The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-03 00:00:00

JAMAICA.

Dates are to the 7ih ult. Our lett2rs and papers con-
tain no news of importance. The want or lain in every
jpna
tt of
before t
th
the
islalidewasTany's cl
much
lt,
but a few showers fell
arture. Seven lives
were lost is Kingston harbour, ou the 30th
March, by tle sinking of the sloop Caroline,
ef.er that vessel had touched on a reef. Three per.
eons were killed on the Hazelymon estate a few de; a
afterwards, owing to the bursting of a retort filled with
boiling liquor.
Commercial matters in Jamaica had undergone little
change. Freights tor sugar to London, 50.., logwood,
40s. per ton, free on board. An improved inquiry for
flour was noticed. In coffee a considerable decline bad
occurred, and the price was quo:ed 345. to 40s. per
100,bs.
Sugar dull at 13s. to 16s. per 1001bs. The pimento
crop bad been all got in, and there was not much at
market. East India ric sligntly declined.
Exchaoge on London:—Jamaica Bank, 90 days, par!
Colonial Bank, 90 days, per cent. premium; on New
York, 2i to 3 per cent. premium; Columbian doubloons,
3 per cant. premium.
Rum, Is. 9d. per gallon for export.
Our letters trom Trinidad are to the 6th of April.
The weather had at lust set in propitiously, and the
sugar crop was proceeding rapidly. The sugar
planters were, however, complaining of the want of
labour. The crop was still expected to be less than
last year. A reform movement had commenced
throughout the island. A public meeting was called
for the 16th April, for the purpose of adopting memo-
rials to the Queen fur a reform of the local Legislature.
Sugar was quoted at 3 dolls. to 3i dulls. per 1001bs.
Cocoa, S dolls. to 8i dolls.; coffee, 10i dolls. to 12 dulls.;
molasses, 11c. to 12e.; rum, 45c. to 650. No cotton in
the market.

Exchange on London Colonial Bank, 30 days, 480
dolls. per 1001. sterling; merchants' bills, 90 days.
470 dulls.
13arbadoes accounts are to the Bth ult. In conse-
quence of the want of rain there was a scarcity of water
to a great many estates. Sugar making, interrupted by
the Easter holidays, had been resumed. By the end of
April a number of mills will have completed the season's
work. The crop will be about the same as last year. A
greater amount of preduce had been shipped to the Bth
April than was any preceding year to the same date.
The market was fully supplied with imported goods.
Breadstuffa in good demand. Rice in active demand.
Exchanges in London—Colonial Bank 468 dolls. to 482
dolls. per 100/. sterling.
The Antigua Legislature was prorogued on the 4th
April till the 14th May, in consequence of the departure
of the Governor for England. An address was subse-
quently presented to the Governor by the Legislative
Council and Assembly.
From Chagr©s we learn that the fire which occurred
in that place on the 10th of March would have destroyed
all the town, but for the activity of the Americans in
extinguishing it.
On the Isthmus a great many robberies were daily
occurring, and flogging under the Lynch law system
was adopted in such eases with much success. A gang
of men had been sent from Carthagena, to put up sheds
for the workmen commencing the Paaaina Railroad.
Jacmel advices of the 9th of April report the Island of
Hayti perfectly tranquil and heal,liv.
Her Majesty's brig Persian sailed from Jamaica on
the 25th March, for St. Domingo. . _

The Trincomalee ►ailed on the 29th for St. Jago de
Cuba, and the Helena on the 30th for a cruise.
The 'tritium and Sappho were at Port Royal. The
Swedish brig of war iNayaden sailed on the 23d of
March for St. Thornily.
Mr. Chatfield, the British Charga d'Affaires, had sue-
cei-ded in effecting a treaty of commerce with Costs
Rica. That state remained perfectly tranquil. The
states of Nicaragua and San Salvador were in open hos-
tility. Mr. Chatfield arrived at Jamaica on the 6th of
April to route to Guatemala.

