The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-20 00:00:00

TEt SUN, LON On SATURDAY EV ENING, NOY_F,M BER 2O, 1847.

ONEY and COMMERCIAL NEW

CITY, QUAI?TER TO THREE.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was very
flat. Sales 3,500 bales, making 22,430 bales for the
week. Railway Shares were not quite so good, but
there was very little stock offering.
The Bank of England return to the 13th inst. presents
most satisfactory features. The Bank is now so far
gaining strength, and has such a fair proportion of assets
to liabilities, that there can no longer be any doubt of
the expediency of reducing the rate of discounts. In-
deed the diminution of the " other securities" shows that
trade will not flourish while money is so dear, and that
as engagements run out, there will not be a renewal. The
bullion is now steadily augmenting, and the national re-
ceipts look better under the head of public deposits,
thanks, probably, to the pressing collection of taxes•
The following are the features in the return :

£22,848,375
421,845
3,610,979
29,732
5,991,765
1,000,452
8,312,171
492,224

Notes issued
Increase
Rest
Increase
Public deposits .
Increase
Other deposits
Decrease

Seven day and other bills
Decrease 37,658
Government Securities 10,583,607
Decrease
Other Securities 19,560,468
Decrease 359,447
Notes ....
Increase . . 767,625
Bullion.. 9,258,520
Increase
Active circulation ...
Decrease 345,780
It is represented in a morning Comtemporary, that:the
East India Company had applied to the directors of the
Bank of England for the loan of 2,000,0001., and that
8 per cent. was demanded, which was demurred to. We
are in a position to contradict the assertion, which
originated, we are assured, in a stock-jobbing quarter,
so that the market for Consols might be influenced.
The General Steam Navigation Mail Packet arrived
this morning from Hamburgh, bringing on freight
200,0004 in half Imperials (gold), on account of the
Russian Government. It is stated that more is coming.
The private accounts from the West Indies are most
distressing. Bankruptcy appears to await the colony in
its whole extent. Estates were put up for sale, but there
were not any buyers to be found, and a degree of des-
pondency prevailed such as never was before witnessed.
In the City this morning, we regret to learn that very
serious apprehensions are entertained that one or two
firms will be announced as bankrupt before the close of
the day.
Soon after the commencement of business in the Stock
Market a party, Mr. John Williams, was declared a
defaulter. The differences are calculated at about
20,0004 He was a Bear, and his account having to be
bought in, the market for Consols was run up to 84i.
Since, however, the prices have become flat at
84, the value being just now per cent. higher
for the Account. Consols for Money have only
fluctuated from 841- to 84f, the former being
the nearest quotation now. The price upon Exchequer-
bills is at 3s. discount, and of India Bonds under 1,0001
at 20s. to 30s. discount. A single bargain has been
made in Bank Stock at 188.
In Portuguese Four per Cents. there has been a pur-
chase at 21e ; in Spanish Five per Cents. at 17 to 16* ;
and in Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 54 to 541.
The Railway Share Market is not buoyant to-day.
Purchases are made with hesitation, and prices very
variable.

