The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-09-12 00:00:00

WEST INDIES.

The royal mail steam-ship Medway, Capt. M`Dougall,
arrived at Falmouth on Sunday last, bringing the West
Indian and Mexican mails, upwards of twenty passengers.
and about 370,000 dollars, 156 serons of cochineal, and 13
serons of indigo, on freight. On the 4th ult., whilst
crossing the Campeachy Banks, in lat. 22 15 N. and long.
88 W., the Medway's main topmast was struck with
lightning and thrown on deck shattered in a hundred
pieces. The head of the mainmast was also sprung. The
meteor was seen to fall in the water on the starboard
quarter, close to the vessel. Three distinct peals of
thunder were also heard.

The accounts from Jamaica respecting the crops are
very favourable. Lord Elgin was still in the enjoyment
of good health. The crops in the Windward Islands are
said to be good. At Martinique and Guadaloupe the crops
were about one-fifth less than those of last year.
At Barbadoes everything was favourable to the opera-
tions of the planter, but no improvement had taken place
in commercial affairs. A correspondent of the Barbadoes
Standard says, " Continued rains for the last four weeks
have tended materially to improve the appearance of the
young crop of cains, now looking very promising. The
old crop is nearly finished, and will be from 24,000 to
25,000 hhds."

The weather had also been extremely propitious at
Dominica. The quantity of sugar already shipped from
that island amounted to 17,647 hhds., 850 tierces, and
560 barrels. Altogether the crop, it was expected, would
amount to 19,000 hlis,, being an increase upon the pre-
vious year of between 4,000 and 5,000 hhds.

The Demerara papers contain a statement of the affairs
of the British Guiana Bank, from which it appears that
the losses of the company, arising from the commercial
embarrassments which commenced with the failure of the
Troughtons, would amount to 247,078 dollars, absorbing
all the remaining surplus fund, mad ten per cent. upon the
paid up capital of the bank. The statement of losses in-
cludes a sum of 17,000 dollars, which would be required
to cover the frauds of the late assistant accountant. The
net profits for the half year were calculated at 46,448 dol-
lars, out of which a dividend was declared of two per cent.
on the capital stock.

The prospect of the crop was favourable. The dry
weather had set in unusually early, but no injury was an-
ticipated therefrom, vegetation in general in this colony
suffering from too much rain.
A great number of proprietors had come to the deter-
mination to discontinue payment for medical attendance
and medicine for the neeroes.

Santa Anna was at Mexico; he appears to be getting
more unpopular. The treaty between the Mexicans and
Yucatanos had been completed ; one of its leading clauses
is, that Yucatan is still to be under the Mezican flag, yet
it is to be an independent state. A treaty between Mexico
and Texas was also on foot, and with relation thereto her
Majesty's ship Sylla, Commander Sharp, had sailed for
Galveston. The Montezuma, and other steamers belong-
ing to the Mexican government, were at Vera Cruz, so
that the report of the Montezuma having been captured
by the Texians is erroneous.

MILITARY REVOLT AT MADRID.
The Moniteur of Monday publishes the following
TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH :-

Bayonne, Sept. 3
In the night of the 29th to the 30th, a Battalion of the
Regiment del Principe revolted at Madrid. • The men de-
manded their discharge, which had been promised to them
This battalion was immediately disarmed. Five sergeants,
two corporals, and one private, were shot on the mor-
ning of the 30th in the presence of the garrison, and ap-
peared to be devoted to the government.
The Queen and Infanta returned to Madrid on the
evening of the 30th. They were received with the warm-
est enthusiasm. Madrid was perfectly tranquil.
The Madrid Gazette of the 28th ultimo, contains a de-
cree of the Minister of the interior, prescribing that as
soon as the election for the Cortes shall have been termi-
nated, all the provincial deputations shall be renewed, and
enter on the functions the first of November next. This
decree has created considerable sensation at Madrid, as it
was considered a violation of the constitution.

MADRID, AUGUST 29.—A1l the garrison has again taken
arms during the night. Strong patrols traversed the
streets. General Narvaez, at the bead of his staff, de-
spatched orders to all parts of the capital. Pots of in-
fantry were placed before several houses. The most con-
tradictory rumours were circulated as to the causes which
could have induced the government to determine on this
energetic measure, and which could have influenced this
unusual display of force. Some declared that the govern-
ment bad discovered secret depots of musket and ammu-
nition. Others maintained that the government were
anxious to provoke a collision between the garrison and
inhabitants, in order that they might have a pretext for
placing Madrid under the control of exceptional laws.
During the nights of the 28th and 29th the troops were
under orders, and the greatest vigilance prevailed through-

out the garrisou

The King of Hanover arrived on the 4th at Antwerp,
with a numerous suite, and took lodgings at the beautiful
Hotel, St. Antoine-hill. A special tr tin was ordered to
convey His Majesty to Brussels to visit King Leopold.
The Queen of Belgium was shortly expected from Eu.

