The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-28 00:00:00

2,1 E CA kN INFE"XS.

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.

By the packet-ship Mary Ann, Captain 11. Patten,
arrived in the Mersey this morning, we have accounts
from New York to the 4th, and from Boston to the
6th instant. She brings no specie on freight.
El Republicans, published at the capital on the
4th, says—" That a sufficient number of Members
had arrived at Queretaro on the Ist of November for
the transaction of business. A letter from Queretaro
direct announces that Congress had organized on the
ltd of November, and that Senor L. Jos Marial Eody,
a deputy from Guanaxuato, had been selected presi-
dent, and Senor D. Jos Marial Hernandes, a deputy
from Durango, was elected vice-president."
Santa Anna was believed to be secreted at Vera

Cruz waiting to escape. There had been a politica
eve at Guadalaxara.
There had been little doing in foreign exchanges at
New York on the 4th. The rates were 9to 10i.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, Dec. 3.
The markets since the Ist have continued very
dull, and the business now going forward is extremely
light, even for this period of the season, in which
there is usually but little doing. The recurrence,
too, of mild and rainy weather has suspended the
activity in domestic produce noticed in our last. The
Erie Canal at last accounts was navigable from Buffalo
o Albany.
The weather again proved very inclement, and a
steady rain fell during the greater part of the day,
which interrupted all out-door business. Flour was
steady at yesterday's quotations, with a fair amount
of sales. Wheat remained about the same, without
sales of moment. Corn sold to a moderate extent,
at previous rates. Meal continued steady, with
considerable sales. Rye sold at yesterday's prices.
Oats were somewhat less firm, and sales made on terms
slightly in favour of purchasers. Provisions were
inactive. Pork was nominally the same, while sales
of all kinds were very limited. There was nothing
new in groceries. The rain storm prevented sales by
auction in the streets.

Cotton—The market remains dull, and sales were
effected with difficulty.
Freights-800 brls. of flour were engaged for
Glasgow, and 500 ditto for Liverpool, at Is. 6d. to
each port. It was said 9d. was offered for corn in
bulk to Ireland. To London, previous rates con-
tinued to be demanded. To Antwerp, ashes were
taken at 305., while to Havre there was no change.
New ORLEANS, Nov. 25.—The 'cotton market is
quiet ; prices rule in favour of the buyer. Sugar is
without change. Molasses—Sales at 18i to 131
cents, with but little in first hands for sale. Flour is
dull at previous prices. Corn—Sales at 44 and
46 cents.

In freights we have no new engagements to report
Exchanges—No alteration in previous rates.

WEST INDIA MAIL.

