The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-18 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVFNING, AUGUST 18, 1856•

DEATH OF T.HE EARL OF SHRE WSBUY.

Intelligence has reached England of the death or, the
young Earl of Shrewsbury, which took place at Lisbon
on the 10th inst. His Lordship had been ind;.sposed at
Paris, where he had spent the spring, and w'aere he had
exhibited symptoms of pulmonary
eof a serious
kind; ho recovered, however, from this attack, which had
been rendered more serious by the concurrent illness
and death of the late Countess of ''',hrewsbury, who was
residing with his Lordship.
Shortly after the dece'ase ec his noble relative, the
Earl proceeded to Havrr
and crossed to England to
meet the Peninsular MAI packet the Tamar, wbick
sailed on the 9th of Jul
for Lisbon, with the rtention of spending a part of the
2 .n.d
summer at Cintra, of making a voyage later in the
in which he took his passage
autumn either to 0113 Mediterranean or to Madeira. On
arriving at Lisbo-a
his progress to Cintra was delayed by
various causes,
of the cholera 5 nd among others by the breaking out
to
He therefor :a Lisbon and the neighbouring di,-tricts.
e took up his abode at the Hotel Braganza
at Lisbon, v,vhere he hal a return of the more serious
BYmPtmra, of his malady, under which he rapidly sank.
His. %-,',ordship was accompanied in his voyage by Miss
Anne ji,lhet, the sister of the late Countess of Shrews-
bury, the Rev. Mr. Garside, his domestic chaplain, and
by r. Mervyn Crawford, an English physician of emi-
t, er,ce, whom he had engaged to continue with him.
His Lordship was the 17th Earl of Shrewsbury, and
Premier Earl of England, the creation dating as far back
llas 1442 ; he was also Earl of Wexford and Water ford,
and hereditary Lord High Steward of Ireland. , He
succeeded to the tit'e on the death of the late Earl in
1852, being at that time under age. Having attained
his majority, he took his seat in the House of LoHs in
February, 1854, and at the time of his death was in his
24th year.

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The noble fainilpg Talbot of: -,the Eoglidaranoll. is
one of ancient celebrity, and second only to the great
houses of Howard and Seymour in historic interest. Its
founder was a Norman noble who must have come over
to England with t 1;• Conqueror ; for Talbott is not a
Saxon name, and yet Richard de Talbott is mentioned in
_Domesday Book as holding nine hides of land from Wal-
ter Giffard, Earl of Buckingham. From him the Shrews-
bury branch in England, and the Talbots of Malahide,
in Ireland, as well as the untitled but elder branch of
Talbots of Basball, Yorkshire (now extinct in the direct
male line), can trace their pedigree through nearly eight
centuries by direct descent to the present day. From
his second son Hugh, Governor of the Castle of Plessy,
in Essex, who afterwards assumed the monastic habit,
like so manny warriors of his time, six generations bring
us down to Sir George Talbot, Lord Chamberlain to
King Edward 111., by whom he was summoned to Par-
liament as a Baron in A.D. 1331. His son, Sir Richard,
Lord of Goderich Castle, and 2d Baron, distinguished
himself in the wars of Edward 111., and became great
grandfather of Sir John Talbot, 6th Baron, summoned
to Parliament in 1409 as Lard Talbot de Furnivall. In
1412 the latter illustrious warrior was appointed Lord
Justice of Ireland, of which he became Lord-Lieutenant
in A.D. 1414. He subsequently rendered good service
to his country in the French wars of Henry V. ;
but his highest renown was gained under Henry VI.,
upon the same field under the Regent Plantagenet
Duke of Bedford. It is said that his character be-
came far and wide so formidable to the French, ow-
ing to the constant success which attended his
expeditions, that mothers used to hush their children
into silence by pronouncing the name of the " Great
Dogge Talbot." He was attacked, however, by Joan
of Arc, the Maid of Orleans, at Patay, in 1429, when
his army was routed and he was himself taken pri-
soner. Being subsequently exchanged, and having gained
for himself fresh laurels, he was created Earl of Shrews- '
bury by King Edward IV., in 1442. Again resuming
the Lord Lieutenantcy of Ireland, which at that day was
rather a military than a civil post, and hav,ing been ap•
pointed Lord High Steward of that country, he was
raised to the earldom of Wexford and Waterf(4d in A,D.

