The Express.
London, England, 1853-01-19 00:00:00

THE WEST INDIA MAILS.

CONTINUANCE OF YELLOW FEVER.
We add the following to our telegaphic summary
et the news brought by the Parana :
Acoordig to the statement of Captain Rirett
and Dr. Radon, the commander and dtetor • of
the ship, the yellow lever was very bad hi
the West Indies. Five had died on board the
Parana on her homeward voyage, viz.:—Lieutenant
Patrick Inglis, R.N., Admiralty agent, William ,
Demmer, James Fagan, Henry Hobbs, and James
ea; rAw. Wei then on board dying, and
three were convalescent. The last ease of fever hap-
pened on board on the 12th inst., and the last death
Ilon the 13th inst. There had been, during the voyage,
60 cases of sickness on board the Pantos, 30 of which

were yellow fever. Thirteen of the crew had been
left behind in Jamaica Hospital; viz., 12 ill from
fever, and one from pleuritic. At St. Thomas the
fever had broken out on shore.
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Amongst the victims to yellow fever in the West
Indies since the last despatches were Lieutenant
Lyater, Admiralty agent ; Captain Matson, in com-
mand of H.M.S. Highfiyer, who died at sea; and the
second lieutenant of H.M.S. Scorpion.
On the 27th of December, three more officers and
35 men of the Dauntless were ill of the yellow fever
at Barbadoes, five of whom could not survive. One
half the officers of the Dauntless and one-filth of the
ship's company had perished of that disease. It was,
however, too late to arrest the mortality on board of
her, for she could not steam away from Barbadoes,
and Antigua, the nearest place, would be four days'
I sail. Cholera had made its appearance at Barbadoes
on shore, but the garrison was still healthy.
Cholera had made frightful ravages at the Baha-
mas, particularly amongst the smaller islands.
Riots had taken place at Governor's Harbour and
Hatchet Bay in consequence of the populace
refusing to allow a stipendiary magistrate to
land for fear of his introducing the cholera,
and he was obliged to return to Nassau for a detach-
ment of the lit West India Regiment, to support
law and order. Arrow-root was selling at the -Ba-
hamas at 1 dollar per pound, and creosote 2 dollars
per ounce.
PANAMA.

On the 17th December arrived the P. M. S. S.
Company's steamer Panama, from San Francisco,
with the United States mails, 2,693,209 dole. 97c. in
gold dust and 182 passengers. She brings dates from
San Francisco to Ist December.
At Acapulco there had been a very severe earth-
quake, which did great damage to every building in
the town. In the principal square the earth opened
and threw out an immense cloud of smoke.

The P. S. N. Company's steamer Bogota arrived
on 19th December, at 2 p.m., from Valparaiso,
Callao, &c., bringing her Majesty's mails,
403,022 dole. 7 rials in bullion, and 12 passengers.
The negotiations entered into between the Peru-
vian Minister at Bogota, Senor Tavara, and the New
Granadian government, by which the latter de-
manded 8,000,000 dollars from Peru, and that Gen.
Deustua (at present governor of Callao) should be
incapacited for any government office, have not
been ratified by the Peruvian government ; but Senor
Tavara has been recalled from Bogota, and Senor
Jose Oregorio Paz Soldau has been appointed in his
stead, and will arrive on the 3rd of January here,
en route.

It is generally supposed that Ecuador and New
Granada will make war against Peru, and that Chili
will join the latter.
The new governor for this province, Don Salvador
Camacho, of Itoldau, arrived here Pea evening, and
will immediately take charge of the government of
the Isthmus. He is a friend of Obando's, and conse-
quently of the Rojo party.
The roads are in very bad condition indeed, so
much so u to require three days to make the journey
from Cruces to Panama with goods; riding mules
go through in seven to eight hours.
The remittances from Panama for this steamer
amount to 56,778 dols. 41 rift's on resident mer-
chants' account ; 462,819 dole. 74 rials of the amount
ex Panama, and 403,022 dots. 7 rials from south.