The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-02 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

SUGAR —The market for Britih Plantation has been
flat, at 61 per cwt. decline. Sales, 579 hhds and
tierces, 275 hhds Porto Rico, 73 casks Ceylon, 4,800
bags Mauritius, and 9,700 bags Bengal, offered by auc-
tion. The Porto Rico soli from 36s to 395, Ceylon
from 32a to 345, the Mauritius at 35s 6d to 39s 6d for
good grocery yellow, 40, to 41s for fine, and low brown
295. The Bengal realised 375 to 41s for low
and fine Benares, and at 44a to 46s for Dacca.
The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at
the East and'West India Docks was 2,540 hhds, 370
tierces, 1,084 barrels; there were taken for home con•
sumption 1,651 hhds, 151 tierces, 585 barrels. The
stock in the same places is 20,498 hhds, 2,797 tierces,
6,503 barrels. _ _

COFFEE.-172 bags .C 5 casks Plantation Ceylon sold
at 56s to 63s for fine fice, ord to low mid at 46s to
52s 6d for fine ord, and at 36s to 40s for triage.
RUM.—The quantity landed last week at the East and
West India Docks was 1,406 puns 31 bhds; there were
taken for home consumption 200 puns 13 hhds, and ex-
ported .56 puns 63 hhds. The stock in the same places
is 22,494 puns 2,097 hhds.
RICE.-3,250 bags Bengal partly sold at 9s 6d to 10s,
the rest being taken in at 105 for good white.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 36s 9d to 36i 6d per cwt on
the spot, and Town 39s 6d. For delivery likewise
Russian is 36561 per Cwt.
TBA.—This article is qaiet at last week's rates.
COTTON.—The market is firm, but there is not much
doing.

MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.)
A well-dressed man, who gave the name of John
Charles Hodge. was charged before Mr. Bingham with
having uttered a spurious cheque, with intent to defraud
Mr. Samuel Genese, the keeper of a coffee-house, 125,
Jermyn-street.
It appeared, from the evidence, that on the 22d of
Sept. last, the prisoner purchased a diamond ring of the
prosecutor, for which he agreed to pay 6/. In payment,
he gave prosecutor a cheque upon Sir John Lubbock's
bank for 8/. 45., receiving at the time the balance of
2/. 4s. On presenting the: cheque at the banker's
next day, it was discovered that the prisoner had not,
nor never had, any account there. Nothing more was
seen of the prisoner until last night, when he was met
by the prosecutor, who gave him in charge.
Sergeant English, 1 C., said there were several other
charges of a similar nature against the prisoner, and
prayed to have him remanded for a few days.
The prisoner was remanded till Saturday.

TESTIMONIAL
TO THE HUNGARIAN REFUGEES

" THE HUNGARIAN NATION COUNTS ON THE SYMPATHY
OF EVERY NATION WHICH LOVES RIGHT AND la-
BERTY."—Kossuth's ,Protest against Russian Interven-
tion.

Subscriptions may be sent to the following bankers:—
Messrs. Coutts and Co.
Messrs. Drummond.
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith ;
or to any one of the members of the committee formed
to carry out the Testimonial.
***All further Post-office orders to be made payable to Murdo
Young, Esq., at the Money Order Office, Strand.

Subscriptions already received ... £l,lOO 1 1;
From a Few Friends, for Freedom and Hungary,
per A. A., Glasgow—through Lord Dudley
Coutts Stuart, M. P. ... ••• 5 0 0
H. Pickering, Mallon, Yorkshire
••• ... 0 5 0
Thirteen Friends of Hungary, Rose-hill, Brigh-
ton, per Richard Ridley, printer

