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THE WEST PTDIA. AND PACIFIC

MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, Ana. 17.
_Ey the Royal Mail steamer Parana, Captain
Wilson, with the West. India and Pacific mails, in

charge of Lieut. Tickle,
we have dates from—

R,N., Admiralty agent,

Nassau July 12

Belize

Barbaloes July 27
Granada
St. Vincent's
St. Lucia
Martinique
Guadaloups.
Dominica — 28
Antigua - 29
Montserrat — 27
Nevin — 29
St. gift's — 29
Tortola --- 26
La Guayra — 24
St. Thomas's — 31

Puerto Cabello — 22

Santa Martha..

G reytown - 21
Carthagena — 26

Colon
Jamaica

Jacmel — 28
Porto Rico — 28
Berbice
Damerara - 24

Tobago

- 24

Trinidad

- 25

The Parana brings 147 passengers, and on freight
specie valve $1.625,841, or say 350,0001. sterling,
of which 521,531 is from the Pacific ports, and also
$lO,BOO in jAyellery, and a cargo consisting of 1,022
serons of cochineal, 6 serons of indigo, 2 cases of
cigars, and 699 bales of bark.
A slight decrease had taken placo at St.
Thomas's in the number of cases .of yellow fever,
but many islands in the West Indies were suffer-
ing much from the virulence of the disease.

The American schooner Silver Key had ar4ved
at St. Thomas's from St: Croix. 'This vessel is
fitted with submarine armour and other apparatus,
which has been used with considerable success in
recovering the remains of several old sunken Spa-
nish men-of-war at Trinidad.
Our dates from Jamaica aro to the 26th ultimo.
There is nothing new in political affairs, and com-
mercial matters are without much change. In the
markets a considerable decline had taken place in
the value of cornmeal, and a recent parcel was sold
at 18s. per barrel net cash. A decline was expect-
ed in American corn, owing to the arrival of 900
bags. Flour sold slowly in lots, at 443. for fresh
quality Baltimore. Logwood was very scarce. No
new Irish butter had come to market. Proof rum
was quoted at 3s. '3d. to 3s. 7d., according to
quality. Exchanges on London for 90 days rea-
lised 1 per cent. pm. ; 60 days, 1i ditto ; 30 days,
2 per cent. pm. Merchants bills were at par. The
following vessels were in Kingston harbour :—The,
English barks Cambrian, Mary, Montague, Alice
Jane, and Success ; the American bark Henry War-
ren, the English brig Mary Allan, the English brig-
antines Bessie and Mercy, and the Zeester (Dutch);
the English schooners Emily, Experience, and May
Queen ; the Samuel, Volunteer, H. P. Russell,
and Tremont (American) ; the Diligencia (New
Grenadian),, and the Anita. Her Majesty's vessels
at Port Royal.—The Amphion, Hermes, Euryalus,
Victor, Bermuda, and Imaum.
The following vessels-of-war had sailed for Grey-
town :—Her Majesty's screw .line-of-battle ship
Orion, 91, Captain Erskine; Imperieuse, 51, Cap-
tain Watson, C.B. ; Arrogant, 40, Captain Lyster ;
Tartar, 21, Captain Dunlop ; Cossack, 21, Captain
Cockburn ; Inflexible, 6, Commander Mends ;
Pioneer, 6, Commander Wood. The Victor, 6,
Commander 'De Horsey, was shortly to join the
squadron at Greytown ; all the vessels are under
the orders of Captain Erskine, of the Orion.
At Demerara the Court of Policy met on the
11th ult. Several bills were under consideration,
among which was one to authorise the payment of
bounties to Indian immigrants who might prefer
to reindenture themselves instead of returning to
India. Bills for improving the criminal law had
also been introduced. The Hon. Pater Rose .was
elected a member of the Court of Policy in the
place of the Hon. Robert Smith, whose term of
service had expired. The election of Mr. Rose to
bo a member of the Court of Policy leaves a vacancy
in the financial representation of Essequibo. The
Hon. A. D. V. Von Netscher had been appointed
a member of the. Central Board of Commissioners
of Roads and Bridges, in the place of the Hon. R.
Smith, who, has ceased to be a member of the
Central Board. The Governor had sent instruc-
tions to the agent of the colony at Madeira not to
send any more Portuguese immigrants until they
were ordered. Up to this time no orders for. Por-
tuguese immigrants had-been sent in to the Go-
vernment, and it was not expected that any would
be sent while so much sckness continued to prevail
among the Portuguese immigrants in the colony.
Tho directors of the East India Comrany had put
their veto upon private emigration from the com-
pany's territories. The Demerara Gazette says:—
"The only hope of the planters now i., that the t i -
g ration Commissioners may be induced to aliow a large
number of C mlies to be conveyed by each ship in propor-
tion to her tonnage, in accordance with the East India
Company's Passeng*s Act. The Fzench Government
have latelyintroduced 8, 000;immigrants from Pondicherry
into their West India possessions; and they did so at about
one-half the cost of introducing immigrants to this co-
lony. Their ships conveyed double the number which
are allowed to be brought in our ships from the Est
Indies ; and we are informed from good authority that
the immigrants were landed in fine' condition. If the
colonists are compelled to resort to immigration to obtain
a supply of labour, and as this kind of labour is now in-
troduced at the sole cost of the planters, it is most de-
sirable that the expense of importing such labour should
be reduced to the lowest amount consistent with the
comfort and health of the immigrants themselves. We
hope that the Colonial Secretary, who is evidently dis-
posed to take a rational and sensible view of the position
of.the West Indian colonies, will enforce this matter
upon the consideration of the Land and Emigration Com-
missioners."

