The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-20 00:00:00

CONTINUANCE OF YELLOW FEVER.

The Orinoco, West India mail packet, arrived in
Southampton water yesterday forenoon. Ten deaths
from yellow fever occurred on the homeward passage
of the Orinoco, nine of which took plan subse-
quently to her departure from Si. Thomas. Soon
after reaching her moorings she was boarded by a
tide surveyor and Dr. Wiblin, the health officer of
the port, who, having obtained the necessary docu-
ments and information respecting the occurrences of
the voyage, ordered the gangway to be taken up and
all shore boats to leave the neighbourhood of the
Orinoco. The health officer ordered all the port-holes
to be open, and the captain having bad a yellow flag
handed to him, all the boats came ashore.

As soon as the Customs and health officers came
on shore they went to the Collector of Customs, and
as soon as possible a telegraph message was sent off
to the Board of Health in London, and until that
message is answered nothing, not even, it appears,
the mails, will be allowed to leave the Orinoco.

The following are the names of the persons who
died on board the Orinoco of yellow fever, or of
bilious remittent fever, on her voyage from
Jamaica to Southampton, with the dates of the
deaths:—Mr. Lighton, passenger, on the 21th of
November ; John Godley, fireman, on the 28th ;
Thomas Stevens, waiter, Dec. 6; Henry Savage,
servant, Bth; John Weston, musician, 10th; David
I/ay, waiter, 11th; John Fryer, waiter, I Ith ; Hy.
Isles, fireman, 15th; Wm. Williams, 16th ; Mr.
Stephens, passenger, 15th.
William Short, Wm. Dolby, Joseph Dermot, fire•
men, and John Diddlecombe, coal trimmer, have
been left behind ill at Jamaica.
SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY, 4 e.a.
No answer to the collector's message has been re-
ceived from London.
The collector has resolved to allow the mails and
newspaper despatches to be landed at 8 p.m. to-night,
unless a message is received from London to land
them before.

The Orinoco left Jamaica on the 29th of Novem-
ber, and St. Thomas on the 3rd of December. She
brings 900,000 dole. on merchants' account.
11. M. S. Dauntless, stationed at Barbadoes, has
lost 9 officers and 25 men from yellow fever, 7 offi-
cers and upwards of 30 of the crew are sick.
Twenty-nine persons have been ill on board the
Orinoco with fever.

We have since received our despatches, from which
we select the following additional particulars :
The crops throughout the West India Islands,
with but one or two exceptions, promise remarkably
well. At Demerara the calculation is that the yield
will be above 50,000 hogsheads, 3,000 more than has
ever been made. The prospects of the colony are fast
improving, and bid fair to overcome all their diffi-
culties in a short time, notwithstanding the great
outcry about free trade and navigation laws. A
court of inquiry had sat at George Town, relative to
a serious fracas that had taken place between the
townspeople and the soldiers of the 2nd West India
Regiment, which had ended in the complete exonera-
tion of the soldiers. Colonel Brown, of the 34th
Regiment, was the president of the court. At Bar-
St. Lucia, Martinique, Guadeloupe, and St.
Thomas's, yellow fever was still raging, but was on
the decrease. At Bridgetown, Barbadoes, and in
the garrison, it had almost disappeared, but
was raging in the country districts, the coloured
population suffering quite u much as the whites.
The deaths in the garrison since last packet were,
Colonel Williams, commanding Royal Artillery;
Lieutenant Strickland, 69th Regiment ; Mrs. Wright,
wife of Col. Wright, commanding Royal Engineers;
three children of Capt. Turner, ILA., and one of
Major O'Halloran, deputy quartermaster general.
There is no political news from the Spanish Main,
or Panama, or other ports in the Pacific.