The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-05 00:00:00

WEST INDIA STEAM-PACKETS.

As much misrepresentation exists as to the late
disarrangement and non-arrival of the West India
packets, the following explanation may not be un-
acceptable.
The primary cause of the disarrange-
ment seems to have been owing to the Tweed leaving
Jamaica without a sufficiency of coals to take her
back, and she was consequently detained at Chagres
and Porto Bello, and was absent from Jamaica,
by the last accounts, no less than six weeks.
This deranged the order of the packets to
windward, and the Actaeon, one of the windward
packets, was compelled to go down to Jamaica with
the windward mail, which deranged the service there
At the same the authorities at the Havannali put the
Tay in quarantine, because she had not a clean bill of
health from Honduras ; and this led' to a misunder-
standing between the English Consul and Spanish
authorities, in reference to the delivery of the mails,
which proceeded to such lengths as to provoke military
interference. Meanwhile, one of the. mail agents,
on board the Actaeon, prevented the mails being car-
ried from Turk's Tsland to Nassau, which, had it
been done, the mails would have been in England up-
wards of three weeks since, by the Madeira. Sub-
sequently, the interference of Mr. TURNBULL, the
English Consul, and Lieutenant APLIN, the mail
agent (since cashiered for his conduct), on board the
Tay, tended to increase the confusion ; for. they
commanded two of the Company's steamers to leave
their stations, 'and, contrary to the instruction.;
of the Company to their officers, and in direct oppo-
sition to the advice of the Post-office Commissioner,
Mr. KAINSI, ordered both these vessels, the Forth and
the Tay, to proceed direct to England, and both, ac-
cording to these instructions, left Nassau together, and
arrived in England together. By the interference of
another mail agent, the Dee, at Turk's island, in place
of being allowed to pursue her proper course, was
ordered away to Jamaica, and thence to Havannah
and thus three most important and connecting stations
were altogether deprived of steamers to carry on the
service, the consequences of which can scarcely be
calculated ; but may be imagined, when we say
that the communication between the West Indian
islands, Northern America, and the Gulf of Mexico,
will be for atime virtually interrupted, and thrown into
great confusion. We forbear adding any further remarks,
as the question is now before the Admiralty; but we
think some of our Contemporaries have been too hasty
in expressing opinions grounded on a want of know-
ledge of facts. Proofs that no blame in these matters
can be attached to the Company, is the fact, as it has
been stated to us, of Lieut. A.PuN's dismissal for un-
warrantable interference, and another mail-agent,
whose name we forbear mentioning, having been
superseded and sent to England by Sir C. ADAM,
under arrest for improper conduct.
We have been informed from good authority that
such instructions have been sent out by the steamer
Forth, Captain FAYRER, which was to leave Fal-
mouth on .the 4th inst.
,(yesterday), both from the
Company and the Admiralty, as will, shortly after
her arrival out, restore things to their regular order.

The passage of the steam ship Antwerpen, Captain
Jackson, from London to Antwerp, on Sunday last, was effected
in twenty hours. She returned here this morning, with nume-
rous pamengers, bringing the Brussels papers of yesterday.

HER MAJESTY'S LEVEE.
The Queen held a Levee yesterday afternoon, at St. James's
Palace. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, and the Royal suite,
arrived in four carriages from Buckingham Palace, escorted by
a party of the Life Guards. The Duchess of Bucclench,
Mistress of the Robes ; the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Lady in
Waiting; Lord Byron, Lord in Waiting ; -lion. Captain Hood,
Groom in Waiting; Colonel Arbuthnot, Equerry in Waiting;
the Pages of Honour in Waiting; Lord Colville, Lord in Wait-
ing on Prince Albert ; Captain Francis Seymour (Scots
Fusilier Guards), Groom in Waiting on his Royal Highness;
and Colonel Wylde, Equerry to his Royal Highness, were in

the Royal suite.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert were received by the Lord
Chamberlain, the Lord Steward, the Master of the Horse, and

the Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert.

