The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-05 00:00:00

PAthilb MALLS.
WEST INDIA AND

er, arrived here at four P.M.
SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 3.—The Royall Mail steam
mails, in charge of
Lieutenant Lyster, R N., Admiralty agent, and dates as
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follows:

Greytown (Mosquito), Feb. 21; Chagros, Feb. 25;
Carthagena, Feb. 27; Santa Martha, Feb.l4; Mavannab,
Feb. 2; Belize (Honduras), Feb. 22; Nassau (Bahamas),
Feb. 17; Kingston (Janiaica), March 4; Jacmel (Hayti),
March 6; San Juan (Porto Rico), March 7; Berbice,
Feb. 25: Georgetown (Demerara), Feb. 27; Port .of
Spain (Trinidad), Feb. 27; Tobago, Feb. 26; George-
town (I3arbadoes), Feb. 29; Grenada, Feb. 28; Antigua,
March 2; Martinique, March 1; Guadaloupe, March 1;
Dominica, March 1; Tortola, March 2; St. Thomas's,
March 11; Fayal, March 27.
The Conway also brings mails of the dates sub-
joined, received at Panama by the Pacific Steam Navi-
gation Company's ship Santiago, which vessel had on
freight specie value 800,000 dolls. for transmission to
England:—

Valparaiso (Chili), Jan. 26; Coquimbo (Chili), Jan.
27; Huasco (Chili), Jan. 28; Copiapo (Chili), Jan. 28;
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Cobija (Bolivia). Jan. 30; Iquique (Peru), Jan. 31;
Arica (Peru), Feb. 1; Islay (Peru), Feb. 2- Pisco
(Peru), Feb. 4; Lima (Peru), Feb. 8; Callao (Peru),
Feb. 9; Payta (Peru), Feb. 12; Guayaquil (Ecuador),
Feb. 14; Panama, Feb. 19.
The Conway brings 56 passengers, and on freight
silver,,value 1,066,035 dolls.; gold, value 305,923 dolls.;
British coin, value 5,500 dolts.; the total value of specie
and bullion being 1,377,458 dolls., or, say, 275,000/
sterling. Tho freight list also comprises 202 serons
cochineal. .181 serons indigo, 235 cases cigars, 86 bales
leaf tobacco, and 140 packages general merchandise.
The Conway has come home to undergo a thorough
repair. Her voyage from the Isthmus of Panama has
been a most protracted one, having occupied thirty-
seven days from Chagres, including stoppages. In con-
sequence of having encountered very hard weather after
leaving Cartbagena , it was found to be impossible to
reach St. Thomas's with the existing stock of fuel, and
a deviation from the direct course to touch at Jamaica
for coals was necessary. From St. Thomas's the
voyage, ihcluding a call at St. Fayal for coals,
has been accomplished in about twenty-three
days, and the mails have been delivered at Southamp-
ton, as nearly as possible, a fortnight after they were
due. It will bo remembered that the Great Western
(likewise sent home in a partially disabled
state) brought the last maila—Awelvo_dni bgr:_
him tneir tame. Tne result of the erotic progress
of the Conway is quite sufficient to justify the remaitia
which have been recently made, and the sending home
of weak or crippled steamers with the homeward mails
at any time cannot be too strongly reprehended.
The'injury and inconvenience sustained by the mercan-
' tile body by these irregularities have been very great,
and the present instance seems imperatively to call for
some such action on the part of the Lords of the Admi-
ralty as will mark their sense of what must be consi-
dered to be a decided infraction of their contract by the
Royal Mail Steam Company, and such as will prevent a
recurrence of the evil at any future time.. The. Royal
Mail Company are paid liberally by the public Exche-
quer, and their service should be properly performed.
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At any time it would be wrong to entrust the Conway in
her present condition with the task of conveying mails
across the Atlantic, but that the month of March should
have been specially chosen for the time of sending her
home cannot readily be understood.
The most important intelligence brought by
this packet
from California, Panama, and Central America has been
anticipated via the United States.
Private letters from Havannah state that the weather
was much warmer and continued fine and suitable for
sugar manufacture, but the crop was in arrear, owing to
the previous bad weather, Sugars did not come to mar-
ket freely.
The latest dates from Jamaica are to the 2d of March.
The Island Legislature, Which wes called' together on
prorogued by his' Excellency
the Governor on the 26th of February, when his the 28th of October, lam
Ex-
cellency
entered into a lengthy explanation of his reason
for disallowing the Lean
Bills, which had again passed
the other two branches of the Legislature. The reasons
and objection urged by his
Excellency wore principally
and in substance like those
had received a dispatch from the Secretary of State, ex-
pressing his Lordship's general concurrence in the ob-
jections,urtgheedebouefrearee,
paudrdsiunegdthbyat.hhies
Exoellen Excellency
ynd his approval of in withholding his
assent. The following
extracts from the speech will show his Excellency's im-
pression as to the declining fortunes of the island:—
" You have conjointly placed in my hands, for pre-
sentation to her Majesty, a
memorial which the blame
prevents me from entirely a but I willingly
a her Majesty's Ministers
imputed in it to the policy
mit the force of much that surged. I believe that the
apprehensions expressed are by no means unfounded,
and I frankly avow it to be my own feeling
and opinion
that the planting interest of the colony has a just claim
upon the parent state for judicious action and effectual
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assistance. In the wonderful times in which we live,
when so many sweeping changes are inevitably forced
upon statesmen, great exertions and sacrifices ought to
b
the United Kingdom to reconcile these changes with
justice,
peculiara crime of its own as
for the previous errors and the fault of the whole, and,
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community adequate compensation to any portion of it
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ofsuffer,
although that principle was both 'acknowledged and
acted upon at the time of the general emancipation
from slavery, it is notorious and certain that the relief
of the planting interest has neither been complete nor
even proportionate to the effort and sacrifice which were
made for the purpose of affording it. Mitch misery has
in consequence been brought upon, and has been endured
by many - unoffending and helpless parties; and the
drooping and decaying condition of the planting interest
'is still the most prominent object in the affairs of Ja-
maica. This would not be a convenient opportunity for
a general disquisition as to these affairs, nor for a care-
ful statement of my opinion as to the mode in which
relief might most effectually be afforded. But, I am
firmly persuaded that it might be afforded with ad-
vantage both to Digland and Jamaica; and it would be
a source of great and lasting joy to me if I could, in any
degree, be instrumental in advancing this fine island and
its inhabitants to the state of prosperity of which I think
they are capable, and still more if this were to be effected
by measures which might serve as a basis for that union
of England with her colonies which is all that is wanting
to make the British empire an example to be followed
by the whole world."
The question of sanding home delegates to represent
the state of the country in England was being agitated,
and subscriptions for the purpose were being raised.
The Assembly had appointed Messrs. Thomson, Girod,
and W. Smith, but afterwards Messrs. Jackson, Franklin,
and Vickar s—the latter, a black man—were added to
the delegatson, in consequence of which the three first-
named gentlemen withdrew their names and service!.
Mr. Girod had stated through the columns of the
Standard that he and the other two gentlemen would be
quite willing to associate with any other black man who
possed the necessary qualifications, for the important
trust of a delegate, but that they would not associate
with Mr. Vickers. Public meetings were still being
held throughout the island, and resolutions passed de-
soribing the- ruinous consequences of .the policy of the
British Government towards the colonies in the western
hemisphere. Great hopes are entertained that this last
appeal of the colonists would have some effect in Eng-
land, and that protection, so much desired, would at last
,be concdded. '
Otti-aocontiti. from-British ' Gniantr, to: -the '27th of
February, allude to the opening of the Combined Court-