The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-04 00:00:00

WEST INDIES.

The Royal Mail Steam-packet Company's ship Medway, Captain
Andrews, arrived at Southampton at eleven o'clock last evening,
after a voyage of thirteen days, from Bermuda.
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She brings ninety-four passengers and the usual mails. Her
dates are as follows :—Vera Cruz, June 1; Havannati, June 10 ;
Jamaica, June 8; Demerara, June 4 ; Barbadoes, June 8; Gre-
nada, June 10; Bermuda, June 20; and Antigua, June IL She
also brings the following on freight :-1,238,406 dollars; 3,000 oz.
of silver; 1,618 ox. of gold and gold dust; 138 serons of cochineal;
246 dozen of pines; 40 turtles ; 20 cases of vanilla; and 25 bales
of jalap.

214 Coolies, five having died, arrived at Trinidad shortly before
the Medway left in the Fatel Rosack, 98 days from Calcutta. The
arrival gave great satisfaction to the agriculturalists.
The troops appear to be healthy at all the islands.

The ex. President, General Santa Anna, embarked en board the
Medway, from the River Antigua, 13 miles N.W. or Vera Crux;
he was sent down with an escort of 200 cavalry as a prisoner; he
was unattended except by his brother, nephew, and wife, with
some others of his family. The lady who accompanied him is his
second wife, a young and pretty woman, of about 16. It ap-
pears he was sentenced to leave the country, and his property
confiscated; he had very considerable sums of money with him,
but a greater part of it was stopped, though lie ultimately retained
a large sum in his possession. Santa Anna stated he was going to
Venezuela, but it was not credited. He left the Medway at
Havannah.

We have Jamaica papers to the 7th of June, by which we learn
that the island has been favoured with the most propitious season
for very many years past. The accounts of the sugar cultivation
continue to be highly favourable; the wet weather may possibly
impede the manufacture of this year's crop, but would be of vast
benefit to that of next year. The few Hill Coolies that had ar-
rived continued to give the highest satisfaction ; they work cheer-
fully, industriously, and indefatigably, and it is considered will be a
great boon to the colonists.

MEXICO, MAY 30.—The Mexican Senate, by a majority of 30 to
6, and the Deputies, by 41 to 13, have authorised the Government
to negotiate and conclude a treaty for the recognition of the in-
dependence of Texas.
Mexico was perfectly quiet.
The Minister of the United States, Mr. Shannon, has at length
demanded his passports, and withdrawn from Mexico.
A general amnesty has been proclaimed. Santa Anna submits
to exile for life in Veneauela.

ANDOVER, THURSDAY, JULY 3.—This morning,
shortly before ten o'clock, a heavy storm of thunder and lightning
passed over the town, accompanied by rain, which fell In torrents;
the storm was of short duration, and the weather, which had been

previously unusually cold, became very sultry and oppressive.
Happily, no damage was cccasioned by the lightning in the town,
but we regret to state that at the village of Fullerton, about three
miles distant, a man, named Joy, who was employed, with three
horses, harrowing upon the farm of Mr. Henry King, was struck
by the electric fluid, which entered the crown of his hat and passed
into the earth, through the soles of his shoes, causing his instant
death ; the valuable horses he was attending were also killed, in the
presence of their owner, Mr. King, who was directing his servant to
take the horses into their stable when the awful event occurred. By
the mercy of a kind Providence Mr. King received no injury. The
same storm was also felt severely at Abbottsann, near Andover,
where the tower of the church sustained some damage by the
lightning.
THE WEATHER.—THE THUNDER STORM.—The
temperature in the metropolis, during the last few days, has been
somewhat low for the season ; on Tuesday it averaged sixty de..
green, but after the high wind of that night, the mercury slightly
rose, and on Wednesday, at noon, was sixty.five degrees, the wind
blowing rather briskly from W.S. W.; at sunset that peculiar hue
presented itself which foreboded an approaching storm, and as the
succeeding morning advanced, the heat became rather oppressive,
and at a quarter before eight o'clock, thunder was heard at a dis-
tance, which gradually approached nearer, and a heavy storm of
hail and rain followed, deluging the streets and roads. During the
storm there were several loud peals of thunder. The storm was
not perceptible at Croydon, though in Brighton, Hastings, South-
ampton, and other places on the southern coast, it raged with great
fury, the wind blowing violently from the S.W. The heat was
considerable throughout the day, the thermometer from eleven
o'clock till five indicating seventy-six degrees, being full ten de-
grees higher than the preceding day. As the sun declined the
wind somewhat abated, though still blowing briskly.
MARRIAGE IN lIIGH LlFE.—'The marriage of Llenry
Somerset, Marquis of Worcester, only son of the Duke and Duchess
of Beaufort, with the Lady Georgiana Curzon, eldest daughter of
Earl Howe, was solemnized yesterday at Hampton Church, Mid-
dlesex. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, with her august rela-
tives, the Duchess Ida, and the Princesses Anna and Emilie of
Saxe Weimar, honoured the ceremony with their presence ; and, in
addition to the Royal party, there were the Duke of Wellington,
the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Earl Howe, Lord Fitzroy So-
merset, the Hon. Captain Curzon, R.N., the Hon. Robert Curzon,
Mr. Culling Smith, and a select family party. The service was
performed in a most impressive manner by the Rev. Dr. Wellesley.
At its conclusion, the parties retired to the vestry, where the usual
record was signed by the noble pair, the attesting witnesses being
her Majesty the Queen Dowager, the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar,
the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, the Duke of Wellington, Earl
Howe, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, the Ladies Blanch and Rose Somer-
set, the Hon. It. Curzon, Mr. Culling E. Smith, and Dr. Wellesley.
A superb dejeuner was afterwards given at Bushy park, and shortly
before one o'clock the happy pair entered a travelling carriage,
drawn by four of the Queen's horses, and attends l by outriders in
the royal livery, and left Hampton in the direction of Slough,
whence they would proceed by railway to Badminton,
Situ' STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.—OiI Tuesday after-
noon
the Perth Company's schooner Sovereign, Mann, master, was
struck by lightning off Cromer, and an apprentice named Little-
john, was killed by the electric fluid, and the master was consi-
derably injured, The vessel's topmast was carried away, but she
was not otherwise seriously injured.