The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-06 00:00:00

JAMAICA.

DISSOLUTION OS TUC ASSENDLY.—The Morning
Journal contains tee following summary of the im-
portant events which have weaned in this island
sines the last mail :

ennifyiag to emey tax-payer le the bland, vie , that the hill
Moony of revenue shown by the books, of 2,3281. fie. lid. is a
la re aceina.—the reel state of the matter Wag, as now ea-
tablieked by the mormi tee'. renarches, that the seeming
revelers is manly sufficient to moat the ration expenses,
taker paying the smears of 1848, ameentieg to 8891. lie 11d.
without Wang into 'recount the smears due the tr4onlllur
18 at 48, .d amounting*. 1,2841. 13,. lid. es shown a
return furnished by the tremens." Bet, ales! what or-
Man disclosures cloth not the report go on to make.
in eight moans' ma'e antler the howl of bunt lionnes,
111•10{11141111 is alt to 31.6.., an equal division is lane, aliJ
only 11 12s. 6.1 is 'serried into the chest. In tweet 7 other
transactions, 341. 8e 4d. is pima to the oolany, whtlat the
lion's sham of 411.11.. 74. is anesetei P.m other trauma
lion exhibit the se= of 671 18.. 3d. as rot. is out of an
amount p.m In of 711. 16s. 4.1., leaving to the benefit of
the imitate the pitman of 131. 171. Id. Then mimes
131.6 e., amount paid In upon filteea licensee, AI unaccounted
fur; she 381. 18a 41 filched of payments on six droglo
permits ; and 681 184 4d. in three whew transamioas. The
short sitting of the c.mmfttae, and the &wane of the items
diseavered as above, lead at one. to the concinsion that thou-
sands of pound., wrung from the romplainisg tax payers of
the island, must have ben from time to time purr ion and
appropriated to the primte uses of the already well-paid
emploik fa the treasury department. Nor would the ne-
'virtu. SW. me ham been arrested or det cted, even now, but
for the abilLy and fearlessness with which the camemittee pro.
reeled to . xreute the important teak c mfi led to them. The
names of James Nlscfartaee the younger, Leeurieux Chalon,
sad Pediment Cavalier, will be long held in grateful re-
imemtnnoe by the Inhabitants of this colony, and our chil-
dren yet unborn will be taught to repeat them with venera-
tion. We Avian, for the present, from further remarks
upon the subject, as legal proceedings have been taken
against the debnquents.

The last fortnight has witnessed the meeting and
the diaolutio t of oar assembly. Readers at a distance-
are aware that the sitting of the legislature in March
terminated unsatisfactorily. Th• council had refused ,
to give its assent to the hill passed by the Assembly I
for reducing the salaries of public officers, and the
latter body had declared its want of confidence is the
' former. It had further applied to the crown for a
reform of that board. The council had also petitioned
her Majesty, complaining of the conduct of the
Amiably, and justifying the coarse it had pur-
sued in nf. rence to the measure in question. Having
received her Majesty's determination upon the ques-
lion n fervid to her by the two branches of the legis-
lature, the governor summoned the house to meet on
the 26th June for the discharge of business. Hie
speech at the opening of the session will be found in
our impression of the 26th. To this speech the house
replied very shortly on the 27th. On the following
day the governor sent down copies of the despatches
from her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colo-
nies in reply to the mentor al respecting the council,
and his despatches relative to the cooduct of the
amenably. These were referred to a special commit-
tee, which made a report on the 3rd inst., and subse-
quently passed the following resolution :
That as there seems to be no disposition oa the pert of her
Majesty's government w afford the Tenets so urgently
prayed for and demanded by the home and the people, ae
set forth in MINIS amorists end palm% but °tithe con-
trary, every de-ire has bees seated tameness the present
eatssersgant espeeditere which the impoverished coodi,ion of
she inhabitants readers it impassible long--r to sustain, the
WIWI considers that it will best wank the rights and in
tomes of the mastitmucy by abstainieg from any attempt
at the farther executes of leiefelative Inactions until the pito-
* shall have expressed their decidon on the course whisk
kat bees hitherto pursued by the house.
Copies of the report on the despatches and of the
above resolution having been sent to the governor, the
latter immedisk ly dissolved the Assembly. In the
speech delivered by him the following denial of the
assertion in the rimier ion is made :
The erroneous assertion that a desire haa been evinced by
her !dojo ty's government to continue my extravagance of
expenditure, will be sadleisetly answered by nay remarking,
fine, %hot the seals of expenditure, at its highest elevation,
was always what had bees prop- sod by the Moue of
Assembly; secondly, that the general szpendimee,
by efficail returns. which hays been for soma
time beim the Home of Amiably, is shown to
have decreased within the last three yeah, from three
hundred and four Mound, to less than two hundred and
thirtraix thoussadqads; and thirdly, that it is toper
WM* to point out a • expression, on the part of her Ma-
esty's government, w ieh is indicative of the slightest ob-
jection to the colonial logialature's reducing the expenditure
still further, provided there be no violation of lsgel oblige-
, tion or avid faith.
The elections are to commence on the 14th instant
' with the parish of Metcalfe. This parish is the last
formed in the island, and is named sifter our late
esteemed governor, Lord Metcalfe. It has been
selected we presume in oonstquence of its juvemility,
as well as on amount of its present unsettled condi-ion
arising out of the late legal decision respecting
the clerk to the magistrates, sad the agitation of a
general and very active canvass, in which the cake
and one of the justices of the peace are engaged in
opposition to the late members and another justice of
the peace. Party. spirit rune very high in this parish,
and the election is expected not only to be severely
, contested, but also to be charactenad by unusual
violence. The circumstance of the head of the

