The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-05 00:00:00

COLONIAL INTELLIGENC.E.

WEST INDIES.
Her Majesty's packet Magnet, Lieut. Griffith, arrived at
Falmouth on Monday morning, having left Barbadoes Sept.
5, St. Lucia 6, Martinique 7, Dominica arid Guadaloupe 9,
Antigua 11, Montserrat. Nevis and St. Kitts 12, Tortola 13,
arriving on the same day at St. Thomas, where she received
the La Guayra and Leeward Island mails, ex the Tartarus
steamer, and those from Jamaica, to Sept. 20, brought up
by the steamer Flamer. On freight £9OOO.
Her Majesty's packet Seagull had arrived at St. Thomas,
and expected to leave with the next West India mails on
October 7,
The French government has issued an ordinance, which
appears in an official advertisement in the Barbadoes papers.
The following is the chief contents :
" The port of Port Louis, situated in Grand-terre (Gua-
deloupe) is open to the importation of foreign merchandise
enumerated in the tables A B C attached to the ordinance of
the Bth of December. 1839, under the conditions and restric-
tions set forth by the same ordinance, and by that of the sth
of February, 1826, as regards the importation of the same
merchandise in the other parts of the French Antilles already
open to foreign commerce.
The failure of Messrs. William Jenkins and Co., of Lon-
don, we are sorry to learn, has had a very injurious effect on
several of the West India merchants, and other individuals
who had extensive and confidential dealings with the unfor-
tunate house in question.
It had been moved in the Barbadoes House of Assembly,
" that the militia bill of this island, as now constituted, has
failed in its object of raising an effectual militia force ; and
that this house being of an opinion that there is no existing
necessity for such an establishment, under the present orga-
nised state of the country (having a police for the preserva-
tion of internal order), deems its repeal advisable," which
was rejected by a small majority. A subsequent motion was
made on the ruinous expense entailed by the keeping up of
the militia of the island, which terminated in a like manner.
ST. Lucr,►.—The Palladium states The first subject
of local interest here is the change of language in our courts
of justice, announced by proclamation to come into effect on
the Ist of January next. Much as we approve of every step
made in our local institutions to approach the great model of
the parent state, we cannot but sympathise with the num-
bers of our fellow-inhabitants whose ruin will be the inevita-
ble consequence of -this measure. Already are lawyers,
merchants, planters, and others seized with the panic ; and
we hear but of preparations to quit the colony, and carry
what little may .be remaining of their wrecked fortunes to
other countries. Our population was thin enough before :
how it will be now, unless the valuable, though long-neg-
lected, capabilities of the island attract at last the notice of
British enterprise.
" The introduction of British sterling, as the only legal
money of accounts, has also made a great sensation, and
would•have been hailed by every class as a decided improve-
ment, but that it has been brought to pass in a bungled man-
ner, leaving the cut-money in circulation without a tangible
sterling value.

" His Excellency Lieut.-Col. Graydon, being called to
Barbadoes by busineas of emergency, took his departure on
Wednesday morning for the neighbouring island of Marti-
nique, to meet his Excellency Lieut. Gen. Maister, and
proceeded with him in the steamer to head-quarters. Capt.
Caldwell, of the 92d Highlanders, is confided with the ad-
ministration of the government during the absence of Col.
Graydon, which is expected to be of but a few days' dura-
tion."

The House of Assembly at Jamaica had been prorogued
by proclamation from August 31 to October 5.
We extract the following from our advices and from the
Jamaica papers :
" CARTHAGENA.—By the arrival of the Jane Ann, at
Kingston, on Thursday last, we have intelligence from Car-
thagena to the 7th ult. Carmona still continued to blockade
the town, and prevented the vessel landing her cargo. The
Pickle and steamer Hydra were both there; but remained
passive. The Attorney-General, it is understood, has given
his opinion that the blockade ought not to be recognised,
and that all commanders of her Majesty's ships would be
perfectly justified in protecting vessels carrying provisions
under the British flag ; but in the absence of positive orders
from the commodore, they are afraid of the responsibility.
In the meantime, what little trade there is between the coun-
tries suffers. The sloop Mermaid, another vessel with pro-
visions from this port, had also been warned off the coast by
Carmona's fleet, and had sailed two days before the Jane
Ann, but has not yet arrived.
Several deaths had taken place in the town from Car-
mona's shots. The Government Admiral, Tonon, was still
absent ; nobody seems to know where. Rio le Lache, how-
ever, is reported to have declared for the government party !
What effect this will have time will show. Upon these mat-
ters a correspondent, under date of the 7th ult., thus writes—
We are still besieged ; last night the cannon on the
walls poured forth a tremendous shower of grape, &c., as
there was an attack on San Felipe. The Popa, too, has not
been idle : several houses have eyelet holes in them from
cannon balls; all the world here are sleeping and even living
below, as they sometimes cannonade:in the daytime. * *
Pepe Pazos' lady (Candelaria Eckart) was killed by a cannon
shot on the 29th ult. The ball went through three partitions
before it reached her. There have been two or three other
deaths, but of a more lingering character, causediy splinters,
&c. What has become of Admiral Tonon I We have no
intelligence of him since the 19th ult., when be came from
Baru, and had a little skirmish with Podilla.

" I suppose you wiil have heard that Rio la Hatche hat,
pronounced in favour of the Government of Bogota, and
they say that Herran was at Cucuta in July last, on his way
hither, via Maracaibo. For this reason some say that Tonon
has gone there to bring his troops—veremos' ."'