The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-23 00:00:00

GERMANY.

In consequence of a delay in the Berlin post, occa-
sioned by a railway accident, there are no dates
from that place later than the 19th inst.
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The Dresden Journal of the 19th says:—" Yester-
day a pletary sitting of the whole minist.rial confer-
ence took place at the Bruhl Palace. I know not on
what grounds the Frtiesuthigen Sachsen Zeitung
has asserted that the Hessian cabinet had, at Dresden,
objected to an ' arbitration tribunal' to decido on the
affairs of Hesse Cassel, but this I can assure you, that
neither in a toll meeting nor in the committees has
this question at all been mentioned in the conferences."
Advice' from Hanover testa that the Austrian
columns have come to a stand-still in that capital
The cause of the delay is not accounted for.
The movements of the Prussian and Austrian
troops, which sere crossing the Elbe into Lsuenburg,
have been suddenly suspended.

RAIZ EBTJRG, JAN. 18.

_ .....
The proclamation of his Majesty for administering
oaths of fidelity to the military was read here in the
Market-place on the 16:b. In the same document the
appointment of Count Reventlow Criminil as pro-
visional head of the administration is announced.
We learn that a wend proclamation, dated the
18th, is to be published to•day. It is undersigned
by Count Reventlow Criminil, and transfers the
former power of the Stattholdereto, of which all the
members are dismissed, to their formerly subordinate
Lsuenburg government. The assembly and its stand-
irg committee's are thereby also expressly dissolved.
RENDSBURO, JAS. IS

The commander-ic-chief, General Hurst, has pub-
lished a farewell order, or rather greeting, to the
Schleswig-Holstein army. Henry von Gagern has re-
ceived, at his own request, his dismissal from the
Holstein service.
BERLIN, Jax. 21.—Voluntary Loan, 106 ; New Loan,
Four-mil-a-Hall per Cents., o'4 ; National Debt, 841;
Marine Society's Premium, 123; B►nk Sham,
051: _ _ _

v lENNA, Jew. 20. Five per Cent. kletallignes, 944.
Four-and4,-11a11 per Cvnts., M. Bank Shares, 1,140.
Ex :large on London, 12.41.

WEST INDIES.

As announced in last evening's Express, the
Roy al Nest India mail ship Trent, Captain
Clark, arrived yt s'erd-.y at Southampton, from the
West Indies, and landed her mails under the charge'
of Lieutenant O'Reilly, It N., Admiralty agent. Tie
Trent's news from Jamaica is only of the 29th ult.,
that is two days earlier than rin New York. Other
dates are: Havannab, the 25th; Chagres, La
Onayra, the 26 h ; Demerara and Trini&d, the 27th ;
Carthagena and Granada, the 28th; Barbadots, the
29th; Antigua, the 30th of Dec.; Porto Rico, the
2nd, and St. Thoms., the 4th of Jan. The Trent
experienced a succession of gales from the west-
ward, which were first felt on the 10th inst.,
and lasted till the end of the journey. On the
15th the gale blew almost to a hurricane, and a heavy
sea struck the steamer, stove in the dead lights on
I the main and lower decks, carried away the atter part
of the starbosrdsaddle-box, and the pinnace. It was
with difficulty that the other quarter boats and
paddle-box boats were saved.
Through some mistake on board the Conway
steamer, which brought the northern Wench' mails,
in transhipping on board the Trent, at St. Thomas,
our regular tiles of Jamaica papers have not come to
band. 'Dais is fortunately of little moment, as the
dates have been anticioated.
•

Mr. H. Walsh, lieutenant in tho 3rd West India
Regiment, escaped from the county gaol of Surrey, in
Kingston, on the night of the 26th of December. He
was awaiting his trial at the January assizes, on a
charge of forgery. He was assisted in his escape by
one of the turnkeys of the institution, whom he bribed
with a few dollars.

The is flux of Californian passengers at Greytown,
who, having landed at Realejo and passed through
Nicaragua, find themselves without provisions and
means of proceeding homeward, as the following ac-
"hint will show :

