The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-24 00:00:00

COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

WEST INDIES.
The royal mail steamer Tay arrived at Southampton on
Sunday, having left St. Thomas's on the 9th of February,
with the outward mails per Thames steamer for Jamaica,
which port she left again on her homeward route on the 14th.
quitting the Havannah on the 21st, and Nassau on the 23d
ult., and Bermuda on the 4th, and Fayal on the 13th instant.
She brings 14 passengers and about £3OOO on freight in gold
and dollars.
The royal mail steamer Dee brought the Jamaica and
Windward Island mails to Bermuda, whereby the dates from
the former are to the 17th of February, and from St. Thomas's
to the 25th.
The royal mail steamer Avon, with mails from England of
the Ist of February, had not arrived at St. Thomas's when
the Dee left that island, being then about 22 days.
The intelligence brought by the Tay (which vessel started
for Southhampton the moment the mails were unshipped)
adds little or nothing to the recent information received from
the West Indies, and is easily aooounted for whim we take

• her peculiar rod* biP3 aitisidenatiOn, avid her
after the last steamer (Actaeon.) It is moil; gratifying,
ever, to find that the earthquake, which had been so terrific
in i is effects at Guadaloupe and other islands, had not visited
Jam aica,—not only a blessing and cause for thankfulness in
itself, but most congratulatoo, as enabling its inhabitants to
render aid and assistance to their less fortunate neighbours
The Tay does not appear to be the bearer of more
counts from Guadaloupe than have already reach,.
France, nor of any thing new from Cuba since the con.
tion at Port-au-Prince on the 9th of January.
An extraordinary phenomenon had been observed from t,
the
Tay to the W. and SSW. during the homeward passage or,
the 6th, 7th, Sth, 9th, 10th, 14th, 15th, and 17th instant. In
a appearanceeom et,staiitl
,wbaustlike o
more
b parallel,rigli t s untbheea m
altitude
of resembling
in shape
upper
limb being about 32 degrees, and terminating dow,
about eight degrees above the horizon in an oblique direction
it was generally visible from half-past •Six o'clock unt"

o'clock in the evening.
The folio* g is the sentence of the court-martial held
upon the Hon Captain Elliot; of the Spartan frigate, at the
instance of . r. Delacy M. Gleig, a trillshipman attached to
that vessel :4
" The Court are of opinion that the prisoner is not guilty
of the Ist, 2d, and 6th charges, but that he is guilty of the
retaining charges against him. The Court, however, in
consideittion of the very high testimonials as to character
and conduct adduced by the prisoner ; the extraordinary and
parental anxiety manifested'on all occasions for the well-
doing and general instruction of all the young gentlemen on
board his hip, and particularly of Mr. Delacy M. Gleig him-
self, and also looking at the nature of the punishment com-
plained of, the circumstances under which it was inflicted,
the feeling "which dictated it and which animated the prisoner
towards all under his command, as appearing in evidence be-
fore the Court, are of opinion that the authority and the rules
Ind regulations of her Majesty's service, and the dignity of
lhejow as applicable to an infringement of them, will be fully
.vinnicated and upheld by merely adjudginc, that the prisoner
h e severely reprimanded, and he is hereby reprimanded ac-
cordingly.
The Jamaica Standard ;says that the planters are looking
with intense anxiety g
to the proceedins which are about to
occupy the Imperial Parliament upon the Sugar Duties and
the Treaty with Brazil; whilst they augur somewhat favour-
ably of advantageous results being derived therefrom, in con-
sequence' of the countenance which Lord Stanley has shown
towards emigration, and the course he has adopted for the
purpose of carrying it out. In connection with this, we are
pleased to be able to ;announce that a public meeting has
been called at the requisition of several of the principal in-
habitants of the parish of Hanover, for the purpose of pre-
paring a memorial to the Queen in Council against the ad-
mission of slave-grown sugar ad a lower rate of duty; and
we have little doubt that, before the sailing of the next
packet, similar meetings will have, been called, and similar
memorials prepared in every parish in the island. Despite
the misrepresentations of one party, therefore, and the op-
positions of others, we still entertain the hope that FREE-
labour produce will' receive a preference over that procured
by compulsory labour, through the slave; and that in de-
ciding upon the merits of our cause, the English people will
never forget that they are FREE MEN ; and that freedom is
the bulwark—the heart and soul of their Cor • '

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We are gratified in observing that the advocacy by the
LIVERPOOL STANDARD of West Indian interests is spoken
of in very flattering terms by the papers we have received.
We should be glad if some of our West Indian merchants
would take a hint from this ; it might serve to check their
forwardness in heaping so many favours upon those who only
reward their kindness by doing all they can to destroy our
colonial possessions.
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