The Express.
London, England, 1854-01-05 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5, 1854

search of the dislike sitept vitt retuned to St. The-1,
mess eland eight sfsissitia the sight et the 9th ult.,
bringing with Mir the veseeL
At Jamie the Assembly was still dimming the
question er sineiNe warmest. Oa Dec. 2nd
dm keen passed the *bowies misistiss :
And It elsit en innteselea the lessee eesaraltte•
le sad holm le • bill the raising er
Of API solort. Wet. ant luta the ase be
reseestredel If the eseeative aid tee tie purpose of
*onus *des sheamment the metes respeselbility for
theses eerYea aas mad sitheelles, the levying sad
tlehnessereat et the Wills amen s. end the 'antral ad-
mhelelesties et ImensM dhlse si the eeestry ; that for
erelleepeee, the ember Me the foe Miss be, by the
setheldeld le appshat, hem dee te tine, as mey
hemaser y, tire seeable hem the Aseembly, eat Whig
eiberarlse holders of rag Idles of mar me. dewing the
piessere of the governor es& me lees as be shell meek his
seer is taw Ammblr. ts he the ma& et letvermesed la the
AtasaWei sual that mesh member .0 seestated do resolve
e obey of Mi. per mama
Retailers were agitating against the Spirit Licenses
Bill. A:bill was before the; legislature for dealing
with aggravated assaults on women sad children.
Of Demerara the Royal Gault* of December 10,

