The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-11 00:00:00

WEST INDIES.

The steam ship Isis arrived at Falmouth on Friday from
St. Croix, May 26; St. Thomas, 27 ; Turk's Island, 30 ;
Havannah, fuse I 5; Nassau, 18; Bermuda, 24; Fayal,. July 2,
at nine, r.
Passengers from Havannah—Mr. Alexander Robinson, Mr.
Edward Shiel, Mr. D. R. Clarke, Mr. V. Arietta, Rev.
George Viteri, Romsn Catholic Bishop, Mr. J. M. Ramirez,
Mr. Theodore Bahre. From Nassau—Major Gordon, 59th
regiment; Lieutenant Nugent, 59th; Lieutenant Gawson,
10th regiment ; Lieutenant Pogson, Ist West India vgiment ;
Mrs. Gordon, Sir S. Clarke, Bart., Mr. P. Clarke, Count
Walsh Freeman, Mr. G. Freer, Mr. . Mill, Mr. E. Marshall,
Mr. A. Anderson, Mr. W. Lake, Mrs. and Miss M'Farlane,
Mr. and Mrs. G. De Lauberque and nephew, Mrs. Mills and
son, Mrs. Flamer, Mr. D. Smith, Mr. W. Brown. From
Maderia, via Fayal—Dr. and Mrs. Renton, child, and ser-
vant ; Dr. and Mrs. Lind, Dr. Foster, Mr. Luxford and
family ; Mr. Muir, Mr. Ludgater, Mr. Foljambe, Mr. Ivens
Mr. Welsh and son. From Fayal—Mrs. Paterson and
child, Mr. Bird, late officer of the R. M. schooner Tiffey ;
Mr. Armitage, late second officer of the Forth ; several seamen
of the lath Medina and the Tweed steamers, also lately be-
longing to a merchantman, in all 78 passengers. Freight of
284,000 dollars, and 107 serons of cochineal, and some gold
dust. Ab ,ut 90 miles west of Scilly, signalised the American
ship Globe. The brig Brown of Whitehaven, Jackson master,
coal laden for the Government, was totally lost at Fayal on
June 13, 180 tons saved. The captain and crew are arrived
by the Lis. The West India steamer Trent sailed from Ha-
vannah for New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico on
June 6th. The Teviot returned from Mexico on the 14th,
and was left caaling at Havannah on the 15th. The Forth
arrived at Nassau from Turk's Island and Barbadoes on the 18th,
and was to leave Nassau for Havannah the same evening. The
Tay did not arrive at Barbadoes until June 7th. The Tweed
was still on the line from Turk's Island to and from Jamaica.
The Isis was 30 hours at Bermuda, receiving 116 tons of coals,
and unless much better arrangements exist than at present in
this branch of their ill-planned service, serious and frequent
detentions of the packets must be the result.
The sailing of the West India steamers has been much over-
rated in the plans laid down by the company. The Thames
and Isis are probably the best sailers since the loss of the beau-
tiful Medina, the finest and fastest ship of the twelve. Their
average speed may be estimated at from 9i to 10* knots per
hour, when not deep in the water, and•when quite light, they
will go 1 1 knots. We have been assured from the best
authority that the Isis is a very line-ship, and that her internal
arrangements, good order, and harmony are such as reflect
the highest credit on her able captain and officers. She has
made one of the quickest passages ever known, perhaps the
shortest of the distance, having been only 20 days and one hour
steaming from the Moro Castle of Havannah into Falmouth
harbour, 4,224 miles, exclusive of her stoppages at Nassau,
Bermuda, and FayaL
The Company's steamers having been discontinued from
going up the North American coast, the City of Glasgow
steamer is coming home with one of her engines broke down.
Her Majesty's steamer Warspite, Captain the Right Hon.
Lord Hay, sailed from Barbadoes for New York, May 21, to
take home Lord Ashburton. The* Tweed was at Barbadoes
May 24 ; the Lark arrived at Havannah from the Mosquito
shore June 15, all well ; the Ringdove, Scylla, and Gleaner
were at Bermuda June 24; Sir Charles Adam bad nut then
returned from Honduras ; the Styx steam-frigate, and the
• .French war-steamer, Gomer, were at anchor at Fayal on July
2, the latter taking in coals for New York.
At Demerara business on the sugar estates was almost ruined,
from the aversion of the negroes to work ; they having mostly
left the colony and " squ itted" in the interior. At Barbadoes,
on the contrary, labour was abundant and wages low; 24,000
hogsheads of sugar were expected for this year's crop. At Ha-
vannah trade was said to be very dull, but many ships, chiefly
American and Dutch, were in port loading.
he newly-appointed Pritish Cr nsul-General Crawford had
arrived at Havannah, from Jamaica, in the Osprey.
The Countess of Elgin had been indispeked, but by the latest
accounts her health was fast imp: oring.
'1 he Kingston Markets' reports mre—Sugar, 21s. 6d. to 265.
and 275. ; Coffee, from 665. to 80s. ; and b4s. per cwt.
Correa Da Costa having taken an interesting part in the
eman ipation of the African race, at Martinique, Guadaloupe,
Porto Rico, Cuba, Curacao, Surinam, St. Bartholomew, St.
Martin, and St. roix, and having published a series of violent
articles on the subject, the Governor of Porto Rico, knowing
that he had arrived at St. Thomas, was afraid of his presence
so near to Porto Rico, and therefore requested the Governor,
General Oxholm, to order him to quit the island. Correa Da
Costa left immediately for Tortola, where he arrived in an open
boat, lut safe.
Died at St. Ann's garrison, last night, after a short illness,
Lieut.-Colonel Tyler. This Gallant Officer served in the
Peninsula from August, 1808, to the end of that war in 1814,
itnluding the battles of Roleia, Vimiera, and Oporto; actions
at Talavera and Alberche, battles of Talavera and Busaco
(severely wounded in the left shoulder), the lines of Torres
Vedras, actions at Redinha, Cassal Nova, Fez d'Arouce, and
Sabugal ; battle of Fuentes d'Onor, siege and blockade of Dada-
jcz, actions at Fuente Guimaldo, El Bodon, and Alden de
Polite ; sieges and captures of ,Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz,
battle of Vittoria and the Pyrenees, action at la Bastide, battle
of Orthes, action at Vic Bigerre, and battle of Toulouse.
Served also in the campaign of 1815, including the battles of
Quatre liras and Waterloo, at which time he was aide-de-camp
to General Tinton, and received that veteran when falling
severely wounded.
FALMOUTH, JULY B.—Her Majesty's packet, Swift, Lieut.
Douglas, sailed this morning with the mails for Madeira and
he Brazils.

