The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-31 00:00:00

THE WEST INDIA MAIL.

The Royal West India mail packet, Tamar,
Captain Revett, Admiralty agent, Lieutenant W.
H. Pyne, R.N., has arrived at Southampton with
the West India mails.
Her dates of sailing are :—Vera Cruz July, 5 ;
Tampico, June 30 ; Havannah, July 10 ; Panama,
9 ; Valparaiso, 20 ; Callao, June 26 ; Jamaica, 12 ;
Demerara, 10 ; Trinidad, 10; St. Kitts, 14; Bar-
badoes, 12 ; St. Lucia, 13 ; Antigua, 14 ; St. Vin-
cent, 11 ; Martinique, 13 ; Dominica, 13 ; Tor-
tola, 19.
The Tamar brings 140 passengers.
The freight on board consists of specie to the
amount of 1,742,000 dollars, of which 72,000 dol-
lars are on account of Mexican dividends.
Ad vices from Barbadoes state that the cholera
had nearly disappeared in Bridgetown, but was
still very prevalent in many parts of the island.
The mortality has alrea ly reached nearly 13,000.
The other islands are pretty healthy.
In the Jamaica import market light stocks and
high prices bad prevented the transaction of much
business, during the fortnight. In the produce
market, sugar had moved rather freely at an ad-
vance of ls. on all qualities. Rum is without
change in price, though the inquiry has greatly
subsided. Not auy coffee of the new crop has yet
been brought in. The cholera, it is said, is dis-
appearing from St. Ann's, and we may therefore
look for early receipts of pimento thence. Trea-
sury notes are still at a discount of five per cent,,
but intelligence communicated by his Excellency
the Governor to the Chamber of Commerce, to the
effect that the loan of half a million will be gua-
ranteed by the imperial Government, is expected
soon to cause them to revert to their original value.
Freight had declined, tonnage becoming more plen-
tiful. Exchange : Colonial and Jamaica Banks-
-90 days, par ; 60 days, 2 per cent. prem.; 30 days,
1 per cent. prem.
There was no political news from Mexico. The
press is so fettered by Santa Anna that the public
know but little of what is going on. The cholera
was on the decline at the city of Mexico. Heavy
rains had fallen at Vera Cruz. The United States
mail steamer Owjaba was there when the packet
for England left. Yellow fever was subsiding since
the rains bad set in.

The French Commander-in-Chief, Admiral du
Quesne, died. at Havanna on the 3d of July. His
remains were deposited in the church of St. Do-
mingo with great honours, to await instructions
from France as to their final interment. The French
squadron left on the Bth July. They had suffered
a good deal from yellow fever. H.M.S. Espiegle
had captured an empty slaver, and sent her to
Havanna for adjudication by the mixed court.
Troops were arriving from Spain and Porto Rico
to reinforce the garrison. The United States mail
steamer Cahawa was at Havanna when the packet
left. H.M. steam-vessel Medea was cruising be-
tween the Bahama Channel and Havanna. The
excitement with regard to the Black Warrior ques-
tion appeared to be subsiding.
The Captain of an English merchant vessel had
made a declaration to the Consul at St. Juan's that
he had been boarded and plundered not far from
Porto Rico by an armed vessel, showing no national
colours. Her Majesty's steam-vessel Devastation
and a French man-of-war were on the look out for
her.

Affairs still continued in an unsettled state at Grey-
town, and American man of war was daily expected.
The Bermuda was stationed there when the packet left
There is a great scarcity of seamen at Callao, wages
up to 91. per month. A good many vessels were load-
ing guano at the Chincha Islands.
Cruising off Havana, H.M.S. Medea. Off St. Thomas,
H.M.S., Devastation. Amongst the Windward islands,
H.M,S., Calypso. At Jamaica, H.M.S. linaum and
Argus, the Espiegle being daily expected from Havana
The Bermuda schooner was at Greytown. H.M.S.
Arab expected at Havana. Callao —The Russian fri-

gate left Callao two days before the news of war being
declared aznved. H.M.S. President arrived two days
afterwards, and Failed again immediately. The Pique
arrived two days after the President left.

THE SOU'IH AUSTRALIAN JOB.-THE
HON. FRANCIS LA WLEY.

