The Express.
London, England, 1856-12-01 00:00:00

WEST INDIA MAILS.

The royal West India mail packet Atrato, Captain
Woolley, arrived at Southampton on Saturday with
the West Indian, Mexican, and Pacific mails. She
brought 71 paaaragers and specie to the amount of
680,1187 dollar., of which 5,000 dollars are on account
of Mexican dividend/. Ot the specie, 464,315 dol-
lars value are in silver, and 416,072 dollars value in
gold.
The latest data by the Atrato are—From Tampico,
Oct. 31; Greytown, Nov. 3; Vera Cruz, 6th; Ha-
vans, 9th; Chagres, I Ith ; Demerara, Carthsgena,
and Trinidad, 12th; Jamaica, St. Vincent, and Ore
nada, 13'b; Berbadoes, 14th; St. Lucia, Martinique,
and Goadaloupe, 16th; St. Kitts, Antigen, and St.
Thomas, 16. h.
On te 11th, H.M.S. Tersasgant, Euryalue, Fai-
son, Atalanta, Arab, and Imam, were at Port Royal;
H.M.S. Amphion was at Port-an-Prince. Oo the
sth, H.M.S. Orion, Imi :tins., Cossack, Victor, lo-
trepid, Pioneer, and Arrogant. were at Greytowo.
On the 11th, H.M.S. Aruba., Perseverance, and
Brilliaot, were at Barbsdr.e; and the Archer, on the
same day, was at Honduras. On the 7th, H.M.S.
Eurydice arrived at St. Thomas from Bermuda.
The intelligence from Jamaica is of the ordinary
level character.

We read in the Morning Journal of Kinpton
It is a gratifying fact that the seer estate market is
" looking ep " Absentee proprietors seem determined to
discontinue the di/medics of rotates, and tau rammed to
a new espediest lo- selling such ',roped**. Secret sales
lupus, to be no lesser allowed, but the tender system is
resorted to—the proprietor tempting the best offer. Thee
Haromay Hal:. to Tritest:ly, which a local contemporary
says would set have found a bidder for 3,0001. three pars
ego, has been tendered for is sea merlins from 6,0001. to
7.0001 Coaster estate in th• same pulse. and Brasfield. in
St. James, ere alto is the market, sad sae eapeted to
realise sip sums. Oa* et the best features is them chess's
of proprietorship is that the purchases are made by rut-
tiest% who will espetistesd the staaapateat of their own
pvertitt, aid thus pt tid et tin suns attormythip
spun.

Tho Pal of this morning ammo that when the
esogress of Paris Wok, up, It was deternlan Out neon
saner details should be left far the future sere of a coif/1-
MM onspaed of seeoad plealpoteatlarlee, who, bolsi the
nehlost ministers et the pewees ecoseented, could always be
nunemed at say nosiest whoa the matters to he refined
to thew Should he ripe for dielaloa sad arraapsint. This
woad soatirsass has co power of monaing the Treaty of
Perin, or of aorta( its text or mop,. The eoaternes may
' ho sassatosod at say mossat, " sad we eau tee as nine
adds the Peel, " why our 'mealiest should object to its
helps galled at/other."
STaalt TO AINTRALIA.—We an glad to loan that
Gas of oar most istapaislog Assimilate Bens, who hate
hitherto entrieted thew opentlose to sallise Alps, ere lay.
Lao doom saatUsry so:ser-stssaers of 4,000 toes register.
" To this asotplaisa it mast IRMO at last." sad the anon
the plea la followed by °then the better it will be he in.—
/440mPa

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

INDIA.

We have received our despatches from India and
China by the overland mail via' Mantellke. The mail
was considerably overdue, the steam packet haring
suffered delay in the Mediterranean.
The advice. by this arrival are to the to:lowing
dates: Bombay, Nov. 3; Calcutta, Oct. 22; Nladras,
lOet 29; Hong Kong, Oct. 15; Caoton, Oct. 14;
Shanghai, Oct. 8.
Among the Indian intelligence, the first place is
again due to the Persian expedition. Apart from this
enterprise, in which the Indian governmi at is not
concerned as • principal, there is tranquillity
throughout the land, and peace on every frontier.
The cold season has set in early. Food and employ.
ment are plentiful, while if public improvement is
proceeding slowly, enterprise is not altogether at a
stand still. The Governor-General and Governor of
Bombay are at the seats of adminiwration. Th.
Governor of Madras is on hie way by Hurryhur to the
Malabar Coast, proposing to meet Colonel Cotton,
from England, at Sedasheghur, now under contem-
plation as a shipping Fort.
THE PERSIAN EXPEDITION.
According to the arrangements in force when the
mail left India, the forces composing this expedition
should by this time have arrived off litishire. The
Bombay Times reports that, the expedition con-
sisted of twenty-six sailing transports or an aggre-
gate of 24,000 tone; of three of the P. and 0.
Company's steam-ships, the Cbussn, Singapore, and
Pottinger ; besides three loner vessels of the Bombay
Steam Navigation Company, of an aggregate burden
in all of thirty thousand tons, at a freightage charge
of above a thousand pounds a day. The moo of war
were nine first-class reamers—the Punjaub, Agsaye,
Feroze, Ajdsha, Semiramis, Victoria, and Hugh
Lindsay ; the steam tenders Napier and steam yacht
Goolanar; the sloops Elphiostone and Give, at.d the
brigs Euphrates and Tigris—or twelve vessels in all,
the total fleet amounting to forty nil. A portion of
these had been sent to Vingorla, to take on board her
Majesty's 64th and 20th Native Infantry from
Belgaum ; to Porebunder, to receive the 3rd Cavalry
from Rajkote, and to Kurrachee to ship the Belo
battalion, the 2nd Europeans, and Brett's Battery.
The fighting men in all would amount to about six
thousand, with about double this number of camp
followers. Admiral Sir Henry Leeke, commander-
in-chief of the Indian navy, had been authorised to
take the command."