1446, and thus became Premier Earl in the Irish as well
as the Ergfish peerage. Again engaging in foreign war-
fare, though in the 80th year of his age, the earl ad- '
vanced with a British force to the relief of the Castle of
Chatillon in France, beneath the walls of which he was
mortally wounded, and died July 20, 1453, with the re-
putation of having been victorious in about 40 different
battles. His younger son, Lord Lisle, fell dead upon
the same field. John, the second Earl of Shrewsbury,
K.G., Lord Treasurer, first of Ireland and afterwards
of England, was killed at the battle of Northampton in
A.D. 1460, while fighting under the Red Rose. He was
succeeded by his eldest son, from whom the title de-
scended regularly to the fifth earl, the most consistent
statesman of Queen Mary's reign, and the only noble-
man except the Viscount Montague who, on Elizabeth's
accession, opposed the repeal of the act of submission of
the House of Lords and Commons to the authority of
the See of Rome, which had been carried into effect in
the preceding reign. Though thus strongly attached
to the religion of his forefathers, Queen Elizabeth re-
tained him in her service, and even admitted him to her
Privy Council. His son, the sixth earl, is known to
history as the most wea!tby and powerful peer of the
realm, and the guardian to whose custodv, the person of
Mary Queen of Scots- was intrusted by Elizabeth. On
the death of the eighth earl, in 1617, the title reverted
to a distant cousin, Mr. George Talbot, of Graft-in, as"
great-great-grandson of the second earl ; and from him
it descended regularly to Charles, twelfth earl, who
havintT conformed to the Established Church, became a
prominent statesman in the reigns of William 111.,
Mary, Anne, and George 1., under whom he held the
highest offices, and by whom he was rewarded with the
Dukedom of Shrewsbury and the Knighthood of the
Garter. At his death in 1717 the dukedom expired,
and it is not a little singular that, from that day to this,
the earldom has never passed directly from a father to a
sac. The 13th earl, being a Jesuit priest, of course did
not assume the title, which accordingly passed to the
son of his brother George, as 14th earl, and the last of
his male descendants is now deceased.* It %you'd be alike
tedious and profitless to trace the exact pedigree for the
last century, which merely exhibits a series of nephews
and cousins inheriting in succession ; we will therefore
only mention that the son and nephew of John, 16th
earl, having died during their minority, Bertram Arthur
Talbot,. in 1846, became heir presumptive to the Shrews-
bury title and estates, to which he succeeded as 17th earl,
as we havealready stated, towards the close of the year
1852. It is this young nobleman's death that it has be-
come our duty to record to-day.
His lordship was the only son of the late Lieut.-Colonel
Charles Thomas Talbot, nephew of Charles, 15th earl, by
Julia, third daughter of the late Sir Henry Joseph Tich-
borne, Bart. (since remarried to Mr. Washington Hib-
bert, of Bilton Grange, near Rugby), and was born Dec.
11, 1852. He was educated almost entirely by private
tutors, under the roof of Alton Towers, by the late Earl
and Countess, to whom he was devotedly attached. He
was Premier Earl in the English and Irish Peerages,
Vice-Admiral of Cheshire, a Deputy-Lieutenant for
St dfordshire, and High Steward of Allbrighton, in the
same county ; he also held the honorary distinctions of
a Knight Commander of Malta, and a Knight Grand
Cross of the Order of Pope Pius IX., and it was
reported in our columns only a few days since
that he was about to be nominated a Knight
of the Order of St. Patrick. Lord Shrews-
bury also claimed the office of Hereditary Lord High
Steward of Ireland, and his claim was under the consi-
deration of the House of Lords, having been referred to
a Committee of Privileges, when his death supervened.
Lord Shrewsbury was a person of singularly mild and
gentle disposition, and of refined and elegant tastes ; he
was an accomplished scholar, especially in modern lan-
guages, of which his long residence upon the continent
had made him a perfect master. His charities were most
extensive, and, humanly speaking, his death must prove
a " heavy blow and great discouragement" to the pro-
spects of the Roman Catholic religion in this country.
He has left two sisters, both recently raised by her Ma-
jesty to the precedence of the daughters of an earl: the
younger, Lady Guendaline Talbot, is unmarried ; the
elder sister, Lady Annette, was married in January,
1855, to Sir Humphrey de Trafford, of Trafford Park,
Lancashire. The property of Alton Towers and the other
estates have been devised by the will of the late earl to
I Lord Edmund Bernard Howard, the infant son of the
present Duke of Norfolk, with remainder to his Grace's
' other younger sons, and to his brother, Lord Edward
Howard, M.P., who is married to the late earl's cousin,
, Miss AugUsta Talbot.

