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

THE WEST INDIA, PACIFIC
AND MEXICAN MAILS. ,

The Royal West India mail-packet Thames, egg
G. Abbot, with the West India, Pacific, and Nlesicaa
mails, arrivedat Southampton.un Saturday and landed
them under the charge of Lieut. l'urver, 11N., Ad,
miralty agent. Her dates of sailing are : Demerara,
11th June; Ilarhadoes, 13 ; St. Lucia, 14 ; Marti.
ntiigus.que,
1154
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Nevin,
slnittpc ; An.
i St. Kitts,
15 ; St. Thomas, '43.

Her cargo consisted of 100 boxes arrowroot, 21
scrolls indigo, 779 cochineal, 5 jalap, 21 bales sarsa-
parilla, 6 serons gum, 1 ditto India rubber, 7 eases
vanil;a, 6 hale. purge, 2 cases plants, 7 barrels
ginger, 13 tierces co ec, 1 barrel peppers, 2 ea,"
silks, 1 box copper ores, 1 case turtle, 3 cast% pre-
serves, 22 packages and parcels sundries. Alist.let
of specie :—From Tampico, 507,073 doll.; Vera
Cruz, 291,007 dots. ; Pacific, 542,700 dots. ; Spanish
Main, 39,760 dol.. ; St. Thomas, 5,399 dull. ; total,
1,386,840 dole. The above is as follows :—ln bars
and dollars, 988,603 dole. ; in gold and gold dust,
109,237 dole. ; total, 1,388,6.10. Out of which
96,000 dollars are for the 'Mexican dividends.
The Thames brought 67 saloon passengers, 6
invalids from the Great NVestern, :J from her
Majesty's ship Rosamond, 7 from Nassau, and part
of the crew of the British barque Dile, Welsh
master, wrecked on the Wood Cay reef on the 15th
April, 1652. Amongst her passengers were, Dr.
Steward, inspector-general, Dr. l.uidlaw, medical
inspector, from liarbadoes; Captain Chernsidc, cap.
taro R.A., from St. Vincent; Captain Berkley, cap.
taro 37th regiment, from Trinidad; I.ient. Harvey,
Bout. 69th regiment, Capt. Agnew, capt. 31th rep..
ment, from Barbadoes; Sir It. Horsford, chief pa.
Gee, and Lady flomford, from Antigua; Dr. Robert-
son, surgeon, from Jamaica; Capt. Law, emu. ntith
regiment, from Ilarbadrxs; It. Loyd, stiprudiary
magistrate, from Dominica.

PANAMA.
Our correspondent at Panama writes as follows 00
the sth of June:

" Respecting the very arbitrary attempt to detain
the United States steamer, Quickstep, on the grounds
of the intentions of her captain being to join and
assist General Flores, it is said Mr. Cox, lam
Majesty's consul at Guayaquil, and his partner, Mr.
Game, United States consul there, have taken active
parts with the poesent government of the Ecuador
against General Flores, and the latter so much so as
to influence the commander of the United States
frigate lying at that port against the said general.
It is generally expected that Flores has ere this pos.
session of Guayaquil.
"Mr. Mocatto, the agent of the Ecuadorian bond-
holders was at I'ayta, and proceeded to Guayaquil iu
the steamer New Granada.

" The United States mail steamer Oregon arrived
on the Ist, with 4.541 passengers, and 1,600,00 dole,
of which 223,53 N dots. is for England. No "WKS of
importance. The Peninsular Steam Nutigation
Company's steamer Santiago arrived on the 3rd,
bringing 11 passengers and 233,691 dills. of specie
and bullion for British account, not having touched
in Buenaventura. The remittances from Panama
amount to 40,213 dole. for Europe.
" Great outrages are committed on the passengers
when landing here from all parts, but principally en
those from California, when the labourers on the
beach commit the most barefaced robberies, and there
is no redress, no order, and no police in this place,
and the governor (Dias) is so very indifferent about
these things that we should not be surprised to see
the Americans take the law into their own hands in
self-defence, and in defence of their property.
" A passenger from the Winfield Scott had a par-
cel worth 3,000 dots. in gold dust stolen when land-
ing, and by a mere accident some five boxes of
bullion were not stolen from the purser of the same
steamer. A gentleman was severely wounded by
the porters with a stone for not allowing them to
take the boxes.

" Business is very dull.
"A law has passed to form a tribune of commerce
here, and a law is projected to make the government
of this isthmus independent in a great measure from
Bogota, the capital."
Another correspondent writes :
" At Grey Town, on the evening of the 21th of
May, there being at that time between four and five
hundred Californian travellers staying there, await-
ing the arrival of one of the American passage
steamers, four men broke into the house of a French-
man, who had also lately returned from California,
and stole therefrom, 'as reported,' twenty-seven
thousand dollars va:ue in gold dust, jewels, and cash.
The same evening, three of the guilty party were
apprehended, and confined in the police-station, the
other having escaped up the river. They were tried
by the mayor and other authorities of Grey Town, and
sentenced to be hung. On the 31st May, at
noon, the wretched men were taken in a cart
to the place of execution. A scaffold having
been erected in the forenoon a short dis-
tance from the town, on the beach facing
the shipping, nearly every person in Grey Town
was assembled to witness the ceremony, the greater
portion being armed with the favourite weapon of
the Californians, ' Colt's revolver,' to prevent any at-
tempt that might be made to rescue them by sonic as
desperate and lawless as the wretched men about to
undergo the extreme penalty of the law,
" The feeling exhibited by the people was very
bitter against them, so much so, that they
threatened to execute them themselves if
the authorities did not carry out the sen-
tence. However, tho authorities considering
that one suffering as an example would be sufficient,
one only was executed ; the other two were kept
standing on the scaffold during the whole time their
comrade was hanging (45 minutes), not knowing how
soon the bolt might be removed, and they themselves
launched into eternity. As soon as the corpse of
the wretched man had been cut down, it was buried
on the sea beach, 40 yards from the water ; the
two remaining criminals were taken back to the
police-station to undergo the punishment of a severe
flogging—fifty lashes—and branded with the letter
T on the palms of their right hands, as soon as
their health would permit of their undergoing such
punishment.
" H.M. sloop Persian arrived at Grey Town from
Blue Fields on the 30th May, having Mr. Green, the
consul of the Mosquito territory, on board. H.M.
steamer Alban arrived from Jamaica on the 2nd of
June, with Commodore M'Quhar, expecting to have
found the American commodore. WM. steamer
Rosamond expected on the 11th June to relieve the
Persian. The Commodore intended visiting Chagres
and Carthagena before returning to Jamaica.
" Every, one appears to be very anxious that the
West India Mail steamers should go to Navy Bay in
lieu of Chagres, as nearly all passengers landed at
Chagres have to find their way to Navy Bay to pro-
ceed by the railroad, which continues to progress
favourably."