The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-19 00:00:00

WEST INDIA. AND MEXICAN MAILS.

By the Tamar, the arrival of which we announced
by telegraph in our impression of yesterday, the fol.
lowing intelligence has been received :
Fourteen vessels have been wrecked among the
West India Island. during the late severe gale of the
25th, 26th, and 27th of August. The New City of
Cork, sugar laden, and a large ship off Santa G4us,
from the casks, &c., which have been washed on
shore, supposed to be French, also sugar laden, and
homeward bound ; not a soul saved. The Wye
Royal mail steamer, coming from Havana, felt it
most severely on the night of the 27th. For some
hours she wan in great danger, shipping heavy seas.
It was with the greatest difficulty the fires could be
kept up. At 2 p.m. a heavy sea broke on hoard,
which nearly swamped the ship. Great praise is due
to Captain Powell, the officers, and crew (assisted by
the passengers), for the exertions used in getting the
storm sails set, which saved the ship, for the force of
wind and sea was so great that the steam power
was unable to keep headway on the ship.
General Sir It. Doherty, the late commander of
the forces at Jamaica, came home passenger in the
Tamar, having been relieved by General Bell. Also
the late governor of Porto Rico, Lieut.• General
Gambit, and his daughter.
Small-pox is very prevalent at Porto Rico and St.
Thomas. Yellow fever at Barbados., principally
among the troops. At Havana, cholera as well a.
yellow fever are very prevalent. The troops have all
been sent into the country, and the National Guard
are doing their duty in the town.
The Tamar, since leaving England on the 17th of
last August, has run or steamed over 10,000 mills,
having performed the routes No. 4 and 5 while out
in the West lodic'', and in a shorter space of time by
two days than was ever done before. She has been
ten days in port at the different islands out of that
time.

Business at Jamaica was flat- The Legislature was
not in session; exchange on London 1 per cent.
In Demerara the weather was favourable to the
canes, but trade very dull.
The Court of Policy have passed the b ll for autho.
rising the incorporation of the London and Demerara
Railway Directors, and for altering the places of the
general meetings of the company from London to
Liverpool, and for empowering the Company to raise
the sum of 20,000/. to pay off the existing liabilities
of the railway, and to put the line in good working
order between Georgetown and Belfield. The Bill
will be sent home by this packet for the sanction of
her Majesty's government.
The Court of Policy have also passed an ordinance
for raising a loan not exceeding 130,0001. for the
Intvoi nction of Indian immigrants into British
Guiana.

An Order in Council bad been received by the
Governor, authorising him to amend the laws and
constitution of British Guiana. His Excellency has
prepared a bill, founded upon and nearly identical
with the bill sent home during the government of
Sir H. Barkly, and to which her Majesty's govern.
ment refused their assent.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
Do Cordova says :

Flour has been in small supply, Bad from that fact alma
has realised fair pr ces. Bread and crackers are in sack
abundant supply, that we hopo shipmeeta will, for a log
time, be withheld. A general gloms prevails at present,
bat we trust soon to see it dispelled.

Alewives : sold at 161. per barrel, but gener►lly in,
little demand. Butter : very scarce. Sales of Irisk
at 16d. Brandy : sales of small parcels at 18e.
Candles; A parcel, sometime on band, was sold at 811. foe
B's, 7's, and 16's ; and 611. for 10's, the letter size being ea.
suited to the retail trade. Coffee : Noce at market. Cheese:
Sees bare bee. made at Is' per lb. in small puce* Malt:
A lot of Harvey's has been disposed of at 12.. and Gs.,
quarts and pants. Strong ale, end some of Jeffrey'.,
at 121. for quarts and 7s. for pints, in small parcels.
Ruin sells at 3s. 6d., proof 18, and this price refused by
some. Soap: Late purchasers finding it impcssibls to sell
at advanced rates, arc offering to parcel out their lots et
oasts, say His. 61. and lls. for crown and feather. Sug►r is
worth 14s. :o 18s., according to quality. Tobacco: Ample
stock of Cavendish, and abundant of leaf.

PERU.

A medal hu been voted to Don Domingo Elias,
with a imitable inscription. De has also had conferred span
him the tit's of hombre del pueblo. General Distills has been
promoted from the rank of General of Brigade to Generd
of Division. The following vessels thiled with cargosiot
guano from the Chinas Islands in the month of Jaly :
For Boglend, 45 vessels, with 31,218 tons ; Spain, 7 ve►
gels, with 2,891 tine ; Mauritius, five vessels, with
2,078 tone ; United States, three vessels, with 1,59/
tons ; France, one vessel, with 259 tone. Tots!, 61 vise
se's, with 35,043 tone. On the Ist of August there were
89 vessels of an aggregate tonnage of 61,484 tons loading at
the islands.

Br. Don Manual Maria Nunes (Moises her been appointid
Consul of Peru in Bordeaux.

The British barque Orleans, Evans, muter, which uiled
on the 13th of June for England, with a cargo of guanot
foundered at sea on the 17th of July. The muter sad
crew took to the boats and reached the Chinch' Islands in
safety.