The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-18 00:00:00

THE WEST INDIA MAILS.

(BY ELECTrRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MonNINo•
The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Parana,
Captain Bevis, with the West India nails, has
arrived.
She passed Hurst at 10.10 last night, but
brought up in Yarmouth roads on account of the
heavy wind and sea.
The dates of the Parana are :—Grey Town,
Nov. 19th ; Carthagena, 24th ; Colon, 23d ;
Jamaica, 27th ; Demerara, 26th ; Trad,
26th ; Barbadoes, 28th ; Grenada, 27th
Thomas, Dec. Ist. •
686,181
The Parana brings 41 passengers,
dols. in specie, jewellery (value 600 dots.); and
general cargo.
The Jamaica Legislature was opened on the
10th ult. Much sickness in Kingston, and several
fatal cases of fever. Mining operations favourable.
Sugar crops looked healthy ; maikets generallf
dull. Exchanges on London, 90 days, par ; 60,
per cent. prem. ; 30, 1 per cent. prem.
At Barbadoes the weather was fine,
canes vigor
ous and promising an early crop, and one of the
largest ever reaped.
Two meetings of the Court of Policy at Deme-
rara had been held since last mail, but nothing
particular was done, the whole colony being
plunged in gloom by the death of Dr. Blair,
Surgeon-General of the colony, from disease
contracted during the late expeditionary raja"
sion to the gold districts in the Venesuelan
territory. Dr. Magret had been appointed his
successor as surgeon-general. Sir Wm. Holmes
and Mr. Campbell, his colleague iu the above mis-
sion, had also been very ill, but were recovering.
The weather was dry and the colony healthy.
There were three or four cases of cholera in the
city, but not of a dangerous type.
The St. Lucia Legislative Council was in sex-
sion. The country round Mexico, particularly'
towards Vera Cruz, was in a very unsettled state.
News from Grenada contained little of interest,
the expected reappearance of General Walker
being the principal topic of conversation.
The official paper of Grenada publishes a decla-
ration of war against Costa Rica, for the purpose
of pressing its rights to'the whole line of transit
from San Juan del Norte to San Juan del Sul, as
well as the district of Juanacosta. The same paper
names the Provisional Government during the
time that General Maratinea and Xeres take
charge of the army.
The commercial distress at New York was being
felt at Colon and Panama.
The United States steamers Wabash at Colon,
and Saratoga at Greytown.
At Callao the National Convention had been
dissolved by actual force.
No favourable alteration had occurred in the
money-market at Chili. Provisions were dear
and scarce, and the labouring population in great
distress. The affair of the Sportsman, captured
in the port of Santa Maria, loading copper o
without a Chilian permission, still remained in
abeyance. The American Minister and the French
Consul had demanded satisfaction. The master
claims 100 dols. per day as damages and losses.
The steamer Maria Isabella, bought from the
English governors, had arrived, making the voy-
age in 102 days. She experienced bad weather,
and was out of fuel.
The barque Sarah Ann, bound for the Island of
Oceania, with passengers, tkc., was wrecked on one
inhabited by savages, who devoured every person
on board. Details were not yet published.
The steamer La Plata, from Southampton, ar"
rived at St. Thomas on the lst inst., at 7 a.m.

THE INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.
(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAM.)
SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY *ORNING.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Nemesis, Captain Black, has just arrived in the
river, (10.30 a.m.) Despatches not yet ashore.