The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-04 00:00:00

THE WEST INDIA MAIL.

SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 3.—The royal mail steam ship
Tay, Captain C. aI. Chapman, arrived this morning at
six o'clock from the West Indies, with the usual mails.
The latest dates brought by the Tay are—Chagres,
May 30; Carthagena, Juno 1; Jamaica, June 9; De-
tnerars, June 6; Trinidad, June 7; Barbadoes, June
9; Grenada, June 7; St. Thomas, June 14; Fayal,
June 26.

The Tay also brings the Pacific mails, received at
Chat gres, from Panama, and brought thither by the
Pacific Company's steamship Pei u: Valparaiso,
April 28 ; Copiapo, May 2; Cobia, May 4 ; Iquique,
May 5 ; Aria, May 6 ; Islay, May 7 ; Callao, May 12,
&c., 84e.

Tho Tay brings on freight specie of the value of
270,000/. sterling, and coniists in 1,334.325 dollars
in gold and silver, 680 k ounces of gold dust; 1,7i0i
ounces of silver; 2,900 dollars i❑ platina; 782/. 12s.
British coin; 1,204 five franc pieces, and a general
cargo, consisting of 401 serons of indigo. 131 bales
of sarsparilla, I case of tortoiseshell, 16 barrels of ginger
4 barrels of arrowroot, 1 case of cigars, 6 tierces of coffee,
and 50 packages of sundries.
Out of the above remittance are 300,000 dollars' worth
of gold from California, shipped at Chugres, some of
which is in very large lumps; but principally it is in
dust and flakes.

The barque Mary Eliz ►both, of Liverpool, bound to
Santa Martha, was reported to have been wrecked on
the m u.ning of the 14th of May on Punta Gallinas. The
captain and crew proceeded on to Rio Hashe, and but
little of the cargo saved.
In Jamaica everything was still dull, and the pgers
are full of extracts from the London and American jour-
, nals. There have been several shocks of earthquakes
felt, but little or no damage had resulted from these
alarming visitations. A tire, causing damage to 3,0001.,
had taken place at Montego Bay. Several meetings
have been held against the slave trade and the manner
in which treaties are carried out, and urging the home
Government to use greater endeavours for suppressing
the frightful traffic in slaves. The meeting was of all
parties in politics, and attend,d by persons of the
highest respectability. The House of Assembly had
been further prorouged to the 19th June.
At Porto Rico they now find the sugar crop will be
under an average one, the canes not yielding so much
juice as was expected.
The West India Islands continue quiet, and the pros-
pect of the forthcoming crop good, that of Barbadoes
expected to be above the usual average.
Hayti still continues in a state of ferment, and people
are actually starving in this fine climate, where any-
thing will grow. The Haytiens have claimed a victory,
but it is everywhere fully believed that they suffered a
great defeat. Trade is nearly at a stand-still, anti the
measures of Government are crippling it further.

(From the Jamaica Dispatch of June 9.)
Nothing can exceed the prostration of this once noble
colony. ID its export of sugar it has fallen below Bar-
badoes, for its crop this year will hardly reach 30,000
hogsheads; and as the May season; have failed us, the
prospect for 1850 is very cheerless. Many more estates
must go to decay, as, when the last hogshead for 1849
has been shipped (which it soon will be), there will be a
long period without produce, and, consequently, but
little inducement for capitalists to make advances in
order to uphold a cultivation, of which the returns.
hero and at home, are so questionable. Thep lanting and
mercantile interests are depressed beyond example; and
a striking proof of the distress to which all classes have
been reduced, is tiff ,rded by the projected emigration of
a large body of our town tradesmen to the Mosquito
shore in search of remunerative employment, which they
cannot find here. Every one that can seems to abandon
the sinking ship.
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Freights.—To London for sugar 31. to 3/. 10s.
Exchange on London.—Jamaica Bank, 90 days, per
cent. pm.; Colonial Bank, 90 days, per cent. pm.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PLYMOUTH, JULY 2.—Her Majesty's brig Ranger,
Commander Lucraft, went into Barnpool and had her
compasses adjusted on Saturday. She was paid wages
this morning, and will proceed this evening with mails
for .Madeira and the coast of Africa.

