The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-26 00:00:00

THE WEST INDIA. MAIL

The mail steamer. Thames arrived at Southampton on
Tuesday night with the West India mails. She brought
70 passengers, including his Excellency Sir Henry Mac-
leod, late Ci.vernor of Trinidad, and on freight 58 tierces
of coffee, 126 barrels of ginger, and 283 packages of arrow-
root.

We have our usual file of papers by the Thames, but
they are very barren of interest; some of them, however,
give a- more favourable account of the weather than we
have learned from private sources; indeed, almost at the
time of the mails !caving the drought appeared to be t,reak-
ing up. Coolies lad arrived in several colonies, and had
produCed some eff•ct in causing more regular labour; in
Jamaica and Trinidad they were much prized, and work-

showing 2ii-at aptness; as were the Portu-

guese emigrants from Madeira at. Demerarb and Sr. Vin-
cent: The colonial newspapers have little interesting local
news, if we except those of Trinidad. which are filled with
regrets on losing their governor, Sir Henry Macleod.
who, it. appears, had resigned his office in consequence of
some misonders'anding with the Colonial 'Minister. His
successor. Lord. Harris. left Grenada on the 28th ult., and

General Richi, the new President of Hayti, was still in
the nrirthern part of the island, where all was quiet at the
last dates. Pierrot, the late President, had retired to his
plantation ; it is rumoured he will not be allowed to re-

main there (as a few partisans may still cLerish the hope
of his return to power), but be convene:l to reside nearer
Port-au-Prince, where all his movements can be better
watched. In the south, a few hundred men, chit.fly cul-
tivators, had risen against Richi's Government ; their
object, it seems, was to pillage the town Of Aux Cayes.
They commenced by mas,acreing several persons of re-
spectability, who fell into their hands, and committed all
sorts of depredations; but General Jeffrdn, at the head of
six regiments, had obtained signal advantages over theth
in three different combats, when from 500 to 00 of the
banditti were killed. Nothing had been decided upon re-
specting the Dominic,ths. Despatches had been received
from Santa Anna, the President of the Spanish port, and
it is believed that a suspension of hostilities will take place_
until something more decisive is determined on. The
foreigners thought well of the present Government, hav-
ing in office, clear. headed ministers who had been abroad,
and had held intercourse with foreign Powers.

THE AMERICAN COTTON CROP.—The Great Western
brings accounts of another week's receipts of cotton at
the ports; from which we are. glad to find that. the defi-
ciency, as compared with the receipts of last year, has
been considerably diminished. At the date of the ad-
vices by the Hibernia, the deficiency was 406,000 bales.
It is now reduced to 380,705 bales. The following is a
statement of the receipts at the different ports to the
dates a4med . 1846. 1845. 1844.
New Orleans.. 25 April, 920.556 854,761 752,456

Mobile
25. ~ 397.478 502,564 422,585
Florida.
Georgia.
SouthVarolina.. 2,, 197,967 3j8,668
North"Carolioa— 2 „ 7,644 9,923

Virginia...
Other port

11,370 18,400
5,07

266,627

12:500

1,812,464 2,193,169 1.799,894
The exports to Great Britain sere 683.114 bales, against

st year

of the sailing uf the Great Western, prices were very
firm,-at the rates which prevailed at the close of the pre-
ceding month. The purchases were principally on French
and American account; very little being purchased for
shipment to Enejand.-211anchester Guardian.

THE C;;URT 4 FASHIO

ABLE WORLD,

Her Majesty completed her twenty-seventh year on

The Gazelle of Tuesday announces that her Majesty':
birthday will be celebrated on the 9ih June.
Captain Somerset having announced his intention o
standing for the couniy of Monmouth in opposition t,
Lord Granville Somerset, a member of I-1,.r Majesty':
Government and a Cabinet Minister, the gallant Captain

has resgned h'S appointment as Equerry in the House
hold of Her Majesty the Queen Dowager. •

The Earl of -Erroll had. an audience of the Queen at
the Court held at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday, to
deliver up the insignia of the Most Ancient and ;Mat
Noble Order of the Thist:e worn by his late father. The
vacant green riband will, it is understood, be conferred
upon hiS Grace the Duke of Argyll.

