The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-12 00:00:00

THE WEST INDIAN MAILS

The Medway, Royal West Indian mail packet, arrived
at Southampton on Wednesday. She brought 78 saloon
passengers, twenty children, and eight servants. Among
the passengers is Colonel Yturregui, minister from Peru
to this court. The Medway has on freight 289,581 dol-
lars (of which 46,000 are on account of the Mexican divi-
dends), and other coin and gold to the value of £30,000.
Her cargo consists of 59 serons of cochineal, 138 bales of
tobacco, 24 bales of jalap root, 115 cases of cigars, 38
cases of preserved turtle, and 94 turtle alive, in fine con-
dition.

Throughout the West India Islands the crops were de-
ficient. The want of rain had been very much felt, and
especially in Demerara. Very little had fallen up to the
3rd of April, but there was every appearance of its setting
in in the Windward Islands, where they had already been
visited with many refreshing showers. All the islands
were healthy.

We have, by the Medway, lett?rs from our correspon-
dent, in the city of Mexico, dated 30th of March. The
Mexican Government bad refused to receive Mr. Slidell,
the American Minister, who h3d in consequence de-
manded and received his passports to leave the country.

. .
General Parados avowed his intention to adhere to the
defensive system, and not to be provoked to declare war
against the United States.
A new revolution was thought to be at hand, and the
recall of General Santa Anna was openly talked of.
General Ahnonte bad been appointed Envoy Extraor-
dinary to the Court of France, and had arrived at Ha-
vannah on the 10th of April, where he remained in close
communication with Santa Anna.

Senor Parres had retired from the Ministry of Finance
and was succeeded by Senora Gorostiza.

The Queen has appointed Lord Harris to be Lieutenant-
Governor of the Island of Trinidad.

The Queen has appointed Robert Peel, Esq., now at-
tached to her Majety's Legation in Spain, to be Secretary
to her Majesty's Legation in Switzerland.
. .

Mehemet Ali's fit st wife died on the 22nd ult. at Cairo.
As a sign of mourning, ihe army is to be deprived of their
drums during forty days.
Four women were burned at Lahore, on one pile, just
before Sir Henry Hardinge's attack. Six hundred and
sixty-six have been destroyed in the same way (the Suttee)
within the last ten yors.
FLOODS IN NEW BRUNSWICK.—The last American
mail brings accounts of destructive floods in the province
of New Brunswick. The damage done is principally in
the valley of St. John's river, and theloss of property be-
tween Fredericton and Waodstock is stated to be immense.
Numbers of farm-houses have been swept away by the
waters, and several persons have lost their lives.
A correspodent of the Daily News, writing from Rome;
enumerates the following intelligence with reference to
Art :—" John Gibson's statue of the Queen, ordered for
Buckingham Palace, is now nigh finished, and stands
forth confessedly a masterpiece of marble portraiture.
John Hogan's colossal statue of Mr. O'Connell is in a
similar state of forwardness. The Italian Graccherini
has just executed in marble a remarkably graceful group
of three dancing girls, in which elasticity and elegance of
motion are admirably rendered. This classic work has
been ordered by William Jackson, of Birkenhead."