The Express.
London, England, 1852-09-06 00:00:00

THE WEST INDIA MAILS.

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The royal West India mail packet Medway, Cap-
tain Waller, from the West Indies, arrived at
Southampton yesterday, and landed her mails under
the churn( Lieutenant T. [Braver, R.N., Admiralty
agent. Her dates of sailing are :—Vens Cruz, 4th
August; Tampico, Ist; Havana, 9th; Chagres, 9th;
Carthsgena, 11th; Jamaica, 11th; Demerara, 9th;
Trinidad, 9th; Barbadoes, 11th ; Antigua, 13th;
Martinique, 12th; Grenada, 10th; Porto Rico, 15th;
St. Thomas's, 17th ; La Gnayra, 10th.
The Medway brings 123 ft7driegers, among whom
are : General O'Leary, d'Affaires, New
Grenada, and two children ; r. and Mrs. Snmg,
Attorney-General, Grenada: Mr. and Mrs. Will
and infant, from Havana; Captains Neilson, Leckie,
and Band, Callao; Lieutenant Combre Roe, H.M.
steam-sloop Rosamond; Mr. Storey, gunner, ditto;
Captain Maxwell, 34th Regiment, BarNidoes; Lieu-
tenant Westhead, ditto ditto; Lieutenant Munro,
36th Regiment, Trinidad; Mr. Mango Campbell,
liar hadoes ; Captain Clark and 23 invalids from
R.M.S.P. Trent; Captain Woolley and three invalids
from It.M.S.P. Great Western; Mr. Fossit, purser,
and one invalid, from R.M.S.P. Dee; six invalids
from H.M.S.S. Rosamond; two invalids, Royal Artil-
lery, Jamaica.
The freight on board include• 953,695 dollars,
from Vera C'rus, Pacific, &c. ; on account of mer-
chants, in all, 1,163,736 dollars; 185,780 dollars gold
dust and gold; and 18,693 dollars British coin and
old silver.
Mexico, on the departure of the Medway, was in
a state of increasing confusion and disorder, appa-
rently betokening approaching dissolution.
The courier of the British legation reached Vera
Crux from the interior on the morning of the 4th of
August, and, in addition to the risings in the state of
Vera Crux and Sonora, brings Re intelligence that
a revolution had taken place in the state of °nada-
laxara, which would probably be followed in other
parts.

The elemhatek white was detained at Puebla,'
wadi, it wan Watiol. Wade to proceed shortly to
Vera Cruz, the bees WAR Nebolledo having reured
to the mountains hi the eslebbearhood of Jalapa.
The packet takes about 72,000 doles. altogether, on
account of the Mexican bondholders, that is to say,l
for Meows. Baring, Brothers, and Co., on account of
what they have advanced for the dividend of
January. As to the dividend of the let July last
and the forthcoming one of the Ist January, 1853,
there is not the slightest prospect of their being pro-
vided for. Trade is altogether nearly at a stand.
JAMAICA.
Overseers of estates were emigrating in conside-
rable numbers to the gold diggings, and clubs were
being formed to facilitate that operation.
The Treiesony has the following respecting the
weather :

It is a remarkable circumstance, that while the parish a
St. James and the leeward portieres of Trclawny, have beau
benefited to a eoasiderable extent by the vernal showers
—inaamaelt as we have heard one or two planters declare I
that they do not reoo lent haring had finer reamma for a';
long time—the windward sod middle parts of this parish
Lave suffered so intensely from the protracted drought so to
be completely burst out. At Stewart Castle an•! its neigh-
bourhood, the nett year's crop has been completely de-
stroyed. At Duncan's, we are informed that they have
more rum than water ; and even as low down as Falmouth,
the dry weather has bees severely felt. There was a fine
shower on Sunday, in the neighbourhood of Chester, Lin-
toa-park, and the surrounding properties, and from the ap-
pearance of the clouds, we have tenon to hope for •
reuewal of the same blessing.

DEMERARA.
The Court of Policy has been in session almost
daily since the 23rd of July, but the business trans-
acted has been of a purely local nature, with the ex-
ception of a bill authorising the railway company to
raise upon preferent shares a sum sufficient to com-
plete the works to Mahaica, which is now in com-
mittee, and before the sailing of the next mail will
have passed into law.
A despatch from the Secretary of State his reached
the colony, forwarding a correspondence between
the Land and Immigration Commissioners and Messrs.
Hyde, Hodge, and Co., relative to immigration.
Steps have been taken by this firm to secure the ser-
vices of Africans from the Kroo Coast, the first
batch of whom they suppose they will land early in
September.
The weather still continues all that could bs de-
sired, and sugar making progresses rapidly in every
district of the colony. The only fear to be entertained
is, that the available labour will be insufficient for
the purpose of taking off the crols. The few coffee
estates still remaining are also yielding well this
year, and the fruit is said to be of a superior quality.
Trade is dull; a limited imporation of artialas d
consumption is telling rather heavily for the ma-
sumer upon price.
Two vessels are advertised to sail for the gold re-
gions in Australia, with every prospect it is said of
being filled up. _