The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-25 00:00:00

LATER FROM THE WEST INDIES,

Since our first form went to press, giving the intelligence
brought by the West Indian steamer, which arrived at
Southampton on Sunday, we have received the following
additional news :

The brig Greenock, of Glasgow, was lost at St. Domingo,
on the 4th June, loading mahogany for Liverpool ; part
of her crew came home passengers per Forth.
The Forth observed a fleet of men of war, consisting of
five brigs, one frigate, and four line of battle ships, stand-
in, in for the land near the Dodmans, on the morning of
th'elStli. The weather being hazy, they were soon lost
sight of.
Intelligence from Port-au-Prince states that horrible
massacres continue to be perpetrated, but at Martinique
comparative tranquility prevailed.
The Royal Mail Company's steamer Lee was wrecked
on a reef sixty miles north of Belize, on the 10th of
June; crew saved.
Bermuda was in an unsettled state, in consequence of a
report, being current. when the packet left, that an attempt
would be made by a large party of Irish from New York
to rescue the convict Mitchel. A ship had arrived thither
from Halifax with the intelligence that a large body of
his countrymen were making preparations for this pur-
pose. The government at Bermuda were, notwithstanding
the improbability of such a course of proceeding, adopting
precautionary measures to resist any attempt that may
be made. _ _ _

All the colonies were healthy. and rain had fallen in
great abundance in most of the West India Islands. A
slight shock of an earthquake had been felt in the island of
St. Thomas, but no damage whatever had been done either
to life or property.
It was reported that the slave population at Cuba had
evinced symptoms of an outbreak, but the government
were fully prepared for any emergency.

The damage done to public and private property, by
the late events in Paris, has been estimated at 10,000,000
francs, or about £400,000 sterling.
A curious case of injury is recorded in connexion with
the recent outbreak in Paris. It is related of one indivi-
thial that a ball went in at one cheek and out through the
other, but, as his mouth happened to be open, it touched
neither his jaws nor his teeth.

In St. fetersburgh, on the 7th of July, there were
3,571 persons ill of the cholera, to these 1,071 were added
during the day—of these 222 recovered, 576 died ;on the
Bth there were 3,790 sick, 853 were attacked during the
day-574 died, 172 recovered. On the 9th there were
3,817 patients In the hospitals.
Cape of Good Hope papers to the 18th of May state
that the Boers beyond the Orange river had made com-
munications to the government which would lead to the
inference that they were prepared to abide by the regula-
tions of the government considering them as calculated to
insure peace and tranquillity on the frontier.
The 'Port Philip papers of the 14th of March report
favourably respecting the improving prospects of that
settlement. Trade was better. Wheat by the latest
quotations was worth 4s. 4d. to 4s. 9d. per bushel, and
flour 12s. per 1001 b,

Papers from Sydney contain a report of the opening of
the Legislative. Council by commission on the 21st of
March, when the address of the Governor was read by the
Colonial Secretary. This address congratulates the
colony on its continued progress; the exports in 1847 of
the two leading staples, wool and tallow, having largely
exceeded those of the previous year, the wool by
5,700,000, the tallow by 49,000.
The Madrid Gazette announces that the Commander
of the Carbineers had defeated, in the valley of Erro, the
united bands of Ilzarbe and Zubiri, with the loss of nine
killed and thirty wounded. Another encounter had taken
place between Brigadier Eguiluz and the faction of Itur-
mendi, in the valley of Ega, in which seventeen of the
latter were killed and many made prisoners. _

The Paris papers of Saturday contain the following tele-
graph despatch, received on Friday :—" The Austrians
entered Ferrara on the 14th of July, to the number of
5000. They occupied the principal posts of the town, and
levied a war contribution on the inhabitants. The Pope
protested against the occupation, and the Chamber of De-
puties unanimously voted the project of a league of all the
States of Italy against Austria. '

RACE BETWEEN A YACHT AND A SHIP.-Our readers
are aware that a match was recently made, for £250 a-
side, to run Mr. Naylor's yacht, Sultana, against Mr.
Ripley's iron barque Panic,. The race was to be from
the light-ship—round ireland—to the starting point. The
yacht has won the match, having arrived in the Mersey on
Friday morning at 430 a.m. The following is from the
Sultana's log :—From 1 15 p.m. Saturday to noon Sun-
day, 125 miles • fine and calm—noon Sunday to noon
Monday, 106 miles ; fine and calm--noon Monday to noon
Tuesday, 107 miles; fine and calm—noon on Tuesday to
noon Wednesday, 222 miles •, blowing very fresh W.S.W.
—noon Wednesday to noon Thursday, 209 miles ; blow-
ing very fresh and heavy sea—noon Thursday to reaching
;
light-ship, at 220 a.m. Friday morning, 127 miles
blowing a heavy gale from N.N.W:, and heavy sea. Total
distance, 896 miles. Distance run (20th July), from Bel-
fart Lough, northern point, to N.W. light-ship, 127 miles,
in 12 hours 46 minutes. The barque Panic did not get.
sound Cape Clear in time to catch the favouring gale, and
consequently has not arrived yet.
The Goodwood Cup, of this year, is surmounted by a
highly-finished group, representing an incident related of
Richard Coeur de Lion when at Jaffa, where, as a proof of
the estimation in which he was held by the Saracens, it is
said that Saphadin, Saladdin's brother, sought and re-
ceivedlhe honour of knighthood from him. In the com-
position, which is very excellently designed by Mr. ca.
erill, the monarch, seated on a noVe cl arger;