The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-05 00:00:00

THE WEST INDIA MAIL.

The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Dee,
James Fuller Boxer, R.N., Commander ; Lieutenant-
Commander W. South, R.N.,Admiralty agent, arrived at
Southampton at half-past ten o'clock yesterday morning.
She brings on freight 252,040 dollars on merchants' ac-
count, but none on account of the Mexican dividends ;
17,708 ounces of silver, 64 ounces of gold, 37 ounces of
gold and silver amalgam, 440 ounces of gold-dust, 625
franc-pieces, and 1,0351. 7s. 6d. silver coin ; also
1,230,250 cigars, 9 cases, and 99 bales of leaf tobacco, 83
cases of ditto, 1 bale of bass, 75 cases of pine-apples, 13
casks and 9 cases of preserved turtle, 20 head of live
i turtle, 6 barrels of arrowroot, 63 bales of sarsaparilla,
22 gourds of aloes, 8 cases of plants, 5 cases of succades,
and 55 packages of sundries—the largest amount of
cargo yet brought by any of these ships.
The Dee brings mails to the following dates :—From
Tampico, July 22 • Vera Cruz, August 2 ; Havannah,
10th ; Nassau, 12th ; Bermuda, 20th ; Jamaica, Bth ;
Jacmel, 10th, Porto Rico, 13th ; Honduras, July 20th ;
Demerara, August 3d ; Tobago, sth ; Trinidad, sth ;
Barbadoes, Bth ; Grenada, 9th ; St. Vincent, 10th ; St.
Lucia, 10th ; Dominica, Ilth ; Martinique, 11th ;
Guadaloupe, 11th ; Antigua, 11th; Montserrat, 12th ;
Nevis, 12th ; St. Kitts,
,12th ; Tortola, 13th ; Porto

Cabello, sth ; La Guayra, 7th ; St. Thomas, 14th ;
St. Jago de Cuba, sth.
The Dee also brings fifty-three passengers, as follows,
viz. :—from Nicaragua, Don J. Costerica; from Chagres,
Captain Loit, Gen. Col.. Superintendent of the Royal
Mail Steam-packet Company, and servant • Messrs. A.
de Boon, T. A. Bareau, P. de Quiros and Pridham ;
from Santa Martha, Messrs. Mackirdy and
Klein ; from La Guayra, Mrs. Andral, daughter, and
Mr. Foulguce ; from Havannah, Senors Urbano, F. de
Sotomayor, S. de Martiartu and servant, A. Kleinwort,
J. F. Lineros, and Mrs. Scull and daughter • from Ja-
maica, the Rev. J. C. Hall, lady, and family, Messrs.
Westmoreland, R. Moss, Benite, and P. Blake, and Mr.
and Miss Read ; from Demerara, Mr. Foster ; from
Barbadoes, Miss Stopford ; from Trinidad, Messrs. Le-
guin, Bowen, and Armstrong ; from St. Vincent, Capt.
Griffin, R.A. ; from Dominica, Messrs. Hockin and.
Scott ; from Guadeloupe' Mr. Le Dentu and two chil-
dren, and Mr. Couchimbert ; from Montserrat, Mr.
Buchan ; from St. Kitt's, Messrs. Barr and Turner ;
from Bermuda, the Right Hon. Lord James W. Butler
and servant, Mrs. Ross and family, and Captain.
Powell of the 20th Regiment, also two Government in-
valids, one Company's invalid, and three distressed Bri-
tish subjects.
Our letters from the city of Mexico are dated the 30th
of July. Most of the troops had left for the north, and
General Paredes was about to place himself at their
head, having transferred the Government to General
Bravo, the Vice-President. All the Ministers had
resigned. The new Cabinet was not yet formed. An
amnesty to prisoners accused ofpolitical offences had been
published. •
The insurgents at Guadalaxara still maintained their
position in the centre of the city. General Arevalo had
been killed.

The Americans appeared to be waiting the ter-
mination of the rainy season in order to resume hos-
tilities. The blockade of Vera Cruz and Tampico
continued.

The ports of Vera Cruz and Tampico still remained
blocaded by the American squadron, consisting of one
corvette at Tampico, and two frigates, one corvette,
two brigs, and two steamers, off Vera Cruz. The Ameri-
can commodore's frigate (Cumberland, 60, guns) had
gone on shore on the Anton Lizardo shoals, and
been obliged to get all her guns out ; she got off with
the loss of her false keel, and other serious damage,
and it was expected would shortly sail for the States to
repair.
The town of Vera Cruz had declared against the
Government, and in favour of Santa Anna, on the 31st
of July, and a deputation left in the Dee to invite him
to return and resume the command of the army. He
left Havannah with his family, General Almonte, and a
number of other followers in the Arab steam-vessel of
Liverpool, on the evening of the Bth ult., cleared out for
Sisal, but it was supposed he would go direct to Vera
Cruz, having been assured that no obstacle would be
offered by the American squadron to his landing.
The light on the Castle of San Juan de Ulloa was re-
lighted on the 23d of July, and continued so every night
during the Dee's stay.
The Endymion and Rose (all well on board) were the
only English vessels of war at Sacrificios, the Vesuvius
steam-vessel having been ordered to Bermuda from
having severe sickness amongst the crew. The Alarm
and Daring were daily expected. There was one
Spanish frigate and a brig, and a French brig at Sacri-
ficios. _ _

The Vesuvius was off Bermuda on the 9th ult., with
27 cases of yellow fever on board. She took in 100 tons
of coals, and sailed for Halifax.
Information had been received in the Pacific of the
blockade of the Mexican ports by the Government of
the United States. The feeling it seemed to produce
was that it might tend still further to complicate our re-
lations with the latter power. The news of the peace-
able issue to the Oregon question had not, ;however,,
reached Peru or Chili at the time the mail's were dis-
patched.
Her Majesty's ships Daphne and Sampson (the latter
a steamer), a French corvette and a brig of war, were
lying at Valparaiso. The Grampus, 50 guns, Captain
H. B. Martin, C. 8., sailed for Callao on this 28th of
June, there to await the arrival of the Europe an mails,
due on the 7th of July; and after receiving her dis-
patches, she put to sea on the 11th, to join the Admiral,
whose " whereabouts" every one seemed to be 'igno-
rant of.

The United States squadron were supposed (with tri*a
exception of the frigate Constitution) to be off the coast
of Oregon and California. The latter vessel bad pro-
ceeded homeward, her timbers, it is said, being in a de-
cayed state.
There was a French corvette at Callao.

A silver mine, lately discovered by a watchmaker
named Teare, of Corocore, iu Bolivia, was greatly spoken
of. Its ore is said to contain an unusually large propor-
tion of silver, and anticipations had already been
hazarded that this mine would surpass in vamp th© far-
famed Potosi mines.
We learn, moreover, that arrangements have been
made by the Royal Mail Steam
Packet Company for
conveying treasure from the Pa. :e
to Europe across the
Isthmus of Panama, and ths::, the project is looked %TM
with DM* Your 914 th? 1,;00 Calto