The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-07 00:00:00

canal, had only just been made or his account, and
in his name. The price paid for the palace was about'
14.0001. It was believed the more certainly that the
Conde would go and fix his residence in that city,
because his marriage with a Princess of Modena
was announced in certain circles as a fact decided on.

We yesterday announced the arrival of the Med-
way, Captain Andrews, of Southampton, with the
\Vest India and Mexican mails. Her dates are Tam-
pico, Aug. 21, Vera Cruz, Aug. 31, Havannah, Sept.
10, Honduras, Aug. 20, Jamaica, Sept. 8, Chagres,
Aug. 25, Carthagena, Aug. 7, Demerara, Sept. 3,
Trinidad, Sept. 5, Barbadoes, Sept. 8, Grenada, Sept.
10, St. Thomas, Sept. 14, La Guayra, Sept. 7, Ber-
muda, Sept. 29. She brought .59 passengers. Her
cargo consists of 107,176 dollars, 1,190 lbs. silver and
British coin, 7,830 oz. of gold and gold dust, 80 lbs.
of platina, 2 packages of pearls, 102 eases of cigars,
62 bales of tobacco, 154 bales of sarsaparilla, 30 live
turtles, 10 casks of preserved turtle, 16 cases of pine-
apples, 7 cases of tortoise-shell.
The following is a list of the passengers by this
arrival:—Jtr. Carr, C. F. de Venous, Mr. Reid. Mr. B.
Gomez Marias., Mr. Francisco Solari, Mr. Leop•ld D.sws,
Mr. Barton, from Vera Cruz ; Mr. Garcia from Santa
Martha ; Lieut. and .Mrs. Collerton, and infant. 2,1 West
India Rest., Lieut. and Mrs. Dobson,lst West India Rest.,
Ensign J Imson, Ist West India Regt., Mr. Fernandez,
Rev. Mr. Tavlder, from Jamaica ; Dr. Blennerhasset, Mr.
Wean, froniDemerara ; Mr. and Miss Crieklaw, from Bar-
badoes ; Miss Pearson, Dr. Phillips and son, from Trinidad ;
Mr. Gastzl, from Martinique ; Mr. Sans, from Guadeloupe,
Mr. Cronzet, Mr. Rosenbeez, from La Guayra ; Mr. Bayanto,
Mr. and Mrs Harvey, from St. Thomas's ; Mr. and Mrs.
Moody and two children, Dr. Goldney, RN., Mr. W.
Robertson r, Rev. Mr. Machin, Mr. F. Hunter, from
Bermuda; Mr. Wood, clerk, H.M.S. Reindeer.
When the Medway left Vera Cruz, her Majesty's
ships of war at Hacrificios were--Endymion, Captain
Lambert; Electra, Captain Maitland; Rose, Captain
Pelly, all well. The Daring, Captain Matson, left for
New Orleans, on the 16th of August, with dispatches,
and had not returned. The Alarm, Captain Franklin,
was hourly expected from the northward. At Ber-
muda, she found her Majesty's surveying ve,sel,
Thunder, Captain Bennett, and tender, Lark, Lieut.
Lawrence.

A French squadron, consisting of L'Andromede, 60 :
Blonde, 32; Pylade, 20; and steamer Tonnege, 10,
under the command of Admiral La Place, arrived at
Havannah, September 9, en ?wile fur the Gulf of
Mexico.

The Medway has had an extremely boisterous pas-
sage. On the 14th, 15th, 16th, and•lith of Septem-
ber, between Nassau and Bermuda, she encountered
a gale of unusual severity, commencing from the
E.N.E., and hackino. to \\'.W., the point of greatest
violence ; thence to'S.W. This gale appears to have
been of very great extent, particularly in the Wind-
ward Islands, where it was much felt on the 12th and
13th, and at St. Thomas's, Porto Rico, kc., on the
14th, taking a direction towards the N.W. It was
also felt very severely at Bermuda on the 17th and
18th, but no particular damage occurred. The royal
mail steamer Reindeer was obliged to anchor under
Nevis for twenty-four hours, to escape its violence,
and the royal mad steam-ship Tweed was nearly two
days on her passage from I'orto Rico to St. Thomas's.
The news from :Mexico has to a great extent been
anticipated by the accounts which have reached us by
way of the United States. Santa Annan having
landed from Havannah at Vera Cruz, was well received
by the military, though but coolly by the people. lle
remained at his estate at Encerro, till the 28th August,
when he set out for the capital, where great prepara-
tions had been made for his reception. The following
members of the new ministry had been named
Gomez Fariar, Finance; Almonti, War; Itijon,
Foreign Affairs; and l'ochico, Interior. These ap-
pointments would give satisfaction. It was reported,
when the Medway left Vera Cruz, that a counter-
revolution was being got up, in some of the provinces
where Santa Anna was unpopular, in favour of Bei-
rera. Paredes was still iu confinement, but was
expected to be released.
At Vera Cruz the Medway was allowed to land
her mails, passengers, and quicksilver, and to receive
passengers, mail, and specie, but no other merchan-
dise. The American squadron was at the anchorage
off Anton Lizard°, and was suffering much from
scurvy, particularly the frigates. There seems to
have been no idea of attacking St. Juan d'Ulloa ; in
fact the war spirit on both sides was manifestly on the
decline.
The news from the West India Islands is not im-
portant. The rain had been abundant, and the wea-
ther continued propitiou,,.
The passing of the Sugar Duties Bill had caused a
general excitement, and the colonists were loud in their
denunciations of a government who could propose a
measure which must prove their absolute ruin. In
some places public meetings had been held and reso-
lutions passed approving of a general remonstrance,
in the hope of effecting sonic further concessions to
the colonial interests ; but generally speaking, agita-
tion was considered useless, as the change which had
taken place was to all intents irrevocable.
The West India Islands were, on the whole, healthy,
except Trinidad, where dysentery prevailed to a con-
siderable extent.

