The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-24 00:00:00

JAMAICA.

By the arrival of the Royal Mail Company's
steamer Parana, we have received our usual papers
and correspondence to the 29th April inclusive.
There is no news of particular importance by this
arrival, and with the exception of the few items
we heve selected, the papers are unusually unin-
teresting.
A public meeting was held in the city of Kingston
to congratulate the Hon, Edward Jordan on his ap-
pointment to the council, and several resolutions were
agreed to approving of his general conduct for a num-
ber of years. A subscription was also entered into
to present him with a suitable memorial, in consi-
deration of his distinguished services. An address
was also presented. to him, and he made a suitable
reply thereto.
The saaall.pox was spreading fearfully in the coun-
try parishes, and the poverty and general destitution
of the people were increasing daily. In some in-
stances persons had died for want of assistance. In
Kingston there were several cases, hut they generally
yielded to prompt treatment.
The May seasons were just setting in, and pre-
vious to the sailing of the packet, there had been a
few copious showers of rain. Many of the estates in
the interior had been suffering severely from the long
drought which had been' experienced, and the crops
have in consequence been kept back. In the parish
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of Trelawny, especially, this has been particularly
depend on water power for the taking in of the crop,
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the canes have actually rotted after bpeeirntigescuwt,htichhe
" dryness of the river," as the peasantry say, having
prevented the process of manufacture from going on.
We understand, also, that there has been a serious
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loss of horned stock, and that the result, of these
calami be will
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limited quantity of sugar and rum than was origi-
nally the exportation of a still more
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JAMAICA MARKETS.
(From, Cordova's Mercantile Intelligener.) -
We are unable to report the occurrence of any im-
provement in business operatinns•since our issue of the
13th inst. on the contrary, we regret to state that the
preialetice of 'disease in the agricultural districts is
exercising a very depressing influence on trade generally.
The peasantry, it appears, are either disinclined or
unable to visit the towns, and they supply their wants
principally from the produce of their own little settle-
ments. The weather, too; has been unusually dry for
the season, and although some districts have been vi-
sited with one or two spring showers, much loss and de-
terioration of the plants on the ground have -occurred in
consequence.
Supplies generally are suffi:iently ample to meet the
present restricted demand. Flour and meal perhaps are
rather wanted, the latter especially, the comparative
scarcity of native vegetables at market, owing to the
circumstance above stated, having caused a temporary
revival in the demand for those articles.
The produce market continues languid and depressed,
with little probability of present revival.

Freight; are dull.
Exchange.—Oa London—Colonial Bank, 90 days,
per cent. premium; 60 days, 1 per cent. premium; 30
days, 1k per cent. premium. Jamaica Bank, 90 ays,
par; 60 days, per cent. premium; 30 days, 1 percent.
premium.
Stations of the Company's Steam-ships—The Great
Western, Captain Woolley, Spanish Main; Trent, Cap-
tain Clarke, Spanish Main; Dee, Captain Wilson, Ja-
maica and Honduran;, Derwent, Captain Bevis, Northern
Island; Esk, Captain Restarrich, Demerara; Eagle,
Captain Jellico, St. Thomas's.

Erscim RACES AND THE ROYAL EXIIIDITION.—A
valuable, newly-invented, very small powerful waistcoat
pocket glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be
seen and known li miles distant ; they answer every purpose
on the Race-course, at the Opera-houses ; country scenery
and ships are clearly seen at 12 to 14 miles; they are invaluable
for shooting, deer stalking, yachting, to Sportsmen,
Gentle
men,Gamekeepers, and Tourists.—To be had at Messrs.
S. and 15. Soi omons, Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Picca-
dilly,
opposite the York-hotel. Telescopes—A new and most
will show distinctly, important inve
ntion in Telescopes, possessing such extra-
ttihat some, 3! inches, with an extra eye piece,
and an object from nlati
Double Stars. y, Jupiter's Moons, Saturn's Ring, and the
other kind for the waist
ounces,
care be Withseo the same Telescope, weighing only three
person's countenance 3 miles distant,
to 20 miles. They supersede every
sizes, with increasing powers
pocket, and are of larger and all
Race-
course glasses, with IPsev4atelorsriTordingly. Opera and
clearly seen from 14 to 16 miles distant. 11an
nvtehneted invaluable preserving
powers ;
Messrs. S.
canand
Bb e.
placed before imper-
I Solomons, Opticians, have
Spectacle Lenses, immediately
distinct, the most
feet vpion, every object appears clyeaarre
aged defective sight becomes bright andabcdillnt, is brought to
instruments for relief
itsga youthful,
nlc
Vibrator,
alalnio,iinodrsigoifnAalcosutastteic. The Invisible Or-
of extreme deafness.-39, Albermarle-street, Piccadilly, op-
posite the York Hotel.
IRRIGATION.—Mr. Mechi's new system of " irriga-
tion by subterranean iron pipes with hose and jet, worked
by steam power," is completed on 170 acres at his celebrated
farm at Tiptree hall. He states that "the cost, independent
of the steam-engine, is 3/. 15s. per acre, added, as it were, to
the fee simple of the estate. The working cost of conveying
and applying ply to each acre fifteen tons of liquid manure, or
ing
equivalent to a heavy rain of five hours' duration, is
alt,vabanot.ueiti
lie Is.
6l per acre. The liquid is distributed through a
gotta percha spreader, issuing as a broad, thin,
glassy sheet, and descending in heavy drops, like a thunder
,' §II9IYCE,