The Express.
London, England, 1852-07-12 00:00:00

JAMAICA.

The following are extracts from the summary of
the Jamaica Standard of June 18 :

The movement fur emigration to Australia is gathering
fresh force. The party to which we alluded on Saturday
we can now positi rely announce has been made up, and
been compelled to refuse several applicants who have sought
to join. One of our most eminent firms have sent to their
agents in New York to secure &charter of • vessel of about
three hundred tons, for the conveyance of the party to their
destination. E. C. Carr, Esq., formerly largely engaged
in the mercantile and agricultural affairs of the colony, and
late member in the assembly for the parish of St. David, a
highly enterprising and able gentleman, has gone to New
York, to superintend the arrangements to he made in
order to fit the vessel for the purposes for which she is re-
quired,—and he himself is one of the party compelled to
abandon the country in which he has sacrificed the best
years of his life, and been ruined in the bargain. The
whole of this party is of high respectability. Another
scheme is on foot for the purpose of making up another
tarty of a hundred to go in a clipper-built ship of about
700 tons; and two or three days ago it was reported that
eighty persons out of the hundred had already been en-
listed. We have no doubt that other schemes will spring
up in a abort time; and not much more have we that if
some prospects of auistance be not immediately afforded us,
the colony will be literally abandoned.
The small pox still continues among us in this city, in St.
James, Manchester, and one or two other places. The
type remains, we are happy to say, comparatively mild;
and its extent is greatly limited in comparison with what
might have been expected. We regret that we have not
yet been able to obtain any authentic information as to the
number of cases ; but we may mention that we have heard
it reported that neither of two of the medical practitioners
in the most exteasive practice in this city has lost a single
patient by the disease:—one of the gentlemen alluded to
being, beside his private practice, the medical attendant of
the general penitentiary, in which are some four hundred
prisoners. The measles are prevailing at Falmouth.
Gold, it is said, has been discovered in Jamaica; but

clie..gbi we have given insertion to two poregraphe on the
we have not been able to obtain precise or Miss
tay isfonnatioe of the fact.
The. Ker. Dr. Igagrath, lute meter of the palish of Tres
bt. .uy, has r aid the debt of nature since our las! Mowing
wits before he could reach home from the •Southeide,
thitherohe bad bees removed for the benefit of her health,
beg where she died,—and his sou, whom they had lust a
hen ,eels previemely. Thu Rev. Dr. Stewart, late rector
claieudou, haa two appoiated to the thus vacated ree-
tore ; the Rev. C. 11. Hall has bees appointed to the rec
teary art.:tech*, ind the Rev. D. H. Campbell succeeds
ydr Ilan es Island Curate of Meant James, St. Andrew.
weather remota; fear, sod, gonerally speaking, by ao
or me so sultry as it often is at this period of the year. pe-
‘,„,,eally showers yet more cool the air and lay the dust,
• or Santee. while we write.
With the exemption of the presume* of the small-pea, the
geo.ral health is good.
R,,y/11 Gazette, in its review of the events
which took place since the previous nail left, esys:
.t, if to compeasete in some measure for the low price of
the scarcity or labour, sad the isidiference of the'
government to our future, we have had, sines the
the year, w, lithe rof the most benignant kind
growing crops. Rain mad sunshine have succeeded
~:1 otter in the precise rotation wanted, and the coo-
• is, that the crops up to date are largely in excess':
..•t s•ar, end then, is a likelihood, or nab's, an 'eters,*
fed at ety, that the aggregate of the three counties will, fur
.r. r. a, h or 53,000 hogsheads. Sugar, however,
• references twit and 10111amea, are our only vapor-
pro:ore. the quantity of coffee now growing being
ler our ow. coususapties.
direct the attention of the how reader to a
c,. lonised aloft the sailing of the last mail,
t, ot which is to bring late actual service the tea-
et:res of the colny. It has been long known that the
c,mw. mar I— the plantain—so largely cultivated with us
t .r its fruit only. is of the same species as that fruits which
the *Alegi,' Manilla hemp is made, although it may be
slichtiy inf. nor to it is the two qualities of colour and
lown.th. At present the atolls of the plantain is worse
than melees, brio; allowed to lie and rot where it falls;
and the object of the association is to rescue it from this
sad snake it sersiceable all an article of export.
The object is in the highest degree praiseworthy ; but
the obstaele is the way of its mamma is the scarcity
of Lebow, and the difficulty, where labour can be
obtaised at all, of as,trtinis it from the culture of
the mare important staple, sugar. We are informed, how-
ever, that in Manilla, where hemp has nearly become what
sugar is to Mr. the manufacture is carried on almost exert-
steely by the aged and infirm and by hildreo, and it is an-
ticipated that it can he so carried on here also ea to prevent
the abstraetion of able-bodied labour from the cane-geld.
The cultivation of rice is also &matting attention. Tho
Abantleatd lands of the colony are admirably adapted he
the purpose if the stumbling block—the want of labour—
could only be onee get r.
A bill KM the erection of a new government house has
b‘,n pawed, but the site is not yet fixed. A premium of
i. ed.red for the best design. Home architects will
understand that, from the perfect flatness of the country,
t: e site cannot affect the di sign.
Mr. tle.rge Hooker resi,;nid his seat and goes home by
the present load.

