The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-21 00:00:00

THE WEST INDIA MAILS

By the Royal Mail Company's steam ship Tyne
(the arrival of which at Southampton we announced
yesterday), we have received our usual files and
advices. The dates of sailing are, Panama, Feb
23rd ; Jamaica, 27th ; Demerara, 9th and 26th :
Trinidad, 26th ; Barba does, 28th ; St. Lucia, 27th;
Antigua, 28th and 29th ; Grenada, 26th; Porto
Rico, March 2nd ; Dominica, Feb. 22th ; St-
Thomas, March 3rd.

The Tyne brings 47 passengers, and on freight
specie valued at 717,318 dollars, and a cargo
of 178 serons of cochineal, 5 serons of indigo, 32
bales of sarsaparilla, 2 packages of vanilla, and a
general cargo.

The Plata arrived out at St. Thomas's on the
2nd inst.

Between the sth and 16th March the Tyne
experienced strong gales, with very heavy sea and
rain, but all the remainder of the voyage moderate
weather.

Owing to the West India mail packet Parana
getting to St. Thomas late on her last voyage to
the West Indies, some of the intercolonial steamers
could not return to St. Thomas before the period
hed elapsed for the Parana to leave the latter
island for England ; and the consequence was
that she did not bring home all the regular mails
from the Spanish Main, British Guiana, and
the Windward Islands. A double mail from
Demerara, Trinidad, and other important places
in the West Indies has been brought by the
Tyne.

The Island of Jarna;ca was healthy, with the
exception of cold and intermittent fever. Great
preparations were making for the opening of an
industrial exhibition in March. We regret to per-
ceive an announcement of the death of C. C. Jones,
Esq., of the Colonial Bank, St. Kitts. The outward
packet, with the first February mails, did not
arrive at Kingston until the 25th, being three days
late. The bills for promoting education and
sanitary reform, sent up from the Assembly, had
been rejected by the Legislative Council by a
majority of six to two.

According to the Kingston Morning Journal, the
accounts of Mining operation at Charing Cross,
belonging to the Jamaica Wheal Company, are
exceedingly favourable, and justify sanguine hopes
of ultimate success. Exchange on London, 90
days, I.per cent. prem.

The barque Cambrian and brig Naiad of London,
the barque Glengariff and brigantine St. Lawrance
of Liverpool, the brig Garland of Dublin, and the
barque Trelawny of Glasgow, had arrived at the
port of Kingston.
From British Guiana we have accounts of
serious organised disturbances which had broken
out in Berbice, and for the suppression of which
a military force had been despatched by the Go•
vernor. The riots, which had their deeper causes
in the jealousy of race, were excited by the ravings
of a fanatic named Orr, a creole of the colony,
whom some of our readers may !remember under
the name of the " Angel Gabriel," as having
cnused riots, by similar means, in Greenock last
year. An ordinance had been passed authorising
the Governor to enrol and call out the militia.
The steamer Tyne had been despatched to Barba-
does for additional troops.
Serious disturbances have taken place at
Queenstown and the other parts of Essequibo, the
Arabian coast,.and on the islands of Leguan and
Wakepaam.

The weather during the fortnight had continued
very dry, with only an occasional passing shovier.
The estates were greatly in want of water, and the
growth of the sugar cane was retarded by the long-
continued drought. The work on the estates was
almost entirely suspended, in consequence of the
disturbances throughout the colony. The exports
from this colony during the fortnight were very
small. Sugar, 603 hogsheads, 58 tierces, 179 bar-
rels; rum, 278 puncheons, 71 hogsheads, 46 barrels;
molasses, 214 puncheons, 7 barrels ; rice, 600 bags;
charcoal, 100 barrels ; greenheart timber, 225 logs.
There was a complete stagnation of trade amongst
the merchants.

At Porto Rico the cholera had nearly disappeared,
but ships from that island were still un:ler quaran-
tine. The other islands were healthy.
Intelligence from Jacmel has been received to
the 28th ult. The Emperor Soulouque had returned
to Port-au-Prince with his army after having passed
a few clays at Cape Haytian to review his troops,
after the ineffectual attempt to unite the two
pertions of the island under one flag. One of
the Jacmel regiments returned on the 28th.
All was quiet in Port-au-Prince, and it
was hoped that business would soon recover
from the stagnation into which it had been
thrown by the late events. It was reported
that the French and British consuls would take
immediate steps to bring about, if pos-
sible, some amicable arrangement between the
Haytians and the Spanish side of the island. The
refusal of the Flaytian soldiers to fight against the
Dominicans proves clearly that the people wish for
a peaceful solution of the question.
The following ships of the Royal Navy were left at Port
Royal, Feb. 27th, at 7 p.m. :—Termagant, Commodore
Kellett; Malacca, Imaum, Argus, Hermes, Espeigle.
Communicated with Boenawen, Rear-Admiral Fanshawe,
February 27th, running into Port l=oyal, ten miles distant.
At St. Thomas, March 3rd, .lI.M, surveying vessel
Scorpion.

