The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-07 00:00:00

WEST INDIA MAIL.

The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Thames,
Captain Abbott, with the West India mails, in
charge of Lieut. Perceval, R.N., Admiralty agent,
arrived at Southampton yesterday afternoon. She
left St. Thomas on the Gth ult., consequently has
been twenty-seven days on the run home. The
latest dates brought by the Thames are :—Chagres,
Jan. 23d ; Carthagena, 26th ; Jamaica, 30th ;
Trinidad, 30th ; Barbadoes, Feb. Ist ; Grenada,
Jan. 29th : Porto Rico, Feb. 4th ; St Thomas,
Gth ; La Guayra, Jan. 25th ; Antigua, 29th ;
Jacmel, Feb. 3d ; Grey Town, Jan. 21st ; Tobago,
24th ; Curacoa, 31st • St. Vincent, 31st ; St.
Lucia, Feb. Ist ; Martinique, Jan. 28th ; Domi-
nica, Feb. 2d ; Guadaloupe, 3d ; Antigua, Jan.
29th ; Nevis, 27th ; St. Kitts, 29th.
On freight the Thames brought specie to the
amount of 800,000 dollars, 295 serons of cochineal
and sarsaparilla, and a number of packages of gene-
ral merchandise.
From Jamaica our advices extend to the 30th of
January, on which day the Eagle sailed from
Kingston with the mails, the packet not having
arrived with the English mails. At St. Thomas
the Jamaica mails were shifted from the Eagle to
the Thames, which vessel brought them on to
Southampton.

Considerable indignation was expressed in Ja-
maica at the Chancellor of the Exchequer's budget,
as it affected the planting interest, an d Mr. Disraeli
and Sir John Pakington had been rated in no mea-
sured terms by some of the island journals. On
the re-assembling of the Legislature, on the 25th
of January, Mr. Westmoreland in the Assembly, by
way of amendment to Mr. Lyons' notice of motion,
that the House of Assembly would not proceed to
raise any revenue until some measure of retrench-
ment had been determined on, gave notice that, when
Mr. Lyons' motion came to be discussed, he would
move that the expenditure be limited to a specific
sum to be then named. The debate was fixed for
the 2d of February. . A document had been laid
before the House of Assembly, and ordered to be
published in the several island papers for two weeks,
showing that, from the Ist January, 1848, to the
28th March, 1852, the number of estates totally
abandoned is 128, while those partially abandoned
are 71 ; of coffee plantations there have been 96
totally, and 66 partially, abandoned ; and of pans,
30 totally and 22 partially. 391,187 acres have
thus been thrown out of cultivation. The assessed
annual value of the properties thus abandoned was,
in 1848, 98,439/. 19s. 6d. ; in 1852 it had fallen to
53,2211. 19s. Gd. The average annual amount of
taxes paid by these properties for the four years
ending January Ist, 1848, was 13,7151. is. Gd. On
1852 the total assessment had dw,indled down to
7,2841. Ils. 7d.
Twenty-three soldiers of the 3d West India
Regiment, stationed at the Kingston Barracks, had
been convicted at the Surrey Assizes of the late
serious riot on the Kingston Parade, and sentenced
to six months' imprisonment, with hard labour in
the General Penitentiary.
Four Mormons had arrived at Kingston from
the territory of Utah, but were prevented from
lecturing in that city by the mayor and attorney-
general, through apprehensions of a riot. One of
them, however, had lectured in Spanish Town by
permission of the governor, but he was so quizzed
by the wags that he could not complete his
harangue.
Business was dull. The weather and the public
health were not perceptibly changed.
The inter-colonial news was of a gloomy nature.
The yellow fever still prevails at Barbadoes to a
very alarming extent, and has visited St. Vincent.
Sir John Campbell, the late governor, has fallen a
victim to it. The legislature at Barbadoes had ad-
journed for a month, to enable that body to exert
tnemselves to restore the health of the celony, but
such is the virulence of the disease that they can do
but little.

DEMERAILA.—YeIIow fever still lingers amongst
the shipping, and with fatal results. Smallpox has
also made its appearance, but in a mild form.

THE PENINSULAR MAIL.

The Madrid, Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steam-ship, commanded by Captain John Weeks,
with the Peninsular mails in charge of Lieutenant
Newenham, R.N., Admiralty agent, arrived at
Southampton yesterday afternoon. Her dates of
sailing were—Gibraltar, February 25; Cadiz, 26th;
Lisbon, March 1; Oporto, 2d; Vigo, 3d.
The freight of the Madrid consists of 7 packages
of specie, 30 cases of eggs, 2 cases of wine, 370 half-
chests of oranges, 47 half-chests of Tangerines, 158
barrels and 17 cases of dates, 30 packages of
sundries.
Stations of Vessels of War of Foreign States,
Feb. 26.—At Cadiz, the Aquila, 18, Sardinian cor-
vette; at Lisbon, March 1, the usual POrtuguese
ships ; at Vigo, March 3, the Minerva, 14, Spanish
brig of war.
Stations 'of her Majesty's Ships, Feb. 24.—At
Gibraltar, her Majesty's steam-frigate Furious,•l6;
Antelope, steam-ship, 3 ; Bengal, Bengal Com-
pany's steam-packet, 28 hours out from South-
ampton • at Lisbon, March 1, her Majesty's steam-
ship Inflexible, 6.
Near Vigo, the peasantry wese said to be in a
state of starvation in the mountains. A small
vessel (English) had been wrecked on the Berlings
near Lisbon ; her captain and crew had been saved
by another English schooner, and brought toVigo.
The crew of the first are at Vigo awaiting a pas-

sage home.
The King ofPortugal, who has much good taste in
architecture, is renovating and repairing the Con
vent del Pena, -at Cintra, in a very chaste and-
beautiful manner, in the old IVloo.tish style, out of
his own pocket, to give employment to the people
of that quarter. is conduct was deemed praise-
worthy.