The greatest emotion was caused in all the Roman
Catholic chapels of the metropolis yesterday at high mass,
when the name of Bertram, Earl of Shrewsbury, was
given out among the list of the departed for whose souls
the officiating priests requested, as is usual, the prayers
of their respective congregations.

* Burke and Dod are accordingly mistaken in counting
18 instead of 17 Earls of Shrewsbury.

IRELAND.

GpcmUE
BB:41,11EN ,
NT SA.TURADGAEY. •MORNING.
The pleasant appointment of Clerk of the Hanaper in
Ireland, vacant by the death of Mr. C. Fitziimon, ha
been conferred upon Mr. John O'Connell, M. P., brother-
in-law of the last possessor of the office. No reasonable
or impartial person would venture to cavil at this dis-
position of Government patronage. In strict justice to
the memory of one of the most remarkable men of the
day,, it should be borne in mind that, whatever may
have been the failings of the late Mr. Daniel O'Connell,
the charge of nepotism could never fairly belaid to his
account. He died without making any provision for
three of his sons. The eldest (now also no more) inhe-
rited a small portion only of the family estates, the re-
mainder and more valuable part being held under a lease,
which expired at the death of Mr. O'Connell in 1847.
One of his sons, no doubt, holds a lucrative post as the
head of the Registry of Deeds-office, but his acceptance
of the place was in direct opposition to the wishes of his
father. Mr. John O'Connell has for years past aban-
doned his old courses, and forsworn agitation in every
shape. As member for Clonmel, while his conduct as,
a representative has given satisfaction to his immediate
party in the borough, he has succeeded in disarming the
st of many of his former political opponents. A 9
hostility
aomailtitteyr of course, he is no longer a member of the
Legislature, and there is every probability of a warm
contest for the twat thus lett vacant.

MORE TREMEN DOUSCONFLAGR ATIONS, ENOR-
MOUS DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY, AND
MIRACOLOUS ESCAPE' OF SEVERAL PER-
- SONS.

