The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-11-25 00:00:00

PIRACY.—The Mauritius papers of the beginning of
September give a report of the trial of James Dixon,
master; John Thorpe, first mate; Benjamin Brittany,
second mate ; John Watson, deserter from the St. Helena
Regiment ; and two deserters from her Majesty's steamer
Penelope, for having feloniously and piratically run away
with-the brig Comet, from St. Helena. They were found
guiltyjat a special Court of Admiralty, and sentenced—
the master and the soldier to transportation for life, the
two mates to 15 years' transportation, and the other two
to three years' imprisonment, with bard labour.
TRA.CTARIANISM IN CANADA.—The Rev. W. Carus
Wilson says in a letter to the London Record, that " the
Bishop of Toronto is resolved to carry out his Tractarian
principles with a high hand. The College at Cobourg is
specially designed to educate young men for the ministry
in his diocese. The bishop has given out, that no stu-
dents, failing to come up to his standard of apostolical
succession. baptismal regeneration, &c. bcc., shall remain
there ; and the only three who possessed sound evangeli-
cal principles have been expelled. Two, indeed, retired
before the sentence was issued, and the third was dis-
missed by the bishop. He is a young man of no common
promise."
DISCOVERY OF A NEW DIAMOND MINE IN BRAZIL.
—A large number of inhabitants, speculators. adventurers,
and even sugar planters, are emigrating with their slaves
to the province of Bahia, where is situate an immense
diamond mine, the produce of which is incredible. It
was discovered in October, 1844, by a slave, who in 20
days had gathered 700 carats of diamonds, and carried
them a considerable distance for sale. Arrested and im-
prisoned, the slave obstinately refused to disclose the locus
in quo. They therefore let him loose, and put a number
of intelligent Indians upon his " trail." The latter pur-
sued him for several days, and found him working for the
extraction of the diamonds not far from Caxoeira, the
second city of Bahia. The population which only
amounted in August, 1843, to 8000 souls, distributed over
three villages, was, at the end of July, upwards of 30,000,
and on the increase. The two English steamers of May
and June brought about 5,500,000 francs worth of dia-
monds from this mine. During the months of June and
July the mine yielded neariy 1,450 carats per day. It is
estimated to have produced, during the six months of its
working, nearly 400 ,000 Portuguese carats(aboutlB,3oo,ooo
francs) of which three-fifths were sent to England,
another fifth to France and Hamburgh, whilst the last
fifth awaits buyers at Rio de Janeiro and Bahia• Not all
the lapidaries in Europe would be sufficient to polish only
one-half of the produce of Sincura mine ; thus a deprecia-
tion of that value is expected, which gives rise to the
most hazardous speculations. Brazil, which has the pri-
vilege of supplying the trade with diamonds, did not pro-
duce annually, before the discovery of the Sincura mine,
more than six or seven kilogrammes, which cost more
than a million for the expenses of working ; thus the
price, even in the rough state, has always been very high.
Hitherto, no very large diamonds have been found at
, Sincura.