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 hides, 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-
rippe, 1 bottle ; herrings, 50 barrels. Business
among the merchants continued dull.
At Grenada a want of labour for the cane culti-
vation still continued, butthopes were entertained
that the 7,0001. loan which had been granted by
Parliament for the introduction of coolie immi-
grauto would help to afifiiAt in the procuring of

bands for the getting in the crops. There has been
some sickness at Grenada, but no epidemics. The
weather was variable, but not unfavourable: to
agriculture. The exports to tlre2sth of August
were—of sugar, 4,485 hogsheads ; cocoa, 3,783
bags ; and rum, 1,989 puncheons, .showing a de-
crease, compared with the shipment of the corre-
sponding period of last year, of 602logsheadS of
sugar, and 178 bags of cocoa, with an increase! in
rum of 178 puncheons, the result as regards rtira
being accounted for ey the necessity to whidi the
planter has been driven of making spirits of that
cane-juice which had been rendered unfit, for the
production of sugar from the influence of unsea-
sonable weather.

At Antigua 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, uly, with a cargo of sugar, rum, and
cocoa, stuck on the Horseshoe on the night of the
24th. The sugar was entirely lost.
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Barbadoes aiid 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 Ciiy tof
gork, 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. 4t 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 feiv trees.

The following is the published amounts of ex-
ports and imports for the Windward Islands during
1854 :----13arbadoes ' imports, 596,843/. ; exports,
945,849/. ; Grenada imports, 11,2101. ; exports,
138,397/. ; St. Vincent imports, 145,772/. ; exports,
176,797/. ; Tobago imports, 52,3071. ; exports,
49,754/. ; St. Lucia imports, 96,278/. ; exports,
55,8361. Total exports, 1366,633/. ; 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 Lt. 44 N., long. 29 W., exchanged colours with
the English ship Washington Irving, from Sydney
to London ; 16th, lat. 48i N., long. 17i W., spoke
the English barque Planet, and in lat. 481- N.,
long. Pri- 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
Savannah, the Arab, and three Spanish frigates,
three brigs, and three steamers, laid up for the
hurricane months. •