The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-08 00:00:00

WEST INDIA MAIL.

The Royal Mail Steam-packet Company's steam
ship Tay, Lieot. Charles M. Chapman, R.N., from the
Spanish Main, arrived at Southampton last night, and
laud,d her mails, in charge of Dent J. Davits, R.N.,
Admiralty agent. Her dates are:—Santa Martha,
Nov. 26; (trey Town (Mosquito), Dec. 3 ; C athageaa,
13; C7agres,ll ; Panama, 8; Kingston (Jamaica), 15;
San Juan (Porto Rico), 18; Berbice, 14 ; George
Town (Demerara), 14; Tobago, 16; Port of Spain
(Trinidad), 10; Bridge Town (Barbadoes), 14; Orr-
nada, 17 ; Carriacou, 17; St. Vocent, 17; St. Luc'3,
18 ; Martinique, 18; Guadeloupe, 18; Dominique,
18; Antigua, 19; Montserrat, 19; Nevis, 19; St.
Kitts, 19; Tortola, 17; St. Thomas, 20; San Fran-
ciaco, Nov. 19
The dates from Jamaica are but three days later
than those received tin New Yolk, which were to the
12th ult.

The Tay has experienced very heavy weather since
leaving the Western Islands, with gales of wind
from N.W., S.W., &c. On the Ist inst. she lost a
seaman overboard. She brings on freight specie
from California value 552,634 dole.; from Csrtha-
gene, 48,364 dole. ; from Jamaica, 7,683 dole.; from
Grey Time and Santa Martha. 16.612 dole.; from
Tampico, 8.3,000 dole.;—total, 709,293 dole.; also, 62
serocs of indigo, 202 bales of sarsaparilla, 30 cases of
succadee, and 30 packages of sundries.
The outward mail steamer of the 2nd of December,
from Southampton, was passed by the Tay on the
20th ult., about three hours' sail from St. 'norms's.
On the 19th of December the Tay experienced the
shock of an earthquake at S.. Thomas'', but, having
no communication with the shore, the extent of da.
mage (il any) could not be ascertained.
Large numbers of Am?ricans were returning from
California, and many of them seemed to prefer the
Nicaraguan route, no ltealijo and Grey Town. The
Tay conveyed no less than 370 from the latter port
to Chagres, where they embirked by the various
American ste.m.rs for New York. A small number
took peens° to St. Thomas's., to proceed by the screw
propeller Merlin, ria Bermuda.
11. r Majesty's steamer Alban arrived at Jamaica
on the 7th of December from Carthagena, but was
placed in quarantine, in consequence of having measles
on la .rd. Iler Majesty's steamer Inflexible was at
Greytown on the 30th of November. The Scorpion
was at St. Thomas's on the 17th ult. ller Ma-
jesty's troop-ship Apollo sailed from Port Royal for
England on the 6th ult.

From some unexplained cause Co West India papers
of Iste date have been received in London.

The Tay brings nearly one million &liars.
Among the people who passed through our city
daring the past week (say the Panama Star of Dec.
5) were Dr. Wozencraft and Mr. R. McKee, the two
commissioners appointed by our government to treat
and enter into terms of peace and amity with the
Indians of California. Dr. W. is an old resident of
that state, and, with hie experience of the habits and
customs of the people to whom he goes, together with
the advice and assistance of his fellow-commissioner,
will no doubt make such arrangements as will result
to the mutual benefit of both the white and the red
men.

THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL COMPANY'S
STEAM-SDIP SULTAN, Captain Brooks, arrived off
SJuthampton last night, with dates from Constanti-
nople to the 19th ; Smyrna, 22nd; Malta, 23ch nit.;
and Gibraltar, the 2nd inst.
At Gibraltar.—Ezehango on London was quoted
544 ; Spanish pillared dollars, 21, per cent. prem.

A RAILWAY THIEF TRANSPORTED.—At the Bug-
tol Quarter Sessions yea stday, a respectably dressed man,
Jams Simpson, who has been known to the police as con-
nected with a daring gang of railway thieves, was indicted
for baying, while travelling by a railway carriage on the 2nd
of November lut, stolen a purse of money from the person of
a young woman named Cook. The proseentrix war jour-
ne3ing to Bristol by the express train, when the prisoner
took his seat in the same canine. She felt him foto
himself up against her three or four times, and at length, in
consequence of a communication made to her by a lady who
sat on the opposite seat, she was induced to search her
pockets, whee ens missed her puree and its contents.
Upon the arrival of the train at Bristol she gave an alarm,
and the prisoner made a desperate effort to escape, but a
hue and cry having been raised, he war pursued and seized
Iby some of the company's officers, who found upon him
various sums of money, evidently the proceeds of robberies,
and a purse of gold, which was ideniiii, d by a lady named
' Powell, as having during the day been abstracted from her
pocket. The prisoner having been found guilty, the court
ordered him to be transported for tent years; a sentence,
upon hearing which he fell down at the bar as if (mating,
hut upon being roused again by the gaolers' be thrust otst
his tongue in recognition of some friends in the gallery, and
then left the court.

MELANCHOLY BOAT ACCIDENT AND Loss OF LIFE.
—Whilst Peter Allan, blacksmith, and David Inglis, joiner,
both belonging to St. David's, were proceeding on Monday
afternoon, in a boat from that place to Cramond with scrap
iron, having hauled close to the land on the south shore, a
madden squall struck the boat off Barnbougle, when she
immediately filled and went down, leaving only the tip of
her mast above water. To this the poor fell iws instantly
clung. Allan, however, being an expert swimmer, shortly
relinquished his hold, and struck nut for the shore; but,
after having proceeded a short distance, finding his strength
failing, he swam back to his companion, whom be reached
in a very exhausted state, and was by him manfully sup.
pmted for a considerable time, till at last all the efforts of
Inglis to keep his friend's head above water proved
unavailing, and, on a Newhaven boat reaching them shortly
afterwards, it was found that poor Allan was quite dead, and
Inglis in a very enfeebled condition. They were immediately
conveyed on shore, and medical aid promptly called in.
Allan, however, was past all recovery; and we regret to
learn, has left a widow and six children to lament his
untimely lose. leglia, we are glad to say, is in r. fair way of
recovery.—Scotsman,