The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-01 00:00:00

WEST INDIA AND MEXICAN MAILS.

The Royal West India mail packet La Plata,
Captain Weller, from the WeA Indies, &c., arrived
at Southampton yesterday, and landed her mails
under the charge of Lieut. P. W. Purves, RN.,
Admiralty agent. Her dates of sailing were—Vera
Cruz, sth August ; Tampico, 4th ; Havannah,
10th ; Colon, Bth ; Carthacrena, 10th ; Jamaica,
10th ; St. Jago de Cuba, 13th ; Demerara, 9th ;
Trinidad, 9th • Barbadoes, 11th ; Antigua, 12th ;
Martinique, 12th ; Grenada, 10th ; Porto Rico,
14th ; St. Thomas, 17th ; La Guayra, 9th ; Ber-
muda, 7th.
The freight on board included 2,427,412 dollars
from the Gulf and Spanish Main. 60,000 dollars
of the specie brought by the La Plata are on ac-
count of Mexican dividends. _ _ _

There was lying at Antigua her Majesty's ship
Vestal ; her Majesty's ships Ea) yalus, Falcon, and
Eipiegle were at Port Royal; the Orion, Imperious,
Cossack, Eurydice, Arrogant, Intrepid, Vic!,or,
Pioneer, and Archer, were at Greytown.
In Jamaica much sickness prevails, and the rate
of mortality has increased. We notice in the obi-
tuary of the colonial journals the names of Isaac
Jackson, Esq., of the Copse, and ofJamesTuckett'
Esq., of Lyssons. The weather on the whole was
favourable. _ . .

• A sensible but not destructive shock.of an eartl-
quake was felt throughout the island at about a
quarter to seven on the evening of the 3011 i July.
The vibration continued for several seconds.
Trade was dull ; but " on the other hand," says
the Colonial Standard,cc some impulse has been
given to sugar cultivation by the favourable i eports
of the produce markets received within the last
few months. Great complaint, however, is made,
and very justly so, respecting the alteration lately
made by Government in the standard samples by
which the duties on sugar aro levied at the Cus-
tom-house. The effect of this alteration is to tax
sugars of ordinary quality an additional is. 3d.
per cwt. It is sufficiently grievous that an article
of such precarious growth and of such general con-
vainaption should. have been selected for additional
duty under a war tariff, but it is in the highest
degree unjust, by.an artful device such as that now
resorted to by the Treasury, to seek to increase
the revenue at the cost of an interest that has been
so long and so ruinously depressed. Under the
new standard, sugars that last year paid only 13s.
9d. are now taxed 15s. per cwt., so that on this
class of produce the additional war tax amounts to
50 per cent. on the duty levied by the ordinary
tariff. No other industrial product has been simi-
larly treated, nor would this be so if sugar were

equally represented in Parliament with tea 510
cotton."

British GniAna was healthy. The rainy seaso
was breaking up, and the cane fields were look'g
well.

The exports during the fortnight had beett:l
Sugar, 3112 hlids. 7 trey 7 brls. ; rum, 244 puns.'
hhd. ; timber, 30,678 cubic feet ; Wallaba shiner!
80,000 ; charcoal, 00 brls ; firewood, 1 Coral
flour, 11,000 brls.; herrings, 178 brls. Tradeameef
the merchants was dull. 'Produce was somewhe"
scarce, and freights were obtained with difficultpi,
The shareholders of the British Guiana 133,1)
held their half-yearly meeting on the 30th Jeli
The report showed a balance in favour of the 10;
of 106,236 dols. 23e., of which sum 6'),569 dole'
430. was set apart as a surplus fund, and the re-
maining 45,665 dole. 80c. brought forward as the
nett profit for the half-year ending June 30.
dividend at the rate of 7 per cent, per annum Irel
declared out of the profits of the half-year, ee.,
this, notwithstanding the trade of tho colony h'
been greatly depressed during that period.
Many immigrants aro arriving from the Cape
Verd Islands, and it has been judged expedient, ete'
account of the expensiveness of their transperrt,,,
raise the bounty to 50 dole., on condition that til
immigrants should be indentured for five yeah'
the same as the Coolie immigrants, but reservgi
to them the right, if they thought proper, of tern
urinating the engagement at the end of three Ye 3
on condition that they paid the sum of 20 dols.
Sickness prevailed at Vera Cruz. 1,300,0,u;
dole, were shipped there. At Tampico inforrnatle„
,
was received of a revolutionary movement at 1;
toria. 1,118,527 dollars were safely shippea°3d
board tho Royal Mail steamer Conway on the
and 4th of August, much to the delight of tiles
concerned.

