The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-19 00:00:00

WEST INDIA MAILS.

ARRIVAL OF THE CLYDE.
As we announced yesterday, the West India mail
packet Clyde, Captain F. E. Moss, put into Falmouth
on Thursday morning, at 8, A.m., being short of fuel.
Her dates of sailing are as follow :—Tampico, March
8 ; Jamaica, March 17 ; Porto Rico, March 21; De-
merara, March 16 ; Tobago, March 16 ; Trinidad,
March 17 ; Grenada, March 18 ; St. Lucia, March
19 ; Barbadoes, March 19 ; Martinique, March 20 ;
Guadaloupe, March 20 ; Montserrat, March 21 ; St.
Thomas, March 21 • Fayal, April 7.
The Clyde brought home 928,777 dollars on mer-
chants' account, 8,182,876 dollars on account of Mex.
ican dividends, and 8,460,504 dollars value in gold
dust. Her cargo consisted of 144 serons of cochineal,
9 serons of indigo, 33 serons of jalap, 12 hhds. of
coffee, 5 bales of sarsaparilla, and 67 packages of
sundries.

Her Majesty's ship Bermuda was at Grey Town ;
the Imaum, Alarm, and Persian, with the steamer
Alban, were at Jamaica; and the surveying ship
Scorpion, with the Spanish man-of-war Solon, at St.
Thomas's, when the Clyde left.
The Company's ship Conway was en 7oute to 11a-
vannah ; Derwent, at St. Thomas's, March 22 ; E igle,
at Barbadoes, March 28 ; Great Western, at St.
Thomas's, March 22. The Trent arrived at St. Tho-
mas's on the morning of March 18, and was coaling
when the Clyde left.
The following is the list of passengers who came
home in the Clyde :
Mr. Caillavet, lady, and child, from Greytown; Mr.
Bertrand, Mr. Desplanque, two ladies, and three chil.
dren, Mr. Baney, lady, and two children, from Chcgros;
111 r. C. Matinez, Mr. A. Haupois, from Carthagent; Mr.
Pagenbandr, two ladies, three children, and servant,
Madame Ribousch, Count Reglas, Mr. Mouzlles, Mr.
Blumenkron, Mr. Gutman and servant, Mr. 'LSO Pujal,
Mr. C. W. Duck, from Vera Cruz; Mr. and Mrs. East,
Mr. Forster, Mr. and Mrs. Jaffuay, three children, and
two servants, from Jamaica; Mr. Woppumann, two
ladies, fire children, and servant, Mr. Smith, Mr. Cun-
ningham, Mr. Irvine, Mr. Chambers, from Demerara;
Mr. Johnson and son, Mr. Cookerton, from Trinidad;
Dr. and Mrs. Swanston, Mr. G. Swanston and servant,
from St. Kitt's; Mr. and Mrs. Cameron, three children,
and servant, Mr. B. Cohen, Mr. P. Garcia, from St.
Thomas; Captain Taylor, from Fayal.

JAMAICA MARKETS.
Sugar sold at 21s. 6d., 19s. 6(i., and 19s.
SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY EVENING.
The Clyde steam-ship arrived here this afternoon
about five o'clock.

INTERESTING FROM THE WEST IN DIES.

By the arrival of the Royal Mail steam-ship
Merlin, Captain Samson, we have received dates from
St. Thomas to the 22d ult., and from Bermuda to
the 27th.

The drought which had prevailed for several weeks
at Bermuda had been somewhat relieved by some
heavy showers; but no continuous rain, sufficient to
replenish the exhausted tanks, had visited the islands.
Vegetation had improved, but the want of water was
much felt.

On the 7th inst. the Legislature meets for the dis-
patch of business, in accordance with a proclamation
of the Governor.
Vice-Admiral the Earl of Dundonald arrived at
Bermuda on the 23d, in his flag-ship Wellesley, from
a cruise among the West India Islands. His suc-
cessor, Sir George Seymour, is expected early this
month.

The Trinidad papers, in noticing a rumour that
the Pitch Lake had been granted to the Earl of Dun-
donald by the Government, expresses a hope that
their rulers " have not made any concession without
so guarding it that the Pitch Lake may not become
an injurious monopoly in the hands of a few indivi-
duals." This grant is supposed to have connexion
with some experiments lately made in this city rela-
tive to the value of mineral pitch for producing gas
for lighting cities.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, FRIDAY, APRIL 18.
The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert
took their usual morning walk.
The Royal Family took walking exercise in the
grounds around the Castle.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, her Royal
Highness the Princess Royal, the Ladies and Gentlemen
of the Court, and the domestic Household, attended
divine service in the private chapel in the Castle, Her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent also attended the
service. The Hon. and Rev. Gerald Wellesley offi-
ciated, and administered the Holy Communion.
Dispatches were sent.,off yesterday to the Governor
of the Canadas, and the Governors of the other North
American Colonies from the Colonial Office.

STEAM TO THE CAPE.—PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY.--
The mail steam-packet Propontis, Captain Glover, which
arrived here this morning, left the port with the outward
mails on the night of the 17th of January, arrived at St.
Vincent on the 30th, reached Sierra Leone on the 4th of
February, and left again on the sth • touched at St. Helena
on the 16th of February,
o and arrived at the Cape of Good
Hope on the 28th. Her outward passage thus occupied 42L,4i,
days, and was considerably lengthened by her fresh water
tanks having proved leaky, which compelled her to go out
of her course, and call at St. Helena. On the homeward
passage she left the Cape on the 7th of March, arrived at
Sierra Leone on the 23d, and sailed therefrom on the 24th;
called at St. Vincent on the 30th, and let% on the 31st. She
arrived at Falmouth on the 16th, and Plymouth on the 17th
inst., thus making the homeward passage to Falmouth in 40,
and to Plymouth in 41 days. Although there have been
lately such severe gales in the Channel, the Propontis expe-
rienced only fresh easterly breezes, but these were accompa-
nied by tremendously heavy seas, which caused her to pitch
stem down, and frequently threatened the loss of her masts
—a casualty which greatly retarded her progress. On Sun-
day, the 13th, in long. 10 52 NV., lat. 44 N., she signalised
the large Bremen ship °hers, of 1,000 to 1,200 tons, outward-
bound, and full of emigrants. On the 15th, signalised a
hark with the second distinguishing pennant and the num-
ber 6,499. Same day a large Dutch ship, blue flag, No. 906,
homeward-bound, and passed through a heavy fleet of ships
bound up Channel.
The receptions announced to take place at the
Mansion.house will not commence until after the opening of
the Great Exhibition, the Lord Mayor being desirous not
only of receiving at them the literati and scientific men of
this country and of the Continent, but more especially of
marking his warm participation in the general wish to give
Eclat to this epoch in the history of the industrial world by
offering the hospitality of the Mansion-house to the foreign
commissioners, as well as to those contributors who may re-
ceive marks of distinction.