The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-01 00:00:00

SPAIN.

" MADRID, 27th.—The Madrid Gazette publishes
an ordonnance suppressing the direction of the
colonies, and reorganising ;the staff of persons em-
ployed in that department. The sanitary health
of the capital continues to be satisfactory."

THE MEDITERRANEAN.

MARSEILLES, SUNDAY AFTERNOON, OCT. 29.
Great anxiety prevails here in consequence of the
non-arrival of the Euphrate regular mail steamer
from Constantinople, expected here since Friday
night last, with letters of the 20th. The mail
service from Constantinople has been comp letely
deranged since the packets have been despatched
with troops to the Black Sea, and the incon-
venience thus caused to the public calls loudly for
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a more regular communication.

The weather is magnificent, and the wind quite
favourable for the reinforcements which are being
despatched en masse to the army of the East. All
the transports laden with Cuirassiers and Engi-
neers, with their horses, which were detained here
by contrary winds for some days, have cleared out,
and there is not a hired transport remaining in the
docks. The Sinai mail steamer took 500 of the 19th
Regiment of Infantry to Constantinople. The City
of London,, British Governthent transport, which
came here with despatches from Lord Raglan, sailed
for Constantinople on Thursday, and provided ac-
commodation for 500 of the 39th of the line. The
mail steamer Tel"maque sailed the same day. Her
decks were crowded with Chasseurs of Vincennes.
She had likewise a number of first-class passengers,
among whom were Mr. Macdonald, the limes
Commissioner, proceeding to the hospital at Scutari,
Colonel de Bathe, of the Guards, and Mr. Ha vi-
land, the Queen's Messenger. The new iron screw
steamer Byzantine, of 1,200 tons, has been chartered
by Government, and is taking in flour and a vast
quantity of cartridges for the Minie rifles. She
will sail direct for Balaklava. The Spanish steamer
Pelayo is engaged for the same purpose.

THE WEST INDIA MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY, OCT. 31.

The Royal Mail steam-ship Atrato, Captain P.
Woolley, arrived here at 5 p.m. to-day, bringing
the West India, Pacific, and Gulf of Mexico mails,
in charge of Lieutenant Tickell, R.N., Admiralty
agent. Her latest dates are—

Vera Cruz Oct. 5 Tobago. Oct. 9

Tampico Sept. 301 Trinidad
Havannah Oct. 101Barbadoes

Nassau (Bahamas) 7 Grenada
Puerto Cabello 9 Carriacou — 11

Santa Martha .

...
... 11 I St. Vincent's
11

Greytown (Mos- . St. Lucia — 12
quite)
Chagres
Carthagena — 11 D0minica............ 13
Kingston (Jamaica) 11 Antigua
Jacmel (Hayti) ... 13 Montserrat
San Juan (Porto Nevis
Rico)
Berbice (British Tortola — 14
Guiana) —9 La Guayra
Georgetown (De- St. Thomas's
merara) ......... 10

The Atrato has been detained two days at St.
Thom:s'sby a heavy gale from the southward,
durine•
which, .
the morning the night of the 16th, she was
blown adrift from Coal-wharf and it was not till
of the 18th that it was judged safe to
attempt to haul alongside again. The gale, amount-
ing almost to a hurricane, must have passed to the
southward of St. Thomas's, and no doubt some sad
disasters will be heard of by the next mail. some
damage was done at St. Thomas's. On the 17th
her Majesty's ship Devastation went out of harbour
to the assistance of an American ship which had
blown on shore. During the passage this steamer
experienced gales from the south and north-west.
In lat. 46 6 N., long. 22 31 W., she passed the
wreck of a brig with foremast and topmast stand-
ing, decks swept, and abandoned.
The Tamar, with the outward mails of the 2d of
October, arrived out at St. Thomas's on the 16th,
and reported very bad weather on the voyage.
The Atrato brings 92 passengers, and on freight
specie from Tampico $34,063°. from Vera Cruz,
$155,477 ; for account of the Mexican dividends,
$1,200 ; and from the Pacific ports and California,
via Panama, $398,422—t0ta1, $599,963 or 120,000/.
sterling. he freight-list also comprises 11 serons
cochineal, 12 serons jalap, 82 cases cigars, 330 bales
tobacco, 82 bales sarsaparilla, 12 casks ginger, 104
packages pimento, and sundry merchandise.
The news is generally unimportant. From Ja-
maica, under date the 9th of October, we learn as
follows :