At a meeting of American passengers on board her
Majesty's steamer Inflexible, from Greytown to Chogres,
held at Champ, Dec. 29, 1850, G. P. Barber pees ding, the
following protest and resolutions were unanimously adopted :
Whims' Commander Dyke, in conjunction with her
Majesty's consul end Poet-Captain Foote, taking into
consideration that we were strangers in a foreign
land, and in the atomics of shipping are usable
to proceed on our journey to our native lend ;
also understanding that hundreds of oar countrymen
were following us on the same route, that provisions were
becoming extremely scarce, and many of our number prce
trated by sicknees, did most generously and with the most
kinoly spirit consent to e-nvey Its in her Majesty's ship In.
&sable to this port. Resolved, that our moot sincere thanks
are dos to Commander Dyke, her Majesty's Consul, and
Poet Captain Foote, for the humane and obliging assistance
thus rendered as in our difficulty. R.solved, that our sin-
cere thanks are due to Commander Dyke and officers, for
their obliging and gentlemanly treatment to us while on
board the Inflexible. Resolved, that a e••py of the regalia-
none be prevented is Commander Dyke, 11.1 Majesty's
Consul, and Captain Foos. R. solved. that the resolutions
' be publiahed in the 1 English and American pipe
rs.—
G. P. Beaus, on behalf of 376 passengers.—J. W. L2W,
Secretary."
BRITISH GUIANA,

The most grievous complaints are made, and justly
so, by the mercantile community of Demerara, of the
wretched manner in which the mail service is being
performed between England and the West Indies
generally. The Royal Gazette eats:
W. ma assure the West India Mail Company that a storm
of indignation and disgust is brewing against them in this
colony, and all other parts of the West lollies. The repeated
delays of the steamers—the thorough disorganisation cf their
whole packet service—sr* shemlul, and becoming cinema.'
so intolerable, that the attention of parliament will be drawn
to the subject, unless the company bestir themselves, per•
i form their contract properly, and introduce a rapid and
radical change into their whole =adze operandi. Mail after
mad has to be depatched from this colony to Europe before
the correeponding European mails have been received here.
It will hardly be credited that though this company profess
to give us tidings from England in little more than 20 days,
the most recent intelliaenee we have received up to this
moment from England by the company's steamers is nearly
60 dare old, or to the 2nd of November. Not an English
, paper or letter of later date than the 2nd November has
been brought to this colony by any one of their vessels. We
have now two made overdue. Farther comment on this
• state of fasts is needless.
On the same subject the Colonist puts forward as
worthy of imitation the plan adopted at Bermuda,
where the Bermudians "succeeded in eatabliebing
a steam communication with the Cunard line, via New
York, and with the West India line via Bt. Thomsa.
Now, it occurs to us that were British Guiana to join
with Trinidad, Barbadoes, and other of the Windward
Islands, a weekly steam intercourse with Europe

could be established via St. Thomas, Bermuda, and
New York, which, while it would double the number
of mails hitherto transmitted to and fro, would supply
us with intelligence quite as soon as by those 'slow
oos.chei—the lamberiug, top-heavy 'W. L'e.' This
is not a new ides, though circumstances now render
it well deserving of a. tentive consideration, and close
calculation of relative expense and advantage."
The Royal (h.zetete says:

Tee Curt cd Policy has been busily engaged doting the
fortnight on several important measures, and now stands
adjourned to the 13:h proximo. Among other business
transacted, bills establishing a new department of the public
service, 'he office of Auditor-General of Accounts, for the
examination of the litigated advents of the Cotters of Justice,
and of all publics 1100011011 generally, and providing for the
holding of inferior criminal Coat a in Essequibo by one cf the
puisne jat Isis, were advanced a stage. An ordinance also
has been pawed, among others, fur sties ituting boards of
health for Georgetown and New Amsterdam to guard
against the eontingeccy of a vis.t from cholera, which, by
the I dein advice', ww devastattng Jamaica to a frightful
extent.

Ht. Excellency the Governor left town on Monday last
upon a visit to the penal settlement in the Musaroony,
where, it is rumoured, the lax discipline preserved among
the convicts has required executive supervision.
Centuries Day pawed otf veiy quietly.
the weath. r during the tcrqnght, though occasionally
wet, has on the whole been favourable, and sugar-making
hu been proceeding in the diffirent rural districts. The
crop, however, we fear, will be • smell One. Yet it cannot
be denied that some twat, s in favoured districts have done
well. As an instance, we will give Lusignan, on the east
coast of auerata. That prrperty in 1844 made 704 /Ads.
of sugar, which was then considered so large a return, that
we recollect mentioning the circumstance. Since then, how-
ever, the quantity made has advanced to 810 hide., and Mr.
Stewart, the active manager of that estate, completed this
year's crop on the 21st art this month with 920 With., and
that too on the old principle of working with one engine and
one est of coppers. C,uld all estates get on in this way,
planten would have no Collie to grumble at the hard timer.
liall.co•t 4 p.m.—Biases writing the above, the mail
steamer has berm signalled.