The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-19 00:00:00

THE [VEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY.
[A. summary of the following appeared in our impression
of yesterday.]
The Parana has arrived with the West India and
Pacific mails. Her dates are :—Jamaiea, Nov.
27 ; Demerara, Nov. 25 ; Trinidad, Nov. 25 ; St.
Thomas, Dec. 1. She brings home 53 passengers.
Amongst her cargo is specie to the value of 586,181
doll., of which 126,131 dole. are in silver,,and the
rest in gold.
Her Majesty's ship Imaum was at Jamaica. The
Leopard was to leave Jamaica for Colon. The Tar-
tar was at St. Domingo. The Atalanta was at
Demerara, and the Brunswick was at Colon. The
Monarch was at Valparaiso and was about to leave
for Callao. The Nereus was at Valparaiso. The
Alarm and Cockatrice were at Islay, watching a
Peruvian revolutionary frigate. The Retribution
and the Naiad were at Callao. The Magician was
at Panama, repairing ; she had been ashore.
The Royal mail steamer Conway was disabled.
From Jamaica we learn that in the Legislative
Assembly the address in answer to the Governor's
speech was presented on the evening of the 11th. It
was extremely conciliatory. and " whilst it offered
to his Excellency the warm congratulations of the
house on his appointment to the government of this
island, it expressed the deep concern with which
the intelligence of the rebellion, and unnatural
atrocitiea perpetrated in her Majesty's eastern do-
minion had been received by the house, and an
earnest' hope that, under the approving influence of
an Almighty power, and by the strong arm of Bri-
tish valour, that valuable portion of the empire
might speedily be restored to obedience and tran-
quility."
The business of the session has been promptly
proceeded with, and a number of government mea-
sures have been already introduced and forwarded
to advanced stwe3.
From the Colonialb Standard we take the follow-
ing :
The Immigration Act, introduced by Mr. Hosack, is
one of the most complete measures which, within our
exl:erience, has ever been presented to the legislature. It
is an able consolidation of all the acts now in force re-
lating to the importation of government immigrants,
with the addition of a well-digested machinery for the
perpetuation, under a carefully-devised scheme, of this
most important branch of public economy.
We have again been visited along the south side with
fine seasonable rains, but, strange to say, the north side
continues without any rain, and it is feared that the
crops in that quarter will be greatly injured by drought.
There is a large amount of sickness still is and about
Kingston.
The restricted condition of the money market in the
United Slates, when the greater portion of our supply of
imported ford is obtained, has had a most disastrous
effect on our provision market. We are very nearly at
this moment without any supply whatever of flour or
salted fish. But for one or two fortunate arrivals from
Halifax and Philadelphia we should be at this moment
without a barrel of flour or a cask of codfish in Kings-
st,,n ; and as it is, we are within a few days of total
exhaustion—and whether within that period we shall
receive a cargo to keep us going is wholly problematical.
It is further stated that bill operations in the
United States being no longer possible, it has been
found necessary to send specie thither for the pur-
chase of provisions ; of course-8,0001. cannot have
been sent from Jamaica to the United States, in
gold, without placing the Bank treasuries under
contribution ; and as this drainage might proceed to
a very much larger extent, the banks have found it
necessary, in their own defence, to limit discounts.
De Cordova, of Nov. 26, says—
Money has been somewhat scarce, the banks being
disinclined to accommodate. The 5,0001. in specie re-
ceived by one hank, per last steamer from Europe, is too
small an amount to cause any great improvement. Of
isiaod produce, pimento remains inactive, so much so
that it is impossible to give any correct quotation. Coffee
has been kept from market by continued heavy rains in
the country, and transactions in the article have been
therefore very limited. In freights there is nothing doing.
Exchanges on London—Jamaica Bank, 90 days, par ;
60 days, per cent. prem. ;30 days, 1 per cent. prem.
Colonial Bank, 90 days, par ;60 days, per cent. pram;
30 days, 1 per cent. prem. Commissariat bills, 1 per cent.
prem. Merchants' bills, 90 days, .& to 1 per cent. die.
From the Demerara Royal Gazette of Nov. 24,
we cull these items :
Since the sailing of last packet the weather has been
dry, and the colony exceedingly healthy. There are, we
believe, three or four cases of cholera in this city, but
not of a dangerous type.
Oar home readers will be happy to learn
.that Sir Win.
El. Holmes and Mr. Campbell are recovering
fast from
their severe attack of illness, and are now qui con-
valescent. .
Theo most
Dr. B
distressinglair,
which event
has cast
th ea p
gal.oto fnoir
ot nviegrhtthi se the
death
tire colony, and brought sorrow to almost every house-
hold. The melancholy event took place on the 9th inst.,
the day on which the iast steamer sailed.
Six persons have been tried for riotous proceedings on
the 25th July last, the day on which the governor of
this colony (Mr. Wodehouse) and his lady sailed for
England. The indictment charged the prisoners with
riot and riotously assaulting the Governor and Mrs.
Wodehouse, the Chief Justice, and Mr. Wolseley, the
acting government secretary. The trial occupied nearly
two days, when the jury returned against Edwatd Eady,
Charles Byble, and Henry Hope a verdict of guilty
(strongly recommending Byble and Hope to mercy).
The other prisoners they acquitted on all the counts.
His Honour sentenced Eady to two years' imprisonment
with bard labour, and Byle and Hope to eight months'
imprisonment, with hard labour, each.
Several more disappointed parties have returned from
the Upata and Tubuquen goldfields.
What information we have received confirms the
opinion of the commissioners—that the quantity of gold
to be obtained is too little and the risk attending it too
great to snake it an object to go there. Those who will
go a gold-hunting had better proceed to the milder
climates and more productive mines of Australia or
California.
Exports cleared at the Custom-house for the past fort-

