The Express.
London, England, 1856-03-20 00:00:00

WEST INDIA MAILS.

The Royal West India mail packet Tyne, Captain
Vallsr, Admiralty agent, Lieut. Ozenham, R.N.,
arrived at Southampton yesterday with the West
India and Pacific Haile. Dates of Sailing : Panama,
Peb. 23rd; Jamaica, 27th ; Demerara, 9th and 26th ;
Trinidad, 28th; Barbidoea, 28th; St. Loci*, 27th;
Antigua, 28th and 29th; Grenada, 26th; Porto
Rico, March 2nd ; Dominica, Feb. 29th; St. Thomas,
March ird.

The fenight on board consists of specie to the amount
of 717,318 dole.

The tollowing ships of the Royal Navy were left at
Port Royal, Feb. 27th, at 7 p.m. :—Tt-rmsgant, Com-
modore Kellett ; Malacca, Imaum, Argos, Hermes,
Espeigle. Communicated with Boscawen, Rear-
Admiral Fanshawe, Feb. 27th, running into Port
RGyal, 10 miles distant. At S'. Thomas, March 3rd,
H.M. sarveyiog vessel Scorpion.
Between the bth and 16th March the Tyne expe-
rienced trrong gales, with very heavy sea and rain,
bat all the remainder of the voyage moderate wea-
ther.

Owing to the West India mail packet Parana
getting to St. Thomas late on her last voyage to the
West Indies, some of the intercolonial steamers could
not return to St. Thomas before the period had
' elapsed for the Parana to leave the latter island for
England; and the consequence was that she did not
bring home all the regatar mails front the Spanish
Main, British Guiana, and the Windward Island.. A
double mail from Demerara, Trinidid, and other im-
portant places in the West Indies has been brought
by the Tyne.
The island of Jamaica was healthy, with the ex-
ception of cold and intermittent fever. Great pre-
parations were making for the opening of an industrial
exhibition in March. We regret to perceive an an-
nouncement of the death of C. C. Jones, Esq., of the
Colonial Bank, Sr. Kitts. The outward packet,
with the first February mail., did not arrive at
Kingston until the 2Sth, being three days late. The
bills for promoting education and sanitary reform,
sent up from the Assembly, had been rejected by the
Legislative Council by a majority of six to two.
According to the Kingston Morning Journal, the
' accounts of mining operations at Charing Cross, be-
longing to the Jamaica Wheal Company, are exceed-
ingly favourable, and justify sanguine hopes of ulti-
mate success. Exchange on London, 90 days, 1 per
cent. prem.

The barque Cambrian and brig Naiad of London,
the barque Gleogariff and btigantine St. Lowrance
of Liverpool, the brig Gat-laud of Dublin, and the
barque Trelawny of Glasgow, had arrived at the port
of Kingston.
From British Guiana we have accounts of serious
organised disturbances which had broken out in
Berbice, and for the suppression of which a military
force had been despatched by the Governor. The
riots, which had their deeper causes in the jealousy
of race, were incited by the ravings of a fanatic
named Orr, a creole of the colony, whom some of our
readers may remember under the name of the "Angel
Gabriel," as having caused riots, by similar means, in
Greenock last year. A full account of the disorders
will be found below. An ordinance had been passed
authorising the Governor to enrol and call out the
militia. The steamer Tyne had been despatched to
Barbadoes for additional troops.
Serious disturbances bad taken place at Queens.
town and the other parts of Essequibo, the Arabian
Coast, and on the Wands of Leguan and Wekspaam.
The weather duriog the fortnight had continued
very dry, with only aa occasional passing shower.
The estates were greatly in want of water, and the
growth of the sugar-cane was retarded by the longs
continued drought. The work on the estates was
almost entirely susper:ded, in consequence of the
disturbances throughout the colony. The exports
from this colony during the fortnight were very
small. Sugar, 603 hogsheads, US fleeces, 179 bar-
rels ; rum, 278 puncheons, 71 hogsheads, 46 barrel/;
molasses, 214 puncheors, 7 barrels; rice, 600 bags;
charcoal, 100 barrels; gteenheart timber, 223 logs.
There was a complete stagnation of trade amoog the
merchants.

At Porto Rico the cholera had nearly disappeared;
bat ships from that Island were still under quaran•
tins. The other island* were healthy.