The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-08 00:00:00

441,1407

621,215

This shows an excess of upwards of fou r hu•ad•Yd and eighty
thousand barrels o• flour, and of six. huralred aad twenty
thousand bushels of wheat, so far if urimg the present year
over a corresponding ptriod last 'lac,

OPERATIONS OF THE Alf .MY AND NAVY.
(From the Washinyt on ration.)
The last mails bring no very I ate intelligence from the
army on the R.O Grande. The la t despatches from General
Taylor state, that the army wi LI be on the advance for
Monterey by the let of Septer sber, at the latest—perhaps
several days earlier. The con ,ttry begins to be impatient
for actor. The heroes of the 8 and 9th of May displayed
such entrgies on those mem. misfile occasions as could not
but encourage the most sang' tine expectations of a prompt
and vigorous campaign. " ,d Rough and Ready" has be-
come the sobrivta of the Cc unwinding o,ueral. We hope
that he will realise the chars ter to the end of the chapter.
The general who leads the army into an enemy's country
should be full of rinteutm bell-balanced, stlf-centred
—susceptible of the bighs enthusiasm—capable of impart-
ing it to all his follow, ex— -bold as well as active—coutideut
of hinistlf—exerting ever y means, and emplsyieg secondary
substitutes according to t ne circumstances in which he may
be placed. Such, we ho will prove to be the course of
the brave commander Al the gal:ant officers with whom he
is lieufeiated• General faylor' it is now understood, has the
means of teensiioetetiot itshis 11311d1-111IlleS as well as wag-
gons. We hoist, soon to hear of his rapid marches, and his
victorious progress.
is no sort of founduti on. It moue in the shape of a letter
sly prevailed, for which we learn there
One rumour has be
from Matamoras, ab tut the loth of August, and was pub-
lished a few days y
,o in the Baltimore Sun. It states that,
on the preceding night, 400 rancheros had broken into tae
town and created P confusion; that it was the commence-
ment of the gue rills mode of warfare, tic. The whole
story was unfouin led. it was an idle quiz perpetrated upon
the colonel of a volunteer force, which betrayed him into
some ridiculous • blunders.
The plan of t) 0. campaign has been conceived in a decisive
spirit, and we ought nut to doubt that the success of the re-
sults will corer apund with the vigour of the design.
two or three small naval operations in the Gulf. And the
loss of e
the little
• disappoiutinent ha, been felt from the failure of
s'suston is a source of sincere regret. But no
official tie" int has been received from Captain Carpender to
exPlein the whole transaction. Whether or why he reposed
confidence in the strange pilot, whom he had captured, and
then whet her he was betrayed by the treachery of his guide,
or wheth rthe guide himself was mistaken about the coast ;
r.d ~in
are the particular circumstances which induced
a.
hint to s urrender his men at Teepee, and why he did not
strike fur some efficient place of escape, if any were prac-
ticable remains to be explained by the c Than him-
self, whose character has stood so fair and high in the
serve of his country. The Mexican co at on the Gult is
full of shoals and uttelbara, which are calculated to impede
the approach of our vessels, aid the debarkation of our
try ups, and to call forth all the cir...umspection of our naval
of ricers.
The events and prospects on the coast of California are
bright and cheering. 'there is reason to believe that before
this time the whole of that coast has been occupied by our
squwlron. Monterey is certainly taken, and Giumas, and it
is certain that the Yerba Buena, un the bay of San Francisco,
was summoned by Captain Montgomery, audit is believed to
have been taken without resistance.
We met, at the War Department this evening, with a cap-
tain in Colonel Stepheason's regiment. Ile informs us that
the troops were being paid oil souse months in advance, as
they were actually embarked, and that they would certainly
sail far the Pacific in the course of this week.

The Secretary of the American Treasury has knell the
following circular to collators dad other othters of the
Customs

Treasury Department, Sept. 90846.

