The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-22 00:00:00

WEST INDIA MAIL

The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Parana,
Captain Woolley, with the West India mails, in
charge of Lieutenant Veitch, R.N., Admiralty
agent, arrived yesterday morning at Southampton.
During the homeward voyage of the Parana, she
bad to contend against strong head winds nearly
all the way, and a derangement in her machinery
detained her a day.
The latest dates brought by the Parana are :
Chagres, Feb. 23 ; Carthagena, Feb. 26 ; Jamaica,
Peb. 27 ; Demerara, Feb. 25 ; Trinidad, Feb. 25 ;
I3arbadoes, Feb. 27 ; Grenada, Feb. 26 ; St. Tho-
Inas, March 5 ; Grey Town, Feb. 17.
The following is the list of passengers :
Sir. and Mrs. Hume and two children, and Mr. H.
Groom, from Jamaica • Lieutenant Knight, from Barba-
does ; Madame Boucanhe, two children, and female ser-
vant, from Martinique ; Mr. Begg and Master Garraway,
from Grenada ; General Crookshank, from St. Kitts ;
Messrs. Bourne, Perron, Paraud, Comynet, Crave, Le
Conte, and Sansome, from Navy Bay ; Mr. Green from
.searthagena ; Mr. Calcano, from St. Thomas's ; 12 soldiers,
3 women, and 5 children ; 13 shipwrecked seamen.
The Parana brings on freight--$372,235 value of
Silver in bars, *11,138 on merchants' account,
$529,204 value in gold dust and gold bars,
2161. value in platina, 6141. -value in British
coin, 7501. value in pearls, 185 serons cochineal,
292 serons indigo, 15 bales sarsaparilla, 1 box
vanilla, 30 kegs succades, 20 bales bark, 3 bales
Wax, 2 bales manna, and 42 packages sundries.
STATIONS OF THE COMPANY'S SHlPS.—Great Wes-
tern with inward island mails • Trent, Gulf of
Mexico ; Dee, Spanish Main ; Medway, Spanish
Main ; Conway, Nassau ; Eagle, Belize.
STATIONS 01' ii. M. SHlPS.—Geyser, at Grey
Town, Bermuda, cruizing off Coast Mosquito ;
Daum and Alban, at Jamaica ; Dauntless, of the
Coast of Duba ; Vestal, at Havanna ; Devastation,
at Belize.
On the 27th ultimo the Parana spoke the barque
Protector, from Liverpool, entering Port Royal.
On the Bth instant, the English brig Phoebus ;
011 the 14th, the Creole and the Success.
The Middleton, of Maryport, from Liverpool,
Laundered on the 21st ultimo, near Carthagena.
The crew came home in the Parana.

• JAMAICA.
The dates from' this island are to the 27th ult.
proclamation, bearing date the 18th day of
February, has been issued by his Excellency the
revernor' promulgating an order received from
l"r Majesty's Privy Council, bearing date the 28th
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of December, 1852, consenting to the following
'lets passed by the Legislature of Jamaica, viz. :
„ "An act for the raising of moneys to be applied to
‘'le instruction of free labourers, and for other pur-
-134e8 ; and
" An act for appointing Commissioners, and autho-
-423.'13g them to provide for the return passage of cer-
Z4lO emigrants brought into this island, and for other
purposes'."
the Excellency the Governor has given assent to
e Loan Act.
„, manufacture of sugar will not be to any con-
'lgerable extent this season, but it is said that it
(Ibe very good. A number of large fields have
. yet been got in.
the is the intention of the Assembly to withdraw
Island Treasury notes from circulation, and to
ASubstitute others in their stead, a bill for that pur-
o 11aving passed through several stages.
pa, "Ir. Hague, a reporter for one of the local
of'rs, has been committed to prison for a breach
Pri.vilege, under a warrant from the Speaker,
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