The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-18 00:00:00

WEST INDIA MAILS.

The Royal West India mall packet Magdalena
arrived at Southampton last evening with the West
India mails. Her dates of sailing are :—Greytown,
Nov. 19th ; Panama, 23d ; Jamaica, 26th ; De-
merara, 25; Barbadoes, 28th ; Porto Rico, Dec. Ist ;
Dominica, Nov. 29th ; St. Thomas,
,Dec. 2d,
6.30 a.m.

The Magdalena brings twenty-seven first-class
passengers.
The freight on board includes specie of 470,350
dollars value in silver, and 49,735 " Plata Pina ;"
dollars value in gold and gold dust, 501,500 ; total
1,021,585.
Lieutenant D. E. Orr, R.N., late of the Imaum,
died on board on the 14th inst. and was buried at
sea. Quartermaster James Bolan, of her Majesty's
ship Orion, and John Wilson, of the Eurydice, also
died during the passage home as invalids.
Her Majesty's ship Eurydice was at Barbadoes
on the 28th ult. ; Brilliant at St. Thomas on De-
cember 2d; Orion, Arrogant, and Intrepid, at
Colon on the 24th ; Imperieuse, Archer, Pioneer,
Cossack, and Victor, at Grey town, on the 26th ;
Imaum, Termagant Euryalus, Amphion, Tartar.
and Atalanta at Jamaica, on the 27th; the Arachne
was expected at Antigua on the Ist inst.
A Spanish squadron composed of three frigate,
six paddle steamers, and one brig, was at Havannati
on the 17th November.i
The West India mail packet Wye broke down at
Grenada, and the Dorwent was to take her service
on that route.
The Jamaica legislature met on the 11th of No-
vember, when, in the absence of a governor, Major
General Bell:lieut.-governor, opened the Council
and Assembly, for the purpose of enabling them to
make such provision for the public service as was
otrhe congratulated
island.
dThe
e
rendered necessary by the expiry of several
portant revenue acts on the 31st December next.
Ithne his speech
on the
chthelpieroustp y e r.-groi
tv ofn
House of Assembly two days afterwards
voted a
reply, in which it was said :

n period of
theyour Excellency's
condition
- "During
a'l
MO
finthiS;
traO:.nomtallteerbiref ailchaggeneral
colony has been perceptible. We rejoice in witnessing the
present state of the markets for colonial produce, and the
prospects of the coming crops. But, though we regard
these circumstances as encouraging, they do not augur any
sensible amelioration in the condition of
the country, nor
promise permanent advantage so long as the slave trade is
permitted to exist in its
. present aggravated form, in de-
fiance of existing treaties."
The early arrival of 500 immi• • grants from the
Cape Verd Islands was expected at Jamaica. The
island was healthy.
The business of the past fortnight (says De Cor-
dova) has been remarkably dull, although there
have been several arrivals. The market is amply
supplied with provisions, but trade is inactive.
Since our last, considerable inconvenience has been
felt in commercial circles for want of silver, which
is difficult to obtain even in our banking establish-
raents. Several invigorating showers have fallen
throughout the island, and the coming crops seem
favourable. The legislature is now in session, but
no alterations have been made in the tariff or ton-
nage dues, as was contemplated. Exchange on
London, 90 days, per cent. prom. ; 60 ays, 1
per cent. prem. ; 36 days, 1i per cent. premium ;
private bills, at par.
In British Guiana considerable embarrassment
was experienced, owing to the unexpected failure of
the negotiations for a new immigration loan. The
Combined Court was to meet on November 23, to
consider what could be done. The Governor's cir-
cular letter to the proprietors of estates who had
applied for immigrants, informingk them of the
failure of the negotiations for an immigration loan,
and of the consequent impossibility for the colonial
government to make any advance, as contemplated
by the ordinance, for the payment of the immi-
grants who are expected to arrive shortly from
India, and that there was no alternative but for
the parties who wanted immigrants to pay down
the whole amount in cash, had been much com-
plained of, but its reasonableness was being gradu-
ally recognised.
The weather during the past fortnight had been
too showery to be agreeable to the planters.
The exports during the fortnight included—
Sugar, 3,649 hogsheads, 259 tierces, 68 half-tierces,
1,771 brls., 350 bags. Rum, 1,127 puncheons,
276 hhds., 56 brls. Molasses, 414 puncheons, 20
barrels.
Trade among the merchants had improved since
the issuing of the Compensation Bonds to the Por-
tuguese.
Freights had also improved during the last fort-
night, and had risen from is. to 2s. 6d. for sugar,
and from 2d. to 3d. for rum.
A correspondent, dating Barbadoes, Nov. 27,
says •
.-46 Our market has continued to receive am-
ple supplies of provisions of all kinds, and ship-
ments having followed each other so rapidly it has
been impo7ible to maintain prices. Constant rains
have caused a material improvement in the appear-
ance of our cane fields ; and should the former
continue, the sugar crop of 1857 will probably
reach 35,000 hogsheads, being 9,500 hhds. less than
that shipped this year. Prospects as to prices next

season are cheering for the planters. The harves t
will be general in March. The island is healthy ;
the weather very pleasant."