I have to call the attention of the officers of the Customs
generally, and more particularly those ot certain mentioned
districts on the frontiers of the United States, to the provi-
sions of the annexed act of Congress, approved the Bth of
August, 1846, "For the allowance of drawback on foreign
merchandise imported into certain districts of the United
States, from the British North American provinces, and
exported to foreign countries." It is to be observe.' that the
act allows drawback on any merchandise imported from
the British North American provinces adjoining the
United States, which shall have been duly entered and the
duties paid or a cured aecording to law, at either of the

ts
ports of entry in the. colhation disreieri.,,,4
the northern, north-eastern, am: north-weet,lro"44'll '
of the United States, and autiorises sucli roe,„‘,.._. ..
disc to be transported by land or by wat.7r, or part?, h;-".t.„ , 1
and partly by water, to any port or ports from whit - -. ,
chandisc may, under existing laws, he exported (wo, . !
benefit of drawback, and be thence exported with such 141
lege LO any foreign country. All such goods are, howls
required to be exported within one year from the dx
te se t importation.—Where goods us entered and the duties sese r'
at the port of arrival on the frontiers referred to, sad r ree,..es—• ..:
to be transported fir exportation from another. 4e, --" • (
transporttration must be made in conformity with e i-7,0 f'.
regulating the transportation of merchandise f 4
benefit of drawback. In granting debenture in thyo •
eau*, a deduction of 21 per cent. must be mete from the
drawback. It is moreover to be observed that all dutit'sle
merchandise imported int. the ports is leered te,
the
adjoining British provinces, is entitled to all the rt.
yin/es and benefits granted by the warehousine 'it,
of 6th August, 1816, if the importers choose to avail
'Rives of said privileges and benefits. Consequently any „,,,,k
merchandise not entered for consumption mar he warch
at either of said ports, and be subsequently withdrawn there.
from for transportation to other pints of sun to le re-ware„
housed thereat, and be ex pored d irectly from WA rehouse tour
foreign port on payment only of storage and expense' la
all such ease% therefore, the regulations and forms prescribed
in the circular issued by the department under date cribs
14th ult., for the government of the officers of the custom,
in carrying into effect the warehousing act, mast he,
strictly complied with. Any article of merchandise lob.
ject to ad valorem duty imported into the frontier pm,
before reform(' to, which are not of the growth, manufacture,
or production of the British provinces alluded win the
act, moot pay duty upon " the current market value or
wholi sale price of similar articles at the principal market, of
the country of production or manufacture at the period of the
exportation of said goods, wares, and merchandise, to the
United Smtes." To this value is to be added all corgi sad
charges, except insurance, and including, in every case e
charts fur commissions at the usual rates. Forth, eirpee,..
ment of merchandise at ports where there ar,, no lead ap.
praisers, the appraisers ent is to be made in the manner •I4i-
cated in the 16th section of the act of Ist March, 152.1, oe
„
wit: by two reap( ctahle resident merchants of the port, duly by the collector for the purpose, to rroere
fur their services while actually employed on dui
dirty, • compensation of five dollars per diem, ~,,h,
as authorised by the seventeenth section of the said oct
It is specially enjoined upon the offivra of the cur
toms at ports to which merchandise may he truu.poned
under this act, either for exportation therefrom to a ',rein
port for the benefit of drawback, or to be re-warehoused
thereat, and especially in the case of foreign spirits Lai
wines, to have such merchandise carefully inspected sad
examined, to ascertain that the packages, boxes, rah,,
/Cc., contain the identical articles describ,d in the hanspy.
tation certificate accompanying the same, without diming
tion or cheap. of the article in any respect having taken
place during the transportation.
R. J. V. ALKEIt, Secretary of the Treasury.

PIIIL‘DELPHIA, Suer. 15.—There is nothing new in coma. Mgr
much inquired for, and 414 25 freely offered. Holder* are Ern g
Si 50 for fn.h gonad, of which the market it neiirty b„. 04
Mock, and reinxpeeteil, it worth .64 to 4 121,. Rye flour i. he'd I,
and torn meal .5.2 75 to 63. Wheat is in reque4, with sale. of pees,
sylvania red at 95 to 96 crow ; eouthern, 93 cent.. corn ha, 4.
sanced, and 5,000 toti.he4i tnssl nouthern yellow ',old at 63 rent.; a
in held at 65 cent,. Southern oatik 331034 cents. Unveil oil, .4ei
yestenlay and to-dry to the extent of 50,000 gallons, is now wan SI
to 60 cents.