cLOSING
oNE
S
PRICES or BRITISH FUNDS. O'cLOCK. PRICE
Bank Stock . lBB
****
3 Per Cent. Reduced •Anns
82% 8314 82% 1825,E
84 IA
amPer Cent. Consols A nnuities.. .. 84% lie lis
84%
',ow' 3!.4 per Cent. Anus B4 A 5 I lA i
234
India Stock 234
India Bonds, 1,000/.
30 dis
Ditto under I,oow. ..
84%
Consols for Account... ******
•-•
** 84 ;,,i A % 1../. 81 841%
Exchequer Bills. ***
3d.
1 dis
1,005000/1.
************ 2l dpis2pdaisr 3 1 dis
2 dis
************** ..•••• ••• ••
par Small .................... ...
CLOSING
ONE
PRICES
PRICES OF FOREIGN •
rIINDS. O'CLOCK
78%
Braz;lian Bonds .
88
••
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent.... - ..... —21 h
Equador Bonds ... 21/
................ 2
. • • •
Portuguese 5 per Cents. ............
. 21%
Ditto, 4 per Cent. .... 21%
16%
Spanish 5 per Cent. 184 above 17 16%
Dividends on the payable in London.
54%
Dutch, VA per Cent., 12 Gtfild.... 54 543 PRICEs or
RAILWAY SHARES. PAID, A.BTUSOINNEESADLOcNsE. CLOSING
ENPlAberdeen
22%
..............
and Eastern Junction 2%..
Ayrshire and Galloway..
B A
Belfast & County Down 1021
•••• .
irmingham and Oa.-
..... . ......
ford Junction " ........ 15 ......
Birmingham, 'Wolver-
hampton, and Dudley 10 ... ..
13%
Birrn ing., 'Wolverlepton
and Stour Valley... , 8 „
..
Birkenhead, Loncashire,
and Cheshire June.... 73/4 ......
Boston, Statnfil, & Birm. 5 ......
Bristol and Exeter ..... 75 ...... 623/4 62%
Ditto, Thirds ......... 15
Caledßuckingha T; 0 shire ...... 10/. 48. . --- 4 ....
•••" 23/4 dis
onian
...... 50
-1
.........
• .•••
Ditto, Half Shares..... 3% ...... % 1
Ditto, Clydesdale June 50 •
......
Chester and Holyhead... 37%.,••„ ............ .•
•
Clare Ditto, Preference .. 8 .... ' ............
Do.nce ............... .... 78 4 ..
Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10 ..... ...... ...
Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 •
......
Do. Government Loan,
4 andent.. .......... 10 ..... -... _
DublißelfastJunc. 20 ...... -- ...
Dundalk & Enniskillen 15 ......
East Anglia, 25L, L. Is
E. and L. and D. —.. 25 •
...... .........
Do., 18L, E. & 1L... 18 ...... ...
East Do., 3/. 10s., E. &H. 1 ...... 3/4%
ern Counties ......... 20 ...... 16% 16 ......
Ditto, Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1. ...... 6/. 13s. •
4d...
DDitto ditto, Nu. 2... 6/. •135. 4d... ...
Doo., York Extension.. 10 . .... 8
Do., North. & Eastern 50 ...... ......... ••—• -:-
Do., Quarters ......... 12% — ......... ... ..
~ New ............. .23
Eastern Union 50 ...... -
Ditto. Quarter Shares 12%...,,, ...............
DDito, Thirds ... 135. 4d ..... . ........
0., (guar. 6 per cent) ...... ......... .....
East Lancashlre.l
..•. ...........
Ditto. New ..........
Ditto, New Quarters 3%
............ ••
East Lincolnshire
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ..--
Ditto Half Shares ... 15 ...... —
Ditto, •Quarter Shares 12% ......
Edinburgh & Northern.. 22% .....
Ditto, New ........ 2% — .... ...........
Er
Ditto, Newport..... ... 91,4
Ditto ditto, New . .... 2% ....
eter:Yeovil, & Dorch. 2 % ...... .-• • •
Ditto,.... 2%......
Glesgow, Dumfries, and
Carlisle ..............8d .....
Glasgow, Kilmer., & A); 50 ......
Ditto, 40 '-
.._
Great South. and West.
Do. Preference Consol. 12 %. .....
......
Great Northern..,. 8 .....
..._
(IDo., London and York 2 •%.. ... ...
213/4
reland) ............... 85 ...... 2134.. ......... ..
Great North of England..loo ...... ..... .......... .
1,
Ditto, New 401, 5 ...... 55% .............. 55 A
Ditto, New 301
ft
Great We5tern............ 85
Ditto, % 5hare5........ 50
Ditto, 14 Shares ...... 15
Ditto, Fifths ............ 20
..•• •••
Ditto, New 17L ..... -.. 7 .... %
Huddersfield & Mulches. 22
....... .....
..
...... T •"' -- ..
Ditto, Thirds ......... 7
Rull and Selby ............ 50
4814 .. ......
....
........ ..
Ditto, 14 Shares..,,, 12% .
"'lpswic Bury St. Elin. 15
Do, """'••'•••••... do., and Norwich 15 —
Do, do, Extens.Scrip
...
(late Camb. & Ely) 2% — .........
.. ...
__
Lancaster and Carlisle... 5°
Ditto Thirds
,
Lancashire & Yorkshire 93
Ditto, ditto -
Ditto % Shares . ... 381 ......
1631%
Do. Quarter Shares... 14 /2
Do. Fifths 6 ...
Do, Sixteenths 6% _%
Do. Thirds (Reg.)....10/. 48.
_—
Do. Liverp. and Bury 34
Ditto 14 (late Hud-
dersfield and Sheff.) 33
Do.( Wakefield, Ponte-
fract. & Goole ...... 47% — ***
...... .....
Do. (W. Riding Union) 4/. 2s.
Do. (Preston is Wyre) 25 —
Do. % Shares (A) 9
. Ditto ditto (B) ... 1% 1-4 eds and Bradford .... 50 ......
Leicester and Bedford... 16s.
Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 37% —
•••••••••
Do., Branch % Shares 1214.. ......... ''• **
Do.Newßranch(blue) 2%
Do. Extension Do•NewExten(green) 2 %.•
••••
. (pink
...... )
32%6 ..»..
Leeds and Thirsk ...
20
Ditto, New
............. 171,E — •..
........ ---
110., Prefer., 6 per
and 3%.
Liverpool, Crosby and
i. Southport.— ...
l'iverlx, anchstr& New . 2
castle Junction. . ...... 214-- ...... -•
London and Blackwall..l6/. 13s. 4d. •
--- ..... --
DoDo. New, No. 1 ...... 6 ......
Do. New, No. 2 .. 4/. 1.35. 4d.... • .............
. Extension- ... 14 ...... •••
London, Brighton'....,and South Coast, SO
.. . .....
............ .••
Do. Cont.ol. Eighths.. 30
De. Guarant. 5 per et. 9
Des 1.- - -