Yesterday morning, about 'a
,quarter before three
o'clock, a fire, attended with the destruction of several
thousand pounds' worth of property and almost fatal re•
sults to three persons, took place in the extensive range
of premises belonging to Mr. J. Golding, boot and shoe
manufacturer, carrying on .busines at Nos. 3 and 4,
Church-street, Shoreditch. The property had a frontage
of at least 50 feet, was most extensively fitted up, and
contained a stock in trade, independently of the furniture
and other effects, worth some thousand pounds sterling.
From the inquiries made chiring the raging of the
flames it appears that the discovery was made by Police-
sergeant Hunt, N0.:19 of the H division, who at once
gave an alarm, and after repeatedly knockng at the
street-door he succeeded in awakening the inmates, con
sisting of three persons. Those parties at once made an
attempt to descend by the staircase ; but upon getting
upon the landing they found immense bodies of sparks
and huge volumes of smoke ascending, and at the same
time the landing was so hot as to nearly take the skin off
their feet. In this extremity the occupants hardly knew
what to do to save their lives, being convinced if they
attempted to run down stairs they must of necessity be
suffocated, and if they remained in their then perilous
position they would be speedily burnt to death. What
to do for the best the affrighted creatures scarcely knew
—more especially as there was a man upwards of 60
years of age, and a cripple, in the building ; and to get
this person out 1,4 the other parties in the house seemed
next to an impossibility. The two occupants who were
able to get about therefore made for one of the front '
attic windows, and called loudly for help. They were
just going to precipitate themselves _from the parapet
when the officer told them to remain where they
were. F{,rtueitely the inmates did as they were re-
quested, and in the course of a few seconds Con-
ductor Barton arrived with the 'Royal Society's
. fire escape, but then the smoke was issuing in such huge
bodies that it was difficult for him to see the inmates
whose life were thus jeopardised, or even the front of the
building on fire. Fortunately he managed by some
means to pitch the machine in front of the burning pro-
perty, and having ascended the outer ladder, he entered
the rooms which were already on fire, and brought down
in the presence of Mr. Lough, the senior churchwarden
of the parish, and many others, the whole of the occu-
pants. The conductor, as he brought the parties down
and placed them upon terra firma, was loudly cheered.
The present makes no less a number than 32 individuals
the same conductorhas saved at fires in the immediate
locality during a year and ten months.
The engines of the parish and four of the London Bri-
gade were as quickly as possible on the spot, undezethe
direction of Mr. Fogo, the principal officer of the A
district, and Engineer Bridges. Maidiaao, Baylis, &c.
A. splendid supply of the East London Company's water
was at once procured, and not a moment lost by the fire-
men in taking advantage of the came ; but, in spite of
the exertions of the Brigade, the fearful element con-
tinued to spread, and before the conflagration eluld be
arrested in its progress, some thousand pounds' worth
of property was totally destroyed ; in fact, both houses
and all they contained were consumed ; and the adjoin-
ing house, belong ng to Mr. W. Weston, No. 1, Boon-
derystreet, seriously damaged, more especially by
water.

Mr. Golding was fortunately insured for 2,400/. ; but
that amount is far below the loss.

As to the origin of the fire not the least information
of a reliable charalter could be ascertained.

A very serious fire, and attended with a still greaterloss
of property than the above, took place on Saturday night,
in the premises belonging to Mr. J. Warrener, iinpor
ter of fancy toys and articles of vertu, situate at No.
191, Bishopsgatestreet Without, which for hours con-
tinued to illuminate tho eastern portion of the metropo-
lis. The building in which the misfortune contimenced
was several floors high, and of considerable-depth, each
compartment being stored with goods of a most-expen-
sive character.

The discovery was made by one of the City police,
who on passing along his beat to go to the station saw
sru( ke issuing irons the ground floor. The officer at
once set off for the fire escapes as well as the engines,
and in a very short space of time the Itoyal Society's es-
car..es attanded. and 'also the Brigade engine 3 from seve-
ral stati ms, which were under the personal direction of
Mr. Superintendent Braid wood, Mr. Fogo, the foreman
of the district, and Mr. Engineer Bridges. The West
of England engice and firemen, under the command of
Mr. Connorton, were also soon in attendance, and no
time being lost in setting the machines to play, some im-
pression eal quickly .mlde upon the fire, when some
one inforined the firemen that there was upwards of
700 lb. weight of gunpowder on the premises, and Mr.
Braidarood no% wishing to risk the lives of the men under
his charge, had them removed to a distarice off, so as to
avoid being blown up when the supposed gunpowder
took fire. By so doing the cervices of two engines were
obliged to be dispensed with, and the conflagration con-
tinued to travel w bh the gr'atest impetuosity, firing in
rapid succ:,ss'on, floor after floor, in the hooding, each
filled with property of great worth, until the entire struc-
tore became ignited from the base to the roof.

The reflection of such a great fire thew to the spot
many thousand spectators, and it required a powerful
body of the City police, under Mr. Superintendent
Hodgson and Inspector Scott, to make a way clear for
the firemen and the engines to pass along.
Fortunately the rumour of such an enormous quantity
of gunpowder being in the premises turned out to b 3
wholly unfounded, and no explosion consequently oc-
curred. The firemen, under the orders given them by
their superior officers, laboured for hours without sub-
duing the flames, and'it was not until they had passed
through the building that they eventually got the flames
subdued in snffic,ent time to depart to attend the first-
named conflagration.

The loss at this fire is also very considerable, as very
little of the four, floors has escaped, and the contents
may be said to be destroyed, or nearly so.
The back premises of Messrs. Jones and Son, leather-
cutters and curriers, are likewise damaged by fire, and
tha contents by water. Mr. Warrener was insured in
the Phoenix Fire-office, and Messrs. Jones were insured
in the Sun Fire-office.

