... WEST INDIES Advices have been received from Jamaica to the 27th December. The new House Assembly was opened on the 18th with speech from the Governor, its consideration and the preparation of reply in answer were referred tin special committee, and afterwards ...

... WEST INDIES. Southampton, January 2, ten o’clock, r.sr.—l have had just time to save the post to announce the unexpected arrival of the West India steamer Thames. She was not expected at Falmouth until to-moirow. She has brought above a-half-million dollars ...

... WEST INDIES. By the Spey packet papers have been received from Jamaica and other West India Islands. Sir Lionel Smith had determined to come to England. The labourers bad generally returned to their employments, and the accounts are for the most part ...

... WEST INDIES. State the Islands. —The arrival of the mail has not put in possession of very satisfactory advices upon the subject of the weather, which, with the labour question, are the most important features of nows. The drought in many parts of Jamaica ...

... WEST INDIES. Advices had been received from Jamaica the of November. The tenor this intelligence is of very unfavourable nature. No less than three attempts had been made to fire the town of Havana-la-Mav, and the negroes generally appeared determined ...

... WEST INDIES. We have been favoured with Antigua journals to the Ith ult. They contain intelligence of which ttiat Island may well be prond The great act of unre. stricted freedom to the slaves in this Island, and >ts dependencies, passed both Houses of ...

... WEST INDIES. The change of wind has brought in the packets from the West indies, from Mexico, and from the Brazils. The dates from the West Indies are—Jamaica the 14th of April, Barbiidoes the IGth, and Thomas’s the 24tb. At Jamaica it was reported that ...

... WEST INDIES. Falmouth, Sunday, Jan, 22, 1843,.Arrived this afternoon the royal mail steamer Trent, Boxer, commander, with West India, Jamaica, and Havannah mails. She left St Thomas*s on the 26th of December, Bermuda on the of January, and Fayal on the ...

... WEST INDIES. Her Majesty’s packet Hope, Lieutenant Creser, lias arrived at Falmouth from the West Indies. Letters from Jamaica, St Kitts, Antigua, and other islands, represent tlte deplorable effects of the drought which had long wasted the country. Accounts ...

... WEST INDIES, arrivals, have Jamaica and other West India papers. It appears that the season throughout the West Indies has been unusually hot, causing great sickness and mortality. Demcrara was particularly unhealthy. The Jamaica House Assembly was opened ...

... WEST INDIES. The Tay steamer is arrived with the Mexican and West India mails; the dates are from the 24th August, Barbadoes the 3d September, and Jamaica the Bth September. There is no news from any quarter —all remains quiet. The Jamaica papers, for ...

... WEST INDIES. Melancholy Accident in Jamaica. —lt is with feelings of the most poignmt gpief we have to record the melancholy loss of eleven persons, occasioned by the upsetting of boat outside the harbour of St Ann's in which were individuals. The ci ...