The Express.
London, England, 1847-09-07 00:00:00

pool from New Orleans, that on the Ist of Aug. ••• when in
let. 35 deg., long. 71 deg., 45 min., the echo 0 er John
Howell, Captain William Russell, bound from Ncw York
to Florida, was discovered on fire with the Ham, coming
up the hatches. Captain Allen, notwithstantlie:: a heavy
sea, boarded her, and succeeded in saving the 1., of the
master, officers, and crew, some of the vessel's worn,
&c., and three bags of American gold coin, containing
15,00 dolls., which he landed in Liverpool. ti ,ortly after
taking them off the magazine exploded, blowing th. vessel up.

COLONIAL.
WEST INDIES.—OUIANA.—The Roy',
iseethit
ce h
in its " Review for Horne Readers," satisfactorily vindicate:
ese imtr;~i,i
the colony at large from the accusation of negl. clang to at.
hasttehnadtbeoenthmseeoh:talieeraletyy
crofnunthongeenlattboedupurp,iitgnug:hnis ash
refan,
of the planters in two districts only (C and i / of the
Deemerant rieer) to establish-white hospitals, in oh,dienee to
the ordinance. The news from the colony is contained in
the following extract from the Review :
The Gist of Policy meets on the Ith of August. ,--veral
ff Met wholly, prepared by the Acting Chief Jtio, v, bk. Ar-
Mgr time be was Attorney-Crene, are at po ,ant before
the mat. and will very probably soon be Malawi ot. Among the
teat Uwe it one relative to the Admlniathator-Genei.,:h depart.
inawl-• WWI of the public service In whose acts r rme of our
Mania nob= have ocesolonall a pecuniary interest. The Ad.
ralableader-Cleneral to a funglonary the counterpart of whom
exists In see of the Italian states. As his name implie he takes
pommies of and administers the property within the my of par-
ties dylnewlestatte, of those whom executors act ,„der their
WIN, ewe generally of all inch as have not legal reps ttatives to
warren*. et. Mr& property, whether realty or per. The
dizeinkeerefae4imeal Is pad by a moderate commi•soo...trl is an.
namable for Ids seta, generally, to all who chose to co. -ton them,
and specially to a enumittee of the Court of Policy. 11,t. ~resent in-
emelient of the ode bee gentleman of the name of Kemecy, a warm.
kr of our provinclalbsr; and it is but justice to him to that the
moaner in which he has performed his duties, which are v, ry onerous
and very delicate, hae Warded universal satisfaction to the comma.
alty. The AdministratOrZeneres offlee ia a new ere dion, and
formed one of the legal reforms Introduced three or four years nom
under the direction of his Excellency Governor Debt The
part which the oftioe playa in the buainess of ...eery was
formerly very inefficiently discharged by a body called the Chamber
of Orphans and Unrepresented tintatee. The °Miasma- now before
the legislature is designed to supply certain deficiencies, s hkh-snel
the feet is not to wondered at, considering the vast raisin •of business
which the Administrator-General is called on to go thiough - were
overlooked at the period of the institution of the &Moe. .4 meeting of
the In blab Guiana Bank was held on Friday the Seth ult. in the bunk.
parlour. The lion. John Croat, chairman of the court to directors,
presided at the meeting. The report exhibits a balithes, in favour of
the corporation 0(117,923 dole. 91 c. Of this sum 93,070 dots. 4e.
consisted of the surplus and contingency tondo; the renvonder 29,303
dots. 87 c. being the profit of the lox months preceding. t dividend,
at the rate of 4 per not, per annum was declared, ano the sum of
8,393 dole. 47 c. carried forward to the sulpha* and contine4wy
The weather, which for many weeks preceding hal been ery rainy,
bats undergone within the last fourteen days a decide I e!,ance. on
generally happens among as, about the time of the chew .4 any sea.
• eon, there has been a good deal of names-Moore of very fatal
r kind-prevalent One of the strangest aleuments of the N. Tlitatet, Of
r thorough drainage has always been, that their system, mh.-rever it is
tried, purifies the air, as well as Improves the sod, and c 0..: fouter, in
consequence, to the public health.

AVLNI/WARb ISLANDS. BARBAI101::. The
House of Assembly met on the 27th of I ..ly ; Mr.
John Thomas, the junior member for St George's,
was unanimously elected speaker, and the election :.pproyeg
by the governor. The late speaker has been apprkted to a
seat at the Board of Council. The legislative proceedings
were merely of local interest. The Bartmdoes G4rA •if Aug. 2
states, under the head of " The Weather :" '• Eko oral Sea-
sonable showers have fallen during the last three days; and
we have every hope, from the appearance of the sky, that the
blessing will be continued to us ; if so, our next ...mar crop
will be fully so large as that just taken off, whilst pro Mous (to
augur from the planting thereof) will be both var.,. in kind
and abundant in quantity."—Sr. Ch,..lJustiee
Reddie arrived at his residence, Vieille-Ville on 7111 August.
The Palladium, published the some day, trays: " Governor
Reid has, it is said, declared it impossible in Ids nature,
under the circumstances, to hold office." The Independent
Press states that the weather in the island has amen muck
too dry for the wants of the planter. In the (Attu a state of
agricultural and commercial affairs this journal en torts the
inhabitants " to bestir themselves to procure a nduction of
the colonial expenditure, and check the infatuaton of oar
irresponsible legislature in squandering the public lands."