The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-01 00:00:00

FROM JAMAICA.

The Ambassador from Kingston, Jamaica, brings us
files of Jamaica papers to the Bth Oct.
Several shocks of earthquakes had been felt in various
parts of the.island.
In Spanish Town the scarlet fever was raging, and it
is stated in one of the papers that out of a population of
about 7,000, there have not been less than 1,500 cases of
that fever within three months.
WEST INDIA MAILS.—Among the arrivals at Port
Royal, Oct. 1, we notice that of a vessel from England,
with coal for the new Royal Mail Steam-ship Line.
TRINIDAD, OCT. I.—The number of immigrants ar-
rived during the past month is 329, of whom 189 have
come in under the Immigration allowance.
The quantity of sugar shipped to the Ist instant, is
18,058 hhds., which is 3,042 more than were shipped up
to the same period of last year. The excess does not
arise from a difference of crop, but from the facility of
carting afforded by the season ; and unless the weather
in October (the Indian summe-) should be dryer than
usual the crop will not exceed, but, if the weather be un-
favourable, it may fall short of the crop of last year.
In Tobago, also, the sugar crop is still very deficient
—that of 1841 being only 2,460 hhds., 225 trs., and 222
brls., against upwards of 4,000 hhds. of the year preceding.
CROP OF BARBADOES.--FFORI the returns published by
the Barbadian, it would appear that, of the whole crop,
16,781 hhds., 1,456 trs., and 995 brls. have been ex-
ported, equal to nearly 18,000 hhds.; " adding the quan-
tity of sugar consumed in the island, we may say the crop
-eded twenty thousand hogsheads."

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FROM BEnmuDA.—We learn from the Bermuda Ga

zette of the 26th that a very severe .gale had been expe-
rienced on the 21st at those Islands, which destroyed
several buildings and did serious injury to the growing
crops. The arrow-root plants, it seems, have suffered
considerably, and it is much feared, should they not re-
cover, that the approaching crop will be a short
one. It would appear that the eastern edge of the gale
only passed over the Bermudas ; for the brigantine
Charles HesseltiEe, of New York, then about twenty
miles to the westward of the land, had it sooner, more
severe, and it continued with her for a greater length
of time. This vessel arrived off the land axd received
a pilot on the previous evening, and landed some of
her passengers; she was deeply laden with an inboard
cargo, and had on deck six oxen, 80 sheep--the requisite
quantity of hay and water for the stock—and some other
articles. So violent was the gale with her, that she was
pressed down till her lee quarter was completely under
water, and her oxen, some of the sheep, hay, &c., was
washed overboard. After this she behaved admirably,
though her position was perilous from her falling into
the old sea, as the wind shifted; being compelled to
lay on the larboard instead of the starboard tack, in con-
sequence of her proximity to the land. The schr. Jane
was driven on shore from her moorings, in St. George's
Harbour, but has since been got off, with the loss of
rudder irons, &c.
COMMERCIAL NEWS, Nov. 8.
The weather is so unfavourable and stormy to-day,

that all out-door business is suspended.
The rate of Exchange on Philadelphia has suddenly
changed for the woise, and it is now selling at six per
cent. discount. The rate on that city has affected the
price OA 1341timue and nearly all the South. They