... WEST INDIES. At the desire of Lord Stanley, the Combined Court of Demerara have agreed to raise a sum of £75,000, for the purpose of procuring the importation of 5,000 Coolies against March of next year. This vote is quite separate from anything in the ...

... WEST INDIES. The West India mail lias arrived, with advices from Jamaica to the 11th of August, and corresponding dates from the •ther colonies. In Jamaica refreshing rains had fallen, improving fie prospects of the ensuing crops. Fever was prevailing ...

... WEST INDIES. The greatest distress still prevails in Jamaica; and the abandonment of properties is going on daily. Parties who can manage to accumulate the means are leaving the island for Chagres, Navy Bay, and Panama. The small pox is still raging at ...

... WEST INDIES. The mail from the West Indies brings very good commercial intelligence, and the largest export of sugar ever made from British Guiana for single season was completed the close of the year. Production had also increased in some of the other ...

... WEST INDIES. Accounts from Barbadoes state that the yellow fever still lingers there ; but the fever bad disappeared from the populous localities the town. Throughout the West Indies generally, the weather was very unseasonable and unhealthy from the ...

... WEST INDIES. In the West India papers attention is being drawn to the capabilities of British Guiana as cotton-growing country. Millions of the finest acres are waiting its growth,” and- a suggestion is made that company for the purpose of cultivating ...

... WEST INDIES. Accounts from Guadaloape, oftho ISth.Jaly, stale that the Government there had received information from the Minister of Marine tiiat two vessels, the Stella and Clara, were about to leave Marseilles for the coast Africa, and to convey to ...

... WEST INDIES. the arrival of the West India mail we learn, that from Jamaica there is little news of interest. The island was healthy ; affairs were dull. A considerable decline had taken place in breadstuffs. The supplies of sugar were insufficient for ...

... WEST INDIES. The Trinidad Standard eetimatea the probable amount of sugar likely reach the home market, as the crop from that island for 1846, at 32,000 hhda,—a decrease on the past year of 1,266, and 2,000 hhds. short of what might have been expected ...

... WEST INDIES. In Jamaica, Mr. Jackson, formerly leader of the country (retrenchment) party, has given notice of certain resolutions which he intended to propose to the Legislature, deciding that they will do business with the Council, but still persisting ...

... WEST INDIES. The sugar crop has been shipped, and the result that about aveiage, the success in lome of the colonies being counterbalanced by a deficit in others. The health of tho Kritish colorists continues good. In Jamaica, Karbadoes, Antigua, St. ...

... WEST INDIES. The Tasmania, from South America and the West Indies, anchored in Plymouth Sound on Saturday. There news of importance from the West India Islands, with the exception that shocks of earthquake continued to be felt at St Thomas up to the departure ...