The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-10 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

WEST INDIES.—The advices by the Thames, steamer,
which arrived at Southampton, on Wednesday. from the
West Indies, are of a satisfactory character. 'The weather
in Jamaica and most of the other islands was-Tery favour-
able for the crops, and it is expected that the yield in
18.46-7 will show an important increase over that of 1815.6.
The heaviness of the rains, however, had at the same
occasioned some damage in Nlorent Bay and other parts
of Jamaica, but the most fearful havoc among the ship-
ping, &c., appears to have been occasioned at the Havana.
In Trinidad there had been one or two slight shocks of
earthquake. The papers are almost entireiv filled with
accounts of public meetings on the sugar duties, and cor-
respondence and editorial remarks thereon. The subject
appears to.be taken up warmly and with much spirit, and,
considering all things, with considerable temper. There
appears. to be a strong feeling in favour of an alteration of
the navigation laws, and also reduction of taxation. A
disposition is evidently evinced to melee exertion to meet
the altered state of things, to cultivate en the best prin-
cif les, and effect such a change by a reduction of local
charges, freedom of shipping laws. and improved agricul-
ture, as to enable the colonist to compete with slave-
grown produce.
HURRICANE AT THE HAVANNAH.— On Sunday, the
11th of October, Havannah was visited by the mos
violent hurricane ever remembered by the oldest inhabi.
tant. The damage to the shipoirg in that beautifully
land-locked harbour proved most disastrous—scarcely a
vessel escaped—many sunk, and out of at least 120 sail,
the Habanero, Spanish brig of war, the royal mail steam-
ship Thames, the English brig William Rushton, and two
or three others, at the termination of the gale, were the
only vessels riding in safety. Among the vessels driven
on shore were the French frigate Andromede, bearing the
flag of Rear admiral Laplace, and corvette Blonde, while
the war steamer, Tonnerre lost her masts and funnel.
The Spanish men of war wrecked or sunk, were the brigs
Laborde, Constitucion, and Trueno ; the schooners,
Polka, Criolla, Habanera, and Infanta, ; and the steam-
ers Montezuma, Guadalupe, Bazan, and •Salitor. Tne
brigs Nervion and Petriota were also damaged. The
sheers at the navy-yard were blown down, the wharfs
torn up and much injured, and covered with wrecked
property. The following may be looked upon as a fair
general statement of the merchant vessels sunk, ashore,
or useless :—American, 19 t Spanish, 33 ; British, 10 ;
Russian, 2; Bremen, 2 ; Danish, 4 ; Belgian, 2 ; Dutch,
1 , French, 4 ; Austriaa, 1 ; Brazilian, 1. Many houses,
inside and outside the city, have been thrown down,
crushing their unfortunate inmates; several churches
have been partially injured, and there is scarcely a dwel-
ling that has not lost part of its roof, windows,-balconies,
&c. Trees have been levelled to the ground, and even
iron posts have been bent by the violence of the elements.
The theatre Tacon was much injured, the opera house is
an ruins. The city suffered comparatively little, but the
suburbs, especially the Cerro, Horcon, Colon, and San
Lizardo, very severely. In Regla the damage done was
frightful ; from the ruins of one house were dug eleven
corpses. The number of lives lost was still unknown, but
it was estimated, from lists already given, that no less
than one hundred persons had perished by the falling of
houses and street accidents, besides those who had been
drowned in the barbcur. At the height of the gale the
barometer was down to 27.70 ; in the hurricane of 1844 it
was 28.42. The amount of iniury sustained in the district
around Havannah was still unknown ; but the cc,ffee and
tobacco crops are said to have severely snffered.
The Duke and Duchess de Montpensier slept at Blois
on Tuesday night, and arrived at Paris by the Orleans
Railroad, at one o'clock on Wednesday.
GOVERNO.NSHIP OF BOMBAY.—Mr. George Russell
Clerk will be proposed at the next court for the presidency
of Bombay. Mr-Clerk w(nt to India as a writer in 1817.
The Rev. J. H. Newman arrived in Rome on the 26th
ult., and was most warm'y received by his Holiness the
Pope, and several of the most distinguished of the Roman
Clergy. Mr. Newman was accompanied by Mr. St. John,
and -by Mr. Talbot, who is now a priest of the !lowish
Church.

The King and Queen of the Belgians left Paris for
Brussels on Tuesday, by a special train on the Northern
Railroad. The departure of their Majesties on the eve
of the arrival of the Duke and Duchess de Nlontpensier,
excited considerable surprise in Paris, and was construed
by some into a prutest of King Leopold against their mar-
riage.

Loss OF ONE HUNDRED LlVES.—Letters received at
Vienna from Austrian Friuli contain particulars of an
unfortunate event that had lately occurred at Goritz. A
large number of soldiers and citizens were crossing a
bridge of boats for the purpose of assisting at a military
review, when suddenly the bridge, which was inadequate
to support the weight with which it was loaded, broke
down, and a great many of the persons upon it fell into
the river. According to the most credible reports, fifty-
three Chasseu►s and about forty citizens have perished in
the waters of Isonza.