... 0 18 0

Total

... £1,105 19 1i

WESTERN LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITU-
TION.—The leeture season of this valuable institution
commenced last evening with a well-selected concert,
and a conversazione, which was fully attended. The
musical arrangements were under the direction of Mr.
May, and the programme put forth on the occasion con-
tained several beautitul compositions, which were very
tastefully sung. In the first part of the concert Mr. E.
Roberts, the celebrate Welsh harpist, delighted the au
thence with some of the exquisite native music of Cam-
bria, which elicited great applause. Mr. Griesbach, in
the second part, played the " Carnival de Venice," on
the violin, in a style worthy of the great Sivori. At
the conclusion of the concert, the splendid drawing-
rooms of the institution were thrown open, and on the
tables several beautiful specimens of art and manufac-
ture were exhibited. Refreshments wire served %ith
great liberality, and altogether, thanks to Mr. Malcolm,
the mintiging director, we passed a very delightful
evening. We regret to say Miss lluddart was prevented
appearing from indi-positior. The Glee Concerts, we
are informed, commence on Monday c vening next.
COFFEE AND EATING-HOUSE KEEPERS' ASSOCIA-
TION.—Yesterday a meeting of the subscribers and com-
mittee of management of the above institution, was held
at the Freemasons' Tavern, for the transaction of general
business ; Mr. French iu the chair. The report congra-
tulated the members on the progress the society was
making among the members of the trade. The amount
of funded property now consist of 2,2501. 7s. The pen-
sionary relief distributed annually keeps pace with the
interest of the capital invested.

THE WEST INDIA MAILS.
The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's steam-
ship Medway arrived at Southampton yesterday,
under the command of Captain W. Symons, the
mails being in charge of Lieutenant Thomas S.
Scrivtn, Aimiralty agent. The dates are as follows :
—Santa Mart ha, Aug,. 19 ; Grey Town, Aug. 25 ;
Chlgres, August 28 ; C irth3gena' Aug. 31 ; Jamaica,
Sept. 7 ; 'Memel, Sept. 9 ; Porto Rico, Sept. 11 ; St.
Thoma 4, Sept. 14 ; Fayal, Sept. 25. She brings
92,194 dollars on merchants' account; gold and gold
dust of the value of 609 914 dollars; bars of silver,
value in dollars, 258,366 ; plating, value in dollars,
657 ; pearls, value in dollars, 2,000 ; and British
silver, 363/ 133.

The weather experienced on the passage home was
very fine.
The Medway brings intelligence of the ravages of
the cholera at various places at which she touched.
At Santa Martha there was only one medical man
in the place, with a population of 5,000. Mr Marks,
tie British Consul at Bogota, landed, but in conse-
quence of the cholera raging, communication with the
interior was cut off, and he, with his wife and ser-
vant, were detained at Santa Martha, where from
the same cause several passengers were remaining,
who landed from the Dee, the packet before the
Med way.
Grey Town (late 3t. Juan de Nicaragua), and,
indeed the whole province, had been in a very dis-
turbed state, but was now more quiet, the leader of
the insurrectionary party having been taken and shot.
An embargo had been put on the bungways or river
bcats, so that the Medway had no cargo, although it
was said there was a considerable quantity of indigo
at Lean and Grenada destined for England. The
inhabitants of Grey Town are in some alarm as the
Nicaraguans are threatening again to assert their
right to that place and the river San Juan, and, it is
said, intend sending General Maims with 300 men
down the river to take possession ; and as his Mus-
quitian Majesty has no force whatever to repel them,
they will have easy work. There has lately been a
Minister appointed by the United States to Nicara-
gua, and in his letter to the President he seems to
hold out a prospect that the Nicaraguans will be sup-
ported by America ; for in one paragraph he states
"that no European power has any right to interfere
with the American Republics. Nicaragua is one of
those republics, and sister to the United States.
America is for Americans, and Americans alone, and
this his Government was prepared to prove and carry
out."

