New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-01-28

Later from jamaica.

We have received fiI0of the Kingston Colo
NAL Standard to the 18th inst From an article in
that paper of the 10th, upon tho general condition
Of the island, we extract the following:
Of domestic intelligence we nave very little in
deed to report The weather has been very dry
for the last two months, and strong sea breezes
have exercised an injurious influence on seaside
estates, which are beginning 10 want rain very
sadly. As regards the crop Of the present year,
however, reports are generally favorable, espe
cially along the southside. There is every reason
to expect that the exports of 1850 will largely ex
coed those of last year. and business is, in conse-
quenee, rallying little.
We regret to state that there is greal deal Of
sickness, though not of a fatal character Coughs
and colds, attended with fever, frequently Of a
typhoid type, have been prevalent for some time
past, but we have not to record anything like fatal
fever in an epidemic form.
The striking contrast indeed which the sanitary
condition of this port has afforded as compared
with ST. Thomas, has again led to strong remarks
as to the willful determination DIFF the Directors of
the Royal Mail Company to retain st. Thomas as
their colonial station in preference to Jamaica.
The Standard of the I'd inst. has the following:
Things are very much as they were twelve
months ago-not any better, not much worse.
Thereaders Of the daily organs public information
will have learned that there has been commercial
crisis They who study colonial statistics will not
require to be informed that there has been very
short crop. Both facts are simply typical of the
character which the events Of 1859 will describe
in the history Of our colony. That character is
smallness.
Our crops have been small, to an extent of
which we ought, looking to the exertions made in
other colonies to be ashamed, and that which has
been magnified into the dignity Of commercial
crisis, has been nothing more than the reaction of
agricultural depression certain trade operations
which exist only through the success of sugar
cultivation.
It is said, and we believe it, that the year 1859
has not been wholly commercial blank, in SO far
| La.r1
ed. They, we are told, have done WE'LL Those
who have suffered have been the individuals
through whose enterprise imported commodities
are distributed for general consumption. 1t is
they whose interests are immediately bound up
with the prosperity of agriculture and it is they,
therefore, on whom the depression of 1859 has
principally fallen.
The Standard of the 30th ut. has an article upon
the sugar market, from which we extract the fol-
lowing:
The serious depression which has characterized
the sugar market for some months past, was not
generally anticipated at the commencement of the
year. and has not been strictly justified by the as
certained relation of demand and supply. The
Gazette averages during the latter weeks Of No
vember, had fallen to a fraction over 23s. hum
been reached since 1863 1t is satisfactory learn
| that reaction had commenced at the date of our
last advises, and that there was every prospect of
q considerable Improvement in prices.
| The principal cause OF the depression which has
prevailed since June last was the publication of
| the Board of Trade returns to the 30th of that
month, from which it appeared that the imports of
sugar had been largely in excess Of the previous
| year, while the consumption had diminished. The
trade therefore, arrived, not unreasonably, at the
conclusion that the consumption OF the year would
not be equal to that Of 1858, and that, therefore,
stocks would accumulate, and prices still further
recede. The effect was, naturally enough, to pre-
| vent the trade from purchasing beyond Immediate
| wants; and thus, demand being limited sales have
| in many instances been forced and prices have
| gone down.
| There many reasons, however, for antici
| patng a considerable improvement in the sugar
market between this and the spring of next year
| In the first place, stocks have greatly diminished
In the next place, there is reason to believe TINT
arrivals will be late in 1860 hs they were early
| in 1859. On the other hand consumption is un
usually large, and we learn that low qualities o.
sugar were being freely taken for the breweries
10 these causes are to be added the fact that tn,
Louisiana crop is ascertained to be very shor
| one.