The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-08 00:00:00

WEST INDIA MAIL.

SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY, THREE A.M.
The royal mail steam-ship Tay, Captain Chapman,
has just arrived off this port with the mails from the
West Indies and Spanish Main, in charge of Lieu-
tenant Davies, Admiralty agent.
Her dates from Jamaica are to the 15th of Decem-
ber, Demerara 14, Trinidad 12, Barbadoes 14, St.
Thomas's '2O, Porto Rico 18, Tobago 11, St. Vincent
13, St. Lucia 16, Martinique and Guadaloupe 18,
Antigua, Dominica, and St. Kitt% 19.
The Tay has experienced very heavy weather
since leaving the Western Islands, with gales of
wind from N.W., S.W., &c. Oa the Ist inst.
she lost a seaman overboard. She brings on
freight specie from California value 552 634 dolls.;
from Carthagena, 48,364 dolls.; from Jamaica,
7,683 dolls.; from Grey Town and Santa Martha,
16,612 dolls. ; from Tampico, 85,000 dolls.—total,
709,290 dolhi.; also, 62 aerons of indigo, 202 bales
of sarsaparilla, 30 cases of succadts, and 30 packages
of sundries.

The outward mail steamer of the 21 of December,
from Southampton, was passed by the Tay on the
20th ult., about three hours' sail from St. Thomas.
On the 19th of December the Tay experienced the
shock of an earthquake at St. Thomas, but having
no communication with the shore, the extent of da-
mage (if any) could not be ascertained.
By the Tay there are dates from San Francisco to
the 14th of November, received by the Tennessee at
Panama.

Large numbers of Americana were returning from
California, and many of them seemed to prefer the
Nicaraguan route, via Realijo and Grey Town. The
Tay conveyed no less than 370 from the latter port
to Chagres, where they embarked by the various
American steamers for New York. A small number
took passage to St. Thomas to proceed by the screw
propeller Merlin, via Bermuda.
Her Majesty's steamer Alban arrived at Jamaica
on the 7th of December from Carthagena, but was
placed in quarantine in consequence of having measles
on board. Her Majesty's steamer Inflexible was at
Grey Town on the 30th of November. The Scorpion
was at St. Thomas's on the 17th ult. Her Majesty's
troop-ship Apollo sailed from Port Royal for Eng-
land on the 6th ult.

