... WEST INDIES. The news by the steara-sbip Magdalena has little interest as regards political affairs. In all the colonies the news of the change of Ministry, and the appointment of Lord Stanley to the Colonial Office, had given the greatest satisfaction ...

... WEST INDIES. The yellow fever is still ravaging Barbadoes ; and many of the coloured population and creoles have fallen victims to it. Deputy-Assistant-Commissary Neal died on the 4th ultimo; and, within four days, his wife, four children, and servant ...

... WEST INDIES. despatch from the Governor of Jamaica, through Consul G.-neml Bunch, to Consul Archibald at New York, and transmitted the latter to Major-General Hastings Doyle, Administrator the Government Nova Scotia, reports ret-ellion of the negroes ...

... WEST INDIES. The Jamaica Assembly was prorogued on the ultimo, having persisted in refusing to vote the supplies. The Government of the island appears to have been completely pa Yellow fever has again attacked the troops at Ilarbadocs, and several fatal ...

... 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. Accounts from the West Indies state that at St. Lucia the cholera had nearly disappeared. Planters were about commencing the crop, but the wet weather which was prevailing was very unfavourable to the work. At British Guiana the weather was ...

... WEST INDIES. It is reported that Sir Charles Grey is about to recalled from Jamaica. Advices from Jamaica state that the crops, far as they had been got in, had turned oat considerably below the usual average. The north side parishes had been visited ...

... WEST INDIES. The West India mail states that three arrivals of immigrants during the fortnight had reached Jamaica: —The Gertrude, with 309 coolies from Calcutta; the Patterson, with Africans from Sierra Leone; and the Clarendon, from St Helena, with ...

... WEST INDIES. A serious riot took place at Kingston, Jamaica, on the 14th August, between the negro soldiers and the people and police. Trade was inactive. The weather in Antigua was favourable, but the cost of labour was high. St. Christopher had been ...

... WEST INDIES. The weather throughout the whole of the West India islands has been favourable for reaping the present crop, which will an average one. There was plenty of tonnage, and produce abundant. The aspect of the young canes was very promising. A ...

... WEST INDIES. The Demerara colony is at length relieved from the scourge of yellow fever and rainy weather. A public meeting has been held to petition Parliament on the subject of the distressed state of the colony, and to represent the necessity of an ...

... WEST INDIES. Advices at Ber ; .' la, from the West India Islands, state that a planter in i’> calculates the excess of the value of the sugar crop at that Island this year over that of last, owing to the ■ in the price, at not less than £750,000. There ...