A letter datcd Baden, Sept. 4, published in the Times,
gives an account of a duel fought at that place between
M. Verifkin and M. de Gofer, an officer of artillery, in
which the latter received a ball in his chest, and the for-
mer was shot dead.

EXTRAORDINARY BRIDGE.—We read, in a letter from
Venice :—" The construction of the bridge which is to
connect this city with the main land is urged on with
great activity. Of thirty-four arches, which it is to have,
twenty are already terminated ; and, to all appearances,
this gigantic monument will be entirely finished before the
eud of next Tear."

A letter from Constantinople states, that " the impres-
sion is every day gaining ground in this place, that the re-
port of the Murder of Colonel Stoddart and Cap. Connolly,
at Bokhara, is altogether unfounded in fact. All the
Hajjis who pass through Constantinople, on their way to
Mecca, agree in contradicting this story, and state that
though incarcerated, these gentlemen are still alive."
CoL. STODDA.R.r AND CAPT. CONOLLY.—On Thursday
last a meeting took place in London, at which it was re-
solved that efforts should instantly be made to ascertain
the fate of these two officers ; that a committee be au-
thorised to communicate forthwith with the Government,
in order still, if possible, to secure their interference; and
if they do not succeed in that, to send out Dr. Wolff for
the purpose; a handsome subscription has already been
entered into.

EXTRAORDINARY DUEL.—A. fatal but extraordinary
duel took place a few days since in the commune of Mai-
san-fort (Seine-et-Oise). Two gentlemen, named Lefant
and Maldant, having quarrelled over a game at billiards,
drew lots who should first throw the red ball at his ad-
versary's head. Chance favoured M. Maldant, who
threw the ball with such force and correct aim at the fore-
head of the other as kill him on the spot.—Galignani's
Messenger.

DEATH OF THE DAUGHTER AND THE SON-IN-LAW
OF VICTOR Huco.—On Sunday week the newly married
daughter of the celebrated French writer, Victor Hugo,
went with her husband, M. Vacquerie, his brother and
uncle to sail on the Seine. The sheets having been made
fast, the boat was taken aback and overset, when all on
board perished. Madame Victor Hugo received the news,
on Tuesday morning, at Havre, where she has been resid-
ing some time with her two other children. She set out
immediately for Paris. M. Victor Hugo is travelling.

MASSACRE OF THE NESTORIAN CHRISTIANS.—The
expedition of the Pasha of Mosul against the Mountain
Nestorians has been attended with the most deplorable
success, and that success stained, as was to be expected,
from the co-operation of his savage auxiliaries the Kurds,
with every sort of atrocity. The houses of the wretched
inhabitants were fired, and they themselves hunted down
like wild beasts and exterminated. Neither sex nor age
met with favour or mercy ; the mother, brothers, and
sisters of the patriarch were the objects of peculiar
barbarity, the former having been literally sawed in two,
and the latter most shockingly mangled and mutilated.
The patriarch himself succeeded in effecting his escape,
and has taken refuge in the house of the British consular
agent at Mosul. The number of victims who have
perished in this massacre is not yet known. The popu-
lation of the mountains amounted to 100,000. Their
fate has been truly lamentable and extraordinary. Sur-
rounded by Mussulman hordes, pent up for ages in their
native fortresses, the very existence of these children of
the primitive church had remained almost a secret to the
rest of Christendom. Happy for them, indeed, had it
continued so, for their obscurity seems to have been their
best protection. No sooner bad their country been ex-
plored by missionaries, and the interest of learned and
scientific men been awakened with respect to them, than
this terrible visitation befel them, and the public is
called upon to sympathize with them in their destruction,
before, perhaps, it had become generally aware of their
existence. Letters from Mosul throw much of the odium
of this sad affair upon Europeans. It was the imprudent
zeal of rival missionaries that first excited the jealous ap-
prehensions of the Pasha of Mosul, and caused him to
" let slip the dogs of war " on the unfortunate Nestorians.
It is affirmed even that some of these gentlemen, with a
view of prejudicing his mind against the American mis-
sionaries, suggested to him that they were assisting the
mountaineers to raise forts, whereby they would be here-
after enabled to set the Sultan's authority at defiance.
These reports were altogether unfounded : their conse-
quences, however, have been dreadful—such, indeed, as
could never have been contemplated by the inventors of
them. who have, nevertheless, brought an awful re-
sposibility upon themselves.