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 live 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, small-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, but they generally
yielded to prompt treatment.
The May seasons were just setting in, and pre-
vious to the sailing of the packet, there bad 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
of Trelawny, especially, this has been particularly
felt, as well as the want of labour, in consequence of
the prevailing epidemic. On many properties which
depend on water power for the taking in of the crop,
the canes have actually rotted after being cut, the
" 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
loss of horned stock, and that the result of these
calamities will be the exportation of a still more
limited quantity
nally anticipated.
of sugar and rum than was origi-

JAMAICA MARKETS.
(From Cordova's Mercantile Intelligener.)
We are unable to report the occurrence of any im-
provement in business operations since our issue of the
13th inst.; on the contrary, we regret to state that the
prevalence 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 fr9m 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 sufficiently 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.
Freights are dull.
Exchange.—On London—Colonial Bank, 90 days,
per cent. premium; 60 days, 1 per cent. premium • 30
days, Vs per cent. premium. Jamaica Bank, 90 days,
par; 60 days, per cent. premium; 30 days, 1 per cent.
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 Honduras; Derwent, Captain Bevis, Northern
Island; Esk, Captain Restarrich, Demerara; Eagle,
Captain 'Tellico, St. Thomas's.

EPSOM RACES AND THE ROYAL EXHIBITION.-A
valuable, newly-invented, very small powerful waistcoat
pocket glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be
seen and known 1} 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,
Gentlemen, Gamekeepers, and Tourists.—Te be had at Messrs.
S. and B. Solomons, Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Picca-
dilly, opposite the York-hotel. Telescopes—A new and most
important invention in Telescopes, possessing such extra-
ordinary powers, that some, 31 inches, with an extra eye piece,
other
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IRRIGATION.—Mr. Meehi's new system of " irriga-
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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 " toe 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 to each acre fifteen tons of liquid manure, or
water equivalent to a heavy rain of five hours' duration, is
about Is. 6d. per acre. The liquid is distributed through a
fan-like gutta percha spreader, issuing as a broad, thin,
glassy sheet, and descending in heavy drops, like a thunder
I shplyer. •