The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-09-07 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

OOO.  Her majesty's ship Endymion, which, in 'consecience of some damage done to her keel by a coral rock in the Red Sea, had gone to Bombay for .repairs, had not as yet been able to get into dock. Several merchant ships have been lost by fire. Their names are—the Mauritius, the David Scott, and the American Republic ; and the Arab brig Regia, off Ceylon. The captain and a part of the crew of the whaler Risk, lost on the 2d of February last, have arrived at Ceylon. Much curiosity has been excited at the Criminal Sessions here by the trial for murder of the captain of a Scotch merchant ship, which left Greenock last November. There was on board a half-witted Irish sailor, named Carey, upon whom the most unheard-of outrages were perpetrated ; he died from ill-treatment. The jury found the captain guilty of the assaults, and he has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour in the House of Correction.  WEST INDIES  Her majesty's packet Tyrian, arrived at Falmouth, has brought papers from the different West India Islands to a late date ; those from Jamaica are to the 29th of July, those from Barbadoes to the 21st of July, and those from Trinidad to the 16th of July. The Jamaica papers are barren of interesting news as regards that locality, but they contain accounts from Carthagena to the 23d of July, by the Hornet, which had arrived there. Cvrmona, the federal chief of Santa Martha, had marched from Carthagena, with a levied force of some 700 men, calling upon the villages in his way to disown the constitutional government, and declare in favour of federalism. In Carthagena there was every disposition to support the government to the last, but it was feared that they would not be able from the want of provisions to hold out till assistance arrived at Bogota. In the mean time the government of Carthagena had issued a decree allowing all provisions to enter duty free. The Hornet brought remittances to the amount of 48,000 dollars.  The crops at Jamaica had as yet a favourable appearance, but the soil was not sufficiently irrigated to form a positive opinion ; there was in some districts a great want of rain. In Demerara and ,Barbadoes business matters were proceeding much as they usually did, and in the latter island there had been seasonable showers. The planters in the various islands were endeavouring, according to all accounts, to increase their crops of produce, and the peasantry evinced a disposition to co-operate with their employers. In some of the districts the African emigrants were still discontented, and would not work on the same terms as the native free labourer.  From the Trinidad papers it appears that a committee has been formed for the purpose of inquiring into the agricultural resources and general capabilities of the island. The body of the evidence produced would tend to establish a high degree of fertility in the soil, the greater portion of which is represented as peculiarly adapted to the cultivation of sugar, while the remainder would be found fitted to produce cotton, cocoa, cocoa, &c., &c., in abundance. It offers also, by the nature of the country, and the quality of timber in which it abounds, great facilities for the formation of railways, with which advantages, and a proper supply and judicious system of labour, the island might be raised to the highest importance and prosperity.