The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-03-18 00:00:00

WEST INDIT

Advices from Jamaica have been received to the 14th
of February. The cholera had almost entirely left the
island. Notwithstanding the terrible visitation, the in-
habitants were as inattentive as ever to the sanitary state
of the country.

The island Legislature re-assembled on the 11th ult.,
with an apparent determination on the part of all parties
to place the finances of the colony on a proper footing.

None oft

In Barbadoe

s there had been 15

die cholera, not more than the usual annual number.
The Legislature of Barbadoes had granted the sum of
£l,OOO for the relief of the sufferers b 7 cholera in Jamaica ;
in addition to which, a very handsome private subscription
bad been entered into by the inhabitants. The House-lf
Assembly had passed an act for promoting the public
health. An act for taleng a census of the island, on the
25th of June next, had also passed the house.
A slight shock of an earthquake was felt at St. Thomas's
on the 18th ult., hut no damage was done.

Advices from British Guiana to the 11th ult. represent
the colony in good health. The meeting of the Combined
Court was fixed for the 26th of February, and the Court
of Policy was busily employed in framing the estimates.
and it was expected that, with little deviation in the ensu-
ing session from the course pursued by the Combined
Court last year, the financial position of the colony would
be satisfactory.

The Hall of Assembly at Berlin—Prussian Parliament
house—has been destroyed by fire.

According to the Paris correspondent of the Globe, it
is supposed that not fewer than 100,000 persons are at-
tacked with influenza in that capital, and the medical

Accounts

from the north of Germany represent the

weather as having become much severer.. Previously,
there was every indication of an early conclusion to the
winter ; but now the navigation at Hamburgh, Dantzic,
and the Baltic ports generally is greatly impeded by ice
in all cases, and in some wholly suspended.
Two MIRACLES REVOKED.—The Tablet announces
the disavowal of two modern Romish miracles. The first

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Grenoble is reported to have pronounced an adverse
decision; the other the bleeding crucifixion at St. Saturnin.
The editor adds,—" Whatever may turn out to be the
truth on this matter, the miracle never rested on anything
but human testimony, and was never pronounced upon by
the authority of the church. The same remark applies to
another reported miracle, that at St. Saturnin, about
which great has been the jubilation of the Protestant
press. They should recollect that true miracles are almost
certain, human nature being what it is, to give the hint,
as it were, to false ones. It was so in the time of the
Apostles—it is so now. Where there is no faith, there
cannot be imposture."
LOVE AND SUICIDE.—The Alta California gives the
details of a suicide which had recently taken place under
very melancholy circumstances. It appears that Mrs.
Hambleton, a favourite actress, lived unhappily with her
husband, and conceived an attachment to a Mr. Coad, a
member of the company. Mr. Hambleton taxed her with
having bestowed her affections on another, and told her if
she would tell him who the party was, he should consent
to a separation, and permit her to take the object of her
choice. She then told him it was Coad, who shortly

afterwards came into the room, when the husband told
him if he did not consent to leave, he would blow his
brains out. Coad consented to go and left, and imme-
diately after Mrs. liambleton swallowed poison, and died
in about ten minutes. Coad afterwards went through the
same ceremon, , with what sincerity does not appear, as
an emetic was administered, and he recovered from the
effects of the poison. No criminal conduct was imputed
to the deceased even by her husband.
SEVEN MILES OF GOLDEN SEA BEACH IN CALIFORNIA.
—The Alla California says, " Twenty-seven miles
beyond the Trinity, there is a beach several miles in
extent, and bounded by a high bluff. The sands of this
beach are mixed with gold to an extent almost beyond
belief. The sand is of two kinds—a fine black sand and
a gray sand. The gray sand can be separated very
easily from the black sand, and this seems to be a desirable

object. The gold is mixed with the black sand in propor-
tions of from ten cents to ten dollars to the pound. At
times when the surf is high, the gold is not easily disco-
vered ; but in the spring of the year, after a succession of
calms, the entire beach is covered with bright and yellow
gold. Mr. Collins, the secretary of the Pacific Mining,
Company, measured a patch of gold and sand, and esti-
mates it will yield to each member of the company the
snug little sum of 43,000,000 dollars, and this estimate is
formed upon a calculation that the sand holds out to be
one-tenth as rich as observation warrants them in
supposing.

STEAM-BOAT MODEL.—A model of a large first -class
mercantile steamer or steam-frigate has been executed
by Mr. J. F. Clarke, of Hamilton-square, Birkenhead,
for the purpose of being exhibited in the Crystal Palace.
The length of the model is 11 feet 3 inches, arid the
breadth 2 feet; the lines are of a peculiarly fine and novel
description, and calculated to make the steamer of great
speed and light draught,—particularly suitable for the
navigation of shallow rivers. She is formed from a piece
of solid timber, and has been upwards of twelve months
in construction, every article of even the most trivial
description being accurately formed and properly placed.
The capstan, anchors, and paddles are all of the most
modern description ; the rigging is all made of small
cordage, not twine, and will work as easily as on a full-
steamer. The binnacle lights in the paddle-boxes can
also be lighted, while ti'be miniature .fire buckets, bells,
cannons, platform railings, gutta percha life-buoys, &c.,
are of the most perfect and finished description. Mr.
Clarke had also made a pair of beautiful roinalture engines
on the most approved principles',