let Con. 5 per ct. 60
- ...... ...... . .. •••
•••••• ..... ••• 111••••••••••

99 j 2
60

48 lA.

10IA,

33
11%
6!4

19%

London and Greenwich 12/ 15s 4d
Ditto, Preference ... 18/ 1 ;is 2d
London and N. Western 10:) 1543A %
Do.,Quarters L.& B. 17
Do., do., New
Ditto Fifths .... 2
Do. !4 Shares (G. J.) 25
Do 40/. Shares( L. )15
Do. 40/. (M. & B.) ... 40
Do. 101. (111= & B.) A. 7% . ....
Do. 10/. (M. & B.) B. 71 —
Do. 101. al. & B.) C. 1
Loud. & S.Western 41/. &. 8d
Do. New Consol. Bths 40 .
Do. New 50/. ..... 32%.. 28%
Do. Ne,‘ 401 26 . .
Do. Tenths (Consul.) 50
Ditto ditto ........ 40
Ditto, Thirds Cl. 13s. 4d.... je dis.
London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil
Londunderry&Culerain,- 271/12. — -...
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen .. 233/4......
Manclie,ter,Buxton.and
Matlock: .
Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire _IOO
Do. Quarters (No. 1) 13
Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 95
Ditto ditto (No. 3)...
Ditto and Grimsby-- 25
Ditto ditto . 7 ........,
Ditto ditto
Ditto Sheffield and
Lincolnshire
Manchest. & Southampt. 2 ......
100 lO9
Do. Consolidated Pref.loo
Do. 40/. Shares
Do. 501. Shares . 10
Do. Birm., and Derhyloo
Midland Consul. Brist. &
Birming., 6 per cent.loo
Midlud. Brist. &G 1

3 ...... - ..

- locstr. 34 ......
Ditto, ditto 71.95..•.,,.
Midlnd, Leicest. & Swan-

nington, 8 per ct.guar.loo ......
Midisnd Great Western
Irish B5
Newcastleand Carlisle...loo ......
Do. Quarter-
._

rs
50 .....
Newmrket&Chesterford 13% .....
Do. Extension .........21. 125....
Newport, Abergavenny,
and Hereford . 4 ......
Newry and Enniskillen 7
Newry. Warrenpor—

.., nt,
and Rostrevcr . . 10
Norfolk
Do. New 201.
Do. Extension
Do. Scrip, 1847, North
of Norfolk 2
•.• .....
Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 - ..... ....
Northern Counties Union 4 —
North British ........ ... 25 ...... 26341
Do. Half Sharts 12%...... 113/ xi
Do. Quarters 434 414 xi —...,
Do. Extension -•••••
Ditt ' Thirds 1 ...... ... ..... .•
Nora Statiordshire 7% ...... .
Nov n Wales
North Western
Oxford, Worcester. and
Wolverhampton ...... 35 ..... 19 ....
Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate
itovstcn and Ilitchin.... 1% — , ,

