The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-04 00:00:00

JAMAICA MARKETS.

.From De Cordova's Mercantile Intelligencer of June 7.)

GENERAL REMARKS.

Since our last issue the island has been visited by most
plentiful showers of rain. Never since the year 1838
have the May seasons been so bountifully lavished on the
colony. and never were its inhabitants less able to de-
rive advantage from them. At another time the re-
gular rains which for so long a period have withheld
their cheering influence, would have been gladly
hailed as the harbingers of a more prosperous future ;
but at the present moment they only serve to make more
galling and exasperating the injustice of the British
Government, which renders almost nugatory the
blessings of Providence. It is, indeed, a distressing
subject for consideration that had the smallest portion of
that justice which is our due been conceded to us by the
Home Government last year, or even at the commence-
ment of the present Parliament, the agricultural interest
might have been led by the advent of tde seasons to
look forward to a successful result to the industry they
are anxious to exercise, instead of being compelled as
they now are in many instances to forego even a trial.
The general resolution throughout the island was to put
in no plants after August ; in some cases planters have,
as they express it, " been tempted by the season,"
but these examples, we regret to ,say, are very few
indeed.

With respect to business in Kingston, we are again
obliged to report that there is not the slightest improve-
ment noticeable in any one of our usual causes of com-
plaint. Purchases are in most instances still confined to
parcels merely sufficient for immediate consumption—
there continues to be a general absence of confidence—
and !the money market remains in the deplorable nar-
rowed state noticed in our last issue.
Bread stuffs generally aro scarce, and prices have
risen, but owing to the late rains, there will doubtless be
a great abundance of ground provisions, which should
guard shippers against excessive consignments.
Flour has continued gradually to improve since our
last issue.
Meal-530 barrels and 115 half-barrels Philadelphia,
which arrived viet St. Thomas, shortly after our last pub-
lication, were placed at 18s. 400 barrels excellent from
New Orleans brought the same figure. For 400 barrels
to arrive in the Baltimore packet, 18s. cash, less bank
discount, was offered and refused, 19s. being demanded.
Butter is in demand at advanced rates. The recent
European advices have caused holders to be more firm,
and 12d. is now demanded for the comparatively small
stock of Irish in the hands of importers. The market is
entirely bare of United States and British American. In
Irish only retail transactions have occurred.
Pork-200 barrels prime have changed hands at 66e.,
and 140 brls. for an outport have been taken at the same
figure—cash.
Hams are exceedingly dull and unsaleable. We have
not heard of any operations in Lancashire.
Cheese-30 hampers Bristol double Gloucester have
been taken at Is.
Beef—Sales of family beef in half-barrels have been
made at 48e. per half-barrel.
Oil—Sales are being made at ls. 10a. Stock large.

Malt—The demand is extremely limited. Lane's
Cork stout brings Sys. 7s. 6d. to Bs. is paid for porter
and ale in bottle.
Salt is scarce—There have not been any sales.
Brandy—Five hogsheads have been sold at ss. 3d.
It has subsequently been sold by the single hogshead
at ss. 6d.
Rum—We have not heard of any transactions in this
article.

Sugar—Tierces middling sold at 14s. 6d. per 1001bs.
and hogsheads fair at 15s. Gd. i'rices range from 135.
to 16s.

EXCHANGES.
ON LONDON.
Colonial Bank-90 days, 1 per cent. premium.
GO days, 11 per cent. premium.
Jamaica Bank-90 days, 1 per cent. premium.
GO days, 1 per cent. premium.
Planters' Bank-90 days, -1 per cent. premium.
GO days, 1 per cent. premium.
Commissariat Bills—not under 14 per cent. premium 30
days.

SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY MournNc.
The Tvus, Captain Evans, with the homeward
Peninsular Mail, is looked for in the course of to-
morrow.

CEIOLEUA. AT ST. PETERSBURGH.—Letters have
just been received from St. Petersburgh, dated 23d June.
That city was perfectly calm, and the Emperor was pur-
suing most strenuously the pacific policy he has adopted
since the first outbreak of revolution on the Continent.
We are sorry, however, to
state that the cholera has ap-
peared in the Russian capital in the most positive form.
This dreadful epidemy has followed the same course as
in its first invasion in 1832. As if to confirm the fluvial
theory, after remaining during the winter months at
Moscow, as soon as the fluvial communications were
open, it advanced, appearing at the same period as for-
merly at St. Petersburgh, where it has invaded the
palaces of the rich at the same time as the houses of the
poor. If, as regards England, it should follow the same
course as on the occasion referred to, it will not appear
here until March. It will be observed that the first
portion of the news we here offer is in direct contradic-
tion to what has been published in the last German
papers come to hand. But the date of that news is
Komignberg (in Prussia), the 22d of June, and it will
thus be seen that the letters from which we derive our
information are of a much later date.
The detachment of the 30th Regiment, under the
command of Major Cavan, left Carlisle Castle for Man-
chester on Thursday last. They were replaced by a
1 detachment of the 63d Regiment on the same day, under
the oostmsnd of Major Thomas.--Carlisle Patriot.