The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-09-12 00:00:00

FOREIGN li• COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE a large fortune, which was said in ar-
i„,.,:at part to be the
produce of successful gambling,
officers at the time excessivel- ' .4 which vice the Spanish
list war broke out in 183' Indulged. When the Car-
Queen Regent, and ,
_ he offered his services to the
11 lino forces in *I .vl% appointed to command the Chris-
The royal mail steam-ship Medway, Capt. M‘Douga ,
, .....0 province of Biscay. His military Ca-
arrived at Falmouth on Sunday last, bringing the NN est reernanay
.: -At described in exhibiting conspicuous valour in
Indian and Mexican mails, upwards of twenty passengers. actu
i conflict, but as a General much procrastination,
and about 370,000 dollars, 156 serons of cochineal, and 13
dad a desire rather to wear out the enemy, than to meet
serons of indigo, on freight. On the 4th ult., w'...tst 4 and conquer him. After the military revolution of 1835
crossing the Campeachy Banks, in lat. 22 15 N...nd tong.
at Madrid, when the Queen Regent was forced to accept
88 W., the Medway's main topmast w:4 struck with the constitution of 1812, Cordova threw up his office as
lightning and thrown on deck st'.(cred in a handred Commander-in-Chief, and recommended Espartero as his
pieces. The head of the main ;past was also sprung. The successor. This recommendation was carried into effect,
meteor was seen to fall in the water on the starboard though the temporary command devolved for a time on
quarter, close to the Vesv.el. Three vlistinct peals of General Ovaa. After months of censured inactivity, an
thunder were also }nerds action occurred near Bilboa, in which, by his distinguished

WEST INDIES

The accounts from Jamaica respecting the crops are valour, Ire redeemed his credit. leading in person the last
very favourable. Lord Elgin was still in the enjoyment decisive charge of horse. After this followed again in-
of good health. The crops in the Windward Islands are activity, during which Don Carlos was allowed to aprroaeh
said to be good. At Martinique and Guadaloupe the crops the very gates of Madrid. After this there was a loud
were about one-fifth less than those of last year. clamour among his officers for a dissolution of the Minis-
At Barbadoes everything was favourable to the opera- try, and several intrigues followed, the result of which was
Cons of the planter, but no improvement had taken place that his only rivals, Narvaez and Cordova, thought it pil-
in commercial affairs. A correspondent of the Barbados: dent to go into exile, and Alaix, and his favourite lieuten-
Standard says, " Continued rains for the last four weeks ant, was made Prime Lieutenant of Spain. The war was
have tended materially to improve the appearance of the terminated, as our readers will recollect, by the treachery
young crop of cains, now looking very promising. The of Maroto. He then, in 1839, received the title of the
old crop is nearly finished, and will be from 24,000 to Duke of Victory. He assumed the Premiership in 1840,
25,000 hhds." and demanded to be associated with Queen Christiana in

The weather had also been extremely propitious at
Dominica. The quantity of sugar already shipped from
that island amounted to 17,647 bhds., 850 tierces, and
560 barrels. Altogether the crop, it was expected, would
amount to 19,000 hhds., being an increase upon the pre-
vious year of between 4,000 and 5,000 hhds.

the Regency. Queen Christino abdicated her office and
left Spain, and Espartero was appointed Regent in her
stead.

The Demerara papers contain a statement of the affairs
of the British Guiana Bank, from which it appears that
the losses of the company, arising from the commercial
embarrassments which commenced with the failure of the
Troughtons, would amount to 247,078 dollars, absorbing
all the remaining surplus fund, and ten per cent. upon the
paid up capital of the bank. The statement of losses in-
cludes a sum of 17,000 dollars, which would be required
to cover the frauds of the late assistant accountant. The
net profits for the half year were calculated at 46,448 dol-
lars, out of which a dividend was declared of two per cent.
on the capital stock.
The prospect of the crop was favourable. The dry
weather had set in unusually early, but no injury was an-
ticipated therefrom, vegetation in general in this colony
suffering from too much rain.
A great number of proprietors had come to the deter-
mination to discontinue payment for medical attendance
and medicine for the negroes.

Santa Anna was at Mexico ; he appears to be getting
more unpopular. The treaty between the Mexicans and
Yucatanos had been completed; one of its leading clauses
is, that Yucatan is still to be under the Mezican flag, yet
it is to be an independent state. A treaty between Mexico
and Texas was also on foot, and with relation thereto her
Majesty's ship Sylla, Commander Sharp, had sailed for
Galveston. The Montezuma, and other steamers belong-
ing to the Mexican government, were at Vera Cruz, so
that the report of the Montezuma having been captured
by the Texians is erroneous.