The Express.
London, England, 1848-04-24 00:00:00

GUIANA.—The Royal Gaulle
kg WIN erereadrs
edles' to co y that great diet
It amost
gad eat tittle or nothing is doing in the es,
may Mae than agricultural; for it
inns
;gee In the colony can suffer without
eakeee, Perhaps, the best proof of the Is
ed by the home government on tl
ardal of the picket which brought the ne
.ogeftted to the 'louse of COMMOIII, has fail
am''''—gsepal spirit into businem of any kin,
bad no sitting during the fortnight.
impression is, that in the way of Is
redone for mine time to come. No addstbe ortinsoose recently introduced and
atond social intermit. But in an extensive
fgessys • mass of ordinary and political bum
wg* of the Court ce Polfresleyh. T ; soo
lay
srooogy
onnet° our population, by the arrival or
Ifferrs Lecee, with 26• Atrimms—namely,
boys, and 29 girls. These were .2 deaths 01
hms also taken place from Madeira, with 14
',weber for the last two or three Jays hi
for the greeter part of the fortnight we has
TRINII/AD.—The whole thor
are concentrated on the retrenchment
The Port of tipain Gazette recomm
exceeding 3001. per annum only two-
better times return ; that even tater
reduced where diminution can he
puisne judgeship he left in abeyance
that the colonial magistrate, the sail
and the first clerk of the treasury
used with ad interim. A delibear
cat,
Lord Harris that his salary
salaries of minor dignitaries.
WINDWARD ISLANDS.-
/ndepeident Press remark':
It in our undoubted opinion, then, that
absolute liberty of commerce are thso only
doped to those usperalleled and incredib
must again and again complain, till we h:
stubborn ruler.. Avid well, indeed, ma
remedies, becavee they are the only 00.1
e,7l' Obtain those blemings of law, truth
have no }Ong been, lad continue to b

CHIN)
THE EASTERN AT
AND AUSTI

HONG-KONG.—The Chin,
March announces that Keying had
oa account of his health. The Mt
lieying, Minister Plenipotentiary for
tears of absence Oil the ground of bad h
the Lieuteruuth-Governor, will exercie
eke. Such to the meet authentic :
rumour, which has been the parent
founded. The npecial purpose fur w
having been socumplished, it in on
urgent in his petitions to be relieve,
first supposed his retignatiun had
the court of POltillg ; but from what we
bible be has obtained only a temporary
score of health. constitution ha.
press ure of his arduous and harassing
men hint of late hare torn struck with
there is nothing to indicate a decay of
thority, which we ore inclined to belie.
to Pelting, and be fe.t by fureignem wl
intersperse with them Of not. lie h.o.
'snore, salt in mine days since P.P.O
foreigners at the beads of departments,
a personal regard.
The Mail alto 'totes that the m
issued a proclamation regulating I
into the country, with • view to
siroCar to that tuued by the Britt
quest, of which notifiuttion was
Mail adds :
We understand that the British Cha
have passed revolutions entreating IV
liaise:eon the anangementa come to
themselves as much an ponsible to the
the river, not to land on the banln
yowl, "in the confident reliance that
acme to them the full enjoyment of
tant period." There resolutions wen
day after the following letter had t
°Dam], whose reply is subjoined
"Chalon, Feb. 111, 11110. —To P. C.
ring to the regulations recently mi
which British auhjecta are directed to
into the counr tar exercise, we beg
of any of us thinking the presence of
protection, while it would certainly I
preferring therefore to take our char
eider °unwires prohibited from doin
of our dispensing with each attend-it
thould be deprived of our right to al
for radix:l,lo—We have, he., Bowan]
Cats' nor."
•• British Connulate, Canton, Feb.
Piny, J. Gilman, E.sq., an
IL
have to acknowledge the receipt of
which only reached me un Saturday
reply to the neveril questions therein
to which yno allude were framed to
their excursions, partici going into I
availing themselven of [IMO. t
own peril.— l inn, Sc., FOAM to C. NI
e also read in the same jt,tc
We have heard that:mine days as
waded a Ink way beyond the city, u
met with some thinit molentation,
ing to their own account the affair
Bag, but for the exaggerations in wiu

The following memorial from
of Rat. for the Colonies. hw b
To the Bight Ilonouratete tee Gan
Majesty's Colonies —The memori-
tants of Hong-Kong and its vieinii)
are deeply interested in the welt.
ae rer ting property in it. Your n
obtrude on your lordship a demi
pavilion of the colony, the eubje
to the notice of her Majesty's
of
committee of the 1101100 of
Ciorimo
with china , but your roemonalis
ship, that since the mtablishims
heavy gromidsreitt has been felt •.
Indivi ivally, and n eerious drw
Thar kurdstaip no doubt aeon
chiefly occasioned by the *moldy,.
inadequate number of I to of lard
and your memorialist& would no,
ship to the &Mance of any active
such a burden. Your memorial
claiming exemption from remon.
consideration of her Majesty'. I
and importan redction ot the g
well m a revist u d
ion of the terms
Mal means of enabling your MO
/knish colonists. Your memo,
ground-mat paid for each lot, it,
mated rental of the buildings en
that the ground-rents received
or elated the hotwe-rents paid
Greet Britain. In ounclueum,
your lordebip to the questionab
make ilong-Koeg their reeidon
meet whom chief duty is the pre
pen* of two great empires, a
Britain and her Indian pesesse
log a strong convanion of the 3,
entrust it with confidence to tt
on Re favourable considerati.
19, em4itliata, as in duty boon
SINGAPORE, MAR
Mail of Dec. 24 arrived
sular and Oriental steam
none of the failures in Etc
commercial firms here.
almost a hurricane from
heavy sea; the whole of tl
upon ; the casurina trees
esplanade were washed
tooled no damage. The
lett this on the Bth ult. fc
having proceeded as far
and sea being very high,
make one mile an hour.
purpose,. Captain Evans
and again started for H
I sea has not be
(spore. Several plat
penally the nutmeg
weather became calm an
appearance, and still ra
fatal cases have occurrec
look for the appearance
all-llngrOesing topic here
by convicts on board the
officers, and above

shipwreck. I have dra
melancholy affair, as th
Cases of piracy are a
vicinity of the harbour,
induced to organi.e a h
containing four Chines
cut timber, was attacks
krists spears, &c ; tv
jumped overboard, ai
the fourth was left
was plundered of it
of rice and a h
sis di:niers. The Mall
piracy and lose of lil
iebraary. In all thr
trated in the light c
and town of Singapor
which in January lest
men from the' Strai
Singapore Feb.. 24.
affair in China, was a
was before urgent to
took the artillery o
March 4th.
at Singapore Feb.
the departure of '
Penang, remain then
Renel, when the
stores, and sail for E
days the town has bi
several large placard
the corners of the 1

were ofiinintlammi
of the government s
mating deputy of po
come obnoxious to t
tiring energy and si
gamblers, 'miners, a
once of these place
Pernicious practice
mischief at Canton
brought to the noti
or sewn Chinese
bills p
hand
hills ailing ut on tl
in putting down
of the police a
secret societies. TI
mended that thew
be registered as z