The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-24 00:00:00

WEST INDIES.

The Royal West Indian Steamer Thames arrived at
Southampton on Saturday—the day she was due. she
brings dates from Demerara to the 18th, and Jamaica
23rd, ult.
The whole of the West India Islands were genel:ali/
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Jamaica, to consult with Lord Elgin on the expediency 01
forming a final settlement for the West India colonies.
There is every prospect of good crops throughout thi
islands generally. The weather has not been so propitioas
for many years. The House of Assembly was sitting st
Jamaica, but no particular business was being transacted.
A bill had been introduced to prevent trespass on PO'
perties, which was read a third time, and ordered to bet
engrossed. And another, for the summary punishmen.
of petty larcenies, had gone into committee and paaed.
The Lazaretto Bill, for the establishment of a lazaretto
for the islands, had also been introduced, and, after some
little discussion whether it should be a floating one or
not, it was ultimately passed, on the understanding that it
should be on shore. The expense will be sornevvherB
about £lO,OOO. Assent had been given by his Excellency
the Governor to the following bills :
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Iles of War Bill, the Commissioners of Accounts Bills
and the Board of Works B:11.

Tschech, the miscreant who recently attempted the
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assassination of the King of Prussia, was executed on the
14th instant, at the Fortress of Spandau, near Berlin'
That part of the sentence which condemned him to be
drawn upon a hurdle, and broken upon a wheel, was corn'
muted by the clemency of his Majesty. •
JESUITISM IN SWITZERLAND.—A meeting of 2500
electors of the Canton of Berne was held in that town on
the 15th, to take into consideration the means of prevent-
ing the spread of Jesuitism. Resolutions expressing F 011•
fidence in the government of Berne, and inviting it to
place itself at the head of the Liberal movement, were
passed unanimously, amid loud cries of " Down with the
Jesuiti."

ICHABOE.—We yesterday saw a letter dated from Oil,
Island October 15th, in which the writer, the captain 01
a vessel lying there, says, " I did not call at Angra Fe'
quina, as the guano there is not equal to that of Ichabolr
and several vessels now here have thrown overboard their
cargoes obtained there. I expect in the space of six or
eight months, if not sooner, the whole of the guano on the
island will be carried away, 'there being no less than 350
to 400 vessels now lying here."

AUSTRALIA.—Port Philip papers to the sth of August
have arrived. The official abstract of the revenue of
the colony is published at length in the journals, but es
we have already received the main facts through previous
Sydney advices, it is scarcely necessary further to advert
to the subject. The deficiency of £1,500 on the quarter's
return is borne out by both statements. In the interior
one or two murders by the aborigines are alluded to, but
scarcely a file of papers comes to hand without some simi-
lar atrocity being recorded. The Goulburn tribe seem to
be the most ferocious set of vagabonds that infest the
bush ; and they, in most cases, single out shepherds ou
remote stations as their victims, and treat them in the
most cruel and barbarous manner. Trade is stated to be
steadily improving. The weather for three weeks previ;
ous to the date of these accounts had been inclement and
unpropitious for business. Cold winds and almost inces-
sant rains had quite kept the people in doors, the wet and
mud rendering the roads impassable, and the heavy rains
having caused the overflow of the Yarra-Yarra. The
month of August had, however, set in with a more pro-
mising aspect, and it was, therefore, expected in the course
of a little time business would resume its usual current.

On Saturday, at Manchester, Sir Henry Pottinger was
presented with an address from the working classes,
which received 10,438 signatures in fourteen hours.

A hybrid bird, partaking of the colours of the pheasant
and the black cock, was a few days ago shot on the estate
of William Ord, Esq., M.P., Northumberland.
The Cork Examiner publishes the official notification
of the appointment of the Commissioners under the
Charitable Bequests Act between mourning lines, as 4'
pical of the fate of the Church of Rome.

It is said that among the guards and policemen on the
Great Western Railway are three persons who have been
attorneys, one a surgeon, one an officer in the army, and
two commercial travellers.

In the Exchequer Court, on Saturday, Mr. Mullett, a
paper maker, of London, obtained a verdict of £750
against Lloyd, the proprietor of several penny publics-'
tions—Lloyd's Sunday Times, &c.—for the seduction
of the plaintiff's wife.

BOAT RACE.—In a paragraph elsewhere we have given
the result of a match between the two experienced water-
men—Coombes and Clasper. Another match for £3OO
was made up between the same parties to come off yester-
day, (Monday,) the distance the same as before. Coombes
depositing £2OO and Clasper £lOO.
THE NORFOLK ARSON CASES.—At the Norwich
assizes, on Saturday, thirteen parties were brought up
for judgment for as many distinct cases of arson in that
county, and were sentenced for periods (according to the
enormity of their offences) of from fifteen years' trans'
portation to twelve months' imprisonment.
The Court will remain at Windsor Castle during the
Christmas festivities. immediately afterwards her
Ma-
jesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, according 4
present arrangements, will honour their Graces the
and Duchess of Buckingham with a visit at SOW'.
The Court is expected to leave Windsor for Stowe On
Tuesday, the 7th proximo.

EXETER.-The Bishop of Exeter bas published a reply
to the memorial from the Dean and other dignitaries of
the diocese, on the recent matters which have caused
such agitation in the district. Theibishop criticises the
memorial, and alleges his opinion that it would bring the
Archbishop and Bishops who acted upon it under the vi-
sitation of the law of the land, if they met for any such
purpose without a stated permission from the Crown.

Dr. Murray, of Dublin, has issued a pastoral address,
in which be exposes with great force the gross inconsis-
tencies of the majority of the Romish hierarchy, who, it
appears, about three years since drew up a memorial 0
Government, which, with one exception, bore the Sig'
natures of the whole body, praying, as an act of especial
justice, that " one " Roman Catholic ecclesiastic might
be appointed to the Board of Bequests.
BERLIN PATTERNS.--A question has recently been
made by the Customs' officers, with respect to the
portation of German patterns, brought to this country in
large quantities, as is well known, to form patterns or
models for fancy needlework, in the shape of chairs, otto •
mans, shoes, &c., which are in the present day so much
in vogue, particularly in the higher circles. The Customs
have admitted them.

FAT OXEN.—The weight of the short-horned steer
which gained the first prize at the late Smithfield shpor
was said to be 210 stone. Upon the carcase being
weighed on Saturday, the result was as follows :—.Eacun
hind quarter weighed 60k stone, and each fore quarter 5u
stone, making in the aggregate 221 stone, or 17681 b. Ia
addition to this, the loose fat weighed 24 stone (192110,
and the hide 12 stone (961 b.) The short•homed OW'
one of Lord Spencer's stock, bred by Mr. Beasley, near
Northampton, which gained the first prize of £2O in clBO
7, weighed 156 stone, exclusive of 20 stone of loose rat!