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night :—Sugar, 3,639 hhdr. 285 tros. gts bar.
1,177 brls. ; rum, 1,338 puns. 188 hhis.,and;..,
molasses, 480 puns. 44 hhds. and 9 brls.•rai,
brl ; annatto, 12 casks ; matches, 10 cases;
• doable cases; rice, 250 bags; brandy, 1 cask ;V
brie ; hats, 2 dozen ; cigars, 21,900 ; greenheari .tirnber,
21,511 cubic feet ; old copper, 16 bales and 11 pieces;
letter. wood, 23 pieces ; hides, 165; cocoanuts, 39,929;
flour, 50 brls. ; and 12,000 oranges.
We copy the following from the Mercantile' In.
telligencer :—. • .
We have had numerous arrivals during the past fort-
night. Tonnage has become very abundant, and freights
have a downward tendency. American provisions. in
good supply. The weather continues very favourable
for sugar making the crop will likely exceed that of
last year considerably, and there are plenty of vessels
to take it away.
The Colonist of Nov. 25 says :
The Demerara Railway Company have submitted to
the Government propositions to raise on preferential
bonds 200,0001., on Which amount the colonial legisla•
ture shall guarantee interest at' the rate of six per cent.
per. annum for 90 years, and the colonial revenues shall
be pledged for the payment of the interest, amounting to
12,0001. a-year, in London. With the money thus
rained they peopOse to pay off thedebt due-to the colony,
o.no4untiog to about 46,0001., to . expend the suns of
17,000/. on the repair of the railway, and in adding to
and improving the premises, plant, and rolling stock ;
and also to devote a further sum 0r30,900/. for the com-
pletion of the line to 111abaica, and „for additional plant.
The rest of the money they propose to apply to the !Nisi-
dation of the other debts and liabilities of the company.
It may be taken for granted that the answer of the corn.
biped court to this proposition will be in the negative.
Another important subject to be brought before the.
conibined court, during its extraordinary session, is the
proposed introduction of sepoy exiles from the East
Indies, into this colony. The proposition has been
fay' urably received out of doors. It appears that the
sa e proposition which, has been made to the Govern-
me t of this colony, has also been made to the govern-
me is of the other West India colonies generally. A.
sialar offer bas been made to the government of St.
Luca; and the Palladium, while expressing a favour-
able opinion of the scheme, thinks that "should the
colony accept the offer of the East India Company, there
is one condition which should be explicitly laid down,
nro;nely, " that an effective military force should be
kept up. at this station." The same condition will, as
a matter of course, be insisted upon everywhere,
wherever any of the sepoys may be sent."
The following is an extract of a letter written by
a 4entleman who was one :of a party which went
from. Georgetown to explore the gold-fields in
Venezuela :

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obtain at least one-balf of the number of marks allotted
to them. Thefoßowing subjects can be taken up or not
at the option of the' candidate ; but one-third of the
marks assigned to each must be gained, in order that it
nay he allowed to aunt in determining the candidate's
place on the list, viz.

Marks.
German
Hindostance 3OO
Natural philosophy, chemistry, and geology, as ap-
plied to military science3oo
(13). Any officer, with the sanction of the Gene-
ral Commanding-in-Chief, compete at the annual
final examination without previously passing through
the college. And, further, any officer who desires to.
enter the college for one year only, will be permitted, if
there be a vacancy, to present himself at the first annual
examination of the junior division of students (who will
then have completed their first year), and, if qualified,
may join the college accordingly. In each case the
qualifications noted in paragraph 3 (above) will be re-
quired
(14) After the final examination, the Council of Mili-
tary Education will draw up, and submit for the consi-
deration of the General Commanding-in-Chief, a list of
the successful candidates, arranged in three classes ac-
cording to merit, with a special report of those who
particularly distinguish themselves, whose names will
also be mentioned by the council in its annual report.
(15).. The first annual college examination, under the
system above described, will be held in December,
1858.
(16). Officers who shall have passed their final exami-
nations at the Staff College will be attached to each of
the arms successively in which they have not previously
served. They will be required to attend drills, parades,
practicable means of making themselves generally
avail themselves of every
Certificates to this effect will be forwarded to the
discipline,
ainrtmersi.or economy, field
adjutant-general—in the case of officers attached to the
artillery, by the inspector of drills at Woolwich ; and in
the case of officers attached to regiments of cavalry and
infantry, by the officers commanding such corps.
It is presumed that a period of six months with each
aryl will be the utmost that will be required in this re-
spect.
(17). The order of the 9th of April, 1857, relative to
the qualifications of officers for staff appointments, will
eJntinue in force until the Ist of January, 1860, when
the system which has been above detailed will have fully
come into operation ; and the examinations referred to
in that order will be conducted under the direction of
the Council of Military Education.
" Officers, however, who have altained the rank of
lientenant-colonel will be exempted from the operation
of that order.
•` Alter the Ist of January, 1860, no officer will be
appointed to the staff who shell not have gone through
the Staff College, or passed the final examination of that
college (paragraph 13), with exception of those who shall
have attained, at that date, the rank of lieutenant-colonel,
and in every case excepting officers of proved ability in
the fiild.
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Demerara, Nov 25.