Another fire broke out in the premises of Mr. W Bol-
ton, operative chemist, No. 146, Holborn-bars City,
which was well nigh attended with a loss of life. It
seems that all of a sulden, and by Borne unaccountable
cause, two bottles of ether exploded, and the spirits 'be-
coming ignited theimost disastrous consequences were
apprehended. Mr. Bolton, who wa I present at the
time, and who endeavoured to extinguish the fire, got
btdly burned over the face sad hands, The lire was,
however, extinguishel, and confined principally to the
destruction of two bottles of ether, and about one gallon
of some articles of trifling value. The property was in-
sured in the Sun Fire-office.
A fire also broke out in Church-lane, Hendon, on the
premises of Mr. F. Sweeland, a farmer, but from what
cause is not known. When discove-ed a rick of hay,
containing 70 loads, was in flames. The parish engine
and one of the brigade from London attended, and
owing to the exertions of all present the fire was cow
fined to one rick. The loss occasioned will fall on the
Atlas Fire. office.

A fire also happened in the extensive and well-known
range of premises belonging to Messrs. Bryan, Price;
and Co., army contractors, carrying on business at No.
8 and 9, Ware-street, Westminster. The engines of the
patishr West of England, and .London Brigade, having
been sent for, they arrived in a space of Lime almost in•
credibly brief, when the firemen found that the fire had
taken place in one of the stores formerly occupied as a
stable. By great exertions a mob numbering nearly
10,000 were kept back by the police, under the admir-
able arrangements of Mr. Superintendent Gibbs, of the
B division, by which means the firemen were enabled to
confine the flames to that portion of the property in
which they commenced. The loss, which is not very ex-
tensive, will fall on the Anchor Fire-office.

THE SADLEII?S AND THE NEWCASTLE-
ON-TYNE COMMERCIAL BANK.

The following special report, prepared by Mr. Wil=
Ham Walker, managing director of the Newcastle-on-
Tyne Commercial Banking Company, gives the official
history of the transactions of the Sadleirs with that
establishment

"The managing director has the honour to lay before
the meeting a special report respecting the affairs of the
bank.

" The managing director, in performing this duty, is
compelled to express his annoyance and regret at the
fact of thefunds of the bank having been moat impro-
perly devoted to purposes of a fraudulent character,
without the knowledge or consent of the management in
Newcastle. The circumstances under which this arose
it is necessary to render clear to the shareholders of the
comp ny.

" It will be remembered that, in December, 1853, the
managing director, Mr. Walker, bad a severe attack of
illness, which ended in total inability to use his limbs.
Mr. Walker considers•tba.t he had conducted the affairs
with care and judgment. An average dividend of 6 per
cent, had been paid from the commencement of the bank
and the capital was deemed safe and entire. In this
state of things Mr. Walker and others considered to
wind up the affairs of the bank' discharge' its engage.
ments, and divide the capital rateably among the
shareholders.

" While discussions on the subject of Winding-up
were pending Mr. Walker opened a communication with
his friend, Mr. Ald. Kennedy, of London, with a
view to dispose of the business of the company to the
Royal British Bank. These negotiations failed.
Mr. Ald. Kennedy then conferred with Mr.
Wilkinson, of the firm of Wilkinson, Gurney,
and Stevens, solicitors, to the London and County
Bank,--and, through the' instrumentality of Mr. Wilkin-
son, Mears. James Sadleir and Law came down to
Newcastle, investigated the affairs oF the bank, and the
bank was finally sold to Messrs. Kennedy, Law, and
James Sadleir, by agreement between these gentlemen
and Mr. Walker, bearing the date of the 6th Oct. last. It
will be remembered that Messrs. Kennedy, Sadleir, and
Law agreed to purchase the shares at 51. per share, with
5 per cent. interest, payable in 12 months, subject to a
condition that the shareholders should specify their in-
tention to sell six months before the day of payment of
the purchase money. Mr. Walker, in the contract,
w,dertook to 'obtain transfers of 4,000 shares, in order
to g:ve the purchasers control over the choice of new
directors. A board, with a considerable infusion of new
shareholders, was deemed desirable by the purchasers, to
enable them to control the affairs of the bank previous
to the completion of the purchase. As the purchasers
would be required to pay 51. per share, with 5 per cent.
interest, on the 6th Oct., 1856, it seemed plausible and
proper that they should have a superintending power
over the property they had purchased. Five directors,
nominated by the purchasers, were elected at their own
time and in their own mode. Messrs. Sadleir and Law,
two of the purchasers under the contract, were present
at the general meeting, when they and their nominees
were chosen directors.

