The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-23 00:00:00

at St. Thy

3 of th

the Mexican service. The Royal
I brought the Mexican mails to

hip Chaiyb

.. ..
sailed from Port Royal for England on the
e crew of tt

7th of November, with opithre steamer
which had been wrecked), and a considerable freight of
pecie. Her Majesty's ships Imaum and Magnificent were
Port Royal. Her Majesty's ship Illustrious, Admiral Sir

n-om nantax, in tow of the Carron steamer, was
obliged to slip the warps in consequence of strong headwinds
in the Narrows off Catherine's Point. The Tweed passing
at the same time, her services were put into requisition, and
she took the ship in tow and brought her to Bermuda in
aafaft,

At Jamaica the principal topic of interest appeared to be
he speech of his Excellency the Governor on the opening of
,he House of Assembly. The following extract from a colo-
lid paper appears to convey the one general sentiment on

viceregat speech :—" The Earl, of Elgin opened the bu-
ss of the session in a most admirable speech, in the course
hich he touched on many very important subjects; one
le most prominent of these was immigration. His re-

Clanlike course of his predecessor, Sir Charles Met-
and doubtless his career in Jamaica will be equally
it." It had been argued by some of the papers that,

, the Governor

old submit to a retrenchment of I
but this idea was not generally entertained.
V •

Need's sailing

importan

'eature of

intelligence has been

1-mas LIIL
lordship .has bad an attack of fever, which, iL
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though not of a
dangerous or alarming nature, did not fail considerably to
debilitate and weaken him so as for some days to prevent
his attending to business. His lordship bad recovered from
the effect of the attack, and was, we are happy to state, con-
valescent and in good spirits.

The Hon. Edward Penton (the late Speaker of the As-
sembly, and the present Vice-chancellor) had been sworn in

ember of the council of tl
legislature bad been four

e island

session, but %via

pointment and salary. The stamp
:d and sent to the council, would,

was supposed, if ordinary economy were observed, very

station had been filled up, of absen-
who had resigned. The following are
ich had received the Governor's assent since
inencement of the session :—Gunpowder and Ton-
' I Cattle Duty—Additional Subsistence to Offi-
Agents Bill--Rules and Articles of War
oon Provisions. It

s in the repre

bad been resolved to appoint a et

rnittee of the haus

desire that a suit

d be er

e memory of the

itions is, that t

E Metcalfe;" one of the
emorial should be a new lunatic

KINGSTON MARKET

,st quotations for Sugar, 22s

,0 245. 6d. per 1001bs

iENERAL AT

AVAN A

—We are infor-

individual whatever frOm the

:oast ol

üba. Due notice o

this order w

The folio

!ed, at St. Jago, on the 12th inst.
is an extract from a letter dated Vera Cruz,

I Sept. 14th, 1812

Is arrive(

glish steamer built for this Government. of iron,
tons burden, and mounts two 681 b
, and is manned and officered by

on swivel

latter t

11,108 tons burden
al-rx a.taal lll{i 'ail

mer, of

built of wo

and consec

uently must-be here

believe, ten Paishau guns of
me calibre as the above, and is manned and officered in
The troops I mentioned in my last as hay-
Jalapa for this place have been detained, for what

She mounts,

a similar am

storm at Galves-
were driven on

me or less injured. The following par-
y a correspondent of one of the papers be-

" We have just had a very violent gale, which has done
much damage. It commenced on Sunday the 18th, and about
two or three o'clock on Monday morning it blew a perfect
hurricane. It injured the steam-ship Merchant sufficiently
to delay her seven days to repair, and blew high and dry
several vessels, amoni, them the brig Atlantic, laden with
cotton, for New Orleans. She will probably be aban-