The Express.
London, England, 1852-05-24 00:00:00

'G, MAY 24, 1852..'

les Cie article on the speech of Lord Deft at
the ner. The Spanish print psoi
the 's iselaration of foreign policy, and
makes allow sasaparisons between him and his pre-
dearness% Allow absolutist journal, sopported by
the afilittitewcz, and named the Corona, appears to
It is edited by D. Manuel Candiat, leL
&want republican writer of some ability.

it&" the' 14th a shock of earthquake wu felt
bees at about a quarter past 6 in the morning. No
domain was done. On the same day, as we learn
Orem W. Barbadem papers, the islands of St. Vincent
and Grenada' several hundred mike distant, acre
visited with similar concussions.
There had been during the fortnight another arrival
of coolies from the East Indies to the number of
300. These people, who were brought by the
Zenobia, have been allotted to the follo"ing estates'
in the county of Derbies —plantations Adelphi,
Reliance, Rose Hall, Canefield, Smitheon's-place,
Proepeet, Loehaber, Smithfield, and Goldstone Hull.
"The weather during the fortnight has beonlof the
most propitious nature for vegetation ; and our plan-
ters are looking forward with confidence to an im-
proved crop. There has been, however, a good deal
of sickness; the yellow fever, though materially
abated, still pursuing its deadly career."

The Trinidad journals state that a good deal of
rain had fallen dining the beginning of April, but
subsequently the weather became dryer, and sugar-
making was progressing satisfactorily. Turco
slight shocks of an earthquake were felt on the
6th ult.
The St. Lucia papers are principally occupied with
a dispute between the Legislative Council of the
island and the municipality of Castries, relative to
an attempt on the part of the legislature to curtail
the rights and liberties of the corporation.
Some refreshing showers had fallen in Antigua.
Debates had taken place in the Legislative Assembly
on the present unhappy state of the island, with
reference more especially to the payment of the in-
terest due upon the earthquake loan of 1613, recom-
mending an application to government for a remis-
sion of the whole debt.

PANAMA,
Our correspondent writes as follows:
" The Pacific Mail Steam Ship Company's steamer
Golden Gate, arrived at Panama on the 19th April,
from San Francisco, with 1,800,000 dollars in gold
dust, and a large number of passengers. I send
herewith a San Francisco Alta, which contains very
flourishing accounts of the mines.
" The Pacific Steam Navigation Company's
steamer Santiago, arrived at noon of the 19th from
Callao, &c., with a number of passengers and
714,269 dollars in specie and bullion for England,
reports 11.M.'s ship llido on shore on the Whale's
Back in the Bay of Callao, and H.M.'s steamer
Virago was endeavouring to tow her off, when the
Santiago left that port on the 9th inst., the Santiago
having made the attempt previously.
" General Flores had taken possession of Prina, at
the entrance of the river of Guayaquil, and his fleet
were at an anchor there. His steamer, the Chili,
fired a shot across the bows of the Santiago, when
Creing up the river during the night, but the
n:lnied proceeded and anchored in front of the
town, and on the return down river would hold no
communication with Flores.
" Gen. Bernaza, who has command of 1,000 men on
the borders of New Granada, in the Interior of Ecua-
dor, has pronounced in favour of Flores ; and Lieut.-
Colonel Campo and many other military commanders
in Ecuador, were about to fallow his example.
"From Buenaventura I learn on the first authority
that General Franco (New Grenadian), with 2,000
men, had received from the new Grenadian govern-
ment orders to march into Ecuador to oppose Flores ;
and General Herrera has left Bogota with 1,000
men for Panto, to take command of the army in the
south.