In the Foreign Diplomatic Circle, the following presentations
to the Queen took place.
Le Commandeur Sehlick, Chambellan de S. A. R. le Due
d'Lueca, by Count de Pollon the Sardinian Minister.
Lieutenant de Gerstein Hohenstein, Im. 13ten. Infanterie
Regiment, by the Chevalier Bunsen, the Prussian Minister.
M. Ribeiro da Silva, attache a la Legation Imperiale du
Brazil a Vienna, by Commandeur Marques Lisboa, the Brazi-
lian Minister.

Washington Irving, Esq., Minister of the United States to
the Court of Spain, by Mr. Everett, the American Minister.
The Foreign Diplomatic Circle was attended by Count St.
Aulaire, the French Ambassador; Baron de Cetto, the Bava-
rian Minister; Count de Pollon, the Sardinian Minister, and
Count Revel, Secretary of Legation ; Baron de Moncorvo, the
Portuguese Minister ; M. Fortique, the Venezuelan Minister ;
Baron Brunow, the Russian Minister; General Prince
Castelucala, the Sicilian Minister, and M. Canofari,
the Secretary of Legation; Count Kielmansegge, the
Hanoverian Minister; Baron de Hugel, tka Wurtemberg Mi-
nister ; M. Tricoupi, the Grecian Minister, and M. rhocion
Roque, Secretary of Legation ; Chevalier Bunsen, the Prussian
Minister; Baron Charles de Canitz, Secretary of Legation,
and Baron de Giiesheim, °Meier au 35me d'lnfanteire de
Prusse ; Commandeur Marques Lisboa, the Brazilian Minister;
Mr. Everett, United States Minister; Count Reveiitlow, the
Danish Minister, and Baron de Brockdorff, Secretary of Lega-
tion ; Baron de Nieumann, the Austrian Minister, and Baron
Lebzeltern, Secretary of Legation; M. Sancho, Spanish Mi-
nister, and Francisco Panipello, Secretary of Legation ; Baron
Gersdorff, the Saxon Minister ; Baron de Rehausen, Swedish
Charge d'Affaires ; and Baron Bentinck, Netherlands Charge

