The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-20 00:00:00

BANK OF ENGLAND.

Quarterly Average•of the Weekly Liabilities and Assets of
the Bank of England, from the 20th day of April, 1844,
to the 13th day of July, 1844, both inclusive, published
pursuant to the Act 3 and 4 Will. IV., cap. 98.
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LL&I3ILITIES. ASSETS.
Circulation £21,246,000 Securities ...Z22,471,000
Deposits ... 13,977,000 Bullion 15,767,000

£35,223,000 I
11, Downing-street, July 19,

£38,238,000

I, 1844.

THE WEST INDIA MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY EVENING.
The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Forth, Captain
Chapman, arrived this evening soon after seven o'clock,
bringing all the mails. She also brings on freight 301 ounces
of bullion, 121 ounces of gold dust, 604 ounces of silver, 177
ounces of platina, and 56 pounds of gold.
Her dates of departure are—from Cuba the 18th of June,
Jamaica 23d, Jacmel 25th, Porto Rico 27th, St. Thomas's
30th, and Fayal 13th July.
The Forth met the Company's steam-ship Actaeon at St.
Thomas's; the Tay had left for the Gulf of Mexico ; the
Severn to Bermuda ; and the Dee to Demerara.
The Trent was at Grenada, and the City of Glasgow at
Trinidad..
It appears that the want of rain was still very much felt at
Jamaica, and many of the other West India Islands. Dy-
sentery had alio prevailed to a considerable extent. On
board her Majesty's ship Hermes, which was at St. Thomas's,
it had been most disastrous, no less than 26 seamen falling a
sacrifice.
The Forth brings home 64 passengers, amongst whom is
Mr. Prebble, purser of the Company's steamer Tay, invalided.
We have received a file ofJamaica papers down to the 23d
of June, from which we give the following extracts :
" Some fine rains have fallen in the St. Andrew's, and Port
Royal mountainous districts, but the lowlands still continue
dry and dusty, and the thermometer ranges nearly as high as
in the month of August, the heat being only relieved by a
fiery sea-breeze.
" We are happy to learn that in St. Thomas in the East,
the seasons have been very favourable for the planter, and
there is every hope that with fair encouragement, abundant
crops will be reaped."—Jamaica Dispatch, June 20.
"A public meeting was held at the Court-house, Titchfield,
for the purpose of coming to some resolutions, and to express
their views, respecting the all-absorbing question recently
proposed by her Majesty's Ministers, of reducing the duties
on foreign, and, very probably, slave-grown, sugar and coffee.
This movement appears to be simultaneous throughout the
island.—Jamaica Dispatch, June 23.

LONDON AND BRUSSELS.
' EXTRAORDINARY DISPATCH.
(From L' Orgeine de Flandres.
The Belgian Government has been for some time engaged
in a negotiation with the English Government, for the pur-
pose of establishing a daily post between Ostend an 4 Dover.
The subject has been followed up with so much activity, that
there is every reason to believe that the railroad from Lon-
don and those of Belgium and Germany will be placed in per-
fect communication.
On Tuesday last an experiment voyage was made, which
was completely successful. The new steam-boat the Prin-
cess Mary, the property of the Dover and London Railway
Company, accomplished the passage between Dover and Os-
tend in four hours and a half.
The Directors of the Dover Railway, M. Barcel, Chief of
the Public Works, and M. Drouet, Secretary of the Belgian
Legation in England, left London by the Dover Railway, at
twenty minutes past six o'clock on Tuesday morning. The
train arrived at Dover at fifty 'minutes past eight o'clock,
after stopping at Folkestone twelve minutes; the Princess
Mary was in readiness, and left Dover at twenty minutes
past nine o'clock, and arrived at Ostend at fifty minutes past
one o'clock. The Directors of the Dover Railway were there
received by M. Masin, the Director of the Belgian Railways ;
M. llauchecorne, Director of the Rhenish Railways; M.
Cabry, the chief engineer; and M. Chantrell, the inspector.
The passage from London to Ostend was thus completed in
seven hours and a half, including the embarkation and all
stoppages, which, at least, occupied forty minutes. The
regular mail, which left Dover at the same time with the
Princess Mary, did not reach Ostend till 5 o'clock in the
evening. By this conveyance we received in Brussels, at 6
o'clock in the evening, the Times, published in London the
same morning. For this extraordinary proof of speed we
are indebted to the directors of the Dover and London Rail-
way, and we offer them our best thanks for their exertions.
It is impossible to anticipate the advantages which may
arise by extending the operations of the English railways to
those of Belgium and Germany.
The third edition of the Brussels Gazette, of the 16th inst.,
contained several extracts from the Times of the same day.

LYCEUM THEATRE.—The following distinguished
persons have visited this theatre during the week:—
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam-
bridge, the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Meek -
renburgh Strelitz and suite, the Earl and Countess of Shel-
burn, Marchioness Cornwallis, Lady Jemima Eliot,
Lady Clarke, Lady Sykes, Lord Viscount Cantalupe,
Earl of Glengall, Lord Combermere, Lady Combermere,
Lord Eliot, Lord A. Lennox, Lord Strafford, Lord
Gardner, Lady Joddrell, Lady Bulkelcy, Sir James and
Lady,Flower, Lady Kinloch, Lord Sandys, Sir Henry
Webb, Sir Thomas White, Major White, Major Bulke-
ley, Hon. Mr. Ramsay, Colonel llawkes, Captain Con-
stable, Mr. Sheridan, H. Villebois, Esq., Hon. Mr.
Elphinstone, Sir Charles Knightley, Charles Standish,
Esq., Captain Pridham, Hon. R. Howard, Capt. Chap-
pell, lion. Captain Howard, &c.
WEST INDIA PlNES.—Yesterday another extensive
sale of upwards of 6,000 of this esteemed fruit took place at
the rooms of Messrs. Keeling and Hunt, Monument-yard.
They were mostly in excellent condition, from Eleuthera,
the largest of the Bahama Islands, where the fruit grows
spontaneously. Hitherto they have not been a remunerative
article of produce to the colony, the chief demand being for
the United States, where, however, they do not realise above
dollars per hundred. The competition yesterday was
much more brisk than at the previous sale, the best quality
realising from 3s. 6d. to ss. 6d., and second quality from
Is. 9d. to 3s. In anticipation of the extensive demand, and to
improve the cultivation, several of the most esteemed sorts have
been sent over from this country to improve, if possible, the
species in this island. Along with these was sold another
novel* article of import, being 150 tins of preserved turtle
from the liontitirts.