The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-09 00:00:00

another, intending to make an attack en Alvarado,
grounded in the centre of the rim before they arrived
opposite the town. During the time they were aground
the Mexican volunteers so annoyed them by their fire
that, when got afloat again, they were glad to make a
hasty retreat.

" A.lmonte, the present Minister of War, would, it was
believed, be elected President, should he conform to the
wishes of Santa Anna. Santa Anna would, in all proba-
bility, be Almonte's successor.
" General Canaleso returned from Paris to Mexico,
by the Royal Mail steamer Clyde, and it was believed
that Santa Anna would appoint him his second in
command.

"It is not likely that the war will be of long conti-
nuance, as the vast expense of the American army is
much beyond what can be long borne by the United
States Government, and the Mexicans, or at least the
more respectable portion, desire peace, if it can be ob-
tained on honourable terms."

WEST INDIES.
The private accounts from the Wrest Indies repre-
sent the crops to be in a flourishing state, and the
weather particularly favourable, although' a more
than usual quantity of rain had fallen. It was very
hot in Jamaica, and some little sickness prevailed.

JAMAICA MARKETS.
(From !)e Cordonas' Mercantile Intelligencer.)
Flour—The demand being rather active, and the sup-
ply light, several parcels have changed hands at im-
proved rates. The market is now in a good position,
and prices have reached 345. per barrel, at which rates
holders are generally firm. The sales have been-600
barrels Philadelphia at 325. ; 100 ditto ditto at 335. ;
550 ditto ditto at 345. ; 500 barrels Georgetown at 345. ;
300 ditto, and 200 half ditto ditto at 345. ; 600 barrels
Philadelphia at 335. The above sales are reported in
the order in which they were effected.
Corn Meal—This article also is in good demand.
100 barrels have been taken at 365., and 500 ditto at 265.,
per barrel.
Rice is very inactive. The heavy stock prevents
operations to any extent. 100 bags best East India have
been sold at 17s. per 100 lbs.
Bread—The 300 barrels Pilot, reported as having
arrived is our last, have been placed in lots at 17s.
per barrel. Crackers, of the same arrivals, are taken
at 20s.

EXPORTS.

Sugar has brought from 225. to 30s. per I,ooolbs.
Ruin—The very small quantity at market has caused
an advance in the price of this article. It may now be
quoted at 4s. Id. to 4s. 3d. per gallon, at which rates it
is taken as fast as it is supplied.

EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
Planters' Bank-90 days, par; 60 days, i per cent.
prem.; 30 days, 1 per cent. prem.; sight, li per cent.
prem. _

Jamaica Bank-90 days, par; 60 days, per cent.
prem.; 30 days, 1 per cent. prem.
Colonial Bank-60 days, per cent. prem.; 30 days, 1
per cent. prem.

The following is a list of the Tay's passengers:—
Mr. Escomdon and family, Mr. Lestapis, Danish
Consul, and servant, and Mr. Mitchell, R.N., from Vera
Cruz ; Mr. Soden and Mr. Grebow, from Havannah;
Mr. F. Marriott and Mr. Calvet, from Chagres; Mr.
Glenara, from Santa Martha; Mr. Castella, from St.
Jago de Cuba; Lieutenant Jarvis, 38th Regiment, and
Mrs. Jarvis, Captain Cowan, and Captain Howell, 2d
West India Regiment, from Jamaica; Mr. Cameron,
Mr. Harthill, and Mr. Schroeder, from Demerara; Mr.
Armour, from Trinidad; Mr. Shiel and family, from
Montserrat; Mr. Koscinski, died on board, from Gua-
daloupe; Mr. Hay, from Nevis; Mr. Broomfield, from
St. Thomas's; Mr. Macarthy, Captain and Mrs. Wulff,
Royal Engineers, and Master Beaseley and servant,
from Nassau; the Rev. Mr. Cambpell, chaplain, from her
Majesty's dockyard, Bermuda; five invalided seamen
(tour from her Majesty's ship Endymion, one from
Imaum); eighteen distressed British subjects, from
Havannah; Mr. Murray, chief engineer, and Mr.
Stevens, second ditto, from the royal mail steam-packet,
Reindeer.

The mails of the Tay were in charge of Lieutenant
Brand, Admiralty agent, and were dispatched to
town by the one o'clock train this morning.