11m:ramose: Sege. 15.—There were sales of parcel+ of Hower&
street flour on Saturday, at 4 dollars 12 cents. Tslay an advance
of l 2 cents war. demanded by holden: and, sales of uss briv. were
made at 4 dollars 2.1 vents, at which rate dealers are ycite firm this
evening. Wheat+ are very scarce and in KMAI denwMl. Akw lain
of Maryland red+ have been made at an advance .1 1 or 5 out+ per
bushel since Friday last. Whiskey may be quoted nominally in With. at
21i eentA, and brio. at 22 cents—holders gems ally nut bung slissmed
to sell at these prices.
NeAr Yonm, Seirr.ls.—This market closed a+ follows : —flour, ho.:
Wes:ern Canal is firm ut 4 dollars 75 cent+, at which several at,
were made. Sales of Brandywine were mirk at 1 donate 62i tents-
It I. now held firmly at 4 dollar+ 25 cants. Common southern may Se
quoted at Verse pt ices. Jersey Corn sleal scars• and in held at
3 dollars to 3 dollars 123 renew. 8,000 bu•hvl+ of 111-tern Wheat ou:d
at 93 cents to 94 yenta. Genesee is held at I dollar to 1 dollar: rents,
with mks. Corn, 68 cent* to 70 cents. Rye, 721 rents.

COLONIAL.
WEST INDIES.