report.
Disease has dinppeared, end rain has fallen. So far as
the crops are concerned the rains are opportune to the
plantations. They have not been so heavy as to retard the
genital operations of the sugar maker ; while they have
'Seeded an early sad Tigre* *deg frees tie stools of
canes jut est. lilnemikent des esisay the bedisedees are
most sheering as le nest reds crop; the yews eases
everywhere look gems lead beautiful. Aa ilea bogies *
be prevalent Salle that after all theas elf be
this roes aro eliallileg like the guar.
city. UAW* ems haw ben pie/dissimilated, en inlay
'Yasuo:o6d bee been added to the return ~ year. The
difficulty is as te the ebigneet. Errata et benne. seeptedre
doubt which the *Rey few epidemie Whisk prevented
the usual concourse of moll breibig esseele, tee se musk
restricted the tonnage oldie pm that freights Dave rises
in a few weeks to 400 amt to wise. Seger for esport
ham, in the same beam unsaleable, except at a
price so low as te le these she me eseepellsd
to sell. A slight minden ft is geld tech plies yessevday
but the information is not seek rte lend etc wigs* that
it is to be general. We ensile to a smell Isle el mar at
nearly half a nat. 'Osage ea genies mtgs. We are
glad to record an improvement ia the trade of the city.
Goods of every kind are, however, high in peke, an sleet
of strikes at home, we sewer, and expel* ee Australia.
The Honourable the Court of Polley will meet ea Tee*,
seat, the 13th net.
The Antigua Batistes of Den 6th states that keep-
pearacce of the country was very cheering, adhere
were entertained that the coming crop would be men
that usually productive. There had been a pleat/el
tall of rain. 'The Chief Judge, Sir Robert Honiede
was better than he had bisenhat wee stilt safforkie
severely from ill health. Aunties was held at the
house of W. M. Ledeatt, L.R.C.P.L., in the eity et
St. John, on the 3rd Deeenber,lB33, for the purpose
of devising the beat asseeef developing the names
of the colony. The mostiessen present were The
Lord Bishop of Asthma, the Venerable the Arch-
dens of Antigla, the Hoe. L. L. Hodge, the Kea.
'Ale Ker, Mr. Wn.Thibee, Dr. Ledeatt, Mr. R. B.
Reagan, Mr. T. Prise. end Mr. R. F. Sheriff. The
knowing resolution wee adopted:
Whereas It is des spike of this seedy( that this bland
essons a
banames of natesal peedeedens, whisk Ins
*gable of g meeeketeeed and, sendeeel at for Mow
seasumptise oe newt se Sikhs et orrowswoo—•
=ow 'al that ea Solleadoe be ftesi iresisjesi the
messes of the idoe4 se be War,
Amigos Annaba he the lesseoespapeet of Wharf."
At the =atlas referred te, a gr elest was read, the
radar of which was Mr.. Price, and its ohnet the
Sensation of a joint stock company, SIMININII6
seal and partly philanthropic in its obj mid in
tended to afford employment for the f pepsin
ties of St. John's. This subject was dinned =A
lired.
St. Thorns Mende of the 7th ult. says t—
oile learn that the American ship Clayburn, of New
°deans, Captain Raring, from Bordeaux, bound to
the drat mentioned place, with a valuable
whose, &c., was totally wrecked on the ea
the night of Saturday, the 3rd inst. The
bad a number of female immigrant ea
beard, who have since been sent to island, sad
are now under the protection of the Vice-Consul of
France, being all ;French subjects. It is reported
that an English brig is also stranded at the east end
of Tortola'
The Barbadian of Dec. 91 says :—" Our harborer
is now showing signs of the busy time coning
back. The regular trading vessels to die pad eas
taking to. their accustomed moorings, reedy Ise the
approaching. cargoes of sugar. We have shook
three of Messrs. Denielee ships, consigned to Kam
T. Louis and Soo,—two from London, and one from
Briateil. Before New Year's Day, we dare say there
will be quits a fleet of oar regular traders, u well as
of transient vessels, seeking for freight to the United
Kingdom.
At St. Thomas, a slight shock of earthquake was
experienced on Wednesday evening, Nov. 30, at 20
minutes to nine o'clock.
Lady Johann. Jensine Ingeborg Cathrine Fodder-
see, wife of the Governor of St. Thomas, died on
Tuesday, Nov. 22.
From Tortola letters announce that the trials in
Read Town terminated on the Ist ult. Thirteen of
the prisoners have bees sentenced to various periods
at herd labour with solitary confinement ; other
saws—eanely, Daniel Todman, Harry Dingy, Mary
Ana Taman, Ahem Todmsn, Henry Harrigan,
Jelin Plainest, and Melly Cuffy—were convicted
of the capital en ms% and sentence of death passed
urea the three knew, and judgment of death re-
seeded against the tsar latter. The two male pri-
mers under @entailed death were to be executed
within a fortnight.
The yellow fever bad broken out at Nevis. There
wen forty cases sad Ss deaths. Fever had also
brakes out at Cuba assay' the blacks there.
In Mexico Santa Anse is beteg edited Dictator
fee life, and is at present engin everything his
own way, exiling those who eppMe his will. The
Dee brought two of the ksaiiei hen Vera Cm,
use, a Omer Ahipilik, wee snarled ken the city
et Medd said • gasni. He pewee to Europe.
At Havadsh, tie new Goverseneneral Punk
hod astsgai es Ma dads with grader dowers, it was
=esta any of his predawn'Me Dee was
at Havana s 13 hod Aar the sails were
IS heard through the wiled el the podia agent in
ad having obtained a permit he the need to pro-
Med after mast. The as* laisitea board at 6 p. 0.,
Dee. 10, the dud did ad posed until 7 ed. the
following deraing. The greater part of the night
the crew woe aNgieyed getting incargo
The posies_anises ef venni wred are free
the Envies Kowtow /oared ef Dec. 7 :
Gods
vessels" he linockt Ow Ostia (less% which arrived Ism
hes sewed to as the foliage/a
hos isSoo to los of elostal vessels as teat *is
He ova Ora ea rim, et lleessabw the imam est k
hoes osestwesiesk esestresit to Um* Me
tine. h= wises mem tee haserleg omen wore anellell
time. hems total wed% eh. :—Thokbuiso..
qe4, of Pew York,. befieetlae Aas
Philadelphia the- of Pow York ; the
Robert and all K. obi* were bill Wahl) sod
the Enlists Weeds, of Haim, testes owl
resole tee sse. The oshesessetellsa waifs be-
MOB tbattrzik Poems thzir te he lest The
belga*** et Pallash tesehe for Rali-
k: saws thee ea shoe en So Woos Beek. 8 be,
keyeeen, we nssseed hen ions poolissi peeitisa eel takea
Sae Te=iwlers she woe seimoi, the sessosior veer
redly Seep of the mew of the Levying. Is woe
repotted at sem* that fear large scpyre.r4spit mom&
true totally weeks& as Turks Wan from the same seen.
3

