The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-10 00:00:00

WEST INDIES.

The Forth, royal mail steamer, arrived at Falmouth
on Wednesday morning from the West Indies. Dales
r of sailing—from Vera Crus, Aug. 7 ; 'Tampico, &;
Havannah, 15 ; Nassau, 18 ; Bermuda, 23; and Fayail,
Sept. L She brings amaica dates of August 3„ and,
La Guayra, July 28. Passengers—from Barbadoto,
Mr. John M`Chlery and Master Knowles ; from B.
bice, Mr. S. Davison ; from Demerara, Mr. W. A..
Britton, Stipendiary Magistrate ; from La Guayra.
Mr. S. M. Catta and Mr. John .Boulton ; from Gre-
nada, Mrs. Roberts; from Bermuda, Mrs. Tucker;
from Madeira, Mr. R. Davis ; from Jamaica, Mr.
John Clarke, Mr. George Prince, Mr, Joseph Mer-
rick and wife, and Mrs. Lavinia Oughton, Baptist
missionaries. On freight, 135,000 dollars, 400 doub-,
loons, 352 ounces of gold dust, 44 of silver, and 116
serons of cochineal. Captain Burney, master, and
Mr. Brown, purser, of the late Medina, are coins
home by the Forth. After landing the mails, she re-
ceived at Falmouth a supply of coals, and proceeded
up Channel at 5 P.M.
The Forth came up direct from Mexico, but brought
no specie thence. The Dee left Havannah for the Gulf
of Mexico on the 10th August. The Tay furnished'
the Jamaica mails, and will be the next to come to,
England. The Clyde had not sustained such sever*
injuries by going on shore on Pelican Point as was
at first anticipated. She left St. Thomas's on the
10th August for Turk's Island, and on the 12th
September thence for Porto Rico and the other islands„
with the English mails furnished by the arrival out of
the Medway. The Solway had taken down the Gulf
letters of this steamer.
Her Majesty's sloop of war Pilot left Havannah for
Vera Cruz on the 13th August. The Rover was at
Sacraficios, the Thunder at Bermuda. Spanish /men
of war at Havannah—one frigate with Admiral's Vag
at the fore, one corvette, three brigs, two schooners,
and two steam-vessels. Mexican men-of-war at Sacri-
ficios, the City of Dublin (steamer), one brig, and a
schooner.
The Mexicans still appear determined to carry on
the war against Texas, and proposed to send 800.
men instantly to capture Campeachy, if they could
do so. The sickly season at Vera Cruz had passed by.
Accounts from Havannah represent the extreme un-
healthiness of that port, and that many British sea-
men and masters of ships had fallen victims to the
direful fever prevalent there.
From Jamaica it is learnt that Lady Elgin was im-
proving in health. The House of Assembly would
not meet earlier than the accustomed period in No-
vember. The immigration of Krumen from the
coast of Africa, if judiciously conducted, was re-
garded by the planters of Jamaica as a great ad-
vantage to that colony, and would tend to afford such
an impulse to the labouring population as was calcu-
lated to produce the most salutary effects. It is
urged that the Government agent, in obtaining these
people, should offer them the advantage of returning
to their native country again in a course of years, an
inducement which few of the better hands would, from
their migratory
.disposition, refuse. The crops were
superabundant in several districts, and some mer
chants complained of not having sufficient vessels
at hand, near their ports, to receive the produce. Oa
the whole, the affairs of the island commence to as-
sume it better state of things than had for some tim
existed.

We learn from St. Kitts that the crops were low-
The necessity for immigration was urged on all hand
at Demerara. Business very flat. The negroes ap-
peared to be making strong efforts at this colony to
provide grounds and houses for themselves, and were
generally disposed to work - the employment of their
earnings in the purchase oilands had drawn off from
the retail dealers much of their custom. The shares;
of the banks were at par. Government measures had(
not recently met with such opposition as formerly.
The Great Liverpool steamer arrived at Falmouth
also on Wednesday morning, from Alexandria
22d ult., Malta 27th, Gibraltar Ist inst. Passengers
—Mr. and Mrs. Woodcock and female servant, Mr.
and Mrs. Bamheity, Mr, Dent and servant, Captain
Leeson, Mr. Keysen, 16. Gwyn, Captain Cogan.,
Lieutenant Woolistan, Rev. Air. Malan, Mr. an&
Mrs. Sharman, child, and servant ; Sir Gardner.
Wilkinson, Mr. Fitzgibbon, Mr. Palmer, Mr. S.
Giles, RN., Mr. Carmel!, Dr. Howell, And T. W.
llarcher, barrack-sergeant.
Owing to the work occasioned by both of these
mails having to be sorted, the West Indian lettei's and
papers will not be delivered in time for the express.

During the performance of" Divine Service at St..
Helen's Church, in this city, on Sunday evening last,
some graceless urchin had the audacity to enter the door-
way from the street, and creep. unheard, to the spot where
the gas meter of the church is deposited ; having,.
gas,sud-
denly turned off the and left the minister and con-
gregation in total darkness, he hastily decamped, and 1)3;
dint of hard running avoided detection.—Worcester
Journal.