JAMAICA.—From this island our domatchrt.ats
to the 9th of September.
Frans Or THE Cotosotere.—As was to be staid-
paled, great apprehensions are expressed of the cc .11111:1 pita
of the alterations in the sugar duties. The semi .rks of the
Despatch on this subject are a fair specimen of the genera
tone of the colony :—" While all is despair and alarm in the
British colonies, hope and delight are boor .rat it Cuba.
Ther • property has risen 25 per cent. in value , and a pro-
mised crop of 200,000 tons fur the next year It as gives fresh
energy to the slave.owner, and a g 100.5,48 it ap&e to the
slave trade. The Cuba planter, who receives 12.. a cwt. for
Ids sugar in Cuba, realises te handsome iota rest on his earl-
tail. We have never yet, under the most fat nimble circum-
stances, been able to produce it under 16... a tot, on the arse
age, every hundred-weight of sutra that Is ayes the Waal
has cost 20s. to place it on board. ship, It is manger.
therefore that the produce obtained at the leaser vet would,
at the highest rate of differential (buy. oat i meet the fortg:
article on terms that would leave '2a. A t :undred-weigle a
2/. a ton, as the return to the West Inffis 1 proprietor, child
the produce which costs 20s. must be sold at a lose. The
result can hardly be a mystery. Tweistli ;rds of the e.genti
Jamaica will have *eased to he mall caeca hum how sat
period of actual equalisation artier*. f hort hand, d easte,,
of hilly aspect, iu the hands of. met , unequal to meet tht
consecutive loose,. of several years es atuditure must yield
to the pressure conoequent on Lord .51 ,i,„ ft,,,neip, mensan,
and the RilioritY of
aprdreittzcettief'-‘SO, arelm_
i.dts,
weeireparrystboced,k,
The sugar questioa has been comf aced very generally to
that of tho corn-!awes, and so far as injustice goes, the rea-
p:l6l.on may be admitted—but, they
.„ is vast distinction be.
twecn free trade in corn and i° v trade in sugar. One it.
stance of this distinction may stiff ,ce :_it is beyond a doubt
ti,,,nhie:oaryart
ir_tr.,ll.inifreiii,eoliadto.ofwetiltrhhaine.rztaczear,riv.a. carriage a, a
,p,,
i„tce. from:7 certainf
r,., foreign 0 ~e
Cubs.e manyit t ne cousins t
ir. :
:0::
unfired-weight of sugar seat
countries. a
c.wiThewlhniiigsthet‘,..foray
be.
from Jamaica costs 45., and frequently b. I'sl. Free trade
with US, therefore, is an es it without mitigation."
Wu° la To BEAR '4IIR LOSS ?—The Jamaica public is
looking round for persons at whose e xpenae it may nous
aniae. As the rate of wages is not subject to nes'
lation, we suspect 0 overnment officials are hke:y
to be laid hold on. The paper quoted above sas
—. If a chance edits by which the West Indian plaices
can hope to semis° the ruinous measure which has are
evidenced the return to power ore destructive ministry, this
chance rests solcly on such a reduction of his expenditure as
may place him on &footing with the Spanish colonist. %eget
must be brought down—taxes must be greatly reduced.'
•
And really, from the following statement, it would appear
that the officials can stand a little *queering:—" It is redly
appalling to a people suffering front trite both social and
natural, to contemplate the expenditure of the island f Ilia
last year. The return exhibits a culpably unequal and diss
proportioned distribution of the revenue: we are ehareed
00,977/. 13s. 4d. fur its collection, and pay fw " Judiai-
tune " the sum of 61,6361. 14.., of which 15,9781. are ..,r
the salaries of judges. The Chief Justice of the island
receives 3,000/. ; the Vice-Chmeellor. 2,5001. ; and the tee
Assistant Judges, 2,0001 each, per annum, tor their RV
vices." •
STOT.EN OR STR % TED: A BIAROT.—The Desparsd informs
us : " We are assured that the lord bishop may be expected
by an early packet, and it is only asserting what has too
long become a truism that his lordship's protrachal 61)4110S
has been most seriously felt throughout the diocese, and the
his return will be hailed with gladness by the inhabitaats a
those districts to which spiritual instreetton has been 'haat
totally denied by the absence of those temples of devotion
which only await an appropriation of the liberal grant of the
legislature to render them available to the emceed objects for
which they were designed." ibis we think is ether too
severe. The long absence of the bishop warrants, it is me,
a little severity,. but to tell hint coolly that if they had en'y
got churcs they could do without hint, is rather stress
An absentee bishop, by the way seems a fair euough sub-
ject for the proposed economical reform.
ADMINISTRATION OT JI:t•TICE AT PORT MARIA —WC are
assured, says the Jamaica Despatch, that since the month
of June no court of petty sessions bar been held at Mans
niug's Town, in consequence of the nom-attendaure of
magistrates. Mr. Walsh, the stipendiary jeetice, whin re-
-1 sides at a distance of some 18 taxa from the Bay, and whose
duties arc strictly confined to the western district of the
parish, has regularly attended on every alternate Saturday
at Port Maria, but he has not succeeded for some too
months in obtaining an associate justice. Suitors and wit-
news have been compelled to travel from time to time scone
twenty miles to the Bay, and h.ve li en ohliged to renal
without effecting th it objects. But this is not the worst
part of It. Cases are mentioned of prisoners who have beta
confined on warrant. ahoy the month of June, and dew
cases still remain unexamined. It is hut justice to the
magistrates to state that much of the ineonvenienes com-
plained of has arisen latterly front the want of a eustos, and
more remotely from the inattention of the gentleman she
lately held that office.
Mereoteotaniv.—A correspondent of the Jamaia Ms-
patch gives the amount of rain in Portland during the month
of August at 10.81 inches. Ile adds: "The rain of August
has been less than half that of July. The vegetation has
been very great, work very indifferent; the math, r has
been sultry, and very hot in the MU." After weapitulaticat
the electric phenomena of the month, he observes : " If
there has been any storm this month in our archipelago, it
probably occurred about the 14th, or 19th. or 'Leith,when
the barometer had again risen and fallen to 129.75. It is
seldom that the mun'h of August passes without sonic con-
v
u
l
s
i
o
n
inandthsee ICdoarmibsbueffaenosi.e'heallituhrri"useglnesjaffin7.t
Jamaica
frequently
is h
pass, as far as we can judge, from Tobago, Trinidad, end
ar
Barbadoes, or the neighnouring ocean towards the north-
west, skirting the north shores of Hayti and Cuba—some-
times penetrating the Gulf of Florida, oftener by far keeping
parallel with the shore of the continent, and gradually pro.
ui,enhiliry
favoured
giah : a g
Atlantic.t
datedo ti
i ht
me 5,n1
ton: north-east,
en -: ai
are
, t and
wbida
admirable
dbmoylriiNbtel
the
wo u
charts
un
is
erll al nwot 1
fc totol, theoae :r1
more storms. One of these only passed to the southward of
Jamaica, and crossed the Isthmus of Yucatan into Mexico.
Another, that of August, 1335 (not the one that visited Bar:
balms and occurred in September of that year), Fa"
along the north of Hayti and Cuba, and whirled itself in so
Texas. A third found its way up the Missioippi : this wits
the horrible Ilarbadoes hurricane of 1831, which pawl
directly over Cuba and Hayti, and did great damage. All
the others hen the American continent, tending first
the north-west,o the north, then to the nuthaast"to

