The Express.
London, England, 1851-09-09 00:00:00

TRINIDAD.
From this Wind we learn that the changes that
will be Progimed is the esmaittee on the warden
erdintince- will only have fist &air aim to nabs the
ordinance yet more ellsehrd anti better salsabied to
csa7 o the views of Lord Flessik, awhile instance
frast med. The Port of Spas eassalso et August
g, with reference to this sausase. ayes
Haring become, as we
sincere convert to the rpolis"ArlaMedalerhhll4ll4l
Measure of Lord Harris's afar we are
mations to sse it worked ,t
hate the mg whisk will neon I
it, smash at • late hour, t fell sesame cdpegelarity W '
waren in to= it emternuy entitled.
At the Board of Council on the let of Al got a abgabh
hem the secretary of state was read, with lie*
_in SIB
ordinance passed on the 6th May last, and entitled "ha
ordinance fur encouraging the introduction into this
of fns black and eolouted immigrants from the Villa
grans of America and the British North Amadei= pre•
Mores. Earl Grey states that he approves of the fifteen I
in every respect, with the exception of the clause which
has reference to the naturalization of American inosigranta
arriving in the colony, and as regards which be sub.
wits some amendments for the consideration of the
council. The colonial secretary laid on the table
several voluminous communications from Mr. Pollard,
the agent sent on for facilitating the immigration of free
coloured persons from the United States. A communica-
tion
from Mr. White, the joint immigration agent for 1)e-1
=rare and Trinidad at Calcutta, was read—pointing out'
various abuses in the existing system of Indian immigration,
and seegesting the proper remedies. On the motion of
the colonial secretary, the attorney-general, the colonial
treasurer, and Messrs. Rennie, Lush, and Hume, were
appointed a standing committee, to consider all commu-
nications received from Mr. White on the subject of Indian
immigration. The Colonial Secretary stated to the board
that Mr. Caird had instructions from the Secretary of State
that shipping had been taken up for 1,000 coolies for 1852.
A petition from the town council of l'ort of Spain, repro-
meting the insalubrity of the present private slaughter-
houses of l'ort of Spain situate to the windward of the
town, and praying for their suppression, and for
authority to erect public slaughter-houses to the
leeward of the town, and to enforce the use of the same,
was read by the elerk. It was referred to the soli-
citorgeneral to bring in an ordinance on the subject.
A communication was read by the clerk from Mr. Altonse
Ride, requestiug the council to increase their vote':
made in 1847 for steam communication with the adjacent
gae• of Venezuela, from 500!. sterling per annum to 1,000!.,
in favour of a new arrangement, which would place Tri-
nidad in direct communication with the littoral of the re-
public of Venezuela, from Ciudad Bolivar to Maricaibo, as
will as with tha islands of Marguerite and Curtain. The
attorney-general and Messrs. Rennie and Lash were ap-
pointed • committee to take Mr. Reed's proposition into
consideration.
LEEWARD ISLANDS.

The St. Luria Palladium of Aug. 8, lays :
The sugar crop of latil is nearly closed. All that remains
of it to be manufactured or carritd away may be taken in
one or two shiploads. It may be as well, for the informa-
tion of our readers at home and abroad, to give an account
of the amount of our exports to date, and, elinparing it with
that of last year, show how things have not turned out to
be quite so had as wo had had reason to fear in the early
part of the crop season. In the following table we place
the exports of the eight months of the present year elapsed
to date, against the total quantity shipped in the whole of
last year .
hhde. tn. 9'415 hhds
guitar plugged Dem lto Dee. 31,1050 3,734 171 1,3717-= 4313
Ditto from Jut. 1 to Aug. 8, 1551 4,097 335 3,34=44U

Surplus to date
There are still, to onespieks this year's crop of sugar, from
600 to 704) casks to be shipped, making a surplus of some
1,100 hhtls. over last year.
Judging from present appearances, we may venture to
say that, unless some extraordinary countentroko occurs in
the weather, still greater fruitfulness will crown the exer-
tions of the St. Lucia planters next year.
The Union Estate, ono of the finest, best installed, and
most productive estates in the island, and which comprises
upwards of 1,000 acres of land, of which 63 arc in cane cul-
tivation, has been knocked down this week at Marshall's
sale for 6,500/. sterling. The purchaser is F. Loustan,
Esq., as agent for Edward Lumley Woodycar, Esq., resid-
ing at Aix, in France.
Lieut.-Colonel Cobb, 2nd West India Regiment,
arrived at St. Lucia on the 30th of July, and 011-
mimed the government of' that island on the same