d'Affaires.
The general company were afterwards introduced, when the
following had the honour of being presented to her Majesty.
The Vice-Chaneellor Knight Bruce, by the Lord Chancellor.
Mr. C. Cresswell, one of the Judges of the Court of Common
Pleas, by the Lord Chancellor.
Mr. George Philip Lee, on his appointment as Lieutenant
of the Yeoman Guard, by the Earl of Beverley.
The Lord Mayor, on being created a Baronet, by Sir James
Graham.
Lieutenant-General the Marquis of Tweeddale, upon his
appointment as Governor of Fort St. George, and Commander-
in-Chief of that Presidency, by Lord Fitzgerald and Vesci.
Colonel the Hon. Henry Dundas, C. 8., 83d Regiment, on
being appointed Aide-de-camp to the Queen, by Lord Hill.
Hon. and Rev. Edward Keppel, Deputy Clerk of the
Closet, by the Bishop of Norwich.
Mr. Murchison, President of the Geological Society of Lon-
don, on his return from the geological survey of Russia, exe-
cuted by him at the desire of his Imperial Majesty, by the
Marquis of Clanricarde
Mr. Under-Sheriff Pritchard, by Sir James Graham.
Mr. Under-Sheriff Britten, on being appointed one of her
Majesty's Commissioners of Lieutenancy for the City of Lon-
don, by the Right Hon. Sir J. Graham, Bart.
Lord Fitzgerald and Vesci, President of the Board of Con-
trol, presented to the Queen an Address from the Roman Ca-
tholics of Calcutta, on the birth of the Prince of Wales.
An Address from the European and native inhabitants of the
town and island of Bombay, on the same occasion.
An Address from the inhabitants of Madras, on the same
auspicious event. •
Colquhoun presented Addresses of Congratulation on the
Birth of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, from her
Majesty's Council of the Virgin Islands ; from the Legislative
Assembly of St. Vincent ; from the Legislative Assembly of
Nevis ; and from the Legislative Assembly of Dominica.
The company present were the Bishop of London, the Lord
Chancellor, the Lord President, the Lori Privy Seal, the First
Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home,
Foreign, and Colonial Departments, the First Lord of the
Admiralty, the President of the Board of Trade, the Lord
Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, the
Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert, the Captain of the
Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, the Captain of the
Yeomen Guard ; Lord Denman, Lord Chief Justice of the
Court of Queen's Bench; the Lord. Register of Scotland; the
Vice-Chamberlain ; the Comptroller of the Household ; the
Bishop of Norwich; Hon. Sir Edward Butler, Lieutenant of
the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms ; Mr. Sullivan,
Deputy Secretary at War ; Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the
Board of Stamps and Taxes • the Master of the Ceremonies;
Mr. Henry Robinson, Standard-bearer to the Honourable
Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms; Sir George Houlton, Ensign
of the Yeoman Guard ; Mr. Sheriff Magnay ; Rev. Cholme •
ley Daring, Chaplain in Ordinary in Waiting • the Rev.
Henry Thomas Chaplain, to the Right Honourable the Lord
Mayor ; Colonel Reid, 2d Life Guards, Silver Stick, Mr. Col-
quhoun, Agent for the Hanse Towns ; Major Hyde, Assistant
Master and Marshal of the Ceremonies ; Admiral Lord Ame-
, lius Beauclerk, Principal Naval A. D. C. ; Captain Henry
Hope, C.B, ; and Colonel Weare, A. D. C. in Waiting to the
Queen ; Mr. James Bunce Curling, Clerk of the Cheque of
the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms ; Sir Samuel Hancock,
Exon in Waiting ; Mr. Ellerthorp, Clerk of the Cheque of the
