The Sun.
London, England, 1853-05-31 00:00:00

La Plata also brings the Pacific mails received
at Panama on the 3d inst. by the steam-ship .San-
tiago, Captain Cox, which vessel had bar silver and
coined gold, value $150,000;:' for cgnveyattoe ,to
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Valparaiso April 15 Arica April 20
Coquimbo — 1611-slay
Huasco
Caldera
Cobija — 19 Payta — 29
Iquique -- 20 .

La Plata experienced strong easterly winds, with
a heavy, confused sea, (luring the first portion of
herhe
birigs 19
passage,ib3ut fine light winds subsequently.
She
passengers, among whom are Go-
vernor Barkly and the Bishop of British Guiana,
from Demerara ; General Arista, ex-President of
Mexico, and suite, from Vera Cruz ; Admiral
Blanco, Charge d'Affaires of Chili to France, kc.
This steamer brings on freight, gold, value
$424,000, silver in bars, value s7lo,ooo—the total
value being $1,139,194, or say 228,000/. sterling,
of which $27,526 is for account of the Mexican divi-
dends ; the freight list also comprises 250 scrolls
cochineal, 29 tierces coffee, 103 cases cigars, 204
bales tobacco, 3 live turtle, 91 bales sarsaparilla,
168 bales indigo, 254 bales bark, and 96 sundries.
La Plata has arrived at Southampton two days
before her mails are due at the General Post-office,
although she left St. Thomas a little behind time,
the detention being caused, as is usually the case,
by the unpunctuality of the branch steamers. It
appears that the Avon, which has recently been
lengthened and fitted with new boilers, for the
experienced. sufficient
It
is
of steam e a
tefosrt
purpose of occupying the station between St.
Thomas and the Gulf of Mexico, does not quite
da iiifiic
answerthein generatingexpectations entertained as to speed, a
boilers beingthe
im-
portance that the branch routes should be performed
gr th
with regularity and efficiency, otherwise the trans-
atlantic packets are constantly detained at St.
Thomas, and thus the whole scheme is deranged.
We hope that the Avon will, therefore, be found
fast enough to perform the particular service to
which she is appointed, or that some
other vessel
will be placed there capable of traversing the dis-
tance in sufficient time to prevent the possibility
(except from bad weather) of the main line packets
being delayed. In the present instance the advan-
tage to the public of employing such vessels as La
Plata is clearly apparent. Her arrival on the 30th
of the month gives the commercial world two days
to reply to their correspondence by the outward
packet of the 2d Juno ; thus, in respect to the West
Indies and Pacific, a fortnight is saved, and in re-
gard to the Gulf of Mexico, to which a mail is dis-
patched only once a month, a whole month's time is
economised. Any other of the companys ships
would have reached Southampton
just too late to
afford these facilities.
La Plata, after lying 17 days in the harbour of
St. Thomas, left that island on the 17th inst., and
has made the passage in a little over 12i clays. On
casting anchor this morning the vessel was visited
by Mr. Wiblin, the medical superintendent of qua-
rantine, who elicited that since the 7th inst., when
yellow fever broke out on board, 14 cases had oc-
curred, three of which terminated fatally—viz.,
Best, fireman, seized on the 7th and died on the
10th ; John arris seized on the 7th, died on the
11th ; Richard Farley, seized on the 11th, died on
the 14th ; the two latter on shore. The last case
which occurred on the 24th inst., was that of George
Mundon, who is now on board dangerously ill and
not expected to survive. Immediately after the
conclusion of the investigation the mails were
detained in quarantine till
landed, but the ship was
Mr. Parrott, the collector of customs had commu-
nicated the facts to the Privy Council-office. In
answer to this application, orders were speedily
transmitted from London to release the passengers
at once, but the ship was detained in quarantine
the outbreak of the last case,
which occurred on the 24th
stipu-
lated six days from
inst.
Sir
William
till the afternoon in order to complete the d
h
at half past five this afternoon, and has gone on
board La Plata to decide whati •is to bo done with
Pym, the Inspector-General of Quarantine, arrived
amino.. The ship will
the cases of fever yet rem
''
d. h
enter the docks at seven p.m. to. Ise arge c.argo.
12th May, are of considerable
the morning of the
The island was without a revenue or
importance.
• the principal laws—to raise
Our latest advices from Jamaica, extending to
without laws—that is, .
one. During the few weeks before the sailing of
the steamer the several branches of the
were
continuously wrangling with each other. At
Legislaturestood prorogued to the 17th May. They had come
the following
the period of the date of our advices the house
to a resolution in
"That in consequence of the rejection of the Revenue
Bills by the second branch of the Legislature, and the
recklessness and utter disregard of the interests of the
colony thereby displayed, this house feels that it cannot
with confidence continue to originate legislative mea-
sures
for the benefit of its constituents, and in self-
,
i respect, and in vindication of the rights of the people, it