The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-18 00:00:00

THE WEST INDIA MAIL.

SOITTIIANFTON, WED;M:DAY.—Tbe
,royal -mail
steam-ship Great Western his just arrived at this
port with mails from the Gulf of Mexico, Havannah,
and Bermuda.

She brings specie, value 833,810 dolls., of which
50,760 dolls. are for the account of Mexican bond-
holders, also 203 scrota cochineal, and a general
cargo. The Great Weitern h.s no mails from
Jamaica, or the inward or leeward islands.

These will be brought by the Tay, daily expected.
Our Mexican accounts by this packet mention that
Congress was at last assembled. and no doubt was
entertained that strong measures would be taken for
the financial relief of the country.
The country' was tranquil, and the produce of the
mines on the increase.

Among the reforms contemplated were the raising
of various prohibitions, and a further reduction of
Custom-houFe duties, with the view of putting down
the extensive contraband trade now carried on.

General Arista, the present Minister of War, in
all probability, will be elected to the presidency.
The appointment of Mr. Falconet as their agent, by
the English bondholders, had given general satisfac-
tion. He was expected to arrive by the next packet,
and will be just in time to renew and terminate the
negoliations respecting tire_ Mexican Foreign Debts,
the Mexican Government being, as is said, well dis-
posed towards Mr. l?alconet.
Mr. Bankhead, the English Minister, has been
seriously indisposed, and intended leaving for Eng-
land shortly.
Trade was very dull both at Vera Cruz and Tam-
pico, owing to the stock of goods being large and the
smuggling of the Americans on the Rio Grande.
The cholera prevailed, but not severely, at Vera
Cruz : a few cases are reported at Tampico. At
Jalapa the visitation of the disease was a very heavy
one.

The day before the packet sailed, Mr. Giffard, the
British-Consul at Vera Cruz, was personally assaulted
by a Spaniard.
We have accounts from Havannah to the 2Gth ult.
The prices for sugar were much higher, and the
stocks were becoming much reduced. Although
freights to England were extremely low, very little
shipping was going forward. Consignments to the
United States offered more advances, and there were
more vessels available for that destination.

Tobacco was still rising in price.
Exchange on London 12i :to 13 premium ; Paris
2i to 2 discount.
The island of Cuba experienced a severe gale on
the night of the 21st of August, amounting almost
Ito a hurricane. The injury- done in Havannah har-
bour was inconsiderable, but in the intericr a good
deal of damage was done by the destruction of corn
fields and plantain trees.
The coffee plantations likewise suffered to a con-
siderable extent, and the sugar canes' were greatly
; • I
uree..
The cholera had almost disappeared from Havannah
and its environs, but still lingered in the country, and
had broken out in an important inland district, pre-
viously unvisited.
The result of the judicial examination of the
officers and crews of the two captured vessels had not
been made pubtie, but we understand that a decision
bad been produced declaring the sailors to be inno-
cent, but condemning the mates of the two vessels to
ten years' imprisonment, as having entered upon the
voyage with a knowledge of its object.
Her BiNesty's ship ladefatigable, Captain Smart,
had left 1-10.vannah fur Jamaica. A Spanish line-of-
battle-ship, with two frigates and a brig, and several
war-steamers, are lying in the harbour.
The Matanzas market was about the same as that
at Havannah in regard to prices, but the stock of
sugar there was proportionably still smaller.
The Legislature of Bermuda was prorogued by the
Governor on the 26th ultimo.

We have Nassau papers to the 24th August. Se-
veral vessels had suffered in the gale of the 12th and
13th of the month. Numerous disasters at sea were
spoken of.

Vid Bermuda there are dates from Demerara to the
17th ultimo.

Meetings on the subject of constitutional reform
continue to be held in that colony.,

FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday Mr. W. Baker,
coroner, held an inquest at the London Hospital on the body
of George Jaggerd, aged 33, a bricklayer, living in Agar-
atreet, Globe-fields, who met wi h his death under the fol-
lowing circumstances :—ln April last the deceased and a
man named Gaddy were at work on a scaffold springing an
arch in brickwork under the platform of the Eastern Counties
Railway terminus at Shoreditch, when a piece of timber
forming one of the supports to the scaffold suddenly broke.
The whole of the scaffolding fell, carrying deceased and
Gaddy with it to the ground, about eighteen feet. Deceased
received fracture of the right leg, and subsequently the limb
was amputated, but henever recovered the shock, and died
from exhaustion on Saturday last. Verdict, "Accidental
death."

TILE POOLE ELECTION.--POOLE, SEPT. 17.—Tbe
writ for this election has only reached the Under-Sheriff by
the day mail this afternoon. The election will not, there-
fore, come on this week, but will no doubt take place on
Monday and Tuesday. Mr. Gordon has announced a public
meeting of the electors for this evening, at which he will
avow his opinions on free trade, the admission of slave-grown
produce, and the Colonial-office. On the first question he
has done good service by a publication of some letters on the
subject of free trade. It appears that Mr. Gordon has found
his rents punctually paid, and that he has in consequence
suspended the payment of all those due at Miehaelma4-day
to New Year's-day, in order to give the advantage of in-
creased capital to his tenants as an encouragement to further
Activity.

A. BLIND FLORIST.—Mr. R. Welch, of Tutneg,
who is totally blind, cultivates and rears, with his own
hands, the varieties of flowers in their seasons, distinguishes
the most beautiful from the interior, and points out their
different qualities to astonished beholders. Ills pinks, tu-
lips, &c., aro the admiration of conuoisscurs.