Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-06-16 00:00:00

WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS.

The Royal Mail Company's steamer, La Plata,
arrived at Southampton on Sunday, with the West
Indian mails and 229 passengers, among whom
are Mr. Allan Wa 8.M., Consul, from Costa
Rica, and Deputy Commissary-General Bland,
from Jamaica. The latest dates by this arrival are
Honduras, May 17 ; S tnta Martha and Chagres.
23; Grey Town, 19 ; Carthagena, Grenada, and
St,. Vincent, 26; Jamaica and Barbadoes, 27;
Jacmel, St. La pia. Martineque, Guadaloupe, and
Dominique 28 ; Porto Rico, Antigua, Montsterrat,
Nevis, St. Kitts, and Tortola, 29 ;'Demerara, 25 ;
Trinidad, 25 ; and S. Thomas, the 31st ult.
The La Plata brings on frieght in specie,
1,059,734 dots , 515 serons cochineal, 3 serons
indigo, 93 cases cigars, 147 bales tobacco, 84 casks
of coffee, 53 hales sarsaparilla, 95 cssks ginger, 12
kegs honey, 1 barrel wax, one case shells, 8 cases
succades, 72 bales hark, 8 cases plants, and 66
packages of sundries.

THE WEST INDIES.

Up to the 31st ult the date of the La Plata
leaving St Thomas, yell ,w fever still continued to
rage without any prospect of abatement. The
La Plata has also lost seven of her crew from this
fatal disease since leaving St. Thetnas.
From the KINGSTON journals we learn that. the
William Hammond, troop-ship, with a detachment
of the 41st regiment, having smallpox on board,
have been admitted to Pratique. The sick have
been landed at the Apostles Battery, and the
remainder have been landed at Kingston, and
marched up to Newcastle.
BARBADOES —The weather has considerably im-
proved for crop operations (luring the past fortnight,
and the staple productions are being manufactured
and brought to the shipping port with all possible
lespatch. The young cane crop, notwithstanding
the continued dry weather, wears a healthy and
vigorous aspect. With regard to trade, the condition
and prospects of the E iglish sugar market,reported
by the packet on Thursday, has imparted increased
excitement to the local produce market. Sugar is
now worth from 7/ dols to 8 dols ; molasses, 44c ;
rum, 50c to 560. Planters are expecting a further
rise. Colonial Bank exchanges are as follows :-
90 days, 475 dols ; 60 days, 4771 dols ; 30 days,
480 dols, per £lOO sterling.
DEMERAIIA.—The weather has been very wet,
and the rainy season had fully set in. Trade was
dull. TonnFge abundant, and freight scarce.
From the Demerara Gazette we learn that the
mortality on board the Merchantman, emigrant
ship from Calcutta, had exceeded anything that
has ever occurred in the records of immigration to
that colony ; 113 died on the voyage, 60 were con-
veyed to the hospital on their arrival, and of those
five died on being landed, and several others
subsequently expired in the hospital. Many died
of cholera during the passage down the Hooghly,
and many more of dysentry and diarrhoea, betore
they reached the Cape ; ship fever then broke out
with fearful virulence, and the whole of the ship
become a sort of general hospital, in which the
sick and the healthy were-indiscriminately huddled
up together.
Our GRENADA papers to hand contain no news of
importance. The island still continues healthy.
Slight showers of rain had fallen almost daily,
doing great good to the young canes and provision
grounds.
JAMAICA commercial flour sales, are 1,200 brls. al
39s per brl, and market firm thereat. Hams are
plentiful, and dull of sale ; 8d has been accepted
for recent lots. Lard sales at 41 to 10d per lb.
Pimento, none at market. Soap, no demand at all.
Tobacco : cavendish, is lid to is 211 per lb; leaf,9ss
• per bale Rum,sales at 4s; proof, 18s. Coffee is worth
45s per 100 lbs for ordinary. Butter, we note a sale
of American at 10d. Cornmeal, late receipts have
been sold 22s to 235. Maekrel, sales at 38s. Corn,
new wanted. Codfish, sales of late receipts at
18s 6:1 to 19s for tierces, and 19s to 21s for boxes,
according to quality. Salmon, sales of tierces ;
Hudson's Bay Company's at £1 16s per tierce;
pork, sales of mess, at 126 s to 128 s per barrel.
Exchange on London, Jamaica, and Colonial
Bank, 90 days',l per cent prem ; 60 days', 1 per
Scat.dlrpm • al Q. wv Y 0.1.1 ,nrsewatias-mi1a,134-isek
cent. prem.