The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-09 00:00:00

JAMAICA.

The dates from this island are but three davit later
than those brought ria New York by the Canada,
and given in Mondav's Express.
We leant from the. Colonial Standard of July 17,
that at a meeting of the Board of Health, in the
town of Port Royal, on the lath, the following reso-
lution war pIISSCa •
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That as the parties to whom compensation was awarded
would be obliged to discount the Exchequer Bills at a con-
siderable loss, the Customs be requested to bring the mat-
ter under the notice of the vestry, in order to secure the
recipients from such lass."

The cholera was more dreadful than ever.
The County Union says: " Our news is still more
painful than heretofore, the disease being on the in-
crease, and our obituary announcing the death of
several persons of respectability who have fallen vic-
tims to its potency. Our correspondent, under date
12th Jul• writes; The deaths to date in this town
(Say-la-Mar) are 224. The disease is, 1 think, as-
suming a much more malignant tOrm within the last
week, and there are at the present moment 17
corpses lying at the ground unburied. The weather
has been very bad indeed for the last three days.' "
BRITISH GUIANA.

The Royal Gowlle of July 12, in its Review for
Home Readers, says :
The wish is generally entertained in this community that
the Royal West India Mail Company will lose uo time in
launching some of their new first-class plackets. As long
as the old line of steamers is kept running we must despair
of punctuality. Matters have been quiet enough in the
colony since the last packet left our shores, which she did
on the 27th ultimo. The Court of Policy has enjoyed a
holiday in the intervening fortnight. It met, by adjourn-
ment from the 26th ultimo, on the sth instant; and us
two influential and useful members of the court, the
chief justice and the attorney-general, were other-
wise engaged in the Supreme Court of Civil Justice,
and could not attend for several days to come in
their places, the court adjourned further to Monday
next, the 14th. But it is doubtful whether those
learned legislators will even then be in • position to give
their attendance constantly ; fur, although the session of
the Supreme Court of Civil Justice is now at an end, the
Supreme Court of Criminal Justice, where both gentlemen
may be required, will commence its session the day after
(the 15th). Almost the whole session of the Supreme Civil
Court was occupied with one solitary case, the Adminis-
trator-General of Demerara and Essequibo, as representing
the estate of Goring, versus Messrs. Daniels and Co., the
eminent Bristol firm ; the suit having been instituted to
recover a large sum of money, alleged to be due to
Goring for putting up the present sugar works on
plantation Philadelphia, a property belonging to the
Meows. Daniels, on the west coast of Demerara.
The circumstance of this suit being spun out throughout
nearly the entire session has proved most vexatious and
bernering to other litigants, whose cases have, in conse-
quence, been thrown over, to the great accumulaiiest of law
expenses, to the November 'melon. Witnesses had, in
nosey instances, been brought up, at heavy expense, from
remote parts of the country, and after loitermg for sixteen
or seventeen days in the galleries of the public buildings, in
the expectation of being examined, will have to be re-sum-
moned, at a renewed cost, to give their evidence next session.
When we state that, besides being paid their travelling
expenses, witnesses are further paid by the suitors for
each days' attendance in the neighbourhood of the
Court, •it must be obvious how harrassing, in these
days of depression and distress, must be procrasti-
nation in the administration of justice. During
the last fortnight an important failure has taken
place in the commercial world of Georgetown, that of the
eminent firm of A. Duff. Mr. Duff was forced to suspend
through no fault of his own, but in consequence
a nee reaching him by the previous mail of the
innimgmey_of the Liverpool house of Peter Duff and Co.,
e~ woes Bis. Duff had drawn to a large amount. Mr.
Dentist not a moment in calling his creditors together,
MEd bringing before them the state of his affairs ; and
siabsequently, finding it impossible to weather the storm,"
*few his property, with the general concurrence of his
orediton, into the hands of the Administrator-general.
Mr. Duff's liabilities were at first reckoned to amount to
about 250,000 dollars, while his assets are estimated at
100,000 dollars. We arc glad, however, to learn that
minces have reached the colony by the present mails which
@Ord reason to believe that the losses will be much less
severe than it was at first supposed they would be. Four
estates, all of them atone period of considerable value, have
boon brought to execution sale in the course of the fort-
night, and have realised, like all other similar property in
the usicey when brought to the hammer, " ruin" prices.
Mos castes are, plantations Two Brothers, in Canal No.
1, which realised 900 dole. ; Mes Delices, in the same
entity, which fetched 740 doll. •' Belfield, in the island
af Lcguan, which sold for 2,750 dole ; and Vertrouwcn,
ono in the same island, which was knocked down for
7,001 dols. About three times these amounts in pounds
Marling would have been the market values of these
estates isswassly. Leave of absence having been granted to
two stipendiery magistrates, Dr. Rolm= and John Alves,
log, have been appointed to the stipendiary bench.,
=tithe retirement of Mr. Duff, a vacancy has taken
the college of electors, and an election for Esse-
will consequently take place. We regret to announce
death, since the date of our former review, of H. M.
hose, Esq., of doses and Houston,—a gentleman who
non have been well known to many of our absent friends.
111•Mell death bad been for some time expected. There
bee bees • limas' IdEEire in the weether during the fort-
sated end Wind etiserents of rain we have had days of
sunshine. The wet season may now be said to
Lave broken up.

TRLNIDAD.

The Port of Spain-Cl;:etieTi July 8 says : "The
yacht Ariel, one of the Royal Yacht Squadron, hav-
ing on board her owner and commander, Sir George
Douglas, arrived here yesterday from Barbadoes. We
understand the Ariel will mks her departure for
England in the course of the week." Heavy, but be-
neffdal showers, bad fallen in Trinidad. Agricultu-
ral operations were going on freely. The colony will
probably ship 30,000 hogsheads of sugar this year.

From the Leeward and other islands, we have re-
oeived 110 journals by this arrival. The following is
from the Trinidad paper quoted above :
We regret to team, by the Tobago papers, the sudden
dealt of hie suollency D. R. ROM, Esq., lieutenant-gover-
sot of that colony. occasioned by his being precipitated
with his horse and gig front the side of the road into •
ravine about thirty feet deep, whilst returning with
his servant front a public ball, given at the
Court House, on Friday, the 27th ult., in honour of the
Queen's commatiust.—" His excelkncy," states the Chronicle,
" was precipitated to the bottom, without any intervening
obstacle to break his fall, and (don one of the large stones
at the bottom of the precipice, where he received such an
injury in his head as meanie instantaneous death." Strange
to say, horse, gig, and servant escaped uninjured. The Hon.
Henry Yates, senior member of council, was sworn in as
president of the colony.

In Barbadoes the weather was very fine, and the
prospects for next year's crop most favourable.
In St. Lucia rain, with high winds and thunder-
storms, had thrown back the planters in taking off'
the current crop of sugar. The weather was very
favourable for the next year's crops, which are ex-
pected to be very large.