The Pattie still maintains the authenticity of the
document which it published as the permanent in-
structions of General CHANGARNIER to the garrison
of Paris, and which is signed by General HEMEL.
Since its publication in extenso in the Pattie of Sa-
turday, General CHANGARNIER has not alluded to
the subject, and the Pattie takes his silence as a con-
fession of guilt.
The National has the following on this subject:—
"In the sitting of Friday last M. Changarnier
formally denied having ever given the savage and
anti-constitutional instructions attributed to him by
a journal of the Elysfae. This denial procured a mag-
nificent parliamentary triumph to the military fa-
vourite of the majority. This is very well; but the GOVERNMENT REWARD FOR M. SLOANE,—TeS-
terday her Majesty's Government offered a reward of 301., in
Elysian sheet does not consider itself vanquished. It
had advanced too much, and was obliged to draw addition to the 201. previously offered by the guardians of the
back; but after having beaten a retreat for a moment West London Union, for the apprehension of Mrs. Sloane.
it has assumed a position which the friends of M. Chan-
ST. MARK'S COLLEGE, CHELSEA.--The Rev. Ar-
Farnier will have some trouble to carry. In fact, that thus Rawson Ashwell, M.A., late scholar of Gonville and
journal published the day before yesterday a document
Cainc us College, Cambridge, has been appointed to the Vice-
signed by M. Reibel, a general commanding one of the
~..
brigades of cavalry of the army at Paris, a document THE DUTCH NAVY.—According to the almanack
the Dutch Royal Navy for 1851, the naval force of which we we have given textually, and which exactly ofre-
lan is now composed of 81 sailing vessels, viz., 2of 84 tins,
produces the instructions which the journal of the Ely des
5 of 71, 3 of 60, 1 of 55, 8 of 44, 2 of 38, 2 of p, 3 of 26g, 6of
affirmed had been given by General Changarnier. Forty- 21, 4of 22, 2of 2), 18 of 18, 3of 15, 9of 14, 10 of 12, 11 of
eight hours have elapsed, and General Reibel has not 6 and under; St steam-vessels, viz., 18 of 7 guns, lof 8,
breathed a word of denial or of contradiction. M. Reibel, and 2 (iron) of 4, forming together a force of 102 vessels, car-
therefore, admits that the orders reproduced by the rying 2,177 guns. There are in addition 6 sailing vessels
Pattie, orders bearing his name, are perfectly and 2 steamers on the stocks.
authentic. We, therefore, - ask any man who The Rev. Sir Frederick Ouseley, Bart., and Sir
has the slightest knowledge of military affairs, John Harington, Bart., both of Oxford,
have, it is stated, se-
or of the severity of the law, whether if 11. ceded from the Established Church. Sir John Harington
Reibel had done anything more than exactly sum was Mr. Bennett's churchwarden.
up the verbal instructions given him by General Chan- The Ipswich Express states that Lord John Man-
gamier, he would not have been already, by order of
ners, M.P., will shortly deliver a series of lectures in Colches-
General Changarnier himself, brought before a court- ter, on the Colonial Church.
martial on the charge of having given a false, illegal,
KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL.—The Corporation of
and unconstitutional order to his subordinates? M. King's College Hospital propose to introduce a measure,
the
the ensuing session, enabling them to hold lands for
Changarnier has not done so, nor has he inflicted the i--,
slightest disciplinary punishment on him. The tact is purposes of the college, for providing sites for the hospital,
therefore certain, and the inference to be drawn is, that for approaches thereto, and fur pulling down the present
M. Changarnier admits that these verbal instructions buildings,
were faithfully reproduced iu the written ones of Gene- THE MANCHESTER COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.—The
ral Reibel. Bur, if this be the case, and these observa- recent vacancy in this court, caused by the sudden death of
tions prove that it cannot be otherwise, it becomes evi- Sir. Hobson, official assignee, has been promptly filled up by
dent that M. Changarnier did not speak the truth on the appointment of a gentleman named Lee. Dr. Shelton
Friday last. He has played on the words in order to get Mackenzie (who has been only a few months in office) suc-
out of the affair, and to give a check to the Ministry; ceeds Mr. Hobson, as senior official assignee. On Monday,_of a-
bankrupt named
f,Dysdon (lately a draper in Br!tdfoonrd
he did not write the instructions published by the Pattie,
York-
but he gave them viva voce. Taut amounts to the same."
nshlfinrae?f,ohnavaisnlsortehuse sisptoost,livo; stitsisinfaocatoeyry replsi
M. ODILON BARROT was sent for by the PILESI-
was committed to pris as by Mr. Commissioner Skirrow, and
DENT on Saturday, and in answer to the request of his examination postponed sine die.
the latter for advice on the present situation of affairs, and teosc kin ilis-i
trade,exka-
TRH TALLY SYSTEM.—In the City Sheriffs' Court
M. ODILON BARROT said—
this day several persons were summoned for tally-bills, and
" I have only to repeat what I have often said on air. Buchanan appeared to defend, and is l cases it
former occasions. In this country a President of the appeared that the defendants knew nothings of the matter,
Republic has more occasion for a Parliamentary Cabinet but that the wives had been induced to take the goods with-
than even a King, because he has not, like a Kiug, the out the knowledge of their husband,.. His Honour com-
right to dissolve the national representative Assembly." mented with severity upon the system, and in such cases held
It is said that MM. DE BROGLIE and MOLE have that the tall)ruen were not entitled to recover, the goods not
declared in favour of the prolongation of the powers being nece,saries.
of the PRESIDENT. THE ROYAL SCOTTISH PATRIOTIC SOCIETY.---The
The Pouvoir says :—" A journal, in giving
the secretary of the
and Petition
cal adopted
a(attirtehsse emd ebeyt i nA..h
lel;
odn
dh,ere on Monday last,
an account of the promenade taken by the PAESI-
DENT of the Republic along the Boulevards on deeplyßo3al sed with the destitute condition of a great part
Patriotic
impres Society, set forth that the petitioners were
Sunday, affirms that he was at first saluted by of the population of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland,
some cries of ' Vive la President!' but that he which has been continuous since the year le4i6n,gansduwciais
as
sotwo
.mot©nce the severe epreeoptllleanto at any
y fr, , period,lliirejaiorratwn 0
was afterwards assailed by others ' Vive la Re-
- to other districts, or
For the interest of truth, we must be impelled to the commission of crime. They consequently
during the greater part of his ride the P .... Ise- prayed that measures might be devised whereby those legal
respectfully saluted by the crowd with- or other impediments which prevent the development of the
sspiauDybE It
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a' i
resources of the land may be removed ; and, that as igno-
out any cry making his presence known ; but that
ranee of husbandry is the undoubted cause of much of the
w
prevailing destitution, and as the Royal Patriotic and Indus-
surroundedf workmen, who trial c •
of g •
by compact groups 0
..
hen he arrived at the Place de la Bastille he was
Scotland has already commenced the instruc-
tion of the crofters in this important art, that an annual but
moderate grant be
extensively given to enable this institution to carry
forward its highly beneficial and patriotic labours.
said,tsupp 0 :
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phrisotepsetresdont.beir,
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havebebeonthotfotenhtsdpecoeliicvye4ndthetyo
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the Whites.' On Scotsman.
thingsßed acnledarly, and we will _
The Duke of Wellington, we are glad to state,
The Debata says :....." continues in excellent health at Strathfieldsaye. The Mar-
bourg St. Antoine may have well expressed the
this occasion, we think, the workmen of the Fau-
quis ot Salisbury and Miss Burdett Coutts, we understand,
opinion of the country." were the sponsors, by proxy or person, at the recent chris-
newspaper pre- ' toning of the infant daughter of Sir Charles Wellesley.
An evening