The Express.
London, England, 1848-06-22 00:00:00

SHIPPING.

MAILS ARILITED• —Dublin, 3 ; WAerford, 2; Donagha-
dee 1 ; French, 1 ; Flanders, I; Holland, 1.
L'Acuoti, June 22. Wind this day at noon, N.W.,
moderate breeze, and fine, clear, sultry weather.
LIVERPOOI June 21.—The Berlin, from St. John's, N.B ,
to this port, was totally; wrecked, 24th ult., on Seal bland;
crew mired. _ _ _ . . _ _ . -

Durn.n June 19.—Sailed : Wander r, Yarmouth, N.S.
LIVE itroot, June 21.—N.N.W.—Arrived Thomas Field-
ing, se.cl Si.. Lawrence, Nee (Mears; Hampden, Mobile.
Sailed : Enttrpri,e, N. w York ; Anglo-American, Boston;
Cnatnin, Sleppeean ; Nll.lOli, and Evergreen, Quebec.
Orr TH u &fer, June 19.—Arrived : Surinam. Surinam,
or Amaterdam. 20th., Southerner, Havana, for St. Peters-
burg; Hollander, New Orleans.
OFF DAKTMOUTH, June 20.—Arrived : Creasy, Ceylon.
21,t , Kestrel, Madras; Spartan, Jamaica.
l'oieratiourE, June 21.—S S.W. to W.N.W.—Arrivtd :
Maria S rites (transport), Halifax.
OFF DOVER' Juxe 20. Arrived : Jessie, Newfoundland.
DEAL, June 21. N.W. to N.—Arrived : Sirius, Amster-
dam, and railed for Batavia. Arrived front the river and
nailed Lord William Bentinek, linmbay ; Australia, Bahia;
United Kingdom, Honduras; Nova Sotian, Yarmouth,
N.S. ; Earl of D..rham, Quebec.
Ore Msarixos, June 21.—Antilla, South Australia.
Ore SALCOMSE. June 18.— Strived : L.LVIMLent, Havana,
(or St. Peternburg, with loss of foremast.
PLYMOUTH, June 21.—Arrived: Express, La Guam.
FALMOUTH. July 20.—Sailed Lollaud, N, w York.
Orr latuorrit, June 21.—Madras, Sierra Leone, and
sailed for Liverpool.
NEWPOKT, June 20.—Sailed: George, Sf. Thomas's;
State•man, Beaton.
LIVRIWOOL, June 21.—Arrived: Hibernia, af.,New York,
left 7th inst , and Halifax 10tb ; on freight about 58,0001.
CLYDE, June 20.—Sailed: Romulus, New York; British
American, St, John's, N. 8.; Jamaica, Montreal.

TILE FRENCif WEST INDIES.—Tho freedom of the
regrow was proclaimed a' Besse Terre, Guadeloupe, on the
27th, and at St. Pierre, Martinique, ou the 23rd May. The
former island was perfectly tranquil, but much appre-
hension was expressed lest the negro population, dazzled
by their iv cently-acquired freedom, stomata refuse to settle
down to the continued industry necessary to secure the
crops. Respecting the eat(' of the latter island a private
letter says, "The insurgent state of Martinique caused the
Roamer-general Rost illon to pie laim immediate emancipa-
tion on the 23rd May,when the excitement, not timely checked,
produced some serious disasters, and great feats fur the safety
of the white population ; oil hates were to be gratified, and
massacres took 'slice, which augur ill for the progre es of the
colony. The mob of St. Pierre, blacks and colours d, un-
checked by force of military or police, finding that a propietor
'of plantations, at a district called Le Pdcheur, had escaped
to Dominica, proceeded, after having devastated his planta-
tion, house, and property, to attack his houses at St. Pierre,
where some of the ,amily and friends of the fugitive planter
bad taken shelter. On the first attack, an inmate of one of the
houses, a man of great respectability, in defending himself,
killed one of the assailants, was hints. If immediately killed.
the houses fired, and the inmates most. barbarously driven
hack into the flames, where 32 persons, men, women, and
children, were destroyed, the police not interfering, giving
way to fear, unfortunately too much the case with the
authorities in France in time of peril. The governor,
instead of resolutely opposing the rioters. published the fol-
lowing day an indemnity from the pursuit of justice for all
offences, even to the massacre of the preceding day.

ARYI.X3I FOR AGED FREEMASONS.—The thirteenth
anniversary festival of this institution took place last night
at the Freemasons' Tavern, the Hon. Geo. Anson, M.F., in
the chair. Alter the removal of the cloth the usual loyal and
pyriotic toasts were drank. In proposing the toast of the
m01e..., the Chairman said that the institution was first
prumulaatt d is the year 183.5, its object being to afford relief
to aged and decayed freemasons, en idea so accordant with
the principles of freemasonry, that the only matter of asto-
nishment was, that the asylum had not long since been
erected. They had received the sanction, but not the assist-
, ante, of the trend lodge • nevertheless, the objects of the so-
ciety had annually progressed, and a site had now been fixed
upon for the erection of the asylum, a plan of which was ex
labited in the room.—Dr. Crucifix, in acknowledging the
to.st of " The Treasurer and Stewards," said that the sum
required for the building was only 4,0001, and he thought
th, time was not distant when the foundation stone of the
building would be laid.—The sum collected at the dinner
table was announced to be upwards of 5001.
Tie NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.—The select
committee appointed to inquire into the proposed arrange-
ments of the kitchen and eating and accommodation rooms
ter members and officers of the House of Commons in the
new palace of Westminster, and to reposs whether any and
what improvements could be made in the present system of
siippl, ins refreshments, and who were hatructed to inquire
into the d 0 les of the sergeant-at-arms attending on this
and the ,-alary. emoluments, and patronage of the
office, with a view to the regulation of the same before the
occupation of the new houses of parliament, and who were
I empowered to report from time to time to the house, have
mode further progress in the inquiry and agreed to the 101-
h:wing report: " Recommending that one or mere rooms
adjoining the transverse corridor, or the two rooms at the
opposite side of that lobby now entered for private bills end
dmrkeeper's department, be fitted up u washing rooms, &c.,
fnr members; th'it hot water pipes should be constructed
thereto; and a portion of the upper cloister be arranged for
an odd:Venal cloak-room." _ .

CONIMISSIONS RY TILE LORD LIEUTENANT.—Lient.
W. C. Cooper, to be captain; W. Stuart, jun., to be lieut.—
in the Bedfordshire Regiment of Militia.

STATISTICAL SOCIETY.—A society of great value in its
ultimate results, and conducted with great ability, has been
fur some months in operation—the Dublin Statistical So-
ciety. It owes its origin to Archbishop Whateley, who is per-
uisnent president, and has published a great variety of
economic papers. The Anal meeting for the season took
place last night, when the first report of the society was
read, from which it appears the following subjects
were investigated and discussed : On the connexion between
statistics and political economy by Mr. Lawson. On the
effect of the usury laws on the fondle, system. On the con-
dition of the Irish labourer. Oa Mr. Trevelyan's theory
that there is no hope for a nation that lives by potatoes. On
the economic views of Bishop Berkeley end Mr. Butt, and
a plan for systematising Irish statistics—all by Professor
Hancock ; with several other excellent papers by Drs. Wilde,
Longfield, and Taylor. Two committees were appointed to
report on the plan for collecting Irish statistics, and to con-
sider the effects of removing all impeditn-nts to the transfer
of land. The archbishop closed the proceedings. by a very
able address on the intrinsic value of economic licence, anal
more especially in its diffusion in Ireland.