The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-02-10 00:00:00

MEXICO

Was comparatively quiet. The increased export duty
on dollars of 22 per cent. would come into operation on
sth of February, and, provided the Great Western should
arrive in time at Tampico and Vera Cruz, a large amount
would be shipped.
The advices from the various islands touched at by the
Trent represent them as being in a very healthy state, and
the weather highly favourable for the crops.
JAMAICA.

The legislature, after a short adjournment over the
Christmas holydays, had again met for the despatch of
business, and it was expected that the labours of the
senators would shortly be terminated, and the session
brought to a close.

In general, there is no intelligence of particular impor-
tance. The Christmas holydays had passed over in coin-

parative quietness ; and, as usual at that time of the year,
things were inactive.

Tie agricultural- interest was in rather a favourable
condition. The return of exports to the 16th of October,
1850, showed that the quantity of produce shipped from
the colony was greatly in excess of the previous year's
exports.

Sir George F. Seymour, the admiral in command on
the West India station, was at Port Royal when the
packet left.

It was confidently expected that the time of Sir Charles
Grey's administration was nearly expired, and that Lord
Harris would succeed him—an event which will be hailed
by the inhabitants generally with great joy.
The cholera was still in the island, but its ravages were
confined to the interior districts. In some places the
smallpox was also prevalent, but the mortality altogether
was not very great. In consequence of a vessel arriving
in the harbour of Kingston with a case of cholera on
board, the health officer not being empowered by law to
board coasters, an order of his excellency the governor in
council had been isued, empowering and directing the
health officer to place all vessels, whether coasters or
otherwise, coming from any place where the cholera or
other epidemic was prevalent, in quarantine for a certain
number of days.
The weather was very favourable for the planters taking
off crop; and, excepting those places where cholera and
smallpox prevail, the island was very healthy.

GREAT FLOODS, AND IMMENSE LOSS OF
LIFE AND PROPERTY IN LANCASHIRE
D YORKSHIRE.

The heavy rains which fell on Tuesday and Wednesday
last, continuing almost incessantly from about six o'clock
in the morning of the former day, till eight or nine in the
evening of the latter, have produced the most melancholy
disasters to life and property in Yorkshire, and consider-
able injury to property in this county and in Cheshire,
Derbyshire, and Cumberland.
LANCASHIRE.
WIGAN.—The river Douglas overflowed its banks on
Wednesday morning, near the Weir-bridges; and again
burst into the old colliery workings and " hollows,"
where two streams flowed continuously for upwards of ten
hours. The proprietors of the Cannel Mine at the Lower
Patricroft Colliery (where a number of lives were lost
about three years ago by a similar visitation) took the
precaution to call up their men, about 300 in number.
Messrs. Taylor's cotton-mill was obliged to be stopped
for several hours, the water having extinguished the en-
gine fires. Mr- H. Wood's collieries, those of Mr.
Whaley and some others, were also stopped. But no
material injury appears to have been done, nor any lives
lost.

PRESTON.—The river Ribble was swollen to a greater
depth than at any time within the recollection of " the
oldest inhabitant." By noon on Wednesday the banks
were so full that the brooks and rivulets falling into the
main stream were backed up, and torrents began to pour
over the fields and meadows in the valley. Above the
wooden bridge, by which the tram road crosses the river,
the whole vale lay under a sheet of water, and the road
through the village of Walton-le-Dale was altogether
impassible. The flood did considerable damage to the
public walks along the banks of the river, and washed
away a considerable portion of the footpath leading from
Avenham to the East Lancashire railway bridge and Pen-
wortharn. A farm, occupied by Mr. Wiggins, in the
valley, was flooded to a considerable depth, and the water
continued to rise till about seven o'clock in the evening,
after which it gradually subsided.
BLACKBURN.--The river Darwen overflowed its banks
on Wednesday morning, and laid a large breadth of con-
tiguous land under water. Parts of the town of Black-
burn were also invaded by the flood, to the alarm, and, to
some extent, the damage, of the inhabitants.

ULVERSTON.—The rising of the streams, brooks, and
tarns in the immediate vicinity of Ulverston, laid many
fields, and a large portion of the roads in the district, under
water. On Wednesday las', considerable damage was
done to the Ulverston Railway ; and the north wall of
the new Wesleyan School was entirely washed away.
At BURY, the flood caused a temporary obstruction at
the Heywood gas-works ; and the factories had to cease
working earlier than usual.

At ROCHDALE, a number of houses and two factories
were flooded.

At MANCHESTER, all the rivers and streams of the
neighbourhood overflowed their banks on Wednesday
afternoon, and the waters rushed through several of the
streets and lanes in the lower parts of the town and
its suburbs, completely inundating the cellars, and as-
cending rapidly to the ground floors of the dwellings ;
especially at Wellness, Lower Broughton, and the neigh-
bourhood of Peel-park. Many of the inhabitants had to
be removed from their houses in boats ; but no lives ap-
pear to have been lost, and the damage done to property
is comparatively small.