A great reduction was shown in the consumption
of rum by the return of the Controller of Customs.
The quantity of rum entered for consumption in
the colony during the half-year ending the 30th of
June last amounted to 86,127 gallons, and the duty
to $77,514 30c. In the corresponding six months of
1855 the quantity of ruin issued for consumption
was 103,567 gallons, and the duty $82,853 60c.
The decrease in the last half-year amounted to
17,440 gallons, and the duty to $5,339 30c. The
quantity of rum shipped during the last half-year
amounted to 1,151,350 gallons, as contrasted with
1,490,125 gallons shipped in the corresponding
bal-f-year. of .1855--thus showing a decrease of
338,775 gallons durine, the last half-year. The
quantity of rum issued from the bonded warehouse
during the quarter ended the 30th of June last for
consumption in the colony amounted to 48,671 gal-
lons, the duty on which amounted to $43,803 90c.
In the corresponding quarter of 1855 the quantity
issued was 28,277 gallons, and the duty $16,621 60c.
The decrease ending the last quarter amounted to
9,606 gallons, and the _duty to $2,817 70c. Tne
quantity of rum shipped in the last quarter was
392,611 gallons, as compared with 754,999 gallons
shipped in the corresponding quarter of 1855, show-
ing a decrease of 362,388 gallons during the last
quarter. The' Hon. W. Walker, the Government
Secretary, left for England by this mail on nine
months' leave -of absence. A public meeting has
been convened to take into consideration certain
communications received from the West India
Committee in London relative to immigration to
the colony. The bark Canada had arrived from
the Cape Verd Islands with 137 emigrants. The
weather had been very wet, but upon the whole
highly favourable to the planter. A good deal of
sickness prevailed on the east and west coasts of
Demerara, especially among the Portuguese immi-
grants.

In Georgetown fever and dysentery had been
prevalent for months past, bat the mortality had
not been so great as was expected. Trade con-
tinued dull among the merchants, and freights
were moderate. The exports' from the colony
during the last fortnight consisted of sugar,
1,274 hhds.,l46 tierces, 49 half-tierces, 725 barrels,
115 bags ; rum, 887 puncheons, 308 hhds., 131
barrels ; molasses, 50 puncheons ; cotton (foreign),
108 bales ; charcoal, 517 tierces ; cocoa-nuts, 9,300.
The barks Sylph, Joseph Dexter, Royal Arch,
and Minstrel, the brigantine Loyal, and ship John-
stone, had arrived at Demerara from Liverpool ;
also the bark Premier, from London, and the brig
Huron, from Cardiff. The Eliza Bain and Thomas
Hamlin, for London, and the Parker, for Liver-
pool, had sailed.

Our intelligence from Barbadoes reports the ar-
rival of her Majesty's ships which we previously
noticed as having left Jamaica for Greytown.
Their visit caused great excitement, and they were
visited by the principal persons of the island.. Go
vernor Ilincics had returned from St. Lucia. Thererop
is nothing new in the legislation to notice.. Crop
operations for the present year had entirely closed,
but but there was still sugar to be shipped.b a
speedily
London and Liverpool vessels. would
;.he young
despatched with the closing shipments. The
Continued
cane crop wanted rain. The ndivarce
hut native
well supplied with American produce,
' The potato
-provisions were scarce and
ected to yield 'and Indian corn Cl ops were p
plen-
tifully next month. The produce shipped to date
s 6,671 tierces, 9,768
is as follows :---39,499 htli 4-'2" 501 hbds. ; molasses,
barrels sugar, equalo 0
to 42,601
498 barrels • rum,
1,025 , 938
1,025 puncheons, 2132'hbds. ;'COtton;- 274 'Wei ;
aloes, 818 gourds. The health of the island, cox!
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