ms
a candidate, arc engaged in it,
added to lie hams my recently tendered his resig-
nation as costae, in consequerce of the decision of
the Grand Court is the mitre of the clerk (which
resignation we understand ths governor has declined
to accept until the election has terminated) has
occasioned considerable alarm for its procoe and quiet.
Partial rains have fallen, but dry weather still
afflicts portions of the island, blasting the planter's
hopes, and destroying his best efforts. In the midst
of our distresses, however, we enjoy peace and quiet,
and notwithstandies the excitement Inseparable from
a general election, we have every reason to expect
these will be recurred.
BRITISH GUIANA.
The Royal &motto contains a triumphant article on
the report of Mr. Ba;llie's committee; its summary of
local news is u follows :
We are happy to say that his Rthellency the Gamer
has sisecordeJ, without the eevecige me* of a stogie vote of
hie own, is earring within the last Satanist an estimate
for 1649-50, through the C art of Policy. The estimate
bating been framed by the Court of Polley, is after-
wards brought for names befogs the Combined Court.
Nor, fortunately, has say difficulty arbta • ith regard to
the civil list Item. The seed anus of the majesity of the
Court of Polity, we ars glad to state, has amnieseed is the
rewasmewials• ef the goverameat to omit that item alto.
gather from the masa settasseose which, indeed, it ought
near is Mee bees pineal. and to refer it hereafter is this
shape of a Odra ummerstaimm te the Combined Assembly.
The Coen of Pella esmesemed with the estimate cm the
19th alt., immediately after the leaving of the last packet,
sad concluded with it es Tuesday last, the 3rd instant, the
day after the presset pasha arrived. Our Ms ceateles fall
eof II the prearsdkos et the wart, in relation to the
rep
hems ef the enpeeditem for the merest year.
With regard to the lillelleee of 164849, ea whia the
differences now, let as trust, 'Minty set at rest, arose ;
nothing, we regret to say, has up to the prosiest mama
bees dom.
The Costa of Policy at the premed eminent sheds ad-
journed till tomorrow the 6th, whim it le propeeed to take
up the Amadei Bill. All eacitemeat wpm this meaty* has
subsided. probably from the envistio• ea the mindset the
Mends of the goveransest and of the rekwasses, that the bill
is quite safe, end Mee t° be serried.
Daring the lertaight, as throughest the greater prelim of
the presage year, the weather has beat erresaely wet, pra-
ise Warless in all, sad bi rely injurious in some districts, to
the yeses canes. The same tame, the humidity of the
mans, has pet a stop almost everywhere to sugar making.
ST. LUCIA.

Mich')&Won contains aOconots of several incen-
diary attempts at Castries; but the most important
item of news is contained in the following article, in
the number of Jane 29:
17/LAIIDS Ilt THI TILEACIORT
Woes of rounail, appointed to examine the state of the
Maud treasury brought up its report in the of the
[ honourable board on Monday last. This report announces
one Mot, which, standing alone, would Mrs been most

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 8, 1849.