The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-26 00:00:00

I,LOYI) SHIFYING.

LONDON, AUG. 25.—Wind S.W., light breeze and fine. •
DEAL, AUG 23.—Wind W. S.W., moderate; 24. S.W.°
Arrd Coromandel, Calcutta ; Governor 31'Donald, Whale,
Fernando Po. 24. Aden, Hobart Town ; General Hewett'
Hart, Sydney, New South Wales ; Persian, EdingtiM
Madras ; Susan King, M'Lean, St. Lucia ; Ealing ;
Gro"
Falconer, Dominica llespera, Walker, St. Vincent ; r,lr
dora, Nassau; Franktield, Saldanba Bar. Arrd. from 11
River, 24th, Duke of Norfolk, Sergeant, Jamaica. Arm
from the River and sailed, John Wright, Saguimay ; Ttll6
Lay, Calcutta ; Elizabeth Lloyd, Newfoundland. Sld.
True Briton, Consett. Madras; 24. Daniel Wheeler, Peterkll
Cape f Goe.d Hope; Parrack Hall, Moffat, St. Kitts, k
LIVERPOOL, AUGUST 22.—Wilid N. W., fresh. —.Arri ve":,
23, Commodore, Croat, Calcutta; Lady Paget, Calvert, PO::
session Island ; Queen, Gordon, Callao; Templeman, ProWs
Valparaiso, sailed Bth May; Ann Johnstone, M'Niell, Per
nambuco ; Bayfield, Lucas, Bonny; Colombia, Haley, New
Orleans; General Davis, Upt,:n, ditto; Robert Isaac, Barrette
; Isaac Newton, Spalding, Savannah ; Huttingo
Burslev, New York. 24th. Ireglebaro, Rea, Calcutta; Matt
Somerville, ,Johnston, ditto; Champion, Champion, BombaP
Royal Mint, Seawright, Jamaica ; Cherles Hayt, Apalachi.
cola; Bauman, Nichols, Charleston ; Concordia, Dorr, /3°6'
ton ; Messenger, Wilson. Quebec.

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
Arrivals—General Hewitt, Hart, from New South WAle*,
in the Downs, sailed April 26 ; Allen Waddell, from Vs'
Djeman's Land, at Gravesend, sailed from Hobart TOO/
may 4; Dawson, Carder, from Van Dieman's Land, 5C
Falmouth,..ailed from Launceston, April 16; Coromandel'
Fraser, from Beis 11. in the Downs, sailed March 12, St'
Helena, June 17 ; Persfafi, Ediogton. from Madras, in th.
Downs, sailed, April 18; Commodoee, Cr,;well, from Bengali
at Liverpool, sailed March 23; Amity, Hodges, frola
Zanzcbar in the St. Katherine Dock, sailed from S
June
Helena, 18 ; Java, Parker, from Singapore, off* Fir
mouth, sailed March 29, St. lirlena,June 22; Mary Sorner;,
ville, Johnstone, from Bengal, at Liverpool, sailed Mare
12, St. Bolena, June 27 ; 1 ogleborough, Rae, from lj
Liverpool, failed March ;5, Cape, Jane 15, St. Helena, JLIII.I
30 ; Champion, Cochrane, from Bombay, at Li‘,,erpo° '
sailed April 6, St. Helena, June 29.
Arrivals at Sydney, New South Wales—Caledonia, Ate'
12, from London; Castlereagh, 18th, from London andCat'
Union ; Grainger, 18th, from Launceston ; Sir John Brir
25th, from Manilla; Parkfield, Whiteside, from Port PhiYlll'
off the port.
Departures from Sydney—Kestrel, April 13, to Norfoll'
Island and Singapore; Coringa packet, 14th, to Ceyl°l4:
and put back 19th, from stress of weather; Star of Chin"
Tinley, to Port Nicholson ; Fame, 20th, and Australian, 213.1
to South Seas ; Palestine, Sun, and Autumnus, 26th, 7
London.
Arrival at Adelaide—lsabella, April 5, from London.
Arrivals at Hobart Town—Anna Maria, April, from Lon'
don ; Sir George Seymour, from Port Philip.
Departure from Hobart Town—Fanny, Andrews, April 1.6,
to London.
Arrival at Launceston—Heroine, Coltish, April 5, froPI
Port Philip.
Departure from Port Phin;:—
Branken Moor, April 10, 62t
London.
Arrival at Hong-Kong—lndia, Sutiiprland, from the Clrigb