r 2
•.
. n=p:M :•••Sugar :3;629 blobs 285
j•1,17i1,rf5..; men, rsB, 713%1
molvisee, 480 pans. libdl4.: arid: t:i-41-*i 3,
; aniiatto,-12 ceake ; nia-i,J37.F, 10 , 4V4,_
double cases; rice, 250 bps; brrooly, tO
brl ; hate, 2 dozen.; cigar.,
_21,900 ; sreenl;l,:trict•trobi?,
21,511 cubic feet ; old capper, 16 bides aLti.
letter wood, 23 pieces ; hides, 165; cOcoaior.s,-3k929;- I S.
flour, 50 brls. ; and 12,000 oranges.
-We opy the following ft oat the lifer cqntile In.
telligencer
AVe have had numerous arricalt ,3nrinv; ttio past fort.
night. Tonnage has bicomo very aba: ei,h! s
have a downward tendency. A n n o u proviBiosix in
good supply. The weather continues very favourable
for sugar making the crop will likely txcefd that of
lait year consideral4F-1.:11 there are plenty-of vel3,3els
to take it away. -
The Colonist of Nov. 25 says :
The Demerara Railway Company have submitted to
the Government propositions to raise on preferential •
bonds 200,0001., on which amount the colonial legisla•
ture shall guarantee interest at the rate of six per cent.
per annum for 90 years, and the colonial revenues shall
be pledged for the payment of the interest, amounting to
12,0001. a-year, in London. With the money thus
raised they propose to pay off the debt due to the colony,
amounting to about 46,0001., to expend the sum of
17,0001. on the repair of the railway, and in aiding t 3
and improving the premises, plant, anti rolling stock ; •
and also to devote a farther sum of 30,000/ for the cum.
pletion of the line to Mahaica, and Vr additional plant.
The rest of the money they propose to apply to the ligni.
dation of the other debts and liabilitie of the company..
It may be taken for granted that the answer of the com.
bined court to this proposition will be in the nentive.
Another important subject to be hi ought before the
combined court, during its extraordirr.ry session, is the
proposed introduction of sepoy exiles from the East
Indies, into this colony. The proposition has been
favourably received out of doors. It appears that the
same proposition which has been made to the Govern.
ment of this colony, has ab,o been made to the govern-
ments of the other West India colonies generally. A.
similar offer has been male to the government of St.
Luda ; and the Palladium, while expressing a favoar-
ab'e opinion of the scheme, thinks that " 6hoold the
ealopy accept the offer of the East L-AliaCol7,,pany' there
is one condition which should he explicAly 1 till down,
namely, "that an effective military force should be
kept up at this station." Tho same condition will, as
a 12c1tter of course, be insisted upon every where,
wb*ver any of tlio• Repels may bo
'-'llll.O following is an extract otaletter written by
nzentloman who was one of a patty- whi...11 went
froth . Georgetown to explore the gold-li,his in
Venekuela

Demerara, Nov. 25.
I returned on the 5.1 inst. from my x:_•ur:ion thiolgh
the Interior of the colony to the gold diggings at Cara-
tal, bear Tussuqueu, in Venezuela, but was laid up for
nearly a fortnight from the effects of fever, supposed to
have been caught aruong the ssvan3p3 of the Orinoco.
You' would probably hear by last mail of th, lamented
death of our esteemed friend Dr. Their, which o,:curred
on the morning of the 9th, the day the packet left. Dr.
Manget says the symptoms latterly were decidAly those
of plow fever. He is much regretted here, havieg
been one of our most skilful and .xp,;rienced medical
men, and taking a wf;rui and active int,r,s: in every-
thing affecting the colony. Had he lived, it was our
inten;ion to havepui.,ll,l3ed stn account of our expedition
to the. diggings, but I su,pen, tha'c, m ust .3 abandoned
now; Of the diggii,g, I cani:ot report favourably at
present. Only about 200 penile are 41 work. and they
barely earn ordinary ;aboortrs' T.vagt,, having an noes-
:lei:l4i prlz.!. The la',Air is toe finicle:::.t I ever =.a and
she place most unhealthy, :IA a si.gle diver having
escaped fever more cr less severe. Tee carirrry, how-
ever, appears to be highly auriferon3 and metallif.,rous,
so that we may expect that it will in tine, when British
or American enterprise is brought to bear
.upon it,
become a gold-producing country.