Scottish Central
Scottish Midland
Ditto, New lO — . . ••
3heflield, Rotherham,
and Goole
Shrewsbury and Birm... 6
Ditto ditto. Class B. 3
hrewsbury & Chester
( Nor. W. Mn.)
Ditto Halves ... ditto 8 . — .. .. .......
Ditto Oswestry ... .. 12
---
Ditto New
Shrewsbury and Ilerefd 2 ......
Shropshire Union
south Devon 40
Do. Preference
-- ••.• • •
South Staffordshire
`oath Eastern & Dover. 33% 29 28% ......
Do., No. 1 26
D0., Nt .2.
lio , N 0.3 .. ..... ...... :5 •••••• -
Do.. No. 4
South Wales
south Yorkshire, Don-
caster, and Goole 2
Swans. & Loughor & Ca-
meron's Still. Coal. ... 4
Taw Vale Extension ... 4
Thames Ilaven Dock
and Railway ....
Vale of Neath 4
Waterford and Kilkenny 131,, — ..
Waterford and Limerick 3i
Waterld,Wxlrd,Wicklw,
and Dublin
West Cornwall 4 ... ..
Whitehaven & Furness 11
Windsor, Staines, and
South Western ..... ... 52s — ........ ....
Wilts, Somerset,& IV ey-
mouth 3O — ..
York, Newcastle, and
Berwick. . .... 25 .....
Do. Original New and
Berwick - ...... ~
Do. North Shields l'ur. 25
Do. Extensiox No. 1. 10
Do. do. No. 2......... 10
Do. G.N.L.Preference 8 ...... ...
York and North Al idland 50
Ditto, Preference ...... 10
Du. East skit NV est Rid-
ing Extension

FOREIGN RAILWAY.

Anglo. Belgian.... ^ 4
Balbadoes 1
Boulogne and Amiens... 20
Central of France (Or-
leans and Vierzon) ... 14

291,4
_B3/4

111;3
4:
5514
421,2
2814

1 die.

D• 41.0•
• • ••• 109

Central of Spain ... .... 2
Ceylon
Demerara 5 —
Dendre Valley
Direct Bombay and
Madras
Dutch Rhenish 7
East Indian ...
Great Indian Peninsular ss.
Great Southern of Madras ss.
Great Western Bengal... ss.
Great Western Canada... 314 ......
Italian and Austrian.... 4 ... .. — ,
Jamaica S.Mid. J unction 1
Louvain ala Sambre ... 6 ... • ...... ....... .
Luxembourg 6
Lyons and Avignon
Madras ...... 1
Madras. Nellore, and
Arcot IA —
Madrid and Valentia.... 2 ... ..
Namur and Liege
Northern of France....... 10 .....
Orleans and Bordeaux 6
Over I'm& 4l3s 4d
Paris and Lyons ...... .. 10
Paris and Orleans 2O
Paris and Rouen .. 20
Paris and Strasbourg 8
Rouen and Havre
Sambre and Meuse ...... 18 ...... ...
Strasbourg and Bale
... 14
rours and Nantes ...... 8
'fournay, Jurbise, Lan-
den, and Hasselt....... 16
West Flanders ...... ... 8
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia
London Joint Stock . _

—ock ...... 10
British North American 50
Colonial 25
Commercial of London 20 —
Union of London... ...... 10
Union of Madrid 4O
London & Westminster. 20
Provincial of Ireland ... 25
Dit to, New
Ditto New. ... ..

