The Express.
London, England, 1851-11-11 00:00:00

WEST INDIA MAIL.

The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship
Great Western, Captain Woolley, arrived ut South-
ampton last evening, bringing the usual British and
foreign West India and Mexican mails, in charge of
Lieutenant I'urver, R.N., Admiralty agent. Her
dates arc as follow: Greytown (Mosquito), Oct. 6;
Chagres, 10 ; Carthagena, 12 ; Santa Martha, 10;
Vera Cruz, 8 ; Tampiw, 5; San Juan (Porto Rico),
17; Kingston (Jamaica), 14; lkrbice, 11 ; George-
town (Demerara), 12 ; Port of Spain (Trinidad), 12;
Tobago, 12 ; Grenada, 13 ; Curtain, 13 ; St. Vincent,
13 ; Ilarbadoes, 14 ; St. Lucia, 14 ; Martinique, 15;
Guadeloupe, 15 ; Dominica, 1.3; Antigua, 16; Mont-
serrat, 16; Nevis, 16; St. Kite+, 16; Tortola, 16;
St. Thomas's, 19; Fayal, Nov. 3.
The Great Western has experienced strong easterly
winds, with a heavy sea, and was obliged in conse-
quence to put into Fayal for a supply of coals. Sho
brings 55 passengers and the following on freight :
Specie from Tampico, value 27,616 dots.; from Vera
Cruz, 131,69 d dols.; for account of Mexican divi-
dends, 20,943 dole. ; from the Pacific, 37,909
from California, 190,1403 dols.; from Carthagcna,
34,826 dols.; from Jamaica, 7,786 dols. ; from Pavel,
1,365 dols.; from other parts of the West Indies,
30,995 dols.; the total value being 483,919 dots., or
96,800!. sterling, of which 171,201 dots. is in silver,
and 30'9,748 dots. in gold.
The Royal mail steamer Trent was at St. Thomas.
The Medway was passed at sea on the 11th ult.,
by the Great Western, en mule for Chugres. The
Dee, with the outward mails front Southampton,
left Fayal on the 12th of October, having put in
there fur coals. _ _ _

A letter dated Santa Martha, Oct. 9, gives an ac-
count of a serious attitir arising out of a quarrel be-
tween a merchant and a custom-house officer in that
place, which ended in the latter being so danger-
ously wounded by a pistol-bull that he lay three
weeks without hope of recovery. Thu letter ends
as follows :

The news here from the provinces is highly favourable to
the government. The town of Medellin, in Antioguia, has
been taken, and the insurgents, commanded by General
II arcro, have laid down their artitk, to the number of 1,000;
600 more hare Ilea to the mountains in different directions.
General Borrero himself ma:king his c,cape as he best
could. There woe nut any severe lighting, and the revolu-
tionary effort appears to he entire,y supprts,d.
A letter, dated Grey Town, Oct. 6, says:

The route from this town to the Pacific is attracting a
large number of pmseugers to aid from Caliternia as it
has di:tined advantages over the Panama route. The San
Juan River is navigable the whole distaitee' with the ex-
ception of about two hundred yard., where there is a rapid
called the Castello Viejo. At the foot of the rapid pas-
sengers have to distembark front the steamer, walk or ride
a distance of 200 yards, and re-enthark in another steamer,
which they hare succeeded in carrying up the rapid,
which strainer takes thent up the river into the Lake of
Nicaragua, a distance of thirty miles, and across the
lake to Virgin Bay, a further distance of sixty miles.
From this place to San Juan del Sad, the port on the Pa-
cific, is a distance of twelve miles. The road is mostly
level, and in the wet 5C11,4111 vet, muddy, but infinitely su-
perior to the Cruces and Gorgoua roads, on the Panama
route. It being the wet season, and the water in the river
being consequently high, the steamers have at present no
difficulty in navigating it, bet whether they will be able to
do so when the water has fa len the next season will show.
The passage from Grey Town to Sun Juice del Sud is
40 doh. ; this includes a riding mu!c from Virgin Bay to
San Juan. Passengers' baggage is charged at the rate of
10 cents. per lb. '1 here were live vessels with passengers
expected at San Juan on the _2nd September.