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

AMERICA

The Montezuma, New York packet-ship, Captain
Lowber, arrived from this port on Wednesday last, hav-
ing left New York on the 20th November.

The papers she brik
brought by the Britannia steam

gs are five days later than those

The cotton market was rather inactive, as nothing cer-
tain could be ascertained with regard to the eoming crop.
The prices of nearly all the current state stocks had im-
proved in the New York market, and a disposition had
been manifested by English holders to take advantage of
the circumstance and sell out.

Both branches of the Canadian legislature have adopted
resolutions in favour of the transference of the seat of go-
vernment in that province from Kingston to Montreal;
but the citizens of Kingston have raised a fund for sending
delegates to London to remonstrate with the Imperial go
vernment against any change in that respect
From New Orleans we learn tht
sioners were at Matamoras, await

at the Texan commis-
ing the arrival of the
Mexico, in order to settle

commissianers on the part o_ _ _
the boundary line between Texas

WEST INDIES

The West India papers received by the Thames steamer
give satisfactory accounts of the progress of the several
leading islands. The most important feature, however,
in the present arrival is the speech of the Earl of Elgin at
the opening of the Legislature at Jamaica, which appears
to be the production of a person who has taken some
pains to make inquiry into the condition of the locality.
Although it does not give an overcharged account of the
capabilities of the soil, or of the immense advantages
which future cultivation will secure to those enjoying pro-
perty in the West Indies, it nevertheless presents a cheer-
ing prospects of what is likely to be effected by better
management on the part of the planters and conciliated
feeling on the pareof the labouring population. The go-
vernor alludes apparently with great satisfaction to the
decrease of native fanaticism, as also to the attention
of late paid by the agricultural societies to the introduc-
tion of implements of husbandry, with the view to decrease
the heavy proportion of manual labour. The failure of the
scheme of emigration as suggested by the Legislature is
the only disheartening topic in the speech ; but it appears,
notwithstanding, that encouragement will yet be given to
promote the import of labour from the coast of Africa as
a means of supplying any deficiency that may arise from
other quarters.

Lord Elgin says, with reference to the general question
of emigration--" Although I should be unwilling to recom-
mend the indiscriminate importation of emigrants from
colder climates, it is fair to state, for the benefit of sober
and industrious persons who may desire to secure a better
return for their labour than the crowded markets of Eu-
rope offer, that agricultural and mechanical skill are highly
valued and liberally remunerated."
The proceedings of the legislature occupy almost the
whole of the space of the papers. A new insolvent law
had been passed assimilated to that at present in force
here under the superintendence of the Bankruptcy Com-
missioners ' • and official assignees were to be appointed,
one to each of the six districts into which the island had
been divided, to exercise the usual functions r
collecting r ' '" • -

tne estas. Bish Sencer
had arrived in her Majesty's ship Hetermes, fromop Haplifax.
The weather continued tolerably favourable, although, as
is usually the case, there were complaints from some of
the districts of the insufficiency of rain. Trade with the
South American States had fallen off.
The news from Demerara, Trinidad, and Barbadoes, is
not very interesting. At the latter island the weather fe
the crops is described as having been " glorious"
one day, sunny and fine the next. Mr. Thomas, th
'vrk of the branch of the Colonial Bank, had been corn-

—rain

mitred for trial on a et

of robbery to the amount of
supply of labour from the coast of
superior had only

ad failed

At Trinidad

of government to send out

12 inspectors of police and 12 privates
general corps to be selected from the natives there
The inspectoas age to be allowed £4OO per annum.

It is said that more than a thousand slaves escaped
from the island of Guadaloupe to the British Islands in
the confusion which followed the great earthquake.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 17.—Dr. Wolff is still here
waiting for certain important firmans and recommenda-
tions from the Sultan and the Porte, to enable him to
proceed on his journey to Bokhara with a fair chance of
success. He has picked up here information from mer-
chants and travellers from that distant country, which he
considers as strongly corroborative of his presentiment
that he will find alive one or both of the gentlemen whose
fate is the object of such universal interest.