CANADA.
TORONTO, Dec. 19.
In a late letter I gave you au account of the open-
ing of the Great Western Railway of Canada, between
Hamilton and the FaUs of Niagara. Another por-
tion between Hamilton and London, Canada West,
was opened during the past weak, making in all 118
miles of the line completed, or about half qi,the wbole.
The remainder is under contract, and OPT work will
be prosecuted u vigorously as possible.
I need not again point out the Important errvice
this road will render to one of the richest parts of
Canada, through which it pauses, nor yet ID the
western and eastern states, by furnishing an easy
mode of communication. Enough to may that t con-
nects Detroit River with the waters of Lake Ontario
by a direct route, and also connects with the ralways
of the state of New York at Niagara Falls Suspension

Bridge.
The unseemly dispute between the Great Western
and Grand Trunk directors has died away-4 least
we bear nothing of it. Bat, to take its plum some
of the shareholders of the Great Western an very
angry 'because the directors have voted Bit Allan
*Nab the sum of 4,0001. in remunerador of his
services on behalf of the road. The vote, I dunk, is
of very questionable propriety. It was said to be
given on the authority of Butriish shareholders.
The nest great railway topic in Canada is ilia bias

ef-pirekatilo.delmataree by the government
WWI the Grand Trunk Company. Under the I
strict Wan el the sot, these debentures ought
not to be issued until a portion of the
work is performed, namely, forty thousand
pounds of debentures foe every hundred thismand
rands worth of work, and so on /slime refits. In
view, however, of the tightness of the mime,
market in England the govesusest have Waled
900,0001. of debentures as Wearer the teas. whirl
are to be eyes to the steekbeikes, on the gesdition
of their paying
.up • adds emeent per ohne; the
to be invested is issusslisnable meunkim
firit?cr protestlon of the wales ; end the lees ef
interest to be paid by . the Grand Trunk Company.
There is a decided advantage in this to the share-
holders, as provincial 6 per cent. debentures sell at a
high premium. The maim of the government is
closely contested: on the one hand warmly applauded;
on the other condemned. It certainly has expe-
diency rather than legality to justify it; but the go-
vernment wiU no doubt obtain indemnity for it at the
next session of parliament.
In politico, it has been definitively announced on
the part of the government by the organs, that the
Clergy Reserves question is not to be finally settled
before an appeal is made to the country upon it. Of
course this determination in a matter on which there
Is mash feeling is warmly discussed, and extrema
views advised on both am Whatever expediency
the gememeent may urge is Wear of their poliey,
they eanast maps keen the thine
_ef ineesektesey.
se they took olio ea the sestMeidell queetion.
Beyond this, &May baa tranegired of political
importance since I ha wrote yon—inothing worth
reeerding. It is to meneei we are to home Lind Elgin
back again. There me she nimeeri Meat relative
cannot eh in the previadel ministry; bat I
tram te ray estheatle mune.

ROYAL SANTIAGO MINING COMPANY.