the dissolusion of the late House of Assembly,
hip Excellency Wiled rite fora moral olection of raora7

bars to form anew House, and the elections are nearly com-
pleted. The only parishes remaining are St. George's,
which comes off to-day, and the candidates are Messrs.
Girod, Flosaek, and Lawton ; the other parishes are St.
Elizabeth and Westmorland—the writs to be returnable
on the 18th iust. The Governor has also further pro-
rogued the House to the 31st instant, and it is confi-
dently expected it will meet in the second week in
November.
" His Excellency induced the lion. Mr. Jordan to
vacate his seat in the Legislative Council, and become a
candidate for the representation of Kingston iu the Hon.
House of Assembly, with a portfolio. Mr. Jordan has
been elected and has taken his seat as a member of the
Executive Committee. Their first meeting took place at
King's House on the 3d inst. There were present his Ex-
cellency the Governor, who occupied the chair on the occa-
sion, with the Hon. Bryan Edwards, member of the com-
mittee in the Legislative Counc,l; the Hon. Mr. Jordan,
member for Kingston ; and Henry Westmorland, mem-
ber for Metcalfe.
" We have been rather lively throughout the island on
account of the several elections; but the greatest harmony
has prevails I, and not the least indication of ill-feeling
upon any one occasion,
" I am afraid, however, that the new Assembly will not
give the satisfaction so much expected, as nearly the same
elements have been returned thereto, and, consequently, I
regret to say that the body has not improved in any way,
and, it is presumed, will return to the house wedded to
their former weak notions, in addition to their well-known
incapacity for the position of leg'slators.
" The island has been visited by heavy rains, and there
is every indication of an abundant crop. It is generally
healthy.
"In the Jamaica markets flour was quoted 435.
63. to
50s. ; stock light. Logwood scarce. Pimento quoted
to 4d. per lb. Sales of sugar at 16s. to 18s. per 1001 b.
Large purchases of brandy had been made at 103. 6d. per
gallon in bond. Exchange on London, 90 days, 1 pm.
(Jamaica Bank ;) Colonial Bank drafts at 93 days, 1 pm.
"The brig Diamond, Captain Legge, which left Sa-
vanilla on the 14th of September for London, with a
cargo of fustic,
_tobacco, &c. got on shore on the eastward
of the Morant Keys on the 17th, and immediately went
down, leaving very little of her hull above water. The
captain, his wife, and crew remained on the wreck for 11
days. They were rescued by the crew of a fishing boat,
who landed them at Kingston on the 28th of Sept."
British Guiana was healthy. The weather wr.:
'very seasonable and the canes looked well. There
was no political news. The Demerara Royal Gazette
in reference to the prospects of the colony, says :
" The depression of price and the war duty throw at the
moment a gloom over the planters' minds which has not
been experienced for some years past. Labour still con-
tinues scarce and dear. In the islands of the Essequibo it
is scarcely at all attainable, and then only at an advance
of 40 per cent, upon former rates. All the coolies we can
get this year will do little to lessen the pressure in the
labour market, and no active steps are now being taken,
as far as we can learn, to get labourers from Africa or
Madeira. We hear nothing of the steam project which
was to unite the islands and the mainland, although the
island Legislatures interested have come forward to
guarantee their moiety of a bonus.
" Freights begin to rise again, although there is abun-
dant shipping in the river for our present wants. Within
the last fortnight a start in price has been effected of from
1/. 10s. to 2/. 10s. per ton, but it is not expected it will re-
main steady even at this latter rate. Trade continues
necessarily dull. Provisions are scarce and dear. Although
the dry weather does not affect the cane-piece, it is ruinous
to the plantain and cassava of the small landowner, whose
ill drained land suffers from every altercation of weather
out of the common course. Our markets are consequently
ill supplied with native esculents. Advice and experience
have alike failed as yet to show the negro cultivator how
much he depends for a crop on having his land drained."
The cholera was generally decreasing in the West
India Islands. Barbadoes is nearly free from it,
but in Trinidad and St. Vincent's its ravages were
still felt.
A letter dated St. Lucia, October 12, contains
the following :
" Cholera is visibly on the decline, but is succeeded by
typhus fever, which is very prevalent. The Legislative
Council met yesterday, and inter alia passed an ordinance
embodying the militia, the qualification being the same as
that required for jurors, ranging from the age of 16 to
50 years. The weather is dreadfully warm, the thermo-
meter ranging sleeve 90 degrees in the shade. There is a
very great scarcity of flour and breadstnffs."
The Pacific Steam Navigation Company's ship
Bolivia arrived at Panama on the sth of October,
with dates from Valparaiso to the 15th and Lima
the 25th of September. The following, extracted
from the Panama Star, is the latest news from the
seat of civil war in• Peru