_.V ••• ..... ..•• ••• 13
National I'rov. lingland. 35
Ditto, New ...... .. ..... 10 --
National of Ireland 2O/2 •••• ........ •••
Union of Australia

Anglo Mexican lOO INES.
......
'
RGalvanized Iron ...... .. 10
......
eal Del Monte, Unreg.
...... 31,4
................. ,

41%
81,4

..... 118;2

.....
2%

•••• • 26'
1•041 113/ XI
.0..0 4%X1

1914
6%

2,

1%

28%

303/4

1314
n%

-
75 %

•• --
.• 15x

5%

354

-
l'4

314

LLOYD'S SIIIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LGNDON, Nov. 20.—Wind S.S.W., light airs, with
dense fog.
DEAL, Nov. 19.—Wind N.W., foggy.—Arrd. Richard
Reynolds, Walker, Quebec, for Rochester. Sid. Lord
Dalhousie, Calcutta. Arrd. from the river, :Robert
Sayers, Sydney, New South Wales; Tullock Castle,
Bombay; Kermaun Rutter, Bahia.
DOVER ROADS, Nov. 19.—Arrd. Orion, Brazil, for
Hamburg.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 19.—Wind W. to N.W.—Arrd.
Constitution, Bretton, New York. Sld. Joseph Bushby,
Bombay; Oregon, Valparaiso; Clymene, Cullas; River-
dale, New Orleans; Intrinsic, ditto; Henry Herbeck,
New York; Britannia steamer, Halifax. Put back, M.
Vincent, for St. Vincent with quarter damaged; Emma,
Heyn, for Hamburgh, with loss of bowsprit, both
having been in contact. Off port, Emilia, supposed
from Rio Janeiro, Theresa Jane, Maranham ; Luna
packet, Berlin.

---
FALMOUTH, Nov. 19.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Snelheed,
Gorter, Surinam, for Amsterdam, leaky, &c.
HULL, Nov. 18.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Mary Caroline,
St. John's; Win. Ward, Graven, Davis's Straits.
'J'RooN, Nov. 17.—Sld. Loathlank, Bombay; Citizen,
Rio Janeiro.
&CLYDE, NOV. 18.—Wind S.W.—Acrd. Elizabeth,
Duckett, Quebec. Sid. Arab, Demerara; Abigail, New
York ; Sarah Batsford, Honduras.

BRIDLINGTON BAY, Nov. 19.—Jane, Quebec, for
Shields.

DUBLIN, Nov. 18.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Elizabeth, St.
John's, New Brunswick.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 19.—The Concord, Wilson, coal-
laden, arrived here yesterday, took the ground and
filled—dis.charged part of her cargo, &c., and was taken
into the Camber.
SHIELDS, Nov. 19.—The Vigilant has become a wreck
—stores saved.
SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 19.—Wind S.W.—Sid. Marion,
Jamaica.
STUDWELL ROADS, Nov. 14.—Arrd. Credo, Quebec.
CLYDE, Nov. 18.—Wind S.W.—Sld. 16th, Trident,
Demerara; 17th, Queen of Isles, Lima.
Hula., Nov. 19 —Willi W.S.W.—SId. Helena, Val-
paraiso; Meranham, New Orleans; John de Wolf, St.
John's.

LYNN, Nov. 18.—The following vessels are on shore
La the Channel :—The Baltimore, from Memel ; Whirr,

8 ! Howard, from Richebucto ; Sitrepta and Helene, from
llartlepool.
YARMOUTH, Nov. 19.—The Arms, Shields to Lon-
don, was abandon( d in the Roads last night, with the
water up to the cabin deck. The Bilton, Odessa to Leith,
was assisted into the Roads to-day leaky, and with pumps
choked.

MARKET NEWS.—(THIS I)AY.)
COVENT-GARDEN.
Potatoes, 5s to 7s per cwt.; Apples, is to 2s 9d; and
Pears, 2s 6d to 6s per half-sieve ; Walnuts, 6d
to is per hundred; Greens, is 9d to 2s 6d ; Turnips,
2s to 2s 6d; Leeks, is 6d to is 9d ; Onions, is 6d to
2s 3d; and Carrots, 3s to 5s per dozen bunches ;
Red Cabbages, 2s 3d to 5s 6d; Savoy ditto, 9d to Is ;
and Cauliflowers, 2s 6d to 3s per dozen; Pine Apples,
5s to 9s each; Celery, 9d to Is 6d; Horse-radish,
Is 9d to 4s ; and Brocoli 9d to is 3d per bundle; Mush-
rooms, 9d to is 6d per basket; Hothouse Grapes, 2s 6d to
4s; Filberts, 4d to Bd, and Cob. nuts, 6d to 8d per lb ;
Spinach, 2s 2d to 3s 3d per sieve.
NEW GATE AND I.EADENEIAX.X..
Each kind of Meat moved off readily at very full
prices. Beef, from 3s 2d to 4s 2d ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s
8d; Veal, 3s 10d to 4s 10d; and Pork, 4s to 5s 2d per
Bibs by the carcase. Geese, 4s ed to 7s 6d; Fowls, 2s 3d
to 4s 6d ; Chickens, is 9d to 2s ; Ducks, Is Gd to
2s 6d; Rabbits, 8d to is 2d; Leverets, 2s 6d to 3s 6d ;
Grouse, Is to is 6d ; Partridges, is 3d to is f d ;
Pheasants, 3s to 4s ; and Pigeons, 8d to 10d each.
Fresh Butter, lld to Is 4d per lb.

