The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-09 00:00:00

WEST INDIA MAIL.

The royal mail steam_ hips Orinoco, Lieutenant
Phillip Hast, R.N., commander, arrived at South-
ampton on Tuesday evening, bringing the West
India, Mexican, and Pacific mails, in charge of
Lieutenant Dennehy, R. N., Admiralty agent.
Her dates are—

Vera Cruz Feb. 7 Grenada ..............Feb. 11
Tampico — 10 Carriacou ............ 11
Havannah — 15 St. Vincent..........
--13
Greytown — 3 St. Lucia ............. 13
Chagres — 8 Martinique ..........
--12
Carthagena — 11 Guadaloupe ......... 14
Santa Martha Jan. 26 Dominica ............
Kingston Feb. 12 Antigua l2
Jacmel(Hayti) —l3 Montserrat • 11
San Juan — 15 Nevis l2
Berbice — 8. St. Kitts l3
Georgetown — 9' Tortola - 15
Tobago — 8 St. Thomas' — 21
Port of Spain —ll Nassau (Bahamas). --- 8 j
Bridgetown ...... —l3 Puerto Cabello —-10 1
The Orinoco also brings mails from the Pacific,
received at Panama by the Pacific Steam Naviga-
tion Company's ship Bogota, which vessel had
treasure value $lBO,OOO for conveyance to the
Bank of England, and dates—
Valparaiso ... Jan. 15 Arica
Coquimbo 16 Islay
Huasco 16 Pisco
Caldera 17 Callao
Cobija 'l9 I Payta
Iquique .. 19
The Orinoco has performed the voyage from S.
Thomas in 14 days. She brings 50 passengers
The Rev. Mr. Osborne died at sea on the 27th ult,
On, freight this steamer has specie value $1,443,106,
or say 288,6211. sterling, of which $45,000 is for
account of the Committee of Mexican Bondholders.
The freight list also comprises 340 serons cochineal,
41 serons indigo, 4 serons jalap, 69 cases cigars,
102 bales tobacco, 7 casks coffee, 79 bales sarsa-
parilla, 1 case tortoiseshell, 31 cases succades, 9
cases beeswax, 9 cases balsam of Tolu, and sundry
merchandise.
The news from Mexico is up to the 7th Feb.
The letters from the capital are to the 3d Feb.
The inhabitants of Vera Cruz were convinced
that General Santa Anna was the only man cap-
able of governing the country with honour and
credit at home and abroad, and they, therefore, on
the 7th of February, pronounced in his favour, and
sent commissioners by the packet to invite him to
return to his country. There was no doubt that
he would accept the invitation, and it was expected
that he would arrive before the Ist of March.
General Uraga and the troops in the city of
Mexico had also pronounced in favour of General
Santa Anna, and a resolution requesting the Ge-
neral to return had been passed.
Our intelligence from Jamaica is to the 13th of
February, on which day the Orinoco left Kingston.
Neither the' files of island papers, nor the private
correspondence, contain any news of importance.
Mr. Westmoreland's resolution, limiting the public
expenditure for the current year to 165,000/., was
brought forward on the night of the 2d of Feb-
ruary, and, after a lengthy debate, was carried by
a very large majority, only two members voting
against it.
Emigration to Australia and to the Isthmus was
proceeding apace. The Government ship Glentun-
ner was in Kingston for the purpose of taking pas-
sengers to the former place. It was said that 90
persons, principally of the better sort, had already
engaged berths on board of the Glentunner, and it
was expected that a great many more applications
would be made. About 200 passengers, among
whom were many of the labouring classes, were
about to sail in the Royal Mail Company's steamer
Conway for the Isthmus. The labourers were to
be employed on the railway. Business remained
as dull as ever. The weather was good, and the
public health had considerably improved.
The sugar crop had commenced, and was ex-
pected to reach from 30,000 to 35,000 hhds.
At Barbadoes the fever had nearly disappeared,
and the islands generally were healthy. Her Ma-
jesty's steam-frigate Dauntless was still there. The
Amended Health Act had been under the conside-
ration of the House of Assembly. Several fires
had occurred on the sugar plantations, supposed to
be occasioned by the continuance of dry weather.
Our accounts from British Guiana are to the 10th
ultimo. On the subject of the yellow fever the
Royal Gazette says
Fever, in a malignant state, still prevails, and,
strange enough to say, other diseases, as they approach
a fatal termination, assume the type of yellow fever.
The authorities appear at last roused to the necessity for
action. The epidemic, from whatever cause arising, is
no doubt increased in virulence by the unwholesome
state of the atmosphere. No efficient means have yet
been taken either to drain or cleanse a city affording sin-
gular facilities for having both done cheaply."
This colony was quiet and prosperous, and the
planters and merchants in good spirits. The crop
of the preceding year, which reached nearly 56,000
hogsheads, had been all shipped, and the prospects
for this year were most encouraging.
By the Golden Gate, which left San Francisco
on the 15th of January, there is little news. The
weather still continued rainy and the country
flooded, with scarcity of provisions, suffering, and
embarrassments in some districts. Flour was
selling at a dollar per pound, and in many parts of
the milling districts beans and acorns were the
only food. In San Francisco, however, flour had
fallen to 31 dolls. per barrel. Nevada county had
taken the initiatory step towards perfecting the
quartz mining laws of the State, by accepting a
code which should secure permanent rights in the
tenure of mining property of this nature, and the
people of San Francisco were rejoicing in the im-
proved value of city property since the advent of
their first upright town-council. In the shipping
news we have the loss of the British Ship Aberdeen
on the same spot where the Samoset was lost—the
rocks off Fort Point, three or four miles within the
Heads. The ships Courtenay, from Cardiff, and
Abyssinia, from Sydney, the barks Radiant, Globe,
and Lady Louisa, from Liverpool, and the Ocean
Queen, from Hong-kong, had arrived, besides 50
sail, mostly American. Her Majesty's ship Am-
phitrite had sailed, and the Thetis was still at
Vancouver's Island.
The Trinidad journals were discussing the sub-
ject of reform in the Government of that island.
The sugar crop had commenced, but the canes were
not yielding satisfactorily. There appears to be
abundant labour in certain localities; and for the
general want, about 1,500 coolies and 1,000 Chinese
are eaid to be expected for distribution upon the
work of the present crop. The first coolie ship of
the season arrived on the 23d ult., in 96 days from
Calcutta, with 204 men, 47 women, and 6 children.
A project is on foot to put a suitable vessel on the
berth to sail from Trinidad to Port Philip, carrying
cargo and passengers, and bringing back cargo.
We regret to notice the existence of malignant
fever at Port of Spain. The Gazette, of the 26th
of January, records a fatal case of typhus, which
the medical men ascribed " entirely to the filthy,
pestilential state of the premises ' in which it
occurred.