REWARDS, Sce., FOR SCIENTIFIC PURPOSES.—The
following is en account in detail of the manlier in which
the 1,030/. voted annually for rewards, experiments, and
other expenses for scientific purposes during the last three
years, has been expended: —1847, 184-,—Salary of Mr. J.
\V. Hay, as chemical lecturer at Portsmouth Dockyard,
bet een January 1 and June 30, 1847, b7l- 10s.; payment
to Dr. Andrew tire, for making an analysis of coal from
Vancouver's Island, 101. 10s. ; entertainment of Mr. F. P.
Smith, patentee of the screw-propeller, on board the Fairy,
tender to her Majesty's yacht Victoria and Albert, 151. 9.;
compensation to Lieutenant Julius Roberts, Royal .larine
Artillery, tor his service and expenses while improving the
method of pivoting gulls, from the year 1845 to the N ear
1848, 250/. ; total, 3131. 93. 1848, 1849—Payment to Ir. A.
G. Carte, for rocket apparatus, &c., supplied for trial at Har-
wich, for the purpose of eflecting communication with
stranded vessels, 31/. Bs.; gratuity to Mr. J. T. Towson, for
his services in preparing tables for great circle sailing, 100/. ;
payment to Mr. John Prideaux, metallurgic chemist, for va-
rious analyses of copper sheathing, &c., for the committee on
metals, 171. Is.; payment to Mr. Charles Brooke, for his in..
vention and establishment at the Royal Observatory, of the
apparatus for the self-registration of magnetical and meteo-
rological phenomena, 500/. ; gratuity to Commander 11. B.
Weston, of the Hon. East. India Company's service, for his
discovering a method of finding the longitude by chronometer
at sunrise and sunset, with tables, 10J/.; total, 748/. 9s.
1849-50—Allowance to Commander A. 13. Beecher, to defray
the expenses incurred by him in the editorship of the iVauticsl
Magazine, 50/. ; allowance to Mr. James Gordon, to euabl •
him to publish a work, iutituled " The Lunar and Time
Table," 50/. ; total, 1001.
SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION.—The usual annual meet-
ing of this society was held last night, at Exeter-hall—Mr.
S. Veto in the chair. The meeting having been opened with
' prayer, the chairman addressed the meeting on the objects of
the society, and the success which had attended it. The re-
port containel letters from various colonies congratulating
the parent society on the success which had attended its
progress in many of our dependencies, formerly entirely des-
titute of any means of education or scriptural know-
ledge. In one of them it was said, "Could we induce
our female teachers not to get married until they were
23 or 24 years of age, we could make them excellent
teachers, but unfortunately most of them get tired of single
blessedness at the age of 17 or 18. and we are in conse-
quence deprived of their services." The reading of this
thehter report s proceedecl to of
stathe that
fulness of this society lau g
passage excited muc.h . Aan instance te
there were were in Jamaica alone no less than 30,000 children at-
the society's schools, and at home there were 22,893
scholars attending the schools suppo, nett by the institution,
and of that number 13,032 were Scripture readers. The
subscriptions and donations from all sources amounted to
1,2091. 130. 19id., and the
.expenditure to 1,201/. 90., Gd.,
leaving a balance of 181. 4s. 31d.. The sales of tracts had
amounted to 6,5951.153. Bd., being an increase over the
amount received during the previous year of 74/. 93. '2d.
The report complained that another society which had
been formed in the country was sending round its books
under pretence of their being the books of this society,
and it concluded by congratulating the meeting upon
the success which had attended the operations of the
society during the year. The report was received with
lsopuedeebaesppblaauysien.g and unanimously n
ndnresse adopted. and a severaln
dre-
solutions
to the
passed in support of the society, the meetirg
broke kit 4

ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH, HAMMERSMITH.--At the
personal expense of his Lordship the Bishop of London, a
church has been built at Shepherd's Bush, under the direction
of Mr. Salvin, and was consecrated a few days ago. It is to
be the church of a new parish, which is to be named St.
Stephen's, Hammersmith; the patronage to be with the
Bishop of London for the time being. The building com-
prises a chancel, with vestry on south side, nave with aisles,
north porchDea, nd tower and spire at west end of north ais e.
It is in the Decorated style, and of very satistactory character.
The walls, 2 feet 3 inches thick, are faced with Kooeifiitii.m•
breargs,
and the dressings are of Bath stone.
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built by Mr. Bishop.— B. Jae , 5
aisles are laid with Staiinfottr,citis:ll\lielrianes:
made in then& 1
important bed coal, specimens of which have been
of an extensive b
consular body '
dis-
tributed to the
Erzer,um has hitherto been without combustible materials,
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.e fiC'll°°awLing
and the only fuel of the poor is the dried . dung of the
cattle. The country, though very productive, is ex-
ees-ively cold, and the thermometer descends as
law as 25 degrees below zaro. The importance of this
discovery may be therefore readily appreciated, and is
probably but the prelude to other and more valuable
ones, tor foreign scientific men have already explored
the mountains of
that part of Turkey, and have posi-
tively stated that the soil, bearing an analogy to that
of the Altai, in the north of Russia, should contain mines of
gold and silver. The Turkish Government, it is said, Mtends
to have the mine worked by the governor of the province,
who will pay a considerable revenue to the state."
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DOCKYARDS.—From a return obtained at the in-
stance of Mr. Hume, it appears that since the year 182 S, the
lowest sum expended in the establishment of dockyards, and
on their repair and improvement, was in the year 18'33-34,
when the aggregate expense of the year was 505,850/.
During the last five years the expense has exceeded one mil-
lion, though a decrease is observable in ti .e last year given
in the return. The expenditure was in 1846.7, 1,360,3591.;
in 1847-48, 1,470, 62/. ; arid in 1E34849, 1,399,0141.
A beautiful cenotaph is about to be erected at
Fullattnn, in Ayrshire, on the property of his Grace the Duke
of Portland, to the memory of the late lamented Lord Cieorge
Bentinck.