NEWPORT.
Beef, from 3s to 4s 2d ; Mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ;
Veal, 4s to ss; and Pork, 4s to 5s 4d per Blbs.
WUITECHAPEL.
_ _ _

Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s ; Mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 8d;
Veal, 3s 10d to 4s 10d ; and Pork, 4s to 5s 2d per
81bs.

HIINGERFORD.

We had a very steady general Temand here to-day,
and the quotations had an upward tendency.

PROPERTY AND INCOME
TAXES.
. _

(From the Progress of America, by John
Macgregor, Esq., M.P.)
These never have been, nor are they likely to be,
taxes agreeable to the people :—especially the tax
upon incomes not derived from realised property, that
is, the tax on trades and professions. But when we
have, from ordinary sources, a deficient revenue, we
are bound to resort to extraordinary means, and we
shall always do so, in order to maintain the national
honour, credit, and dignity.
If a house tax, alone, would meet the deficient ex-
penditure, after the abolition of the unsound, and
inquisitorial, taxes we have enumerated under the
heads of excise, customs, taxes, and stamps, we would
prefer, infinitely, to discountenance rather than to
have any recourse to, an income and property tax.
But it is clear that the demand upon the treasury, to
meet the expenditure, will not, for some
per-
mit the abandonment of the property tax. The next
considerarion is, can we render it more equitable, and
less inquisitorial ? We are convinced that this can
be effected. years,

The Income-tax collected in the year ending the
sth of April, 1843 :

ENGLAND AND WALES.
Income. Tax

Schedule A, lands, tenements,
&c., in respect of the pro
perty thereof ... £73,728,429 £2,150,412
Schedule B, lands, &c., in
respect of the occupancy
thereof ... 486,606 29t,
Schedule C, annuities, divi-
dends, &c.
... 27,873,691 812,983
Schedule D, profits or gains... 50,296,645 1,466,985
Schedule E, public officers,&c. 8,936,831 260,657

.. 20,486,606 298,763

WEST INDIA MAIL.

The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Dee
arrived yesterday at Southampton, bringing the West
India mails of the following dates : —St. Jago de
Cuba Oct 21st, Jamaica 24th, Hayti 26th, Demerara
20th, Tobago and Trinidad 22d, Barbadoes 24th,
Grenada, St. Vincent's, and St. Lucia, 26th, Mar-
tinique, Dominique, and Guadaloupe, 27th, Antigua,
Montserrat, and St. Kitt's, 28th, St. Thomas's 31st,
and Fayal Nov. 12th.
The Dee has on freight 4,000 dollars on account of
the Royal Mail Company, 216 ounces of gold dust,
2,900 dollars on account of British merchants, and a
general cargo ; 998 bags and 22 barrels of pimento;
86 bales of sarsaparilla; 19 tierces, 37 barrels and 16
bags of coffee; 13 barrels of ginger, and sundries,
She brings accounts of a terrible hurricane which
took place on the 11th of October at Tobago, an
account of which will be found in another column.
A great portion of the houses was destroyed, and the
shipping suffered considerably.
The Pantaloon arrived with yellow fever; 12 deaths.
The Jamaica legislative session was opened on the
19th instant in a long speech by the Governor, which
is generally commented upon in terms of satisfaction
by the Jamaica journals. His Excellency cautiously
abstains from pledging the Government to any spe-
cific measures, but holds out hopes that something
effectual will be done to relieve the depressed state of
the colony.

