Foreign News

The latest arriva] frorn Englnnd bnngs iitelligence that Mercantile aftuirsareextremely depresaed. Great deprcssion exists in the colonial and olher markets. The home trade is in a most uusatisfactoiy state, and there is a want of confidence in every department of trade. The vast .=uppliesof cotton, proviaions, &x. which are expected from America, lead many persons to anticípate ihat us the Americaus wilJ nottakeour manufactures n return, gold will be required to meet the bilis drawñ on our merchants against those shipments. A great deal of hope rcsts upon the belief lliat ihe Corn Laws will be repealed; but the general opinión now is, they will not be altered in the slightest degree. Sir Charles Metcalf, formerly Governor of Jamaica, is nppointed Governor of Canada. Edward Drummond, Esq. Private Secreta - ry to Sir Robert Peel, was assassinated while walking the streets of London, by aman, naineu ivjcJNaughteii, who was followjng close behind liim. McNaughten shot hirn through the Lack with a pistol. lie survived about a weck. The assassin is in custody, and is supposed to be insane. The coroner's jiuy returned a verdict against McNaugten oí' "Willul Murdcr." The st.r;ji which caused such grcat losses intheEastern States in January, did immenbedamage 'm England, IreJand and on the Western coast of the Continent. It is said that scarcely a seaport in the ümted Kingdom escaped. Sevenly fishing boals were lost off Gulway Bay. No intelligence of iuiportance j liad been rcceived from-the East. JAMAICA.The Kingston Morning Journal snys; We have been favored with a view of the StaleI ment of exports from this island during the present year, and have been deliglited at perbeiviog the increase which has taken place over those of 1841. Tl.e statement is incomplete, not including the exports lïom Port Maria, Lucia, and Savanna-la-Mor. Notwithstending these omission?, it rppears that S1.22I hog-sheadsof sugar, 4850 punchcons of rum, and 1,235 tierces of coflee, have been shipped in 1342, over and above the 'shipiwents of the previons year. Our British as well as Jamaica readei s will be gratified at themcreaeed production of our staplos which this slatement shows, and will join us in the anxious hope that they will continue to increase in the üko ratio every year, unlil our island has rcaclied that pitch bcyond wliicli increased production becomes an evil. ■ Hds. Sugar. Phs. Rim. Trs. Coffee. ! 22,791 8,393 7,570 36,312 12,143 8,802 Exce.=s lS.rlil 3,8.00 1,223