The Sun.
London, England, 1850-07-11 00:00:00

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males

... 640

Females ... ••• ••• ••• ••• 607

Total ... .... ... ... ...1,247
*ln this number are included 20 by Scarlatina, 35
by Typhus Fever, 40 by Diarrhoea, and 1 by Cholera.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian.)
MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—The buyers of yarns have
manifested an increased disposition for business to-day,
and would evidently have operated very freely, could
they have done so at the prices of lest week. The
spinners, however, have again raised their quotations,
and maintained them with the utmost firmness. We
may state the realised advance, as compared with this
day week, at id. per lb., in all qualities of mule and
water, from No. 40's downwards, whether in the bundle,
the warp, or the cop. Fur No. 60's and upwards,
both single and double, higher prices are also re-
quired. Although this rise has curtailed the day's
transactions, still their aggregate amount has been con-
siderable. The continued upward tendency in this de-
partment of our market is attributable to several causes,
viz., the growing conviction that cottrn will range high
for some time to come; the lightness of stocks both at
home and abroad; and the augmented demand which
the full employment of the vast weaving power of the
district has latterly occasionel The makers of long
7-Bths printers, of
cloths, T cloths, and domestics
ariei tint
whiaergdeintsienr
in
their terms. Some improvement f
in
and up
good and medium qualitiespdiurminting
and an and
also in 0-6thS 60's
bleach-
ing. For 40-inch 64's higher
prices are likewise re-
quired. The sales of these various articles are of fair
extent, on the whole; but low 7-Bths printing cloths are
still neglected, as are also ' light 40-inch shirtin s—in
both, however, there is greater firmness. In g
the ware-
houses of the dealers there has Bs.
been as active demand
for printed and finished goods.
ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—We have had a good demand
for flannels to-day, and the manufacturers are wanting
rather better prices. The wool market is better, and the
dealers are asking higher prices for English wools. Co-
lonial wool is much the same as it was on the previous
Monday.
MACCLESFIELD, TUESDAY.—WO have to report a
quiet market for goods generally, buyers and sellers hold-
ing back, the latter for prices somewhat in propor-
tion t) the present cost of raw material ; and as there
seems every probability of things remainine. very firm,
we think ere long buyers will make up their minds to

