The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-07 00:00:00

WEST INDIES.

Her majesty's packet Tyrian, arrived at Falmouth, has
brought papers from the different West India lalands to a
late date ; those from Jamaica are to the 29th of July, those
from Barbadoes to the 21st of July, and those from Trinidad
to the 16th of July. The Jamaica papers are barren of inte-
resting news as regards that locality, bht they contain accounts
from Carthagena to the 23d of July, by the Hornet, which
had arrived there. Cvrmona, the federal chief of Santa
Martha, had marched from Carthagena, with a levied force of
some 700 men, calling upon the villages in his way to disown
the constitutional government, and declare in favour of fede-
ralism. In Carthagena there was every disposition to sup-
port the government to the last, but it was feared that they
would not be able from the want of provisions to hold out till
assistance arrived at Bogota. In the mean time the govern-
ment of Carthagena had issued a decree allowing all provi-
sions to enter duty free. The Hornet brought remittances
to the amount of 48,000 dollars.

The crops at Jamaica had as yet a favourable appearance,
but the soil was not sufficiently irrigated to form a positive
opinion ; there was in some districts a great want of rain.
In Demerara and Barbadoes business matters were pro-
ceeding much as they usually did, and in the latter island
there had been seasonable showers. The planters in the
variousislands were endeavouring, according to all accounts,
to increase their crops of produce, and the peasantry evinced
a disposition to co-operate with their employ ers. In some of
the districts the African emigrants were still discontented,
and would not work on the same terms as the native free
labourer.

From the Trinidad papers it appears that a committee has
been formed for the purpose of inquiring into the agricultu-
ral resources and general capabilities of the island. The
body of the evidence produced would tend to establish a high
degree of fertility in the soil, the greater portion of which is
represented as peculiarly adapted to the cultivation of sugar,
while the remainder would be found fitted to produce cotton,
cocoa, cocoa, &c., &c., in abundance. It offers also, by
the nature of the country, and the quality of timber in which
it abounds, great facilities for the formation of railways, with
which advantages, and a proper supply and judicious system
of labour, the island might be raised to the highest importance
and prosperity.

THE LATE CONFLAGRATION AT SMYRNA.
THREE THOUSAND HOUSES AND EIGHT SYNAGOGUES

DESTROYED

This lamentable catastrophe, in addition to their late per-
secution in the east, has placed the Jews in a most deplor-
able situation ; they are deprived of their homes and reduced
to the greatest misery and privation, and many who moved
in a respectable sphere of life are now unhappy wanderers. A
letter, describing the appalling visitation, has been received
by Sir Moses Montifiore, from Messrs. Isaac Poncheries
and Co., dated Smyrna, July 30, and has been widely dis-
tributed among the several congregations in London, calling
on the benevolent to afford relief to the unfortunate suffer-
ers. We believe contributions are being received with a
spirit worthy of example in cases of affliction :
EXTRACT OF A LETTER RECEIVED AUG. 18, 1841.
" Respected Sir,—With unfeigned grief we are called upon
to impart to you one of the most painfully afflicting events
that can possibly fall to the lot of suffering humanity. On
the night of the 28th ult., a terrible fire broke out in this
city, which continued to rage with great fury up to the middle
of last night.
" The tire made the most frightful progress, and its ra-
vages were such as it is impossible to describe ; but those
who suffered most from the awful calamity are our own un-
happy brethren. The whole of the Hebrew quarter is re-
duced to ashes, about 3,000 houses and eight synagogues have
been burnt to the ground, and the Jews have lost their houses,
their property, and their clothes. The Turks suffered very
much, but not so much as our poor brethren, and persons of
the most respectable stations in life are wandering houseless
in the streets, begging for bread, with shame and despair de-
picted in their countenances.

" Yesterday a pious soul co-operated with us in endea-
vouring to collect a sum of money, wherewith to buy bread
for distribution, indiscriminately, to Jews and Turks, who
are in the mountains in a state of the utmost despair, without
having a shelter for their heads. We have succeded in col-
lecting a certain sum, and contributed ourselves 1,000 pias-
tres, a sum which is beyond our means, inasmuch as we are
constantly obliged to bestow money, being daily spectators
of their extreme misery, and having no one to aid us in the
relief we extend.

" We have had the satisfaction to succeed in carrying
through the midst of the fire some food to our poor brethren,
who, with heart-rending shrieks, were invoking the God of
mercy for succour. In the midst of this dire catastrophe
many lost their lives, and many families are in the most de-
solate and bereaved condition, severed from each other and
scattered here and there."

On Tuesday last Charles Webb, charged with having in
his possession bank notes and other bills, to the amount of
£sBf 8s 11d, the property of Messrs. Simcox and Pember-
ton, brass-founders, of Birmingham, and which were stolen
from the Birmingham Postoffice, in November, 1828, was
brought before D. Ledman, Esq., at the Public Office, for
examination, and committed to the assizes for trial.

ilaawtesl
EXPORTATION OF MACHIN'ERY.—The select committee
Yaffecting the exportation of
appointed to inquire into
machinery, have just published their second report to the
house. The report is much to long to allow of any detailed
theof operation the
House
ofof the Commons,
existing
reference to it, but we subjoin the final recommendation of
the committee on the subject, which is to the following effect,
viz.:—`` That, considering that machinery is the only product
of British industry upon the export of which restraints are
placed, the committee recommend that the law prohibiting
the export of machinery should be repealed, and the trade of
machine making should be placed upon the same footing as
other departments of British industry." The above com-
mittee was composed of the following hon. members, some
of whom have lost their seats, viz. :—Mr. M. Phillips, Sir R.
Peel, Mr. Labouchere, Lord Francis Egerton, Mr. Hume,
Viscount Sandon, Sir G. Strickland,-Mr. E, Tennent, Mr.
Morrison, Mr. Bolling, Mr. Villiers, Mr. T. Parker, Mr. J.
Heathcoat, Mr. Colquho
un, and Mr. Oswald. Mr. Stans-
field, Mr.. J. Parker, Sir J. R. G. Graham, Mr..Brotherton,
Mr. Easthope, Mr. Sheil, and Mr. Grimsditch, were sub-
sequently added to the committee.