The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-24 00:00:00

WEST INDIES.

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soTuhtheamßopty(aml Wonresst
brings dates from Demerara to the 18th, and Jo*
23rd, ult.
The whole of the West India Islands were general
in a very healthy state. The Governors of the Trieida_
and the Windward Islands were about to proceed
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Jamaica, to consult with Lord Elgin on the expedieneL
There is every prospect of good crops forming a final settlement for the West India COlon%
islands generally. The weather has not been so propinot!
for many years. The House of Assembly was sitting
et
Jamaica, but no particular business was being transsetoo.
yr Thames striae adruriev.edshcetes
A bill had been introduced to prevent trespass on Prb,
perties, which was read a third time, and ordered to t
engrossed. And another, for the summary punishtnel
of petty larcenies, had gone into committee and Pesse,,,,
throughout.
The Lazaretto Bill, for the establishment of a lazarell
for the islands, had also been introduced, and, after sot°,
little discussion whether it should be a floating one 0.11
not, it was ultimately passed, on the understanding that!,
should be on shore. The ea ease will be somewbew
about £lO,OOO. Assent had been given by his Excelleod
the Governor to the following bills : c
The Tonnage Duties Bill, the Officers Additional ays
sistence Bill, the Rum Duty Bill, the Ru!es and Aril'
cies of War Bill. the Commissioners of Accounts 134"
and the Board of Works B'll.

Tschech, the miscreant who recently attempted 114
assassination of the King of Prussia, was executed on the
14th instant, at the Fortress of Spaudau,
That part of the sentence which condemned him to I'
drawn upon a hurdle, and broken upon a wheel, was COW
muted by the clemency of his Majesty.
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JESUITISM IN SWITZERLAND.—A meeting of
electors of the Canton of Berne was held in that town
the 15th, to take into consideration the means of prevent
ing the spread of Jesuirism. Resolutions expressing ali;
fidence in the government of Berne, and inviting it ~`
place itself at the head of the Liberal movement, were
•
passed unanimously, amid loud cries of " Down with the
Jesuits." near Bolt

ICHABOE.—we yesterday saw a letter dated from tbil
Island October 15th, in which the writer, the captain 0f
a vessel lying there, says, " I did not call at Angra P°'
quina, as the guano there is not equal to that of Ichaboot
and several vessels now here have thrown overboard tbeig
cargoes obtained there. I expect in the space of six 131:
eight months, if not sooner, the whole of the guano on
.tht"
island will be carried away, there being no less than N"
to 400 vessels now lying here."

AusTRALIA.---Port Philip papers to the sth of August,
have arrived. The official abstract of the revenue 0'
the colony is published at length in the journals, but e/
we have already received the rosin facts through previa!
Sydney advices, it is scarcely necessary further to odor,'
to the subject. The deficiency of £1,500 on the quarter e
return is borne out by both statements. In the interil
one or two murders by the aborigines are alluded to, b,
scarcely a file of papers comes to hand without some slew..
lar atrocity being recorded. The Goulburn tribe seem I'
be the most ferocious set of vagabonds that infest the
bush ; and they, in most cases, single out shepherds ell
remote stations as their victims, and treat them in the
most cruel and barbarous manner. Trade is stated to uw
steadily improving. The weather for three weeks prat
ous to the date of these accounts had been inclement 80
unpropitious forlbusiness. Cold winds and almost ince;
sant rains bad quite kept the people in doors, the wet se‘'
mud rendering the roads impassable, and the heavy mini
having caused the overflow of the Yarra-Yarra. The
month of August had, however, set in with a more pro'
raising aspect, and it was, therefore, expected in the courF
of a little time business would resume its usual current.

On Saturday, at Manchester, Sir Henry Pottinger
presented with an address from the working elassesh
which received 10,438 signatures in fourteen hours.
A hybrid bird, partaking of the colours of the pheasant
and the black cock, was a few days ago shot on the estate
of William Ord, Esq., M.P., Northumberland.
The Cork Examiner publishes the official notfficatioe
of the appointment of the Commissioners under the
Charitable Bequests Act between mourning lives, as tr
pical of the fate of the Church of Rome.
It is said that among the guards and policemen on the
Great Western Railway are three persons who have beet,'attorneys, attorneys, one a surgeon, one an officer in the army, and
two commercial travellers.

In the Exchequer Court, on Saturday, Mr. Mullett,f
paper maker, of London, obtained a verdict of £750
against Lloyd, the proprietor of several penny publics'
Lions—Lloyd's Sunday Times, &c.—for the seduction
of the plaintiff's wife.

BOAT RACE.—In a paragraph elsewhere we have give°
the result of a match between the two experienced water•
men—Coombes and Clasper. Another match for £3i"
was made up between the same parties to come off yester•
day, (Monday,) the distance the same as before. Coombe§
depositing £2OO and Clasper £lOO.

TUE NORFOLK ARSON CASES.—At the Norwich
assizes, on Saturday, thirteen parties were brought UP,
for judgment for as many distinct cases of arson in the
county, and were sentenced for periods (according to the
enormity of their offences) of from fifteen years' trans'
portation to twelve months' Imprisonment.
The Court will remain at Windsor Castle during the
Christmas festivities. Immediately afterwards her Ma'
jesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, according t°
present arrangements, will honour their Graces the Da"
and Duchess of Buckingham with a visit at Stowe'
The Court is expected to leave Windsor for Stowe on
Tuesday, the 7th proximo.

EXETER.--The Bishop of Exeter has published a reply'
to the memorial from the Dean and other dignitaries of
the diocese, on the recent matters which have caused
such agitation in the district. The) bishop criticises the
memorial, and alleges his opinion that it would bring the
Archbishop and Bishops who acted upon it under the vi-
sitation of the law of the land, if they met for any such
purpose without a stated permission from the Crown.

Dr. Murray, of Dublin, has issued a pastoral address,
in which he exposes with great force the gross inconsis-
tencies of the majority of the Romish hierarchy, who, it
appears, about three years since drew up a memorial to
Government, which, with one exception, bore the sir
natures of the whole body, praying, as an act of especial
justice, that " one " Roman Catholic ecclesiastic nvgliC
be appointed to the Board of Bequests.
BERLIN PATTERNS.—A question has recently bee°
made by the Customs' officers, with respect to the ins-
portation of German patterns, brought to this country itt
large quantities, as is well known, to form patterns of
models for fancy needlework, in the shape of chairs, otto
mans, shoes, &c., which are in the present day so mach
in vogue, particularly in the higher circles. The Customs
have admitted them.

FAT OXEN.—The weight of the short-horned steer
which gained the first prize at the late Smithfield shoe'
was said to be 210 stone. Upon the carcase being
weighed on Saturday. the result was as follows :—Beeb,,
hind quarter weighed 601 stone, and each fore quarter 50
stone, making in the aggregate 221 stone, or 17681 b. Ia
addition to this, the loose fat weighed 24 stone (192110 t
and the hide 12 stone (961 b.) The short-homed COif,
one of Lord Spencer's stock, bred by Mr. Beasley, nese
Northampton, which gained the first prize of £2O in class
7, weighed 156 stone, exclusive of 20 stone of loose fat.