New-York daily tribune., 1854-05-01
From TIE BAHAMAS AND THE BRITISH
WEST INDIA ISLANDS.

Nassau " p advice to tho 10Th inst have been re-
ceived The total loss OF property on the Bahamas dur
ing Tie las, three weeks Is estimated at from 100000 70
81 .ooO,oOo. We take tho following items from TIE
/ Charleston Courier OF Friday last:
The Government schooner Pesidest Capt. Ramsay, ar
rived az Nassau the 18th ust from lnagua, mt which
pon She reports that the weather cosaued fine and dry,
and that thCy aking and selling saif None Of tho
other salt islands had yet done anything IN tho rakng
ihe following is an account Of the quantity Of salt
shipped from Long Island during the aSt three months
J Ameicen schooner julia and Nsny ''..2sS arioct'
/ for New. Brunswick \. C. .
J'n ;o1 Elts,S CIV G.
Jan 27-Brih houer Adon '''.''4" a. oe'
Jan 27-flsI Al l''.
Jan sc-Btish schooner at i1c.
MaI.h leBtl.L brig F.anes at &c.
simch la--Btih schooner Thoroa Jane.........lc Ae
ios Nsisau, n r. -,
About ieOOO bushels are hand Of last years .alt.
From 1900 to s,OoO bushels rakod in March.
The lighthouses to be erected on the Bahamas, viii
make the sixth and seventh those Islands. In the Daa-
mas are included the Turks and Caco Islands natural
members OF the Archipelago The Islands selected for tho
purpose unnhabited and among the smallest and most
Cav Lobos lies on the southern edge of the bahama
Bunk and the Great nnc is the porthcnmost island on
the Bank The latter leland /, about and a half milo
long and about half or thraequaren Of mile in breadth,
and although it supplies sustonanoe for either man 0r
beast there fresh water wells upon IT,
ihe pubNc revenue Df The Bafalna
ter ending the slst of Decombor is53 Eoss4 4t3,
being en excess of e. 1913 10 tho expenditures.
Sir Alexander Banner.nan, the newiy-appon'ed Goves-
OF the Bahama Islands daily expected at Nassau
In consequence Of the loud complaints expressed In
reference the unhoaihness of the and Of 81 Thomas
coang station for the Roy Mail steamers the scarcxy
of labor and other difficulties attending the coaing Of
the packets the Briti-h Government have resolved 70
ransicr the ooalng depot TO Antigua corps OF arhcss
have been dispatched it is said, to Hngsh Iarbor, 70
place The wharNe. there in thorough repair.
The GycH0sG Chronicle of the lth ut, states upon re-
liabe Information that the Britlsh Government has de-
teEiDod upon sending commissioners TO the Wet Indies
" make inquiries, with the view Of having an Encum
49, bcred Estates Act similar that which has been found
10 work well in Ireland to be applicable 70 the Colo
nes generally. complete revolution in the Proprietary
- siea may be anticipated The same journal remarks,
the result of such measure to many OF these colonies
all must bo in different degrees affected by H..
Tho newly appointed Governor Of British Guiana, r.
Wod,house E-q., arrived at Georgetown On the 22d
u.:imo.
The Cont OF Policy in session. and the Educ aonal
hin under the consiio ration Of the mcnber One Of
the caues of the bill provides that parents shall be
pced to send their children school from the Of hvo
that os twelve years for five day. in each week under
penalty. unless sufficient reason for absence was
shown
L. trinidad Moi Boucicr had been sworn in Acting
Goyc4or. l. rd Harris instructed by the Duke o;
Newcastle 70 install the Coonasccreiary in that re.Ponsi
bio po- ou but through nadyceaco comm ssion wa,
so WIKI the instructions. and they could not be acted
upon. .
Tie Inhabitants Of Trli3ad have resolved 10 erect on
that island marble s1tue Of their hi een"d D1y.
eInCr. Lori Harris, il It be obtaneh fof @i,oT -,
siorin-. II not then ~ ens.n P''"I .nI nare bast
slip = to ie painted by irs,-rao aF' ana ai"' '+''
- 20 lc obtained. , -. ,:..,.,r,rc,
Advice. from Tortoa alDounce the entire dsapP IanSe
of etolcra Gom tha. Island. The number oi uea'ns
,,,..i 10 900 The Ir,sa.ure Of Aniign ha6 voted
the sum Of 600 sterling aDd that Of ST. hh'' |''' u"
"Ia I F,IcepSy Iea ., Wonsy Shorthand the Gov
eror Of Tobago had arrived ana a''o"ic' "c "uc'
l.s lilce.