... WEST INDIES, The latest accounts from Cuba inform us that 800 slaves were imprisoned at Matanzas ; that 100 had been shot, and that a still more serious conspiracy had broken out. Good Friday was arranged for a rising, and all the whites were to have ...

... WEST INDIES, Advices from Jamaica, to the 10th ultimo, state that a most important measure of reform was being agitated in the island. The city of Kingston had taken the initiative in advocating the propriety of applying to her Majesty’s Government, praying ...

... WEST INDIES. The reports of the sujjar and coffee crops are encouraffinff. In every island, with the exception of Cuba, the crops are expected to most abundant. The islands are generally healthy. Sir Charles Grey was sworn in as Governor on th« 21st December ...

... WEST INDIES. Hayri.—Revolution has been followed by general anarchy : the successor of Boyer has been superseded by Guerrier, an old general of Christophe. A general named Acaau has felt indignant at this having taken place without his being cousulted ...

... WEST INDIES. Serious disturbanees have occurred at Dominica, caused by the black population becoming alarmed at the taking of the census on the 3d of June, which they conceived to be preliminary to the re-establishment of slavery. Having collected in ...

... WEST INDIES. From Jamaica the accounts are to the 7th June, from which we learn that the island had been favored with a season of remarkable prosperity. The Indian Coolies were affording the utmost satisfaction to their employers by their peaceable and ...

... WEST INDIES, Letters from Havannah state that there have been negro insurrections on six estates at Cardenas, Cuba. Many lives were lost, but the Governiment suppresses all the particulars. A private letter says that the. insurrection ‘is a concerted ...

... WEST INDIES. The Spanish part of Hayti is in open insurrection, the population having taken up arms to effect a forcible scparation. Three vessels recently landed 700 fugitives at Jacmel from the city of St. Domingo; and a greater number will evacuate ...

... WEST INDIES, In Dominica, there has been a serious insurrection among the negroes on the leeward side of the island. It broke out in violeut resistance offered to the enumerators employed to take the census. The negroes had somehow got it into their heads ...

... WEST INDIES, According to the last accounts, great excitement existed at Jamaica in consequence of the prevailing distress. It was rumoured that, on the opening of the House, the supplies would be voted only for short period, unless relief had been first ...

... WEST INDIES. Advices from Jamaica, the 28lh ultimo, state that complaint, are made of continued drought in that and the larger blamls, although in the smaller there had been refreshing .bowers. Hence an apprehended deficiency in the amount of the sugar ...

... WEST INDIES. The whole of the West India Islands, according to the last advices, were generally healthy, bnt were suffering severely from a long-continued drought. At Berbice, water was scarce that it fetched a high price even for drinking; The cattle ...