RAILWAY INTL:LA.I(.IE fs CB.

The North Pritish Railway is to be partially opened on
the Ist of June.

The Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction
Railway went into,committee on Monday. On Tuesday
the clauses were settled, and the preamble declared proved.
The Great Northern Railway of France will be opened
next week: This line will confer great benefits on the
South Eastern Railway.
The foundation stone of the new tunnel bridge over the
river Conway, for th.e Chester and Holyhead Railway,
took place a few days since amid-t great rejoicing. The
site, of the foundation is close to the base of the rock.
which the venerable castle stands.

The preamble of the Ashton and Iluyton branch of the
Grand Junction Railway was declared proved on Friday.
The line crosses the 'Mersey at Runcorn. The company
have arranged.with Lord Francis Egerton, and his lord-
ship has withdrawn his Preston Brook line.
A correspondent of Herapath's Journal states, that,
Mr. Austin, the eminent Parliamentary counsel, :having
refused.a £5OO tee to plead for the Eastern Counties Rail-
way,. had a cheque for 4:1.000 presented to him, but he
refused the brief unless £l,B°o were paid to him, which
enormous sum be actually received.
LAWYERS AND ENGINEERS.—Before one of the Se-
lect t'onimittees of the House of Commons on railways,
Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, on Thursday last. observed— Ele
knew very well that there were no difficulties in the eyes
of the engineers, for when Mr. Stephenson was asked in
.a:lother Committee-room, a few days ago, whether he
could make a tunnel under the Ales, he replied, " Under
the Halps, moo? why yes. ye could make a tunnel under
the world if ye liked ; it's merely a question o' pounds,
shillings, and pence." (A laugh.) But though no diffi-
culties in the eyes of an engineer, they were great difficul-
ties in the eyes of lawyers.
GLASGOW STAGE COACII V. RAILWAY.—The first
stage coach from Edinburgh to Glasgow was established,
by contract between the Glasgow magistrates and William
Hume, a merchant of Edinburgh, in the year 1678. Ile
was to have " iu readiness one sufficient strong coach to
run betWixt Edinbro' and Glasgow; to run by sax able
horses, :o leave Edinbro' ilk Monday and return azain
(God willing) ilk Saturday night. The burgesses of Glas-

gow always to have.a preference to
at this tune the passengers weekly

!le coach
n anti Fr

per coach, wroild number about twenty-four

In one day

a one last week, the passengers by the Edinburgh and
Glasgow Railway numbered 2,000. So much for the
march of improvement.
LIVERA'OO.I‘ AND NEWCASTLE.-At a meeting of the
scripholderS in the Liverpool, Al anches'er, and Newcas-
tle-on-Tyne Junction Railway, last week, a gentleman
present mentioned many circumstances to show the utility
of the line. He said, "Nitrate of soda was an article im-
ported into Liv: spool in larger quantities than to any other
English port, not even excepting London. on account,of
the intercourse with America which Liverpool possessed.
The article was largely used in the Tyne. wherethere were
more extensive chemical works, than were to he found in
any other part of the country. The price of the article in
London, a short time ago, was £l6 10s. per ton ; in Liver-

but as Newc4rtle had no direct counmunication with Liver-
pool, it was entirely dependent on London, for the circni-
tuous route on the one hand, and the high charges on the
other, rendered it impossible-for the manufacturers on the

