The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-21 00:00:00

CUM M ERCI AL.

Thew Your, Atm. B.—The monetary pressure continues
with undiminished severity in New York, Philadelphia,
Boston, and other cities. Within the last day or two, how-
ever, symptoms of improvement have appeared in Wall-
street. Shares have advanced a fraction, and Government
securities are 14 to IA higher.

We have no changes to note in our market, except in the
matter of Indian corn, which has advanced sc. a bushel since
the arrival of the America and the Herman.
The cotton market to-day was dull.
Flour was firm at previous prices, and with a fair business
doing.
In Exchange there is some activity, the rates for England
may he quoted at from 9 to 9%, and for three days' sight
bills, 93/4.
On Paris, sf. 22c. to 25c.; fifteen days' sight, sf. 20c. ;
business moderate.

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FLOUR, &c.—Western Canal flour is dull of sale. Holders,
however, do not show any disposition to reduce these rates.
Common brands range from dolls. 5,064 to dolls. 5,183% ;
better brands, dolls. 5,25 to dolls. 5,50 ; Southern flour, dolls.
5,50 to dolls. 6. Corn meal is held at dolls. 2,75 to dolls.
2,81 ; rve flour, dolls. 3,621% to dolls. 3,75; 250 bbls sour
flour, tiia New Orleans, sold at dolls. 3,561,. Corn continues
in demand. Large sales have been made of New Orleans
mixed at 53e. to 55c.; ditto yellow, 60c.; Western mixed,
58c. to 60c. ; and round yellow, 65c. ; Southern flat brings
61c. to 62c. ; rye, 79c.; oats, 42c. to 45c. ; Ohio wheat, 109 c.
to floc.
THE WEST INDIA MAIL.

The Royal West India Mail steam-ship Great
Western, commanded by Captain C. W. Chapman, from
the West Indies, arrived at Southampton at half-past
eight o'clock on Satut day evening, with mails and pas-
sengers. She brings advices to the following dates:—
Vera Cruz, July 16th; Tampico, 14th; Havannah,
27th; Honduras, 12th; Jamaica, 22d; St. Jago de Cuba,
20th; Demerara, 19th; Trinidad, 22d; Baradoes, 27th;
Grenada, 23d; Porto Rico, 26th; St. Thomas, 31st;
Bermuda, sth August.
The Great Western brought on freight 679,207 dolls.,
333 ounces gold dust, 2,0641. 14s. British coin, 1,6691
ounces silver, 85 serons of cochineal; and general cargo
consisting of 8 serons of jalap, 100 bags coffee, 6 boxes
plants, 28 boxes Vanilla, 59 bales tobacco, 73 cases
cigars, .5 cases succades, 50 packages sundries.
At Honduras everything was quiet, and at Santa Cruz
the same, but the Spanish troops still continued in the
island.

At Jamaica there was some talk of a disturbance in
celebrating the Ist of August, but on inquiry by the
authorities it turned out to be only a rumour, got up by
a certain party. _ _

At Cub.a a disturbance had taken place; but the Go-
vernor-General having taken active steps, it was soon
repressed, and the parties compelled to find sureties for
their future conduct.