t returned on the 6th inst. from my excursion through
the interior of the colony to the gold diggings at Cara-
tat', near Tussugnen, in Venezuela, but was laid up for
nearly a fortnight from the effects of fever, supposed to
have been caught among the swamps of the Orinoco.
You would probably hear by last mail of the lamented
death of our esteemed friend Dr. Blair, which ocourred
on the morning of the 9th, the day the packet left. Dr.
Mmiget says the symptoms latterly were decidedly those
of yellow fever. He is much regretted' hum,. having
been one of our most skilful and experienced medical
men, and taking a warm and active interest in -every-
thing affecting the colony. Had he lived, it was our
intention to have published an account of our expedition
to the diggings, but I suspect that must be abandoned
now. Of the diggings I cannot report favourably at
present. Only about 200 people are at work, and they
barely earn ordinary labourers' wages, having an occa-
sional prize. The labour is the hardest I ever saw, and
the place most unhealthy, not a single digger having
escr.ped fever more or less severe. The country, how-
ever, app, are to be highly auriferous and metalliferous,
F o that we may expect that it will in time, when British
or American enterprise is brought to hear iupon it,
become a gold-producing country.

" (18). Although the course of mathematics at tt
colle2e has been limited to that amount of knowledge
which is considered essential to complete the education
of the staff officer, it is probable that many officers may
desire to pursue their mathematical studies to a much
higher point, and' any candidates, therefore, who shall
have proved their fitness for employment i❑ the ord
/lance survey or in the topographical department, by
superior progress in the science of geodesy, as well as of
topography, will be named in the annual report of the
Council of Military Education to the Secretary of State
for War, as deserving employment in those services,
" By order of his Royal Highness the General
Commanding in Chief.
" G. A. WETHERALL, Adjutant• General."

CENTRAL AMERICA.
Nicaragua is in a deplorable state. The repub-
lics are quarrelling, and their dissensions will favour
Walker's expedition. Much anxiety is felt as to
whether the British will oppose the landing of
Walker's troops. The Nicaragua and Costa Rica
forces are still opposed to each other, though no
collision has yet taken place.
In Honduras and the adjoinilig republics the
cholera is committing fearful ravages, and business
nearly at a standstill.
The Panama Railway Company has published a
very arbitrary bye-law, requiring that all payments
connected with the line are to be made in Ameri-
can currency. This is extremely hard on the for-
wardiug agents and others, inasmuch as all -,,the
American coin has been drained from the Isthiaug.
A public meeting condemning the measure hasbeen
held at Colon. Rumours are afloat as to the sol-
Veney of one of the largest for warding helms on
the isthmus. •

THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS.

