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

JAMAICA.

Dates are to the 7:h ult. Our letters and papers con-
tain no news of importance. The want of lain in every
part of the island Nay much f,lt, but a fow showers tell
just before the Tay's d,•pariure. Seven lives
were lost in Kingston harbour, on the 30th
March, •by the sinking of the sloop Caroline,
after that vessel had touched on a reef. Three per-
sons were killed on the Hazelymon estate a few tia)s
afterwards, owing to the bursting of a retort filled with
'ooilioug liquor.
Commercial matters in Jamaica had undergone little
change. Freights for sugar to London, 505., logwood,
40s. per ton, free on board. An improved inquiry for
flour was noticed. In coffee a considerable decline had
occurred, and the price was quoted 345. to 40s. per
100ibs.

Sugar dull at 13s. to 16s. per 1001bs. The pimento
crop had been all got in, and there was not much at
market. Eva India rice slightly declined.
Exchange 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 cont. premium.
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Rum, Is. 9d. per gallon for export.
Our letters from Trinidad are to the 6th of April.
The weather had at last set in propitiously, and the
sugar crop was proceeding rapidly. The sugar
planters were, however, complaining of the want of
1./.bour. 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 Legiblature.
Sugar was quote) at 3 dulls. to 34 dolls. per 1001bs.
Cocoa, 8 dulls. to 8} dolls.; coffee, 10f dolls. to 12 dolls.;
molasses, 11c. to 12c.; rum, 45c. to 65c. No cotton in
the market.

Exchange on London Colonial Bank, 30 days, 480
dolls. per 1001. sterling; merchants' bills, 90 days,
470 dolls.

Barbadoes accounts are to the Bth ult. In conse-
quence of then ant of rain there was a scarcity of water
us 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 produce had been shipped to the Bth
April than was any preceding year to the same date.
The market was fully supplied with imported goods.
Breadstuff in good demand. Rice in active demand.
Exchanges in Loudon—Colonial Bank 468 dolls, to 482
dolls. per 1001. sterling.
Toe 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 preseuttd to the Governor by the Legislative
Cou►,cil and Assembly.
From Chagres 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 mauy robberies were daily
occurring, and flogging under the Lynch law system
was adopted in such cases with much success. A gang
of men had been sent from Carthagens, to put up sheds
for the workmen commencing the Parninia Railroad.
Jacmel advices of the 9th of April report the Island of
Hayti perfectly tranquil and healthy.
Her Majesty's brig Persian sailed from Jimmies on
the 25th March, for St. Domingo.
The Trincomalee sailed on the 29th for St. Jago de
Cuba, and the Helena on the 30th fora cruise.

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The Imaum and Sappho were at Port Royal. Th•
Swedish brig of war Nayaden sailed on the 23d of
Horeb for St. Thomas.

Mr. Chatfield, the British Chargi d'Affaires, had sue-
ce.-ded in effecting a treaty of commerce with Coats
Rica. That stilt) remained perfectly tranquil. The
states of Nicaragua and San Salvador were i❑ open hos-
tility. Mr. Chatfield arrived at Jamaica on the 6th of
April en route to Guatemala.

