The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-21 00:00:00

WEST INDIES.

The Royal West India Mail Packet, Medway,
Capt. Symons, from the West Indies, arrived at
Southampton yesterday, and landed her mails under
the charge of Lieutenant John Brown, It N., Adini-
mlty Agent. Her dates arc as follows : Grey
Town, July 18 ; Honduras, 19 ; Havana, 24th ;
Chagres and La Guayra, 25th ; Carthagcna, Deme-
rara, and Trinidad, 27th ; Grenada, lath ; Barba-
does and Jamaica, 29th ; Antigua and Martinique,
30th ; Porto Rico, Aug. 1 ; St. Thomas, 3rd.
'rho Medway brings on freight 139,789 dollars
from the Pacific on account of merchants ; 302,000
dollars in gold, 3141. in P.ritish coin, and silver bars
to the value of 511.591 dollars. The general news
; from the West India Islands is that they are healthy
and crops abundant.
JAMAICA
There is little of interest from this colony. The
cholera still lingered about Westmoreland, Hanover,
and other portions of the island.
With respect to the weather and the crops, we
find the following paragraphs. The Fa/mouth Post
says :
Wu understand that there is no want of rain :in the
country districts, and that the present crop will amount to
7,1100 hogsheads of sugar, which i,: little more than one-
half of what it used to he in the most unrcmimerating year
of slavery. In future years the return from Trelawny will
be much less, unless the planters procure, at the expense
of government, au increase of labour, and other advantages
to which they arc catitlud.
The. Cornwall Chronicle says :
The heavy rains with which we have been visited in this
parish, though not of lone duration, will lead materially to
increase and Establish the general crop. The temporary
obstruction to other branches of husbandry is trivial when
taken into consideration with the great and powerful stimu-
lus which these fine rains must effect upon the growth of
the cane-plant enerally. At the present moment it
would be reasongable to anticipate a fine crop fur next
season.

BRITISII GUIA.N.A.
The Royal Gazelle says:
We know not whether the most significant sign of the
times in British Guiana which has occurred since we
wrote our last review, on the 12. h instant, be not a quiet,
uncontested county election for a seat in that most quiet
of our legislative chamber., the College of Electors. In
consequence of the mercantile difficulties in which, as we
stated in that review, Mr. Alexander Duff had become in-
volved through the failure of a Liverpool hem with which
he was closely connected, it was necessary for that gentle-
man to withdraw from the college His resignation having
occasioned a vacancy for Essequibo, an election was held
there on the 21st instant, when Mr. Donald Mackintosh,
a resident and respected proprietor, was unanimously
elected.
Since the 12th the Court of Policy bas held four sittings,
on the 14th, firth, Ifith, and 18th, and at present stands ad-
journed to Monday next, the 28th instant. The proceedings
of the court have been rather miscellaneous than interest-
ing. &sides disposing of a number of papers of different
kinds lying on the table, the court proceeded with the mea-
sures introduced several months ago for the inprovement
of justice in the rural districts, by rendering it incumbent
on the ruisne Judges to preside in the inferior courts of
criminal justice.
The supreme criminalcourt for the counties of Demerara
and Essequibo nas been sitting during the fortnight. The
court opened on the I,sth instant, and dispoeci of its work
in about a week. The calendar, we are glad to say, was
sot very heavy. An unusual incident, however, occurred
towards the close of the syssion. A prisoner of the name
lof William Harris indicted for the murder of a female,
I was acquitted of the more heinous charge and
I found guilty of manslaughter. The court sentenced him to
114 years' transportation. This result of the trial did not
I appear to satisfy the mob, who endeavoured to take the law
I into their own hands and execute capital punishment on
the prisoner while on his way from the court to the gaol.
The van in which he was placed, and the police in charge
' of him, were pelted with missiles, and it was with Wine
' difficulty, and after some injury to some of the policemen,
that the van was driven off at a gallop out of the reach of
ithe assailants.
The weather during the fortnight has been flue and
favourable, and sugar fualting, no doubt, will soon go on iu
all the districts of the colony with unabated activity for
months tether.
A revo oglution had broken out in New Grenada.
The mails and specie intended for the 'Medway hail
been detained, and communications from the interior
hid been stopped by the revolutionists.
DUTCII GUIANA.
1 At Surinam, on the 22nd ult., the yellow fever was
lirevailing to an alarming extent, particularly among
law shipping and military. The Sitriiiiianiselie
1 Moran:, the official organ of the government, gives
Ithe following return of the progress of the epidemic :
From the Ist to the 30th of last month the deaths were
,
' 41, while, on the lot and 2nd of July there were no deaths
I at all ; but, from the 3rd to the 22u11 of this month no less
1 than 64 deaths had occurred. showing a ratio in the in-
I crease of mortality, as compared with June, of more than
1 two to one.
TRINIDAD.
From this island there is no news of importance.
[ The Town Council of the port of Spain had waited
lon the governor, in order to submit a project of law
for reconstituting the board, and to pray his assist-
lence as president in promoting the same. The table
of produce exported from this colony to the latest
date shows an increase in the quantity of sugar
shipped, compared with the same tune last year, of
upwards of 5,G00 hogsheads, and in cocoa there is
an increase in this year's shipments of 1,633,9001b5.
over those of last year. In rum also there was an,
increase of nearly 200 puncheons. Cocoa was brought 1
in very slowly, and for the most part in small quan-
tities.
LEEWARD ISLANDS.
At Tobago the administration of government had
devolved on President Yeates, in consequence of the
decease of Lieutenant-Governor Ross, as reported by
the last mail. The Governor-in-Chief had withdrawn
his objection to the Supply Bill for 1850, and it was
accordingly proclaimed on the 28th ult.
In Grenada favourable weather had been expe-
rienced, and it was believed that the increase of
sugar over last year's production would be 2,000
hoheads.
From Barbadoes we learn that a bill had passed
the House of Assemblv for establishing an inland
penny post. The weather had been most favourablo
fur agriculture. The amount of produce shipped
to the 28th of July is as follows:—Sugar, 38,2121
hogsheads; molasses, 6,189 puncheons, 210 hogs-1
heads, and 103 barrels; arrowroot, 291 packages ;
ginger, 39 packages; cotton, 288 bales; and aloes,
2,208 gourds.
We have received Martinique papers to the 23rd
ult. A frightful picture is given of the march of
crime in the French West India Islands. Admiral
Valliant, the new Governor-General of the French
West Indies, had paid a visit to Guadaloupe, and
had been well received by all parties.
By the custom-house reports it is shown, that in
the six months elapsed up to the Ist inst. there had
been exported from Martinique 26.691 hogsheads of
sugar, and from Guadaloupe 21,747 hogsheads,
making a difference of 4,931 hogsheads in favour of