The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-12 00:00:00

THE WEST INDIES AND MEXICO

FALNfOrrli, MAY

The Royal mail stcamer Avon,

brio„ing Mexican, at nine o'clock,
rummauu
hiad other gn West In
adlr,ritnyneadh , this
j,iniitalio,:ran,
dia fsland 1-ler dates of leaving are—from St. Tho-
in,s,s, April 8; Bermuda, April 20 ; and Fayal, the Ist inst.
She brings 23 cabin passengers, three steerage, and two ser-
vants •, and on freight 100,000 dollars and 98 serous of co
chineal and indigo.
The royal in--

Clyde brought the Jamaica mails
) the Gth of April to St. Thomas's.

The royal mail steamer Thames brought the Mexican, Ha-
vannah, and Nassau (Now Providence) mails to Bermnda.
where she arrived on the 13th of April. having left Havannah
the afternoon of the 6th, and Nassau at midnight of the Bth.
From the former place ;Havannah) she towed to sea her Ma-
jesty's ship Warspite. captain Lord John Hay, which vessel
proceeded to New York, for the purpose of taking home Sir
Charles Bagot. Mr. Pakenham, late minister at Mexico.
came passenger from Vera Cruz by the Thames steamer, and
landed at Bermuda, to await the arrival of the royal mail
steamer Dee, expected from England.

. .
ift
Her Maje ri,, Ringdove and schooner Hornet were
at Bermuda,. ich place her Majesty's ship Illustrious,
Admiral Sir C., dam, was daily expected from Jamaica, the
HavannalL... d Nassau. The House of Assembly at Ber-
muda , . '.1!•.11 the 18th of April.
Th if- the West India islands are reported to be
imbed t onsequence of the rains, and continued shocks
of earth, , 7 s were still felt. At Guadaloupe ten shocks
had bee i vrienced on the 3d, and one on the sth of April.
General Santa Anna had been indisposed, but had re-
covered, and gone to the city of Mexico.
The Avon has on board about 80,000 dollars consigned to
Messrs. Lizardi, but whether any portion thereof is on ac-
count of the Mexican dividends is not known.

The Avon was in collision on the night of the 4th instant,
in lat. 43 30, N., long. 17 13, \V., with the brig Eliza, Leily,
master, of and from Swansea, for St. Jago de Cuba, laden
with a part cargo of coals.

The Conch arrived at Port Elizabeth, had brought late
intelligence from Natal, though it was not of a very impor-
tant character. The Boers, it would seem, had been levying
a tariff on all imported goods forwarded to Pietermaurltzberg,
but the immediate interference of Major Smith, who took
measures to prevent a successful continuance of the tax, bad
caused a relapse in the vigilance of the authorities, and inter-
course was now resumed on the usual basis. From Colesbnrg
the advices state the Boers in the neighbourhood of the
Orange River to be peaceable. They had called their strag-
ling members together with the intention of opening, through
the local government, a correspondence with the colonial sec-
retary on the subject of their claims to the land they now
possess.

The Paris papers of Wednesday state that an emeute or
rather a strike, had taken place among the dockyard artifi-
cers of Brest, in consequence of the dismissal of 700 or 800
workmen. The Gazette de France contains the details of a
frightful accident to 50 workmen employed on the fortifica-
tions of Mount Valcrien, who had been buried by the falling
in of a large bank of earth. None of the sufferers had been
taken out alive,

&roc}aloud., APRIL 1.4.—8 y a royal ordinance of the Bth
instant, the export duty upon iron is reduced as follows:
Of cast iron in future to be paid 4s. per skilpund ; of wrought
and sheet iron of three-eights of an inch in thickness, and
less than twelve inches wide, 4s. per skilpund ; on hoops,
nails, bolts, railings, and all other articles of manufactured
iron, the duty is taken off entirely. Besides this, the lolay,
or additional duty upon the first-mentioned articles is re-
duced to 4s. per skilpund, and upon the latter it is entirely
abolished.

