The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-08-16 00:00:00

WEST INDIES.

The Teviot Steamer, Lieut. Croker, arrived at Falmouth
on Friday evening. She left Vera Cruz on July. 1, and ar-
rived at Havana on the 14th. On the day following a seri-
ous casualty, by fire, occurred, which at one time threatened
the entire destruction of the Tiviot. A complete statement
of the event, as narrated by a gentleman who happened to be
on board, will be found elsewhere. After some temporary
repairs had been effected she left on the 19th; Nassau on the
21st, Bermuda on the 26th, Fayal, August 5. She was ob-
liged to put out her fires and go under canvas for two days
for want of fuel. The Treut was left at Havana, and would
leave for England in about five days for Falmouth with the
mails. The Forth was expected on July 20 from the Gulf of
Mexico.
Her Majesty's ship Curacao, 21, Capt. Jenkin Jones, left
San Blas on June 3 for Valparaiso, Rio de Janeiro, and
England, having on board 18,000,000 dollars on merchants'
accounts. She had come up from the South Sea Islands
to undertake this mission. The Racer remained at Vera
Cruz. The Racehorse, Capt. Peel. sailed for Halifax, from
Havana, about the 27th of June. ' The Pilot was expected at
Havana on August Ist. The Texan blockade of the Mexican
coast was reported to be given up from its inefficiency. The
American prisoners captured by the Mexicans on this expe-
dition had been marched down to Vera Cruz for shipment,
when they would be conveyed to New Orleans.
The state of Guetamala had settled the amount of the de-
mands enforced by Admiral Adams. The central American
states continued in a political convulsion, which affected
trade, as a matter of course, and had reduced it to its lowest
Possible ebb. We learn that the cochineal crop this season
is almost a total failure.
Mercantile accounts from Havana are also gloomy. Ex-'
cropcll,ana had fallen far beyond original on London 10i to 1111. Freights £1 15s. to £2. The
sugar
anticipation, and
business was at a stand owing to the late accounts of the
sugar market from Europe. All sorts of speculations were
affectedtrinbdareabry. Sales of sugar, nominally—whites, 61d.
to
d9dol. ; olars. Manchester
/t.o middling yellows, ad. to 4Acl. ; best yel-
lows, 41d. to 5d ; browns, 21d. to na. Coffee—best, 6to
8
pressed.
of the roods and all foreign articles de-
Freight''' 'lot, 100,000 dollars and 84 serons of
cochineal.

The receipts upon the Lorittlon and Birmingham Railway
amounted last week to the ex
a sum hitherto unequalled upon railway in the world of
extraordinary sum of £20,672.—
the same length during the sptionirnaeoasnrpayaine
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—On Wednes.ideaz
ing from KnyperslYy
bevening, as Mrs.
it cam,
Miss
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Hall in a gig,
Mr. Brown, of
nsscontact
Hutton and Miss Bradford, accompan
Liverpool, were return
the horse took fright at the top of Park Lane, and ran furi-
ously to the corner of Park-street, where '
with a stone.—The gig was shattered to pieces
ford's arm broken, and Mrs. liiitton injured, but we hope
not seriously. —Macclesfield Courier.
On Monday, an unfortunate accident occurred at the baths
of Enghien to two workmen who were employed at a newly-
discovered sulphurous spring. They were' found dying on
the spot where they were at work. One of them, whose
skull was shattered, was found at the bottom of the spring,
which was nine feet deep ; the other was found above, and
scarcely wet, It was at first supposed that the fumes of the
sulphur must have overcome them, but the position of the
bodies renders this almost impossible.