We do not remember ever to have seen public
opinion more decided or more unanimous than it is
in the condemnation of the appointment of the
Hon. Francis Lawley to the Government of South
Australia. That appointment is regarded on all
hands as the grossest job ever perpetrated. To
the fine colony of South Australia a young man is
about to be sent, who has no pretensions whatever.
Mr. Francis Lawley, the present Governor, is a
brother of the late Lord Wenlock, 'and a near
connection of Mr. Gladstone, to whom lie has
acted as Private Secretary, and, according to
" Dod's Companion," he is a Fellow of All
Souls' College, Oxford, the qualifications for
which are, that the candidate shall be " bene
flatus, bene vestitus, mediocriter doctas ;" these qua-
lifications Mr. Lawley possesses. He is also
29 years of age, and is now Governor of one of
our most important colonies ! He was elected for
Beverley, where his family possess influence, in
1852, has never opened his mouth in Parliament,
has not even been a clerk in the Colonial Office, or
attaché to a Colonial staff, but has been solely em-
ployed for a year and a half in writing letters for
his cousin, Mr. Gladstone. We hear much of
Colonial Reform, and the proper administration of
our colonies, but, during the present session, all
that has been done in any remarkable way appears
in two appointments—Mr. Stonor having been
found guilty of improper practices at an election,
was made judge of one colony, and is recalled as
soon as the fact is known ; and Mr. Lawley who
is 29 years of age, and who is said not to have been
very fortunate on the turf, is made " Governor"
of another colony.
But the job is not yet completed. By this ap-
pointment, Governor Lawley vacates his seat *for
Beverley ; and the candidate sent down by the
Government, to receive the support of the Lawley
family and secure the sweet voices of the electors,
is the Hon. Arthur Gordon, the youngest son of
the Earl of Aberdeen. This young gentleman was
born in 1829, and is now 25 years of age. Thus,
then, this job is complete. It is convenient that
Mr. Lawley should go abroad. Mr. Gladstone re-
commends Mr. Lawley to Sir Geo. Grey, the present
Secretary of State fer the Colonies, for an appoint-
Ment. Sir Geo. Grey has just been appointed him-
self, and being a Grey, he is naturally used to family
arrangements. He approvest he recommendation , and
lays the case before Lord Aberdeen. The Prime
Minister receives the proposal coupled possibly with
the intimation, that his own son may be elected,
through the Lawley interest, for Beverley. He
approves the scheme, recommends it to the favour-
able consideration of the Queen, and Mr. Lawley
is made Governor-General of her Majesty's colony
of South Australia. A new writ is then issued for
Beverley, and the son of the Prime Minister is
started for that borough, before the electors know
anything of the family arrangement.
Thus are ourcolonies governed. Such is a spe-
cimen of Coalition Government—such has been
a recommendation to the Queen—and such is
the conduct of the good Aberdeen, Mr. Glad-
stone, and Sir George Grey. It is very com-
mon for a Grey or an Elliott to get places, but
for a young mau of 29, merely because he has got
into trouble, and is a connexion of the Minister, to
be made Governor-General of one of the largest
and most important provinces belonging to the
Queen, is a thing unparalleled. The party in the
Ministry who desire to retain their places, at all
hazards, have triumphed, and they will stay in till
they are turned out, and drag their colleagues
along with them. When winter approaches, we
doubt not meetings will be held all over the coun-
try upon the state of the Ministry. We still cling
to the belief that Parliament must meet in
.No-
vember, though it is clear that some of the Minis-
ters will oppose an autumnal session in every way.
---Zorning Advertiser.

BEVERLEY ELECTION. —On Saturday morning the
walls were placarded with the announcement of a new
candidate, Mr. George Woodyatt Hastings. who appeals
to the electors as a thorough going liberal, a friend of a
vigorous war policy, and a determined opponent of Lord
Aberdeen. The nomination took place at 11 o'clock,
When both candidates appeared on the hustings. Dr.
Sandwith proposed and Mr. William Cresskill seconded
Mr. Gordon, and Mr. Hastings was proposed by Mr.
sGeorge Ireland, seconded by Mr. Ligar. The candi-
d'tes having addressed the assembly in exposition of
their political views, a show of hands was taken, when
there appeared a sliaht majority in favour of Mr. Hast-
ings. This was ann'ounced by the Mayor, and a poll
was then demanded on behalf of Mr. Gordon, and fixed
fi7, Monday. The issue seems somewhat doubtful, there
Gordon.g an opiniun that the Tories will vote against Mr.
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SAILING OF THE ARABIA.-LIVERPOOL, Saturday.—
The British and American Royal Mail steam-ship
Arabia, Captain Judkins, sailed from Liverpool for New
York, this day, at 11'45 a.m., with the usual
tnaile, a large cargo, and one hundred and thirty pas-
sengers.
CHOLERA IN ITALY. —The following private telegra-
phic despatch has been received :- "Turin, 28th.--A
ucepatch from Genoa announces that the cholera has
made its appearance at Leghorn, Florence, and Naples.
.There Were yesterday at Genoa 124 cases and 51 deaths.
At Turin and in the provinces the sanitary state is satis-
factory.
REPRIEVE OF A MURDERER.-The Right Honourable
the Home Secretary has commuted the sentence iifdeath
which was passed upon the Spaniard at the last Hert-
ford Assizes, for the murder of a young man, to trans•
Portation for life. No ground has been assigned, ex-
cept that the prisoner, since his apprehension, has
refused to speak.