25 NOVEMBER 1848, Page 11

The Times abstracts some private letters received from British Guiana

by the Severn, picturing the deplorable disorganization to which the colony is reduced by the adjournment of the Combined Court sine die, without its having voted the taxes. A cargo of gin, on which 9001. duties should have been levied, had come into Berbice duty-free. None of the public officers, except those on the Civil List, could get their salaries. One writes that be was left with only a few do lars in his pocket, at a loss what to do. The Vestry of New Amsterdam could not raise money to light the parish-church in the evening. The principal business in the courts win the hearing of insolvent cases.