The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-06-21 00:00:00

DUTCH INDIA.

The Java journals of Feb. 23 and 26, lately received. con-
tain the following article :—" The undersigned, 'by order of
his Excellency the Governor, hereby gives notice, that an
official declaration of the Governor of New South Wales
(New Holland) has been received to the effect, that by a de-
cision of the British government in Europe the trade hitherto
carried on between New South Wales and the Dutch posses-
sions in the East Indiei can no longer be perriaitted between
the subjects of the British and Dutch governments in the
Eastern Archipelago, as the terms of the treaty of the 17th
March, 1854, are considered as riot applicable to New Hol-
land, and that accordingly no Dutch. ship shall enter one of
the harbours of New South Wales and its dependencies,
which shall sail from one of 'the ports of the Dutch East
India possessions after the publication of this measure, or
which may arrive iri NeW-Souffi. Wales, liter The lit of Jan.
1839, without regard to the date of their sailing from one. of
the ports of the Dutch East India possessiOns. The Secre-
tary General, Cornets de Groot."--Anzsterdam Paper.

COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEWFOUNDLAND.

Advices from St. John's the 24th May bring important
intelligence. The Legislature has not been in session a week
when another question of privilege arose between the' House
of Assembly and General Prescott. The latter appointed Mr.
Hugh W. Hoyles to the Acting Clerk to the House of As-
sembly during the absence on leave of Mr: Edward M. Ar-
chibald. The House looked upon this apppointment AS an
infringement of its privileges, and on Tuesday, the 21st, Mr.
Nugent moved that Mr. Walter Dillon be appointed Clerk
during Mr. Archibald's absense. The motion was carried,
and Mr. Dillon duly installed in the office. On 'the follow-
ing day (the 22nd) the day previous to that on which the
Address of the House in answer to the Governor's Speech
was to be presented, his Excellency communicated to the
House a message to the following effect :—That having been
informed that the house had refused to receive Mr. Hoyles,
who had been appointed by commission under the Great Seal,
to act as Clerk of the House of Assembly during the absence
of Mr. Archibald, his Excellency was under the necessity of
acquainting the House that he should be obliged to adjourn
the Legislature until the decision of the home governMent
could he known ; and that until the determination of the
House upon this subject was made known to him the pre-
Sentation of its Address in to his Speech must be post-
poned. The House of Assembly considered this message for
some time with closed doors. Upon the re-admission of
strangers, Mr. Nugent was proceeding to observe that it was
of the utmost importance that the House should have a clerk
on whom it could with the most implicit confidence rely. He
admitted that in the first instance the appointment of the
officers by the Crown was not improper, since they preceded
the convention 'of the Assembly, and therefore the Executive
was first in the field ; but as the question before the House
was surrounded with difficulties (although he was prepared
to encounter its risks) it were better that all the members
were brought together to deliberate upon the result. He
therefore moved that the farther consideration of the message
be postponed until the Wednesday succeeding, the 29th, and
that in the meantime there be a call of the House ; which
motion having been put and carried, the House adjourned.
In this state matters were at the date of the latest accounts
(the 24th.)

CEYLON.
We have late accounts from Ceylon. The secretary of the
government had addressed to the collector and comptroller
of customs, at Colombo, a letter on the subject of Cooley
emigration. The basis of the proposed measure for the
future protection: of the emigrating Cooley is,, that " con-

tracts for labour, work, or service to be performed in the
said colonies, are null and void, if made elsewhere than in
the colony wherein the said labour, work, or service is to be
performed." No ship is to be allowed her clearance until
this provision be fully and completely explained to and
understood by the emigrant Cooley. This would prevent
much fraud and imposition in the terms of the contract
entered into with the Cooley ; but it was doubtful whether
the gratuitous duties expected from the Custom-house officers
would be very zealously discharged, and it was recommended
that a special and adequately-remunerated officer should be
appointed to this duty.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S-MONDAY.

The principal betting to-day was on the Goodwood Cup,
for which the too-celebrated Harkaway was established as
first favourite, at 9to 2 (taken.) Richard Roe and Decep-
lion were in about the same favour as before, but Galewood
advanced several points. The Doctor and Alemdar were
backed for small sums only, and were not currently in the
betting. Most of the betting on the Goodwood Stakes was
between eleven and the field : several hundreds were laid out
in this way ; the names of the horses did not transpire. In
the St. Leger a few changes will be found. The Provost
dropped two or three points, nor was the Commodore in any
force. Charles the Twelfth, now in Scott's stable, was
backed at 200 to 8, and 16 to 1, the middle appearing to be
his price at the close. The Lord Mayor had some friends at
40 to 1. Two or three little bets were made on the July
Stakes, without leading to any other alteration than a slight
improvement in Stamboul. Closing prices :

NEWMARKET JULY STAKES.
5 to 2 agst Lord Exeter's Hellespont
6to 1 „ Mr. Thornhill's St. Preux (tk and aft off)
Bto 1 „ Lord Exeter's Stamboul.
GOODWOOD STAKES.
200 to 15 on the field (off)
16 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Wee Willie
20 to 1 „ Mr. F. Craven's Barnacles (tk)
20 to 1 „ Captain Williamson's Mervan (tk)
20 to 1 „ Lord Eglinton's St. Martin (tk.)
GOODWOOD CUP.
9 to 2 agst Mr. Fergmson's Harkaway (tk)
11 to 2 ~ Mr. Fulwar Craven's Deception
6to 1 „ Lord. Westminster's Richard Roe (tk)
9to 1 „ Mr. St. Paul's Galewood (tk)
10 to 1 „ Mr. Ramsay's The Doctor
200 to 12 „ Lord Exeter's Alemdar (tk.)
Caravan's weight is 9st. 111 b. and not 10st. He is allowed
31b. for running at Chester.

DONCASTER ST. LEGER.
7 to 2 agst Mr. W. Ridsdale's Bloomsbury
Bto 1 „ Duke of Cleveland's Commodore
14 to 1 „ Colonel Cradock's The Provost (tk)
18 to 1 „ Major Yarburgh's Charles the Twelfth
40 to 1 „ Lord Westminster's Lord Mayor (tk)
9to 2 „ Scott's lot.
Euclid was backed, two or three days since, at 16 to 1.