The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-24 00:00:00

COLONIAL lIVTELLIGLNCE,

WEST INDIES.
The royal mail steamer Tay arrived at Southampton on
Sunday, having left St. Thomas's on the 9th of February,
with the outward mails per Thames steamer for Jamaica,
which port she left again on her homeward route on the 14th,
quitting the Havannah on the 21st, and Nassau on the 23d
ult., and Bermuda on the 4th, and Fayal on the 13th instant.
She brings 14 passengers and about £3OOO on freight in gold
and dollars.
The royal mail steamer Dee brought the Jamaica and
Windward Island mails to Bermuda, whereby the dates from
the former are to the 17th of February, and from St. Thomas's
to the 25th.
The royal mail steamer Avon, with mails from England of
the Ist of February, had not arrived at St. Thomas's when
the Dee left that island, being then about 22 days.
The intelligence brought by the Tay (which vessel started
for Southhampton the moment the mails were unshipped)
adds little or nothing to the recent information received from
the West Indies, and is easily aocdtuated for whoa we bake

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the 6th, 7th, Sth, 9th, lOth, 14th,
appearance it was like a bright sunbeam, resembling
a comet's tail, but more parallel, the altitude of thein upper
limb being about 32 degrees, and terminating • downwardr-"
about eight degrees above the horizon in an oblique direction ;
it was generally visible from half-past six o'clock until nine
o'clock in the evening. -
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The following is the sentence of the court...,
upon the Hon. Captain Elliot, of the Spartan frigai...
instance of Mr. Delacy M. Gleig, a midshipman attached to
that vessel:—
" The Court are of opinion that the prisoner is not
of the Ist, 2d, and 6th charges, but that he is
guilty
remaining charges against him. The Court, however, in
consideration of the very high testimonials as to character
and conduct adduced by the prisoner; the extraordinary and
parental anxiety manifested on all occasions for the well-
doing and general instruction of all the young gentlemen on
board his ship, and particularly of Mr. Delacy M. Gleig him-
self, and also looking at the nature of the punishment com-
plained of, the circumstances under which it was inflicted,
the feeling which dictated it and which animated the prisoner
towards all under his command, as appearing in evid
fore the Court, are of opinion that the authority and the ru
and regulations of her Majesty's service, and the di;
the law as applicable to an infringement of them, will
v indicated and upheld by merely adjudging that the pris
ac-
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be severely reprimanded, and he is hereby reprimanded
cordingly!'
The Jamaica Standard says that the planters are looking
with intense anxiety to the proceedings which are about to
occupy the Imperial Parliament upon the Sugar Duties and
the Treaty with Brazil; whilst they augur somewhat favour-
ably of advantageous results being derived therefrom, in con-
sequence of the countenance which Lord Stanley has el-
towards emigration, and the course he has
with adopted
is, we are
purpose of carrying it out. In connection th
pleased to be able to :announce that a public meeting has
been called at the requisition of several of the principal in-
habitants of the parish of Hanover, for the purpose of pre-
paring a memorial to the Queen in Council against the ad-
mission of slave-grown sugar at a lower rate
re the sailing of the nex odu ; and
we have little doubt that, befo
packet, similar meetings will have been called, and similar
memorials prepared in every parish in the island. Despite
the misrepresentations of one party, therefore, and the op-
positions of others, we still entertain the hope that FREE-
labour produce will receive a preference over that procuted
by compulsory labour, through the slave; and that in de-
ciding upon the merits of our cause, the English people will
never forget that they are FREE MEN ; and that freedom is
the bulwark—the heart and soul of their Constitution.

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We are gratified in observing that the advocacy by the
LIVERPOOL STANDARD of West Indian interests is spoken
of in very flattering terms by the papers we have received.
We should be glad if some of our West Indian merchants
would take a hint from this; it might serve to check their
forwardness in heaping so many favours upon those who only
reward their kindness by doing all they cap to destroy our
colonial possessions.