The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-19 00:00:00

THE WEST INDIES

We, yesterday, announced the intelligence (received by
telegraph) of the arrival at Southampton, on Thursday
evening, of the Royal West India mail-packet Tyne, with
the West India mails. We are since in possession of the
news she brings.
Men of experience anticipate a very sickly season in
Jamaica. The yellow fever is rife at St. Thomas's, par-
ticularly among the shipping. At Trinidad, dysentery has
become prevalent, and appears likely to increase from the
dryness of the season, In the Jamaica market considerable
additions of American butter have taken place, and prices
have given way materially. Sales have b, en made at from
9d to 11d, according to quality. A small lot of Irish, of
prime quality, sold at 18d ; and of Halifax, sales have ruled
at 1344 to 14d. Small sales of candles have taken place at
7d to 7-11. The supply is immense. The stock of malt is
very large, owing to the very liberal receipts for
some weeks past. Strong ale continues to command
12s for quarts and 78 for pints. The announce-
ment of a large lit of rice, over 2,000 bags, to
arrive, has much depressed the market. Sales have been
made in anticipation, at 14s 6d, in parcels of 260 to 300
bags. Rum is being held at 3s 61, proof 18. Soap is very
quiet. no sales to report. Of sugar, sales have been made
at 20s to 235. The enormous importation of 10's during
the past few weeks has considerably depressed the tobacco
market. Exchange on London, 90 days, 1 per cent prem.
In Demerara the weather was everything that the plasters
could desire.
In Trinidad the crcp of sugar is made and nearly shipped,
estimated at 30,000 hogsheads. The weather was very
favourable for planting operations.
CRILLI.--Congress assembled on June 1. The election
for President of the Republic is to take place on Sept. 18.
The railroad from Tatca to Santiago has been commenced.
The electric telegraph between Valparaiso and the capital is
completed, and the railroad between those places is pro-
gressing rapidly. Mr. Henry Griffin, a passenger in the
Tyne, is commissioned as the bearer of a proposal from the
government of Chilli, to guarantee a subsidy of about thirty
thousand pounds per annum for ten years to any comnanv
willing to undertake a monthly voyage between Great
Britain and Chilli, and vice versa, by means of screw
steamers, provided they touch at Rio de Janeiro. pass
through the Straits of Magellan, touching there at Punta
Arenas, then at Chiloe, Valdivea. Talcualiario, Valparaiso,
finis:.ing the voyage at Caldera, the port of Copiapo.
PERU is on the whole in a tranquil state. The present
President, General Castilla, will probably maintain his
position, as there its no one of sufficient talent and energy
to oppose him with any chance of success. Castilla and Don
Domingo Elias are apparently on good terms ; but were it
otherwise, the bad health of the latter incapacitates him for
exertion. The yellow fever had swept off 250,000 of the
inhabitants of Peru ; but it and the " pesta" had now nearly
disappeared from Lima and the sea-coast, and had abated
in the interior. Trade continued very depressed, through
want of confidence in the government and the sickness lately
so prevalent.

NICARAGUA.--General Walker was at Granada, receiv-
ing reinforcements from the United States (of about 160 men
in May and June), which about make up his losses by
cholera, &c. The army of Costa Rica has retreated within
its own territory, panic-stricken by the ravages of disease.
The Costa Rican exchequer is empty. It is alleged that
the envoy of Costa Rica has induced the government of
Guatemala to join Honduras and San Salvador in an
expedition with 1,000 men, with field-pieces, to co-onerate
against Walker, and that the President-General Carrara
will march at the head of a formidable body in the month
of.J 111 y. Guatemala is, in other respects, tranquil, develop-
ing its internal resources. Coffee and sugar are successfully
raised, and it is balieved the latter will this year become an
article of export. The cochineal crop has been a fair average
in quantity, but of indifferent quality.