The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-03 00:00:00

WEST INDIA MAIL.

SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 2.
The Royal Mail Company's steam•sbip Magda-
lena Captain Vincent, with the West India mails
and Mexican mails, arrived this evening at eleven
o'clock.

Her dates of sailing were Vera Cruz, Oct. 5 ;
Havana 9th ;
Hay Chagres, 9th; Jamaica, 12th; Deme-
rara, 10th ; Trinidad, 10th ; Barbadoes, 12th ; Gre-
nada, 11th; Antigua, 14th; and St. Thomas's 7th.
The cargo of the Magdalena comprised specie and
bullion on merchant's accounts from Tampico,
56,358 dollars ; ditto from Vera Cruz, 137,600 ;
specie and bullion on account of Mexican dividends,
28,676; total amount of dollars from the Gulf of
Mexico, 220,635. Specie, bullion, and gold dust
received across the Isthmus from the Pacific ports,
301,977 dollars ; specie and bullion from California,
410,477 dollars ; from Carthagena, Santa Martha,
Chagres, and Greytown, 65,591 dollars ; from Ja-
maica, 6,962 dollars; from Havana, 16,805 dollars;
from other parts of West India, 20,949 dollars ; total
value in dollars, 1,045,399 dollars , and a large ge-
neral cargo.
The Rouse of Assembly at Jamaica was to meet
for business on the 9th November. The small-pox
and measles had entirely disappeared from Kingston.
Rain had fallen, and heavy falls had been experienced,
which had done much damage.
Porto Rico had been visited with a violent storm,
by which more than one hundred lives had been lost.
Martinique and Guadaloupe had been visited with
a malignant African fever, which had caried off the
troops in large numbers. Whole families had been
carried off by it.
The yellow fever was ravaging Barbadoes. Com•
missary-General Neil had been carried off by it, and,
within four days, his wife and four children had
shared the like fate.

The Island of St. Thomas was very sickly. Thirty
of the troops had died within the last three months,
and a very large number of deaths had occurred
amongst the crews of the ships in the harbour.
At Carthagena, on the 9th of October, a severe
storm occurred, and the house of the British Consul
was struck by lightning.
The Jamaica House of Assembly was to meet on
the 9th of November. The smallpox and measles
had entirely disappeared from
Kingston.
The screw steamer Tamalapas arrived at Jamaica
ea the 11th, and was to leave on the 13th for
Tampico.
Count Charles de Montholon, French Chargé
d'Affaires to the State of Ecuador, has arrived by the
Mitgdalena, with his family and suite, having been
forced, by a series of insults, to abandon that State
and seek redress from his own Government.
Accounts from British Guiana state that slight
showers have fallen throughout the colony. The
supply of provisions had increased. Labour was
scarce and dear. The Court of Policy sat on the
31,u1t., and an educational bill had been introduced.
, la St. Lucia a favourable change had taken place
la the weather, and the last remnant of this year's
crop had been shipped. Trade was much depressed.
In Antigua, dry weather had succeeded the storm
of the 221 of September.
Domingo was rather unhealthy.
A fearful gale devastated the Virgin Islands, St.
%.hristopher's, Nevis, Antigua Montserrat, Domingo,
221 of
Martinique, and other islands, on the
41 of September. Notice of the effect of this storm
eE St. Thomas's was received by the last steamer,
the Orinoco. A great deal of damage was done to
!lle shipping and small craft, and on shore many
buildings had been injured.
In Jamaica the produce market was firm. Sugar
I"11: advancing in value, and the prices of Pimento
scacum were well supported. Breadatuffs were in
demand. Fish an ample supply.
B'"changes on London —Jamaica and Colonial
ank, 90 days, I per cent. premium.

IRE PENINSULAR MAIL.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 3.
c The Peninsular Company's steam ship Madrid,
liPt. Weeks, with the Peninsular mails, arrived this
h,
—"hiag, at seven o'clock. Her dates of sailing were
Gibraltar, Oct. 26th ; Cadiz, 27th • Lisbon, 29th ;
efP"tol 30th ; Vigo, 31st. She brought a large cargo
fruit, five packages of specie, and 43 passengers.
f The screw steam ship Melbourne, Captain Cox,
4°lll London to Australia, with cargo and 146 pas-
ngerai put into Lisbon on the 24th to repair
ea-lges) having all her top-masts and jib-boom
!lied aw
the aythe
• wreck getting entangled with
, screw, stopped its action, and it was with diffi-
-41',!, she reached the Tagus. She was repairing.
There is little political news by this arrival.
he Commercial Association of Oporto have, in an
address„,._ to the Government, expressed their full ap-
probation of the recent decree relative to the exporta-
tion of Port wine.
Li
diYBs ,hcal exchange on London is 54 for bills at 90
date,