The Wands to the windward have almost all of
them been suffering fiom long-continued drought.
Altigur, St. fiats , St. Lucia, Anguilla, and Car.'
rukcoil. have suffered from the want of water.

Ot Antigua, it is said, the drought continues in all
its severity, aid great distress has begun to be felt
for want of water for domestic purposes. The crops
both for the present and the ensuing year, are suffer-
ing greatly Irons the drought, and the cattle on many
estates are dying for want of water.
In St. Kitts the want of water for domestic
parpcsies had begun to be felt in the town of Basse-
terre and at Sandy Point. Every cistern in the town,
with the exception of one in the jail, was dry.
In Saint Lucia the drought continued very severe.
Vegetation, The Palladium says, is dried up all around.
We hare never seen the country so parched up before.
The slaw crop, which is being manufactured, has
not suffered much from this protracted drought,
though the want of water is felt in several districts
to retard the operations of the mills; but we fear the
consequences will be much to the prejudice of the
next crop.
In Anguilla the drought which had prevailed for
several months had reduced the poorer classes of
the inhabitants to a state of absolute destitution
and misery. The people were absolutely dying from
want. A boat load or more of flour and corn meal
had been forwarded from St. Christopher's for their
rtlicf.

The ground crops of the island were abundant,
and of good quality, which affected the sales of
breadstuffs and prorisions, of which the market was
glutted.
Capt. Harper, of the bargee Charles E. Lex, at Phi-
ladelphia, from Port-au-Prince, states that, up to the
time of his sailing (12th June), the empire was tran-
quil. Nevertheless, the conscription for the increase
of the army had again been resorted to, and was
being followed up with great rigour, sa all males
from It to CO years of age were indiscriminately com-
pelled to bee; arms. The army is to be kept on a
war footing, and the muster-roll not to number less
than 30,000 effective men.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
gran De Corden's Nererstde htellipmeer.)

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KINGSTON, JAMAICA, Joss 10.
We have had a very dull fortnight, with little or no
speculative inquiry from the trade. The inactivity hes
been mare aoticeable in the articles of pickled and dry fish,
the latter especially. Produce is Meting eentewhat
healthier than had latterly been the ease, sad prices are
hkely to be well supported. Tim spring rains, though late,
have Kt in, we hate, rather heavily is Nee districted the
mirth side.

ALSWIIIM may be quoted at 20s. to 22a. • prime are
wasted, but the demand otherwise is very vitas
Burraa.—Holdtn of Irish have cleared *Me beads at
13d. per lb. There is not any more of that deeeriptios
lust hands. Some inferior Halifax has been pined at 9d.
per IS. American is weep. All deseriptlaaa gloater us
wanted.

Flora.—All the late receipts of Baltimore sad Phtla
delphm *ere taken at 31s. 6d. to 32.., and the stock is Ant
hands u again very lipht. 300 ►arrels New Orleans hare
has planed at 30s. per barrel.
H sus —All deeenptions are abundant. Tliequotaticese
art. Luitashlre, 9d ; Irish, 6d. to Ad ; Aaseriona,6d. to Td.
Are may be quoted at Is. to Is. 3d., proof 31, per plot
it, exportation.
B,,sr —The 'Larkin is rather quiet. 1 Doses Steele's
451 bu Feather have changed heads in lots, at 9e. 9d. per
bor.

