The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-22 00:00:00

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lisplace affection for England in the hearts of those
who have never yielded to any subjects of the empire in
loyalty ? The business of the past_ fortnight has, as
usual, been limited only to nurclu

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for immediate Con-

sumption. In the foreign trade there has not been any-
thing doing, no buyers having arrived."
Several emigrants had arrived at Trinidad from Marti-
nique, not thinking their lives secure during the present
unsettled condition of the French West India colonies.
We have advices from Port-au-Prince and Jacmel,
Hayti. From JacmA we learn that many respectable
persons had been arrested

them having been confined in iron
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mel was threatened, had been removed by the President
Soulonque for performing his duty. At Port-au-Prince
everything was tranquil, but the prisons were filled with
political offenders, many of whom it was thought would
be shot on the return of the President from his tour
through the southern part of the republic.
From Cuba we learn that the island was perfectly tran-
quil when the Great Western left, on the 27th ultimo. A
slight disturbance had occurred at one of the outports,
but it had been repressed by the energetic measures of the
Governor-General. The chief of the town, who was im-
plicated in the revolt, had fled. This is doubtless the oc-
currence that has been magnified by the American papers
into a revolution in Havannah, and which originated the
news in the New York papers of the sth of August.
brought by the United States steamer to Cowes on Friday
evening. The Captain-General of Cuba had seized a
slaver entering one of the ports with 150 negroes on
board. She had been brought round to Havannah. The
blacks would be brought round and apprenticed for seven
years, and would then be entitled to freedom and per-
mitted to leave the island, in virtue of the convention to
that effect between the British and Spanish Crowns.

Our Mexican advices represent iolitical affairs as ex-
tremely unsettled. The Indians were about in large num-
bers, causing travelling to the interior to be very unsafe.
Some of the cities had called out the inhabitants to patrol
during the night, to prevent surprises from the band of
Indians prowling about for plunder. The Americans had
given up all the ports to the Mexican authorities, and the
national flag was once more hoisted in all the ports. The
Customs' duties were collected according to the old tariff.
The llnitcd
.Statva! army bad nearly all embarked, and it
would very soon he entirely out of the Mexican territo-
ries, the approach of the sickly season on the coast
causing them to lose no opportunities offering for their
embarkation.

In Demerara the planters were all busy with their crops,
the weather being very fine, but labour still scarce.
In the Danish islands of St. Thomas's and St. Croix
order amongst the emancipated blacks had been restored,
and the negroes had returned to their work.