REWARDS, &C., FOR SCIENTIFIC PURPOSES.—The
following is an account in detail of the manner in which
the 1,0001. voted annually for rewards, experiments, and
other expenses for scientific purposes during the last three
years, has been expended:-1847, 184 S—Salary of Mr. J.
W. Hay, as chemical lecturer at Portsmouth Dockyard,
bet,een January 1 and June 30, 1847, :,71. 10s.; psyment
to 1)r. Andrew lire, for making an analysis of coal from
Vancouver's Island, 101. 10s. ; entertainment of Mr. F. I'.
Smith, patentee of the screw-propeller, on board the Fairy,
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tender to her Majesty's yacht Victoria and Albert, 15i. 95.;
compensation to Lieutenant Julius Roberts, Royal Marine
Artillery, for his service and expenses while improving the
method of pivoting guns, from the year 1845 to the year
1848, '2501. ; total, 3131. 9s. 1848, 1849—Payment to Mr. A.
G. Carte, for rocket apparatus, &c., supplied for trial at Har-
wich, for the purpose of effecting communication with
stranded vessels, 31/. Ss. ; gratuity to Mr. J. T. Towsoa, for
his services in preparing tables for great circle sailing, 1001. ;
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, 5001. • gratuity to Commander H. B.
Weston, of the lion. East India Company's service, for his
discovering a method of finding the longitude by chronometer
at sunrise and sunset, with tables, 1001.; total, 74i11. 9s.
1849-50—Allowance to Commander A. B. Beecher, to defray
the expenses incurred by him in the editorship of the Nautical
Magazine, 50/. ; allowance to Mr. James Gordon, I. enabl •
him to publish a work, intituted •"The Lunar and Time
Table," SO/. ; total, 100/.
SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION.—The usual annual meet-
ing of this society was held last night, at Exeter-hall—Mr.
S. Pato 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 bad attended it. I'he 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 wore
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
passage excited much laughter. As an instance of the use-
fulness of this society the report proceeded to state that
there were in Jamaica alone no less than 30,000 children at-
tending the society's schools, and at,home there ere 22,893
scholarset that attendingn
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schools 32 w
esupported
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The on,
and
subscriptions and donations from all sources amounted to
1,2691. 13s. 190., and the expenditure to 1,251/. 95,, 6d.,
leaving a balance of 18!. 4s. 3;d. The sales of tracts had
amounted to 6,5951. 15s. Bd., being an increase over the
amount received during the previous year of 74/. 11s. 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
troepotrtoepwtmaesde received with
slopuedechaesppblaauysine,g andbeen uandadnriereudaly adopted,
and,ng a severall
d
re-
solutions passed in support of the society, the meeting
broke up.

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 porch, and tower and spire at west end of north aisle.
It is in the Decorated style, and of very satisfactory character.
The walls, 2 feet 3 inches thick, are faced with Kentish rag,
and the dressings are of Bath stone. The roof timbers,
slight in appearance, are open. The church has open sittings
for for 631 persons. The organ is on the floor-level, under 14
tower : the font is near it. The windows wire gifts,mostly,nd the
as were the organ, font, Sec. The fabric was egrer
of Ham.
space of six months by the builders,
mersmith : the whole completed in thirUtegeesn.".
entirely fitted with English oak, and the wails uCCOTIILet.
bY Castel: the
with appropriate inscriptions and Pe
diai,drj;uff'tiles, and the
aisles are lard with Staffordshire red a The
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important discovery made
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tributed to the consuerldyratr:bed}'
bteheen iybi con) ust tble materials.
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thermometerth° ut-b *descends as
and the only fuel of tkethpoouor,h isvetrhve dried dung of the
productive, is ex-
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25 degreesbelow zero. The importance of this
law as v be therefore readily
discov"). may
theprelude appreciated, and is
probably but . . to other and more valuable
ceeast,t4ievely Tchh-oeasldc,ohiutnbat
. for foreign scientific men have already explored
ono
the mountains of that part of Turkey, end have posi-
,,,.ely stated tl'iat 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, intends
to have the mine worked by the governor of the province,
who will pay a considerable revenue to the state."
DOCKYARDS.—Frorn a return obtained at the in-
stance of Mr. Hume, it aears that since the year 1828, the
lowest Bum expended in the establishment of dockyards, and
on their repair and iropi6Yetnent, Wfti in the year 1833.34,
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 t. e last year given
in the return. The expenditure was in 1846 7, 1,360,3591.;
in 1847-48, 1,470, 621.; and in 1848.49, 1,399,0141.
A beautiful cenotaph is about to be erected at
'Fullerton, in Ayrshire, on the property of his Grace the Duke
of Portland, to the memory of the late lamented Lord Crew's,
Bentinek.