The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-02 00:00:00

WEST INDIA MAIL.

The Royal West India mail-packet Medway, Capt.
Symons, arrived at Southampton this morning,
and landed her mails under the charge of Lieut.
Thomas Cull, R.N., Admiralty agent. Her deter 1
aro : Santa Martha, March 22 ; Grey Town, Nicara-
gua, March 28 ; Panama, March 28 ; Chagres, March
30; Carthagena, April 2 ; Demerara, April 6; Tri-
nidad, April 7 ; Grenada, April 7; Jamaica, April 9 ;
IBarbidoer, April 9 ; St. Jago de Cnba, April 10 ;
Martinique, April 10 ; Antigua, April 11 ; Poet) ,
Rico, April 14 ; St. Thomas, April 16 ; Fayal, April
28, at noon. The freight on board amounts to 48.986
dols. ; together with dollars in gold, 400,966 ; dollars
in silver, 361,948; British coin, 3084; plating, 3833.;
pearls, SOO.
Cholera has disappeared from Chagas. Persons
are rapidly crossing the isthmus, and every
facility is now found to take them to
Panama. Numbers have left Panama in smali
boats, who, it is feared, will perish. Distress cad
disappointment prevail at Panama for want of con-
veyance for California. Twenty vessels have recently
lest:floras° and Callao with provisions and mann-
goods for California. South America is
completely cleared of manufactured goods, and ex-
tensive orders have been transmitted to Ragland.
The Californian gold brought by the Medway is in
payment of shipments; it was melted into bars at
Urns. The King of Mosquito had come to Bluefields
to meet Mr. Christie. A line of steamers now run
monthly from Grey Town to Grenada; and Grey
Town it is expected will shortly supersede Chaves.
The government of Costa Rica is making a new road,
by means of which the coffee crop of next year will
be shipped at Grey Town. At the latest dates Nica-
ragua was tranquil. The negroes in Jamaica have
refused to pay the market-dues, and riot and tumult
have in consequence taken place. Monages har
addressed the Venezuelan Congress in a presidential
message. The Dutch government have been de-
sired to draw Para from Curacao. The Granada
Council and Assambly are at issue on money
matters. An insure:Am of slaves had broken oat
at Peri:amber*, Rio Jaaerio, and Bahia. All trade
, was supended, and the ships had all left the bar-
, boars. The intention of government to make Guiana
the depot for liberated slaves hes not reconciled the
disaffected.

We have the following later from
PORT-AU-PEINCE, Aram 2, 1849.
His Excellency President Soulotique continues to
head the army against the Dominicans, and, except
• slight reverse experienced by a ext of his troops
on crossing the frontiers, has proceeded as far as Asna
nearly unopposed ; as there is a strong party of the
Dominicans in favour of his excellency, it is pro-
bable that in a few days he may obtain possession of
1 the city of St. Domingo. Many of the influential
Dominicans have; fled to St. Thomas, and among
thorn that remain there is a want of union. The
island is otherwise tranquil.

FRANCE.

PARIS. T rink?. 6.r.x.

The arrest and imprisonment of three members of
the assembly on Saturday night, which caused such
an animated debate in the chamber yesterday, has
had a beneficial result in preventing the recurrence
of the evil.

Last evening none of the usual groups were to be
seen on the Boolavers* and the deplorable scenes of
Saturday evening have not been renewed. It appears
that several ladies were temporarily, arrested charged
with forming part of seditious groups.
The question of a continued subsidy to Montevideo
was determined in the assembly yesterday in the
affirmative, notwithstanding the opposition of the
committee. The question of armed intervention was
reserved.

Upwards of 200 Sicilian refugees have reached
Marseilles, amongst them is General Mieroslaweki.
The breach between the President and his cousin,
I napoleon Bonaparte, is now complete. At the latter
' end of last week, immediately after the return of the
' latter from Madrid a violent altercation took place
between the cousins, the result of which would have
been, under ordinary circumstances, an appeal to arum
Such could not, of course, be the solution, but the
breach stems irreparable. Napoleon Bonaparte will
probably now throw himself completely into the arms
of the socialists. Perhaps this will make up to, the
latter for the loss they have sustained in the secession
of the two sons of old Lucien, who are now firm allies
of Louis Napoleon.
The divers parties in the field are actively em-
ployed in endeavouring to influence the forthcoming
elections. It is impossible to give a guess of the
result even in Paris. There will probably be a very
heterogeneous mixture, after all. The moderates have
put forth Cavaiguac among the 24 candidates whom
they intend to support in Paris; bat the men whom
he beat in June will oppose him fiercely, whilst the
others will give Liam but lukewarm support. The press
here is completely absorbed by this electoral struggle,
and the foreign nee •s, great as has been its importance
within the last few d'ays, has excited little in the way
of comment or attention generally. Even that
barometer 'the Bourse has been but very slightly
affected, and the news of the disturbances at Berlin
caused only a fall of a quarter of a franc.
There was no hominess of importance to English
readers at the Assembly to-day. A project of law,
voting 48,000 francs for a credit to the ministry of
foreign affairs for extraordinary expenses, passed
without opposition. The debate on the organisation
of the public forces was then resumed.
At the Bourse the funds opened firmly, but fur
some cause, not attributable
,palpably to any particular
event, they fell slightly towards the close. The
Three-per-Cents. opened at 57.20 and closed at 56.704
The Fives opened at 88.65, and closed at 88.25.
The Conatitutionnel publishes an account of a
journey taken by the president of the republic to the
department of the Aube. He left Paris on Sunday
morning at 4 o'clock, accompanied by M. (Allen
Barret, and arrived at Troyes at noon. There he
passed the national guard in review; and after pre-
senting to them several new colours the troops
marched off past him, and he returned to Paris, which
place he reached at Sin the evening. Yon will find
few potentates ready to get up at 4 in the morning,
even to dis!ributo new colours.

The journal Le Peuple was yesterday again seized
by the police.
The following appeal addressed to the " People "
apron in the red republican and socialist journals :
Ahe pecuniary resources of the Democratic Socialists
Committee are all at once dried up by the suspension of the
electoral meetings. The committee appeals to all the socialist
democrats ; it conjures them, in the name of the cause, to
again impose on themselves • sacrifice. Subscriptions us
opened at the offices of all the democratic journals.
Two of the three priests who figured in the socialist
banquet of Sunday, the Abbe Montlouis and the Abbe
Trenchant, are both, says the Gazette dee TrThunaux,
ander interdiction.
Paws. Mee I. New Loan, —; Mae pw Cans., 56 73
.;
ewe per mew., 88 25; Last Loan,
gelgtaw
Mr, 1640, 934 ; Do. 1842, 911 ; Do. roormat.a-Half,
Naples Mates, ; Rama lam, 774 ; Treasury beds, —.
Bank same, 7400. Runup on London, 30 days, ash; 90
dam, awn.
Ranwars.—Paris and Orleans, 830—; Parts and Rams,
570 —; Room and Havre, ; Avignon and Mareeillre, 217 60 ;
mwenema and Bale, 105; Centre (Visnott), 360; Annan' sad Bou-
logne, 'Bordeaux, 410 ; North, 453 75.