The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-17 00:00:00

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FuttEIGN AND COLONIAL.

WEST INDIES.

The royal nail steam-packet Avon arrived at South-
ampton on Wednesday at half-past 11 a.m., bringing all
the West India mails, and from the following places np
to the following dates :—Tampico, October 26; Vera Cruz,
November 2; Havannah, November 10; Demerara, No-
vember 3; Trinidad, November 5; Grenada, November
10; St. Thomas, November 15; Bermuda, November
23, being the day of the Avon's departure thence.
The Jamaica papers scarcely give a line worth extract.
A proposition was before the legislature for establishing
an island bank. Business was very dull, and the mer-
chants complain of the difficulty of obtaining cash pay-
ments.

A lengthened investigation appears to have taken place
into the origin of the fires in the canal district of Deme-
rara, and the suspicion raised of their being the work of
an incendiary was totally denied. Another attempt was
on the eve of being made to introduce African labour, and
a vessel called the Roger Stewart was to be dispatched to
Sierra Leone, under the superintendence of a gentleman
named Butt, who is said to have devoted much of his time
to the question of immigration. The weather in. the co-
lony had been exceedingly dry during the last two months.
Water was so scarce that it was selling in town at 41d. per
gallon. The smallest coin was 2d. Some Runcheons of
the new half-farthings, it is hinted, would lit acceptable
among the West Indian community. People, it is added,
have yet to learn the value of money in this colony, and
generally throughout the West ladies. While the town
suffer, the country thrives. The planters were quickly
manufacturing sugar, and the canes, from length of expo-
sure to the sun, gave an abundance of saccharine matter.
The Trinidad papers announce the death of Dr. M'Don-
nell, the Bishop of Olympus, who had been hurried with
all due respect. He was 61 years of age, and yellow fever
is alleged as the cause of his death.
At Barbadoes an agreeable change in the weather had
taken place ; copious showers had fallen, anal these, there
was every reason to suppose, had been general. In gene-
ral respect the appearance of the island is reported to be
favourable for next year's crop. Early planting is recom-
mended by the agricultural society, and nothing, it is said,
should be put in after Christmas by parties who desire to
receive a good return from their plantations. The legis-
lature had been opened with a speech from the Governor ;
and the Finance Committee had presented their report,
recommending certain alterations in the mode of collect-
ing revenue, &c.
From the other islands we have no intelligence of inte-
rest. An exhibition of Coolie excitement had taken place
at Castries, St. Lucia, in consequence of the flogging of a
native child, aged 13, in the public street, for the crime of
perjury; but the riot was speedily repressed, though, it
would seem, not before stern justice mitigated to a certain
extent the sentence first intended to be carried out. The
papers contain various versions of the affair, but they are
all contradictory in many of the essential points.

SPAIN.—By accounts from Madrid we learn that the
reform bill had passed, after a long debate. The Posdata
states positively that Zurbano had been seen at a place
near the frontiers of Portugal, directing his course to-
wards that country. A letter from Herce mentions some
interesting particulars of the mother of the younger 'Ger-
bano, and the wife of Benito. They arrived at Arma-
dillo on the 27th ultimo, and entered an olive grove at
the skirts of the town. The wife of the younger Zurbano
was in the last stage of pregnancy. Both these poor
women had for the previous two nights been compelled to
encounter the cold on the mountains. They were accom-
panied by a priest. The wile of Benito had heard that
her husband was to be shot, and was anxious to press on
to Logrono before his execution. The Alcalde of Arma
dillo rendered these wretched females every assistance so
soon as he became acquainted with their situation, and
sent a body of armed inhabitants to escort them to Lo-
grono. It appears that poor Benito had been three days
without food, and that he was captured when venturing
from his hiding-place in search of some.
The river Elbe is frozen: over, and covered with pro-
menaders.

Coal of a very excellent quality has been discovered in
New Zealand.

SWITZERLAND.—The people of Bale Campagne, have
declared that they will rise and expel the Jesuits by force
frcm Lucerne, if they attempt to teach in the schools
there.

TERRIFIC CONFL A GRATION.—The Malta Times quotes
a letter from Magnesia, which states, " That the greatest
part of the city of Bulukesser fell a prey to finales. A
fire broke out in and wholly destroyed the bazaar, as well
as a great number of houses. The houses thus destroyed
amount to 1500."

EARTHQUAKE AT THE HAVANNAH.—A letter from
Bilbao, dated the 4th instant. stares that a Spanish vessel
had just arrived, in 32 days, frow the island of Cuba, with
the intelligence that the Havannah had been nearly
swept away from the face of the earth by a terrible earth-
quake.

THE BOY JONES.— This youth has again turned up ;
and it appears that his spirit of enterprise is unquelled.
A letter from Athens, of the 20th November, says, " Dar-
ing the few days the Warspite was anchored in Salamis
Bay, the boy Jones (in-I-go) Jones swam from the ship
during the night ; but, after some search, he was found
ashore. I have not heard of his getting into the palace,
however. tr

The Protestants of Bavaria assembled in General Synod
at Anspach, have addressed to the king a respectful re-
monstrance and petition complaining of the restriction of
the rights of that body,—of the violation of conscience by
an order of the war minister compelling Protestant soldiers
to attend the service at the Roman Catholic chapels, and
to kneel before the host, and of other oppressions and
wants, which they desire to have remedied.
AMERICAN EPISCOPAL CHURCH.—The Rev. Dr. C.
Hawks has been appointed to the Bishopric of Missouri ;
the Rev. Dr. Chase to the bishopric of New Hampshire;
the Rev. Dr. Cobbs to the bishopric of Alabama ; the
Rev. Dr. Boone to be Bishop in China ; the Rev. Mr.
Glennie (who is an Englishman by birth) to be Bishop in
Western Africa ; the Rev. Mr. Southgate to be Bishop in"
the Turkish dominions ; and the Rev. Dr. Freeman to be
Bishop of Texas.
GREAT INDIAN RAILWAY.—Of the many gigantic
schemes of our day, not the least gigantic is certainly that
of the great Indian railway company. The chief line
would run from Bombay to the line of Godavery, and ter-
minate on the eastern coast, near Coringa. In connection
with this, three transverse ones are proposed ; one from
Poona to Bejapoor, another to Aurungabad, a third from
Hyderabad to Nagpoor, crossing the main line. The pro-
posed lines are 1300 miles in length, and would require a
capital of £5,000,000.

CAPTURE OF A SLAVER.—The Ferret, 10, Commander
Oake, captured, on the 26th September, a schooner, with
400 slaves on board, six days out. She was without co-
lours, papers, or chart, having, it is supposed, been all
thrown overboard. No person would acknowledge to be
the captain, whom the crew reported dead, or even give
her a name, or say to whom she belonged, or where found.
It is believed her name is the Aventura, of 140 tons, be-
longing to Rio de Janeiro. At the time of capture the
Ferret was on her passage to St. Paul de Leondo, distant
about 250 miles.

Tam ICE TRADE.—There are in Boston 16 companies
engaged in transporting ice to the East and West Indies,
New Orleans, and to other warm climates. In 1830 the
quantity of ice shipped from Charleston to distant ports
amounted to £30,000 tons. No less than 50,000 tons
were exported from Boston. The expense to the shippers
was 12,340 dlrs., or about a quarter of a dollar a ton.
The average receipts were 3,570,000 dirs. A single firm
in Boston freighted 101 vessels, and a cargo was sent to
East Indies, and exchanged pound for pound for cotton,
which was sold at a handFome profit in England. Sawdust
for packing sells at 3 dlrs. per cord.