Yeoman Guard ; Sir Benjamin Smith; Captain Pechell, R.N.,
Equerry to her Majesty the Queen Dowager; the Groom of
the Robes ; Colonel Wood; Colonel Dynelcy, C.B. ; and
Colonel henry Bentinek, Coldstream Guards, A.D.C. to. her
Majesty ; Mr. Arthur Blackwood, Lieutenant-Colonel Diggle,
and Mr. Strachan, Gentlemen Ushers in Waiting to the
Queen; Captain G. C. Blake, R.N., Gentleman-Usher to
Prince Albert in Waiting, and the followine—
DUICES—St. Alban's, Roxburghe, Norfolk, Leinster, Marl-
borough, Leeds.
MA RQUlSEs—Huntly, Headfort, Clanricarde, Anglesea,
Lorne, Ely, Ormonde, Qeeensbery.
EARLS—Listowel, Lisburne, Norbury. Devon, Manvers,
Bosse, Ilchester, Tinto, Mexborough, Dalhousie, Chichester,
Yarborough, Seafield, Cadogan, Fingall, Zetland, Fitzwilliam,
Stradbroke, Verulam, Bective, Westmorland, Sandwich, De-
sart, Lauderdale, Orkney, Clanwilliam, Galloway, Brownlow,
Radnor.
VISCOUNTS Pollington, Galway, Somerton, Newport,
Grimston, Reidhaven, Cranley, Loftus, Marsham, Drumlanrig,
Templetown, Ipswich, Ilolmesdale.
LORDS—Blayney, Dinorben, Clifford, Alfred Paget, Sude-
ley, Walpole, E. F. Howard, A. Loftus, Bloomfield, G. Fitz-
gerald, Ashley, Seymour, Kilmaine, W. Fitzgerald, Pare,
Wenlock, Delamere, Bolton, Sherburne, A. E. Hill, Wil-
loughby, F. Beauclerk, Bateman, Burghersh, W. Powlett, Ha-
therton C. Beauclerk, Kenyon, Templeinan, J. Butler, A.
Hay, Killeen, Stavordale.
BlSHOPS—Chichester, Bangor, Derry.
RIGHT HONOURABLES—F. Maule, M.P., H. Hobhouse,
Sir George H. Rose, Joseph Planta, R. V. Smith.
JUDGE—Cresswell.
Bartow—Anthony de Rothschild.
HONOUR ABLES—Francis Charteris, Rev. Edward Keppel,
Richard Denman, Edward Kenyon, G. C. W. Forester, Fred.
Cadogan, William M. Noel, Thomas Vesey, Rev. Grantham
Yorke, Mr. Spencer, W. Melville, J. Elliot, Rear-Admiral
Elliot, Rear-Admiral Henniker, Henry St. John, J.C. Dundas,
G. W. Fitzwilliam, E. Phipps, B. Lawley, Rev. A. Phipps,
St. George Foley, St. John Methuen, Lewis Grant, Colonel
Lowther, C. L. Fitzroy, Captain Harris, Colonel Finch,
Captain Scott, B. Bertie.
BARONETS—OswaId Mosley, Frederick Henry Bathurst,
Walter Riddell, Philip Grey Egerton, Augustus Clifford, H.
Smyth, M.P., H. H. 13ruce, B. Hall, M.P., William Lawson,
V. Blake, M.P., J. Shelley, R. Inglis, H. W. Barrow, C.
Knightley, G. Dashwood, J. Mordaunt, H. M. Vavasour, T.
Gage, R. Bateson, M.P., J. Cave, R. Palmer, C. H. Coote,
W. Middleton, H. Mildmay, R. Price, R. F. Russell, E.
Blaekett, D. Norreys, M.P., J. Edwards, R. Lopes, M.P.
Stirs —Thomas Wilde, Charles A ldis, C. Hulse, Robert
Coinyn, H. Williamson, E. C. Stanhope, J. Kirkland, William
Ball, E. Ryan, H. C. Austen. J. Gibbons, S. Meyi ich, J.
Barrow, J. Hanmer, J. hare, A. M. Downie, J. B. Williams.
Rev. DOCTORS—Card, Claxson, Curtois, Richards, Colston,
Stoddart.
REV. MESSIEURS—Joshua Nussey, Sir A. Henniker, Bart.,
T. Harrison, T. Lindeay, Lord J. Thpane, J. M. Halsey, R.
W. Browne, H. Woodgate, F. Hewson, C. Nevill, W. W:
Berry, T. Mills, J. M. Dawson, E. W. Edgell, J. D. Jeffer-
son, J. Chamberlayne, I'. Gregory, J. O'Brien, C. Bamfylde,
C. Wetherell, E. Hepton.
DOCTORS—Lazen, W. D. Jones, Doraville, Gordon, F. Col-
clough, 13. Burt, Marsden, A. R. Jackson.
QUEEN'S COUNSEL—T. Joshua Platt, Whately, J. Stuart
Wortley, Loyindes, David Pollock, Knowles, Mathews, Purvis,
A. E. Cockburn, Swanston, Charles Austin, Loftus Wigram.
Messieuxs—Godsal, Edward Foley, Essington, Clarkson,
Kerrison, John Round, M•P,, Thesiger, ni.., John L. La-
motte, Hugh Wood. Neeld, M.P., Brand, Philip Howard,
M.P., Montague Wilde. Claude Wilde, George Whitmore,
Chas. Prideaux Brune, Bannerman, Sanderson, M.P., John