PROTEST AGAINST THE THIRD

READING OF THE CUSTOMS BILL.

Dissentient.—l. Because, fully admitting the necessity of a
revision of the Customs' duties, and thy soundness of the prin.
titles on which, in most respects, that revision is professed to
have been made, I find that this Bill carries out those principles
very imperfectly, and falls lamentably short of what the neces-
sities of the times require.
t. Because it expressly excepts from its operation the duties
on the importation of corn, grain, meal or flour, sugar and rno--
lasses, and omits all modification of the duties on butter and
cheese imported from foreign countries, and thus will fail to
afford, with respect to those essential articles, any alleviation to
the present sufferings of the people.
3. Because, in consequence of these omissions, the distress
of many persons, who will be thrown out of employment by the
alteration of the duties on:certain manufactured articles, will
be greatly increased.
4. Because I believe that by this 13111 no one differential
duty, now existing. is removed ; but I find several new ones
imposed, and the difference in many old ones increased, and
it was argued in debate by Ministers that the principle of dif-
ferential duties as applied to colonies was a fair one, and ad-
mitted by them that the new schedule of duties imposed by
this Bill was in many respects framed in conformity with that
opinion ; whereas 1 hold all differential duties to be both in-
consistent with every sound principle of financial legislation
(whether enacted for the purpose of revenue, or with the view
of giving aid or showing favour to colonies or foreign states),
and injurious both to the State which imposes them, (as thus
laying burdens on its own subjects, without any advantage to
its exchequer, for the benefit of foreigners), and to the coun-
try supposed to be favoured, by holding out to its people in-
ducements to divert capital from its natural, and therefore
its most useful and profitable, to other less advantageous em-
ployment. RADNOR,
KINNAIRD AND ROSSIE.