The Medway arrived at Chagres on the 26th, and
left on the StBth. During the stay at Chagres the
schooner lona, of New Orleans, arrived from that
place with forty-six passengers for California, and
the steam ship Empire City, with 210 passengers, for
the same destination. Cholera had been raging at
Panama, Cruces, and Gargana, and had proved fatal
to many of the passengers from the states by the
Alabama and Empire City steamers, on their last
voyage, which is said to have been caused by intem-
perance, over-fatigue, and exposure, in their passage
from Chagres to Panama. At the latter place
cholera was on the decline, but had committed
dreadful ravages, having carried off between 800 in
between thirty and forty days out of a population of
between five and six thousand. This is independent
of the deaths among passengers in transitu. The
Medway received 800,000 dollars' worth of specie
from Panama, out of which 82,101 was in gold from
California. The Government of New Grenada have
passed an Act by which all customs imposts, as
well as the exclusive right of the Government to
sell tobacco are abolished, and Panama becomes a free
port from and after the Ist January, 1850. The new
governor at Penama, Sen. 1. de Obaldia, arrived there
on the 29th July ; he professes liberal principles and
great friendship for all foreigners. Panama is full of
foreigners, principally Americans, waiting for passage
to California.
At Carthagena, the Medway received about
150,000 dollars on freight. Cholera was on the de-
cline. By the official reports up to the 31st, 3,000
had fallen victims out of a population of 10,000. The
city is a perfect picture of desolation and ruin.
Trade was paralysed, and not above one house in
three appeared to have any inhabitant; scarcely a
soul was to be seen in the streets; but provisions
which, when the cholera was at its height it was so
difficult to procure, were again becoming plentiful;
for, confidence having been restored, the peasantry
came freely with their produce. The only vessels in
the port were the Edith, of Dartmouth, in quarantine,
and the barque Deux Freres Unis, of St. Maloes.
The Medway found at Port Royal, Jamaica, the
commodore's ship Imaum. The Plumper sailed on
the 6th for Truxillo. Notice was given at the
Post-office that she was going to Honduras and
Grey Town, but her destination was suddenly
altered, and notice given to that effect by the
commodore. Her Majesty's ship Helena had
sailed from St. Jago de Cuba for the Havannah
on the 4th instant, having been towed out of St.
Jago by the Royal Mail steamer Clyde. The
barque Chuian, of Belfast, lying alongside
the Mail Company's wharf at Kingston, delivering
coals, caught fire on the 7th, about noon, from the
boiling over of a pitch-pot in the galley, but there
being plenty of help at hand it was soon got under,
and the damage done trifling. Great fears were en-
tertained lest it should spread to the wharfs, as the
sea breeze was blowing direct on.
The Jamaica Assembly met on the sth, and, after the
usual forms had been gone through, proceeded to the
election of a speaker, when the majority was in favour
of Dr. Morales, one of the principal leaders of the
party who so strenuously opposed the Government in
the late Assembly. The Governor then delivered the
following speech :
" Gentlemen of the Council, Mr. Speaker, and Gen-
tlemen of the Assembly—lt is of some importance that,
at the opening of a new Parliament, there should be a
general understanding of the financial position of the
colony ; and the Receiver General, by my desire, has
prepared some returns, which I hope may contribute to
the attainment of that object.
" The whole general expenditure for the twelve
months ending on the sth of July last appears, by these
returns, to have been 213,0001., including the expenses of
collecting the revenue; and of that sum mere than
10,0001. were parochial charges temporarily thrown upon
the general treasury, and nearly the same amount con.
sisted of grants of an occasional and contingent charac-
ter; so that, although, OR the other hand, the Receiver
General has not had funds sufficient to pay the interest
upon the loan from her Majesty's Government, which is
6,4001. per annum, the inference appears to be fairly
deducible that the general and ordinary expenditure, in-
cluding the cost of collecting the revenue, and the inte-
rest on every description of public debt and liability, but
exclusive of any payments of principle, and of expenses
of immigration, and of all other occasional and novel
grants, and of all parochial charges, might, by due care,
and with an accurate system of accounts, be kept down
to about 200,000/.
" The receipts of general revenue for the twelve
months ending on the sth of July last, :appear, by the
receiver general's return, to have amounted only to
186,500/. ; but more than the difference between that

