The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-02 00:00:00

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans
Northern
New ditto B4O .. 840
Lyons and Mediterranean 875 .. 876 50
Now ditto
Geneva
Midi — • .
Southern
Western 612 50 .. 612 50
Eastern
Grand Central
Sardiniax — • •
Austrian

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Exchange on London, at sight, paper, 25f. 121 c. ; money,
25f. 11c. ; three months, paper, 24f. 95c. ; money, 24f.
921 c.

A letter from the Hague states that the Minister
for the Colonies has just presented to the Legisla-
ture a bill relative to the emancipation of slaves in
the Dutch East India colonies. As by the vote of
the Legislature in 1834, these slaves become free on
the Ist. January, 1860, the present bill is merely
to regulate in time the manner in which that
emancipation is to take place.

WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC

MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
The Royal Mail Company's steamer, Parana,
Capt. Bevis, has arrived with the West India,
Mexico, and Pacific mails, in charge of Lieutenant
Campbell. Her dates are—Vera Cruz, Nov. 6 ;
Havannah, 10; Greytown, 4 ; Carthagena, 10 ;
Colon, 8 ; Jamaica, 11, Berbice and Demerara, 9 ;
Tobago, 8 ; Barbadoes, 11; Trinidad, 9 ; Grenada,
10 ; St. Thomas', 16 ; and Panama, 8.
She brings 71 passengers, 959,013 dols. in specie,
precious stones value 560 dols, and a. small cargo.
The Parana experienced light head winds for the
first four days, and subsequently strong gales from
N.W. to S.W., with heavy sea.
On the 26th, in lat 41.40 N., long. 32 W., spoke
the Shannon, and on the 28th, in lat. 45 N., long.
23 W., spoke the Thames, of London, from Batavia
to Amsterdam, 82 days out.
Her Majesty's ships Imaum, Devastation, and
Valorous, were at Port Royal. Commodore Kellett
returned from Greytown on the 10th of November
in the Devastation.
At Greytown, on the sth, were her Majesty's
ships Basilisk and Leopard, and the United States'
ships of war Savannah and Jamestown. The Ame-
rican frigates Roanoake and Saratoga were at Colon.
The steamer La Plata, with the mails of the 2d
November, had arrived out at St. Thomas's.
The Trent arrived out on the 12th from South-
ampton, and would proceed to the Gulf with the
mails of the 2d from England.

The Gulf of Mexico had been visited for a month
with a succession of strong northerly winds, and
the damage to shipping was very great. The mail
steamer Clyde was compelled to get up steam at
Tampico and run out to sea for three days ,leaving
her purser and Admiralty agent on shore. On
returning they could have no communication with

the shore, and she was subsequently compelled to
proceed to Vera Cruz, and ultimately to St. Thomas's,
without them.

On the sth November the ship Starlight, of Bris

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tol, Thomas Hopgood, master, from New York for
Havannah, was wrecked on the runts, at the
entrance of Havannah harbour while in charge of
the pilot.
The Jamaica Legislature was opened on the 10th
by a lengthy speech from Governor Darling. The
island was healty and weather much colder, but
more rain was required. Business operations were
very limited. Flour languid and 'prices declined;
new and fresh realised 355. in lots of 100 barrels, and
small parcels fetched 365. Coffee as last quoted, 38s.
to 40s. for ordinary, and supplies were coming in
more freely. Fish stuffs were somewhat lower.
Rice in limited demand, market dull ; 15s. realized
for small quantities. Sales of pimento at 14s. 7d.
to 15s. 6d. per 100 lb.
Nothing doing in freights for England. Several
vessels had been taken for New York at 1 ls. to
12s. per ton for wood.
Price of fresh butter unchanged, but American
slightly improved. Pork declined in consequence
of American advices. Sugars had declined, a large
supply having reached the market and the advices
not being very encouraging.