CANALS.
Names of 4
. (Dividendl ; 1
Names of 6 Dividend
Companies.
per Price. Companies. I per Price.
mAnnum. ..I I Annum.
so
..£
m. .
140001
251.41.
28( 9814 .£ - -
;1
I
Ashtn& Oldh 97 j 71. 113 liacclesteli . 100 21. 10s. 50
Blrnsley •• • • 160, 121. 180 Neatk ......100 , 161. 340
'arknk&Abrg 150 j 51. 85 Oxford.... • • 108 201. 185
m
RPeegakenFto,sr.e.s.t..
37i3
I, 3111..10859.. N
Coventry..iri nix
Derby ••• •• 100 61. 63 Rochdale.... 851 41. 5034
Ellscare&Chs 133 565. 41 Somrset Coal 150 7/.105. 130
ilrandJ =eta 1091 4'.
Iglla
7)14 Do.LkFd St 12 61 is. c. -
Grand Surrey,loo 21. Os. 32 Stffrd &W orc 140 281. 410
Grand Ualon,loo 11. 10s. 24 Shrewsbury..
125 151. -
Grantham -1 - _
...... Stourbridge
201. 290
iC ennt Stwl A, 39 7s. 6d. 514 Severn and .•
145
..,
Lancaster • 130 41. 3214 Wye Rail. t 26 21.05• 24
Leeds& Livrp 100 241. 300 Warwick&
Leicester .. • • 100 51. 66 lairming. j lOC 41. 6434
Leicstr &Nth 83 41. 4834 Warwick&
Loushborogh, 142 701. 510 Napton. } 100 31. 42
Uonmouthslo 100 81. .... Worcztr 8;1
Nintgemrysla 100 - - Birming. j7B 31. 43
sfeltnMwbry 100 - - Wilts & Brks -14 s. 734
LIST or SCOTTISE COMPANIES' PRICEE
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
---- -- -- -____
X s. d. Z s• d
B tick of Scotland
3ritish Linen Company 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 193
3aledonlan Bank
City of Glasgow Bank . 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 121
Clydesdale Bank •••• •• 634 per cent. 20 00, 10 0 131
Commercial Bank •• •• 71. per cent. 500 0 0 1100 0 170
Eastern Bank •••• •• • • el. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 9%
Edinbic Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. 5 0 0 5 0 51. 5.
Ex9hangeßnk of Scot.. 4/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 8%
fsle of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 -
•iational Bank.
srorthof Scotland Bar t 41. per cent. 20 0 0 5 0 314
Korth British Bank • • - - - -
Royal Bank of Scotland 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 133%
[Talon Bank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 88
Nesters Bank. •••• • • • 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 70
Alliance Fire and Life ,8341. pr cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 2014
B. Accord.Lifestad Fire - 20 0 e 010 0 -
British Guarantee Ins. 41. per tent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 15., Od
3aledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 , 23
Colonial Life ... .. • • - 50 0 0 1 0 0 1/. Its.
City of Glasgow Life U. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 21. 10a
Edinburgh Life Incur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 20
East of Scotland Life _ 10 0 0 015 0 -
Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 , 234
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cert. ,
100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Insur. Co. of Scetind• • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Life Assoc. of Scotland 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 11. 18s
Wercantile Life 334 per ct. 10 0 0 010 0 ss. 9d.
National Fire and Life 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 225.6 d
North British Insur. • • 6pr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 I 2534
North & West of Scot. 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 00 I -
Scottish Life and Guar. - 20 0 0 011 0 -
Scot. Mas. and Gan. Life - 0 0 015 0 , -
4zottish Union Insrace. 6141. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 239.0 d
Standard Life •••• •• • • 51. per cent. 50 0 0 45 0 9%
United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 .15s 9d
MISCELLANEOUS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
------ -
L. s. d. Z. a. d.
kuetion M 2/. 55. 50 00 I - 25
art.. • • • • • •
Australian Agriculturl 11. 100 0 0 130 0 0 15
0 0 -
knglo-Mexican Mint.. IL 10 0 0 10s. ,10
Ditto, Half Shares. 210 0 -
100 0 0 32 10 0 52
Canada ............. Cl• Per cent.
Uppr Canada Bonds 51. percent._ - 89
flity Navigation .. • • - - - 91
-2/ 100 0 0 100 0 0 54
a
Gan. Revers. & Invest• p. c.k bat,
Equitable Reversionry 5/. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 106
15 0 0 , 14 0 0 26
Gen•SteamNavigation li. 8$•
London Institution .• • - - 178 15 0 -
Russell Institution •• • • - 26 5 0 -
Peninslr& Orient.Stm. 8/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 7934
Reversionary Int. Soc. 04 Lpr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 90
Royal Mail Steam •• •• 61 18. 4. p. c. 100 0 0 60 0 0 58%
South Australian ... - 11. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 19
Van Dieraan's Land.. - 100 0 0 29 0 0 134

CITY OF
GLASGOW BANKING COMPANY.—This
banking establishment held their annual meeting on Thurs-
day. The report entered fully into the transactions of the
company for the last year, and declared tho usual dividend
of six per
cent. The rest now amounts to upwards of
120,001.

DINNER TO LORD PALMERSTON.—Sa!uriay, the
20th inst.,
Club, in honour of Viacount Palmerston.
is now fixed for the grand dinner at tho Reform

THE NEW MAIL SERVICE TO THE

WEST INDIES.

SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 6.—On the Gth of May we
announced that the Lards of the Admiralty had con-
cluded an arrangement for the re-organizition of the
contract mail service between England and the West
Indies and Central America.

We have on previous occasions fully explained and
developed the necessities for a speedy alteration in the
routes of the royal mail steamers—a change impera-
tive both in the interests of British commerce and for
enabling the E ngli4l steamers to meet their American
rivals in the steam carrying trade of the Great West
on more equal terms.
ll4ving been favoured with an official table of the
routes now to be pursued, we subjoin for the infor-
mation of a numerous class of our readers interested

in this question, an exact statement of the arrange-
ments which have been ordered to be at once put in
force by the Lords of the Admiralty.
It is definitively fixed that the new arrangements
(so far as concerns the routes) shall come into opera-
tion on tha 2d of August. The steamer leaving
Southampton on that day will, therefore, proceed di-
rect to Sr. Thomas and the Isthmus of Panama, in-
stead of taking the course to Bermuda and the Gulf of
Mexico, as heretofore.