"Immediately after the general meeting a Meeting of
directors was held in Newcastle, composed of Messrs.
Walker Sadleir, and Law. Mr. Walker was somewhat
surprised at the request made by Messrs. Sadleir and
Law, that the cash and bids should be sent to No. 6,
King William-street, London, where it was proposed
that the new directors should meet to superintend and
regulate the affairs of the bank. The grounds stated for
this arrangement were, that it would be necessary for
the board to examine the bills before they were placed
in the hands of the agents —the London and County
Bank—for collection. Within a month a large amount
of cash and hills was duly forwarded to London.
. _

"On the 12th of December last., the board in London,
ineethig at No. 6, King Williatn•street, began to inter-
fere actively with the affairs of the bank in Newcastle.
A notice of the discharge of Mr. Peter Davidson, the
manager at Newcastle, was forwarded to Newcastle
from London ; and this was carried into effect. Mr.
O'Shea was appointed, by the London board, manager,
in the place of Mr. Davidson, at a salary of 500/. per
annum.

"On.the 31st of January last Mr. Walker himself re-
ceived notice from the board in London that he was to
interfere no longer in the management of the bank—the
entire responsibility of conducting the business was to
be placed in the hands of Mr.' O'Shea. Mr, Walker,
after having filled the offices of managing director,
trustee, and public Officer, from the commencement of
the bank, felt this order very acutely, because he consi-
dered that, until the purchase-money was paid, the
management should remain with him, and not be trans-
ferred to a stranger, who, however competent, bad not
been sufficiently long in Newcastle to understand the
peculiarities of its commerce and the characters and
positions of the cu3tomers of the bank."
" On the 6th of February a communication was re-
ceived by Mr. Walker from the board in London, which
amounted to a request that he should leave the bank
entirely. Mr. Walker firmly but respectfully resisted
this attempt on the part of the London board, who at
that period had paid no portion of the purchase-money
of 50,0001. Mr. Walker's firmness was effectual, and no
further efforts were made to interfere with him.

" On the 10th of INfarch last Mr. Walker was informed
by Mr. Alderman Kennedy that Messrs. James Sadleir,
Law, and Keatinge, three of the London board, had
allowed the funds cf the bank to be used in discounting
orders of the Tipperary Joint-Stock Bank, endorsed by
Messrs. Wilkinson, Gurney, and Stevens, or by Mr.
Gurney only. This, Mr. Kennedy stated, had been
done without his knowledge, or that of his co-director
and relative, Mr. Valliant.
" This was the first intimation of the fraud received
by Mr. Walker ; and the shareholders may readily con-
ceive Mr. Walker's chagrin, when he found that his
friend at the board in London, Mr. Alderman Kennedy,
on whose judgment and integrity he chiefly relied, had
allowed himself to be imposed upon by other persons at
the same board. On the 17th of March Mr. Walker
discovered that the sum reoreseuted by these Tipperary
orders amounted to 51,0001.

" Mr. Walker has taken steps to prove the debt duo by
the Tipperary Bank, but Mr. James Sadleir has created
considerable impediments in the way of the proof. Mr.
Walker has commenced legal proceedings against Messrs.
Wilkinson and Stevens for 16,0001. It was expected
that the case would have been tried at the last Newcas-
tle Assizes, but on the application of Messrs. Wilkinson
and Stevens the cause has been removed to' London,
where it is hoped that it will be disposed of in Novem-
ber next. An application to the CJurt of Chancery by
Messrs. Wilkinson and Stevens to restrain the action
has not been successful.
"The sound condition of the aff sirs of the Bank at
Newcastle has exceeded Mr. Walker's most sanguine
expectations. The bills in hand have been well paid,
and the solvency and soundness of the customers of the
bank have thus been conclusively established. Mr.
Walker is now convinced that, if the bank had been
wound up on the plan he originally proposed to himself,
every holder would have received 51. 10s. per share."