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert, walked in the planta-
tions of Osborne House on Monday afternoon, and the
Royal Family took airings.
Yesterday her Majesty and her Royal Consort took
their accustomed early walk in the pleasure grounds.
Earl Gre) arrived at Osborne House yesterday after-
noon, and had the honour of joining the Royal Circle at
dinner.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice
drove out in a carriage yesterday forenoon, and walked
and rode on ponies on the sea beach. Her Royal High-
ness the Princess Helena was taken an airing yes-
terday.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cambridge and
Prince George visited her Royal Highness the Duchess
of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester House.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Mary
Wood left town yesterday, for Bowood-park, Wilts, on
a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne.
The Judicial Ccmmittee of the Privy Council sat
yesterday. The Lords present were the Master of the
Rolls, Lord Brougham, Mr. Baron Parke, the Judge of
the Prerogative Court, the Chancellor of the Duchy of
Cornwall, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court.
Mr. Wigram, the Queen's Counsel, replied ou an ap-
peal from Jamaica, " Gordon v. Horsfall." Judgment
was deferred.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.
BACHELOR OF MEDICINE.-SECOND EXAMINATION, 1846.
EXAMINATION FOR HONOURS.
PHYSIOLOGY AND COMPARATIVE ANATOMY.
Elam, Charles (Scholarship and Gold Medal), Leeds
School of Medicine.
Day, John Climenson (Gold Medal), London HospitaL
Sturt, Thomas James, King's College.
Hawksley, Thomas, King's College.
Bompas, Joseph Carpenter, University College.
Elam, Charles (ScholarshipSUßGEßY
and Gold Medal), Leeds
School of Medicine.
Day, John Climenson (Gold Medal), London Hospital.
MEDICNE.
Elam, Charles (Gold Medal),l
Leeds School of Medicine.
Goodridge, Henry Frederick Augustus, University
College.
Day, John Climenson, London Hospital.
Bompas, Joseph Carpenter, University College.
NIDWIYERY.
Elam, Charles, Leeds School of Medicine.
STRUCTURAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL BOTANY.
Day, John Climenson, London Hospital.

NE W BALLAD.
THE ROMANCE OF THE POST-OFFICE DI-

RECTORY FOR 1846.
Am—" The Old English Gentleman."
We hear of days long passed away, and glorious times of old,
And how Young England's sons affirm we're getting dull and cold;
But yet romance is not quite dead—in common daily life
She stillexists ; of which great fact you'll find examples rife
In the Post-Office Directory all of the present year.
(Chorus dependent upon the convivial or musical propensities of the

listeners.)
Of Knights, though chivalry has pass'd, we note a goodly band,
From selling Penny Magazines, to oysters in the Strand;
And 'Squires, too, a stalwart crew, in every trade are seen,
From fishmongers in Cleveland-street, to chemists to the Queen,
In the Post-Office Directory, &c.
And Pages print and lithograph; and, deeming it no sin,
Monks sell cigars, and trade in cheese, and keep a Cross Keys Inn ;
Nuns, too, in New Kent-road, import tobacco to our land ;
And there are cells of Abbots in the New Inn, Wych- street, Strand.
And in the Post-Office Directory, &c.
The mighty minds of every age you'll meet therein combined,
John Milton, as a tea-dealer, in Mary'bone you'll find ;
And Isaac Newton, in the east, has stores of pens and quills ;
And llogarth trades in ham and beef, and Butler deals in pills,
In the Post-Office Directory, &c.
And Samuel Johnson makes brass rules, and Fielding vends the n3n s,
And Pope sells coals; and Dryden, law; and Spenser, boots and
shoes;
And Beaumont's a solicitor; and Fletcher pulls out teeth;
And Godwin will supply you with an artificial wreath,
From the Post-Office Directory, &c.
Of those who flourisled long ago the course is not yet run :
Mars sells and dresses leather; Bacchus keeps the Rising Sun;
Mark Anthony's a silk-weaver, and lives in Spitalfields ;
And Tully's skill to Drury Lane a well-trained chorus yields,

Though not in the Directciry,
The 'virtues altogether form a tolerable train ;
There's Prudence has a loan fund, and we hope be may remain;
There's Faith at Lloyd's—Hope in the Temple ; but it ill may sound
That Charity just now Is not in London to be found,
Nor in the last Directory, &c.
But noted thieves of olden times are here the same as then,
With this exception, that they are " all honourable men."
Dick Turpin dressing-cases makes; Jack Sheppard sells wax candles,
And Duval trades in gold ; but always 'tis his own he handles,
In the Post-Office Directory, &c.
In fact, there's nought or nobody the keen compilers spare,
And all we have immortalised are, bona fide, there :
Just turn to the last copy, and 3 ou'll find them all forthwith,
Unless you chance to lose yourself amongst the tribes of Smith,
In the Post-Office Directory, all of the present

year.

SPORTING INTELLIGENcF,
NEWMARKET CHAMPION COURSING MEETING.
TUESDAY.

THE ALL-AGED STAILES,
Mr. Nash's Cloak beat Mr. Dobede's Dunkirk.
Mr. Miller's Mischief beat Mr. King's Rachael.
Mr. Foster's Highland Lassie beat Lord Stradbroke's
Maxse.

Mr. Fyson's Figaro beat Mr. Mare's Minus.
Mr. R. Bagge's Fortune-teller beat Captain Wyndham's
Wildfire.
Mr. Miller's Magic beat Mr. Arabin's All's Luck.
Mr. Inskip's Probity beat Mr. Anstruther's Cast-off.
Mr. Foster's Lucy Bertram beat Mr. Vipan's Vanguard.
Mr. Inskip's Jericho beat Mr. Arabin's Firefly.
Mr. Bennet's Wish-you. may-get-it beat Mr. Nash's
Swallow.
's
Mr. B. Smyth's Spinster beat Mr. Finch's Brighton.
Mr. Squire's °hien beat Mr. Finch's Planet
°Bnagge's Theorist. Fenella.
Lord Stradbroke's Mawworm beat Mr. Dobede's Dutchman.
Mr. B. Smyth's Silesia beat Mr. Gillett's Goldfinder.
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