The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-04-30 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

FOREIGN AAD COLONIAL.

WEST INDIES.

The dates brought by the West Irdian Mail are from
Jamaica to March 23rd, and Demerara to the 19th.
At Jamaica the Legislature had terminated its sittings,
the Assem ly having agreed to memor alize the Queen,
setting fcirth the condition 01 the colony, and represent-
ing that many estates would be thrown up on account of
the scarcity of lab. ur, the want of capital, and the un-
favourable state of the weather. The island was in an
exceedingly quiet condition, and health was generally
good. Agriculture was at a stand-still. A transport ves-
sel had brought from Sierra Leone 118 emigrants, and
24 Africans who had been to their native land, but re-
turned, preferring the island.
The Demerara papers are occupied with discussions on
the sale of a certain estate, in which the character of the
registrar's assistant is involved. The doubtful title of
vended properties had caused general alarm. The mana-
ger of the Colonial Bank had been elected to the Legis-
lature, and had brought forward a motion fora return of
all the plantation land sold s'nee Ist of August, 1838—
the date of complete emancipation. Sir M. Mc Turk
had propounded his plan of constitutional reform. By
-this absentees would not have the right of voting, the
college of electors would be abolished, and open voting
alone be adopted.

John Nodes Dickenson, Esq., has been appointed one
of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the colony of New
South Wales.
A letter from Barcelona, of the 18th, states, that seven
unfortunate persons suspected of being Carlist refugees
were shot within the Spanish frontiers a few days pre-
viously.
It has been determined, for the more speedy and effec-
tual suppression of the slave traffic, to increase the steam
navy on the coast of Africa, and also to add to the num-
ber of sailing vessels.
On Monday, 22d instant, a man named Rob..rt Joyce,
by trade a shoemaker, fell dead in the ball-alley of Char-
leville. After fini-hing a game of ball, he drank a cup of
water, and immediately expired. He has left a wile.and
two children.

EXTRAORDINARY.—Mrs. Barger, of Petersville, Mary-
land, about 18 months ago was safely delivered of three
fine children, and the same lady last month presented her
husband with four healthy children at a birth—seven
children in 18 months ! Middleton Valley must have a
soil so fertile that married folks will be afraid to reside
there in these hard times.—New York Sun.

DISCOVERY IN GREECE.—The Baron de Prokecb,
Austrian Minister at Athens, and Professor Ross. have
discovered at Milo, not far from the place where the Venus
now in Louvre was found, some Christian catacombs,
which, according to appearances, are as ancient the
first foundation of Christianity. They are said to be the
first catacombs that have been discovered in Greece.

ST. DOMlNGO.—Extract of a letter from St. Domingo,
dated 2d March, 1844 :—" The present is to inform you
that this part of the island has declared itself independent
of the Haytien Government, under the denomination'of
Republica Dotninicana,' and that this circumstance has
put all at a stand. J cannot foresee what will be the con-
sequence. This town was taken by capitulation on the
29th ult. By letters received from Port-au• Prince, it
appears that all is in a state of confusion in that part,
and terrible consequences will be the result amongst
them."

DREADFUL CONFLAGRATION.—AMSTERDAM, APRIL
13.—Last. night we s w in the horison, the south-west the
appearance of a great fire, and this morning we hear that
in the village of Aal.mere 46 houses, in the best part of
the village are reduced to ashes. Many of the inhabi-
tants of these houses, among whom is the burgomaster,
have saved nothing but the night cloths which they had
on. A great number of cattle are burnt, and four persons
are missing. It is supposed that the fire commenced in a
barn in which a knife grinder slept. This man too has
not been since seen.

COLON EL STODDART AND CAPTAIN CONOLLY.—Cap-
tain Grover has just received letters from Dr. Wolff, dated
Tehran, the 12th of February. The doctor has been re-
ceived with great distinction by the King of Persia, who
recollected having met him at Meshed twelve years ago,
when he was only prince royal. The doctor rode on
horseback, in full canonicals, accompanied by Colonel
Sheil, in his uniform, going to and returning from court.
He then visited the ambassador, recently arrived from
Bocara, who " denied in tot° the fact of the execution of
our friends." The doctor was to leave Tehran on the
14th of February, accompanied by an escort ordered by
the Kine. He takes with him Rajab, who had been ser-
vant to both Stoddart and Conolly.

