The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-20 00:00:00

ALTERATION IN THE WEST INDIA MAILS.

anTdhtehefoslelovwerianlgbnroanticciei
oisffiecxebsib:_ited at the General Post-office
" Henceforward the mails for Mexico, Honduras, (Belize)
Chagress, and the Isthmus of Panama, Carthagena, Santa
Martha, Laguayra, and Puerto Cabello, will be made up on
the Ist day of every month as heretofore ; consequently no
mails will be made up on the 15th.
"The mails for the British and foreign possessions in the
West Indies, with the exception of Honduras, as above-
mentioned, will continue to be made up in London as hi-
therto on the Ist and 15th of every month; except, of course,
when those dates fall on a Sunday ; in this case the mails
will be made up on the following day.
" The packets will no longer touch at New Orleans, Sa-
vannah, Charleston, New York, Halifax, Nova Scotia; Cu-
racoa, Paramaribo, in Surinam ; Maracaibo, Bahia Honda,
San Juan de Nicaragua, Mayaquess, in Porto Rico ; Ponce,
in Porto Rico ; Turk's Island, Cape Nichola Mole, in
Hayti ; and Santa Cruz.

•(01:1 the return voyage the packets will continue to touch
at Bermuda and Fayal, but the schooner between Fayal and
Madeira, announced in the notice of December, 1841, is now
to be discontinued.

"The following is a list of the ports comprised in the
scheme of the Royal Mail Steam-Packet Company, as now
modified, with the rate of postage chargeable on a letter not
exceeding half an ounce annexed to each place.
" All letters marked * must be pre-paid, else they cannot
be forwarded :

Antigua
Barbados 1 0,
Belize (Honduras).... 1 0
Berbice .
*Cape Haytien (Hayti) 1 5,
*Carthagena
Chagres
Demerara 1 0
Dominica
Grenada
*Guadaloupe 1 51
*Havannah
Jamaica
21
3;0
*Laguyra
*Martinique
Montserrat

Nassau (New Provi-
dence)
Nevia
*Puerto Cabello
*Santa Martha 2 3
,*San Jaga de Cuba .... 2 3
*San Juan (Porto Rica) 1 5
1 St. Kitt's . 1 0
St. Lucia 1 0
I,*St. Thomas .
St. Vincent.. .
~*Tampico
1; Tobago
,; Tortola 1 0
,1 Trinidad
I,*Vera Cruz

REMARKABLE EXHUMATION OF A HUMAN

SKELETON.

It may be known to many that Lord Clifford, of Ugbrook,
has ordered a new canal to be cut from a point of the new
road between the village of Kingsteignton and the town of
Newton Abbot. In the course of excavation on the last
day of August, a workman at the depth of 61 faet below the
present surface came in contact with the leg bones of a
human skaleton, that with a little care was completely ex-
humed, and ultimately found nearly perfect. The skeleton
presented itself bending forward in a sitting posture, the
arm bones extended, and on lifting up the latter with the
ribs a metallic band or armlet shining in full refulgence was
thrown out, " hanging upon the arm bone or bones." The
band on being tested was found to be of gold with some
alloy, the workmanship was rude, and seemed to show it was
not formed by, and did not emanate from, a people highly
civilised. It had neither clasps nor mark of being soldered,
but possessed of elasticity to open, yet rigid enough to keep
close to the arm when the squared ends were brought toge
ther. Its breadth is three-eighths of an inch, oval with-
out and flat within, and both within and without it ap-
peared to have some design " chipped" or cut upon it; but
what it is intended to represent cannot, we think, be deci-
phered. To superficial observatioff the " jewelled arm"
might lead to the supposition that the remains were those of
a lady of rank ; professional examination, and the more accu-
rate investigation of its anatomical characters, proved it to be
a male skeleton of the middle size, but evidence was also
shown of great muscular power. He appeared to have fallen
in conflict, or soon after some skirmish; the ulna or elbow
bone of the left fore arm being broken obliquely, and the
lower jaw also on the same side showed fracture in two
places about an inch and a half apart, and the central piece
of bone between the fractured parts had been forced in and
was gone. What is remarkable—the articulating processes
of th jaw on that side were perfect, while those on the other-
wise sound or right side of the lower jaw were broken off and
gone, having been apparently fractured in their sockets by
some ponderous blow which had beeo inflicted on one side,
and had acted with great force in an opposite direction.
Until within the last half century the grounds wherein this
skeleton was found were unenclosed, and were called the
Common. Here the Teign once flowed openly, and the sea
occupied that space which alluvial deposit has long since
occupied. Below granitic sand and gravel is a clay bed, and
bene4th, the black mud containing marine shells ; and
in the latter accumulation the bones were found, not
rudely cast into a mere pit, but surrounded and roofed
over with alder wood in parallel pieces or rather fragments,
as from the great lapse of time the whole was reduced to a
soft consistence, and could be easily separated into the
smallest fragments, and above these a few rude oblong stones,
water-worn, were removed. The common grass of the field,
thool laid id wasbright
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olive green colour, invested the body,
the extreme care of that investiture, it had all
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pointed
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or two to the southward of the east, and there, with out-
stretched arms, the remains sat like a fire worshipper of the
East, welcoming or invoking the sun's orient beams, 'Whe-
ther ancient Briton, Phenician, or pagan Dane, let antiqua-
ries decide ; certain it is, that in the line of the landing-
place of the cruel Danes at Teignmouth, these remains were
interred as those of a chief, with consummate art and care.
The teeth were well set, and most of them remained, until
t tooth-ache in the possessor of such precious relies !
The whole of the teeth were much worn down, and prove
tpoulple red v outen by the spectator, one by one, to be kept as charms
their owner to have attained the age of 50 or GO years.—
West of England Conservative.

PROPAGATION OF POPERY.—The sums extracted by
i
foreign priests from the wretchedly impoverished inhabitants
of Ireland, for the Romish propaganda, are quite marvellous.
There really ought to be a re-enactment of some of the old
statutes against these cormorant frauds and extortions. We
find the following sum tottle for one month, and that the
dead month of the year, published in the papers:—" To
total received from Ist August to sth September, £670 17s.
10d," This, together with the repeal extortions and other
such works, is pretty well. The truth is, that Rome gathers
her taxes here now much more boldly than England.—
Londonderry Sentinel.