Yesterday the half-yearly general meeting of this
eosins, ins held at the aka, in Broad-street-balhlisge,
Al/oreWi Tuottraott, MP., in the stance of the Besot

L. Oelemidt, priaided.

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The &gime report, widibl.lll read by the Sicamate,
was `epee as ionise* er. The ezpenditare for the eta
mead= eell net Atoll kat. la wages, timber, neer
riale,Alete le 11,4161,11 k, IL, works
the wad
a woriefatUrt kis fee the palpitate works and ether
mienilk-Ifit -the WM .:41, lit otiose, which were
Nisos
issuellre
sad he la dm peell. half-year, bat will tilt
kW wee till ilk essesst.l=4 lad talk
bass bass the ilkekel-
bee ll==EW MI
to the slew of a aew sties bash
idly de, width will be erestall it ill.
if see- Midi hoe base ilesse the
etas Its psteXtre simile ft Imo= ST
Ms et t 166 rose et Os lzbifist
IND 41 reel ea the 27th tad
Cilir• 414,111101. la. 11d., a. will
atakeleet if Monk Thew meek at Mao
140 use mead Sim pedpitate. whisk MI Motley& el
Ire next same the wile asst wise of whisk le 1.•14 sad
which, with ether 'taw as per ossesst, make the tent em
wire 6,9671 g
oiter- Since the het smettermil triespesism
peewee Me tapes the lob os se the
=4lasiess Mee set led to say impsetest esestery we
Gerd mimes, breeveri bee bees mete is.
the Mos is depth end is Myth wherever Ogee wee=
a peewee of masagraties. Teti's', shalt is mesh to 67
fathom Wm the edit; the lode metros large sad re-
getartasa to the eaten of 10 fathoms is length, it yields
his • to 6 teas ef doh as per fathom ; but the ends east
eel west this Osseo peer. If a mate length of lode of
• slake ratesereee shoal be discovered, or should this
sere Om Memo at. a geeeser depth, this mine would
at we Means varshie The lode in the last 10
fathoms Is depds has set ressessi la vales ; on the san-
te rj:Lto bask flare kreabeeteseil alike, owl the Numbly
of see boo geessiossdy boo Ms g Mt to use
ille et the wasegee, . is preedeles sbereeter ter ore
is asite:es geed as over, sal it mile, emeedies to all tape
risme eleewhese, to kid Wit whales Wee.' Great light
win he Wows apes the future pupate of this mine in
dallies the seal* to 20 fms., which work, with the eaten-
lien or as keel, will be carried on as expediti-
on-ly as The 36 fin. level near Taylor's shaft
has ben • take 112 fathom level near Peresveranda
shaft, under the eqweaties of intersecting a side lode, but
no important diesevery has u yet malted therefrom.
Some rich grey ore and red oxides of copper have been ob-
tained in driving the 10 lathes level westward frees Dis-
covery shaft, in ale& semplemil of rem quarts, and spar
in a mature of a pephyride dressage he sorrel fathoms.
The manager reports the isdiestios of Moral to be re-
markably favourable in this put leen pertimenelea, and
the workings are conscqueally sank& ea with all pos-
sible despatch to explore •la depth, eel the share-
holders will,macur with the beset is desiring that this
virgin ground shall be tested as sees to weak*. During
she 1..4 ... meatus so honmmomant has boon met with at
St. Andrew mine, but some farther search has still to be
made. To maintain our rights at La Pay mine, a shaft is
sinking with the ultimate view of intersecting the rich lodes
now worked in the adjoining pertenescia of the Cobra
company, and which dip into the La Pay at a considerable
depth. The new steam machinery and boiler for the old
engine which have so keg beet delayed at Swansea for
freight to the =Wee have lately been shipped off, but a
high rate of freignt. It is, however, satisfactory to state
that the delay has not Impeded the operations at the mines.
The call made in July last upon the shares of the company,
has been well responded to ; the few shares upon which de-
fault was made have been sold by suction, and the proceeds
thereof, leas the call, will be paid to the holders of the
certificates, on their being delivered up at the Aloe of the
company. 'The term of engagement with Yr. Treweek,
the manager at the mines, having expired, he has given
