The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-08 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

WEST INDIA MAIL.

The royal West India mail packet, Dee, Captain Allan,
from the West Indies, &c., arrived at Southampton on
Friday. Her dates are: Chagres, June 27 ; Cartbagena,
30 ; Jamaica, July 8 ; Demerara, 6 ; Trinidad, 8 ; Bar-
badoes, 12 ; Grenada ; 9 ; Porto Rico, 16 ; St. Thomas,
15 ; La Gueyra, 7 ; Fayal, 29.
Amongst the possengers by the Dee are :—His Excel-
lency Governor Shortland and lady ; His Excellency
Governor General Von Scholton ; Mr. Guyette French
Consul at Valparaiso • Mr. Nunes, FrenCh Consul at St.
Thomas ; Mr. A. White, Colonial Secretary. The freight
on hoard consists of 503,000 dols. from the Pacific via
Chagres, on merchant's account, principally in gold dust,
bar silver, and dollars.
. The accounts from Jamaica are of the same dishearten.
ing nature, and they are somewhat aggravated by symp-
toms of an outbreak in the western part, in consequence
of the inability of the planters to give employment to the
labourers. Nothing to disturb the peace had 'actually
occurred, but private accounts state that the colony is far
from being in a settled state. The police force had been
augmented in those districts where a commotion was ex-
pected.
The ministerial declaration respecting the sugar ques-
tion had reached Jamaica, where it had been received
with the greatest dissatisfaction. The Chamber of Com-
merce had, at a meeting held on the 4th of July,passed
resolutions protesting against the proposition of ministers,
and declaring " that it is the duty of the people's repie-
sentatives in the present alarming condition of colonial
affairs to refuse all vote of supply to the Queen's govern-
ment, until the injuries under which the colony is now
suffering are fully and substantially redressed."
The packet of the 17th instant was anxiously looked tor,
as bringing out more cheering hopes to the island ; and
for the last fortnight a general feeling prevailed that the
news would be satifactory, and more beneficial for the
West Indies than they have had. The island itself was
very healthy, and the late refreshing showers had given a
better appearance to vegetation.
The exchange on London, at all the banks, was one per
cent. premium, 90 days.
The governor had issued a proclamation summoning
the assembly for Thursday, the 3rd of August, then to
meet for the despatch of business.
An American frigate from Haiti, with 400 refugees on
board, had been wrecked off the Morant Keys. It was
said that their lives had been saved. _ _

Intelligence had been received at Jamaica from Haiti
and from Venezuela. From the latter the news was, ac-
cording to the last advices from Maracaibo, that victory
had once more fallen to the arms of the constitutional
party, and the city of Maracaibo was once more in pos-
session of the army of General Paez, no less than 1,200
men of the army of Monagas, deserted by their officers,
having laid down their arms and proclaimed Paez as their
leader. •
From Haiti we learn that a renewal of atrocities had
taken place. It was said that the President was taking a
tour throughout the island, and that instead of exercising
his authority to stay the enormous crimes which were
being committed, he was using it to cause an increase of
them. Refugees had arrived in great numbers at Jamaica
from L'Ans de Nord. They all confirmed the accounts
which had been brought by other vessels that the greatest
atrocitie; had been committed, and that a number of the
most respectable and influential inhabitants of the island
had been cruelly murdered ; and not only did the President
sanction and assist in the perpetration of the most wicked
crimes, but that he endeavoured to prohibit parties who
'were made the victims of his barbarity from leaving the
island. Those who escaped, to use the words of the un.
'Nappy people who arrived at Jattiaica, did so " with the
knife at their throats." One of the vessels which had
arrived was fired at from the forts.

On the 10th July, a slave insurrection took place in St.
Croix, one of the Danish Antilles. They demanded their
freedom, which was granted, deposed the governor, Von
Scholten, rescued the prisoners from prison, set fire to
and destroyed an immense deal of property all over the
island. Part of the town was fired. The estates which
mostly suffered were Spreat Hall, Rose Hill, Concordia,
Negro Bay, Golden Grove, Mannings Bay, Mount Plea-
sant. Nearly the whole of the island had been more or
less injured. The insurrection was at last quelled, but 30
negroes were killed in it, and several have since been shot.
Governor Von Scholten left Croix and came to England
by the Dee.