The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-24 00:00:00

EXCLIANGE.

There has been nothitagd;;in foreign since our last.
We quote as before, though now quite nominal.

THE WEST INDIAN AND
MEXICAN MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 23.—The Thames Royal
Mail Company's steam-ship, Captain Abbott, arrived
this afternoon at one o'clock with the usual Wrest
Indian charge of Lieutenant Cull, R.N., Ad-
miralty agent. It will be dispatched to town by the
ordinary mail train to-night, and delivered early in
the morning. Since leaving St. Thomas's, the
Thames encountered a succession of strong winds and
gales. The passage to Bermuda from St. Thomas's,
by stress of weather, was prolonged to seven days,
which, under ordinary circumstances, she has hitherto
performed in four days, thereby causing her depar-
ture rrom Bermuda to be two days later than the
regular period.
The latest date the Thames brings are :—Hondu-
ras, March 13 ; Tampico, March 16 ; Vera Cruz,
March 18 ; Demerara, March 90 ; Cat Island, New
Orleans, March 22 ; Jamaica, March 23 ; Trinidad,
March '23 ; Grenada, March 24 ; Barbadoes, March
2, 7 ; Ilavannah, March 28; Nassau, March 30; St.
rhomas's, March 30 ; and Bermuda, her last port of
call, April 7.
• She brings a valuable freight, consisting of 11,000
dols. in American gold eagles ; 46,492 ;doh. in silver,
the whole of which are on merchants' accounts ; 3701.
in British coin ; 26,981 dols. in gold dust ; 150 serons
of cochineal, 100 bags of coffee, a box of pearls, 40
bales of tobacco, 58 cases of cigars, 121 cases of
arrowroot, 82 bales of Bermuda potatoes, a small
quantity of turtle, and sundry packages of mar-
-1 chandise.

Her Majesty's surveying schooner Lark, Lieut.
Lawrence, arrived at St. Thomas's on the evening of
the 29th of March. Her Majesty's schooner Ber-
muda was lying in the Camber, at Bermuda, on the
Bth of April, but was expected to be ready for sea in
a few days. Her Majesty's steamer, Kite, Mr. Balli-
ton, master, R.N., commander, arrived at Bermuda,
on the 24th ult., from Portsmouth, last from Ms.
deira, forty days. The Kite relieves the Gleaner
in the service of the Royal Naval Yard. The
Gleaner returns to
.England. The Vindictive, Vice
Admiral Sir F. W. Austin, was hourly expected at
Bermuda when the Thames left. Her Majesty's
byeran
at eclat
steamer, Vixen, arrived at Jamaica on the 21st of
March from St. Juan de Nicaragua, whither she had
been to arrange the dispute with the Mosquitian
King. The report she brought was that the affair at
y signed at
Granada, and brought to Nicaragua by Captain Peel,
Nicaragua
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Avon were
March, The Forth left
Spanish Main on the 18th of March.
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Jamaica
Theaea
ReindeerirvcaaAci llof 1 aolmjar Majesty's
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olynaen;nsr
with the Windward Islands and Eagle were at Barbadoes on the
mthaeil3sOtnh,of March. TlalendGsrematai
Conway arrived at St. Thomas
27th of March.
to Berarn(ludPaa,7teon Westernl. s and passengers
brought
then
Cat Island, da,ntdhewaGsulylfi,n&ca.t,
passenger? from
that place to await the arrival of the outward mail,
and and then take up the inter-colonial duty lately per-
formed by the Thames, as well as the new route from
Bermuda
to New York, which will commence on the
6th of May.
By this arrival we have no further news from
Mexico, it having been anticipated by the recent in-
telligence from New York. Our private accounts,
however, assure us that the affairs there are in a
very pacific state, and commerce generally assuming
a much more lively aspect.
The recent events in France were known at Ha-
vannah on the arrival of the Royal Mail Company's
steam-ship Avon. The tidings had a most paralysing
effect upon the merchants and inhabitants generally
and further information will be very anxiously looked
for. Immediately on the receipt of the information
by the authorities they adopted all the means in thei r
power to prevent the news spreading by interdicting
its publication in the public journals, but to no effect
for, as it may be naturally expected, it spread like
wildfire, and caused much consternation.
The amount of specie shipped for England from
Tampico would have been considerably increased had