The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-01-26 00:00:00

THE WEST INDIES.

The Royal Mail Company's steamship Atrato, Captain
Woolley, arrived at Southampton, Wednesday, with
the usual mails in charge of Lieutenant Inglis, R.N.
Intelligence was received at Jamaica of the total loss of
the American brigantine Malvern. of Philadelphia,
which left Jamaica on the 20th of November, bound for
Philadelphia, with a cargo of logwood. She was lost on
the 25th off the Grand Cayinanas. The captain and
crew were saved. Trade has become unusually brisk at
Jamaica. The weather was fair, and the public health
was generally good. Produce remains stagnant. Coffee
in better supply, but transactions were confined to small
purchases for the English market at from 345. to 378.
per 10016. Pimento not in supply, nor was there any
quantity demanded. Logwood was offered at a decline,
but buyers were scarce. Flour was dull of sale, with a
heavy stock. A fresh batch of immigrants had arrived
at Martinique by the ship Clara from the coast of Africa.
The mortality on board this vessel was much higher than
in any of the Coolie ships previously received. Out of
325 no less than 35 died during the passage, which lasted
29 days, and a number of those landed had to be sent to
the hospital, where many of them have died. The Clara
is described as a small vessel, of not more than about
300 tons measurement. These were the first immigrants
introduced by Regis and Co., of Marseilles, under their
new contract with the Government. It was mentioned
that symptoms of discontent had been manifested by the
African immigrants in the quarter of Lamentin, and an
attempt at flight to the neighbouring island of St. Lucia
had been discovered on the Chateau Lezard estate. The
labourers of several estates were in the plot. The crops
of the past 11 months of the year showed a falling off
compared with the corresponding period in 1856 • of
sugars there had been made 49,346 hlids. this year, being
4,666 lest than last year; and a decrease appeared also
in ruin, coffee, and cocoa. Under the head of "A Rus-
sian fleet in the Antilles," the Outre iter gives the fol-
lowing extract from the A renir (Guadeloupe paper) of
the 10th of December —"We: are indebted to the oblig-
ingness of our friends for the following intelligence from
St. Thomas's, under date of the /9th nit:— 'We are
momentarily looking for the arrival here of a Russian
fleet. A German house at this place has been instructed
to hold at the disposal of the commandant of this fleet
£60,000 sterling; (1,500,000 francs). We are all
bewildered here in conjectures upon such a visit.'"

The Queen hlus been pleased to direct letters patent
to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity
of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland unto Henry Hershman Havelock, Captain
in the Army (eldest son of the late Major-General Henry
Havelock, of Lucknow, K. C .B. ), and to the heir male of his
body lawfully begotten, with remainder, in default of
such issue, to the heirs male lawfully begotten of the
body of his father, the said Major-General Henry Have-
lock. The Queen has been pleased to ordain and declare
that Hannah Shepherd Havelock, the widow of the late
Major-General Henry Havelock, Knight Commander of
the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, shall have,
hold, and enjoy the same style, title, place, and prece-
dence to which she would have been entitled had her
said husband survived and been created a baronet, and
for which creation Her Majesty had given instructions,
as notified in the London Gazette of the 27th of Novem-
ber last. And also to command that the said Royal
order and declaration be registered in Her Majesty's
College of Arms.
REINFORCEMENTS FOR INDIA.—We learn from Alex-
andria that the passage of English troops continues con-
secutively, with the assistance of the Egyptian Govern-
ment. The railway stops at 25 miles on this side of
Sues, and to enable the troops to accomplish the remain-
ing distance the Company has hired 1,100 asses from an
Armenian. The Viceroy has just authorised the pur-
chase of 1,200 horses of the country for the cavalry in
India.