The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,

WEST INDIA MAILS.:

SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY MORNING.

The royal mail steam-packet Trent, E. T. Sturdee,
Commander, Lieutenant Densten, R.N., Admiralty
agent, arrived at Southampton shortly before twelve
o'clock last night, after a very quick passage of 19 days
from St. Thomas, experiencing fine weather throughout.
She was detained a day and a half at St. Thomas for
coals, or her arrival would have been one of the earliest
on record. She brings 65 cabin passengers, 60 tons of
coffee from Jamaica, in 70 tierces, 51 half tierces, and
200 barrels; 70 bales of sarsaparilla, 35 casks of ginger,
and 1,000 ounces of gold. her mails are of the follow-
ing dates:—St. Jago de Cuba, May 25; Jamaica, 24th;
Jacmel, 27th; Puerto Rico, 30th; Demerara, 18th; To-
bago, 19th; Trinidad, 19th; Barbadoes, 24th; Granada,
25th; St. Vincent, 25th; St. Lucia, `2sth ; Martinique,
26th; Dominique, 26th; Guadaloupe, 27th; Antigua,
28th; Montserrat, 27th; Nevis, 27th; St. Kitt's, 27th;
Tortola, 28th; St. Thomas, June 1; Fayal, 14th.
The Royal mail steam-packet Forth will bring the
next mail.

By this arrival we learn that the Royal mail steam-
packet Reindeer was at Grenada; the Forth, on the
Spanish Main, left Jamaica on the 16th of May; the
Medway, i❑ the Gulf of Mexico; the Conway, at De-
merara, left Barbadoes on the 9th of May; the Avon, at
Jamaica, left Grenada the 11th of May.

Her Majesty's ship Thetis, Captain Codrington, left
Fayal for St. Michael's on the 14th of June.
The Thetis was at Madeira on the arrival of the Royal
mail steam-packet Thames the 9th of June, from Eng-
land: all well.

Two schooners belonging to Nassau had been " fish-
ing" up articles belonging to the wreck of the Tweed
steam-ship, and, amongst other articles, had succeeded
in recovering three hundred bottles of quicksilver, of
which there was, it will be recollected, a large quan-
tity on board at the time this unfortunate ship was
wrecked.

Accounts had reached the Trent relative to the move-
ment of the Americans towards the city of Mexico. It
appears they had taken Perote, distant about one hun-
dred and thirty-five miles from the city. Santa Anna,
in the recent battle of Cerro Gorda, had a narrow
escape. His carriage, in which was his service of plate
and a large quantity of dollars, fell into the enemy's
hands.

It was reported that he had received positive instruc-
tions from the Mexican Congress to destroy the city of
Mexico by fire, rather than allow it to be captured by the
Americans.

The Trent boarded the Brothers, of St. Andrew's,
N. 8., with timber, dismasted, water-logged, and de-
serted by the crew. She was in lat, 42 50 N., and long.
10 34 W.

THE WEATHER.—The whole island has been blessed
with refreshing rains. At Treiawny there has been fine
showers, accompanied by thunder and lightning. These
(the Cornwall Courier says) at the time cooled the sultry
air, which has been very oppressive of late, and re-
lieved the town from the clouds of dust that in windy
weather nearly blinded the inhabitants. The country,
too, will benefit by it, and it is to be hoped the planters
will not soon again experience such drought as they did
last year. The crops generally throughout the parish
are abundant, we learn, and the produce good. We
never remember to have seen the pimento trees more
full of blossom than they are now.
The subscription in behalf of the Irish and Scotch
relief fund was still progressing.

JAMAICA MARKETS.
(From De Cordova's Mercantile Intelligeneer.)
The business during the past fortnight was confined
solely to transactions for immediate use. Our market,
therefore, continues to wear the same appearance of in-
activity and dulness by which it was characterised at the
period of our last issue.
The arrivals have been exceedingly light, and supplies
are diminishing under the purchases for present con-
sumption; but we do not noticc the slightest speculative
demand. We have no improvement to report in the state
of the money market.
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.—Bank Bills, 30 days, 1 ;
60 days, 11 2; and 90 (lays, 2 per cent. discount. On
New York—Merchants' Bills, 60 days, 5 per cent.
premium.
This being the Queen's birth-day, no business will be
transacted at the banks and other public offices.