The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-09-30 00:00:00

COLONIAL. INTELLIGENCE,

Thf„accounts from the Canadas are not of any political mo-
ment, and, in fact, party feeling appears to have much abated.
The wheat harvest had-commenced in the lower province, and
was anticipated to be a fair averag►e, with but little exception,
throughout the province; feed for cattle was very scarce.
The following is the comparative statement of the arrivals at
Quebec to the 14th of August:—
Vessels. Tonnage. Settlers.
1836 .... 690 .... 197,676 23,639
1835' .... 638 .... 180,516 .... 10,233

Difference
By the, usual mail from Jamaica we have received letters
front thence to the 9th of August, with corresponding dates
from the Leeward Islands. His Excellency the Governor,
Lord Sligo, had just returned from a voyage to St. Domingo,
in the Dee steamer. The description of the town of Hayti,
which was given by his Lordship, was of the most deplordble
character. A serious dispute had taken place between his
Lordship and two of the highest legal officers of the islancL
arising out of some misinterpretation of the special instructions
which lie had promulgated for their guidance in the administra-
tion of the abolition laws. The private letters do not add to our
previous information with regard to the crops; but the appren-
tices are• said to continue well behaved. The exports from
Kingston, from ...he Ist of January to the 31st of July, 1836,
were-15,111 Mids.' 1,058 tierces, and 453 barrels of sugar;
6,980-tierces and 1,731 lbs. of coffee; 3,632 puncheons of rum,
and 176 hhds. ; and 1,162 bags of pimento.
We have received by the Apt India packet papers from Bar-
badoes to the 6th August; Trinidad, St Kitts, and other papers
have also been received. In the House of Assembly at Barba-
-1 does it had been announced-that the king had been pleased to
appoint the Governor, Sir-Lionel Smith, to the Government of
Jamaica, and the house expreSsed its high sense. of the merits of
that functionary.- Great inconvenience was felt at. Barbadoes
from a scarcity of s:uail money. The hurricane seascn had
commenced in this colony,-after a few days of intense 'heat the
wind having blown with extreme violence. From Dominica we
learn that a message had been sent down to the assembly stating
that the governor in future would be at Liverpool to appoint
his Privy Council Members of the Assembly, and he -had lost
no time in availing himself of the privilege, having named the
speaker to that dignity forthwith. The Antigua papers announce
the arrival there of the Lieutenant Governor, who had addressed
the House of Assembly.
We learn from our-Toronto papers that the Right Hon. Ed-
ward Ellice arrived in that city on the Bth inst. Mr. Ellice and
his family have been long and intimately connected with the
political and commercial affairs of the Canadas. He is the
owner of a rich and extensive seignory in Lower Canada, and
of other lands in this province and the neighbouring state. On
our return front England we gave him credit for liberal intentions
towards the colonists, but are recently inclined to believe that
• the tory measures of our new governor and his Canada Com-
pany advisers have his approbation. Mr. Ellice is of easy
access, and his manners are affable and winning. —Canada
paper.
We have commercial accounts from Kingston, Jamaica, to
the 9th ult. Sugar was quoted at 455. to 565. Bd. The coffee
crop being now nearly shipped, there were but few transactions.
Rum.was-ftrmly held at 4s. 8,1. for export, some holders ask-
ing higher rates ; the quantity on the wharfs was very limited.
Pimento was to 41d., scarce. The stock of Flour on hand
was exceedingly small, and the demand great. The continued
delay in the June Butter kept the market in an unsettled state.
Corn was very scarce. A sale of Brandy had been made
at 15s.

Calve papers have arrived to the Ist of July. A public meet-
ing was held at Cape Town on the 29th of June, under the
sanction of the Governor, for the purpose of expressing the
sense of the inhabitants on the proposed Bill for the establish-
ment of municipal corporations throughout the colony. The
meeting sought to impress upon his Excellency the expediency
of a separate ordinance for the formation of a municipal board
for Cape Town and its vicinity. The town to be divided into
wards or districts the commissioners to have the power to
collect taxes, administer municipal property, and exercise all
the functions hitherto exercised by the Burgher Senate. The
accounts from Graham's Town speak of frequent robberies and
other outrages: the perpetrators, however, were unconnected
with the Caffre chiefs and people. These papers also contain
the prospectus of the Cape of Good Hope Steam Navigation
Company, capital £20,000, in two thousand shares of LIO each,
deposit £1 per share.
We have late advices from Bombay. A public meeting had
been held, to attract the attention of the Government in Eng-
land,to the importance of steam navigation between England
and India, and a petition to the House of Commons was unani-
mously adopted.
The reports from the Persian Gulf received at Bombay were
not of a pleasing character. The Chief of the Wahabees bad
shown symptoms of discontent. He had summoned all the
chiefs on the Arabian side of the Gulf to meet him, and it was
intended to form some general confederacy for piratical as well
as other purposes.
The Nerbudda had arrived at Bombay from surveying the
river Indus, which river was found to contain much less water
than was anticipated. The Nerbudda would, however, resume
the examination at the end of the monsoon.