TEIE WEST INDIAN COLOSIES. •
SOMii statistical returns have just been Inick,_"be,
Parliament, in reference to the West Indian .I.st,llnds
41.
and Guiana, on the motion of Mr. Barkly, the meal.
for Leominster, from which we extract the following
particulars :-
A general abstract of the population shows, that,
cording to the latest censtv, the gross total populane.„
o the British West Indian Islands amounted
888,209, and that the number of slaves since einanr.
pated, according to the compensation returns of 18./1,;
amounted to 663,899. The gross total of 889,2
was thus distributed :-Jamaica, 181,663 males an
195,800 females ; liondura.s, 10,000 souls of 0,,
sexes ; the Bahamas, 12,623 males and 12,621 fenlifi
(an extraordinary parity of numbers): Barbadoes, 56,_176.
males and 66,194 females ; Grenada, 13,732 035;,1"
and 15,191 females ; St. Vincent, 12,600 males nsiri
14,648 females ; St. Lucia, 9,871 males and IL'
females ; Tobago, 6,152 males and 7,056 females ; 0
tigua, 16,723 males and 19,456 females ; MentserP,`";
3,336 males and 4,029 females ; Bermuda, 223 1101/
and 286 females ; Dominica, 10,788 males ...j
11,681 females ; St. Chriytophe!, 10,523 males 1/e,
12.654 females ; Nevis, 4,418 males and 5,153 ferasles;
the Virgin Islands, 3,130 males and 3,559 fernslert
Trinidad, 30,713 males and 29,102 females ' • and 13rite`bi4e
Guiana. 49,787 males and 48,346 females. Of
377,433 inh.,bitants of Jamaica, 15,766 are whiro
61,529 coloured or mulatto, and :493,128 black ; 332 e 5
are natives, and 33,519 Africans ; 51,707 are under,,,4
years of age ; 47,221 under 10 ; 62,733 under Vir,
121,309 under 40 ; 68,442 under 60 ; and 25,963 sbe
60 years of age. „,
The occupations of the population are thus ennol:3
rated :-108 ar.ists, 26 architects, 61 agriculturists';:i
bankers, 564 hommen, 1,555 clerks, 1,454 fishermen
&Hags, 20 571 household servants, 50,653 labonre'-'
132 192 agricultural labour, rs, 267 pastors, 104
men. 97 mariners, 41 miners, 433 merchants, 26 PO
315 policemen, 3987 planters,.,4s3 professional pers°l:s;
1,672 retail traders, 86 surveyors, 544 storekeepers, 609
teachers, 7,399 tradesmen, 10,097 journeymen, 0,
tavern keepers, 948 miscellaneous, and 142,831 ge

tlemen.
The number of inhabited houses with land in Janinicl4
amounts to 9,406 ; the number of sugar estates is 64.4;
coffee plantations 671, and farms and other settlement
22,703.
The population of the Bahamas is subdivided- int;
2,992 male and 3,070 female whites, and into 9,374,mnd
and 9.275 69na le e..loured per.ons. 3,695 are employed
in agriculture, 1,690 in manufactures, and 2,544 in coin'
nn:rcial pur,nits.
The whole popul,:tion of the Windward Islands Of
badoes, enada, and Cariacou, St. Vincent, St. Drat
and Tobago) amounted on the 3d of June, 1844 f
213,305 routs. Governor Grey informs Lord Ste7t,
ley, in his dispatch of the 4th of October Isa
that the whole may b 9. estimated at 225.000, inn/ d
of 213,305, some of the returns falling short of
the actual numberS. The number of acres capable of
being brought into cultivation i; perhaps 500,000, re
which little more than a quarter, or 130.000 acres
actually cultivated. Society throughout the islands,
in an orderly and peaceable state, property rests seclio
and the laws, except those of St. Lucia, where there*,
a crude and imperfect medley of the old French /oiciVe,
with English ordinances, are simple, certain, and equts.4
ble. The c:itnate every where improves in salubrlti4
cultivation advances. In Barbadoes, Governor Gid,
says that the climate is as healthy. as that of Engin/do,
Deliberate reflection and calculation have led the
',
verncr to the conclusion, that if capital be allowelit,,
flow into the Windward Islands, gradually and stead to
another twenty-five years may swell the populatinntii.
500,000 souls, and increase the quantity of land in to
tivation to 400,000 ecr,s, and the export of sue of
100,000 tons, or nearly half the present consumpioeby
the whole of the United Kingdom. The total popu
od
Lion of Barbadoes is 122,198, of whom 30,000 (41_5°,1301
numbers) are employed in agriculture. and 28. nu" is
trade and husines4. Of Granada the population,.
28,293 ;of St. Vincent, 27,248 ; St. Lucia, 21,0°
or Tobago, 13,208.
405/
Of the Leeward Islands, Antigua numbers 36,-,„r,
Montserrat, 7,635; Bermuda, 509 ; St. Christer
T
23,177 h
,
; Dominica, 22; nd Nevs, 9,571. veriS
e census created a 46 c9onsaiderabei sensation in '''
amongst the negroes, and many absurd conjectures Ire
set afloat as to its object. etp
The matter was at length clearly explained to
tb 1-
through the medium of the clergy, or otherwise the
to le:4,
ing of the population might have broken out in violet)
The whole population of the Virgin Island aniountshrl
6,689, and that of Trinidad to 60,319. Govenor 14.00
writing from Demerara, says that the Creole poPu!e!ioo
is on a steady increase in Guiana. The total popuin,so,
on the 31st of December, 1844, amounted to 103,'ivg
which shows an increase from' natural causes dint
that year of 1,226. The number of emancipated 15f
santry now living in thier own own dwellings In Guido.
is estimated at, at least, 19,000. The number of eincti
cipated negroes now become freeholders,and holding P(/).
of ground as such, amounts altogether to abc.at 2,94