The Express.
London, England, 1855-12-14 00:00:00

THE CONFER CROPS IN CEYLON.

Within the last 26 years soma 390 plantations,
terre sad =all, leave been formed la the Mountain Zoe,
of Ceylon—of which by far the larger proportion wasopesed
between 1840 sad 1846. The total memo cleared ay be
set dews at 70,000, of which folly 6,000 may be
etneek off for old sad abaadoeed coffee, and
6,000 mere plead out of view ea yoiseg coffee
au la bearing. Of the 60,000 still to be dealt
with, some ebonite& of saes are only partially
I. bearing. But for every ordinary wpm. 60,000 acres
easy be taken as the extent from whit*, la season 1865-66,
sow seassueed, we lock for a crop of 840,000 owls. of
plentatios coffee, or at the rat* of 61 owls. per sere. And
this we believe is about the fair average of the coffee dis-
tricts; %claims the oestasiesal 20 meta. per eon
of Doesabera—the steady 10 Ms. per sae of the Knuckles
sad Katona Renee, the 6 owes. par sere of Huffish',
dews to the 8 ewes. tof Abelian's& sad Dolosbegey. The
whole et the above remarks el souse refer to Plantations,"
lately Is the beads of Uremia& Of Native Coffee, the
produce of Hale pilau by warbles sod around eousgee,
we had 170,000 forts. last wawa, but wily 126,000 err= ex-
pected la the prewat.—Cleisseis Observer, Nos. 16.

The Lyons Railway conveyed two days ago a
slagalar article which had arrived free the Crimea. la
three large was wore esataieed the dilloreat Portion of •
vest teat, eatirely eoastraeted of bark of trees growing
sear the Teheraspa. This teat is the labour of two High.
lead Ahem, who have dogma/lied the melt if this lades-
' trial feat to • wawa bleed la Landes.

The post of President of the Academy of Sciences
at St. Petersburg k vassal by the death of Coast Ours:
off. Three candidates are named, awe of whom is the
Greed Draws Bekaa, distinguished by her love of
erkase. Vadat the nip of the Empress Catherine, the
Mesas Dasehludf wm the President of the Asademy, and
at this moment ths Remiss Asadeny of the Pine Arts Is
presided over by a lady—the Grand Dunham Merle.
General Totleben met with an enthusiastic meek
tics se snicks at Bt. retention a few days Mass. •
dinner wss gives him by tbe Grand Doke If 'shahs sod the
monk sad ollisets of the army at esbestopol, who hap•
mimed to be staying at the masa% la the sopitol.
GALATZ, Doc. 11.—Bleven shipwrecks have so-1
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MUTINY OF R

Gehpima publishes a letter from limpus el the
Ist latioriflitszythe following particulars respectingt ;
the of Bashi- souks :
• taped Nese took place yesterday morning Oa board
the Teamed' steam pocket, at the moment when she arrivedl
from Syria. Oa her leaving Jaffa the English agent had I
embarked cm bawd et her 106 Bashi-Basonks belonging to I
the Esglish eostiapnt. As these moo were proceeding to I
their destination without any °Moue, and bad received five
mouths pay, es 600 f., in advance, they thought the best plea
to adopt was to desert, and thee re-enlist with some other
neat, sad be paid over again. At Tripoli and at Ales-1
Nutria they sadeavoered Is vela to deceive the *Haase
of the eaptain, sad they therefore plotted together to force
their way from the yawl in a body, when they reached
Smyrna. Whoa they attempted to carry their intention
kW sleet, the sepals of the Teamed, armed his mew, sad
setwithataading their auserital inferiority, they bravely
opposed the efforts of the Bashi-Bee:mks. Bet 13 men
solid ail keg Milt 105 of these bandits, who had armed
themselves with Imadepikes mad other formidable magpies.
Sipa was that Bede to the Olivier frigate, and Captain
Lassetke sent a body of sea sada the command of two
Meas. The Tanen& was boarded, and some of the

ieuisillaamks jumped overboard, mid-others took refuge in
the Mid. They were dkarsmd, but age without rearatanos.
sad sone blood was shed. The ringleader of the revolt, a
tall negro, who bad smassinatod three pumas before he left
Jar., was severely wounded, as were 14 others. Tea of
those who had jawed overboard were piskod up by the
boats of the Olivier, and, with the others, asking 69 in
number, were delivered over to the Turkish satkoritisa. The
wounded were removed to the civil hospital.