We must, however, premise that the arrangements
for traversing these revised routes must merely be
considered as preliminary to the more rapid system of
steam communication which will be consummated
when the new and powerful steam-ships about to be
constructed have been placed upon the main line be-
tween Southampton and Chagres.
The immediate change of routes thus comtemplated,
and which are to be performed by the existing
steamers, it will he seen, will have the effect of
greatly improving the communications to and from
the many important parts of the world comprised in
this scheme; but it will not be till steamers of much
greater power and speed have been completed, and
have actually performed the through voyages, that
the great and ultimate acceleration of communication
can be experienced.
Some little modifications in the originally pro-
posed scheme and of minor points of detail, with re-
ference to stopping places, have been sanctioned by
their Lordships. In affording accommodation, we
I believe, the utmost attention has been paid to the in-
terests of the various colonies and ports, according
to their position and relative political and mercantile
importance.

From the 2d of August next there will be a semi-
monthly communication opened with the isthmus of
Panama and Spanish Main, instead of monthly
is heretofore, and the packets will leave on the
2d and 17th of every month for Chagres,
raking their course to St. Thomas, Santa
Martha, Carthagena, Chagres, and G-reytown (Mos-
pito). Homeward the route will be precisely the
same, excepting that the call at Santa Martha will
be omitted. The time to be occupied on the
voyage to Chagres is fixed at 23 days and 23 hours,
including all stoppages. Homeward a similar period
will be occupied. The time allowed at Chagres for
preparing return mails, transferring and receiving
cargo, inclusive of the time necessary for the packet's
trip to Grey Town, will be 14 days 8 hours, making
he course of post between Southampton and Chagres
621 days. The voyages to Chagres have hitherto ex-
r.ended over a space of 35 to 37 days, and the course
.f post has been about 80 days, so that at least 10 or
12 days will be the saving in time both on the out
trid home trip, and the course of post will in conse-
iuenee be diminished about 20 days.
The tables of routes are calculated upon a sup-
Josition of an average speed of nine knots for
he main line steamers, and a nearly equal rate
if steaming for the branch and intercolonisl
Jackets. The stoppages are to be curtailed where
practicable, in the event of a necessity arising by
reason cf decreased speed on the voyages, bad
xeather, or other causes. It remains to be seen
.vhether all the vessels of the Royal Mail Company
vill be enabled to maintain the proposed average
Speed required to enable them to fulfil the work set
lown.

The mails for the Gulf of Mexico are to be dis
3atched on the 2d of every month from Southampton,
bud, after arrival at St. Thomas, will be conveyed, viii
Jamaica, by a branch steamer, calling at San Juan
Porto Rico), Kingston (Jamaica), Vera Cruz, and
Tampico. The same route returning. The time
,ut to Vera Cruz will be 26 days 16 hours ; home, 26
lays 18 hours; time for preparing replies, eight
lay a 20 hours—making the course of post 62k days.
to case of late arrivals outwards, or detention at
Tampico, the stoppage at Vera Cruz is to be cur-
ailed, so that the ship may leave precisely at the
.prointed time. A saving over the old plan of the
Mexican mail service is here exhibited of at least ten
lays both out and home ; and the course of post is
iiminished about 18 or 20 days.