THE SLAVE TRADE.—Extract of a letter from an offi-
cer on board H. M. ship of Crescent :—" Lilo, 13th Dec.,
1843.—Y0u would be very much shocked could you be a
witness to the horrors of the system of slavery as carried
on here. One prize taken lately exceeds anything I ever
heard of. Sue is called Vincedora, and is a small
schooner, or rather a large boat of 70 tons. She sailed
frim the coast of Africa with 470 blacks on board, besides
a crew of nearly thirty men ; when captured, there were
only 359 blacks taken alive, and since that nearly eighty
more have died, and many more are very ill, and cannot
live long. It is scarcely possible to conceive how such an
immense number of human beings could have been cram-
med into so small a space, yet you will find persons who ssy
slavery is a mere nothing but a name, and that in Brazil
the slaves are much better off than the poor in Engiand.
Poor things, their joy on arriving on board this large
chip, where they have plenty of room, and plenty to eat,
and drink. is inconceivable. The degree of emaciation
to which the greatest part of them are reduced is beyond
th,suripti.m. iihave seen one little girl who, —hen lifted

• down to the sick bay or hospital, was so thin that one
might almost see the light of a candle through her body.
We have a great variety of nations and:tribes among us,
who vary much in their habits and appearance, some be-
ing very savage, and others who have made considerable
progress in civilization. We endeavour sometimes by
means of interpreters to get them to relate their adven-
tures. One woman now with us gave the following
account of her eaptikiity:—She was living with her father,
and had tvto• children. Her father stole a handkerchief
from another man, who detected the thief and demanded
restitution of his property or else in lieu, a man slave.
Her father not liking to part with the handkerchief, and
not possessing any man, offered one of her daughters ; this
was refused. He then offered them both, but this was
also refused ; at last the man consented to take the woman
and sold her to the Portuguese slave-dealers. The black
population here are now beginning to feel their own
strength, and lately many murders have been committed
by them on the persons of the whites. Who can wonder
at this! The expense of keeping a horse in this country
is about fifteen or eighteen pence a-day, while that of a
slave is about twopence or threepence; our weather has
been most dreadfully Hot, the thermometer having fre•
quently been above 90 degrees and seldom below 80 de-
grees. The town was much in want of water, but lately
we have had some very heavy showers, and they are again
well supplied.