" Since the date of our last advices no engagement has
taken place between the Government troops and General
Castilla. The former are stationed between Chonges and
Chnpaca, and the latter between Izcuchaca and Morja.,
where, according to the same authority, they suffer from
the climate and scarcity of supplies. On the 28th some
deserters from the revolutionary army joined the Govern-
ment forces. Castilla's army is said only to number 2.7t0
men, and General San Roman had not been able to join him
with his division, which only numbers 860. Castilla is said
to have applied to Belzu for assistance.
" In Lima everything remains quiet ; but at Arica, on
the 9th, an attack was made on the town by Dr. Zavala with
250 or 300 men, who succeeded, after a hard fight, in de-
feating the small force of 75 soldiers left to guard the town,
but, on the 19th, General Guardia retook the city, and
made about 150 of the revolutionists prisoners.
"Our private letters from this city say that everything
was in the greatest confusion, and all business suspended.
"All the ports, with the exception of Iquique, were in
the hands of the Government party. The whole force of
the Presidency consists of 10,000, of whom 5,000 hold the
central provinces, 1,500 aro in the south, 2,500 in and
about Lima, and 1,000 in the northern provinces.
"It must be remembered that these accounts are taken
from-the Government paper, and should be received with
caution."

From Chili and Ecuador there is no news of im-
portance.
Relative to the revolution in New Granada, the
Panama Star mentions a rumour that 2,000 of
General Melo's army left him on the 26th of Sep-
tember, and joined General Mosquera's forces. The
same journal states as follows :
" From private letters received from Carthagena,
we
learn that the constitutional cause prospers, and that Melo
is now reduced to the plains of Bogota, where, however,
he has a large army.
" The Government troops, under General Petrie, gained
a victory in Pamplona, and Generals Mosquera and Her-
rera had advanced to Ocana, while Generals Lopez and
Paris held the southern provinces.
" General Posada had not yet succeeded in putting down
the malcontents of the Cieuaga of Santa Marta, who still
continued to plunder on the river.
" From a San Francisco paper we learn that the Ond
Nederland, that arrived at San Francisco on the 12th of
September, reports having spoken, July 31, in lat. 30 deg.
30 min., long. li9 deg. 51 min. W., a British and French
fleet, consisting of eight vessels, one of which was a
steamer."
Her Majesty's ship Buzzard was at Jamaica.
The brig Arab sailed from that island on a cruise
on the Ist inst. The French war steamer Ardente
was at St. Thomas's.