FRANCE.

alooday, being All Saints' Day, was observed by
all th
..ueref
e political Paris journals as a close holiday, and
Th;:?re Uot one of them was published yesterday.
o: el
peered
as
akthepe first time (says Galignani, which sp-
its usual) that All Saints' Day has been so
the t by the public press in Paris; for, up to
"tmge of Government in December last, there
weren two
or three journals in existence which did
°t keep these religious holidays.
4W-el-Rader, says the Currier de Lyon, is ex-
PeOted in that city about the end of that week.
; highly interesting publication has just been
`Blllled from the office of the Revue des Deux Mondcs,
which, Under the name of the Annuaire dus Deux
es) gives a very full history of the different
states of the civilized world. The work is not a mere
dry
; compilation of facts and statistics ; but a history,
11 the true sense of the word, which, brimful of in-
formation, is yet very pleasant to read. The chapter
devoted to Great Britain occupies 86 large pages,
1,14 is written with impartial intentions. The whole
11 thus wound up
The year 1851 has, in fine, been for G rest Britain a
Year he
less full than those which have preceded, and
epeven Perhaps of a more animated character, both as
reßards the metropolis and the colonies. We have just
'Sell the prodigious activity of the Australian colonies,
the vicissitudes of the Kafir war, and the results so
rapidly
obtained in the no less important war which
adds fresh prestige to the English power in Asia, we
...111180Q the war against the King of Ava. Our readers
"1Y now appreciate the great ameliorations accom-
plished or rejected by the mother country, in her legis-
attion for these vast and numerous possessions. At home,
'OO London Exhibition concentrated, for a moment, the
attention of the old and new worlds, and occasioned an
extraordinary movement of population on the English
soil. As if to show that material interests do not form
the sole pre-occupation of England, a groat political
agitation, one of those popular manifestations which
know so well how to rest within the limits of legality, suc-
ceeded the concourse of so many people, come to admire
in London the marvels of human industry. The nation
hailed the chief of an insurrection (Kossuth) which had
so deeply moved England in 1849. Unfortunately this
demonstration, although it did not depart from Eng-
lish legality, exceeded the limits of international pro-
prieties, and the Foreign Minister, by mixing him
self up with it, officiously compromised the British
Cabinet in the eyes of the great powers of the Ctohneti2ndenot;
This situation became more complicatedh tint ensecinence
e coup
o fdt
reservingh o o
tt.Foreign-officehimself,
of the events succeeding
o
December in France, and thetchei
had to suffer the consequencles,n
however, the right of reprise a his colleagues, who
had abandoned or rather dismissedoh him. Hence follows
party_ which led to
a struggle in the heart of the WIT
the advent of a Tory Governmenti:gThineareseteroot:gleerotliiognhst
have probably served only to exhibit,
the dislocation of parties ; but while rendering the
Practice of Parliamentary Government moredifficult,
this critical phase of parties imposes on English society
be affirmed
farnodt Englishon e government new duties, in
which it may
they will not fail. The Continent may fall
w English constitution
itnesses
like the extreme to another—the
13-Bruiteihlhagsoitial tiitosneslfwiinthothunt brneiindgst s host e
tn,l
eb y
waves them,
which beat its shores."
The article on Franco is well worthy of attention,
'Or as the Annuaire being only at the commencement
of, let us hope, a long series, lays the foundation of
the
the future series on a deep and copious exposure of
actual state of the country in its various relations.
.rkey, too, is handled in a large spirit. Altogether
of ne work may safely be recommended to the student
ontemporaneous history.
edThe Paris Bourse has been active to-day, and for
rend of the present month prices are somewhat in
oiance of the closing rates of Saturday ; Threes left
at 821, 60e., and Four-and-a-Half per Cents. at
75c. The market closed as follows :—Three
pero Cents., for cash, 81f. 75c.;
for account, 821. 60c. ;
s_ 7954 c
f. ur-and-a-Half per Cents., for cash, 105 f.; for
account, 106 f.
Loan,
;; Bank of France Shares, 2,690 f. ;
AustriannTurkish Loan, Spanish Threes,
and -Neapolitan not quoted.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON rzTOCK. EXCHANGE, Nov. 2, 1852.
Dijon and Besancon 8 --Luxembourg, 41g—Lyons and Avignon, Is—Namur and
Liege (with interest) 834—ditto (ex interest), 834—N.
—Grand Junction of France, 7nlX,
thern of France, 31/2—Orleans and Bur ieaux, 23—Yarn,
and Lyons, 30E,4 —Paris and Orleans, 69—Paris and Rouen,
9 —Paris and Strasbourg, 34—Paris, Caen,
131 —Rouen and Havre, 19%; Sambre and Meuse, I°7/8--
Western of France, 181/Li.
and Cherbourg,