IMPORTANT STATISTICS OF ICAVIGATION.—Some va-
luable statistical returns of sailing-vessels registered at
each port of the United Kingdom (including the Isle of
Man, &c.) in the year 1843 ; of vessels entered and cleared
coastwise in 1843 ; of the number and tonnage of vessels
registered at each of the ports of the colonies ; and of ves-
sels built, registered, sold, wrecked, and broken up,
during the same period, have been laid before the lower
house of parliament, on the motion of Mr. J. T. Wawn,
who represents the shipping interest in a portion of the
north-eastern districts of England. We find the following
statistics embodied in these returns, and take the earliest
opportunity of laying them before the public :—ln Eng-
land alone, the gross total number of sailing-vessels under
50 tons registered at various ports on the 31-t of Decem-
ber. 18-13, amounted to 6,155, measuring altogether
186,832 tons. The number of sailing vessels above 50
tons so registered on the 31st of December last amounted
to 10,672, measuring altogether 2,319,414 tone. The
total number of steam-vessels registered above 50 tons
was 337—tonnage, 8,119 ; and the total number rr gistered
above 50 tons amounted to 309—tonnage, 63,923. In
Scotland, the gross total number of sailing-vessels regis-
tered amounted to 3,549 (of which 1,216 were above 50
tons), and the total number of steam-vessels 128. of which
97 were above 50 tons' measurement. The gross total
tonnage (including
.vessels of all sorts) amounted to
481,670. In Ireland, the number of sailing-vessels
registered amounted altogether to 1,921 (of which
more than half were above 51 tons ;) and the number
of steamers, 81 (of which 76 were above 50 tons.
The gross amount of tonnage was 198,469. The gross
total number of sailing vessels that entered inwards coast-
wise in 1843 amounted, in England, to 98,295; in Scot-
land, to 19,053 ; and in Ireland, to 16,476. The total
numbers cleared out during the sadie period being, respec-
tively, 108.105 19,788, .and 9,979. The total number of
steam-vessels-entered inwards, coastwise, amounted, in
England, lo 9,294 ? in Scotland, to 2,688 ; and in Ireland,
to 2,651. The number of steamers cleared outwards, was,
in England, 8,992; in Scotland, 2,311 • and in Ireland,
2,989. The gross total tonnage of all the vessels so enter-
ed inwards, coastwise' in 1843, at the various ports
throughout the United Kingdom amounted to 12,532,307 ;
and the gross total tonnage of all the vessels cleared out-
wards coastwise during the same period, to 12, 71,031,
exhibiting the very slight difference between the mea-
eutement of the inward and outward sailing vessels of
only 38,734 tons. So much for the coasting trade of
Great Br tain and Ireland. Respecting the ci lonial, it
appears that the total number of British sailing vessels
that entered inwards for the colonies at various ports of
the United Kingdom during the year 1843 (including
the repeated voyages) amounted to 8,404, whose tonnage
was altogether 1,405,054 ; and the total number cleared
outwards was 6,264, whose tonnage amounted to 1,527,233.
The total number of foreign vessels entered inwards, and
cleared outwards, only amounted to 45 and 36 respective-
ly. The total number of steamers entered inwards from
our colonies in 1843 was 344 ; tonnage, 72,477 ; and the
total number cleared outwards for the colonies, 357; ton-
nage, 83,185. The total number of British sailing vessels
entered inwards from foreign ports at all the ports of the
United Kingdom and the Channel islands (including their
repeated voyages) amounted t,) 11,263, tonnage 1,737,210;
and the total number of British vessels cleared outwards
fe't- foreign ports during the same period. amounted to
11,228, tonnage 1,791,755 ; the total number of foreign
vessels simultaneously entered inwards and cleared out-
wards having been respctively 8,259 and 7,375. The
number of British steamers si) entered inwards and out-
-1 wards was respectively, 2,439 and 2.314; and the number
of foreign sti amens repectively, 533 and 548. The num•
ber of Failing vessels built and registered in 1843 in the
"rs of the United Kingdom amounted to 653. tonnage
77,034 ; and the nun bee of steamers 45, toaXe 83.097.
The total number of vessels wrecked, sold, and_ ebrokeu up
in the saute year amounted to 778, tonnage 132,732.

IRE LAND.

THE DUBLIN TRIALS.

On Monday last affidavits were filed by the Crown
Solictors in answer to those of the convicted parties. The
latter documents charged fraud and collusion in the con-
struction of the original jury lists; and the omission of
the names was again set out in all the forms and changes
whi"h legal fiction could invent and special-pleading em-
body. Mr. Pierce Mahony undertook to swear—not
upon hearsay or belief, but in distinct and positive terms—
" That a gross, wilful, and corrupt suppression of the
names of the said persons and others qualified to be
placed on the special jurors' list for the year 1814, had
taken place."

And; in an affidavit filed 19th April, 1844, this gentle-
man further positively deposed that " the omission of
the names of several persons from said special jurors'
list was not by accident, but was the effect and result of
design and contrivance, to prejudice the traversers."
The law officers of the Crown, feeling that such allega-
tions ought not to be suffered to remain matters of record
in their present form of amplification—determined that
the affidavits should be answered by the town clerks and
their subordinates, in whose office, or under whose con-
trol, the mistake, alleged to be a fraud, occurred.
Affidavits were therefore obtained from the Clerks of the
Peace for Dublin, and were filed on Monday. The charges
of pre-concert and fraud, so vehemently urged—even
resting as they did upon vague and undefined rumour—
are rebutted in the most clear and satisfactory manner by
the persons who could alone be cognisant of the purely
accidental circumstances under which the omissions took
place, and by which neither party could be substantially
injured ; and those who felt regret at any occurrence which
even for a single day retarded the progress of the law
towards the attainment of justice, will rejoice at the op-
portunity the delay afforded of refuting a series of calum-
nious falsehoods that have been too long permitted to oc-
cupy the public mind.

THURSDAY.
The m otion of Mr. NN hiteside to set aside the verdict,
and obtain a new trial, having been fixed by consent for
Thursday morning, the court was crowded from an early
hour. The greater portion of the principal gallery was
occupied by persons of respectability of both sexes. The
traver,ers were in their places in the side bar shortly after
half-past ten o'clock, and at eleven Mr. Whiteside moved
to set aside the verdict. His speech occupied the entire
day, and was not concluded at the rising of the court.
The main ground upon which he went was the judge's
misdirection.