The Myrtle steamer arrived from Portsmouth on Sa-
turday with seamen fur her Majesty's ship Queen.
The ship Tasman, of and Irons London, 564 tons,
Captain J. D. Blackbourne, which arrive:l here with 164
emigrants on the 2Sth ult., bound to Port Philip, has
through sickntss lost her chief officer in the Downs. and
her steward in the Channel. The day after her arrival a
woman and child died, and on Sunday morning she lost
a male emigrant. In consequence of these casualties,
Mr. Murdoch, the chairman of the Emigration Board,
now on an official visit here, Mr. Rogers, a member of
the board, and Lieutenant Carew, R.N., her Majesty's
resident emigration officer, consulted together and de-
termined on the trans shipment of all the emigrants from
the Tasman to lo r Majesty's hulk Andromeda, now_
ey
cl)mni:icngrsaienndtsat.rlilde pSuoruinfiti.d plrihoer Ttoasmanre-iesmtobabrlathtiuorn"h
of thei
Wiud---N. W.. light brerz?, fine weather.

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RAILWAY SutAltE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, JULY 3.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—There was a slight Improvement In the share
market to-day. Great Westcrn, Quarters, were done at 5 dis.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 3.

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STOCK Exerts •
otoz —There was a fair amount of business trans-
acted to day, and prices were firm. The sales are—Blrkenhead, Lan-
castiire, and Chester, 221. Shares. 8 4 dis.—Laneashlre and Yorkshire,
Halves, 10)2 dis.—llitto, 321. Shares, 7 die.—London and North-
western, c.—Ditto, New Quarters, 3!;, p.—Midland, 67l4—
Ditto, Halves, 13 dls.—North Stafforiishire, 43,4 dis.—North Union
(A), 223—North-Western, 834 dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick
(G. N. E. Purchase). 6 per cent. till 1850, 31..153. 9d. dis.—York
and North Midland, 30.

MANCHESTER, JOLT 3.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as follow :
Leeds, Fifths, 3% c. dis.—North Staffordshire, 4% dls. Dover
(No. 4), 6 9-1 G ex div. —Huddersfield, 2%,, n.

13IRMING1IAM, JOLT 3.
STOCK EXCITANGE.—The only transactions to-day were in North
Staffordshire, at 4% dig.

YORK, JILT 2.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The traaaactiona to-day have been &a Yvl•

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low: —Great Northern, Preference, 27. ISs. 6d.—North Prittlh,%'
Quarters, 33;—York and North Midland, 3034.
GLASGOW, Juii 2.
STOCK Excasbraz —The transactions to-day were as' follow:—
Edinburgh and Northern, Quarters, 3s. 3d.—Great Northern, 103.. i
—Ditto, Preference, .5 per cent. guaranteed, 595. —North iiti
Preference, 21. 10s. 6d. u N

SHERIFFS' DINNER Tk
JUDGES.
Yesterday afternoon Mr. Alderman Fie
Goodhart, Sheriffs of London and Middlt
tained her Majesty's Judges to a sumptuous.
the Cloth-Workers' Hall, Mincing-lane. Mk,
and Sheriff Finnis occupied the chair, suppori,ia
right by his colleague, Mr. Sheriff Goodhisit"Thete- "."
were present of the guests, the Right Hon. Mr. Baroa
Parke, Hon. Mr. Justice Patteson, Hon. Mr. Justice
Coleridge, Hon. Mr. Justice Cresswell, Hon. Mr. Jus-
tice Williams, Mr. Sergeant Lewes, Mr. Sergeant Chan-
nel!, Mr. Sergeant Murphy, Mr. Sergeaut Clarke, Mr.
Sergeant Halcomb, 3lr. Sergeant 11. G. Joni s, Mr. Sere
geant Nit.. Sergeant Bain, Mr. Sergeant Wel-
linger, Alderman Sir J. Key, Bart., Mr. Alderman
Humphery, M.P., Mr. Alderman Hooper, Alderman Sir
G. Carrall, Mr. Alderman Farnconib, 'Mr. Alderman
Musgrove, Mr. Alderman non, Mr. Alderman Challis,
Mr. Alderman Carden, John Masterman, Esq., M.P.,
Wm. Cubits, Esq , M.P., John Chevalier Cobbold, Esq.,
M.l'., the High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire, &c.
The usual loyal and constitutional toasts were pro-
posed, and the health of the Judges having been given
by Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Finnis, who lamented the
unavoidable absence of the Lord Chief Justice, who was
detained by a heavy cause,
Mr. Baron PARSE returned thanks. He said it was
not with unmix‘d pleasure he stood before them to re-
turn thanks; for he felt that he owed bis enviabl, posi-
tion, not to his own merit, but, as the phrase went, to
circumstances over which he had DO contrul—(Laughter)
—to the fact that he was the senior, not only of the
judges present, but that he was the senior of :he whole
Bench.—(Loud cheers.) He thought, however, they
would agree with him that he had a hopeful family.—
(Cheers and laughter.) He was sure they all deserved
the kind expressions which the company bad been
pleased to pay them; for hin3self, he could only say that
be had made it his study, during the whole time' he had
been on the Bench, to endeavour to discharge his duty;
and if, in doing that, he received the applause and ap-
probation of his fellow-countrymen, nobody oould be
more gratified than he was.—(Loud cheers.)
Several other appropriate toasts were drunk,. and the
company did not separate till a late hour.

