The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-13 00:00:00

WEST INDIAN MAILS.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) •
SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY MORNING.
The Royal mail steamer Avon, Lieutenant .Hastie.
R.N., has just arrived with the usual West Indian stud
Pacific mails, in charge of Lieutenant South, R. N.
The Avon came from .St. Thomas, a distance or
3,700 miles, with only one paddle-wheel. Healy
easterly gales are the cause of her delayed arrival. Her
freight of specie amounts to 1,029,000 dollars, and she
brings 30 passengers.
At Jamaica the yellow fever has appeared principally
amongst the shipping.
Sugar making bad commenced on the south side, but
on the north side it had been delayed from heavy rains.
The crops were expected to be larger than those of
1848, but less than those of 1847.

The House of Assembly had passed the Retrenchment
Bill, with a resolution to stop the supplies if the Bill
was not passed into law by the Council. It was sup-
posed the latter would throw it out, as most of the mem-
bers were office holders, wbose salaries v►ould be affected
by the Bill. Public feeling ran high throughout the
island, but it was almost universally Kith the House of
Assembly.
Sugar had improved in price in many of the
West India islands owing to the re-action in England.
On the 11th of February a riot took place in the
Danish island of Santa Cruz, and the authorities or-
dered the troops to fire on the black population.
Several were killed and wounded before order was re-
stored.

Great numbers of persons continued to cross the Istb.
mus ou their way to California.
The American steamer California was to leave Pa'
nama on the 26th January with 400 passengers.
In Bolivia the forces of General Llelzu had obtained ti
complete victory over General Velasco.

A general amnesty was proclaimed, and tranquilliti
restored.

Iu Lima there was a great business in English goods,
owing to the immense demand for California. Several
vessels bad sailed for the gold regions. The like accounts
ba%e reached us from Valparaiso, where business was in
a particularly active state.
The British brig George, of Liverpool, was total!'
lost on the Ist of February, near Santa Cruz, and some
of the crew are come hone in the Avon.

DEATH OF SIR ROBERT SHAW.—The venerable
Sir Robert Shaw expired, after a rather brief illness,
on Saturday evening, at his seat, Bushy-park, in
the county of Dublin, in the seventy sixth year of his
age. For mote than half a century Sir Robert Shan'
has filled a most honourable and useful place in the PO'
lie life and socia•ty of this country. He sat in the Irish
Parliament. He had been returned by Lord Ely, but
when Lord Ely gave in his adherence to the measure of
the Union Sir Robert (then Mr.) Shaw resigned his 001
purchased an independent one for himself, and toted
against the Union. He represented Dublin in the lin;
penal Parliament from 1804 to 1826; and for about
fifty-three years he has constantly acted as a magistrate
and grand juror for the county of Dublin. He is sue"
ceeded in his title and principal estates by his eldest son'
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Shaw, and a portion of Lb°
county of Dublin estates, the property of the late Lodi
Shaw, devolve on the Right Hon. Frederick Shaw, all
her sr coed son.

BIRTS.
At Edinburgh, on the Bth inst., the Lady Anne 110113°
Drummond, of a daughter.
On the Bth inst , at Bath, the Hon. Mrs. Byron Cary, of il
daughter.
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DIED.
On the 10th inst., at Ilawnes, Bedfordshire, aged 77, the
Right Hon. John Lord Carteret.
On the 4th inst., at Bradford, Wilts, aged 54, J. Tattat
Esq., manager of the North Wilts Bank in that town.
On the 7th inst., at Shirley, near Southampton, France'
Hannah Burrard, youngest daughter of the late Lieutenant'
General Sir Harry Burrard, Bart., aged 49.
On the 9th inst, at Friestlands, near Lyming'ton, Haat*
aged 34, Rebecca Warren, the wife of G. E. Clarke, Esl.

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Of
Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the count,"
Middlesex, Tuesday, March 13, 1849.

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