The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-09 00:00:00

BRITISH GUIANA.

MILITARY RIOT AT BERBICE.—The most important
load event, perhaps, of the fortnight, is a serious dis-
turbance that took place in Berbice on the evening of
the 7th instant, beeereen the black soldiers of the 3rd
West India Regiment stationed there and the police.
Between the hours of seven sod eight on the evening
in question, a *errant and one or two privates of the
3rd West India Regiment were standing at the gate-
way of the market obstructing the passage of per-
sons to acd fro, and were civilly requested by a po-
liceman to move out of the way, which the sergeant
refused to do, and on the police attempting to west
him he knocked him down. Assistance was soon ob-
tained, and the eer.:eant conveyed to the police station,
where be was locked up. Whether he sent, or the
meseenger,one of hiscomrades,actedon hisown volition,
is not known ; but on the news arrivior at the garrison
a Frady amounting to at least nineteen:or twenty men,
left with loaded muskets and fixed bayonets, and
came into town. Forming in front of the police-
station, they charged the crowd, amanita the few
men of the force, and breaking down the door of the
lock-up-room, liberated the te.,rgeant and other pri-
soners of the night, and after endangering the
lives of many persons in the crowd, were only brought
to anything like order by the arrival of Lieutenant
Oldershaw, chief in command, and the officers of the
corps. Before their arrival, however, Private 1)e
Lacy, No. 27, received a bayonet wound on the head,
which glanced from the skull and tore up the
scalp; he was only sieved from death by his being
a tall man, for had he been of lesser height, the
force with which the stab wee made must have
sent the bayonet through the skull. Private Alex.
Knight, No. 30, was slverely beaten with the
butte of their muskets, and is suffering from
violent blows and bruises on the shoulder and
ribs. Private Nelson Cubes, No. 25, was stabbed in
the back of the thigh, and in his shoulder, and re-
ceived a severe blow over his head. Charlotte Cotter,
a little black girl, aged 12 years, was webbed in the
wrist. The sergeant-major, end the rest of the men
saved themselves by flight, as they were totally un-
armed, and too few in number to contend with the
savages. Masers. Arthur, of the firm of Lade, Darn-
ley and Co., John Cavan, Adam and William Patrick,
were within a hair's breadth of losing their lives, and
were pursued by the African soldiery till they took
cover from the reach of their bayonets in the neigh-
bouring houses. According to the Berbire On:ette,
on the withdrawal of the rioters by their officers, they
were hurrebed by the mob of black men and women,
and the moot iiisultir g and scornful expressions were
loudly uttered against the police.
The Court of Policy had set twice in the fortnight
previous to the latest date (the 12th of December),
on the 9th and 10th. On the two days of its sitting
truism bills were brought forward and advanced a
stage.; one being for the establishment of boards of
health in Georgetown and New Amsterdam, Pr the
adoption of precautionary measures to cheek the pro-
gress of spasmodic cholera, in the event of its reach-
ing this c dopy Lam Jamaica, where, according to the
latest accounts, it was raging frightfully ; end the
other being a bill to establish a new office in the
colony, that of Auditor General of Accounts.
The East Coast Railway being now finished, as far
as Victoria, where, if we (Royal Matte) may draw
an inference from what is reported to have fallen from
Mr. Nl'Chlery, the chairman of the company, at the
last general meeting of the shareholders in London,
it will stop, the traffic between Victoria and Mahaica
not being considered likely to pay, the Court of
Polity has agreed to a resolution moved on the 9th by
the Hoe. Peter Rose, one of the directors of the com-
port), to call upon his Excellency the Governor to ad-
mits 45,0001., less the emonnt ready advanced, cut
of the 60,0001. promised to 100 lent by the colony to
the company on the understanding that it would both
pees a mortgage to secure the money, and to complete
the line, as originally projected, to Mahaics.
By the departure of Mr. Croat by the last packet,
• vacancy took place, for tee county of Demerara, in
the College of Electors. The vacancy was supplied cm
the 9th by the unopposed return of Mr. James Stuart,
formerly a member of the Court of Policy.
The weather daring the fortnight has been
favourable, though several hen showers have fallen.
Solar making has bees praeeedisg rapidly in all the
rural districts.

MISICAN AND Win INDIA MAILS...4Ie mash
anxiety may be felt respectiag the nota-arrival of malls from
Resew, we find, upon isquiry, that the Chest Western
arrived at Vera Cm and landed there the outward mails as
mail, after which she proceeded to Toupin, where she
arrived at five in the evening on the 3rd December, and
there Wag but cos hour of daylight left, the mails were
lauded, and some passeagers and specie embarked. In the
middle of the night, however, a Ticket " norther," et gall
gale, set in, when for safety the ship weighed and stood oat
to sea; the wind increasing gradually. Through all the
neat day it continued to blow with undimiaisked stray*
sal though the packet stood in towards Temples, the bar
was impassable. As sight of the 4th December the ship
Mood oat to sea again. On the morninp of the sth and Bth
steamed is again towards the bar, but the Morns esatiestng
and the sad ea the bar rendering it still unapproachable,
at length the Great Wit.tern bore up to return to Vera
Coo ; bat on the 7th and Bth December, there befog no
appearance of say abatement in the " norther," the baro-
meter remaining as before, and it being eight hours' beyond
the proper time for leaving Vera Cm, the captain pro-
ceeded on to Jamehm, and thence to St. Thomse. The Trent
likewise espnisaasl lards heavy storms on her outward
yuregeht November that she was forted bask into Torbay
and Ad ass halls roach Bt. Themes till so long slim the
appoiatedow easmil, time, that the usual fortnightly
dispersion of the istwallesial steamers had taken plass with
the empties of that he Poets Nee, Jaime, Jimmies,
Havana, and Hooluees, sad manormatly the West India
Colonies, with time ozosidirs, limb, tombs their 17th of
November sad had of Desesber outward nails by Ike semi
delivery.
RAILWAY ROSSINI:EL—Mr. Nash, whops exer-
tions in commies with the Railway Rehheitse et 1845, at
great expense, has reeelved as a -seder obil as unique
inkstand, in essodve ilter,=ed by_ leirmisolytheieribed,
"To Chas. D. Nadi, to to his }aft asetives,
wirieg energy, suomeMel eadoseeirre (at emarmona
ripeness and anxieties) is boos& the joia_blk. the railway
IlLiollati sad the soutplaiss. eel *his Justin for his
into,* 1845-9. Pietism& by *dr somisimito an his
refusal of a general sakaocrisdirma!!_ 1860'"

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in I.ondria ion kat Watt. did sot arrive at Boston Witham
WI balfpeeS same Oki maralag. The train, it was sat& " got
off the rail." hid Y Mem partinalara al ao tho delay Imo
obtainable