HAVANA, AuausT r
Yellow fever very prevalent, and a great nulg'
of deaths daily.

THE PACIFIC.

By the Royal mail steam-ship La Plata, with tb.°
West India, Mexican, and Pacific mails, we receive'
via Panama, our usual newspaper files and ties'
patches from the Pacific ports, with dates WI,
Valparaiso, July 16; Coquimbo and Huasco,
Caldera., 18th ; Cobija, 20th ; Iquique and Ar'l
21st; Islay, 22d; Callao, 27th ; Payta, 30th ;
Guayaquil, 31st.
The Pacific Screw Navigation Company's stall!
New Granada arrived at Panama on the 6th itle"
with 44 passengers, nine of whom were for Pigo;
land, 159,000 dols. in specie, and intelligence ff°„f
Valparaiso to the 16th, and Peru to the 26th "
July.
The Chilian news is entirely of a local characte4
and although in the South American republics
bl
elections had caused great agitation, yet in
C,.od
everything was tranquil. All stages of opinion u
agreed in the re-election of Don Manuel Montt sti
President of the Republic for another period of fire
years. The Minister of Foreign Affairs had hero
questioned by Congress concerning the mensro
ti.o
taken by the Administration respecting the nhil
on account of the butchery of Chiliau eitizel3sbe
California; also, as to the rumour circulating i.1:1".„g
country of an intended expedition which was De,To
organised against Peru. The reply was, thatiitji,
Government had asked the Chilian Consul in u
fornia for official information on which to rest laid
claims, and, with regard to the Peruvian expo,T
tion, Government had sent instructions to the lo
tendentes of Valparaiso, Conception, and Mato
to prevent any hostile attempt against that repuu,',.,
The treaty of friendship, commerce, and na/11,
tion concluded with the United States was,
et
mitted to the approbation of the Senate, and
with a complete approval.
On the 28th ult. another treaty was concluded boi,
the Hon. D. Manuel Antonio Tccornal, Pl.r.,eniP
tentiary ad hoc for Chili, and the Hon. D. Petit{
1
Alessandri, representing his Majesty the King
Sardinia. The Council of State had already ~
proved it.
It having been discovered that the Pergvitt°
~f
dollars and half-dollars of 1855 are of low a,,
o,"'"
the Chilian Government had issued a decree Ph"'
hibiting their reception in the fiscal offices. 0
From Peru there is no news. The countrii%
tranquil, and had the appearance of improven3e.no
In Ecuador matters were quiet. The elects
passed off peaceably. General nobler was elected
President by a large majority.

HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO EIOLMOOD

HOLYROOD, Ana. 30.
About a quarter to nine o'clock this morning be
Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, Accd.
panied by Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and tb:
junior princesses, left the palace for Balmoral, attended
by the suite, and where the royal party were expecte
to arrive about seven o'clock this evening. b,
Yesterday afternoon the Queen and his Royal 1118
ness, accompanied by the Princess Royal and the 1"',n
cess Alice took a long drive in an open carriage and furl
and visited several of the most important objects of
18
terest in the neighbourhood, including Hawthorne Pes,
and Rosslyn Castle, not returning to Holyrood until kg
evening was considerably advanced. Her Majesty nil
the Prince, with the princesses, alighted at Roll
Castle, and spent a considerable time in the ground
d,
which they were conducted by Mr. Drum's°
The Earl of Clarendon and the ladies in waiting acc°l3l'
panied the Queen in another carriage and four.
est
Prince Alfred, and the two younger princesses, 01),,
~
the afternoon in the city itself, and went over all ni"
most interesting portions of the town.
d st'
The Queen and Prince, with the royal family, an nd
tended by the whole suite, drove through the town 1/0
tlO
round the Queen's drive, in the morning. The r°,4.1
cortege consisted of three carriages and four, and the
equerries in waiting on horseback.
Lient. Cowell was in attendance on Prince Alfred
his visit through the city in the afternoon. non'
The Duke of Bucc!euch, and the Right Hon. sir
jamin Hall, have had the honour of dining with be
Majesty.

