The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-22 00:00:00

(FROM THE PAPERS.)

The weather in Trinidad has of late been highly favourable
to the planters, and from the improved and advanced state
of the cane-fields an increase of sugar in the next crop was
looked forward to. 1,502 emigrants had landed in Port of
Spain from tha Ist January to the 3lst July.
The Tobago Times of the Ist October contains an adver-
tisement, to the effect that any quantity of the celebrated
manure, Guano, can be had in that island from the estates
Telescope and Grafton.
It is stated in the St. Christopher Gazette of the 23d of
September, that the small pox has made its appearance in
Trinidad as also in British Guiana, and that in consequence
the quarantine law had just been put in force in that island.
The prospects in Demarara, according to the statements
put forth ih the Tobago Times—are still dark and gloomy.
It says :—" The crop of this year, on the whole, will fall
short even of last year's. As, however, the weather is very
favOurable, immediate relief to the money-market is exr
petted from the sugar to be made before Christmas. Fresh
capital is wanted for the cultivation of the estates, as much
as emigrants are. The process, long ago foreseen, will be,
that property, at its greatly depreciated value, will not be
worth the purchase. The ruin of all who became liab!e for
high prices, and have no other resource to fall back on,
seems to be inevitable. Those who succeed them, coming in
upon easier terms, can afford to be content with a diminished
rate of gain. The colony may survive the shock, after the
destruction of the best part of a whole generation of spe-
culators.

(From the Jamaica Morning Journal, October 19.)

Several showers of rain have fallen during the last few
days, and at present there is every indication of the October
seasons having set in. On Monday eveninc, the weather was
squally, and very many persons seem to think that we shall
have our share of the blowing weather which has been expe-
rienced at Antigua, Saint Christopher's, and other places to
windward, and also lately at Cuba. It is some time since
we have experienced any squally weather in this island, and
have reason to dread those visitations which occasionally
occur, and formerly used to be rather of frequent occurrence.

We have been favoured with a view of the statements of
exports from this island during the present year, and have
been delighted at perceiving the increase which has taken
place over those of 1841. The statement is incomplete, not
including the exports from Port Maria, Lucea, and Savanna
la Mar. Notwithstanding these omissions, it
,appears that
13,321 hogsheads of sugar, 3,850 puncheons rum, and 1,233
tierces coffee, have been shipped in 1842, over and above the
shipments of the previous year. Our British as well as
Jamaica readers will be gratified at the increased production
of our staples which this statement shows, and will join us
in the anxious hope that they will continue to increase in the
like ratio every year, until our island has reached that pitch
beyond which increased production becomes an evil.
Hhds. Sugar. Phs. Rum. Tres. Coffee.
•-

22,691
36,012

8,298
12,148

Excess
The Praslin estate was this day bought at the bar of the
Royal Court, by Mecher G. Todd, Esq., for Messrs. Cavan
Brothers, of London, for £1,430 sterling; and the unculti-
vated estate, Union de Micoud, by Mr. Master, for £900.
St. Lucia Palladium, Sept. 8.
ST. VINCENT.—The following is the crop of the island for
the present year shipped :—Sugar, 8,504 hogsheads, 381
tierces, 282 barrels; Rum, 951 puncheons, 19 hogsheads;
Molasses, 3,312 puncheons, 78 hogsheads ; Cotton, 280 bales ;
Arrow Root, 23 puncheons, 692 barrels, 1,287 boxes. The
crop of Barbadoes fur the same period is,—Sugar, 20,397
hogsheads, 1,646 tierces, 715 barrels ; Molasses, 4,411
puncheons, 330 hogsheads, 55 barrels ; Arrow Root, 352
packages ; Ginger, 163 ditto ; Cotton, 226 bales ; Aloes,
2,956 gourds,

THE NIGER EXPEDITION,

Extract from a letter dated Cape Coast Castle Sept. 26,
1842 :

" The Wilberforce, you will recollect, was here in March
last, at which time Captain W. Allen was preparing to re-
ascend the Niger, to look after the Model Farm' people,
and if possible to do something to retrieve the fame of the
expedition. He proceeded hence to Fernando Po, to tit out
the Soudan, to accompany him. While he was still lying
there the Kite steamer arrived with orders from Government
that only one vessel was to go up the river, and she was only
to have on board four or five white men at most. Her only
object in going up was to be the bringing back the people
left at the farm. On receiving these orders Captain Allen
and most of his officers and crew went on board the Kite for
a passage to England. The other commissioner (Cook) went
home by the Golden Spring. The Wilberforce. under charge
of her present commander (Lieutenant Webb,) proceeded up
the river, and found the ' Model Farm' a very perfect model
of disorganization. The blacks who had been left at it,
having plenty of cowries (a species of Indian shell used as
money) and goods, voted themselves to be independent
country gentlemen, and managed to get hold of a lot of na-
tives, whom they very coolly made slaves of, and whom they
compelled to work on the farm, each gentleman being pro-
vided with a cat, or slave driver's whip, the better to enforce
obedience. The model farmer himself (Carr, brother of the
Chief Justice of Sierra Leone) has never been heard of, and
had, as it afterwards appeared, been killed somewhere near
the mouth of the river. The Wilberforce brought away farm
implements, people and all, and those of the latter belonging
to this place are now being discharged here. The steamer
got on a rock in the river, where she remained five days, and
came down with a hole in her bottom, which now compels
her to go home. So much for the last speech and dying words
of the far-famed Niger expedition. A more mismanaged
piece of business from beginning to end is not, I will venture
to say, to be found recorded in any history."

There is a dramatic author in Paris of such prolific powers,
that every morning whilst he is shaving, he brings out a new
piece.

In less than four years, the Bishop of Montreal has or-
dained twenty-one clergymen, and admitted six already or-
dained, for the diocese of Quebec. Within the same period,
twenty-seven new stations have been opened : while, through
the unfailing bounty of the munificent and venerable societies
in England, the number of churches has fully kept pace with
the advancing list of the clergy.
HANOVER, Nov, 11.—We hear that his Royal Highness
the Crown Prince will set out to-morrow to pay a visit to his
bride. He will stop a fortnight at Altenburg, and before his
return pay a visit to Berlin. His royal highness enjoys ex-
cellent health. On the other hand, neither the journey to
Rothenkirchen nor his return to Hanover, appeared to have
any favourable effect on the King's health. It is said, that
within these few days some circumstances have happened
which have cast a gloom over the generally cheerful temper
of the temper of the king. One of these circumstances is the
death of Dr. Kohlrsush's widow, who was for many years the
attached friend and companion of the late Queen. She was
buried yesterday, and by the King's orders all the household
and servants of the Queens attended the funeral. The death
of this lady is said to have very greatly affected the King.—
Exchange on London, Nov. 4. at three months' date, 27 21-
32 pence.—Journal de St. Petersburgh.