The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-05-19 00:00:00

WEST INDIA MAILS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 17.
The Royal Mail Company's steamship, Parana,
Captain A. Wilson, arrive(' this morning, at eight
o'clock a.m., with the usual West India mails.
The latest dates brought by the Parana are Grey
Town, April 20; Nassau and Colon, April 23;
earthagena, April 25; Demerara, April 26 ;
Jamaica, Trinidad, and Grenada, April 27; Bar-
badoes, April 28; Jacaiel, April 29; Antigua and
St. Kitts, April 30; Porto Rico and St. Thomas,
May 1.

The Parana brings one hundred and thirty-seven
passengers, among whom are the following
:
Hon. H. Edwards and Mr. Liggins, from Antigua • Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Deverell, 67th Regiment, from Barbadoes ;
Commander Coryton, R.N., and Dr. Macintosh. from
Jamaica ; Contess de Richeborg, from St. Thomas ; General
Herrera and Colonel Guido, from Valparaiso ; and Dr.
Baylie, late mayor of Geelong, Australia.
On freight the Parana brings 411,264 dollars in
silver, 412,395 dollars in gold and gold dust; 77,565
dollars in specie; 17,940 dollars in Plata pina, and
5,550 dollars pearls. Her cargo also comprises 505
serons cochineal, 21 bales jalapa, 198 serons bark,
49 serons sarsaparilla, 76 serons cascarilla, 7 boxes
tortoise-shell, 7 boxes succades, 16 boxes copper
ore, and 55 packages sardines.
The Jamaica papers give the most deplorable accounts of
the res Ills of recent heavy rains. From the p trish of St.
Thomas in the East, we learn that the roads are in some
parts frightfully cut up—blocks of stone being washed
away, and large ruts being formed in many places. Many
of the pens on the road have been entirely flooded, and the
rivers in the interior have overflowed their banks, carrying
away in their violence, cattle, waggonQ, ploughs, carts,
pegs, and goats.

4 There was a severe shock of earthquake felt in Kingston
at about half-past ten on Sunday night the 20,h April,
immediately preceded by low muttering thunder and fast
flashing lightning, with a deep and hollow moaning. A
great part of the centre aisle of the old and venerable
parish church has sunken to an enormous depth, including
the magistrates' pew, and the pews adjacent. Many of the
ancient tombs of the mouldering dead have also fallen ir,
and in several places the walls of the sacred building have
been cracked.

A widely propagated rumour, which was generally
believed, prevailed, that Sir flenry Barkley, the governor,
was about to leave the seat of his government to return to
his native country.

Intelligence from Nicaragua, by telegraph, via Panama,
states that Greytown was blockaded by the British ship
Eurydice on the 20th ultimo. The steamers Isabel and
Charles Morgan had reached Greytown from New Orleans,
and landed 500 men f)r Walker. A brig from New
Orleans was expected at Greytown for Walker, and would
be stopped :on her arrival by the Eurydice. The 'United
States steamers Fulton and Merrimac, with her Britannic
Majesty's steamer Termagant, were daily expected, with
two French ships to join the blockade. In the Santa Rosa
fight Walker lost twenty-six men, and Costa Rica fifteen
men and four officers. President Mora invaded Nicaragua
with 2 500 men, and was to attack Walker in Rivas about
the 19th ultimo. Two thousand men left Cogutipeque,
Salvador, on the 14th to help Costa Rica.

We learn from Islay (Peru) that Mr. Gibson's (the
American consul) residence was attacked and fired into by
the soldiers. It appears that some persons, wishing to
overthrow Castilliou's government, entered Islay, and
bribed the soldiers, who, however, informed the authori
ties. The rioters were ordered to be apprehended, and one
of them rushed into Mr. Gibson's house for protection.
The soldiers, without asking Mr. Gibson to deliver him up,
fired volley after volley into the premises, which were rid-
dled with balls in every direction. They rushed into the
house, firing as they proceeded, and never desisted until
Mr. Gibson threw down a French flag amongst them.
The Trelaway Journal gives the following appalling
account of another horrible spectacle at an execution :
The extreme penalty of the law was carried into affect
on the persons of Charles Sinclair, and Jane Sinclair his
wife. These unfortunate creatures were convicted far the
murder of one Ann Burton, an aged person—and their
neighbour, chiefly on the evidence given at the trial by
their own children one a boy of about seven or eight years
of age, and the other a girl of tender years. 'I he former
testified that whilst his mother held the murdered women's
hands behind her back, her father stuck her with a knife,
and also used a bayonet. The girl stated that the bayonet
was buried by her father, and it wee subsequently found
after she had given the information. The evidence appeared
to every one so conclusive that there was not even the
shadow of a doubt upon the minds of any of those persons
who were present at the trial. Yet in the face of such
evidence, Charles Sinclair, and Jane Sinclair, have both
declared their innocence even up to the last moment of their
existence .As those who delight in poring over a recital of the
sufferings it is not our intention to indulge the morbid tasteof
of those who die by the hands of the legalize murderer we
shall close this narrative by merely adverting to an accident
that happened to the male prisoner—the rope broke, and
when all was again prepared to destroy life, the tin rot tun ate
man, with the rope round his eec's a second time (the wife
they hanged bef ,re him), his palsied frame resting on the
scaffold, declared t 3 all present that he was suffering
unjustly, aed wee innocent—that he had never stolen any
thing, far less to hr .e committed a murder. Charles
Sinclair and Jane Sinelar have Loth gone 'to that bourne
from whence vo traveller returns—but who is there living
shall declare them murderers—or the murdered