The Sun.
London, England, 1848-02-25 00:00:00

THE WEST INDIA MAIL.

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY MORNING.—The royal
West India mail-packet Tay, Captain Sharp, from
the West Indies, &c., arrived at Southampton this
morning at nine o'clock, with the usual mails, in
charge of Admiralty agent L. Densten, R.N. er
latest dates are—Barbadoes, Jan. 29 ; Grenada, Jan.
31 ; Nevis, Jan. 31; 'Porto Rico; Jan. .31; St.
Thomas, Feb, 1; Bermuda, Feb. 10.
She brings twenty-eight passengers, four non-
commissioned officers, three seamen and two ma-
rines (invalids), and ten riggers, being part of the
crew who assisted to navigate the Medway convict
ship to Bermuda, the remainder went in her Majesty's
ship Persian, on the Bth inst.
Weather during the Voyage—Outward passage :
Heavy gales until our arrival at Madeira ; arrived
at St. Thomas on the Bth Jan.

Frieght-23,304 dollars, 1.17 gold dust, 1,4301.
British coin, 558 serons of cochineal, sixty cases of
cigars, twenty-five turtle, and general cargo of
sundries.

Stations of her Majesty's Ships—Barbadoes, Jan.
29 :—The Vindictive, Vice-Admiral Austin, K.C.8.,
and 'Trincomalee, and left for Trinidad the same day.
Antigua, Jan. 31 : Her Majesty's ship Thunder
and the Lark schooner at Tortola ; the Persian at
Bermuda, and left for England on the Bth instant.
Obituary—The 88th Regiment at Barbadoes is
suffering from yellow fever. Colonel Phibbs died on
the 27th of January, and lost about forty men. The
fever is confined to that regiment.
Stations of West India Steamers— Barbadoes—
The Reindeer ; St. Thomas Conway and Eagle ;
Havannah, Jan. '2B—The Medway, Dee, and Thames;
the latter returned from the Gulf, and arrived at
Bermuda on the 6th instant with mails for the Tay,
and was left there when the Tay sailed for England
on the 10th inst.
News from the Islands—Jamaica has suffered
very much from rains on the north side, and the crops
have been very much injured on the south side for
the want of rain.

Mexico—There are negotiations pending for peace,
which are considered satisfactory. The Mexicans are
heartily tired of their misrule.
St. Lucia His Excellency Charles Henry
Darling, appointed by her Majesty to the office of
Lieutenant-Governor of St. Lucia, had arrived at
Castries, on board the royal snail steamer Eagle from
Barbadoes.
The long-pending inquiry instituted against Chief-
Justice Reddie by Colonel Torres's, has led to the
suspension of the former from his functions. The St.
Lucia Gazette publishes the following notice :
" Government Office, Jan. 3.

" The Court of Inquiry held at Saint Lucia, and of
which Chief Justice Arrindell was President, having re•
ported to his Excellency the Governor-in-Chief, that in
their opinion the first charge brought by Lieut.-Colonel
Torrens against his Houour Chief Justice Reddie has
been proved, and that Mr. Reddie was the author of the
two letters signed The Shade of Polycarp,' Lieut.-
Colonel Hay, administering the Government, in obedi
ence to the orders of his Excellency the Governor-iti•
Chief, and in conformity to the instructions apntained in
the' dispatch of the Right Hon. the Earl Grey, of the
30th September, 1847, No, 64, has been pleased to sus-
pend his Honour the Chief Justice Reddie from his
office of Chief Justice of St. Lucia, until her Majesty's
further pleasure be made known.
" By Command,
" W. HANLEY, Colonial Secretary.

(From a Bermuda paper.)

SHIP ABANDONED AT SEA.—The American ship
Ceylon, Francis Dowling, master, sailed from Lubeck on
the Bth instant, bound for New Orleans. On the 10th,
when off Georgia Shoal, sprung a leak, and bore up for
Bermuda. On the 15th made the land, and took a pilot
on board from the West-end. Wind and current setting
off the land, got to leeward, and in carrying sail to get
into port, could not keep the ship free with the pumps,
and at 2 P.M. sea time on the 16th was forced to abandon
her for the preservation of the crew and passengers,
they landed at St. George's on Sunday.
The Ceylon was about 15 miles from the land when
abandoned. She was hove to, and it is supposed she
must have sunk soon after, as she could not be seen
from the lighthouse the next morning.
Royal Mail Steam Ship Dee
Noon, Jan 22, lat. 30.54, long. 67.16 West.
Boarded the ship Ceylon and found her abandoned
with water tap to her hold beams; had time permitted
the ship could have been towed or sailed back to Ber-
muda, but was obliged to leave the vesselwith her three