Masterman, jun, George Magnay, Emanuel Lousada, Dempster,
Charles Cavendish, William Cotton, John Benjamin Heath,
Charles Lock Eastlake,. It. A., John Neeld, al , P., Gran-
ville J. Penn, Darby Griffith, William Penn, Pierce Butler,
Richard Edwards, Dumaresq, W. H. Bodkin, ALP., H.
Lanibton, G. Byng, M. I'., Dean, De Burgh, Wolseley, Alex-
ander, Keate, W. Marshall, D. Barclay, Forteseue, Hall Max-
well, H, S. Murray, Matthew Bell, Mackenzie, Watford,
lVinn, Ogden, R. P. Staples, 0. Duncombe, M.P, Standish,
Ralph Addeiley, Berney, S. Stanhope, Aldworth, B. Field,
Wakefield, E. S. Gordon, Coulson, H. J. Morant, Haworth,
Wells, R. Pennefather, Sterling, F. W. Knight, W. R. Col-
lett, M.P., L. Alexander, A. Smith, C. Bewicke, H. Bat-
tersby, W. S. Boyd, E. Montagu, D. J. Mo:.ey, A. Galdsmid,
G. E. Eyre, H. Clements, H. Colston, C. Parke, jun., John-
stone, Fitz Roy, George Berney, G. G. Macpherson, J. Ship-
ton, J. J. W. Itigley, C. Lonsdale Halsey, It. Mynors,
Sayer, Charles Gubbins, R. B. Kay:Basset, G. Morant, F.
Cavendish, J. G. Porter, J. Somes, jun., D. Turner, G. K.
Pollock, J. Wilson, Barton, T. 11. Furde, Mayne, A. Randal,
J. G. Shorter, William Duke. Walldie, Lowther, Tancred,
ALP , W. Edgell, Vaughan, F. Fitzgerald, Sadi Ombark
Benbey, Pettigrew, John O'Connell, M.P., Mvnry rs Baiker-
ville, M.P., Murchison, A. J. B. Hope, M.P., Dodd, M.P.,
B. Barton, H. Vint, 11. Broadley, M.P., P. R. Welsh,
E. Heneage, H. Bethune, Bagot, Knightley, E. Orme, Mount,
N. H. Hughes, jun., D. Jackson, Protheroe, M.P., Smyth.
Newdegate, Ffolliott, M. P., Bainbridge, Richard
Ilemsfield, G. Dawtree, Bunbury, C. St. Leger, James, M.P.,
Digby, A. Oswald, W. Cavendish, F. Calvert, Langdale, Weld,
I3unbury, M.P., E. Bligh, W. Patten, M.P., E. 13. Roche,
W. Irby, D. Galton, Murray, M.P., H. Fortescue, Philips,
H. Farquhar, Maurice O'Connell, M.P., E. Harcourt, Beech,
Willoughby, J. Forbes, J. H. Forbes, W. Spaight, Challoner,
Macdonald, A. Drummond, Hall,J. Mann, D. Salomaiis,
Tartt, H. Beau-
H. Morris, T. Gladstone, W. H. Gregory, M.P., Saner, 0.
Cave, Dash wood, Finney, M.P., Egerton,
C. Forster,
rjun., G. R. 4,leist,h Smith, R.
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E. B. Clive, J. Ackers, M.P., J. Stewart, P. Williams, G.
Anderson, 11. Wedd, F. Smith, Bell, Archbold, Carden, C.
Law, R. Sutton, M. Bruce, Langley, J. Halkett, Chichester,
Williamson, A. Robertson, W. Y. Peel, Nortlicote, Bateson,
Illagden, C. Cooper.
FIELD MA asir A L.—The Duke of Wellington.
GENERALS—Sir Edward Kerrison. Sir Charles Imhoff, Sir
John Doveton, K.C.8., Sir Colin Halkett, Sir Charles Max-
well, Ellice, Sir Robert Barton, Sir Patrick Ross, Miller,
Turner, Sir J. W. Guise, Sir L. Cole, Sir W. H. Clinton,
Wyndham, Anderson, L'Estrange, Caulfield, Sir D. APLeod,
Sir W. K. Grant, Aitchison, Wood, Sir H. Watson, Sir T.
Arbuthnot, Carey, Sir M. Disney, Middlemore, Lygon,
Shu-
brick, C. Gordon, Faunce, Shuldham, Lambert, hare, W.
Morison, J. W. Smith, Sir J. Wilson, Sir William Lumley,
Sir Frederick Stovin, Sir F. Maclean, Sir 11. Pynn,
Sir J. Maclean, Sir R. Darling, Pigot, Dickson, Kenab,
O'Malley, Sir C. Dalbiac, C. B. Vera.
COLONELS—Hon. Geo. Keppel, Powell, Pringle Taylor,
Sir A. d'Este, Hulse, Fendall, Rolt, B. Knox, Llwellyn' De-
lap, Chamberlayne, Howard, Rolleston, M.P., Knollys, Con-
nop, Trevelyan, Love, Backworth, W. Mills, Van der Meulon,
Swart, W. Burton, Wemyss, Richardson, Cartor, Begot,
Campbell, Drake, Wilson, Jones, Jackson, Bowers, Markham,
F. G. Howard, Clements, Walton, Rogers, Austen, Itl‘Call,
Towline, Dawkins, M'Alpine, Phipps, F. Griffiths, Grant,
Sir H. Hayl4, Hely, Lord C. Wellesley, F. V. Harcourt,