Exchanges on London, 90 days', per cent, pre-
mium ; 60 days', 1 ditto; 30 days', 11 ditto.
The weather at Barbadoes had improved, and
crops looked better. The Legislature met on the
2d, and both Houses presented addresses to the
Governor in reply to his opening speech. The
House of Assembly adjourned for three weeks, and
a new Education Bill will be read a second time
at the next sitting. The island continued healthy.
The market was glutted with breadstuffs, with no
export demand, and holders were glad to sell at
any rates.

There had been a heavy arrival of codfish, and
the market was well supplied. Nothing doing in
produce.

The town of Jamul, Hayti, had been Tigted by

a fire the loss by which was esti mated at 1,000,000
piastres. At Martinique the yield o;" canes was
very scanty; there was, however, an increase of
1,624 barrels on the quantity exported at the cor-
responding period of last year. Weather dry and
hot. Island healthy.
Exports of sugar were 3,344 hhds., 176 tierces,
911 barrels, and 200 bags.
The British brig Hibernia, from New York for
St. Thomas's, was wrecked on the island of Barbuda,
neighbourhood of Antigua ; mails saved and reached
St. Thomas's on the 4th ult. The American
schooner A. B. More, from New Orleans, for Mar-
tinique, 40 days out, anchored off St. Thomas's,
leaking badly, with loss of foresail, mainsail, and
jib ; had lost two men overboard. The Spanish
brigantine Santana, Capt. Caurin, from Palmas,
Canary Islands, bound for Vigo, put in at St.
Thomas's on the sth, for water and provisions ; she
had a cargo of corn.

The American brigantine War Eagle, of Bangor,
Capt. Brown, which left Philadelphia Oct. 13, for
Pernambuco, with coal for the United States' Go-
vernment, put into St. Thomas' on the sth, in dis-
tress, leaky, decks swept, and loss of sails and boats
in a hurricane, in lat. 29, long. 70, on the 24th of
October.

The British screw steamer Cleator, of and from
Liverpool, Captain Alexander Kidd, with mer-
chandise for Jamaica and Colon, put in at St.
Thomas' on the Bth, short of coals, having lost a
portion of her fuel in a storm on the 24th of Oct.
In Chili a strong opposition was manifested
against the existing Government, but the President
met it in a firm and determined manner. No breach
of the public peace was anticipated. Commercial
matters wore a brighter aspect; the panic which
had lasted for many months had given way to a
better feeling, but great inconvenience was felt
from the want of circulating medium, gold and sil-
ver coin having been almost entirely exported from
the country.

Several attempts at a revolution in the Republic
of Bolivia had been successfully-, put down.
The President-Elect of Peru, General Castilla,
was proclaimed on the 24th of October, and for a
time Peru was at peace. General l?,chenique had
commenced to foment revolution in the South,while
a war with Ecuador was threatened in the North.

The Peruvian steam frigate Callao was in the river
of Guayaquil, ready to blockade the river and burn
the town, if the final proposal respecting the bowl•
dary question was not acceded to.

AMERICA.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY MORNING.

The Indian has arrived, with advices from Que-
bec, and New York advices, by telegraph, to the
evening of the 19th.

At New York on the 19th State and Western
flour were sc. to 10c. lower. Wheat dull, and less
firm. Corn heavy.
A moderate business was done in stocks at easier
rates. Money in ample supply.
No alteration in sterling exchange.
The Gulf Stream and J. Morton, hence, and
Picayune, from Bristol, at New Orleans.
NEW YORK, Nov. 17.

It is reported that a large ship went ashore on
Elutheria during the severe gales of October, and
that vessel and all hands were lost.

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY MORNING.

The Bremen steamer New York, belonging to the
North German Lloyds, passed Hurst Castle at 9.20

a.m.

She brings dates from New York of the 20th.

CANADA.

LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.

The Canadian royal mail screw steam ship Indian,
with the mails from Quebec to Nov. 20, was off
Donaghadee at two o'clock yesterday. She is
hourly expected.