ENORMOUS WEALTIL—The vroperty left by Baron
Stieglitx, the banker, who lately died at St. Petersbnrgh, is
estimated at the enormous amount of 50,000,000 rubles
(between £5,000,000 and £6,000,000 sterling). He was a
native of Hanover, where his elder brother, one of the most
celebrated physicians in Germany, died a few years ago.
A NOVEL HANDICAP.—The PbBe'verfnt of Limoges pro-
claims a challenge, given by an avocat.ot that city, to run a
match of 10,000 f., between a sow, trained by him, and any
thorough-bred horse to be brought against her. The ground
to be gone over is nearly ten leagues, and lies between the
the lead.
instant. The match, if ac-
cepted, of hexonieras and St. Jamien lea Combes. The
proposer stipulates that the horse is to follow the course of
t e so-
is a
to slong
come
off
a shes
on keepsthe 2i

gentlemenserviceyrs his
OPE.—The agricultural
LORD STANH
character,
nhgalriaacinteslii.,i raengave h
their
rdliliiignhe dinner on
sense
ehoisf nobleman ei p a
Monday, for the purpose of testifying their respectyesbufor
has rendered to the farmer.
chair D r.O sap
ouna rt rhi
ee rb
awasrs ofseized
the
grate, with
was
sfi
dreadfully
roefemmeniadadiesonflulratatllThursdayltmiynnAottbos
utrhoneft roomi
anf Bnck_
rh_
e_i
while sitting at his bedroom fireside, and, falling T morning
before our read
oeyf.es arldadmoauatthi-i-issosnairuvaciaitsogathaaathhyisalei
n,Timex,
practicalF i
in tos fh
ie r thenei i
Nn6etoehsrerit
Irh
there is no doubt but a few minutes would have terminated
his existence.—Hants Independent.
NEW DRAINING MACHINE.—We lay,
...
~ e
machine
est
abli generally,r
satisfyo tf
the following extract from
of
loiGuianaauwr abreds
et
March, 1813, (George Town, Demerara.) Th
ferred to, as having been applied so successfully in thea-
c\a\o,
merit l
and
nes
ysyao,
s..._fis p ,
lja,aol3ns 1
inoi
John
.dEa andai
executed e to t the e
at
t the draining
engineering
lands
Canegrove estate, on
the Mahaica Creek. It is in operation, and answers then
has completed a magsebtloYiineEnflsocier.'draining
purpose admirably. There is a sluice which transmits the
water to be drained off, in any quantity determined on, into
a brick channel, in which, as in a grove, moves a wheel,
which, divided into bucket-like compartments
raisesraes the
water, and throws it into an aqueduct that may
we have the
length and may run over the top of any obstacles. Exact
rdeeeeaprioruegsreist the condition
computations, and actual experience, prove that the machine
which may be worked, without difficulty, by the engine at the
sugar-works, can drain any estate, however disadvantageous..
ly situated. We recommend the distressed planters on the
East Coast to inspect the Canegrove erection, and
themselves."
p iLORDaid Fa
tlyT Zt
OG
aEau.nAot.c—e
of the noble President of the Board of Trade, that in all pro.
bability ere this article meets the eye of our readers the
•the noble lord will have ceased to exist. Last night Dr.
Seymour was with his Lordship until a quarter past ten
,Ittilwsiathp
o'clock, and we lament to say that not the remotest hope ex-
isted for his recovery, inflammation having assumed its worst
form, so as to defy all medical treatment. At a quarter past
nine o'clock the Rev. Mr. Fuller waited on his Lordship to
offer the consolations of religion, and the sacrament was ad-
ministered to the noble snfferer bv that rev. gentlemandifficultv in
. His
lorarticuldshiap, although he experienced
tion, was perfectly sensible to all that was proceeding
around him. The following particulars relating to
the noble
lord's illness may be regarded as authentic :—lt appears that
Lord Fitzgerald, although able to discharge his official duties
as President of the Board of Control, twelvet enjoyed cotn_
plete health since his illness about, months back,
when he was suffering from an enlargement of the liver, and
that for some weeks he has been ailing but of so trifling a
nature was his indisposition as to create little or no alarm to
himself or friends. On Thursday last the noble lord trans-
acted business at his office, but did not attend the funeral of
his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, as was erroneously
stated in all the m papers. On the followig (Frida )
, orn-
ortly after rising was seized with a cold
ing his lordship sh
Seymour was immediately sent for. That
shivering, and Dr.
medical gentleman, after consulting with his noble patient,
instantly ordered his lordship to his bed, as he considered
the symptoms to be of an alarming character. Since that
time his lordship's disorder has gone through the moat
aggravated stages, and his prostration is at length such as to
give not the slightest hope of his eventual recovery ; indeed
his dissolution is hourly expected.. Since Tuesday morning
his lordship's sufferings have been intense, and the only re-
pose lie may be said to have taken has been the result of ex_
haustion.— Times of yeste:•day.
TREATMENT OF THE BOOR OF. COMMON PRAYER BY A
BAPTIST MINISTER.—The followiangtasre extracts of a speech
made by the (Ilev.) H. Bonner, pi t Minister of Wood-
the meeting held on Tuesday
even-
street Chapel, Bilston,.at
