The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-05 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

We have received 2s. 6d. for the " Case of Distress" re-
cently advertised in the STANDARD.
Our poetical correspondents must " wait their turn."
" A Lover of Truth" is in error. He writes of the Evan-
gelical Magazine of thirty years ago.
The letter of "A Liverpool Shipbroker and Subscriber" will
require some alterations to adapt it for our columns. It
shall appear on Friday.

Ebt Zibtrpool 'tanbarb.

TUESDAY

MORNING, JANUARY 5, 1841

By the arrival of the Pigeon and of the Express, at
Falmouth, we have received Guiana papers to the 17th
of November, being a few days later than those which
we acknowledged in our last. The Guiana Times
states that the arrival of Sir Henry 111‘Cleod was anxi-
ously expected, inasmuch as, owing to the strange con-
duct of Governor Light, public business had been sus-
pended for six. months. The same paper does not he-
sitate to say that Governor Light " has the ineffable
want of spirit to be a party to an intrigue, for the pur-
pose of preoccupying Sir Henry's ears as soon as he
lands."

We have elsewhere given insertion to some pertinent
remarks from the Gitiana Times, on the fruits of eman-
cipation. Our colonial contemporary seems to think
that the planters and merchants of the West Indies
have little reason for deprecating a European war. The
English would only have to lie to, off Martinique or
Guadaloupe, for a few hours, to empty those islands of
half their population.

There is no news of any interest in the papers before

We have received our files -of -the Jamaica Royal
Gazette and Standard, to the 21st of November, in-
They do not contain much news of import-
_ The weather had become much more propitious
towards the commencement of the month, and the
consequence was manifest in the green and cheerful

elusive

appearance of the cane and pasture lands. A corres-
pondent from the parish of Manchester states that the
planters .in that district were all quite delighted with
the Governor's speech. This appears to be the feeling'
of almost every class in the island, with the exception of
the Baptist agitators, whose craft has been endangered
by the firm but pacific administration of Sir Charles
Metcalfe.

The subject of the proposed changes in the sugar
duties necessarily occupied much attention among the•
planters of Jamaica. The Gazette and Standard, while
it admits that, in consequence of the deficiency in the
supplies of West India produce, sugar has risen to a
price never before known during the time of peace,
without the smallest prospect of being materially altered
by natural circumstances for several years to come, still
strenuously opposes any material alteration in the pre-
sent "scale of duties on foreign sugars. The deficient
supplies from the West Indies, it must be remembered,
have been solely produced by the arbitrary proceedings
of government, excited by the clamour of a variety of
parties, some religious, others selfishly inclined. The
assimilation of the duties upon British and Foreign
sugars would only tend to seal irrevocably the ruin of
our own colonies, and to extend the slave trade, and
the slave produce of other countries in a proportionate
degree. The Gazette and Standard suggests, as a pre-
ferable alternative, the reduction of the duties on Bri-
tish plantation and Foreign sugars to the extent of ten
or twelve shillings per cwt., which, it alleges, would
clear at once about one half the increased price. With
respect to the other half, the same journal says that it
ought to be patiently borne by the public, in return
for the satisfaction of having had all their views and
wishes fully carried out in the matter of emancipation.
Our contemporary does not think that the revenue
would suffer materially by the change, " for, in addition
to the great increase in the consumption which the re-
duction
of even lid. per pound would produce, if the
government would only restore the drawback upon the
exportation of refined sugars, which they lately so un-
advisedly destroyed, such an influx of the foreign article
would ensue for such purposes, as could not but com-
pensate by its excessive duty for any deficiency which
might remain." We offer no opinion at present on
these suggestions further than the expression of our
belief that their adoption would be any thing but ad-
vantageous to our own colonies.

The Gazette and Standard quotes a Halifax journal,
from which it appears that during Lord SydenhaM's
late visit to that colony, the exclusive consumption of
foreign sugar and molasses had come under his Excel-
lency's notice. It was calculated that, at the time, there
were in Halifax not less than 10,000 casks of such
produce, scarcely a pound of which had been derived
from any of the British colonies.

The same journal furnishes us with some interesting
extracts from the Trinidad, St. Lucia, and other pa-
pers. It appears that, in the former colony, by a re-
turn of the produce shipped in each of the last seven
years, the falling off in sugar has averaged 1,500 hogs-
heads, the amount exported in 1834 being 25,400
hogsheads, and that in 1840 only 15,700 hogsheads.
The deficiency for the last year was upwards. of 2,000
hogsheads. In the cocoa and coffee crops there ap-
pears to have been very little variation. The number
of emigrants which arrived during September was 102
—making the whole number, from the Ist of January
2,408. The island of St. Lucia appears to be in a
most deplorable state. In its crops it has fallen off
enormously. Estates which, even in 1838, shipped
130 hogsheads of sugar, have finished this year with
40. From Tobago we learn that the Legislature had
passed a bill appropriating the sum of £3.0,000 for the
purposes of immigration.

Since our last there has been very little foreign in-
telligence of any importance. The war party in
France seem to have exhausted their stock of abuse
of the present ministry of Louis Philippe. There is
nothing new from the East. The overland mail may
be daily expected with most important intelligence.
We learn that the Circassians have again completely
routed the Russians, and captured an important fort,
after a decisive engagement. The governments of
Austria, Prussia, Wurtemburg, and Bavaria, are pur—
chasing horses to a very great extent in Russia, with
the permission of the Emperor. This has certainly a.
warlike appearance. Fresh disturbances have taken,
place in the province of Andalusia, in Spain., That.
distracted country is torn asunder by internal dissen—
sions. Her finances, her trade, wad her political re.-
rations are under the controul of rival factions, whoa