POSTSCRIPT.
We bare private accounts from Lisbon to the Sth instant. It appears from one of the letters, that the defaulters to the forced hunthad been' commanded to present themselves before the Intendant of Police on the 6th, to receive a imninnuieation in the name of the gracious and merciful. Ruler of Portugal, to this effect-that as he bad no desire to proeced to extremities, he would allow the defaulters three days to make good- their payments, at the expiration of which, if the money was not paid, their property %you'd be seized arid their persons placed under restraint.
Msoree showed himself on the Gth in one of the public squares of the capital, With four servants, armed like himself' with long sticks, with %Omni he followed the royal recreation of killing aed mutilating the poor dogs.
There ism) quality in which the 'West India legislatures more abound . than in that of plain-dealing. In answer to the speech c.1 Sir J. C. Smyth, the Bahama House of Assembly says-
" The various causes of excitement which at present exist throughout the Colony, nurtured as they have been by evibnisposed persons, and Ira certain un- fortunate oceurrenees in per Excellency's administration, must prcc!role us front making any alteration in the 1,IWs at present in force relating to the free coloured • pophiation during your Excellency's administration of the government of those islands."
This piece of courtesy is preceded IT an earnest expression of the Assembly's wishes, that all measures brought before them may be vonductca with unanimity.
• • There will be a deficiency of 14,C00 'hogsheads of sugar in the pro- duce of Jrm;uica this year, ill consequence of the insurrection of the ; Blacks.-Mornine Post.
It is stated in a private letter that Runjeet Sing was advancing to the camp with 60,000 men and 1.50 guns, a formidable disploy, to meet the Governor-General in all honour and courtesy.-Coleutta Paper.
The failure of Sillem awl Co. of Hamburg, is ascribed to unsuccess- ful speculations in the Funds, which the assistance afforded by the house of Hope and Co., of Amsterdam, to the extent of half a million of mares bunco, could not avert.
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