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SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY.
[A summary of the following appeared in our impression
of yesterday.]
The Parana has arrived with the West India and
Pacific mails. Her dates are :—Jamaica, Nov.
27 ; Demerara, Nov. 25 ; Trinidad, Nov. 25 ; St.
Thomas, Dec. 1. Shil brings home 53 passengers.
Amongst her cargo is specie to the value of 586,181
dols., of which 126,131 dols. are in silver, and the
rest in gold.
Her Majesty's ship Imaum was at Jamaica. The
Leopard was to leave Jamaica for Colon. The Tar-
tar was at St. Domingo. The Atalanta was at
Demerara., and the Brunswick was at Colon. The
Monarch was at Valparaiso and was about to leave
for Callao. The Nereus was at Valparaiso. The
Alarm and Cockatrice were at Islay, watching a
Peruvian revolutionary frigate. The Retribution
and the Naiad were at Callao. The Magician was
Panama,lsAtavoptaseisshe:hicmshe Excellencyb,
extremelylyßoyalt
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presented wthee
house on his appointment to the government of this
island, it expressed the deep concern with which
the intelligence of the rebellion, and unnatural
atrocities perpetrated in her Majesty's eastern do-
minion, had been received by the house, and an
earnest hope that, under the approving influence of
an Almighty power, and by the strong arm of Bri-
tish valour, that valuable portion of the empire
might speedily be restored to obedience and tran-
quility."
The business of the session has been promptly
proceeded with, and a number of government mea-
sures have been already introduced and forwarded
to advanced stages.
From the Colonial Standard we take the follow-
ing :
The Immigration Act, introduced by Mr. Hosack, is
one of the most complete measures which, within our
experience, has ever been presented to the legislature. It
is an able consolidation of all the acts now in force re-
lating to the importation of government immigrants,
with the addition of a well-digested machinery for the
perpetuation, under a carefully-devised scheme, of this
most important branch of public economy.
We have again been visited along the south side with
fine seasonable rains, but, strange to say, the north side
continues without any rain, and it is feared that the
crops in that quarter will be greatly injured by drought.
There is a large amount of sickness still is and about
Kingston.
The restricted condition of the money market in the
United States, when the greater portion of our supply of
imported food is obtained, has had a most disastrous
effect ou our provision market. We are very nearly at
this moment without any supply whatever of flour or
salted fish. But for one or two fortunate arrivals from
Halifax and Philadelphia we should be at this moment
without a barrel of flour or a cask of codfish in Kings-
sten ; and as it is, we are within a few days of total
exbaustion—and whether within that period we shall
receive a cargo to keep ns going is wholly problematical.
It is further stated that bill operations in the
United States being no longer possible, it has been
found necessary to send specie thither for the pur-
chase of provisions; of course 8,0001. cannot have
been sent from Jamaica to the United States, in
gold, without placing the Bank treasuries under
contribution ; and as this drainage might proceed to
a very much larger extent, the banks have found it
necessary, in their own defence, to limit discounts.
De Cordova, of Nov. 26, says—
Money has been somewhat scarce, the banks being
disinclined to accommodate. The 5,0001. in specie re-
ceived by one bank, per last steamer from Europe, is too
small an amount to cause tiny great improvement. Of
isiaud produce, pimento remains inactive, so much so
that it is impossible to give any correct quotation. Coffee
has been kept from market by continued heavy rains in
the country, and transactions in the article have been
therefore very limited. In freights there is nothing doing.
Exchanre on London—Jamaica Bank, 90 days, par ; '
60 days, / per cent. prem. ; 30 days, 1 per cent. prem.
Colonial Bank, 90 days, par ; 60 days, 1. per cent. prem;
30 days, 1 per ceet. prem. Commissariat bills, per cent.
prem. Merchants' bills, 90 days, /to 1 per cent. die.
From the Demerara Royal Gazette of Nov. 24,
we cull these items :
Since the sailing of last packet the weather has
are been
dry, and the colony exceedingly
believe, three or four cases of cholera in this city, but
healthy. , we
not of a dangerous type.
Our home readers will be happy to learn
.that Sir Wm.
H. Holmes and Mr. Campbell are recovering fast
their severe attack of illness, and .tre now quite eon
valescent.
death of Dr. Blair, which has cast a gloom over the en-
to almost every house-
tire colony, and brought sorrow
hold. The melancholy event took place on the 9th inst.,
the day on which the iast steamer sailed.
The most distressing event of the past fortnight is the
he over nor of
the 25th July last, the day on which t g
this colony (Mr. Wodehouse) and his lady sailed
.or
d The indictment charged the prisoners with
Eng.an .
and riotously assaulting the Governor and Mrs.
riot
Six persons have been tried for riotous proceedings on
Wodehouse, the Chief Justice, and Mr. Wolseley, the
ent secretary. The trial occupied nearly
tyro days, when the jury returned against Edward Eady,
Charles Byble, and Henry Hope a verdict of guilty
Byble and Hope to mercy).
acting government
(strongly recommending
The other prisoners they acquitted on all the counts.
His Honour sentenced Eady to two years' imprisonment
with bard labour, and Byle and Hope to eight months'
imprisonment, with bard labour, each.
Several more disappointed parties have returned from
the Upata and Tubuquen goldfields.
What information we have received confirms the
opinion of the commissioners—that the quantity of gold
to be obtained is too little and the risk attending it too
great to make it an object to go there. Those who will
go a gold-hunting had better proceed to the milder
climates and more productive mines of Australia or
California.
exports cleared at the Catena-hewn for the past fort-