The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1847-10-12 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

INTELLIGENC E  WEST INDIES.  The royal mail steam-packet Teviot, Captain E. May, arrived at Southampton on Thursday, bringing the usual mails and thirty-nine passengers. The Teviot -brings 407,650 dollars on merchants' accounts, but none for dividends; 7191 oz. of plata bruta; Silb of platina; 80 bales of tobacco ; 95 cases of cigars; 40 serons of cochineal; and 49 packages of sundries. She has encountered very severe weather since the 27th ult. We have received our usual files of papers by the Teviot, and learn from them that the Chamber of. Commerce, Jamaica, had been organizing a combined movement in aid of the West India colonies, dated September 8, despatched per Teviot to Barbadoes, Trinidad, Antigua, St. Vincent, and Demerara, and by other means to other places, a meeting of two delegates from each West India Isle and; British• Guinea had been convened to take place at St. Thomas; then and there to consider the evils to which the British planter was exposed by the effects of free trade on colonial production. The accounts from Jamaica and Trinidad, as to the state of the weather, were very encouraging. At both places heavy and much needed rain had fallen. At the latter place a slight earthquake was experienced which was also felt at Grenada. The drought continued at Barbadoes and Grenada. The ordinance which passed fixing ls. per gallon on all ruin made for local consumption was most unpopular, and public meetings were being held to obtain a removal of the restriction.  In the Jamaica markets the business of the past fortnight has not been marked with any new feature; indeed, there has.not been any change in the state of our market since the period of our last issue. Some trifling improvement has occurred in tie price of a few articles, but it is to be attributed rather to their scarcity than to a revival of a speculative demand. Purchases continue to be made merely for immediate consumption, while the pressure on the money market has not been relieved in the slightest degree.  Louis Philippe completed his seventy-fourth year on Tuesday. The Bank of Belgium has just decided that it will not discount bills at more than thirty days' date. A Te !Deum was performed at Vienna, on the 12th ult., in thanksgiving to God for an abundant harvest, and yet, on the 16th, only four days afterwards, there was a rise in the price of bread in that city. Prince Alexander of the Netherlands, formerly an aspirant to the hand of Queen Victoria, has been attacked by an alarming pthisis, brought on at the recent races, where he overheated himself. Sir W. Colebrook is appointed Lieut.-Governor of British Guiana. Sir Edmund Head is to succeed Sir W. Colebrook in New Brunswick. Governor Light retires for the present, meriting alike repose and reward. •  The number of cases of cholera since its appearance in the southern governments of Russia towards the middle of July last, amounted, according to official reports, to 09, of which 401 terminated fatally. A distraint has been pinto the palace of the Prince and Princess of Capua. Tha illustrious couple and their children were left with bare'4qls. The seizure was for debt. The prince is brother to the King of Naples : the princess was the celebrated Mis§ Penelope Smith. Acconnts from the West Indies state that the mortality among, the Coolies in Demerara had but slightly abated, and it appears very questionable if the constitution of the Asiatics is much better suited for sugar cultivation, under the influence of the malaria there prevalent, than the European. The wife of the well-known ex-police agent, Vidocq, has just committed suicide at St. Mande, where her husband'had some years ago attempted to establish a paper manufactory. She had been for some time suffering from a tumour, which the faculty lately declared to be incurable. A letter from Vienna states that a crime, having great analogy to the murder of the Duchess de Praslin, has been committed in the environs of Agram. In an excess of rage, caused by the jealousy of his wife, an Hungarian baron murdered, under circumstances of great atrocity, his wife and his young son, and then committed suicide.