The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-29 00:00:00

COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE,

WEST INDIES.
The West India mail, which is arrived. his brought Jamaica
papers to October 19, St. Kitt's and Trinidad to October 12,
13arbadoes to October 11, Demerara to September 30, &c. he
new Governor of Jamaica had received various congratulatory
addresses on his acceptance of the office. In the course of the
answer to the address of the inhabitants of Grand Caymana,
Sir Lionel Smith said, ° Happy would it be for all classes, if I
could justly refer her dependencies to the good exampe of Ja-
maica herself, instead of finding► her torn by animosities which
have been usurping those energies that were required to secure
her future welfare."

The papers of that island are largely-occupied with the pro-
ceedings of a special commission, issued to ascertain tho cor-
rectness of charges against Dr. Palmer, and Mr. Harris, of
the parish of St. Thomas-in-the-Vale, the commissioners sitting
at Rodney-hall ; the general character of the complaints being,
that those stipendiary magistrates had wrongfully and impro-
perly omitted to sanction numerous sentences on slave appren-
tices. There are many cases preferred against them, and the
extant of the proceedings may be imagined from the fact that
Dr. Palmer alone is stated to have subpoenaed 56 witnesses.
The commissioners are to inquire, " if any, and what, part of
the abolition law had been violated" by Messrs. Harris and
Palmer. The proceedings, as may be imagined, had produced
an extraordinary excitement and much party feeling, the future
efficiency of this magistracy being considered to be in no slight
degree involved in the result of the inquiry • and the anxiety
was not diminished by the adjournment of thei Court on the
28th of September to the 24th of October, in consequence, as
was alleged, of the assembling of the Grand Court ; but the
Governor (Sir L. Smith) refused to sanction so long an ad-
journment, and required the commissioners to re-assemble on
the 10th of October, to proceed with the inquiry, and to make
their report with all convenient despatch. There had been some
agitation among the slave apprentices, but the proceedings of
the Governor, and the forwarding of troops, had allayed the
disposition to disturbance.

The House of Assembly was further prorogued to November
1; it was then to meet for the despatch of business.
The transactions iu the floor-market, Jamaica, September
23, had been rather on an extended scale. Some partial sales
had been made ou the. previous Moudav, of superfine, at
935. 4d. (duty 10s. per barrel.) Accounts afterwards received
by the Pioneer, from Phiadelphia, of the state of the corn-
market in the United States generally, caused an 'unusual
degree of firmness ; and the price, 935. 4d. was then fully trms"
' tamed • but subsequently, October 18, Philadelphia, fine flour
had sold there at 90s.

EXCHANGE, JAM RICA, Oct. 18.—The Commissariat premium
for bills is 162 payable in dollars, and 171 payable in doubloons.
Private bills have pretty generally ruled at 16 per cent., but
to-day, they opened at 161 per cent., and afterwards went up to
17 per cent.; short bills were 181 per cent. On America, 4 to
5 per cent. premium.
Sir E. J. Murray Macgregor, on-relinquishing the govern-
ment of Dominica, addressed , its Council and Assembly ;
and in the • course of that communication ho renewed " his
earnest reccoinrnendation that their timely-attention might be
bestowed upon the careful preparation of enactments calculated
to meet those important alterations in colonial society which
could not be respectively postponed beyond the years 1838
and 181 U."
Grenada papers to Oct. sth state, that Captain Jones, of
the Vestal, had taken two more slavers off Grenada. 925
Africans were fouod on board, which with those captured off
Tobago, made a total of 1,226 Africans captured iu eight days
by Captain Jones.