The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-22 00:00:00

WEST INDIES

The royal mail steam-ship Forth, arrived at Southampton,
on Sunday, having left Demerara on November 19th, and Porto
Rico on the 27th.
The Alice Haviland, of this port, was at Kingston when the
Forth left, and colours were exchanged on the 18th with the
Isabella, hence.

M. de Fabron, a passenger from Guadaloupe, has been dele-
gated to advance the money for compensation on the emanci-
pation of the negro population in the French Islands.
The news from the other islands is unimportant, excepting
the favourable reports generally as to the growing crops. The
441 th Regiment at Jamaica and the 71st at Barbadoes have re-
ceived orders for Cork, and the Vengeance and Belleisle are
expected out to take them.
We have our usual file of Jamaica papers by the Forth, by
which we learn that the House of Assembly had been opened
by the Lieutenant-Governor, in the absence of His Excellency
Sir Charles Grey. There is like to be a brisk session. A bill
has been brought in for reducing all the salaries of public offi-

cers, including the clergy. The subject of proposing an in-
come-tax had been suggested. The agitation on the Sugar
Duties Bill was kept up, numerous meetings had been held in
different localities, and resolutions had been passed by the
y to the effect, that the policy pursued by the Imperial

t9-liament towards the West India Colonies has been most d

,nd that the Su,

I passed last session

must tend to cemplete their ruin. They also express their
strong conviction, that, with a limited protection, and a fair
measure of support from the parent state in procuring free
African labourers, the colonies might have been restored to

,rosperity, but that the withholding that assistance will aggra-
'ate the misery of the African race, and endanger the colonies.
Jamaica papers announce the arrival of the Indus at Port
loyal from St. Helena, with 340 emancipated Africans, cap-
uted by her Majesty's brig Watery itch on the coast of Africa,

I chirtered to Jamaica as free immigrants.
PORTUGAL.
ceived from Lisbon to the 10th instant.
oldest inhabitants of 'Vigo never remember such falls of
and hail; the hills from Cape Finisterre as far south as
the Minho being covered. The Queen's troops were within
half a league of Oporto, and a battle was hourly expected.
Gen. Casal, who had previously defeated Sada Bandeira, was
in command of the Queen's troops before Oporto, who, flushed
with success, expected an easy victory. The Queen's troops
have taken, it appears, the fortress of Valenca, on the Minho,
and opposite the Spanish town of Toy. The place, however,
was, according to the letter of our corresponded, in a defence-

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A REPORT ON 'CHANGE.—We have a distrust of these
reports, of which, in nine times cut of ten, the paternity
is difficult to discover. There was one circulated yester-
day, to the effect that Louis Philippe, King of the French,
bad caused an order to be sent to New York, to buy up

half a million barrels of flour for French consumption ;
and it was agreed that the arrival of such an order would
materially enhance prices against the British buyer. Where
the news came from, however, as it did not come by the
Acadia, and as the King of the French is not the " pri.
ate correspondent " of any of the speculative gentlemen,
Perhaps the father of the rumour was the
" The wish is often father to the

know not

t was true

EXTRAORDINARILY QL ICK COMMUNICATION.—By
the arrival of the auxiliary steamer Antelope, yesterday,
`rom Pernambuco, with a passage of thirty-one days,
Inswers have been received by Liverpool merchants to
their letters per Swordfish of 20th October. which latter
ressel arrived out in twenty-eight days. Her Majesty's
packet, from Falmouth, had also arrived there in thirty-
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kre days

JOHN'S MARKET, &c.—This, our largest and
ventral market, was, on Saturday, and for some days pre-
riously, well supplied with all sorts of butcher meat, pouf.
ty, game, vegetables, &c. The shew of beer and mutton
fine, the latter not including the carcases
..use coarse monster beasts which so generally obtain
prizes at agricultural meetings ; but fine ox and heifer,
English and also small Scotch, of prime quality, and more
popular amongst the lovers of good fare. There was a
brisk demand, and beef sold at from 6d to 8d per pound ;
mutton about the same. Some fine lambs (uncommon at
this time of the year,) brought in some instances a guinea
a quarter. Poultry, especially geese and chickens, were
cheap,—a good goose, of 81b weight, bringing 3s. The
show of Saturday morning was not, however, the grand
one of this festive season,—Thursday next, (the day be-
fore Christmas day,) being the appointed day, when
fresh supplies will be brought up, and the market deco-
rated with evergreens, flowers, &c. St. John's, on
such an occasion, is always worthy of a visit. The outer
markets have also been well supplied during the past few
days, and will make a grand show on Christmas Eve.

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