notice that be will return home is the spring. The eau.'
blishment at the mines, after his departure, will be ow-
dieted by thaw who have at present the direetios and
charge of the operations under him, until the state of the 1
mines shall render It expedient to make esker arrears-
manta."
The statement of amount showed theta* whale waking
cash capital of the company, on the OM el Awe, was
12,3871. 131. lid.; that the week were le Welk Wig at
interest, 6,4891. 65., in or seseived at Simms, eel Uri
at the mines waiting foe shipment, 8,4971. Is. 114., sad is
machinery, 2.6361. Hs. 11d.; eat that the lees es Se half-
year's twadess led boss 4,4113. lk. 14.
Two lettuce reeked that nosier hem the gouger at
the mien, me IMO Nev. TS, the ether Nev.* were the.
read, deride, the operatione doe previous dasperhsio
which seated that the armee of the seers mot ft-
°ovaries wassit6= similar to those refined to is the
=iest et want of sofficlent Made to carry
es thperke wade. pmespects in some Wetness were de-
scribed is the latter if the 30th Nov. to be egissed, end
in ethers my pesohiss.
Mr. Tatum (a Moo s& thee ebeerving that the ge.
wet mad the two lottees talk bet tees reed afforded to
the sharebsideserey the tallest isibmades se tote reel sits
et their teep oil that die podemeles group Mara
ewe hedisatimei , suslielendy is
pesolft he badly hhisis se.e
eeaffasolieg diem ie peones% es rephio es- poets is
up the Rises. Semi et the see which had bees
elodenni was eves of a rider dasesese thee the meow
legated to sappest. the yield leleg as soh as 111
IV=
met. U. iii esommes with the ether
ihet *0 dieleVelle ft OM were not yes to beg
Lees the east et wade& but looking at the high guise et
at red essatlerlig meat to .high dry
Os wade, arthe l
_lbe frillidne dIOOSO.
Weida ground. be Yoll no Like is seseWskellei
that the operadess of sempany shield be rebel law
sent as tepidly as male
la reply toe quessiset hes a tousling 's%
The ligeonse steed that the oxides medal el
111.0001. odd hid bees rased sines awe= riadv.
2,6001. They had tow 10,0001. ripest anhele
Mr. Thaws believed they had ket nosey ems. is
heed to orgy thee es le the ant aredsg.
The lizairesounis wee peeled to hear it. Ile bed
sego to the seistiag espeadeg thee a farther call well be
ri=e ilmismoure inquired whether the retire-
' seat of Mr. Tomer would occasion any &indention is
she ey=seena: at theveminr, aid whether the
leaff
Inr3g4TLOS repaid that' there 'impel be sees slight
odor= in the engem, sail there so seem to begs
Om the eperatiese Muhl be still soder ellgethe derego.
meat. Yr. Troweek Mind use is own Oro if ww7
Mame with the boa, bat lessees his purist et anise
bed mint, sad he hed le mats twe.r.. Re
esuld be issesetiet by w
ile.
Toads% Me log Med
Seim, sad Mr. Treeiteek, jaw.,
essesed 11r.
ld.
Is reply to edger quesdam
Xs. Tone* said he wee =Orel, disappeisted that
Tasara mine was set Joust better than was reputed at
the bottom. Ile was ssesumpl, however, to prank
the lading et s lead seetabdog deb oxides of
ether Window at the 40 Mises level, reses= eelthose
*blab were met with in the moils et the yeast la the
Oars mines. The number et diesel is iletwels ere the
lest toll was 228, bet theme were priedgelly IteM by
gesedesen who were Ostesi. •
The report ww he
put end assidoerly MOW, and
• wee.= *oaks to the abbess *minded thetireeeedings.

Tat Tumult Quanow.—Yesterday, at the
meeting of the St. Penang vestry, Churchwarden /Watt in
the chair, a numerously signed requlsitios wee presented
exiling upon the authorities to convene a peddle meeting
" To take into consideration the present uneatisraetory con-
duct of her Majesty's cabinet in reference to Turkish
affairs, and to humbly prey Ims Majesty to take to her
council snob statesmen as will maintain the hamar of
Ragland and the integrity of the Sultan's dominioas waist
the atrocious aggression of the autocrat of Ramis." After
some discussion it was resolved that the use of the vestry-
hall be granted gratuitously.