.LIygBPOOL-AND BURY RAILWAY.-4 special geri' ral
meeling of this.cornpany was hr.id oil Saturday, in c nn-
nli:inet, with it. ni I nrrlernnf natlittrnfint_ The mar_

were seal for making a railway

LAverpool and

Riihay to

Railway, and from Southrort to the North Union Rail-
way, aid from the North Union Rail*•Ay to the Man-
chester, Bolton, and Bury Railway, with certain branches.
to called the Liverpool, Preston, Manchester, and
3e Southport lialways; and, also, for constructing a per

it was explained, was to enable the Pyerpnol and Bury
Company, if they should think proper, to take 9,000

directors were authorised to subscribe towards and to be-
come short holders in the undertakings. A bill was then
read for incorporating the conilyiny with the- Manchester
and . Leeds. This was opposed by Mr. Holland, Mr
Forshaw, and oilier gentlemen, arid there appearec

the voles were taken: 17 for it, aml 24 against it

, win n
A poll

was, then demanded, but the oppositonists left the room
in a body, and when the pall was taken, there were in
favour of the amalgamtvion 3,870 votes, representing 8,418
shares; against it, none. The chairman declared it carried
ur animouslv.

THE BRIDGE AT RUNCORN.—Before the parliamentary
committee, last week, on the Aston and Huyton branch
of the Grand Junction Railway, Capt. Evans was called
to prove that the navigation of the Mersey would not be
interfered with by the erection of the bridge at Runcorn.
The gallant captain said he was formerly a master and
pilot, and was well acqua'nted with navigation. Had
examined the plan of the proposed bridge at Runcorn,
and had reported thereon to the Admiralty.. In his opi-
nion the bridge would be favourable to the navigation.
IHe should have objected to all the plans proposed before
this. The height of the arches was one of the most fa-
vourable points. The arches, also would cause the current
Ito run stronger, and the excavation of the rocks_would

cause a greater body of water to run up, and the channel
would be made more straight. As to the difficulty of
steering through the arches in sea•guing vessels, it was
all nonsense; ne had seen an old woman steer a barge

through a much more difficult passage, and if any of the
bargemen could not steer through that bridge he would
advise their being sent to .that old woman, to be taught.
The bridge would not cause any impediment to the en-
trance to the St. Helen's, or rather the Sankey canal, or
tin fact any of the canals, the Doke of BriOgewatees -in-
clik& In fact, it Would improve them all, by_ causing a

flow up.—

'he wttr

Mr. Sed- antKinglat

RESISTANCE TO THE LAWS.—DISASTROUS CONSE-
QUENCES.—A fatal collision between the law of the land
and the agrarian code has taken place in Tipperary. Two
lives have been lost. Mr. Maunsell, of Bird-hill (about
ten mires distant from Nenagh), was ejected from a house
and land for non.-payment of rent ;' hut, determined on
holding forcible possession, he fortified antrbarricaded
his house for the purpose; and having entrusted it, with
proper directions to that end, to some of his servants and
followers, he himself, accompanied by his wife, went out
of doors to meet the Sub-Sheriff on his arrival to execute
a writ of Habere, and formally refused him an entrance.
The Sub-Steriff, warned of the resistance he was likely to
meet, came to the place with a sufficient force of consta-
bulary arid military to carry the ant (on which he was
acting) into execution ; and having demanded entrance,
and been refuF,ed, and having, moreover, in va;ri warned
M i. Maunsell of the consequences, he proceeded to obtain
an entrance, and was resisted from withinside with stones
and other missiles. The temper of the inmates, at the
time, may be inferred from their infuriated conduct, and
their constant threats of a renewal of the massacre of Car-
rickshock, to which au air of likelihood was given by the
multitudes who had assembled on the neighbouring hills,
either to witness the transaction, or to intimidate the ad-
ministrators of the law, or possibly, if necessary, to take

possession, as we have said, was main•ained by the dis-
charge of missiles from the windows (the sashes of which
had been removed for the occasion); the riot act was
read ; and after repeated refusals of the master of the
iicase to order a surrender, the Sub-Sheriff had recourse

to the arms of the constabulary, first firing over the roof
of the house, and afterwards at the windows ; nor was it

until two lives were lost that Mr. Maunsell thought pro-
per to desire his servants to surrender the house. One
enthusiastic female, a servant of the family, fell ; the other

victim of lawlessness was a man