The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-05 00:00:00

WEST INDIA' MAILS

The steam ship Clyde arrived at Southampton on Sun-
day with the usual West India mails. She left Jamaica
November 7th, St. Thomas, 14th, and Fayal, 27th. She
arrived here nearly four days before her mails were due.
The Jamaica House of Legislature was opened on the 27th
October by Sir Charles Grey, with the usual formalities.
In the speech delivered on that occasion by his Excellency,
it was intimated to the House that the recent measures in
England for the alterations of the import duties on sugar
and rum, with the reductions effected in the wages of la-
bourers in Jamaica, would have justified the supposition
that the prospects of the sugar planters for the next twelve
months would be improved, were it not for the increased
difficulties in obtaining advances, which has necessarily
operated as an immediate and worse blow upon resident
proprietors than even the competition of foreign produce.
His Excellency then recommended the adoption of a sound
system of mutual credit and exchange, by which the culti.
vators should receive, on moderate and beneficial terms,
the pecuniary assistance absolutely necessary for produc,
tion and manufacture. To effect this desirable object his
Excellency recommended peace amongst the inhabitants
and the cultivation of kindly feelings, and the cessation of
the struggle going on with the higher
e Aire

The GOver-nor further advised the HcZe-io';1:;;;;Za

and foster any disposition of the mother country to afford
assistance, and to accept of loans from Great Britain, at
moderate interest, in the way provided for by act 11th and
12th Victoria, chap. 130.
The general proceedings of the Legislature and Assembly
were not of much importance. An address, in reply to
the Governor's speech, was voted.
The Jamaica Despatch gives the expenditure and ex-
ports of the colony for 1848, from which it appears that
the former amounts to £403,000, and the exports are
35,000 hogsheads only, besides the coffee and pimento;.
that is, the grand staple of the island is worth only
£350,000, or £50,000 less than the expenditure; or, in
other words, for every hogshead worth £lO, they have to
pay £ll in taxes.

- The Demerara crop was estimated at 40,000 hogsheads
against £200.000 expenses.—A :commercial letter from

Demerera says, "The fatal effects of the `stoppage of the
supplies' is already making itself felt and understood.
Within 10 days after the expiry of the Tariff of Duties
there had been a loss of .$65,000 upon imports thrown
into the market in consequence of there being no duty
leviable, an amount equal to the saving which was ex-
pected from the 25 per cent reduction of the civil list.
This loss has been transferred from the consumers of im-
ports to the producers of exports—the planters; at the
same time Barbadoes is pouring in her dry goods and pro-
goods.

T gin and of

which, free of duty, will come into competition with the
duty-paid goods of the merchants, and likewise overstock
the market."

the islands for

the crops

Dec. 5, 184$.

of strength in the Punjaub, and it serves to explain the
fact, which otherwise we should have to regret, thlit
General Whish had not at once been supplied, as regard
the northern line of frontier, with any considerable rein-
forcement.

Our authorities in Western India, on their part, we ere
told, had determined for some time past that only a gene-
ral and combined movement should be made by the troePs
of the Western Presidency, and the effective division thee
on the march might be expected at the seat of war coinci-
dentally with the arrival of the main body under Lord
Gough. There were advices that the head-quarters of tbs
Bombay division had arrived at Sukkur. One detachment,
with some artillery, had already left Roree. The RO
Brigade, under Brigadier Dundas, whose movements up'
wards from Kurrachee had been so long spoken of, was ul
motion on the Indus, and, with the European regiment.
of the division, might be expected to reach Upper Seim?
at the end of October. It was expected that Jacob
arScinde Horse would
etac cross the frentier immediately on the
arrival of the fi stdhment from Roree above alluded
to. and they would proceed together to the camp of Gene'
ral Whish.

TRADE AND COMMERCE.
The monthly Accounts relating to Trade and Naviga°
tion continue to tell awkward tales. What a pity that ths
Manchester Chamber of Commerce cannot suppress their'
as "inconvenient and unnecessary."—as they have don.
the " weekly return of unemployed hands in the borough
of Manchester."

The general character of the facts revealed in these ac'
counts, is that of increasing imports, and decreasing el';
ports. We will give a few samples, being the results 01
the first ten months of 1848, compared with the first teg
months of 1846.
To begin with some of the Imports :

Sheep
Bacon, cwts
Butter, cwts..
Cheese, cwts.

1846.
13,124

61,116
1,668
199,231
242,452

1848.
19,60

98,39,6
195,216
239,802
319,!?

Wheat, quarters
Barley, quarters
Oats, quarters 640,961 786,864
Beans, quarters 206.666 411 Sig
Gloves, pairs Z029,642 2,652,649
Pork, salt, cwt. 43,565 232,783
Silks.or satin, broad 111,418 260,0
Silk ribbons
Gauze-ribbons
Velvet ribbons
Wines, French, gall 345908 572,711
Now, let us turn to the other side, and see what havif
been some of the Exports. 1846. 1848.
Cotton Manufactures. £14,808,324 £13,466,746
Cotton Yarn. 6,802,391 4,789,53/

Earthenware

Glass
Cutlery and Ffardware
Leather, wrought & unwrot,
Linen Manufactures
Linen Yarn
Silk Manufactures

221,256,
1,828,872

286,387

l•
694.0`!

