The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-02 00:00:00

SICILY.

General FILANGIERI, Prince of Satriano, has been
appointed the Governor, Commander-in- Chief, and
President of the Council of Sicily.
The following names appear as members of the Si-
cilian Government :—Councillors—Don FELICI PAS-
TORE, Don FILIPPO CRAZI, Don PAOLO CUMBO, Duke
of CARCACI, and the Marquis GALLO.

WEST INDIA MAIL.

FATAL DISTURBANCES IN TRINIDAD.

The packet ship Clyde arrived at Southampton this
morning. She brings 800,000 dollars on merchants'
account. Her news from Jamaica is up to October
Bth. At Panama there were 2,000 people waiting to
procure a passage to California, which they would
succeed in doing in four American steamers that
were ready to give them a passage. Much excite-
ment existed in Trinidad in consequence of a pro-
jected change in the treatment of small debtors,
which went the length of causing a commotion
in the Court of Spain, which ended in loss of life.
It appears that a law was passed imposing on small
debtors the penalty of confinement and having their
heads shaved a punishment only inflicted on
condemned criminals. While the law was on its
way to receive the sanction of the Governor, the
people rose to resist the intended enactment, and in
such force as to render it necessary to call out the
military. The 88th Regiment were called out, and
ordered to fire on the people, and two women and one
boy were killed. In the meantime a meeting of the
respectable inhabitants took place, who petitioned
the Governor not to sanction the obnoxions measure.
Lord Harris acceded, and the riot ended. Her Ma-
jesty's ship Champion was expected about the 10th
October from the west coast of Mexico, at Panama,
with a very large remittance, which would be sent
across the Isthmus, and transported on board one of
the West India Company's vessels. The amount of
the remittance is expected to be 1,500,000 dollars.
At Jamaica the following resolutions passed the
Assembly on the sth ult. :
Resolved--" That in the;present embarrassed finan-
cial circumstances of the colony it is necessary that
this house should use every means in its power to
prevent the loss of revenue which may be expected to
arise from the expiring of the Act imposing a duty
upon imports, and to check or prevent such an
increase by importation without paying duty on the
stock of articles upon which duty has hitherto been
paid, and will hereafter be levied as will increase the
amount of such loss, and render additional direct
taxation unavoidable in providing for the exigencies
of the public."
Resolved—" That this House will, in passing the
Bill now before it to impose a duty on articles im-
ported into this island, provide for the recovery and
collection of duties upon all goods liable to duty
thereunder which shall have been imported from and
after the fifth day of the present month of October."
The only event which can invalidate the above is
another prorogation or dissolution, which may take
place if the Retrenchment Bill be rejected.
The chief event at Demerara since the last mail
has been the passing of the Franchise Bill.

MARKET IN EW S.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN-EXCIIAN GE-(FRIDAY.

Coastwise, the receipts of English Wheat, this week,
have been tolerably good, viz., 3,710 quarters. The
arrivals by land carriage have not been to say large.
This morning, the show of samples of both red and
white, was not heavy ; yet, owing to the small number
of buyers in attendance, and the increase in the importa-
tions from abroad, the demand for all kinds of Wheat
of home produce was in a very inactive state ; and,
in some instances, the inferior qualities declined is per
quarter, without effecting a clearance. Upwards of
11,000 quarters of foreign Wheat have come in, chiefly
from Dantaic. Fine samples were mostly held at full
prices, at which very little business was transacted.
The middling and inferior kinds were dull in the extreme,
and lower to purchase. Nothing doing in floatingcargoes.
The supply of English Barley was on the increase—that
of foreign small. Malting parcels ruled steady, at late
rates. In grinding and distilling samples very little
was doing. A considerable increase has taken place in
the supplies of Malt. That article was a very dull sale,
at barely stationary prices. Very few English oats
were on show. The fresh supply of foreign was 12,410
quarters. Sound Corn was quite as dear, but other
kinds of Oats were a slow inquiry. Beans, Peas, Indian
Curn, Meal, and Flour heavy, at unaltered currencies.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.

Wheat.

Barley,

Oats.

Malt. I Flour.

Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Sacks
English ..
Scotch.• •• .• • •
Irish ••.•• • •• I
Foreign