The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-09 00:00:00

BUENOS AYRES.

Letters from Buenos Ayres of the 6th of November
say :—Failures and insolvencies continue to be re-
ported at Buenos Ayres, and amounted to 2,000,0001.
The expected war with Brazil was causing great
anxiety and was the subject of the most contradictory
rumours. To one person Rosa. states that war Is
already actually declared; he 'satires others he has no
idea of a campaign, and that the demonstrations made
in the representative chambers and streets of Buenos
Ayres are not to be regarded as serious. Whatever
may be the real intentions of the dictator, prepara-
tions for war are pushed forward with great
expedition, but with equal Kersey. Artillery
carriages are constructed, while it is given out that
the wood is used in making yeoman,. The Italian
house of Coati and Co., received a great quantity of
bombs and ammunition by • commercial vessel from
Anvers, on the 18th of October. It was asserted
that, during his stay in Rio, General Guido came to
an understanding with the Chargé d'Affaires of
Naples, and contracted for the d. apatch of live thou-
sand Sicilians to Buenos Ayres. The conditiols of
this transaction are not well known ; it is only known
that the volunteers are to be robust your g men,
trained to military duty, and that after the war they
are to receive a reward of land. The expenses of the
passage will be defrayed by the Neapolitan govern-
ment. This contract was sent, towards the end of
July last, to Buenos Ayres by Guido, and received the
approbation of limas; it was then returned to Rio,
and the Neapolitan Charge d'Affaires at once left for
home to carry out the convention. Another contract
was spoken of, according to which several thousand
Irish volunteers were to be enrolled and brought
over. These European enrolments do not appear to
harmonise with the American system proclaimed by
Rosas. The dictator is continually sending muni-
tions of war to Cerrito; six thousand suits were just
completed for the soldiers of Oribe, brother of the
soi-disant president of the oriental republic.
S•.raugere are not secure in the district cccupied by
(tribe's troops. At (Monis cries of death to the
Jachuisians (partisans of Raron Jachuhy) and Brazi-
lians are every day heard, and the bastinado is
applied very freely. The Itincon battalion which
is keeping garrison, practises the most hor-
rid cruelties. Two negroes have been shot,
or rather assassinated ; two officers loaded
with chains have been sent to Oribe, after having
been kept seventeen days in a prison. A mo:.k having
died, three soldiers exhumed the body of a French
offic,r, which they left exposed on the face of the
earth ; they then placed the body of the monk in the
grave, with many apologies for interring him in the
t.mb where a French pirate had laid. Admiral Le
Predour has interdicted the manteuvres of the troops
of the expedition under the orders of Colonel Bertin
Duchateau, which formerly took place between the
two lines at Monte Video. The presence of these
troops, it appears, gave umbrage to Oribe.

THE CHOLERA IN THE WEST INDIES.

The following reply was received yesterday to the
City memorials for medical aid to the West ladies:

To THOMSON UANXET, ESQ., Aar.

Downing,treot, lan. 6.

Bir,—l am directed by Earl Grey to acquaint y-u chat his
loruehip has received several reemoriala signed by bankers,
intro-ants, brokers, and others in the city of le:ilden, pray-
ing that in consequence of the ravages of the cholera in
Jemmies, Lord Grey would send out competent medical
gentlemen to that island, and a eupply of the requisite
eines from the government stores.
Lord Grey did not fail to give his moat anxious attention
to thy.e memorial'. and to the accounts he had recited from
the governor of Jamaica and from other quarters of the
deplorable prevalence o: cholera in the island, and he thought
it right to communicate with the General Board of Hod*

on tie subject.
On consultation with that board, however, Lord Grey
has not thought it expedient to endeavour to send out a
sutilsient numbtr of medical practitioners to undertake the
treatment of individual cases, the board being et opinion
that the virulence of the disease would have abated in the
towns, in all probability, before such aid could reach the
island, and that it would be impossible in this country to
organise in time to he of service a medical staff for the pur-
gum of following the progress of the disease to detached
estates and villages throughout the interior of the island,
and that there would be no real advantage in doing more
than to sand a very limited number of medical gentlemen,
for the purpose of organising general measures of precaution,
and thus guarding, so far as it is possible to do so, against
the recurrence of that disease in Jamaica, and against its
extension to the otker West India colonies.

L rd Grey hoe been the more induced to come to this con-
clusion, since it does not appear from the last despatches
received from Jamaica that it had been considered necessary
or desirable either by the governor or by the Assembly,
which was sitting when the disease was at its height, to ap-
ply to her Majesty's government for additional medical aid.
Lord Grey accordingly selected three medical gentlemen,
who took their departure in the West India steam-packet
of the 2nd inst., to proceed to the West Indies, for the
purpose of giving to the local authorities the benefit of their
advice and experience in adopting general measures of
prevention.
The accounts received by Lord Grey do not lead him to
believe that any deficiency of the necessary medicines we.
apprehended by the local authorities; but if in particular
cases such a want should be felt, the medical officers other
hisjeety's naval and military services have been instructed
to furnish whatever supplies of medicines they can safely
spare.
Lord Grey would be glad if you would moke known to
the gentlemen who have signed these memorials the etepe he
has taken, as being, he trusts, the most conducive to check
or mitigate the progress of the disease.
I em, Sir,
Your most obedient bumble servant,
B. BAWLS.

MELANcuoLY Occuaskscs.—A painful sensation
has been created in the neighbourhood of Cramond, (says
the Scots/runs of Thursday by the mune nee of a most 'MBA-
Iog casualty. A public ball was on Tuesday night given in the
sinews, and conspicuous among the brit tent throng was the
lady of Alexander Caddell, Esq., of Cramond Iron Works.
Shortly alter midnight, Mrs. Caddell, accompanied by two
maids, with two of the children, proceeded homeward,
and in order to shorten the distance she had to traverse,
took a bye path passing along the brink of a mill-lade,
falling into the river Almond. The night was dark,
and the water wu, from the previous mho, considerably
swollen. Mrs. Caddell we/ briskly walking along the aide
of the lade, when is the impenetrable darkness, she sod-
denly stumbled, and was in an instant precipitated into the
stream. One of the servants was close at her heels, and
Mrs. Caddell, in her first struggles in the ei eta managed to
get hold of the foot of the child, with which the girl was
accompanied; bat the latter, apprehensive of being also
pulled into the water, mimed her mistress's grasp and re-
treated out of her reach. The girls shrieked for assistance,
bat no one was near, and the unfortunate lady was allowed
to struggle helplessly in the turgid stream, till she wee
carried far beyond the reach of all human aid. The alarm
was instantly given, and every search was immediately made
for the body, but up to yesterday afternoon no trace of it
had been found, and for the present it is oonjonured that
the force of the current rust hate carried it into the Almond
River.