The arrival of the packet from England has, as might
have been expected, called forth an avalanche of indig-
nation and abuse from the Jamaica papers. The Jamaica
Dispatch, of July 20, says:—
" If there were any one ground more than another upon
which the colonies are justified in denouncing the iniquitous
conduct of the present Government, it is the dishonesty and
untruth which they have manifested in their dealings with
the important question now before the House of Commons.
Anything more disreputable to Ministers as gentlemen
(leaving out of the question altogether their responsibility as
the Queen's Government) than the withholding from Lord
George Bentinck's Committee a communication so important
as the dispatch of Sir Charles Grey, of which we published
an extract in yesterday's Dispatch, and
its possession for two months after it lay in denying
therepeatedly
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penny a pound. on British and twopence a pound on foreign
sugar—being just 9s. 4d. on British and 18s. Bd. on all fo-
reign sugar."
The same journal, of the 22d July, says:—
"The Ministerial proposition for the relief of the acknow-
ledged distresses of the sugar colonies is abundantly charac-
teristic of the party from which it springs. It is one of those
little measures which are to be expected from little men.
The scheme is an insult to the colonies, and an outrage on
the honesty and humanity of the nation. It will not save one
single sugar estate, nor will it give the confidence necessary
to the investment of one shilling in the colonies. It would
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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
KINGSTON, JULY 20.—At a meeting of the Chamber of
Commerce held on Wednesday, the 19th day of July, 1848,
John Nethersole in the chair, it was resolved,
" That this Chamber, in a communication addressed to
its agent, Peter Borthwick, Esq., on the 23d March last,
stated its well-founded conviction that important dis-
patches connected with the state of Jamaica had been for-
warded to the Colonial-office by the Governor of Jamaica;
and this Chamber urged upon its agent the necessity of
its calling upon Ministers for the protection of such dis-
patches.
" That this Chamber learns with surprise and indignation
that, although so lately as the departure of the English
mails of the 2d of June, ministers hadersisted in declaring, in
answer to questions on this head, that no important dis-
patches whatever had been received from the Governor of
Jamaica, yet that a most important one, dated the 21st
February, and received on the 27th March, 1848, was only
laid on the table of Parliament, amidst a mass of other cor-
respondence, so late as the 9th of June last.
"That in the opinion of this Chamber the detention of
this very important document was most unsatisfactorily ac-
' counted for by Mr. Hawes, the Under-Secretary of State
for the Colonies, on the night of the 19th June.
" That this Chamber, speaking in the name and on the
behalf of her Majesty's faithful colony of Jamaica, can have
no confidence in the members of a Government, that either
through carelessness or intention could withhold important
dispatches calculated to have most material influence in the
public discussion of a question, on which the fortunes, if not
the lives, of her Majesty's West Indian subjects depend.
" That whilst this Chamber is left to despair of all justice '
from a Government that could thus act, it feels bound to do
justice to the Governor of Jamaica, who has been placed in a
table position by the Administration, and has most unjustly
incurred the public odium consequent on what appeared a
criminal silence upon the disastrous state of the colony, to
which it was impossible he could close his eyes.
" That this Chamber is of opinion that the thanks of Ja-
maica are due to his Excellency Sir Charles Edward Grey
for his dispatch to the Colonial-office, under date the 21st of
February last, and this Chamber most cordially agrees with
his Excellency in the wisdom of the recommendations which
he was then pleased to submit to the Government, and only
regrets that justice should have been so blind on this occa-
sion as to have overlooked altogether a communication so
valuable in every respect to the West India colonies."

THEATRICALS AT WINDSOR.—Mr. Charles Kean
had the honour last week of an interview with his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, at Osborne, relative to the English
theatricals that are to take place at Windsor Castle during
the Christmas holidays. There is to be, we understand, one
representation during the week, for five successive weeks,
and the first performance will be selected from Shakspere.
The theatre will be built within the Castle, and the ihtire
arrangement will be placed under the superintendence of Mr.
Charles Kean.—.Hants Independent, Aug. 19.
The Marquis de Ilyosa d'Alava and the Chevalier
Bunsen were among the passengers that arrived on Saturday
afternoon, by the General Steam Navigation Company's
steam-ship Triton, from Ostend.
A YACIIT VOYAGE TO NORWAY, DENMARK, AND
SWEDEN. By W. A. Ross, Esq. 2 vols., post Bvo.—The
above work is published this day by Mr. Colburn, and may
be had of all bjoksellers. Also, just published :-2. The
Court and Times of Charles I. ; by the Author of " The Court
and Times of James 1.," 2 vols., Bvo. 3. The Second Volume
of the New Edition of Pepy's Diary and Correspondence.
4. Miss Strickland's Lives of the Queens of England, com-
plete, in 12 vols. 5. The Supplement to Burke's History of
the Landed Gentry, 15s. 6. Mrs. Ward's Narrative of-her
Five Years' Residence in Kafirland, with Sketches of the
late War; 2 vols., with portraits, &c , 21s.
SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY.—The Ocean Steam Navi-
gation Company's steam-ship Washington, under the com-
mand of Captain Johnston, sailed for New York this morning. She had 136 passengers, and mails from Germany, }ranee,
and England. Her cargo was both large and valuable, com-
prisings,, silks, cambrics, ribbons, artificial flowers,
,glov, c.
from France, and a quantity of English goods. The Penin-
sular. and Oriental Company's' steam-ship. Ripon, Captain
Meresby, left this morning for Alexandria, calling at liibr:-
tar and Malta. She had 110 passengers on board, and mails
for Alexandria; Ceylon, Madras, Calcutta, Penang, &c. &c.
She had a full general cargo.