INTELLIGENCE FROM THE WEST INDIES [San Francisco "Herald," September 16.]

New Zealander, Volume 6, Issue 481, 23 November 1850, Page 2

INTELLIGENCE FROM THE WEST INDIES [San Francisco " Herald," September 1 6.]

Demehaua. — There was a petition recently ligncd by some of the inhabitants, and to which we, think, we made allusion aome time ago praying his excellency tha Goyernor and the court of Policy, to adopt stcpi for assimilating the institutions of (he colony to those existing; in colonies pissessed of Councils and Houses of assembly. On Thursday last the subject of this petition was brought under the notice of the court by one of thee lective members, the Hon. Peter Rose. So m resolutions moved by Mr. Rose, to the effect that his excellency be requested to transmit the petition to Earl Grey, were earned. Montserrat.— This island is said to be reduced to the lowest ebb of misery and wretchedness. It vu once prosperous and contented, but is now on the brink of ruin. Famine pestilence and death stalked through the length and breadth of the land in the hideous shape, balf the inhabitants are starving and the other half have not the means of relieving them. Insolvency stavei every man in the face. The poor feeding the poor. Credit annihilated; capital vanished; commerce lan* guishing ; agriculture a stand ; the landed iuterest uprooted ; and the shipping interest destroyed. Antigua. — The weather, we are happy to report has, for the weekending June 20, been most propitious and planting throughout the island is being generally •nd vigorously attended to. We cannot be sufccieutly grateful for the bountiful rains with which too island has been favored, Trinidad.— The papers from this colony contain but little beyond the discovery of a gold mine, on the Savanna, about twelve leagues from the Yuruary river which has thrown the inhabitants of Trinidad into ii state of great excitement. Already has a vessel been advertised to sail for these auriferous regions, should sufficient encouragement be afforded ; and the gold is said to be of a superior description to that found in California. Dominica. — The inhabitants tre still busy in their endeavours to obtain a dissolution of the house of Assembly, but the Lieutenant Governor had returned no answer to their petition. St. Lucia.— -The most deplorable accounts are given in the papers of the wretched state of Guadaloupe and Martinique. The first is under martial law, and the other likely to be similarly placed.— So high had party spirit risen in Martinique, that the editors of the two papers, after|slapping each other at a distance, had solemnly engaged to end the dispute by mortal combat. The one who considered himself first insulted, chose the rifle as the weapon to be used— distance forty yards— the other accepted the weapon, but demanded twenty yards, as he was nyope »nd could not see at a greater distance. Hi* antagonist insisted [on the forty yards, as he was a Presbyope, and could not see at a shorter distance, and in this state the quarrel was left at the last advivces.

A government decree, has been issued in Berlin against the London Punch, It it not to be allowed to pass through the Prussian poit-offices,