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London, England, 1853-07-02 00:00:00

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bbcome confirmed attacks of fever, and the fatality in
all probability greatly augmented.
We regret to find that some of the company's ships in
the West Indies have suffered severely from yellow
fever: On board the Medway Mr. Carr, the fourth
offi!er, and Mr. Douglas, the purser, had fallen victims
to it. Capt. Curling, •of the Medway, has returned
home in the Magdalena invalided. He reports that
from the 10th of May to the sth of June 17 persons had
died on board his ship—viz., two, officers, two pursers,
two engineers, one carpenter, and ten of the crew.
The Trent was spoken by the Dee off Carthagena on
the 10th of June, and reported having lost Mr. Ramsay,
chief engineer, Mr. Stone, second engineer, and seven
of the crew by yellow fever.
On the 27th ult., in lat. 42.46 north, and long. 24.20
west, the Magdalena spoke the General Screw Com-
pany's steamer Hydaspes, bound to Plymouth, coming
home under canvas with her machinery damaged, as
previously reported. The Hydaspes left Mauritius on
the 14th of April, and placed on hoard the Magdalena
her mails from Mauritius, St. Helena, and the Cape of
Good Hope.
From Jamaica our advices extend to the morning of
the 11th of June. The yellow fever, we regret to notice,
was raging at Kingston ; it had also appeared at Port
Royal, and a rumour prevailed that it had reached Up-
park Camp. Among the victims, we regret to find, is
Commodore Peter M'Quhae, commanding on the sta-
tion at Port Royal. He was interred at Halfway Tree
the day before the packet left.
The Legislature remained in the same position as re-
corded by our last acivices. No revenue—no revenue
bills ; the house adjourning from day to day without
transacting any business, having refused to do further
business with the Council, in consequence of their re-
jection of the Retrenchment and Appropriated Revenue
Bills on two or three successive occasions.

Much anxiety prevailed on t'ie subject of copper
mining, and the inhabitants looked forward to a new
source of wealth to the island from the very excellent
specimens that had been collected.
The weather was extremely hot, the general health
good, the yellow fever being confined principally to
newly-arrived Europeans. De Cordova's Mercantile
Intelligences gives the following review of mercantile
affairs :

"Although the differences between the Council and
the House of Assembly remain unsettled, business mat-
ters generally, in as far as the import market is con-
cerned, wear a more satisfactory appearance than they
have done for the last Bor 10 weeks. The unlikelihood
that any legislative measures will be adopted with refer-
ence to the re-enactment of the revenue bills, without
the interferfuicet4.l4e... jnakciii4Sokvernmeo which
must of necessity defer 11.4"iidjusim—eiit of the question
for two or three months at least, has rendered specula-
tive transactions less hazardous, and induced dealers to
come forward rather more freely than had recently been
the case. Prices generally have been equably supported,
and (the abeyance of the rated duties considered) have
ruled higher than was anticipated. Moderate receipts,
however, have had a great deal to do with this."

Her Majesty's ship Calypso arrived at St. Thomas,
from Barbadoes, and sailed on the 11th for Montserrat,
all well. Her Majesty's steamer Alban left Jamaica on
the sth of June for Havannah. The brig Daring sailed
on the 26th of May, and the schooner Bermuda on the
Bth of June, for a cruise.

The Magdalena spoke the Orinoco on the night of the
16th ult., off Virgin Gorda, steering for St. Thomas.
The Avon, Captain Elliston, was at St. Thomas ; the
Trent on the Spanish Main route ; the Dee at St.
Thomas, bound to the Northern Islands ; the Medway
bound to the Spanish Main ; the Conway at Jamaica ;
the Eagle at Barbadoes ; the Derwent at Jamaica. The
steamer Tamaulipas, 26 days from Liverpool, arrived at
Jamaica on the 27th of May, and sailed on the 29th for
Tampico.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
VESSELS IN KINGSTON HARBOUR.

Barks—The Isabella, Bess Grant, Melbourne, Sophia
—English ; the Tonsberg—Norwegian ; the Antelope—
Swedish ; the Mary Kimball, Chieftain—American.