GI; I ANA.—STATE OP TIIE COLONY.—Of political or
legislative intelligence, says the Royal Gazette of Sept. 3,in
" review tor home reenters," we have none to emsmuni-
ceee. yoijtically, things are as quiet as they ens be:
scantly a breath ruffles the surface—scarcely a cloud darkens
the expause nfsociety. The people are thoroughly contested;
and profound order reigns in every district of the province.
wen.eed, and physically happy, as our masses are, how
could it be otherwise ?
TEm PER or THE COLONI.—We believe the temper in
which the residents in Guiana have received the alterations
is the sugar duties, is pretty fairly expressed in the foHosing
extract front the Royal Gazette:—" We decline expressing
any decided opinion at present as to the character of Lord
John Russell's measure, inasmuch as we hold it to be im-
possible to determine its character, until the ulterior West
au policy. of the noble lord shall have been developed.
According as teat policy is passive or directive, stationary or
progressive, will the new miuisterial settlement of the sugar
auress have been prudent, provident, wise, or on the
other hand improvident, inconsiderate, rash, mad. The
government has at preeeat only taken a first step. It has
been a bold one ; but whether its tendency is right or wrong
depends on the course to be traced by the steps that are to
follow. We trust that Lord John laussell wall see that there
is not the least desire on the part of the \Vest Indies to oc-
casion any embarras.ement to his administration, even in
matters most nearly affecting their own vital interests. If
this spirit of fairness is reciprocated, the most desponding
may yet have hopes for these colonies: without it, the colo-
nists, so long the sport of contemling political parties in the
mother country, will have to look forward to gloomy pros
meets indeed. We think, too, we may add, that if the noble
lord will act with candour and justice towards u. he may
calculate, among other support, on that of the West India
party. In th,s colony, at all events, the feeling seems to be
universal to give hint and his colleague', a fair trial, to for-
get what is past, and to judge of them as we shall henceforth
find them to be."
1M NIIO It. TlON.—lMMiallitioll is still going on ; hut at the
present moment not very rapidly. We have had during the
last fortaight some arrivals from Mndeira with Portuguese
labourers; hut no new shipments of immigrants from any
other quarter. The Coolies, imported at the end of lust and
the beginning of this year, are, we rejoice to say, se-irking
steadily on estates in the different rural districts. These
people, taken altogether, . give much satisfaction to fee
managers and representatives of the properties on which
they are located. They are, for the must part, regular and
earls. in their attendance in the field, and persevering in
whatever work is assigned to them to do. It ts much to be
wished that in those respects the great body of oar agricul-
tural creole population would take example from them
We may be mistaken, but the following from the Guiana
Times does look a little like a job. " There has been a meet-
ing of the Court of Policy, and a resolution aereed to, to
give a bounty upon adult immigrants from hladeira and the
Azores of 3d dollars a head, and 15 dollars for children.
Immediately the resolution wee adopted, the whole pas-
sengers brought by the brig and schooner or. Monday were
engaged by an honourable member of the Court of Policy."
AGRICULTCRAL IMP ROVEMENTS.—Per.,ous qualified to
pass an opinion report strongly in favour of the practicability
of subsoil draining in this colony. An experiment is now,
and has been for some months past, making on a piece of
ground on I'l. La Penitence, in the immediate vicinity of
town. The land has been cleared, and tiles have been laid
down under the superintendence of 1)r. Ste ir, the agricul-
tural chemist, and a committee of the agricultural and com-
mercial society. It is proposed, for the purpose of showing
the applicability of this method of draining to our staple cul-
tivation, to plant the field when the proper preparations have
been made in canes. All preparatory arrangements base
now been made, and all that the agricultural chemist and
the committee now w.tit for is rain. As soon as the land is
in a fit state for planting by the setting in of the wet senor,
the culture will be commenced. La Penitence is a favourable
estate for the experiment. It is one of those properties,
which by being situated on the bank of a river, instead of a
Hue of sea coast, possess peculiar facilities fur regular and
complete drainage at all times.
Tits: WEATHEIL—The weaf ler has been dry, and the
heat something intense. This is called the hurricane season
in the idands ; here the atmosphere has been mostly charac-
terised not by violent gales, but by deep calms, in which not
a breath of wind has stirred to cool the biasing beams of the
sun. There still continues some unhealthiness in the colony
which is not to he wend, red at; but there has been happily
no serious extent of mortality. The planters ere, generally
speaking, going on very well; and there has been a marked
improvement of late in the quality of the work done—thanks
to immigration.