"All respectable parties are wishful for the success
of Flores, and think this government will lose all
by meddling with a foreign country', affairs.
" The Trent will take from Chagres about 1,004,008
dole. to Europe, and a good number of passengers."
Another correspondent writes :
"At Panama the junction with Navy Bay is in
operation, but it seems that there are great difficulties,
partly from elevations to 370 feet, partly from
swamps, so that it will require an immense capital
to complete it to the 30 miles on the other side on
the isthmus, which are less necessary owing to the
steam navigation on the river Chagres. This
railroad will hardly be ever useful, as it will be
abandoned when the Tehuantepec railroad is opened
leading from the river Guazacualco, some miles
south of Vera Cruz, to the Pacific, which is under
the examination of an American company, and
will be a much nearer route to California; and aa to
South America, there is a water communication
opening, which will be sooner completed than any
other isthmus route on the Atrato River from the
Gulf of Darien to the town of Quibde, capital of
the province of Choeo, through a fertile and healthy
country, up to • spot where, in the dry season,
there is at all times five feet of water, from
whence a New York company has a charter for a
canal of eight miles through a level ground to the
junction of the river San Juan, deep enough for
ships of any size to be entered from the
Pacific. The funds for this enterprise are
represented by the firm of Belknap and
James, in New York, and security of 24,0001. has
been deposited with the government of New Granada
for its being completed in ten years ; in the mean
time the said company is now building a board road
along the side of the Calal line, which will be opened
for travelling on the Ist January next, and offer the
speediest passage from Europe and the United States
to the west coast of South America. This road and
the Tehuantepec will render the Nicaragua Canal
superfluous in a great measure ' • and it seems that
there is no sufficient guarantee for the latter enter-
prise being completed, as the term has expired for
the privilege granted to the Anglo-American Com-
PanY•
A company has also been formed at Costa Rica
for opening a cart-road from the ancient Spanish
port of Cartago, between Grey Town and Cherokee
Bay to the town of Cartago, to join the already
built road from thence to Punta Arenas, on the Gulf
of Niooya. This road will offer, perhaps, the most
preferred advantage to travellers across the isthmus of
• reating-place in a cool mountain atmosphere,
combined with cheapness and despatch, and may
come into play next to the Atrato route. It is said
to offer surpassing beauty of scenery, and a country
unsurpassed in abundance of metals and productions,
both tropical and European, according to the elevation
the road traverses, most part of it being 6,000 feet
above the level of the sea, as is the situation of
Cartago, in the centre of the valley of the Irazu, a
vulcan crowned with ice, and liming forth hot and
cold springs."
CENTRAL AMERICA.

The travelling on the Nicaragua route is as great
u it was last year, when it amounted to 20,000 per.
sons, but is also as difficult as it was then, inasmuch as
the river continues so shallow, that the steamers
have been for weeks impeded from going. When
the Trent left Oreytown there were so many
travellers that some of them resolved to abandon
their through tickets, and to try their chance of
Chagres, where they went in the Trent, but also
here their difficulties were great. The passengers
which the royal mail steamer received from Panama
stated that they had been put to an expense of about
150 dollars each for the journey across the Isthmus,
and were much exhausted by the same, stating that
they had required two and a half days to peeler!' it,
almost starving, and the mules to the stirrup in mud.
The decision of the boundary question between Nica-
ragua and Costa Rica is still pending at Washington,
but it is expected that it will bo given in favour of
the latter state, in which case a charter will take
effect that has been given to the Sapoa Company for
opening a canal from that river running into the
Lake of Nicaragua to the Bay of Salinas. At Rivu
a land company at Hamburg have obtaineda gran t for a
German colony to be established there forraising food.
In New Granada there is no political news; every
thing is quiet.
LIMA, APRIL 9.—Her Majesty's ship Dido is
aground on Welisbank, near the port of Callao.
The steamer Santiago has been trying to get her
off, but in vain, with rupture of two cables. The
steamer Virago has now come in assistance, and will
probably succeed by the turn of the tide.
GUAYAQUIL, APRIL 13.—General Flores is lying
with his squadron, consisting of four sailing and
one steam vessel, up the ricer at Gunado, preparing
his army, now consisting of one thousand soldiers, to
make an attack on this city, occupied by Urbino
with double that force.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From DeCordova's Nerewstils

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KINGSTON, JAMAICA, APRIL 28.
We are unable to report the occurrence of any improve-
ment in business operations since our issue of the 13th lust. ;
on the contrary, we regret to state that the prevalence of
disease in the agricultural districts is exercising a very de-

pressing influence on trade generally. The peasantry, it
appear, are either d.sinclined or unable to visit the towns,
and they supply their wants principally frura the produp
of their own little settlements. The weather, too, has bets
unusually dry for the season, and although souse districts
have been ;plaited with one or two spring showers, /midi
loss and deterioration of the plants on the ground have 00.
tuned in consequence. Supplies generally arc sunicieng,
ample to meet the present restricted demand. Flour and
meal, perhaps, are rather wanted, the latter especially, the
comparative scarcity of native vegetables at market, owing
to the circumstances above stated, having cataract a ti me.-

ti moo.
rary revival in the den and for those artich.s. The procluea
market continues languid and deprissed, with little probe.
bility of presimt revival.
Covrii.—Ordinary comnrinds 28a. to 30s. prr 10016.
BgoAM.—The market suff.lrs under continued inactivity
and esemeive deliveries. We quote dark to fair at Ii fa,
lbs. %I. per 1001 be
TUBACCO.—Cavendish is plentiful and dull of sal, at 84.
to 10d. per lb. We have not heard anything el leaf'.
FRP.IOIIII, are dull._ _

EICHANGEI3.—On London : Colonial Bank, !on days,
per cent. premium ; ditto, 60 days, I per cent. ueemi,,,n
ditto, 30 days, I} per cent. premium. Jamaica flank, 30
days, par; ditto, 60 days, per rent. premium; ditto, 30
days, I per cent. premium.—On ".dew York here have
been sumo operations at I per cent. prem. fur 60 day hi W. ,