A slight shock of an earthquake wiui felt on shore
at Grenada ut noon, on the 6th September. No damage
was done. It was not felt by the shipping in the
harbour.

Our intelligence from the Cape of Good Hope is to
the 2nd of August, furnishing numerous details of
general interest. The latest accounts inform us that
the divisions under Sir Peregrine Maitland, Colonel
Hare, and Sir. A. Strockenstrom had accomplished
nothing decisive, but were moving with an aggregate
force of between nine and ten thousand men on the
Kaffir fastnesses in the Amatola hills, where the enemy
was supposed to have concentrated their strength and
fortified the different passes leading to their retreats.
Here they had collected their plunder and the flocks
and herds of cattle driven from the colony ; and as
it is not likely they would abandon these spoils
without a struggle, we may bear ere long of some
severe fighting. The Commander-in-Chief had,,
reached the mouth of the Buffalo, and was about
fifty miles east of the Fish River, where stores had
been landed without any difficulty.
In consequence of the unwillingness of the Burgher
Legers to remain idle, Sir A. Stockenstrom was
obliged to take the field upon the hat River sooner
than was intended. Where his forces wereconcentratcd.
He was to commence his attack on the Amatola.
A letter from 'l'yumie, the 23rd July, says that Sir
Andreas' division was to march the next day, and
that some sharp work was expected. Mr. Read,
with the Bushmen and Fingo subsidies under his
command, had been twice engaged with the Tam-
bookies.

The extracts which we furnish will show that,
while pursuing the enemy on their own soil, our colo-
nists at home have been subjected to Kaffir aggressions.
Small skirmishes were continually taking place upon
the frontier, and, in some instances, marauding par.
tics had penetrated far within the boundary.

(From the South African roninsercial Jdrertiscr, Aug. 1.)
The Graham's Toren Aurora contains numerous inci-
dents of the guerilla contests still carried on between small
parties of Kaffir, and colonial forces on the frontier. Though
each by itself of no decisive character, the whole is a singu-
larly exciting exhibition of personal energy, courage, and
' address. Not a day, scarcely an hour. but has its skirmish ;
a cunning inroad only discovered by the capture and disap-
pearance of herds of cattle' sheep, or horses: then comes
the alarm, the pursuit, and fierce struggle, in which quarter
is neither offered nor would be accepted. The weapons
are the spear, the arrow, and the musket, with an occa-
sional roar from the cannon. Deeds of heroism are every
day achieved, that in ordinary times would elicit
universal applause, but which seem to be regarded
at the moment, both by the actors and spectators,
as mere ordinary events. Every one of these at-
tacks is like the rush of a forlorn hope into the
breach of a fortress. The enemy is posted behind jutting
rocks, broken cliffs, and dense bush, through which the in-
trepid assailant has often to farce his way on hands and
knees. Suddenls in this horrid shade the combat opens
hand to hind, and the faces of the combatants are scorched
with the fire of each other's guns. Such were Homer's
battles, when to the sword and the Hying death of the bow
Jupiter added cloudy darkness and thunder. It shows how
nearness and familiar names reduce the sublime, when such
men and such deeds are thought of without emotion. But
they cannot be forgotten, and time will do them justice.
The hrest intelligence front the head-quarters of the
three divisions under Sir P. Maitland, Colonel Hare, and Sir
A. Stockenstrom, lead to the expectation that some actions
of a decisive character were not many days distant, perhaps
not many hours. Forces, amounting to nine or ten thousand
men, arc evidently moving simultaneously on the rugged
fa.stnesses of the Amatola hills, where the lialfirs are sup-
posed to have concentrated their strength and their wealth,
that is, their herds and their flocks. They are said to be for-
tifying the passes, digging pits, armed at the bottom with
stakes, and covered with deceptive turf, as they were accus-
tomed heretofore to entrap elephants and lions. That they
will resist is certain, and it cannot be but that the contest
will prove a bloody one.
• Private letters bring the history of the divisions under
Stockenstrom and Hare down to the 23rd July. The fol-
low ing passages are from a private letter, written at Fort
Beaufort, July 22:

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