Great prostration of general business is still experienced in Jamaica, in consequence^ of the commercial panic. Confidence is being re stored. '

The trial of Barbadoes rioters commenced before Judge Phillips, the Judge from Natal, sent by the Colonial office. Governor Hennesuy is So unpopular that he was hissed in the streets as he passed in his carrage. At the islands of St. Martin, St. Bartholomew, and Anguilla much damago done by gale. At the former places several vessels were stranded. Great havoc reported, especially in the French quarter, as many as 215 houses being destroyed in that part alone. Much distress prevails among poor of these islands. At St. Bartho lomew 40 houses were blown down and de stroyed, and about 60 persons injured. ,

It is reported that the Mohammedans were becoming aroufted all through Asia and begin ning to consider the contest a religious war, and that the followers of the Koran were dis posed to keep up the quarrel and fight against Europe. The New York Herald continues a special from London, which says the feeling that Russia is determined to force on war is daily gaining ground there, and people who began to console themselves with the hope that the dreaded struggle would be postponed, at least, for the winter, are losing heart again, and making up their minds that the worst is to come. It is noted by well informed people that Russian demands become more emboldened at every stage of the negotiations. As soon as the Porfce yielded one point, another still more humiliating v/as laid down, and the con viction gradually forced itself upon the public mind that the time will soon come when such conditions will be proposed as the Porte must peremptorily reject. Then the solution of the Eastern question will naturally be left to the aword, and Turkey must fight for her exist ence. The action of Russia is said to be attri butable to the fact that the Government of the Czar has found it necessary to yield to the general sentiment of the Russian # people for war, a feeling which has become so intense that the authorities cannot longer restrain it. The following interesting particulars of the Polar Expedition are to hand by telegraph. 