. , 8,3 in thelndependent Chapel, Bilsto
fug, April 2.ath, 1a , education clauses n,
to take into consideration thea of the fac-
toS:rc• Mr. Robert Bew,Wesleyan, in the chair,
tors bill, .. • ;
said, "that the people ought
to
Mr. Bonner be the go '
Nern-
ment, As the government n outs, ' it makes laws for the
people, and dictates to them• f the governmei t
I was
'n other words, in a
what it should be,
of. healthy state, it
would be merely the deputation the people. lie charged
upon the missovernment of the.country all the present miser
and crime ; and until the principle be changed there could bey
no good results• lie protested against the government inter..
faring between him and his conscience, dictating to him how
The educati
lie should serve his God. _ on clauses of the bil
we are met to discuss to-nightireequire the children to be
taught the Church Catechism., I
lowly and reverently to
all
.my betters." "NI by,' •id be, " I have not a ' better,'
in all the world, and all men are my equals.,, He then pro_
ceeded,—" This hook I hare in my hand is the Book of C:n:non Prayer ; and comino?: enough, indeed, to wipe ~ -
upon." Be then threw :t upon the floor, Pe my feet
took it up again and rubbed his
feet upon t. He , and then threw it
again, and held his oot upon it for some minutes. He down
&iced a Bible, andset the Bible against the P pro -
rich and the Prayer-book,
and quoted, "The poor meet together, and '
Lord is the maker of them all." lie then said, add the
the chairman, .. If yoU will allow me, I will take it ressing
it is a pity the poor thing should be there." He toupkagai" ;
and made a quotation from the 19th arti 4 .. it up,
ce, The visible
church of Christ Sad congregation of and' f I "
i i n men. Some
one below would yit was the bricks t mor ar. He then
referred to the twentieth article, " The church bath power to
decree rites and ceremonies.
" He inferred that •
this arti-
cle contradicted the former ; for if one of the congregation
were to ask Mr. Fletcher (meaning the in bent of St.
Leonard's) to read King James's Book of mini
say ie I could not ; and he has Sports, he would
no power to ave out th
ing of the Lord's Prayer once, thou hit be e read-
• in the morning service. "
times __ g read half a dozen
e. Mr. Bonner said at the con-
clusion of his speech, that no churchman ever taught chil-
dren, nor took any interest in educating
were incited to do so by the" ra them, except they
respondent of the London stangdaariffin Dissenters."—Cor-
ExTRAORDINARY AFFAIR.—On Monday, at the Lam-
beth-street Police-office, London, Mrs. Ann Flemming, a
middle-aged, well-dressed, and
respectable-looking w_oman,
applied to Mr. Henry for his
advice and assistance under the
following circumstances :—From the statement of the appli-
cant, who it appears is connected with several highly re-
spectable families, and whose uncle is at the head of one of
the first legal firms in Europe, it appeared that somae years
ago, contrary to the wishes of her family, she to rried a
linendraper's assistant, named John Flernmiug, and by her
property they were enabled to open a large establishment in
the drapery and haberdashery way in Sydney-place; but
owing to the extravagance of her husband they ultimately
failed there, and the business, as
well as the freehold which
belonged to her, had been disposed of. Her husband after
this left her, and lived with a Miss Taylor,
• - whom he had
taken from her friends at Croydon, and she had reason to
believe they were still living together, but where she had not
been enabled Chadce Some time after he bad lefher
her husband obtained a situation as assistant tot Mr.
a linendraper in Oxford-street, but had not been
Howell,
place when he was taken into custody' on a charge
long in his
of plundering his employer to a considerable extent, and was
committed to the Old Bailey on the charge. In June, 1841,
be was tried at the Old Bailey, found guilty of the offence,
and sentenced to six months hard labour in the House of
Correction, a sentence which, under the circumstances, was
considered exceedingly lenient. What became of him after
this she (applicant) was unable to state with any accuracy,
but in the month of November last troth he and her sister
bad attended at Shoreditcb workhouse and identified the
body of a female that had been picked out of the Regent's
Canal a day or two before as hers, and wrote the name
" Ann Flemming," on the lid of the shell in which the body
was placed. An inquest was subsequently held before M
faker, the coroner, when the body was spoken of and.
treated as hers (applicants), when a verdict
drowned" was returned, and the body was left to be ound
at the expense of the parish. The applicant saidthat buried
circumstances had been told her by her own sister,
these
the mistake in identifying the body was a
wil and that
tain possession of her property ; the fact beingl one to oh_
band had already raised 4100 on it, through that her lava_
she was drowned. The magistrate directed a representation
officer of the parish to take up the the relieving
husband from squandering any m ie case, and prevent
don paper. ore of the pro the
property.—Lon.