The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-06 00:00:00

JAMAICA MARKETS.

(From De Cordova's Mercantile Intelligencer, of Jan. 5.)
Flour—The market is heavily stocked, and demand
very dull. Some 1,500 barrels have been sold at 31.
Meal is very abundant, and dull of sale. The last trans-
actions were at 15s. and 15s. 6d. per barrel, but further
arrival of 1,600 barrels since those sales have caused an
unfavourable impression.
Rice—Carolina has an improved tendency and is not
abundant. It may be quoted at 17s. and 18s. per 100Ibs.
Bread—There has been an additional arrival of 600
barrels, none of which has been sold. Of previous re-
ceipts, 150 barrels (Watson's) have been moved at 16s.
for pilot bread, and 18s. and 19s. for crackers.
Butter—American sells readily at Bid. to 9d. per lb.,
at which figure 600 kegs of Philadelphia have been
placed. Irish is wanted, the stock being extremely
limited, and may be quoted at 13d., but it is taken en-
tirely by retail.
Lard—Tho stock is very heavy ; 950 kegs have come
to hand in one vessel the last few days.
Candles were wanted, when 3,000 boxes of Philadel-
phia arrived, and were taken at Bid per lb.
Pork—The stock is very heavy ; indeed the article is
becoming scarcer.
Hams—Small lots of American are moved at 7 d. per lb.
Cheese—The stock of American is heavy and un-
saleable.

Beef—The market is well supplied.
Rum has been sold at 3s. 3d. and 3s 4d. per gallon for
consumption, equal to Is. 9d and Is. 10d. for exportation.
Brandy brings ss. 6d. per gallon in bond.
Tobacco is of heavy sale, and very abundant. Manu-
factured is taken at 7i-d. per lb.
Sugar is dull at I Is. 6d. and 148. per 1091b5., accord-
ing to quality.
Pimento is wanted ; it fetches 2d per lb.
Freights are dull at 31. and 31. 10s. for sugar to London.
There are several vessels in harbour waiting employment.

THE MEDITERRAITEAN.
SOUTTIAMPTON, MONDAY, FEB. s.—The Peninsular
and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship Sultan,
Captain George Brooks, has just arrived here from Con-
stantinople, after an unusually quick voyage, having
occupied only three days eighteen hours on the passage
from Malta to Gibraltar, and from Gibraltar to South-
ampton only four days twenty hours. The Sultan brings
ship letter-bags of the following dates:—Constantiuopre,
Jan. 20; Smyrna, the 22d; Malta,.the 26th; Gibraltar,
the 31st.

She has six first-class passengers, and eight distressed
seamen; and the following valuable freight:-133 pack-
ages of specie, value 130,0001. sterling; 31 packages of
yellow berries, 10 packages of tobacco, 76 boxes of
mandarin oranges, 8 cases of fruit, 4 cases of julap, 54
cases of opium, 4,303 drums of fruit; 184 packages of
raw silk; 1,059 bales of goat's hair, 36 bales of carpets,
14 boxes of scamony, 20 cases of sponges, 120 bags of
valonia, 28 bags of galls, and 67 packages of sundries.
Our adl ices from Constantinople mention that the
weather had contiuued to be very severe, and many losses
of shipping had occurred in the Dardanelles and Sea of
Marmora.

Our Gibraltar letter of the 30th ult. announces the
arrival on the 28th of Sir Charles Napier's squadron,
The gallant Admiral immediately landed and paid his
respects to the Governor, and after inspecting the now
fortifications dined at the Convent.

It was generally thought at Gibraltar that the pre-
sence of Sir Charles Napier's squadron in the bay was
preparatory to a trip to the coast of Morocco, for the.
purpose of demanding satisfaction from the Emperor for
the repeat piracies of his subjects on the Rif Coast. The
steamer Stromboli was detached from the fleet and sent
to Tangier, returning OR the 29th with Mr. J. H. Drum-
mond Hay, her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires and Consul-
General in Morocco. After an interview with Sir
Charles Napier, Mr. Drummond Hay started immedi-
ately in her Majesty's steamer Sidon for Tangier, whence
the Charge d'Affaires was to pursue his voyage to La-
rache previous to a journey into the interior to see the
Emperor.

The barque Appoline, which was aground, had been got
off by the Polyphemus. The Russian barque Harmenie
picked up the crew of the British brig Rebecca, of Bel-
fast, bound to Marseilles, which vessel had foundered off
Cape St. Vincent on the 26th of January, and landed
them at Gibraltar.
STATIONS OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIPS.

At Gibraltar.—Her Majesty's ship St. Vincent, Rear-
Admiral Sir C. Napier, Captain J. C. Dacres ; her
Majesty's ship Powerful, Captain the Hon. R. S.
nuncios, C.B. ; her Majesty's ship Prince Regent, Capt.
W. F. Martin ; her Majesty's steam-sloop Rifleman,
Lieutenant Crofton, Commander ; her Majesty's steam-
sloop Plumper, Commander Nolloth ; her Majesty's
sloop Orestes, Commander Hawker ; her Majesty's
steam-vessel Reynard, Commander Cracroft ; her Ma-
jesty's steam.ship Stromboli, Commander Beauclerk ;
her Majesty's brig-of-war Harlequin, Commander F. B.
Seymour ; her Majesty's steamer Polyphemus, Captain
R. D. Crawford.

At Tangier—Her Majesty's steamer Sidon, Captain
Henderson.

At Malta—Her Majesty's steamers Merlin and Oberon.
At Constantinople—Her Majesty's steamer Tartarus.
The Sultan passed the screw-steamer Osmanli, on the
29th, off Cape Jenez, steering to the eastward.