aid Mr.
r, enter-
quet in
Itiblithan

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE

METROPOLITAN REFORM ASSOCIATION.
Sir,—On Monday the 2nd was th.> motion of the Mem-
ber for Buckinghamshire on the state of the nation; the
object being to show that it was " a falling nation,"
through a multiplicity of causes, of which the principal
was the freedom of trade. After striking off figures of
rhetoric, the main and indeed almost the only argument
in the speech by which the motion was introduced, was
founded on the facts, that the exports showed a larger
quantity of goods exported, while the values attached to
them were less. And this reduction in prices the mover
unceremoniously stated, as evidence of an equal amount
struck off from the receipts of the working classes. So
that the argument of the landowners is this:—Allow us
to lay a tax upon your workmen's food, and then you
shall sell your goods dearer as needs you
must, and the difference you shall set down as
gain. Your workmen too, shall carry the amount of
the bread-tax to our shops, and when they give it in they
shall make a bow and say, " Thank you, gentlemen, for
this increase to our wages." The manufacturers are not
to find out that they sell less when the prices are raised
by the bread-tax, and more when it is removed; and the
workmen are not to find out that they have less employ-
ment and consequently less substantial wages in one case,
and more in the other; but both are to be dazzled by the
glory of carrying an additional threepence in the shil-
ling to the corn-grower for bread, and are to believe that
practically they have eaten and enjoyed the value. Such
" unmitigated nonsense," to borrow a phrase from the
mover in his energetic moments, do the supporters
of Protection now stand upon, and with such a stock in
trade do they present themselves before the public.
It is fortunate that the country has had such substan-
tial doses of common sense from the League in its day,
as to be in little danger from the figures either of rhetoric
or of arithmetic thus put forward by the League's sue.
cessors o❑ the boards.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer made a reply which
demolished in detail the position of the assailant; and the
debate was finally adjourned.
On Tuesday the Member for Nottingham moved his
Resolutions for what is denominated the People's Charter.
There was not much about the Resolutions which was
calculated to invite adherents, and the mover himself
seemed hardly to know whether he supported them all
or not. The Member for Cambridge was diffuse upon
what he called "extreme democracy," and the phrase
was taken up by the Government; the fallaey about
the whole bekg that the thing called extreme de-
mocracy was avowedly something which was to be co-
existent with a powerful monarchy and a powerful
aristocracy. So that the demand for what was called
extreme democracy, amounted at most to no more than a
man's asking to have his own corner, when there were

to be three in a post•chaise. Suppose the popular party
were to raise an outcry of " extreme aristocracy" be-
cause there is no mixture of commoners in the House
of Lords, or of "extreme monarchy" because there is
not a Mechanics Institute joined in Commission with
the Crown;—what extreme simpletons they would be
considered! The division amounted to tolerable proof
of the necessity there is for giving the people more
power in the People's House ; consisting only of
13 against 222. But it must not he forgotten, that
the debate drew from the Prime Minister an abne-
gation of the delarations attributed to him on the sub-

ject of finality, and a pretty distinct admission that the
suffrage, before long, must in one way or other be ex-
tended.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
AN OLD REFORMER.

London, July 4, 1849.

THE PUNJAUB WAR MEDAL.
By the last mail we have received the following extract
from the order of the Governor-General of the 2d of April,
respecting the medal to be given to the army of the Pun-
jaub

