The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-10 00:00:00

M. A Y 10, 1852.

WEST INDIA AND MEXICAN MAILS.

BOUTHkMPT:)N, SATURDAY.—The Royal Mail Com-
pany's steam-ship Medviay, -commanded- by Lieutenant
P. Bast, R.N., with the West India and Mexican mails,
arrived this morning.
The Medway experienced fine weather during the
voyage home, and has made a very good passage.
We regret to announce that Lieutenant South, the
Admiralty agent in charge of the mails, died on the 6th
instant.
Tho latest dates brought by tha Medway are as fol-
lows:—Vera Cruz, April 7; Tampico, April 6; Chagres,
April 9; Carthegena, April 11; Jamaica, April 14; De-
merara, April 14; -Trinidad, April 15; Barbadoes, April
16; Grenada, April 15; Porto Rico, Apt l 17; St.
Thomas, April 20; Fayal, May 1; Antigua, April 18;
Santa Martha;March 30; Grey Town, April 4.
The freight brought by the Medway was 1,464,235
dollars on merchants' ‘v.ccount, 40;742 dollars for the
Mexican dividends, 535 serous of cuchineal, 34 serous
jalapa, 82 serous ot indigo, 21 bales of sarsaparilla, and
a large number of packages of sundries, including vanilla,
Indiarubber, ginger, snctades, &C.
She brought 158 passengers. amongst them being the
Ron. Edward Thompson and Girod, Eig., two
of the deleg•a•es appointed to the British people on be-
half of JanDacs.
The Royal Mail Company's steamer Dee, with the
English mails of the 17th ot March, arrived at Jamaica
on the 13:h of April.
By this arrival we have our usual files of Jamaica
d papers to the 14th of April, but they are principally
with the accounts of public meetings relative to
the distressed state of the island. 1.1. Excellency the
Goiernor, Sir Charles Gre is serion"sly idisposed at
the Pinnkele, in Sr. Catherine's mountains, Excel-
lerro3's country residence, and Dr .Turner, b k
and Brooks have been called in to attendrner h°is wer
Excel-
lency. The nature of his illness has not transpired.
The Bishop of Jamaica, accompanied b
the Bev.
Duncan Campbell, his Lordship's secretaryy, left Poen.
Royal on the 13th ult., in her Majesty's steamer Rosa-
mond, for Honduras and Nassau, N.P.

,
THE SMALLPDX.—There is no abatement whatever of
the disease in the island, but the deaths are few in pro-
portion to the number of sufferers. and have not ex-
ceeded eight or ten per week. Our accounts from St.
James's, Hanover, and Westmoreland are favourable,
and we trust that all other park.hea in the island may be
spared the calamity of a visitation similar to that which
was experienced from cholera.
THE CARNIVAL IN ELAVANNAH.--The carnival passed
off quietly, and without- incident. There was the usual
number of public and private bal masques, bUt less mas-
querading in the streets than in former years. The time
is.gone by when the better part of the population here
took part iti-the three days' -festivalottut consequently
their observance is on the wane. The carnival in Ha-
vannah now has little amusing or interesting to even a
stranger. •
MEXICO.—The state of Mexico was said to be far
from satisfactory. The government of General Arista
was extremely unpopular, and another revolution was
much feared. The Government was without money, and
the Congress would not supply any. The amount for
the January dividend had been scraped together with
much. difficulty. It was said that a rupture with the
United States was more than probable, in consequence
of the refusal of the Government to carry out the Te-
huantepec Railway treaty. On the whole, the accounts
are very unfavourable, and must affect the value of
'Mexican stock.

JIATTL—A serious disturbance has occurred here, and
a great number of arrests had taken place; and during
last week fourteen of the ringleaders were shot. A
Consul-General appointed by the French Government
having arrived at St. Thomas's in one of the British mail
steamers, a French steamer was dispatched from Mar-
tinique to convey him to Port-an-Prince, and his Excel-
lency having arrived at that port placed himself in im-
mediate communici*ion with the Government, and we
are glad to state that, through his intercession, the lives
of many persons who had been condemned to death
were ultimately spared. Intercession for the pardon of
these prisoners had been heretofore made by the British
and Spanish Consuls, but without effect. Emperor
Soulouque is to be crowned on Sunday, the 18th inst.,
which ceremony is to take place with great pomp.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
'From De Cordova's Mercantile Intelligences.) '
KINGSTON, JAMAICA, APRIL 13.

The business transsoted in this market since our issue
of the 27th ult. has been of the ordinary character.
With little inducements offering for speculative pur-
chases, either as regards reduction of prices, or antici-
pations of a permament revival of trade, dealers have
simply confined their operations to the supply of their
immediate wants. Stocks generally have been suffi-
eiently ample to meet the ordinary demand, and prices
have scarcely fluctuated from our last quotations.
We notice an increased dullness in the articles of
sugar and rum, supplies of which are increasing in
Kingston, whilst the inducements to speculate become
daily less apparent. Of pimento there is very little at
marker. Coffee is being brought in rather freely by the
small settlers.
We found it necessary some numbers back to allude
to the circumstances of large deficiencies having been
discovered in the weights of several parcels of pork im-
ported into this market. More recently those deficien-
cies were found to extend to other articles, and the con-
signees of several parcels of herrings and mackerel were •
obliged to make allowances off the prices at which the
articles were originally sold, proportionate to the extent
of deficiency.
It has again been_brought under our notice that a re-
cent receipt of mackerel has been found to contain some
201 b. less in each barrel thin the correct weight. We
'believe we may state) with confidence thet an effort is
about being made by the dealers at litogston to arrest
the ne talons and deliberately dishonest system dis-
closed in the foregoing remarks, by obtaining come
legislative enactment which will authorise the seizure
and confiscation of all descriptions of goods which shall
have been put up,,like the articles above alluded to, with
the view to defraud the honest trader.
The duties on tobacco were reduced on the 31st nit.
as follows, in accordance with the provisions of the first
Import Duty Bill of the last session. The tariff, with
this exception, remains unaltered.
Tobacco, manufactureEl, per 1001. value £32 0 0
and further per lb: weight
Tobaeco, Cavendish, and unmenufactured, per
1001 b. • value .... l5 0 0
and further per lb. weight
Cigars, per 1001. value 5O 0 0
and further per lb. weight

Tobacco is in very limiied inquiry. The stock of. Ca-
vendish is exceedingly heavy, and beyond the ordinary
demand.
Freights—Tonnage is abundant, but employment offers
very Slowly.
Exchanges.--On London—Colonial Bank-90 days,
per cent. prom. ; 60 days, 1 fee amt. ; 30 days
per cent. Jamaica Bank-90 days, par ;60 days, ;per
cent. prom. ; 30 days, 1 per cent.