4it is incredible that they should much longer abstain
from combining sincerely in methods calculated to put
an end to so great a reproach, scandql, and crime. /t
is shameful that after such treaties it should have con-
tinued so long; but it would be still more shameful
for foreign states either to acknowledge that they do
not wish their treaties to take effect, or to pretend that
it is beyond the power of the whole civilised world to
give them effect. The introduction and establish-
ment by united Christendom of peace, order, law, a just
and free commerce, and a pure religion on the coast
of Africa, would abate this enormous atrocity, and
would gradually bring that teeming population into a
condition to estimate the advantages within their
reach ; and it would then rest only with the planters
of each colony respectively on this side of the Atlan-
tic, by improving the condition of the labouring class,
and by making it a thoroughly happy one, to attract
in swarms to their shores a people of labourers, who
have always been regarded as the most effective
and best adapted for the agriculture of the An-
tilles. When I plainly avow to you that the two
modes of relief which I have indicated, and, per-
haps, some relaxation of the navigation laws, are the
only ones in which I can at present perceive any rea-
sonable hope of your having the assistance of the
Imperial Parliament, it nevertheless seems to me that
you not only ought not to despair, but that you have
the strongest incentives to apply your own legislative
powers to the people, the soil, the products, the agri-
culture, the manufactures, and the trade and the
commerce of the island.

" Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the Assembly,
"The most obviously important of the subjects
which annually demand the consideration of the
Legislature, namely, the revenue, is one which more
peculiarly belongs to you, and upon this occasion I
believe that a considerable falling off in the product
of the import duties below the amount of the preced-
ing year, though not perhaps below the estimate for
the present year, calls for an early and careful exami-
nation as a means of obtaining accurate and valuable
details illustrative of the working of the present
tariff, and which may be available in the formation of
an improved one. It will not escape your observation,
that the assent of the Crown to the repeal of the dif-
ferential duties, which were collected under an Act of
the Imperial Parliament, has surrendered into your
hands a permanent annual revenue of more than five-
and-twenty thousand pounds, and merged it in the
import duties imposed by the island Legislatures,
which have hitherto been voted only from year to
year. I make no secret of my having called the at-
tention of her Majesty's Government to this circum-
stance."

The remainder of his Excellency's speech referred
:o local matters.

Instead of referring to a Committee for an Address
in reply to the Governor's Speech, the following re-
solutions were adopted by the House :
" Resolved, That in the present fearful crisis in
the affairs of this colony, involving the speedy anni-
hilation of its great staples, it now only remains for
the House to make a last and earnest appeal to her
Majesty's Government and the Parliament of Great
Britain to adopt such measures for the relief of the
colony, by the remission of the duties on colonial
produce or otherwise, as may, by sustaining the value
of private property, enable the island to support its
public institutions and maintain faith with the public
creditor.

" Resolved, That this House is ready to provide
for the contingencies of the island to the 30th Decem-
ber, 1848, in the fervent hope that ere the termination
of that period the case of the island will have been
considered and ample relief granted by the Imperial
Parliament, with whom alone rests the power of res-
cuing from destruction this once valuable colony.
" Resolved, That viewing the present state of the
island, this House cannot with propriety proceed to
the consideration of any measure involving the further
expenditure of the public money."
At a meeting of the Jamaica Chamber of Com-
merce, on the 19th inst., a series of resolutions were
adopted, of which the principal are as follows:
" That this Chamber does not desire to charge the
present or any former Ministry with a wilful desire
to neglect this colony, or to devise measures detrimen-
tal to its interests, but it unhesitatingly declares be-
fore the world that successive Governments have, by
a mistaken policy, emanating from the Colonial-office,
brought this colony to a state of utter ruin. That as
an integral member of the empire, Jamaica is entitled
to an equal participation in the advantages enjoyed
by the United Kingdom itself, as far as the inherent
difference between the circumstances of each may
admit.

" That as corn and sugar are admitted to be articles
of food of the first necessity, and as corn is admitted
into the United Kingdom duty free, so could our
sugars be admitted duty free also.
" That if loans of money to landed proprietors
in the United Kingdom, for the purposes of draining,
and improving agriculture, are considered necessary,
so ought the same advantages to be granted to this
island."