Letters from Stockholm state that the mixed c-Anmission
charged to prepare the bases of a customs union between the
United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway have just pre-
sented an international bill on the subject.
Sir Joshua Rowe, K.C.8., who for upwards of twenty
years has been Chief Justice of Jamaica, and who, amid
the most exciting party contests, has preserved the regard
and esteem of colonists of every Class, is about to retire from
the bench.

An international address from the inhabitants of Taunton,
Somerset, to those of Taunton, New England, deprecating
any war between this country and America, has received
the signatures of the bailiffs of the borough, the ministers of
religion of all denominations, and many of the inhabitants.
SUPPOSED Loss OF AN INDIAMAN.—OR Wednesday
advices were received at Lloyd's, by the Commander,
Dohrman, master, which arrived off Deal from Porto
Rico, bound to Hamburg, that on the 18th of February
she fell in with the Indiaman Earl of Shaftesbury,
Adamson, master, bouud from London to Calcutta, in
lat. 48 N. lon. 16 West, in a very depressed state, having
encountered a heavy gale on the 16th instant. The
Commander remained in company for two days, when the
vessels were separated by a heavy gale from the S. W.,
and no more was seen of the Earl of Shaftesbury.
MAUNDA.Y THURSDAY. —Yesterday the ceremony of
distributing the ancient and royal charities took place at
the Chapel Royal, Whitehall. This year the recipients
amounted to 37, the number corresponding with her
Majesty's age. A procession, consisting of a Yeoman
Usher and 12 Yeomen of the Guard (one carrying the alms),
her Majesty's sub-almoner, the secretary and yeoman, the
assistant, and the choristers having been formed, and the
clergy and officers having taken their respective seats, the
service commenced. After the first ;anthem, £1 15s. was
distributed to each woman. To each man shoes and
stockings. The second anthem was then sung, and at its
termination woollen and linen clothes were distributed.
After this ceremony had concluded the third anthem was
given, and then the purses c eataining the Maunday money
were distributed to each recipient. Two prayers, composed
for the occasion, having been read, the ceremony con-
cluded. The Bishop of Oxford, High Almoner, having to
attend for the Bishop of London at the Confirmation of the
Princess Royal, the Sub-Almoner, Dr, Jelf, officiated for
his Grace. There was a very full attendance of the clergy,
and also of the nobility and gentry on the occasion.
LIFE AT BARCELONA.—The Barcelona papers contain
accounts of two strange crimes just committed in that
city. A toreador, named Sevilla, got into a quarrel with
a butcher of the Plaza de San Miguel, and struck him
in the face, after which he took to flight. The next
morning he walked slowly before the butcher's shop, and
the butcher's wife seeing him cried out, that if ever he dared
present himself before her again, she would make him
repent his insult to her husband. After a while, the
toreador returned, and said tauntingly, " You see, my
fine lady, that I am not afraid of you! " The woman,
making no reply, seized one of the huge knives which
Spanish butchers use, and which are nearly as sharp as
a razor, and with one blow, skilfully applied, cut his
left arm completely off. She was immediately arrested,
and as she was being conveyed to prison, exclaimed re.
peatedly, " I care not what is done to me, as long as my
husband is avenged ! " Before the emotion caused by
this affair had subsided, the second crime was perpe-
trated. A. young man of twenty, and a girl of
sixteen, after walking arm-in-arm, in the Calle de Capel-
lanes, proceeded to the Plaza da Calenque, where
they faced each other as if about to separate. After
an animated but apparently not angry conversation,
the girl suddenly drew a poignard from her pocket, and
stabbed her companion in the breast. The young man
fell, covered with blood and fainting into the arms of a
labouring man who happened to be passing at the moment,
and the girl took to flight, and could not afterwards be
discovered. The man was conveyed into a druggist's shop,
and there the medical man ascertained that the dagger
was poisoned. Means were immediately employed to
counteract the effect of the p.ison, and the w,,und, when
dressed, was declared, although serious, not mortal. The
young man refuses to divulge the cause of the quarrel.

LATEST INTELLIG? ENCE.

GENERAL AMNESTY IN FRANCE

PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING,

The Moniteur of this day states that the Em-
peror renews the offer made at the inauguration of
the Empire, and that the birth of an Imperial
Prince presents an occasion for the authorisation
to return to France to all who shall declare that
they submit loyally to the Government the nation
has chosen.

The Siecle calls attention to the fact that the
numerous pardons announced in the Moniteur, on
the occasion of the birth of a Prince, do not ex-
tend to any political offences.