sum and the sum of 200,0001. is accounted for by the
falling off in the collections of the rum duties, and of the
taxes on stock and carriages, and of the quit-rent and
land-tax, all of which has been occasioned by the non-
renewal of the ram duties, and by the defective returns
which of late years have been made of land subject to
quit-rent and land-tax, or by the postponement of the
payments of the taxes which was effected by the Act of
1847, which provides for the collection of them, and it
seems to result plainly from the returns that if the
revenue had been re-established on the footing on which
it stood during 1848, and if it bad been collected, it
would have amounted to more than 200,0001., and would
have been more than equal to the established and ordi-
nary general expenditure which I have specified.
" There is nothing which leads me to suppose that the
ordinary sources of revenue would be less productive for
the next twelve or fifteen months. On the contrary, the
decrease in the receipt of import duties for the year
ending the sth of July, 1849, is compared with the year
ending on the sth of 1848, is less than might have been
expected from the total cessation of differential duties,
and from the reduction of the ad valorem duty from 4 to
2 per cent.; and in the latest receipt of import duties,
namely, these of the quarter ending on the sth of July
last, there is a positive increase of 4,0001. above the cor-
responding quarter of the previous year.
"I have said thattin the ordinary general expenditure,
which I have estimated at 200,0001., 1 have not included
nor made any allowance for novel grants for occasional
purposes, some of which have almost always found their
way into the Act which has been known in commen par-
lance as the Poll Tax Act; but I do not include those
grants, such as the contingent expenses of the Legisla-
ture, which, though, of varying amount, are of constant
recurrence; and the others ought not, nor perhaps, in
present circumstances, are likely to be so large or nu-
merous as to exceed the saving which, even in a revenue
of 200,000/., might still be effected, by a more perfect
method of keeping and a more effectual system of audit-
ing the public accounts, and by a more cultivated and
economical management of some departments of the ex•
penditure.
To the payment of any considerable portion of the
principal of the public debt, a revenue of 200,000/. is
certainly not adequate; and if the credit of the island
had been maintained, there probably would have been
no call a ithin the. next twelve months to pay off any
portion of the principal, which might not have been met
by fresh issues of certificates on the same terms as the
old ones; and the demands for deposits would most
likely have been balanced by the incoming of others.
But it is my painful duty to inform you there is too
much reason to fear that in consequence of the proceed-
ings of the last colonial Parliament there might be con-
siderable difficulties at present in raising any money
upon treasury certificates, and in such circumstances I
confess that I am not aware of any means on which you
could i cly, for meeting the large demands which will be
made upon you for the payment of certificates in the
course of the year 1850, unless the Imperial Parliament
could be prevailed upon to authorise an application to
that purpose of the guaranteed loan which was offered
to you fur the accomplishment of different objects.
" For parochial expenditure you know that at present
there is no provision at all, and it certainly would be im-
postible to provide for it out of a general revenue of
2,0001. It deserves, perhaps, to be considered whether
the best course might not be to give the justices sand

se .try, or the freeholders of each parish, for one year,
a roe er of taxing themselves for puree' ial purposes, but
to have them very much at liberty to decide in each
parish what might seem to the parishioners to he the
least ince nvenient way in which the taxes should be
raised. If any wild or extravagant course should be
taken ender such a liberty, it would always be in the
power of the Legi.lature to correct it.
" Such, gentlemen, appear to me to be the principal
points in your financial position and prospects. I venture
merely to indicate them in the most general manner.
leaving to yourselves that more careful examination and
scrutiny which you will cot fail to make. The situation
of the colony is one of embarrassment and difficulty, but
it is not desperate.. Your finances are susceptible of ad
justment and renovation, and I think without the inipost-
tion of any greater burdens than the island has hitherto
borne, if the present favourable state of the markets for
its produce should be sustained, and if, as we may hope,
the temporary pressure of unfavourable seasons should
be m. rcifully withdrawn, and if public faith be pres-
served inviolate, and if all branches of the Legislature
can ba brought to act together.
" Mr. Speaker and lit wlemen of the Assembly,—
As it is manifest that the whole of the usual revenue
will be required to meet the exigencies of the next twelve
months, I earnestly recommend and rtquest that you
should pass the ordinary revenue Bills in the ordinary
manner, and I shall be disappointed in the opinion I
have formed of the good feeling and loyalty of the inha-
bitants of Jamaica, if, at the outset of a new Parliament,
when their representatives are as yet neither fettered by
resolutions, nor distract( d, nor inflamed by party con
tests, this request, which I make in the name of the
Crown, as its principal officer and minister within the
colony, should be refused. Whatever time may appear
to any of you to be required for the consideration of the
details, or for any amendments of these bills, would be
much more easily and conveniently secured by passing
them with a proviso that they may be amended during the
session, than by withholding them beyond the date at
which the action of them will be required for continuing
the existence of the revenue, or by offering to prolong
them in any form which is likely to involve the present
Parliament in the same contentions as the last.
" Gentlemen of the Council, Mr. Speaker, and Gentle.
men of the Assembly,—lt may appear that I have
brought forward too prominently, and that I dwell too
exclusively on the subject of revenue, but my conscience
acquits me of the fault of assigning to money for its own
sake too high a place amongst the objects of society and
Government. I have made it now the principal theme
only because you have been brought into a position in
which, if a false step were to be made at the outset
in relation to your revenue, it is not easy to say what
steps could be taken as to anything else; and I am the
more anxious upon that point, because I am under re•
strictions which do not leave me at liberty to bear you
company in any devious course. I have received no
subsequent instructions which authorise, or which would
justify me, in disobeying the commands of her Majesty,
communicated to me by the dispatch of the Secretary
of State for the Colonies of the 16th April, which was
laid tefore the late House of Assembly on the 28th of
June. These, in the language of that dispatch, leave me
upon certain points no discretion. If the difficulties and
dangers to which I have adverted should be avoided at the
outset, there are, indeed, many objects of legislation of
higher and more solemn importance than revenue which
would demand your attention, and which might reward
the labour of a lengthened session. More than one of
the institutions of the colony require improvement, and
is susceptible of a restoration or of a greater approxi
mation to a constitutional and English model, and if
when imperfection and defeats are perceived in any
particular quarter, instead of seeking to remedy them
by some counteraction of a more faulty and unconstitu-
tional description—the new legislature of Jamaica would
apply itself to the improvement by regular methods, and
upon a constitutional plan of the institution, in which
the defeat is first felt and complained of, I am sure
that their efforts would be crowned with success : and,
in such reforms, I, at least, should be a willing fellow-
labourer."
The reply presented to his Excellency was as
follows :

