The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-27 00:00:00

WEST INDIES.

Her Majesty's packet Pandora, Lieut. Innis, arrived
on Friday evening at Falmouth from tbe West Indies.
The following are her. sailing dates:—From Barbadoes,
Nov. 1 ; St. Lucie and Martinique, 2d ; Dominica, 3d;
Guadaloupe, 4th ; Antigua and Montserrat, .sth; Nevis
and St. Christopher's, 6th; Tortola, 7th; and St. Tho-
mas's, on the 27th, where the steamer Blazer brought up
the Jamaica mails of N0v.19, and the Spitfire the Islands'
bags. Passengers—Capt. St. John, R.A., and lady,
Messrs. Leake, Lewis,, Guppy, St. Martin, and Seghens.
She had on freight 120,009 dollars.

The proceedings of the Howie of Assembly at Jamaica
do not afford much interest. The 'committee on.his,Ex-
cellency the Governor's message of Oct. 29th reported
that a distinction is made in the pay of the officers of the
West India and European regiments, and recommending
that such distinction should be done away with, which
was ordered to lie on the table:. A petition from W.
Lemonius, praying to be paid bounty on immigrants
imported in 1838, was rejected. An in►•estigation was
being made as to the election and return for the parish
of St. Mary's.
The barque Sandwich, from London, last Portsmouth,
17 days, for St. Lucie, has put into Falmouth, having
been struck by a sea, which damaged her stern, injured
her rudder, and is supposed to have spoiled a part of her
cargo:

The Express packet, Lieut. Herrick, is under sailing
orders to proceed to Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and
Gibraltar, should there not be a Peninsular steamer here
to take the mails on Monday. If there be a steam•vessel
provided, the Express will take hence the Madeira and
Brazils mail in January.
By this packet we have received Bogoto papers to the
10th of November, from which the following official do-
cuments are translated :

" British Legation, Bogota, Sept. 23, 1841.
" The undersigned, her Britannia Majesty's Charge
d'Affaires, has the honour to inform his Excellency Senor
Mariano Ospina, Granadian Minister for Foreign Affairs.
that he has received authority from her Majesty's Govern-
ment to offer the mediation of said Government betwixt
the contending parties in New Granada; and although such
mediation is now neither requisite nor convenient, by rea-
son of the happy results attendant upon the various
mili-
tary operations which have taken place within the last eight
months, he is nevertheless inclined to believe the benevo-
lent intentions of her Majesty's Government may yet be
fulfilled, and contribute to the re-establishment of tran-
quillity, and to the cause of humanity in general, in his
offering to forward the most positive instructions under
the responsibility of the undersigned, and in virtue of
the powers wherewith he is invested; by her Majesty's
Government, to the British Consuls of the coast, and to
the commanders of her Majesty's vessels, in the ports of
Santa Martha and Carthagena, to resist, in the most de-
cided manner, by force, any attempts of the rebel au-
thorities of the coast to inflict death on any of the friends
or defenders of the Government who may chance to be
in their power, or who during the present conflict may
happen to fall into their hands; with the express condi-
tion, however, that the chief officer of the troops of the
coast, Senor Ramon Acevedo; who is actually under sen-
tence of death, be exempted from the execution thereof.
" Relying that the Granadian Government will find it
advantageous for itself to accede to the foregoing. propo-
sition, the undersigned is quite disposed and anxious to
send a messenger to the coast with the strictest orders,
authorising the commanders of her Majesty's vessels to
prevent by force any proceedings which, in the light of
political reprisals, may be attempted there.
" The Granadian Government will understand that the
undersigned, in making such suggestion, is aware of
acting only in conformity with the instructions he has
received from her Majesty's Government, whose sincerest
sympathy is attracted towards the welfare and tranquil-
lity of this Republic.
" The undersigned seizes the present opportunity of
assuring his Excellency Senor Ospina of his deepest and
most distinguished consideration.

(Signed) " WILLIAM PITT ADAMS.
" To his Excellency Senor Mariano Ospina."
(REPLY.)
" REPUBLIC OF NEW GRANADA.

" Bogota, Sept. 24, 1841.
"The undersigned has received and submitted for the in-
formation of his Government the esteemed despatch of the
Hon. William Pitt Adams. her Britannic Majesty's Charge
d'Affaires, dated 23d inst., in which he communicates the
undersigned of his having been authorised to offer the
mediation of her Britannic:Majesty's Government between
the conflicting parties in New Granada, and that al-
though he neither jupges requisite or convenient such
mediation, still, in order to comply with the benevolent
intentions of her Majesty, as also to contribute to the
restoration of tranquillity, and to the cause of humanity
in general, he offers to remit positive instructions to the
British Consuls of the coast, and to the commanders of
her Majesty's vessels in the ports of Santa Martha and
Carthagena, to resist by force, and in the most decisive
manner, any attempt on the part of the insurgent autho-
rities to punish with death any of the friends or defenders
of the Government who may be actually in their power,
or may hereafter fall into it ; with the express condition
that Ramon Acevedo, chief officer of the rebel troops,
and at pvesent condemned to death, be exempted from
the execution of his sentence.

" Although the nature of the war which has afflicted
the Republic, and which happily approaches to an end,
would not have allowed to the Government of the un-
dersigned the acceptance of the respectable mediation
her Majesty's Government proposes, and which the
Mr. Adams justly estimates as neither necessary
nor convenient ; nevertheless, this act of her Majesty
has been received by the Government of the undersigned
with the profoundest esteem, as a testimonial of the
benevolent intentions of her Majesty as regards New
Granada, and the interest she manifests in the peace and
tranquillity of this country.
" The offer the Hon. Mr. Adams has.
,been pleased to
make to the Granadian Government, to forward in-
structions to the British Consuls, and to the comman-
ders of her Majesty's vessels in the ports of Santa
Martha and Carthagena, with the view of their hinder-
ing-. the rebels from inflicting death on the friends and
defenders of the Government, • has been gratefully re-
ceived ; and consequently the executive power has
granted the decree of commutation in favour of Ramon
Acevedo, an authentic copy of which the undersignedhas
the honour to address to her Britannic Majesty's Charge
d'Affaires.

" The undersigned informs the Hon. Mr. Adams he is
at liberty to dispose of the corresponding passports, so
that the messenger carrying the above-mentioned in-
structions may be enabled to proceed to the provinces of
the coast by the route he judges most agreeable .—With
sentiments of the sincerest respect, &c.
(Signed) " MARIANO OSPINA.
" To the Hon. W. P. Adams,
Her Britannic Majesty's Charge d'Affaires."
Here follows the decree relative to the commutation of
the sentence pronounced on Ramon Acevedo. He has
been expelled the Republic for ever. The tardiness of
the disclosure of the opinion of the British Government
towards New Granada (the blame of which must rest on
the late Secretary of State) was much reprobated.