I'llE LATE DR ARNOLD.—A Committee, consist-
ing of his Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen, the Arch-
bishop of Dublin, the Duke of Sutherland, the Earl tit
Denbigh, the Bishop of Ripon, the Bishop of Norwich,
Lord Delamere, Lord Wenlock, Lord Stanley, Sir Grey
Skipwith, Bart., Mr. Justice Coleridge, the Rev. thy
Provost of Oriel College, Oxford, and the Venerably
Archdeacon Bare, has been formed for the purpose of
raising a subscription to accomplish the following ob-
jects :---First, to establish a prize or some other institu-
tion for the promotion of sound knowledge, to be called
by Dr. Arnold's name, either at Rugby or at Oxford—
as hereafter may be deemed most expedient—to be en-
joyed in the first instance, by Dr. Arnold's sons in suc-
cession. Secondly, to erect some monumental memorial
in the chapel at Rugby, where his mortal remains have
been deposited.
A NEWSPAPER EDITOR'S WRIT.—The proprietor
of the Liberal informs those persons indebted to the
establishment, and whose accounts have been long stand-
ing, that having found all milder means unavailing, and
being in want of money to meet his engagements, he in-
tends, like the old man in the fable, to " try what virtue
there is in stones." lie has already given in a few
accounts to the police Magistrates, and means to follow,
them up, at his leisure, in all the present month, with a
complete list of all accounts of over twelve months'
standing, without respect to persons. Accounts for over
ten pounds will be placed in the hands of his attorney.
No application will be made to any of the parties after
this date, except through the proper law-officers.—
Barbadoes Liberal, July 6.

LIFE IN DUBLIN LONG AGO.—Life in Dublin, at
the time I write of, was about as gay a thing as a man
can well fancy. Less debarred than in other countries
from partaking of the lighter enjoyments of life, the
members of the learned professions mixed much in
society ; bringing with them stores of anecdote and
information unattainable from other sources, they made
what elsewhere would have proved the routine of in-,
tercourse, a season of intellectual enjoyment. Thus,
the politician, the churchman, the barrister, and the-
military man, shaken as they were together in close
intimacy, lost individually many of the prejudices of
their caste, and learned to converse with a wider and
more extended knowledge of the world. While this
was so, another element, peculiarly characteristic of
the country, had its share in modelling social life ; that
innate tendency to drollery, that bent to laugh with
every one and at everything, so eminently Irish, was
now on the ascendant. From the Viceroy downwards,
the island was on the broad grin. Every day furnished
its share, its quota of merriment. Epigrams, good
stories, repartees, and practical jokes, rained in showers
over the land. A Privy Council was a conversazione
of laughing Bishops and droll Chief Justices. Every
trial at the bar, every dinner at the Court, every draw-
ing-room, afforded a theme for some ready-witted
absurdity; and all the graver business of life was carried
on amid this current of unceasing fun and untiring
laughter, just as we see the serious catastrophe of a
crash of an orchestra
onmwanal,kwinghe •
modern opera, assisted by the
accompaniment.—Jack Hinton.
saomn_leia;leaansudre trip into the
B
Woman—" Blow me,
gentleamma,
NOTIONS OF " llArenvEss."—A
through Knightsbridge, on Saturday, overheard the for-
alopwpienagreccioansviefrisuatsitocon
rabeetwfreeonin
country. 11, how tired I do feel.
I'm as miserable, too, as a starved herring. What a
'
miserable world this is ! I wish I'd never been born,
that I do ;and now I am born I wish myself dead again.
111 an—t ~
are Why,3,ou grumbling about ?" Bet, what s the matter with you now ?
wha
Woman—"
Why
don't I tell yer I am as miserable as a rat ?" Man—.
Miserable indeed ! Why what on earth would yer
have ? You was drunk Monday, and you was drunk
again Wednesday, and I'm blessed if you haven't had
pretty near enough to-day. If that aint enough pleasure
for yer I don't know what is. I suppose you wants to
be a downright hangel here upon earth."
ISIT'S A FINE THING TO BE A GENTLEMAN.—" Och
t's a fine thing to be a gintleman," said Andy.
Coek you up !" said his mother. " Maybe it is a gin-
tleman you want to be ;—what puts that in your head,
You ornadawn' ?" "Why, because a gintleman has no
hardships compared with one of uz. Sure, if a gintle-
man was marri'd, his wife wouldn't be tuk off from him
the way mine was." "Not so soon, maybe," said the
mother, drily. " And if a gintleman brakes a horse's;
heart, he's only a bowld rider,' while a poor servant is
a careless blackguard' for only taking a sweat out of
him. If a gintleman drinks till he can't see a hole in a
ladder, he's only fresh,'—but dhrunk' is the word for
a poor man. And if a ,gintleman kicks up a row, he's a
fine spirited fellow,' whiles a poor man is a disarderly
vagabone' for the same ; and the Justice axes the one to
dinner, and sends the other to jail. Oh, faix, the law is
a dainty lady ; she takes people by the hand who can
afford to wear gloves, but people with brown fists must
keep their distance."—Lover's Handy Andy (last number.)
PUNNING.—There is a time for all things—punning
among the number. Now, a pun perpetrated in a morn-
ing appears very unseasonable, and it is only your eager
novices in the art who ever commit such a solecism, like
an ardent schoolboy, letting off his squibs after breakfast,
forestalling time and anticipating .the night. We have
known such a premature exhibition produce a fit of la-
digestion, not only in the person of the punster, but the
victim at whom he has " poked his fun." Puns and
wax candles shine the most brilliantly in the evening.
After-dinner puns are " peristaltic persuaders," and
should invariably be introduced after the nut-crackers.
As for any being bearing the semblanoe of humanity
punning at a fish dinner at Blackwall, it is a wickedness,
a malice prepense that would seem as inconceivable as
improbable ; and to thrust such a heartless mortal
.Inta
the Thames to become live bait for whitebait, we eliettid
consider as tustifisble homicidee.43oelB M.4.F#4sP