PANAMA.

Panama was healthy. One railway was in a
secure and good state. In harbour, the flag frigate
American Independence, and the sloop of war St.
Mary, United States. Admiral Bruce, commander-
in-chief of the English naval forces in the Pacific,
was daily expected at Panama and Acapulco.
CHILI AND PERU.
_

We have advices from Valpariso to the Ist, and
Callao to the 12th of Nov. Chili was tranquil.
The dispute between the civil power and the clergy
had been happily terminated, the bishop having
been3compelled to submit. Her Britannic Majesty's
screw frigate Tribune, 36 guns, had arrived at
Valparaiso, after a long passage, from Rio. Busi-
ness was rather slack in Valparaiso, and freights
difficult, to be got. Mines in Copiapo are doing a
middling business, and the railroad is being ex-
tended into the heart of the mining districts, to
facilitate the exportation of the ores.
In Peru some agitation in favour of Vivasco
seemed to be spreading in Ariquipa, Troops bad
left Callao to repress it. Business was very slow.
H.B.M.'s screw frigate Esk, Captain Sir Robert
Maclure, arrived at Callao on the 4th October and
left for Panama on the 11th. The same day Admi-
ral Fourichon, commander-in-chief of the French
naval forces in the Pacific, gave up his command
into the hands of Admiral Lugcot. The next day
Admiral Fourichon left Callao, accompanied by the
officers of his staff, for France, on board the
English packet Limo. He was saluted in the
warmest manner by all the crews of the French
ships in harbour. The crew of her Britannic Ma-
jesty's frigate President joined the French iu their
manifestations of regret on the departure of Ad-
miral Fourichon, through the gallantry and kindly
feelings of Captain Frederick.

L'ANNONCIATION.

PRINT PAR JALABERT.

An exquisite and most touching illustration of
Holy Writ, and one in which the artist has evi-
denced in a remarkable manner the originality of
his conceptions. Often as the divine incident of
the Annunciation has been portrad before now,
it has never yet to our knowledge been depicted
more truthfully or more beautifully. Although
the wondrous theme selected by M. Jalabert has
taxed, again and yet again, the imaginations of the
greatest painters of all the great schools without
exception, from the period of the mediaeval revival
of the Art by Van Eyck downwards, through
genius after genius, to some of the noblest tips-
ters, of the present century, in Christen-
dom. The conception and general treatment
of the occurrence, as here delineated by the
reverent hand of M. Jalabert, appear to us pecu-
liarly, among the many meritorious characteristics
of the picture, those most especially entitled to
our admiration. It is when viewing it in regard
to these, more particularly, that we are disposed
to accord to it, so earnestly and eagerly, the palm
of preference, despite even of those immeasurably
superior claims upon our homage in other respects
recognisable in the productions of the artist's
many renowned predecessors. The Annun-
ciation, as it is here depicted by the pencil
of M. Jalabert, reveals—to the right, the
Virgin—to the left, the Archangel. The beauti-
ful form and features of the Hebrew maiden
—(Aneilla Domini, chosen by the Omnipotent
God, for her purity, from among all the millions
upon millions of the daughters of Eve, to b ecorae
the hallowed channel of Redemption) --- are
scarcely noted beyond the first instant by the
spectator, so subordinated are all the c.ha,rnis of
mere eorporeal loveliness, whether of hue or
of outline, to the spiritual expression, thrown
into the sweet, calm, holy, ineffable Celina
tenance I The Annunciation is re presented
as occurring when the Blessed Virgin it
at prayer, upon her knees, in the st;clusion of
her own chamber—when, in the midst of her de-
votions, she is startled by the Celestial Appaxition•
Startled, but not affrighted ! For the artist has
indicated this with a pencil of subtlest discri-
mination. The " Handmaid of the Lord" sur-
prised into a look of astonishment as she turns her
face towards the Heavenly Visitor—shrinkin
un-
consciouslyher as she does so against the wall upt
ertu rbablep
right hand—gazes upon the splendour of the Arch-
angel with an aspect of perfect and 'm _
serenity. It is a touch, this, little leas, in its
•
way, than the touch of genius —the b oily IS
startled, the soul is calm
floating in
mid-air, with wings furled, a blooming lily in his
grasp, an aureole of glory about his head--there,
upon the left, gazing down upon the young Thrgin.
emoisrati of the
o'er, the Bearer of the Divine AnnounCE anent•
as he speaks, appears Gabriel, the angelic M essen-
cpoimctmure exquisite
as
aAlwtocgrekthoefr,arwte
Annunciation
holy mystery of the • •
breefuetait;ully the

EVANGELINE.
PAINTED BY THOMAS FAED.