" May it please your Excellency,—
" We, her Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the
Assembly of Jamaica, thank your Excellency for your
speech at the opening of this session.
"We aro indebted to your Excellency for the care
with which your Excellency has reviewed the financial
position of the colony, and we shall be prepared to give
the fullest consideration to the important returns to
which your Excellency refers, whenever they shall have
been laid before us. Until, however, wo are afforded
an opportunity of considering these returns, we do not
feel ourselves in a condition to offer such an opinion,
either upon them or upon the state of the public finances,
as would become us in the responsible position in which
wo stand ; but we shall be rejoiced to find that the situa-
tion of the colony, though confessedly one of embarrass-
ment and difficulty, is at least not desperate.
" We hope we shall be forgiven when we differ from your
Excellency with respect to the causes which have im-
paired the credit of the colony. A desire to reduce the
expenditure commensurately with the public means tend
to give confidence rather than to engender distrust,
whilst the continuance on tho other hand of an annual
expenditure, involving a yearly accumulation of debt,
must necessarily tend to diminish confidence in the re-
sources of the colony, and materially to affect the public
credit.

is now favourable, and sugar making has commenced;
but the year's crop in this colony will, upon the
whole, ht.> deficient. At Jamaica they have lately
had rain, and the prospects of next year's crops are
improved.

JAMAICA. MAItIi.E.TS—SEPT. 7.
(From De Cordova.'. Mercantile Intelligencer.)
Flour-600 barrel. Philadelphia have been sold at
355. per blare!, at which rate the article is now held;
but the trade seem unwilling to come forward at this
price. 200 barrels Baltimore have been disposed of at
365. per barrel.
Meal has been sold at 15s. per barrel.
Rice-2,500 bags, which have arri►ed from Coringo
Bay, have been disposed of at 13s. per 100 lbs., but
there are no buyers.
Rum—Sales have been made at 2s. 3d. per gallon for
proof 21.
Sugar rules at 18s. to 20s. per 100 lbs.
Malt—There have not been any sales. The stock is
immense.
Tobacco is very unsaleable. Holders demand 7ld.
per lb. for manufactured, and 58s. per 100 lbs. for leat.
Exchanges—On London: Colonial Bank, 60 days, 8
per cent. pm.; ditto,3o days, per cent. pm.; Jamaica
Bank, 90 days, per cent. pm.; merchants' bills, on
London, 93 days, par. On New York: 60 days, 4 per
cent. pm.

CHOLERA AND DIARRHEA.

RETURN OF CASES, SEPT. 29.
THE METROPOLIS.
SUPERINTENDING REGISTRAR'S DISTRICT.
Deaths.
Cholera. Dlarrh

- 1 0
- 1 0
1 1
- 11 0
4...11 0 0
0 0

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FACT DISTBICTB.

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