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D i‘r‘elcnt
oanticipationv
eorfntohe r.Gweinshereaslofw
ill e
giriaonnto ut
or aebvl cc rCy oourfir tcoe
rf
and soldier who has been employed within the Punjaub in
this campaign, to the date of the occupation of Peshawur, a
medal bearing the word' Punjaub,' is commemoration of Ale
honourable service they have done.
" The Governor-General is also pleased to direct that every
corps which has been so employed shall bear the same word
on their standards and appointments."
This general order, which bestows the medal on all the
troops employed within the Punjaub during the campaign,
whether actually engaged in the different actions or not, has
induced the Commander-in-Chief to apply to the Governor-
General to ascertain whether it was his Lord,hip's intention
that all the troops in garrison beyond the Sutlej, including the
Jullundur, are to receive the distinction, or what particu-
lar troops are to be entitled to it. The Commander-in-Chief
also suggested, with the greatest deference, that the medal
granted for the campaign should be inscribed on the shield
with the word " Punjaub," as ordered by the Governor-Ge-
neral, but with separate bars (like the Peninsular medals,
and those ordered by Lord Ilardinge for the campaign
of the Sutlej), to be exclusively for those officers and
men who were actually engaged in the four actions
of the war, viz., " Mooltan, ' " the passage of the
Chenab" (i. e. Ramnuggur and Sadoollapore), " Chil-
lianwallah. ' and " Goojerat." Lord Gough also expressed
his conviction that the medal for the recent campaign would
not be prized as his Lordship wished it to be, if those who
were not present at any of the engagements are to wear the
identical decoration granted to officers and men who had par-
taken of the dangers and glory of such actions as the siege and
conquest of Moultan, the passage of the Chenab, the fierce and
deadly struggle of Chillianwallab,and the victory of Goojerat ;
and recommended that those troops not actually engaged in
those actions should be rewarded with the plain medal, which he
considered would be a very fitting decoration, while it would
be highly gratifying to Lord Gough's feelings that those who
had fought bravely and devotedly in those actions should be
rewarded with a decoration indicative and expressive of their
distinguished service. The distinction which Lord Gough
wishes thus to make is BO equitable, that we sincerely hope
his lordship's suggestions will be attended to.

DEATH OF LIEUT.- COLONEL ENGLISH. —This
gallant officer was in the enjoyment of excellent health,
and most zealous in the performance of his duties as
Commanding-officer of the Royal Engineers and Royal.
Sappers and Miners at Woolwich, and as a member of
the Select Committee, until his attendance in the latter
capacity at the Royal Arsenal on the lath of May, to
witness the experiment of firing at a two-gun battery to
ascertain the power of the material of which it was com-
posed. Unfortunately one of the fragments, displaced
with great violence by the concussion of the shot,
struck the Lieutenant-Colonel in the arm, tearing the
sleeve of his coat, and making what at first appeared to
be only a flesh wound, but a subsequent examination
showed that the bone of the arm had been fractured.
The Lieutenant-Colonel was immediately taken hopleen
.
and, under medical care, was gradually recoveriehg,:b
never
he experienced a paralytic stroke, from
recovered. Lieutenant-Colonel English
late Colonel Sir George Heide,. in command
sn as°r greatly
gineering department at Woolwich, and w
He had seen es-
teemed for his urbanity end abilities. which be
et?.
during that long con-
siderablepro-
service in the Peninsula
ot d to Lieutenant,
on September 8,
21, 1813; and Lieutenant-
-1808 ; cgrain, July
tracted war. lleenltBeroe7d, twearprprtsnnas Second-Lieutenante
1.
at the English Mint price of 31. 17s.
Tb
NEZ MARKET.— e premium on gold at Paris
April
ipt,i o
I °I& per ounce for standard gold, gives au exchange of
25 44 ; and the exchange at Paris on London at short
being 25.42 i, it follows that gold is 0.06 per mar.
dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from
llamburgh the price of gold is 43S per mark, which,
at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 101 J. per ounce for
standard kohl, gives an exchange of 13.11 k; and the
exchange at llamburgh on London at short being
13.11;',-, it follows that gold is 0.11 per cent. dearer in
London than in Hamburgh. The course of exchange at
New York on London is 1094 par cent., and the par of
exchange between England and America being 109 23-40
per c.-nt.. it follows that the exchange is 0.33 per cent.
against England. But the quoted exchange at New
York being for bills at 60 days' sight, the interest muss
be deducted from the above difference.
Complaints.
efficacy of Holloway's Pills for the Cure of Liverouth
South Wales, had
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—An incontestable proof of the
—Mr. Robert Elkins, of Campbeltown, Newwre
liver complaint
been afflicted for several months with a !
of the medical aid he
take to his bed; finding no rel!eef
which reduced him to so low a state,
r. that
of
be was compelled to
Fills a trial, which
received, he was advised to 1.
(the instruction given with
tge-eviccaionsuerse of a few weeks re-estab-
bi
tebdeiidn,gastrictly
i s
followed)invaluableioni
lished him in the enjoyment of good health as ever he pea-
sensed in his life.—FSroolfdeibsoyrHollows all
MedicineoiiowaEstablishment, Nersdboyirszhtmhreonut,gh24ot
the world, and at
Strand, Undo.