Beautifully has the artist here re alised the
poet's lovely creation---" Evangeline. i5l
hardly so much the Evangeline of Waed 8$ h-
Longfellow. It is the "literal portr ait''
Acadian maiden as she must have
appeared in the
very crisis of her pathetic history, in the je:ll9
.
midst of her sorrowful wanderings.wanderings.Not% -'4°.;bo
gelino as she looked while standing " ano nq
guests of her father," when— ew
" Bright was her face with smiles, and wor Ifs of
come and gladness as esb
Fell from her beautiful lips, and blessed the, DtiP
gave it."
heNeither, as she was when seated upon. that the
morable evening by the side of Gabrif *1
,ilihis-
" twilight gloom of a window's embrastai e;
pored to, and whispering, while—
one, ~000
" Silently, one by in the infinite meadow' l 01°,4 O.
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-mtm lots
angels." r
Yet Evangeline, none the less—the to iae called
shine of Saint Eulalie," as the neighbor aro , the
fret
her, the pride of the village of Grand ,ovediat
glory of the house of the rich farmer P,ea
Bellefontaine, the betrothed of " Gal)] 'lei "iiriar
nesse, the son of Basil the blacksmith ! danced
geline, "young and fair" still, as when s",,ddier,
to the music of the strings of Michael, ie7bearts
the merry old wight, with the "gayest I
as one
and of waistcoats 1" But sad and split a rltrilope,
who never, alas, with all her ample dow I °
was fated to— delight Aga

abundance,
Ifllo f
". . . bring to her husband's house, •
It is the Evangeline, in fact, 0
Filling • love and the ruddy faces
a vre read
but of the Search. Evan eline, of whoc
"through our tears"— g imperfect'
Something there was in letf '
her life, incorop I
unfinished ; d 01111.
As if a morning of Jane, with all its 13201 do an
shine
Suddenly
paused in the and, fd. .
sky, a 031 0
not of the 1.
Betrothal')fchdre
ecended bad aria
.31
Into the East again, from whence it late
be piotopirlo,
Themoment chosen by Mr. Faed for t
e i delineation of Evangeline is one of tho il e vic'fill ,e4t
' Longfello I
meats commemorated by the Muse of
in the passage which relates how— , hv the
" Som •
etimes she lingered in towns, till, urgeu
fear within her,
. h 004
, slow:Yede:
.
She would commence again her endless search
Oa
endeavour;
Sometimes in churchyaris strayed, and 91 tad °-
~, 01
crosses and tombstones,
SAT BY SOME NAMELESS GRAVE AND TER )15G-1 1 ~
PERHAPS IN ITS BOSOM' 1:0113$P
HE WAS ALREADY AT REST, AND SHE LONGED TO fl
BESIDE HIM." 10
Wrapped in her cloak, seated upon a ' " Dame 1
10
to
it grave" with the rudely-carved stone c Bey
a" .0
head, her dark tresses uncovered in all t] le 01;0
but affluent braids, her sweet calm 8,36%id0ti
gazing upon vacancy in the depth of her ' `.11:; pi°.
meditations, that is the Evangeline , orafntg'ejj-02,
ture and of the poem—it is Ftted's El
and Longfellow's Evangeline. A love] Y Parittrbat
ture of Youth, Grief, and Beauty-33 ap° ,n'a in
" springs eternal in the human breast") 1 illinVoll
the eyes of the solitary maiden---Despair as /j
'-
-oa-
expressed in the gloom of the surrourtai tug
scape !
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A correspondent of the Morning A dvel,tise
been (I iscovered that, according to "Burn's E
Lan,". vol. 1, page 69, the judgment pronou. teed by
Archbishop (t Canterbury upon Archdeacc 11 of th°
even if confirmed by the Judicial Commit tee
ee old
and
Privy
.CauLcil, will only apply to the vicarage deacon
0'
will not deprive him of the office of Arch '''''
Taunton. reegaleYsi:iyattiptc:°aol