The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-18 00:00:00

THE WEST INDIA MAIL.

SOUTHAMPTON-, DEC. 17.
The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship .Parana,
Captain Ellison, arrived this day, at one o'clock,
with the usual West India mails, 40 passengers,
and a full cargo. Her latest dates are—

Greytown
Chagre3
Demerara
Carthagena
Trinidad ...
Grenada.........
Jamaica
Barbadoes

. Nov. 20 IJacmel Nov. 27
23 Antigua — 29
25 St. Kitt's
25 Nevis — 29
6 Porto Rico — 30
2ii ; Bermuda
27 St. Thomas
27

The Parana brings on account of the dividends,
and co merchants' account, the sum of $361,035 ;
and on freight gold dust and gold in bars, $256,483;
plating, $6,240 ; British coin $10,214 ; also 309
serous of cochineal, 62 do. balk, 18 bales of sarsa-
p trilla, 60 bags of cocoa, 42 packages of suceades,
53 do. sundries.
From Jamaica we have received advices to the
26th ult. The following is a summary of the news
given by the Colonial standard :—The proceedings
of our local Legislature during the last fortnight
have not been characterised by any unusual degree
of expedition. On the contrary, it may fairly be
said that the present session has been one of the
most dilatory cx record. The Legislature was con-
vened on the 16th October, and up to the present
moment only two very trivial measures have be-
come law.

The following abstract of the passenger traffic on
our short lino of railway during the first ten years
of its existence will be considered interesting
Nov. 24, 1816
„ 1817
„ 1818
„ 1849
„ 1850
During the above period of ten years 109,785
tons of merchandise, including 10,000 tons of dye-
woods, have been conveyed by the railway, besides
a great number of large and small stock.
Our mining intelligence continues favourable.
The weather has been unsettled of late, and
heavy rains have fallen in this neighbourhood.
We regret we cannot report favourably of the ge-
neral health of the country; fevers and diarrhoea
prevail, and we are sorry to learn that some fatal
cholera cases have been present iu the penitentiary
for some time past. Trade is extremely dull.
Exchange on London, at 90 days, was quoted at
1 per cent. prem. ; 60 days, at 11-- ; and 30 days,
at 2 per cent. prem.

THE PACIFIC MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY.

By the Royal Mail steam-ship Parana we have
our tasual files of Pacific journals.
The Pacific Steam Navigation Company's steam-
ship Lima arrived at Panama on the 20th ult.,
with $280,000 in specie, passengers, and the fol-
lowing dates :—Valpara,iso, Oct. 31 ; Arica, Nov.
6 ; Callao, 11 ; Payta, 15 ; Caldera, 3 ; Islay, 7 ;
and Huanchaco, 13. The Lima reported that the
iron ship Phantom, of Glasgow, while leaving the
harbour of Caldera on the 19th of October, got on
shore, and became a total wreck. The news by
the Lima is uninteresting. The Valparaiso cor-
respondent of the Panama star and Herald
says :

" The bank buildings are progressing rapidly. They
are situated on the rock ou which the old snip Arethusa
was lost many years since.

" Business during the last 15 days has slightly im-
proved, and the country merchants are now aroused.
" Manufacturing is now gaming ground. We have
three large foundries, where iron and brass castings are
turned out with neatness and despatch, all ()Tiled by
English. Steam saw•milis, planing machines, sash and
blind making are all preparing or in full Wait.
"The American line of Santiago stages is doing adrni.
ra.oly. We have also a Yankee line of omnibuses on the
way. to run into this city.
"There appears now to ce no fear of a deficiency of
flour. The stock is said to be sufficient to last until the
new crop come in in March ; price 11 dole. 50c. to 12
dcl•., and sales only for home consumption.
" The t` ree Peruvian war steamers built in England,
the Apurimac, the Los, and the Tumbee, arrived at
Valparaiso a few hours before the Lima Fai:ed."
The newspapers report the death of Mr. Comp-
ton, for may years her Britannic Majesty's Consul
a t Islay.
The following is the official statement of the
guano exported from Peru in the month of October
last : —21,984 tons to England ; 550 tons to the
United States ; 1,342 tons to France; 2,732 tons to
the Mauritius ; 1,272 tons to Spain ; and 389 tons
to Central America. Total-28,272 tons register
in 42 vessels.

The revolutionary movement in the Republic of
Bolivia under Avila has been pat down, and orde
once more restored.