Ft r tit —Prima lave bees wry well ennertlvi Mirka '
tke fortnight Via nage oar quotation at Ito. to 17e.
ft 100.bs.
Tutor:cc—Pip' an wee& 6ta per hall barrel. Odin
arnstioas asnsakia
operations bars rasekad as.
Ex ea vrora.-01 London : Conant Bask. SO dap, per.
leases Bak, SO days,ll pow eat. dissaat ; ditto, 30 dap,
Par. Oa New Yark : BO dm, gto 1 per ant. peen.

EMIGRATION OF POOR LADEI.-011 Friday, at tho
weekly meet*, of the beard of areetors sad swami of
the poet of Ur. am rebesd to the sodt Air
the Nleales otata weep tadoed has
Mak, Cam the perMeell of the sass-Yee of Aletrollea
Koiri.t., ea the etajoet at Mew ealgeolka Can.
smite et Amenities Odealar- U. Pbolay, Loa*" fa
Jelp—air, la reply Myron, mete of the MIA shim Im-
elon. you • circular, mbiel. I hope, will explain the
et this oatunittec It the inseitlene the puss Veit
Nerykkone think pram to ruse Ink of the ape Old awl
It. of good eksamotmr, sod TS pay the .11111111111110 dna
meat and pomp a Pariesd lap es a his to the b3ye
roultrariar, I ameba be bappy le wino- this he the
are of the Juvenile Ilmianate Probaska Itedeby, sew
Mika estahliehed there, which weak bees =Ma men
ready to take the boys *lee emplopeest spa Wl*
there I em, sir, par ellediest sense. J. Naas,
C,Tr . J. B. Rae, in, eawJ.. to the dial=
led rumbas. at the per, Marylearao."-
-Mr throte senotted that et • Use whoa the,. wee ash
a rich for elolleSeleM the pulse be be mesa a ma-
terially fur estate sad ReeStiatirt_ ZLreatet
he thought it iiroti:d moth* Mt they in-
ter the •ePett.e• lie thought that, osier the droves-
stoma, it would be better to la the orator den[.7-Celortel
Bagnold wished to hr informed what they amid pt the
boys oat at each I—Mr. Grote aid mot his dome lip, ;
whereas under ordinary eircussitamMa the pies was aft
more than 51.—The letter wee thee arderai be be aratarw-
leflacd sad entered on the minute..

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VLIISAILLLO RAILWAY ILE!! gene-
ral setting of the 'berth° dere of the ermines (Left
Bast) Railway, held on Thursday Ni, the treaty
entered into with the Wester' Railway °swan, was cep.
proved of by an immense majority. TN sorting dirteurts
were ftqlppointed, and the members ageammlas tie saw
suttee on accounts maintained. Tim Joarreol dor ellootirta
do Fee remarks as follows on this s:•to Iltuo is at
length terminated this affair odd& so a bad,
maniple of intestine dimmed. The who
have hitherto been deprived of all revenue, will now re.!
else a certain amount of interest, which. ia UM. Yet it Is to bow romsritod, that go 100.600
francs a year, which en la ba paid by Ow Wolin
Comm, to the Left Bank Compoz mg thoroodt of
treaty analogous to that of So Nortbortmlit the Boa-
Mine, or to that of the WNW' with tit BOA Doak. For
th, companies, tie old skas. wore noloodpol tar aims
or debentures •f Ma Illoratia or Wallow ONOVONIB4
whereas the shares of the LA Doak Competed osotanso
to .11mist as peerlessly ; and is consequent tef
decision of the meeting, which hie coothosol to mom tie
directors as if there was still • line to be Imd
Mperintended, the 300,000 trancewill °Vag 4=
undergo Ctf.lll2 reduction for exiles's.
°lke., and advertisements. But we hare not to Mown
th4t point, ohm the deelsion hos boon corn to by tk• mast
Moue interested in the matter.

THE ELECTIONS.
SOUTH HANTS.
" We rejoice to lease," says the Ilampshire Tele-
graph, that Mr. Cardwell and Mr. Swart, the late cau-
-1 dictates for Liverpool, will corm forward as candidates for the
representation of South Hoots, in opposition to the Derby
candidates, Lord H. Cholniondeley sad lir. Commas.
Streatious exertions have bees made to-day at Southantp•
ton in support of the two former, who, if elected, would be
as honour to the county."