The Royal Mail steam-ship Trent, Captain Stur-
dee, arrived at Southampton yesterday, at 9 A.M.,
and landed her mails, under the charge of the Ad-
miralty agent, Lieut. Strover, R.N. A telegraphic
announcement of her arrival appeared in our edition of
yesterday. The Trent was detained three days and a
half at St. Thomas's. The delay inher arrival at
Southampton—which caused some apprehension—was
occasioned by the new route, performed by the
Teviot, which left Southampton on the 2d of Nov.
The inter-co onial steamer, Conway, was obliged to
perform extra service in consequence, and her late
arrival prevented the departure of the Trent. The
Tay put into Corunna, having been obliged to go
direct to St. Thomas's instead of to Bermuda. The
mails for Halifax, sent out in the Tay, will be de-
layed considarably, as there is a steamer waiting at
Bermuda to convey the Halifax mails.
The dates by the Trent are :—Jamaica, 23d Nov.;
Guiana, 17th Nov. ; Trinidad, 20th Nov. ; Barbadoes,
27th Nov.; Grenada, 28th Nov.; St. Lucia, 28th
Nov.; La Guayra, Ist Nov. ; Port-au-Prince, 18th
Nov.; Santiago de Cuba, 17th Nov.; St. Thomas's,
4th Nov. ; Fayal, 19th Dec.
Tile Trent brings thirty-five passengers, among
whorl are Colonel Torrens, Major Mackintosh, Cap-
tain Lord Chewton, Captain Beauclerk, Captain Le
Forreitier, &c.
The freight consists of 17,000 dollars in bullion
and specie . 1,9701. in British coin ; 451 five-franc
pieces; 11 tierces and 35 casks of coffee ; 26 barrels
and 389 bales of pimento; 177 bales of sarsaparilla ;
5 cases of tortoiseshell ; and 53 packages of sundries.
J.AMA:CA.—In this colony the money market was,
at the time the mail was dispatched, even more tight
than it hal previously been. One of the banks had
advanced its rate of discount above its usual rate
of 6 per cent., and refused to negotiate bills having
more than 60 days to arrive at maturity. Much
difficulty was experienced in procuring bills of
exchange for remittance by the packet. The Com-
missary-General, who accepted tenders for and 1
per cent. premium, was unable to supply more than
half be amount tendered for. The Colonial Bank
drew at per cent. discount for 90 days, and per
cent. premium for 60 days, but even from this
source the demand for bills was unsatisfied. The
Jamaica Bank drew for a very limited sum at 1 per
cent. premium for 30 days, and per cent. premium
for 60 days, while the Planters' Bank refused to
operate. In the produce market no change had oc-
currei since the departure of the previous mail.
Tie Legislature was in session, but no business of
importance had been transacted during the fortnight
whicn intervened between the sailing of the mail
packets.
Jamaica had been honoured by a visit from " a
crowned head"—the King of the Musquito coast as
he is nailed. His Majesty is a stripling carried about
by a Mr. Walker, ex• everything in Honduras, -and
now an agent of some kind or another for the British
Government on the Musquito shore, who has under-
taken to educate and civilise the young man. The
court newsman of the Jamaica press (extemporised
for the occasion) chronicled his Majesty's proceedings
witi due gravity; told how he received and answered
addresses from the Legislative Council and House of
Assembly ; how he reviewed the militia; how he rode
out to take the air and kept his seat, though a run-
away horse came against him ; how he was present
at a performance of the amateur Thespians of King-
ston, the play being "Rolla," (we presume Pizarro is
meant). His Majesty, we regret to state, was taken
unwell about the time fixed for his departure. "We
are happy," says the Dispatch, "however, to be en-
abled to say that the indisposition is not of a very
serious nature." It was enough, however, to oblige
hint to postpone receiving the address of the Council
frcm the 22d of November to the evening of the 233.
Her Majesty's ship Alarm was at Jamaica, destined
to convey "his Musquitian Majesty" to Bluefields.
The Cornwall Chronicle narrates a piece of inter-
ference with the coolie labourers on the part of the
magistrates of Montego Bay, which looks very like
unnecessary and vexatious meddling, and which has
the further objectionable feature of appearing to be
experimental with a view to similar interference with
the negro festivities at Christmas :—" The magistrates
having been apprised yesterday that it was the inten-
tion of the coolies belonging to some properties nigh
this town to celebrate some religious festival by pro-
cession through the streets of the town, a special ses-
sion of the peace was immediately called and holden
at the Court-house at two o'clock, which was nume-
rously attenced. We are glad to learn that the ma-
gistrates, one and all, have set their face against the
proceeding, and one of the magistrates interested in
the properties to which they belong, undertook to in-
timate the same to these people, and at the same
time to advise them to confine their orgies to the pro-
perties upon which they are located. We trust the
same restrictions will be quite as applicable to the
Christmas holidays."
E. A. HarrisonlEsq.' son of the United States
Consul at Kingston, died there on the 18th of No-
vember. He was in his 28th year. He had arrived
a few weeks before from New Orleans, in the hope
of regaining his health, which had been much im-
paired. The British and American ensigns were
hoisted half-mast on the occasion, and the American
vessels in the harbour paid the same mark of respect
to their young countryman.
The office of provost marshal is, in all our West
Indian colonies, one on which devolves duties of great
importance, and which appears in all of them to re-
quire a complete overhauling and !reform. The pro-
vost marshal's office in Guiana has been an annual
source of Jeremiads ever since we can recollect, and
that the Jamaica one is not immaculate will appear
from the following comments of the Dispatch, on a
petition recently presented to the Legislature by one
of the deputy marshals :
" The condition of the provost marshal's office has
been often made the subject of reprehension ; but no
one has ventured as yet to propose any measure
which could fairly be considered to strike at the root
of those evils of which so much, and often such ex.
aggerated, complaint has been made. Other offices
have been inquired into, and their emoluments and
their duties have been regulated by judicious enact-
ments ; but this, the most responsible of them all,
retains its primitive condition, and all that Hon.
Members have done has been to denounce it. It has
been constantly declared, both in and out of the
Rouse, that the deputies of the provost-marshal, or
the majority of them, are systematically guilty of
extortion and every possible form of corruption. It
is no part of our duty to relieve them from this
charge; that rests upon themselves; but it may be
asked, have just and rational means been adopted by
the Legislature to keep them honest? Heavy responsi-
bilities and arduous and expensive duties must be coun-
terbalanced by a corresponding emolument, or the