THE WEST I :DIA AND PACIFIC

MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, AUG. 17.

By the Royal Mail steamer Parana, Captain.
Wilson, with the West India and Pacific mails, in
charge of Lieut. Tickle, MN., Admiralty agent,
we have dates from—
Nassau July 12

Belize
Puerto Cabello — 22
Santa Mat tha — 26
G reytown
Carthagena — 26
Colon
Jamaica
Jacmel — 28
Porto Rico — 28
Berbice
De.nerara — 24
Tobago — 24
Trinidad

Barbad o es

........July 2.7

Grenada ......
St. Vincent's
St. Lucia
Martinique
Guadaloupe...
D )minie3,
Antigua
Montserrat —2 i
Nevis — 29
St. Kitt's — 29
Tortola — 26
La Guayra
St. Thomas's 3l

28
29
28
29

The Parana brings 147 passengers, and on freight
specie value $1,625,811, or say' 350,0001. sterling,
of which $21,531 is from the Pacific ports, and also
$lO,BOO in jewellery, ands cargo consisting of 1,022
serons of cochineal, 6 ssrons of indigo, 2 cases of
cigars, and 699 bales of bark.
A slight decrease had taken place 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 arrived
at St. Thomas's from St. Croix. This 'vessel is
fitted .with submari !JO arm= and other.apparat-us,
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 are 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 445. 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, 1 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 vess3!B
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 consideiation,
among which was one to authorise the payment of
bounties to Indian immigrants who might prefer
to reiudenture themselves instead of returning to
India. Bills for improving the criminal law bad
also been introduced. The Hon. Peter Rose was
elected a member of the Court of Policy in ik)
place of the Hon. Robert Smith, whose term of
service had expired. The election of Mr. Rose to
be 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 sickness continued to prevail
among the Portuguese immigrants in the colony.
The directors of the East India Company had put
their veto upon private emigration from the com-
pany's territories. The Demerara Gazette says:—
"The only hope of the planters now is, that the Emi-
gration Commissioners 'may be induced to allow a large
number of Coolies to be conveyed by each ship in propor-
tion to her tonnage, in accordance with the East India
Company's Passengers Act. The F:ench Government
have latelyintroducedB,ooo4immigrants 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 East
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 ratimal and sensible view of the position
of the West Indian colopies, 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 60e.
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
half-year of 1855—thus showing a decrease of
338,775 gallons during 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 90e.
In the corresponding quarter of 1855 the quantity
issued was 28,277ga110n5, and the duty $46,62160c.
The decrease ending the last quarter amounted to
9,606 gallons, and the duty to $2,817 70c. Tue
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, but 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., 146 tierces, 49 half-tierces, 725 barrels,
115 bags ; rum, 887 puncheons, 308 hhds., 131
barrels ; molasses, 50 puncheons ; cotton (foreign),
'lOB bales ; charcoal, 517 tierces ; cocoa-nuts, 9,300.
The barks Sylph, Joseph Dexter, Royal Arch,
and Minstrel, the brigantitaLlyal, 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 wo 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 Hincks had returned from St. Lucia. There
is nothing new in the legislation to notice; Crop
operations for the present year had entirely cloned,
but but there was still sugar to be shipped. s Acedwiry
London and Liverpool vessels would be
despatched with the closing shipmenits. The young
cane crop wanted rain. The market continued
well supplied with American prod Theuce,
potato
Indianbut native
provisions were scarce and dear.
and corn crops were expected to yield plen-
tifully next month. The produce shipped to date 6 671 tierces, 9,763
is as follows •:-39,499 hlids., ,
barrels sugar, equal to. 42,501 hhds. ; molasses,
1,938 puncheons,
302
.1! ni.s, 498 barrels ; rum,
cotton, 274 bales ;
1,025 puncheons, 212 1 uusd
g aloes, 818 gourds, TAO health of the island con.