ITO
ARRIVAL OF THE QUEEN AND BO-
FAMILY OF OUDE IN LONDON.

-
The Queen of Oude and her retinue of attendantl;
rived at the Waterloo station of the South- Wen,
Railway on Saturday night, shortly after eleven o'0°01;
by special train, which left Southampton at 8 Pp(
Her Majesty, with her attendants, left the statis,l3the
I Harley House (New-road), the late residence 01 ,-o
Duke of Brunswick, in a number of closed Carr' 1e
onanibuses,and other conveyances into which the
al
portion of the company were removed with the leiv
Oriental precautions against displaying their a
n
tures. The ladies of the suite stepped backwards ;be
of the carriages of the railway, in order to prevent 4
railway officials and the crowds assembled from havkiel
the pleasure of seeing their faces ; but it was rel33°- he
by many of the spectators that however strong may tal
the objections to displaying the charms of an Oriel3ej
face, the same degree of anxiety by no means extit.
with respect to the lower extremities, so carefully The
cealed by the ladies' dresses in western countries. frnlcl
Queen of Oude wore a silver grey silk train, and gr-ecl
anklets about her feet. Wheher her Majesty aPPef‘",jeo
fatigued from her journey, or otherwise, it is a queBice,
which more favoured individuals may be able t, ress';be
Her Majesty was carefully packed in a carriage,
blinds of which were secured, lest a rude breath Of ah
should blow them aside, and reveal the beauties sylpeol
they were intended to hide. The illustrious grouP
accompanied by Major Bird, and a small army of °.
-
cials and attendants, who had arrived by a Prelliof
train, were in waiting to receive the party, sone to
whom had so far departed from Oriental customs 89
deli.
partake, in aby no means sparing manner, of the ,I,
cacies which Mrs. C:arke's refreshment rooms affords'

Viscount Palmerston returned to town on Saturdl
evening from attending the funeral of bis late broth °.
the Hon. Sir William Temple, who was interred ill tb
family vault Romsey, near Broadian(l-, on SaturdsY•
the
Th Right Hon. Lord Chief Justice Campbell and p,
Hon. Miss Campbell are at Inverlochy, Inverness-JPr
•the seat of Lord Abinger.
Colonel Stanton is the British Commissioner for tV
settlement of the new boundaries in Bessarabia. „f
It is with great regret that we announce the dente 1,-o
Mr. Gilbert A'Beckett, long favourably known to t
publics as an author and as a contributor to sev-of
literary works, and more recently as one of the bee
our police magistrates. Mr. A'Beckett died at Botil°Bl3
of congestion of the brain. all
Tn OCCUPATION or ORIZEOE.—We believe vie,.s",eo
be found correct in anticipating that the allied terli•
will not be withdrawn from Greece at present. lete.,,le
Bence in cur possession makes it certain that there hl
intention of taking a step which would be most tlet4o
visable in the actual condition of affairs at Athens it'se
and throughout the Greek kingdme.—Morning Post'
The following noblemen and gen lemen are attsobto
to the special mission of Earl Granville to represent or
Queen of Great Britain at the coronation of the EdWero,
of All the Russias :—Sir Robert Eitel, who acts as secrc
0
tary to the special rili4en, Lard Dudley and Ward, teo
~.
Earl of Lincoln, the Earl of D:iikeith, Lord Seymour, tc't
Marquis of Stafford, Lord Ashley, Lord Cavendish, "n
J. E. D. Acton, the Hon. E. T. Gower M.P ; the 119-h'
Gerald Ponsonby, Mr. F. V. Lister, and Dr. Sand'
•
The special mission of Earl Granville will be in ever
re-pect worthy of the Sovereign and the country he —f
presents. The Hon. Henry KJ. Stanley, SeeretarY.%
Legation at Athens, and formerly attached to the Brit°
the Foreign-office,
Einlmssy at Constantinople, and Mr. G. R. Vernon,,°_.
lion to represent Great Britain in the settlement of the
constitution Sir H. Bulwer in his taro
constitution of the Danubian Principalities. Col. State'
ton is the British Commissioner fur the settlement of to"
new boundaries in Bessarabia.—Observer.