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"Prom the other islands the only important item of
intelligence is that of a frightful eruption of the long
dormant volcano of the Peke Mountain, in Marti-
nique, which took place during the night of Tuesday,
August sth. Like the great and memorable erup-
tion of the St. Vincent Soufriere in Ihl2, the pheno-
menon at Martinique is described as having been ac-
companied with " a noise similar to the approach of
thunder, still nearer and nearer, with a vibration that
affected the feelings and hearing." I tappears, however,
that, beyond a layer of grey sand, gritty particles of
calcined earth, and fevilla, found in the morning upon
the streets, houses, and shipping, as having been
thrown forth by the volcano in the night, the people
of St. Pierre were, up to our accounts, uninformed of
the effivts of the phenomenon.
The following extract of a private letter may, in
the absence of more collected particulars, give some
idea of the eruption:
St. Pierre, Aug. 6.
A strong rumbling noise was heard last night, which con-
tinued from about midnight to four o'clock this morning.
At daylight this 'needing we observed three streaming
chimneys of smoke on the Pelee mountain. One of these
was of black smoke, rvembling the smoke of a steam-ship,
though ten times more voluminous than the chimney of our
stram.frigute. The other two were formed of a whitish
smoke. I assure you I sever before saw anything so grand.
The town is all covered over with grey ashes. A great
many p.-noes have gone to the Mount, but cannot reach it
before night. There has been nu shuck of earthquake felt,
but persons living in the neighbourhood declare that they
were driven from their homes by the strong smell of sulphur
and the fill( of danger from their vicinity to the eruption
Another letter of the same date says:
We hail during the night an eruption of the volcano on
Maud Pelee, The whole town, u far as the Slouillage, as
well as all the eurroundirg country, is covered over with
ashes. The population of Precheur had to fly their hones
during the night, and come the whole way to St. Pietro.
As for my family, it was not until rising this motraing we
heard of the occurrence, there not having been, thank God,
any earthquake. It ie not possible to give you say particu-
lars of this phenomenon or its effects ; you shall soon have
them is the journals. It may, however, be inhumed that
no calamitous result has arisen from it, tor, had thaw boos
say, we should have known it by this time.
The Vile.: Mountain (r s the SC Lewis Pearlisats),
which is the highest land in Martinique, stasis at the mods
of the island, and, according to the isaLyablithed
authority in 1831, reprawatod as as
of 4,1304 English feet free the hod of sta. It is
from this mountain chiefly that the 1111111=1101111
rue by which the Ward Y watorsi_ ; ash. slheash
strikingly characterised with Ow bsdeliblo wads of an
ancient volcano, we do not renseuthet to have ever fallen in
with the neon' of any 7 of its seretions. It is to be hoped
that amongst those iabahisoal eharelto have been attracted
to the site of this volcano by its mast eruption, some
scientific explorer will be hood to enlighten us with the
result of his observations on no interesting a phenomenon.
There is said to be an identity of origin in earthquakes and
volcanic eruptions--a connection, more or less intimate, in
the agency of the one with the other. In the ease of Etna
end Vesuvius, it is recorded, they rarely return to a state of
activity otter an interval of repose without some antecedent
earthquake, the latter usually ceasing as soon as the vol-
cano has once established for itself a vent whereby the
elastic vapours can discharge themselves. So, too, we have
seen that the earthquake which destroyed Caracas in 1812,
at the same time that the shores of the Mississippi were in
sympathetic commotion, was followed in eight days by the
memorable eruption of the Soufriere in St. N'incent. May
it not, then, be hoped that the awful oscillations of the
earth, almost continuously in action durninagg the last two
months it the neighbouring island of Oandaioupe, winnow
be :it an cad?
A letter, dated" St. Thomas, August 4," says:
The " dengue," which latterly prevailed at listrannah,
has made its appearance here. It is a species of influenza,
brought on, it is supposed, by the excessive hest of the wea-
ther and frequent slight showers. Nothing of the kind ever
proved so general. Three-fifths of the inhabitants have been
attacked. The disease is harmless in its ranks, though
exceedingly annoying. The symptoms are slight fever and
headache, followed by sever catarrh and cough, which
gene rally disappear in twelve or fifteen
The accounts from New Grenada are disas-
trous. No remittances could be sent from Bogota to
Carthagena, for fear of robbery. Trade at the latter
place was completely at a stand-still. Panama is in
an unsettled state, owing to the revolution in the
interior. The New Grenada government had de-
manded supplies from the inhabitants of Panama to
put down the revolution. Tho latter refused to
grant them, and threatened to set up an indepen-
dent public.

CITY OF LONDON REOISTRATION.—AO,OIIIIII6 to
the abstracts of claims a persons to bare dads memo in-
serted in the lists of 'seem haw whisk tiny bane been
omitted, and Idols to MIMI in the Isis reforned
to Mr. T. Y.l4CbeWs fee Skytool, at Ile amides he rho
City of Lorin, en the 24mi rassizz Mows :
Freemen sad Memnon : Mime. 2i 214. In-
habitant beessimbiers : I eilleilless.
Total dim IS; trod ob*domo. I,ISL Tuba fiend
°bleeding, I,SSI. The ilmoollme, wadi to
be 14, end tbs objections 86 am Om they were lest year.

Tue BMUS WHITE Hume FilasaY.—An
act was aseeed ia the late swim to asosadi tbe site Meting
to the MOM White Huth. ikkasy. The ammiedeaers
et the lieslai Massy us now empowered to sigalete the
thee (set labs mere .11A Masa days) between eso
sad ef berrlase. Proper
whoa nets aro to Isla
tits mega bersiag *Away ocentomio,
they way le soloed.