The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-16 00:00:00

WEST INDIA MAILS.

By the Royal Mail Company's Steam-ship Solent,
Capt. T. H. Jellicoe, arrived at Southampton,
yesterday, at four p.m., from the West Indies)
with the usual mails, in charge of Lieut. Beddek,
Admiralty agent, we receive our usual despatches
and papers.
The latest dates brought by the Solent are :
Greytown Dec. 17 Barbadoes. Dec. 27
Santa Martha — 24 Jacmel
Chagres — 24 Antigua — 29
Trinidad.
Demerara
Carthagena
Xarnaica — 26 Porto Rico — 29
Grenada
The Solent brings on freight—s99,o27 gold dust
and bars, $452,353 silver, $197,724 specie, $3,462
pearls, 115 cases of cigars, 224 bales of tobacco, 55
bales of cochineal, 50 serons bark, 54 do. drugs,
27 packages of succades, 48 do. Sundries.
The American mail-steamer' Winfield Scott, run-
ning from St. Francisco, to Panama, had not ar-
rived at the latter place on the 24th December,
beitig eight days overdue.
H.M. sloop-of-war, Virago, sailed from Panama,
for the Gulf of San Miguel, on the 17th December,
for the purpose of examining the proposed route
for a canal across the Isthmus of Darien.
The treasurer of St: Vincent has been killed by
a fall dOw11" stairs, his death being almost instan-
taneous.

Tho Cumberland, 72, bearing the flag of Vice-
Admiral Sir George Seymour, Commander-in-Chief,
was at Barbadoes on the 27th, and was to sail for
Jamaica the next morning. The Calypso, 18, sailed
from Barbadoes for San Domingo on the 26th Dec.
to protect British interests. The Megtßra, steam-
troop-ship, conveying troops from the Windward
Islands to Barbadoes, where they are to be concen-
trated. The Imaum, stationary guard-ship, was
at Jamaica. The Daring was on the coast of Cen-
tral America. Ships all healthy. Mr. Hoffman,
Paymaster of the Daring, died of yellow fever at
Jamaica on the 24th Oct., and Mr. E. J. Evans,
from the Admiral's office, was appointed to the
vacancy.
The U.S. frigate Columbia, 50, Commodore New-
ton, was lying at St. Thomas's on the 31st Dec. ;
also, the U.S. steamer Fulton. The U.S. corvette
Albany, 22, sailed from St. Thomas's on the 28th
December.

Her Majesty's brig Espiegle, 12 guns, was fallen
in with by Royal Mail ship Teviot, Dec. 27, on her
way from the Spanish Main.
The American barque Atlas, from Liverpool to
New Orleans, with a large number of emigrants on
board, had been towed into St. Thomas's, entirely
disnaasted ; 47 of the emigrants had died of cholera.
Cholera was still raging at St. Thomas's, but the
number of deaths was daily decreasing. It was
entirely confined to the coloured population, not a
single case being known amongst the European
community.
All the Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company's
ships were perfectly healthy.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
VESSELS IN KINGSTON HARBOUR, DEC. 27.

Discharging Cargo, —The English barque Castle Lach-
lan—the English brigantine Harriet Ann, and the Con-
test—the Warren Brown (American)—the English
schooners Prince of Wales, the London, and the Ha-
lcyon—the Anita, and the Dante (Dutch)—the Amalia
(Spanish)—the Justina M. Bandall, and the Canton
(American).
Loading.—The English barque Cambrian—the English
brigantine Kate M‘Whinney—the English schooner
Ocean Queen.
Cargo on Board—The English Vrig Aid—the Ameri-
can brigantine William Clarke.
The brigantine John Gottenburgh, for Honduras,
cleared yesterday.
The barque Alice arrived at Montego Bay, from Lon-
don, and the brigantine Plato, from Halifax, Nova
Scotia, arrived at Falmouth, on the 20th inst.
The schooner Triton cleared at St. Ann's Bay, on the
16th for Baltimore.