TRINIDAD.—The intelligence from this colony is
to the .sth of September.
TempErc or THE COLONY:A public meeting of the
inhabitants of Port of Spain was convened for the Ifith of
September, to express their opinions on the present position
of the West Indian colonies, consequent on the equalisation
of the sneer duties, and to urge upon government the adop-
tion of stringent measures to suppress slavery all over the
world. A deputation from San Fernando waited on the
governor on the 2nd of September, to present to him
resolutions pawed at a public meeting in that town,
on the 29th of August. The resolutions expressed dismay at
the equalisation of the duties on free and slave-labour sugar;
confidence in the judice of the Braidi legislature ; their
desire for nothing more than an equal application of the
principles of free trade, as expressed in the resolutions
moved by Mr. flume in the House of Commons. The fourth
resolution was as follows :

"That in the mists which is now inevitable, this meeting earnestly
and respectfully begs his Kacrllcuey the Governor and the Legislative
Council to take such nwasurem. may test enable the country to nicer
its altered clrtiamstanees, MO without which the struggle will be
bap lee amongst these may be noticed the regulation of the
right. and duties of employers and employed, and the :assimila-
tion of the laws of labour to the existing law of K14(1.11111; the pre-
vention of .nu-sting; the sale and settlement of Crown lands, in
approved log alities unit under judicious limit dam., with the view of
inducing immigrants who have trained money t remain In the
Island, and for the purpose of obtaining a fund for future immigra-
tion and interml iinpmvements; and the revival of African immigra-
tion on a sound husis and more extended wale, and with uu harassing
restrictions." . . . .

......
Another resolution declared that it was incumbent MI
all poetics to obtain a reduction of the heavy charges on the
shipment of Colonial produce to the mother country.
WINDWARD ISLANDS.—From But Woes we
have papers to the 4th of September. The only news of
interest in them relates to the weather. Heavy showers had
fallen towards the end of August ; the face of the country
was beautifully verdant ; the provision crops looked pro-
mising, and the young canes were looking green and
vigorous. The report of the St. Thomas Agricultural Society
for August n.dices particularly the flourishing condition of
the rumens, the increased quantity of potatoes, and the
abundance of the Indian corn. The report of the St. Philip's
Agricultural Society states that there had been a large plant-
ing of yams, which had sprung well ; potatoes were plentiful.
The canes were " of a beautiful colour, healthy, and vigorous,
and hail grown and suckered at least as much its they usually
do in August." This report adds :--" It is highly gratifying
to remark th.:t the plough, and other machines worked by
brute farce, are in very extensive use ; this circumstance may
be accounted (or nnt only by the advance which such imple-
ments have made in the estimation of the planter, but also
to the great 4areitv of labour which has compelled him to
resort to them; indeed, without the p'ough the preparations
could scarcely have been commenced at this period.'

LEEWARD ISLANDS.— From this group there is
no news. The Antigua Observer of loth S. pt. complains of the
dearth of that material, and then as if to illustrate the old
adage, "no news ate good news," expatiates ou the pleasant
weather, healthy state of the island, and general favourable
prospect.. "We have, however, in the meantime, been
favoured with excellent weather for all desirable purposes,—
agricultural, commercial, and pleasurable. The planters are
mostly engaged in weeding, though a number are yet em-
ployed in taking off what is yet remaining of this year's
crop. The indications are very favourable as to the next,
and unlcis retarded by a scarcity of labour, or these auspices
be reversed, we may look in the forthcoming fur an abundant
harvest. The Gland, we are happy to add, is very healthy.
We hear of a few ca.a.s of fever, but these appear to be of a
mild type. The doctors are beginning to look grunt. With-
out wishinx these gentlemen any particular hardship or W-
hack, we yet desire in all charity that it will be very long
before an increased demand upon their professional labours
will MSC thCal to look otherwise."