The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-14 00:00:00

THE WEST INDIES.

SOUTHAMPTON, Tam DAY.
The Royal Mail steam-ship La Plata, Captain
Wells, has arrived off this port with West India
and Pacific mails.

Her dates are, Honduras, 18th ; Chagres, 23d ;
Jamaica, 26th ; Demerara, 25th ; and St. Thomas's,
the 30th ult.

She brings 41 passengers, and on freight specie
value 85,0001., besides 100 bars of silver, value
unknowitt

This packet brings little news of interest.
The yellow fever was still raging at Bermuda,
but subsiding in Jamaica ; St. Thomas's healthy.
In Jamaica the.position of affairs was unaltered/
and the arrival of Governor Barkly looked forward
to with the utmost anxiety. Rain continued to fall
copiously throughout the island.
The markets were inadequately supplied with
fish, and breadstuffs had risen. Exchange on Lon-
don, 30 days, 2 per cent. premium.
St. Lucia was free from epidemic disease, and
generally the weather in the islands was season-
able, although exceedingly sultry.

RUSSIA, AUSTRIA, AND ITALY.

(From a Correspondent of the Morning Post.)
NAPLES, OCT. 4.—News has just arrived in
Naples, via Malta, of the commencement of hos-
tilities in the Danubian Provinces ; but no details
are given. If correct, you will have received
better information than I can afford ; for, strange
as it may appear, our Malta news from the East is
generally old and incorrect. I am, however, in
possession of information, from sources hitherto
infallible, on the future policy of Russia, which is
interesting.

It was never intended (says my informant)
that Austria should take up any really hostile at-
titude with regard to Russia ; and it was perfectly
understood at St. Petersburg that the Cabinet of
Vienna would withdraw precisely when it could
no longer influence the Western Powers and for-
ward the views of the Czar. The armies of Rus-
sia and Austria are now to unite and permanently
occupy the Danubian Provinces. The Northern
Powers calculate on being able to beat the
Turks, on whom, however, they do not intend to
advance, but rather wait to receive. The great
object of the Northern Powers is to confine the
war—if they come to blows—as much as possible to
a frontier fight for the present. The Czar, lam
assured, is highly satisfied with the success of his
diplomacy, and considers he has gained many
points by the hesitating policy of France and Eng-
land. He had calculated that the combined fleets
would have gone on to Constantinople much
sooner, before he could have completed his army
arrangements for the winter. So far, then, the
Czar thinks ho has traded on the credulity of Lord
Aberdeen with some favourable results, assisted by
two powerful journals—one in London, and the
other in Paris.
Meanwhile Russian intrigue is hard at work,
both iu Constantinople and Paris ; but, it is
stated, hitherto, without the least success in the
latter city. The Emperor. holds on Irto f his
English alliance ; but in the City of the Crescent
much has been accomplished for the future.
There are two evils which darken the Russo-
Austrian plot—Hungary and Italy. Austria cal-
culates that, with the aid of the Neapolitan army,
she can keep the Peninsula quiet, unless the French
move out of Rome ; whilst Russia engages to look
after Kossuth's friends. Austria, it will be re-
membered, possesses Tuscany, and part of the
Roman States, and the King of Naples could spare
30,000 men and a steam-fleet, if necessary, at any
moment, for foreign service. If France were to
move in Italy, it could only be in the cause of the
people ; and will she dare to do so, it is argued,
whilst despotic at home ? Such Were the subjects
lately discussed by the boy-Emperor and the crafty
Czar, whose plans of action are now complete, as
far as anticipated events will admit.
As I have before pointed out, the advance of
Russia involves every political European interest.
The state of Germany and Italy is such as demands
a closer and more openly pronounced army league
with Russia. If bayonet Governments are to con-
tinue, it can only be by uniting in one huge force
the armed hosts of Russia, Austria, and the smaller
States, the sovereigns of which, since 1848, have
lost all independence by quarrelling with their
people, and sustaining themselves with a foreign
soldiery. Russia, therefore, must advance and be
ever ready to assist her allies, for which she will
some day demand payment as with Austria at the
present moment. The vital question is narrowing
daily—Shall the world again witness civilisation
retarded by the strong arm of barbarism ?

TROOPS FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN.—TIIO Limerick
Chronicle states that the regiments expecting to embark
for the purpose of augmenting our forces in the islands
of the Mediterranean, are-9th, at present at Clonmel ;
14th, Limerick ; 17th, Dublin ; 39th, Cork ; 89th Cork ;
62d, Kilkenny. These being sent from Ireland, will
not be replaced by regiments from England, as forty-
two country detachments have been withdrawn in Ire-
land the last six month. Leaves of absence have been
decisively refused to many officers attached to the depots
of such of those regiments as form part of the Irish esta-
blishment.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—A movement is being
made, and memorials to the Postmaster-General are
being presented by the towns in the West of England,
with the view of having letters and newspapers trans-
mitted by the express instead of by the mail trains, and considerably accelerate delivery.

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