The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-05 00:00:00

MEXICO.

The advices from Vera Cruz are down to the 2d of
October. The news of General Taylor's attack on Mon-
terey had not, up to that time, reached thither.

THE WEST INDIES.

The news from the West India Islands is of no great
moment. The crops are looking extremely favourable,
and promise abundantly. In Jamaica, heavy rains had
fallen; much more, in fact, than had been experienced for
many years. Several gales had been experienced, but
no great damage had arisen.

AWFUL HURRICANE AT HAVANNAH.-ONE
HUNDRED SHIPS WRECKED.

On Sunday, the 11th of October, Havannah was
visited by the most violent hurricane ever remembered
by the oldest inhabitant. The damage to the shipping
lying in that beautifully land-locked harbour proved
most disastrous, scarcely a vessel escaped, many sunk,
and out of at least 120 sail the Habanero, Spanish brig-
of-war, the Royal Mail steam ship Thames, the English
brig William Rushton, and two or three others at the
termination of the gale were the only vessels riding in
safety. The shears at the navy yard were blown down,
the wharves torn up and much injured, and covered-with
wrecked property. '1 he city suffered comparatively
little, but the suburbs, especially the Cerro, Horton,
Colon, and San Sazaro very severely. In liegla the
damage done was frightful—from the ruins of one house
were dug eleven corpses. The total number of lives
lost could not be known, but many must have been
drowned. -The theatre Tacon was much injured; the
opera-house in ruins. At the height of the gale the
barometer was down to 27.70; in the hurricane of 1844
it was 28.42.

REFUSING TO COMPLETE A VOYAGE.—At the
Yarmouth Police Court on Monday, Mr. E. H. L.
Preston, as part owner and agent for the ship En-
chantress, laid an information against four of the crew,
named Robert Masters, Robert Thacker, William
Mackenzie, and William Letch, for refusing to go
ou the voyage from this port to Constantinople, laden
with a cargo of coals. The Superintendent of Po-
lice said that he went off with Mr. Preston in a boat
to the vessel on Sunday last. Mr. Preston asked them to
go the voyage, and they positively refused. Mr. Pres-
ton then offered to put an additional band on board,
and the answer Masters made was, " We asked the
captain to put more hands on board when we first
left Newcastle, and he would not, and now we
wont go if you put twenty men on board." The '
men had no defence to make, except that they had
not sufficient hands on board. The practice of the dis-
satisfied part of a crew assuming to dictate what num-
ber of hands the captain shall engage, is increasing.
The magistrates inflicted the heaviest punishment, viz.,
thirty days' imprisonment, with hard labour,—Norfolk
Chronicle.
SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 4.—The Peninsular and Ori-
ental Company's steam ship Madrid, Captain Bingham,
arrived this evening at half-past nine o'clock, from the
Peninsula, bringing the usual mails. The Madrid has
on board a few packages of specie, and a small cargo of
fruit. Ships of War lying at Lisbon—Her Britannic
Majesty's ships Canopus and America; tl_e French brig
Cygne and steamer Labrador; and the usual Portugue,e
squadron. The British squadron, consisting of five ships
of the line and one steamer, were standing in for the
South Channel, at the entrance of the Tagus on the
30th of October, at five P.M. The Company's steam-
ship Queen was steaming eut of Vigo Bay as the
Madrid left.

MORNING MAILS.—On Tuesday bags VVE-0 sent by
morning mails to the following additional post towns, by
command of the Postmaster- General :—Arundel, Bognor,
Chichester, Emsworth, and Havant,