The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-03 00:00:00

THE WEST INDIA MAIL.

SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 2.—The Royal Mail Company's
steam-ship Great Western, Capt. H. B. Wolfe, arrived
this day, at one o'clock, from the West Indies, with the
usual mails, in charge of Lieut. Davies, R.N., admiralty
agent. . _

-On her homeward voyage, the Great Western expe-
rienced fine weather throughout, and has made an ex-
cellent voyage.
The latest dates brought by the Great Western are
—Havannah, May 2; Chagres, April 28; Carthagena,
May 1; Jamaica, May 8; Demvrara, May 4; Trinidad,
May 7; Barbadoes, May 10; Grenada, May 9; Port)
Rico, May 13; StThomas, May 15; La Guayra, May
7; Fayai, May 27; Antigua, May 12; Jacmel, May 11;
Santa Martha, April 19; Grey Town, April 25; Valpa-
raiso, March 30; Coquimbo, March 31; Huasco, April
I; Copiapo, April 1; Cobija, April 3; Iquieque, April
4; Arica, April 5; 'lslay, April 6; Pisco April 8;
Callao, April 13; Payta, April 16; Guayquil, April 18;
Buena Ventura, April 21 ; San Francisco; March 30.
. The Great Western brings on freight 77.521 dollars
silver coin, 99,919 dollars gold coin, .42,998 oz. gold
dust, 10,055 oz. gold in. bars, 1,375 dollars. in plating,
330,030 oz. silver in bars, 1,245 ez broken silver, 100
dollars in silver ornaments, 300 dollars in pearls—
altogether 1,128,498 dollars, 20 tierces of coffee, 68 bags
of coffee, 8 barrels of ginger, 6 cases of succades, 4
cases of plants,-12f barrels of arrowroot, 11 cases of
arrowroot, 3 bales of indigo, 8 turtle, 100 bales of
sarsaparilla, 48 packages of sundries.
Jamaica.—Everything is described as " stale, flat,
and unprofitable" here. Many parishes are suffering
from drought,' and in Vera, not more than one-fourth of
last years' crop was expected. The price of sugar had
fallen. In Kingston the house of Lundie', Arboim,
and Co. had failed. Mr. Bernard, chairman of quarter
sessions, died not teng since; his lucrative office was
given to Mr. Farquharson, a member of the bur, and
staunch supporter of the Kinghouse party in the Amena-
bly, another instance of Jamaica legislative imbecility.
Had the Council and Assembly given up their idle
disputes on matters of privilege, and legislated in
earnest for the public good, they would long ago
have reduced official salaries as the offices
became vacant. The salary of chairman of quarter ses-
sions is no less than 1,2001. a year. The lucrative office
of clerk of the market was bestowed on another Go-
vernment supporter, the late speaker (Dallas.) Another
vacancy in the Council was shortly expected, and specu-
lation was on foot as to the manner it would be filled up.
Crop, about 40,000 toes.
Count Mirasol called at Porto Rico on the 6th of
May, on his way to Havannab, on a mission to inspect
the state of the island, and afterwards to proceed to the
United States. He had a naval flag officer, a brigadier
of engineers, and one of the heads of the financial de-
partment in his suite. Great scarcity of water pre-
vailed at St. Thomas; the island is solely dependent on
rain.

Advices from Demerara reach to the sth of May. A
general depression and gloom prevailed among all
classes of tile inhabitants; the weather had proved
rather more favourable for several days, but the fact
that the weather in March and April bad seriously in-
jured the crops was .too well known, and in general it
would prove lamentably deficient. No less than seven
sugar estates, Fame, Success, Lowlands, Dock-
fours, Mainstay, Richmond, and Sophisenberg. were ad•
vertised in the same paper for sale by execution, exhi-
biting a sad proof as to the working of the Sugar Act
of 1846. To show the depreciation of property, a sugar
estate on the Arabian coast of Essequibo, the " Babb-
ztlas Cust," which in 1840 sold for 30,0001., and of this
amount 26,0002 was paid. was recently sold for 1,2001.
'Die mortgagee was not the purcbmcr. Unless enabled
to make such contracts for service as the planters
may think proper, it is evident this "magnificent pro-
vince" must retrograde and dwindle down. The works
on the East Coast Railway are progressing favourably
—the line is completed as far as Vigilance, ten miles
from George Town. If cotton planting is allowed to be
re-established through the aid of capitalists in Eng-
land, the finest desgriptions of that material could be
raised, and an almost unlimited field fir its cultivation,
besides leading to the extension of the railway to Berbice,
hitherto considered chimerical.
Cholera bad broken out in the llavannah.

From Barbadoes no news of importance. In some
districts the crop was finished; but in others, especially
high lands, a considerable quantity of sugar remained to
be male. The crop will fall short of last, owing to the
severe drought in September and November. A large
quantity of sugar remained to be shipped, owing to the
want of vessels. Freight 3s. 6d. and 3s. Latterly fine
seasonable rains had fallen, and great quantities of pro-
visions had been planted. The labourers were conduct-
ing themselves to the satisfaction of their employers,
although somewhat unsettled by a notion spread abroad
that the object of the African Colonisation Society was
to send the great bulk of them to the shores of Africa,
there to be endowed with as much land as they require.
The money collecting in the island by the agents of the
society, said to be solely far missionary purposes, is sup-
posed by the negroes to be for the purpose of building
ships to carry them away. They take delight in pre-
dicting there will be no labourers in the island to reap
the crop they are now planting. The planters regret the
delusion in an island so well fitted to prove the fact
whether free labour can compete with slave labour.

JAMAICA MARKETS.
(From De Cordova's Mercantile Intelligencer.)
The market for bread stuffs has become yet more lan-
guid wider the rather free receipts which have taken
place during the past fortnight. In the absence of any
speculative demand whatever, and with a diminished and
still diminishing consumption, over 3,600 barrels of flour
may be considered a very large supply; and we antici-
pate much difficulty in their disposal, even at .the pre-
sent unremunerative rates. The arrivals also of Caro-
lina rice have been considerably beyond the average
demand.
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Business generally has been dull, and confined, for the
most part, to operations of a retail character.
The continued drought is being severely felt by the
planters and settlers in several districts of the island ;
and as the absence of rain will, in all probability, injure
the crop of native vegetables now in the ground, im-
ported breg.dstuffs may benefit by it. No immediate re-
action, however, can take place, as the present supply of
yams, &c., is abundant.
Coffee—The market still continues depressed, ard
prices rule from 28s to 36s per 1001bs. Little of the
descriptions suited to the American market is now to
be had.
Corn remains without change.
Fleur—Small parcels of Baltimore are moved at 31s 6d
to 325. The market is exceedingly heavy. We learn
that the Northside is overstocked with the article, and
that shipments thence are likely to be made coastwise.
Freights—There is little left to be done, the principal
portion of the vessels in harbour having teen taken up
previous to our last issue. Nothing has since reached us.
' Gold—Spanish • is 'exceedingly scarce, but American