Private letters from Egypt mention that the Pasha was
seriously contemplating the execution of some great work
which should serve to perpetuate his memory to future
ages. Three projects, it is stated, were under his consi-
deration—first, a ship canal between the Red Sea and the
Nile; second, a canal to join the Red Sea with the Nile ;
third, a railway across the Desert between Cairo and
Suez. Which of the three he might determine on was
not known.

The mercantile letters from Mexico state, that Santa
Anna was at his seat near Vera Cruz at the end of Octo-
ber, and was expected to arrive at that place in a few
days to inspect the fortifications of San Juan de Ulloa in
person. The new tariff had been published, and was to
come into force on the 26th of January. The duties on
cotton had been raised considerably, and it was probably
to escape this increase that, according to some of the ad-
vices, large amounts of goods had been entered. This
last piece of intelligence has been received with satisfac-
tion by the bondholders here, as they found upon it hopes
of a larger remittance on account of dividends.

THE INDIGO CROP.—The indigo season is perhaps the
finest on record. A planter always anticipates a larger
crop than he obtains ; but in this year of the comet the
the planters, with few exceptions, have already obtained
more than they anticipated, and they have nothing to
quarrel with but the reduction of price, which the exu-
berant bounty of the season is likely to inflict. Tirhoot
promises 40,000 maunds. Other districts though not
equally blessed, will yield an unusual harvest. 'We see
the crop stated by brokers at 139,000 maunds; but all
brokers, those of Calcutta excepted, have an interest in
moderating the public expectation. If the accounts we
hear from every quarter without exception be authentic,
the crop is likely to exceed, rather than to fall short of
150,000 maunds. These accounts refer not to plant on
the ground, still exposed to the vicissitude of the seasons,
but to that which has been already cut and manufactured.
We have not, of course, the same means of ascertaining
with accuracy the extent of the crop as those who are
professionally engaged in watching its progress, and com-
paring the account of each individual factory with its
former outturn ; but we will venture to say that, not even
in the most productive of past years, have the reports of
the planters been so generally cheerful as in the present
year. For once, the croakers are in a contemptible min-
ority ; and long will the year of the comet continue to be
remembered at the indigo factories.—Bombay Times.
COLONEL STODDART AND CAPTAIN CONOLLY.—The
following statement appears in the Bombay Times, under
the date Lahore, Oct. 7. It would seem, we regret, to
extinguish the fervent hope still existing that these un-
fortunate officers were yet surviving:—" The day before
yesterday a Jew presented himself at my house who had
just come from Bokhara, and recounted to me the follow-
ing interesting story, which I transmit you with a view to
its being made public. The man's name is M. Beren-
stein, born in Pol .nd, but since established at Jerusalem,
and having an elder brother a Rabbi in London. This
Michael informed me, that he had met and conversed with
me nine years ago at Mankarief in Russia—that is, at
Nishnei-Novogorod—during the fair ; and, in order to
prove the truth of his assertions, mentioned that I had
made a had speculation in furs, which was true enough.
Since then he had visited Persia, and had proceeded to
Bokhara in company with the Bokhara Ambassador, and
there was an eye-witness of the miserable execution of
four Europeanns—viz., Colonel Stoddart, Captain Co-
nolly, a young German officer, and a baptised Jew, who
had come to instruct and discipline the troops, and who,
with an attendant Jew, was beheaded. There is, there-
fore, no longer room to doubt that the Indian journals
have been correctly informed respecting the death of these
officers. There is at present at Bokhara an Italian named
Giovanni, who manufactures clay figures for his main-
tenance, end is also a clock-maker. He was captured at
Kohan during the war with the Bokharians, when the
Ameer of Bokhara defeated the Khan of Kohan. He is
now the only European at Bokhara, one Jew traveller
having quitted it eight months ago.