... the 19th and 20th the Danish, brig of war Dolphin took nine Prussian ships, with freights from England, Bordeaux, and the West Indies. On the 20th the Swedish and Norwegian vessels at Elsinore were warned by the respective consulates not to enter a Holstein ...

... Trinidad and Guiana. He believed that all were aware of the importance attached to the immigration of free la- bourers to the West Indies on the coast of Africa, and the object of this vote was to further that immigration, and to defray the ex- penditure that ...

... and 1:500 more had been required during the year than would otherwise have been required. The island of Tobago, in the West Indies, had been desolated by a hurricane, which had swept away a vast amount of the mission property. Independently of a falling ...

... intention of the hon. gentleman to lay that dispatch on the table of the House before the debate relative to the state of the West Indies came on ? Mr. Hawes said such a dispatch had been received, but he was not prepared to say whether it would be laid on the ...

... tons; Russia, 1,751 tons; East Indies, 1,055 tons; Hol- land, 806 tons Brazil, 327 tons; Australasia, 266 tons yBritish West Indies, 260 tons; Hans Towns, 247 tons; Canada, &c ...

... House resolve itself into a Com- nuttee upon the resolutions which he proposed on Friday last, respect to distress in the West Indies, Mr. E. Ellice rose and said, the deeply melancholy interest with which the affairs of the West India colonies was viewed ...

... division, by a majority of 89 to 36. THE WEST INDIES. Lord John Russell made his promised statement with respect to the alleged distressin the West Indies. He began with a review of past legislation concerning the West Indies, referring especially to the Emancipation ...

... from free trade or from free labour,—and that its remedy is either the legalised slave-trade or protective duties. The West Indies are not. the only districts in the empire where distress prevails. Lancashire suffers, and the Welsh mining districts are ...

... WEST INDIES.—ADJOURNED DEBATE. The subject of the differential 'duties on rum, in connexion with a deputation of Irisli members that had waited on the Chancellor of the Exchequer, led to a discussion, at the in- stance of Br: L., O'Brien, who moved, but ...

... nights, and which ended as might be expected in all parties losing their temper. The ministerial plan for relief to the West Indies is more likely to succeed than it was last week. To be sure it is a. wretchedly absurd scheme, but absurd as it is who is ...

... Mr. Hawes's statement as to the despatch was entirely cqrwct, but repeated his assertion that in the late committee the West Indies had not had fair play from the Colonial-office that neither Mr. Labouchere nor Mr. Hawes had dealt frankly with the committee ...

... their opponents an advantage they would not recover and as he thought the measure alike .pernicious to this country and the West Indies, he would move as an amendment, That it was not desirable to make any alteration in the sugar duties of 1840 (hear, hear) ...