AWFUL HURRICANE AT TOBAGO.
On the night of the 11th of October the island of
Tobago was visited by one of the severest and most
desolating hurricanes that has occurred within the
memory of the oldest inhabitant. During that day
heavy clouds were seen gathering to the west and
north, and towards the evening the wind blew fresh
from the latter quarter. These symptoms of an
approaching hurricane seemed to create little or no
apprehension in the minds of the inhabitants, because
Tobago had since 1780 suffered but to a trifling ex-
tent from such a cause, and therefore they may truly
be said to have been in many respects quite unpre-
pared for such a short but fearful display of Omnipo-
tent power.
The night of the 11th of October will be long
remembered in the annals of Tobago.
The day, which was unusually sultry, oppressive,
and lowering, was succeeded in the latter part of the
evening by indications of heavy rains from the west-
ward, and towards nine o'clock by slight gusts of
wind, which, although evidencing the approach of a
stormy night, was viewed with little alarm. By ten
o'clock the heaviest sleeper was roused by the dread-
ful truth, that a hurricane of the severest kind was
ravaging the district. A severe earthquake is said to
have preceded the first outbreak, nor can it be doubted,
after the proofs around us.
The wind at first appeared to blow from the west
by north, accompanied by heavy rain and lightning,
veered towards the south afterwards, and previous to
the terminatiint of those dreadful hours of anxiety,
blew again wills increased violence from the north
and east, till one A.M. of the morning of the 12th.
Continuing to rage with such fury for three hours,
considerable damage was expected to be done, but
the desolation and devastating effects produced by it
are ;beyond description. High and low, rich and
poor, have alike experienced its fearful influence, and
been made to acknowledge the power of that Being
" who maketh the clouds his chariot, and who walketh
upon the wings of the wind." The lightning was
vivid in the extreme, and incessant in its fearful bril-
liancy. No accidents appear to have taken place in
this quarter, although several lives are stated to have
fallen a sacrifice to its prey—viz., one at Cove, two
at Milford, one at Golden Grove, and one at kont-
gomery.
The morning of Tuesday presented a scene of de-
struction in every quarter to which the eye was
directed, accompanied by the too powerful proofs of
its severity being general, in the crowds of hapless
beings passing along the roads with their little all
saved from the wreck of their buildings, and in search
of a covering for themselves and families.
The once smiling face of the country, dotted with
the cottages and gardens of the labourers, the fruits
of bygone earnings, were swept to the four winds of
heaven, and no protoction left them but the hill side
or the ravine, till the morning broke.
The dwelling-houses on estates generally have
suffered terribly. Some are entirely swept away, and
their inhabitants at the present moment obliged to
resort for shelter to any field which offers a present
protection against the elements, and, it is to be feared,
with little prospect of having such dwellings again
raised.

Trees, the growth of many, many years, which
withstood the violence of all preceding hurricanes,
have been bent and twisted like willow wands, and
present themselves denuded of foliage, stripped oitheir
branches, and in many instances torn up by the roots
and cast to a distance.
The canes which, during the eventful day, looked
healthy and luxuriant, have been in every case pros-
trated, as if a destroying torrent of water had
passed over them, and torn their leaves into shreds.
Those most advanced have suffered most severely, we
fear, in several cases, irremediably. The less ad.
vanced plants presents more encouraging appear-
ance, but afford no hopes that they will fully recover
from their effects.
Confident hopes are indulged in by some that the
oldest plants may yet recover, but the forebodings
of the many tend to destroy the supposition ; nor can
it be concealed, whilst numbers are_ completely up-
rooted and many prostrate, that others are more or
less injured.
The destruction of sugar works, &c.,is so wide
spreadiand general, and the means of restoring them
so doubtful, as to cast a general gloom over the com-
munity. Wheresoever buildings have escaped from
the fury of the tempest, they have been obliged to
be used for the houseless
surers on the estates and
d
neighbourhood, whilst the
welling-houses left stand-
ing have been similarly appropriated.
I fear no very favourable account can be given of
the provision grounds. The corn is laid flat; cassada
and yams much shaken, and in too many cases rooted
up. Plantains have been quite destroyed ; sweet po-
tatoes have suffered least of all.
We are unabled to state on undoubted authority,
that throughout the island, 30 great
houses(or ma-
nagers' houses) are completely destroyed ; ditto,
ditto, severely injured • 26 works completely de-
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