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THE UNITED STATES

ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA.

Jan. 20

The British and North American Royal Mail
steamer Niagara, Captain Lang, arrived at Liver-
pool on Tuesday morning with the usual mails, 27
passengers, and 250,000 dollars specie on freight.
She sailed on the 24th ult., one day later than her
fixed day, owing to the heavy swell on the bar
rendering it unsafe to cross. She has made the
voyage in 11 days 2 hours, an average passage.
She reports the arrival of the United States mail
steamer Pacific at New York on the 21st, and the
Arabia on the 23d. These fine vessels sailed hence
on the 9th and 12th ult. respectively, the advan-
tage being about 16 hours in favour of the Arabia.

The news in Congress is not important.
General Pierce, on being officially notified of his
election as president, gave the following reply :
" You will please communicate to the respective
houses of Congress my acceptance of the trust con-
fided to me ; and at the same time express to them
my grateful acknowledgments, and assure them of
the deep sense of obligation with which I regard
this manifestation of confidence on the part of my
countrymen, and it will be my earnest desire to
prove that their confidence has not been 1111S-
placed."
Nothing certain was known about the cabinet.
with his son, Mr.
In addition to the former statements, it is now
States next month
re-
ported that Mr. Buchannan will be aPPoted
mimnirst.eerxt-oprtehseidceor
voafnLio3nudreonn:
Europe.
ship Ericsson,
M. Van Buren, will leave the
on the 16th
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time, and her.
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of 73 hours. It is, h uite certain that in
point of that however uite .
the Ericsson
great requisite, speed,
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Mrs. Harriet Beech .
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26th of March. direct to
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California dates of the Scotland-NT Yyork on the
2d February have been
insonlofartion for
a period