Brigs—The Arena, Britannia, Aid, Lydia—English ;
the Sophie, Elise and Charlotte—Bremen.
Brigantines—The Maitland, Ranger, Maude, Eagle—
English ; the Fairy—Prussian ; the Scotia, Viola, St.
Andrews—American ; the Vampire—Dutch.
Schooners—The Seraphina, London, Operator, Ane-
mone, General Grant—English ; the Josefa, Tres Her-
manos—Spanish ; the Hendrina, Anita, General Piar—
Dutch ; the Walter J. Doyle—American ; the Clorinde
—Haytian.

THE UNITED STATES.

SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 1.

The United States mail steam-ship Washington, Cap-
tain Fitch, arrived at Cowes this morning, on her way to
Bremen, for which place she started immediately after
transhipping her English mail and passengers for this
place.

- The Washington left New York on the 18th. Her
news is consequently three days later than that pre•
viously received per Arabia, at Liverpool.
Nothing of importance had transpired since the last
ad vi ces.

The Asia steam-ship had arrived out, after a good
passage, from Liverpool.
The hip Gendar, loading for Liverpool, was burned
at her wharf, at Charleston, on the 16th, and 1,800
bales of cotton and 375 barrels of resin destroyed. The
ship and cargo were insured in Liverpool.

Great consternation had been caused at New Orleans
in consequence of an insurrectionary attempt on the part
of the negroes to rise upon the white population. A man
of the name of Dyson, an Englishman, was at the head
of the movement. For a year past he has been teaching
a school of negro children. He was accused two years
ago of hoarding a negro criminal, and was imprisoned
several months. He has been arrested on this charge,
and is in prisor. If the offence is proved against him,
the penalty will be very severe—probably death.
Later advices from Texas state that the Wachiti
Indians had murdered all but one of the persons be-
longing to a surveying party under Mr. Hubert, on the
Red River.
It was said that several cases of Asiatic cholera had
occurred in Alexandria Valley.
Advices from Cuba state that several thousand slaves
had been lrn led on the island.

The Maine Liquor Law had passed the Senate.
The Gavazzi riots have attracted the attention of the
Canadian Parliament. On the 13th inst. a petition was
received from sundry Protestants of the city of Quebec,
praying that they may be made secure in the observance
of religious worship, and that the city municipality may
be rendered responsible for all damages occasioned by
breaches of the peace. Mr. Stewart, by whom the peti-
tion was presented, introduced a bill to provide a remedy
against the corporation of Quebec, and for assuring its
citizens against destruction of property by mobs, The
bill was read for the first time, the second reading
having been set down for Monday.
THE FRENCH AND THE NORTHERN FISHERIES.—On
the 18th of May a French cutter from Miquelon,
mounting six guns, made her appearance in the Bay of
St. George, on the coast of Newfoundland, where about
40 British vessels from Prince Edward's Island, Nova
Scotia, and New Brunswick, were engagaged in herring
fishing. The Frenchman ordered them all to leave im-
mediately, threatening to fire upon them if they refused,
and they were thus driven away, leaving their nets be-
hind them, and without wood or water. Of courso
their owners complain loudly, and demand reparation.
As no objection has hitherto been made to the British
fishing upon that part of the coast, this act of the
Frenchman, unless misstated, is a sheer piece of folly.
It must be borne in mind, however, that the treaty of
1763, confirmed by the treaties of 1814 and 1815, by
which Great Britain ceded to France, along with the
isles of St. Pierre and Miquelon, certain fishing rights.
has been denounced by the Newfoundland people them-
selves, on more than one occasion, because, as they
alleged, those rights were exclusive as to the parts of
the coast between Cape Ray and Cape John. In adopt-
ing and carrying out their own interpretation of the
treaty, the captain of the cutter, or those under whose
authority he acted, may have shown, and probably did
show, great want of judgment ; but it is not likely any
rigid accountability will be insisted on by those who,
in advance, settled the principle against themselves.