The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-17 00:00:00

THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC

MAILS.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY MORNING.

The Royal mail steamer Orinoco, Captain Bayn-
ton has arrived, with date 3 from Honduras to Jan.
18 ; Greytown, 20; Colon, 23 ; Jamaica, 27 ; De-
merara, 24 ; Trinidad, 14 ; Barbadoes, 26 ; Gre-
nada, 25 ; St. Thomas, 31.
She brings 25 passengers, $555,350 in epeoie ;
jewellery, value 6601. ; platina, value 370/. ; and
cargo of cochineal, coffee, indigo, tobacco, &c.
The Orinoco has had very tempestuous weather,
having experienced a fearful gale, with a terrific
sea.

The Christmas holydays had scarcely terminated
at the Islands when the mail left, but the crop was
forward, and a large supply was expected.
Dissatisfaction was felt by the planters at Jamaica
at so many men enlisting in the native regiments.
Labour was so scarce that the labourers had
demanded higher wages, which the planters had as
yet successfully resisted.
The weather fine, and health good. Crop opera-
tions had commenced.

Business generally was inactive, except in fish,
to which an undue impetus was now given by a
speculative movement.
Coffee and pimento in small supply, at low rates.
Sugar as last quoted.

Exchange on London 1,2, and 21 per cent.
premium, for 90, 60, and 30 days respectively.
At Demerara shipping was abundant, but freights
were unequal to the demand. Among the mer-
chants manufacturing operations were in progress.
Molasses not to be obtained in any quantity at
quotations.
The weather at Barbadoes was favourable for the
planters, and canes ripening rapidly ; trade dull ;
health good.

President Laborde, of St. Vincent, died of ma-
lignant fever on the 11th ult., and the Hon. Mr.
M‘Lood had been sworn in as his successor.
The Council of Government at Trinidad met on
the 12th of January, when a despatch on the sub-
ject of immigration was read, which stated that
orders had been given for as many coolies as could
be freighted for 50,000/., or about five thousand
adults. There were occasional departures for the
diggings, but all fear of a gold fever was subsiding.
At Grenada agricultural prospects were favour-
able, and the weather excellent. Business pretty
brisk, and public health all that could be wished.

From Guadeloupe we have intelligence of the
loss of a vessel in which upwards of 100 African
labourers had been transhipped for conveyance to
the island, and the loss of 80 of the poor emigrants.
The American monetary crisis has had a fatal
effect on the commerce of Porto Rico, and caused
many failures to large amounts.
The news from Valparaiso is more satisfactory.
The harvest was an abundant one ; in some mea-
sure relieving the scarcity of provisions. The mines
of Actama were daily getting better, and the yield
of silver ore become very large.
From Callao we learn that Arequipa still re-
mained in the hands of Vivanco, and that Castilla
had now little hope of taking it.
The national steamer Maria Isabel, recently pur-
chased in England, had been lost in Misericordia
Bay, in the Straits of Magellan ; crew all saved.

No later news from the interior of New Grenada.
At Greytown the Walker excitement had sub-
sided, and merchants had. been tempted again to
commence purchasing, by the line of steamers being
reopened between New York and San Francisco.

Things were looking more healthy at Colon, the
drain for money to the States having decreased.

FRANCE.
PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING.

Despatches have been received from M. de Bour-
queney, the French Ambassador at Vienna, giving
an account of his reception by the Emperor of
Austria, who expressed in the warmest terms his
good feeling towards the Emperor Louis Napoleon.
The fact of an intimate undery tanding between the
two Governments is now regrArded as probable.
Captain de la Ronciere le Noury, who has been
appointed to the command of the French naval sta-
tion at Newfoundland is charged to renew the pro-
position of an exchange of territory which the
Legislature of Newfoundland had rejected. The
Captain is t• sail for his destination in the Gassendi
at the end of this month.