On the 17th of each Month the mails for
Havannah will be dispatched, and are to be conveyed
prom St. Thomas' by a packet calling at Porto
Rico, Jactnel (Hayti), Jamaica, Havannah,
.nd Honduras. Homeward by the same route.
the voyage out to Havannah will occupy 24 days 22
lours ; h ,me 25 days 16 hours ; and, with 11 days
allowed for the return correspondence, during which
•he packet will proceed to and return from Hon-
!urns, the course of post will be 621 days. In' the
Havannah route no great saving appears at present to
be effected over the old plan.
Mails made up on the 2d and 17th of each month
for Jamaica will be delivered at that colony respec-
ively iu 201 days. This is a considerable improve•
went on the old scheme, which never used to supply
Jamaica with its correspondence under 28 to 30 days.
The mails for St. Thomas, Tortola, St. Kitt's,
ktontserrat, Nevis, Antigua, Guadalope, Dominique,
ilartinique, St. Lucia, Barbadoes, Demerara, Berbice,
French and Dutch Guiana, St. Vincent, Grenada,
Guinea, Trinidad, and Tobago, will be made
up and dispatched on the 24 and 17th of every
month, and their conveyance from St. Thomas' v rill
le accomplished by intercolonial pickets especially
appointed for that service. The time occupied in
rsacbing Demerara (the extreme point of the route)
sill be 21 days 21 hours, homeward in 221 days, a
Ittle over three days being allowed for replies, t bus
making the course of post 44 days. Trinidad will be
reached in 21 days 17 hours, while the homeward trip
will occupy 221 days, three days being allowed !for
-eplies, thus making the course of post also 4:7+
lays. The saving to the whole of these colonies
NM be about a weak each way, as well as shorten'alg
he communication with Europe a whole packet. 'no
,ntermediate colonies between St. Thomas sand
Guiana will, of course, receive and transmit their
nails in proportionately quicker time according
-o their respective geographical positions, -e.,Ed
will havo a greater period allowed for their retry n
lorrespondence, while the course of post will rem tin
:he same ; thus Barbadoes will be reached in 20 day's,
St. Kitt's in 171, Antigua in 181, and so on.
For Nassau (Bahamas) a mail is to be made up cm
'he 17th of each month ; the time occupied via St.
['homes being 24 days, and the course of post (32 1

lays.
It will be observed by the foregoing that to Ire? 'a
Cruz, Tampico, Havannah, Honduras, Hayti, raid
Nassau there will be only one mail each month, while
-o the whole of the remaining ports, includ;
Chagros, Grey Town, Carthagena, and Santa Mart h
formerly touched but once a month, a semi-montl uly
mail will be maintained.
The homeward steamers will be due at Southar aF
-on at midnight on the 4th and 19th of every mon Or.
The packets arriving on the 4th and 19th will bri n g
mails from Chsgres, Grey Town, Carthagena, Sai2l to
Ma:tba, Jamaica, Porto Rico, Demerara, and all LE e
Windward and Leeward Islands, while the mai Is
'rom Vera Cruz and Tampico will only be receive i
'ny the packets of the 4th ; and the mails from Hay-t
Honduras, Nassau, and Havannah, will reach ET rE :-
land by the packets of the 19th only.
It is provided that in the event of either of the sup -
olementary or intercolonial steamers bringing m;til a
from the Gulf of Mexico, Havannah, Demerara, Ezc
not reaching St. Thomas at the estimated time, th e
homeward Atlantic steamer is to await the arrival c. ,f
the missing vessel seven clear days, if necessary ,
~frpr the hour appointed for her departure fo r
Southampton.
By the tables of routes it would appear t'ba t
Mobile, R-rmuda' s'. Jago de Cuba, La Guay ra ,
Puerto Cabello, Madeira and Fayal, seven pc ,rt s
hitherto touched by the royal mail steamers, h iv e
been excluded as places of call under the new tr -
rangements.

There can be no doubt that the advantages teas
contemplated of a quickened communication t,o
and from the West India and Spanish Ameri :an
ports will prove of vast benefit to the mere
community, not only of this country, but
of Europe generally. At the expiration of
a year, however, a further improvement rill
be effected, by means of which the voyages to St.
Thomas, now to occupy 16 days 18 hours, will
performed in 12 days, and the Isthmus of PanP Dia
will be brought within 18 days of Southampton, in-
stead of 24 under the contemplated, and 35 d ays
under the old arrangements. Jamaica will then be
reached in 16 or 17 days, Vera Cruz in 20 days, : trsd
all the ports embraced in the scheme will proporti:
in-
ately be brought nearer to Europe.
The Pacific mails for the ports of New Grena it,
Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Chili, are, we believe, to►
he made up in London and dispatched by the steau le,)!
of the 17th of each month. The Valparaiso m: tits;
will be landed at that port in about fifty-eii !biz
days, instead of sixty-six days, a 3 at preset at,
and the mails from the Pacific will be due a t
Southampton by the packet of the 19th of ea .:1:1
month. From seven to eight days are at present : tl-•
lowed for crossing the Isthmus, but eventually a mu, :la
shorter time will suffice when the Panama Railw.
has been got into operation, and ultimately, when tl as
larger Atlantic steamers are placed on the station, tl )e
voyage from Southampton to Valparaiso will be r