Ireland during the rebellion of 1798, in Egypt, South America,
and the Peninsula. The colonelcy of the First Dragoon Guards
is vacant by his death.

Admiral PAYNE died of apoplexy on the 9th inst. He was
hunting, when he fell from his horse in a fit, and died in a few
minutes. He was between 70 and 80 years of age, and, on
account of the tendency which he had exhibited for such attacks,
had been warned by his medical attendants to avoid the
excitement of the chase.

Mrs. BELL MARTIN died recently at New York, after a short
illness, within ten days of her arrival in the United States.
She was, previous to her marriage, Miss Martin, of Galway,
and her husband took the family name when she married. Her
estates were the largest in Ireland, her tenantry amounting to
twenty thousand, and her lands extending over two hundred
thousand acres; but the property on her succeeding to it was so
heavily mortgaged that she was obliged to relinquish all, and
trust to her literary talents for her support. It was with this
object she went with her husband to the United States. A
premature confinement was the immediate cause of the illness
which terminated in her death. Mrs. Bell Martin was a large
contributor to the "Encyclopédie des Gens du Monde." She
was the author of "St. Etienne," a tale of the Vendean war, and
of "Julia Howard," a novel recently published.

COLONIES AND DEPENDENCIES.

THE principal and most unhappy feature of the mouth's Colonial news, is the almost utter desolation of
the southern shores of the island of Jamaica by the scourge of cholera. Its ravages began with the
opening of October; and, when the last accounts left, in the middle of November, had not perceptibly
abated. The chief mortality had been at Port Royal, Spanish Town, and Kingston. The deaths in
the latter place (a town of forty thousand inhabitants, of which nine-tenths are Negro) averaged a hundred
and fifty a-day, and on some days greatly exceeded two hundred. Resources had failed both for the dead and
living; neither doctors nor medicines were procurable; it was impossible to supply coffins in any proportion
to the demand; and crowds of dead bodies, carried in carted heaps to the graveyards, and exposed for want
of hands to bury them, lay poisoning the panic-stricken survivors, till at last flung into trenches opened by
convicts and soldiers. The accounts read like pages torn out of De Foe's History of the Plague; and it
is well worthy of note that the previous condition of the island confirms all that has been lately ascertained
of the sanitary laws that govern the disease, and the causes that contribute to its viruleuce. It is another
lesson for ourselves,—with none of our metropolitan graveyards yet closed by the Extra-mural Act! with
even some re-opened that were shut in sheer fright at the cholera last summer! and with the imminent
prospect before us of enormous additions to our London population without approach to any means of
accommodation at all adequate to the increase!

The last Overland Mail from Bombay brings no
political intelligence of interest. Tlic greatest tranquillity
prevails in India. The Governor-General was
preparing to proceed to Lahore and the Peshawur frontier.
Tlie Nepaulese Ambassador arrived at Bombay on
the 6th ult. from Suez. The Nimrod government iron
steamer has been wrecked. The late rumour of the
Affreedees having made a descent upon the salt-mines of
the Kohat frontier remained without confirmation.
Piracies were of frequent occurrence in the waters of the
Indian Archipelago; Java is tranquil. The Chinese on
the Western coast of Borneo have discontinued their
resistance against the Dutch. At Hong Kong the fever
has declined among the troops. Tlie gangs of Chinese
robbers in tlie province of Kwangse are gradually
dispersing. A fearful occurrence took place at Macao on
the 29th Oct., when the Portuguese frigate the Donna
Maria blew up, and officers and men, about 200 in
number, perished, with the exception of one officer and
fifteen men.

The accounts from Jamaica are to the 1st instant. The
ravages of the cholera have rendered the island a scene
of desolation. On the 7th of October last, Mr. Watson,
the surgeon of the naval hospital in Port Royal,
announced that Asiatic cholera of a malignant type had
made its appearance in that town. The inhabitants were
at first incredulous, but facts soon convinced them of
the truth, and plans were devised to stay the plague. A
cholera hospital was established, and some of the
surgeons of the fleet were sent ashore to assist. Government
medical stores were distributed freely, but it was soon
found that both the quantity of medical stores, and the
number of medical men, were totally inadequate to the
frightful extent of illness and suffering that prevailed.
Upwards of 5000 persons have died in Kingston and
Spanish Town alone. Numbers were so panic-stricken,
that they would not apply for assistance, and no one
knows that they have been ill and died. Some were
found dead in cellars, where they had been lying dead
for days. One of the most distressing things is the
number of orphans, both black and white children, and
their condition and future provision are now occupying
the serious attention of the Jamaica authorities.
Hundreds of children of tender age are left utterly destitute;
for fathers, mothers, brothers, and sisters have been
swept away by the pestilence. They are to be seen in
houses, forlorn and helpless. Infants are found lying on
the floor, forsaken by friends and relatives, for they are
sleeping in death, and these innocents are kept from
perishing by the visits of the benevolent. The dread of
cholera seems to have destroyed the social affections.
Some of the poor blacks have been found to place their
dead relatives before the doors of their neighbours, to
avoid the infection, or because they, were imable to pay
the expense of burial. It was urgently suggested that
trenches should be dug, and that corpses should be
buried without coffins, in order that the expense of the
latter should be saved, and go towards providing an
orphan fund. On the 23rd the cholera abated in Spanish
Town, Port Royal, and Kingston, but broke out in other
places. On this day Dr. Macfayden, an eminent
physician, died. As there was not above one medical man
to 5000 persons in Jamaica, and as four medical men had
already fallen victims to their unremitting exertions in
the cause of suffering humanity, it may easily be
imagined how ill he could be spared.

From Canada we learn that there is a rumour that
the seat of government is about to be removed 500 miles
down the St. Lawrence in June or July next.

A Temperance Meeting at St. Hyacinthe, Lower
Canada, recently excited the people so much against
drunkenness, that a mob collected, proceeded to a
building occupied as a brewery and distillery, owned by
Mr. Phillips, of Laprairie, and entirely demolished it,
smashing everything they could lay their hands on.
Similar ourages were committed at a neighbouring
tavern, and further mischief was threatened.

The Sydney journals contain reports of a great public
meeting on the 12th of August, to consider Governor
Fitzroy's despatch to the Colonial Office on the meetings
in June last, on the subject of transportation. The
following chief resolution was carried unanimously—
"That this meeting having had under its consideration
a despatch from his excellency Sir Charles A. Fitzroy,
dated 30th June 1849, transmitting to Earl Grey the
great protest of the inhabitants of Sydney, in public
meetings assembled, against the renewal of transportation,
hereby declares,"that in that despatch his Excelency