The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-06-19 00:00:00

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It is stated that the dreadful tornado at Natchez, of
which we furnished an account in our second edition
of Tuesday, had done damage to property to the
amount of 5,000,000 of dollars. Upwards of 300
lives are said to have been lost on this melancholy oc-
casion,

The news from Central America is described as ex—
ceedingly gloomy. Civil war was raging in every part
of the republic. It is stated that Morazan, who had
held the Presidency for eight years, by the choice of
the people, but who had usurped it for the last four
years, had been defeated and driven out of the country.
From Canada there is no news of importance. His
Excellency Abe Lieutenant-Governor had prorogued the.
Special Council from the 15th to the 28th ultimo.
Much dissatisfaction was expressed at the refusal of the
Governor-General to assitnulate the currency of the
two provinces. The Hon. D. B. Viger and Mr. John
M'Donnell, who had been imprisoned for upwards of
18 months, on charges of high treason, had been libe-
rated.

We have received a copy of the Halifax (N. S.)
Journal of the 18th May. His Excellency the Lieute-
nant-Governor, Sir Colin Campbell, continued to re-
ceive addresses of confidence and esteem from all parts
of the province. These addresses breathe the most
fervent loyalty to her Majesty, and the most devoted
attachment to the British constitution. They also ex-
press the unqualified approbation of the great majority
of the colonists of the firmness which Sir Colin
Campbell has displayed in delaying to give effect to the
recent resolutions of the House of Assembly, solitcing
th eissolution of the Executive Council until her Ma—
jesty's pleasure should be known.
The Journal states that the United States troops at
Houlton had been ordered to take their post at the
Feih River, in the disputed territory.

Accounts had been reeeived at Halifax from Bermu-
da, to the 21st of April. These accounts state that the
exports from Grenada for the year ending the 31st of
December last, as compared with the table for 1838,
show a deficiency of 5,484,6771b5. of sugar, and 219,782
gallons of rum. Very heavy rains in the windward
parishes of Grenada had put a stop to the manufacture
of sugar.

We have received advices from Jamaica to the Hid)
.of May inclusive. Our files of the Royal Gazette and
of the Standard only reach to the 9th ultimo. From
these journals we learn that the Baptists were still
busily employed in the work of agitation, but, happily,
without producing any fresh disturbances. These in-
cendiaries had drawn up an address, which was pre-
sentes to Sir Charles Metcalfe, in which they demanded
from him an explanation of certain expressions con-
tained in his despatch to Lord John Russell, and gin
unqualified retraction of others. This impudent de-
mand was met by his Excellency in a becoming spirit.
He advised his secretary to intimate to the ministers
whose names were attached to the address that the
tone which they had assumed precluded a reply, and
that even if the tone and contents were unexceptionable,
he could never, with due consideration to the office
entrusted to him, render it amenable to individuals for
any communications designed to elucidate the state of
affairs in the island, which he might, in the discharge
of his public duty, submit to her Majesty's ministers.
After receiving this suitable intimation these dema-
gogues magnanimously passed a resolution to the effect
that, " conscious of the rectitude of their conduct, the
Baptist missionaries intend to take little further
notice
of his Excellency's unsupported accusations against
them." It is well remarked by the Royal Gazette that,
" if any thing were wanting to rivet the first impressions
on Sir Charles's mind, it is the subsequent conduct of
these men."
The Jamaica Despatch complains bitterly of the pre-
ference shown by government for slave-grown sugar,

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