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

TURKEY.

The Courrier de Marsei,k publishes a letter from
Bagdad of the 9th ult., which states that an insur-
rection had broken out in that province. The com-
munications were intercepted, and the mails could
not be forwarded but with an escort of one hundred
or two hundred horsemen. Tho Arabs arc masters
of the country from Mosul to the Persian Gulf.

EGYPT.

A letter from Alexandria in the Paris Public,
dated May 7, says: " The Paeha has paid the Sultan
275,0001. sterling in consideration of the right of life
and death being left to him. He has further en-
gaged to pay immediately half a million on account
of the million claimed from him by the family of
Mehemet Ali. People ask how he will manage to
procure the 800,00 W. sterling which he requires for
the constnietirm ot the railway.

THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC
MAILS.

Tho Royal West India Mail Packet Parana, Capt.
Revett, arrived at Southampton on Saturday night
with the West India and Pacific mails, which were
landed under the charge of Lieut. John Brown,
R.N., Admiralty agent. Her dates are :—Havana,
24th April ; Chagres, 24th April ; Honduras, 21st
April ; Carthagena, 26th April ; Jamaica, 29th
April • Demerara, 28th April; rrinidad, 28th April;
Barbadoes, Ist May; Antigua, 2nd Ma y• ' Marti-
nique, 2nd May ; Grenada, 29th April ; Porto Rico,
lit May; St. Thomas, 7th May.
The Parana brings 123 passengers. The freight
on board consists of specie to the amount of nearly
a million and a quarter of dollars on account of mer-
chants ; platina, 2,7071.35. 9d. ; 332 serous of cochi-
neal, 28 serous of indigo, pearl* Vara° 1001., 117
bales of tobacco, 77 cases of cigars, 130 bales of sar-
saparilla, 24 cases of suocadees, and 48 packages of
sundries.

The Parana left Southampton on the 17th ult. ;
she arrived at St. Thomas on the 3rd inst., and after
coaling, which occupied nearly five days, owing to
the scarcity of hands at St. Thomas, she left on the
7th for Southampton, which place she reached in
14 days, 20 hours. Her consumption of coal was
very great.
Labouring hands are very scarce at St. Thomas,
owing to the number of persons who have gone to
work in the copper mines in Virgin Gorda, an island
near Tortola. These mines have been discovered
some time ' • but, owing to a want of cspital, they
have not been worked. The requisite capital has
now been found, and the millet are working very
successfully. The ore from these mines is very
beautiful.
Amongst the passengers by the Parana was Capt.
J. B. Harwood, who was the means of making the
British government acquainted with the discovery of
gold in Queen Charlotte's Island. He has come to
England to lay before the Secretary of the Colonies
the fullest information respecting the gold in the
above island, together with specimens of the gold
quarts, which is elan exceedingly rich quality. He
is acquainted with the exact spot where the gold is
to be found. He states that• the waives of the
island are of a superior race, and of a light colour.
The discovery of gold in Queen Charlotte's Island
was revealed to the Americans at California, owing
to the intoxication of the messenger who had to con-
vey a letter announcing it to the se-
nior British naval officer in the Pacific.
Another passenger is Mr. Walsh, who has been a
judge in California, and who is now a senator for
that state to Congress. He Ades that the yield
of gold in California will be double this year what
it was last, and that California also will be found
admirably adapted for agricultural. purposes.
JAMAICA

Them is no political news, the island being per-
fectly quiet. The state of agricultural affairs here is
fearfully depressed. Very many of the largest and
most productive sugar estates are being thrown out
of cultivation. Worthy Park Estate, the property
of Mr. George Price, a resident proprietor, who has
expended thousands of pounds in improved agricul-
tural machinery, by his confidence and energy felt
assured he could succeed; he hes now been obliged to
dismiss all the effective labourers on his estate, ho
and others finding it impossible, with every *ble
advantage, to compete with slave-prod sugar.
The commerce of the island is also much depressed,
having lost nearly all its foreign trade. Cholera has
entirely disappeared. Small-pox is prevalent in
many parts of the island.