2,276,518
687,679
724,902
5,436,650

202,396
1,524,64
223,30.
2,242,291
387,0

466.254

Woollen Manufactures

4,718,311

THE; LATE IBRAH.IM PASHA.
Ibrahim Pasha has left only three sons living.—Ahmed
Bey, born in 1825 ;. Ishmael Bey, born in MA both par
suing their studies in Paris; and Mustapha Bey, born 01
1832, at present in Cairo.
Ibrahim Pasha was buried with military honours, 1311 t
with little ceremony, on the day of his death, inMehems'
Ali's family tomb, in the vicinity of Cairo. Selim Pasha
has gone to the Upper Country to see that order and trail'
quillity are maintained there, and during the temporal'
absence of Abbas, Said Pasha assumed the authority 10
Cairo.

Abbas Pasha, who succeeds Ibrahim in the governmen
of the country, was born in Arabia, in 1813. He is the
son of Toussoon Pasha, Mehemet Ali's second son,, who
died of the plague in the year 1816, and his right to the
succession arises from his being at present the eldest
living male member of Mehemet Ali's family.

CHARITY BALL AT AINTREE.—The charity ball at. the
Grand Stand, Aintree, under the patronage of the Earl
and Countess of Sefton, will take place in the Large Room;
on Wednesday, the 13th instant. It is fully expected
that the attendance will be numerous, and that the after
will be at once brilliant and delightful.
STREET ACCIDENT.—On the night of the 25th of 10
month, a man named John‘Moony, aged 54, was crossieir
Parliament-street, when a cart coming down, went over.
him. Whether he had fallen down before the cart calms
up or was knocked down there is no proof. He died olt
Saturday.

RAPIAEL'S ALMANAC. This prophetic messenger,
which last year contained such a singular prediction—since
verified—of the revolution in France, is now published
for next year. It contains many new predictions as to the
weather, political commotions, &c., which are interesting
to the curious. There is also much valuable information
in addition of a miscellaneous kind.
BITING A MAN'S EAR OFD—At the Police-court yes-
terday, an elderly man, named Robert Rushton, who bad
his head bandaged up, preferred a charge against a rough-
looking young man, named Robert Beggs, for having
violently assaulted him. The prisoner is a carter, and
was employed by the complainant in that capacity. He
was at work on Saturday, and complainant paid his wages
to his wife. Prisoner next day- came to his masters, and
on his refusing him money, he struck complainant, and
in a scuffle which ensued, actually bit off a great part of
his (complainant's) ear. The surgeon who had dressed
the wound, said that about half the ear was torn or bitten
off. The prisoner was committed for trial.
CHARGE OF STEALING WEARING APPAREL.—Yester-
day, at the police-court, a female named Ann Smith, and
her daughter, a young girl, were committed on a charge
of having stolen a quantity of clothes, &c., the property
of several parties. In the elder prisoner's house there
were found a box or case, containing, amongst other
things, a kettle-holder, eight,pairs of socks, a muffler,
some tea, &c. It was proved that the kettle-holder cos
the property of Mr. Arthur Littlejohn, of Bold-street,
and that the owners of the other articles were Mr. Mae'
taggart, draper, and Mr. Sillitoe, tea dealer.
LIVERPOOL INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL SOCIETY.—WE are,
glad to find that a strong effort is now making to extend
the number of ragged schools in this town, to which the
half-clothed and ill-fed children of our struggling poor
can resort for mental cultivation ; and which will attemPt
to reclaim the hundreds of those children who, steeped in,
ignorance, and with vice and improvidence daily before
their eyes in their own wretched homes, are cast upon our
streets, and almost thrust into crime. We have before us
a prospectus of, a society for the promotion of this object,
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of which we observe that his Worship, the MayOr,.is
chairman, ex-officio, supported by an influential commit-
tee, and with a very active secretary in Mr. J. Hubback ;
and we shall watch its progress with great interest. In
the meantime, we invite every friend of order and of
religion to give the society the benefit of his aid in the
furtherance of an object so beneficial. Amongst the cow"
mittee are Chas. Cotesworth, Esq., and T. B. Horsfallt
Esq. ; T. D. Anderson, Esq., is the treasurer.
CURIOUS SEAMAN'S CASE.—TWO seamen, who had
belonged to the ship Hero, of this port, and also the com-
mander of the ship, Capt. Grant, appeared before Mr'
Rushton yesterday, with a view to clear up a circumstance
of, we believe, rare occurrence, the shipping of foreign for
British seamen. Capt. Grant said that the ship sailed
from Liverpool for Bonny on the I7th July last. TWO
seamen were shipped on board the vessel by Mr. Hodson
jun., as British seamen, and they produf

...gister tickets.
After the ship had been out a fevi days, the captain found
that both the men were foreigners, and that one of them
could not speak a word of English. He had, however, no
fault to find with them, and had no objection to pay them
vswaiidlli hea ms knewand tchoeutinsvro.
ea
their wages. The tickets were produced, Messrs. Hod-
son (father and son) were sent for. Joshua GreenhaU,
s(whmoehn whadao calledcted as secomd mate)e
bemsle s
Collins, who speaks some English, said that young Mr*
Hodson told them that they must pass by those names/
NI he would make all right. Messrs.

.._mason were
both sent for and told the charge, which, Mr. Rushton
said, was a grave one. They said there must have been
some mistake. Mr. Hodson, sen., said that he recollected
there were two men lodging at the same house with these
two seamen, whose names were Collins and Williams, and
it was probable that the tickets had been stolen from
them. Mr. Rushton, in order to give Messrs. Hodson
time to prove this, or to explain away the charge in some
other way if possible, postponed the further hearing of the
case until this day.

METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER,
BY MR. C. H. CHADBURN, 71, LORD-STREET,

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