General Baron Sprengt-porten, the Swedish En-
voy, accompanied by Captains de Boy and de
Lagerheim, officers of the Swedish Royal Guard,
invited by the Minister of War to visit
visited the Chateau of Vincennes yesterday. They
thhaeveotbheeernnaidtary establishments in Paris.
The ilioniteur states, under the head of "Mos-
cow,ToDeu
Feb.m 1," that on the previous day a solemn
was performed at the French Catholic
Church of St. Louis, to return thanks to Divine
Providence for preserving the lives of the Emperor
and Empress of the French on the 14th of January.
Count Z,Akrewski, Governor-General of Moscow,
and other eminent public officials, as well as a great
number of the principal inhabitants, were present.
At the close of the ceremony the Count Zakrewski,
turning towards the French Consul, said :—" May
his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon 111. live many
years, for the sake of the repose and security of the
world."
The second promenade of the Bo3uf Gras took
place yesterday f.l ,mg the streets marked out in
the programme officially published. The weather
was dry but rather cold, and the crowd in the
streets was not by any means remarkable, except
just at the moment the procession was expected
to pass. The chief halts took place at the hotels of
the ambassadors of England and Russia, Faubourg
MSta.na Honors
porsi;ace the Minister of Justice and Marshal
Vendome
; Minister of Finance,
Rue de Rivoli; their Imperial Highnesses Prince
Jerome and Prince Napoleon, Palais Royal ; the
go
Prefectures of Police and of the Seine • the Conser-
vatoire des Arts et Meliers, Rue St. Martin ; and
then home to the Abattoir, by the Boulevards.
This day, Shrove Tuesday, which is generally con-
sidered the best of the three devoted to the proces-
sion, the cortege will visit the Tuileries according
to ancient custom.
BOURSE, FEB. 16.—The following were the last
quotations
4i per Cents 94 60
Do. end month...- -
3 per Cent. ..... ••• 69 80
Do. and month 6O
Bank Shares; 3060
Credit Mobilier
Do. Account 952 50
RAIL
Orleans
Northern
New Ditto BlO
Lyon and Mediteran. 870
New Ditto ............. 834
Geneva

Credit Fonder
_ Belgian 4a
Piedniontese (5)
Roman —
Austrian -
Spanish Threes
illome Debt —
,WAYS.

Midi
Western 692
Strasburg
Grand Central —
Sardinian
Austrian

With res RUSSIA.
the Russian merchant fleet in the Black Sea into
pect to the reported transformation of
vessels of war, the Nerd of yesterday says
" We have not thought it worth while to expose
the absurdity of this piece of intelligence, nor of the
ridiculous comments of an Austrian journal ; but
certain French journals, particularly the Ptrie,
have thought
lished and commented on by the Austrian Gazette.
proper to reproduce this news, pub-
We reply to the Patric that Russia considers, and
will always consider, it a sacred duty to attend to
the condition of her brave sailors, who have so vali-
antly served their country, and who made the de-
fence of Sebastopol one of the finest pages in her
history. Doubtless the Russian Government will
not hesitate
the fleet into the merchant service, but these en-
to authorise the entry of the crews of
gagements are voluntary, and are not made in any
way by order or under the auspices of the Govern-
ment. With..ut doubt, also, these sailors will
continue in receipt of their salaries, their grades,
and their distinctions ; without doubt still, they
will continue under the orders of the commander
of the squadron in the Black Sea. In what, then,
does this measure resemble a violation of the treaty
of 30th March, which is accepted by no nation more
loyally
in spirit and in letter than by Russia ?
But if, on the One
hand, to watch over the development of her re-
wardingmer-
services rendered, she ought, on the alter
part, Russia has the right of
chant navy in the Euxine. And how can she attain
this douhle object more surely than by preserving
the skeleton of the old fleet, and in endeavouring
to form from these glorious remains the nucleus cf
a maritime population on coasts where such popu-
lation does not exist ? The Russian coasts of the
Black Sea consist only of steppes ; and to form a
maritime population for the wants of the merchant
navy, it is necessary, when the country does not
possess one, to retain such as may have been brought
there.

"An for the discipline exercised on board these