The Express.
London, England, 1848-07-21 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

The following post-office regulation had caused
some sensation among the merchants. Although in-
tended for all foreign packet-ships, they will particu-
larly, and very materially and injuriously, affect the
Cunard line of the Royal Mail steamers. All post-
ages are to be prepaid, at high rates—newspapers
4 cents each, besides inland postage. It is stated that
these rates are tho same in amount as those charged
in England on all letters and papers sent by the
United States mail steamers; and that the measure is
one of retaliation. It is hoped that the two govern-
ments will soon agree on reciprocal rates of cheap
postage, for as the matter now stands, it operates as a
heavy tax on the commerce between this country and
England ; and, indeed, ;sari paws, with other Euro-
pean nations. This new regulation will be felt
rather severely by American merchants; and the
United States government will derive a large revenue
from the change:
POST.OFFICE, CITY OP NEW YORE, JULY 3, 1848.
I have received from the post-office department as order of
which the following is a copy, together with the portion of
the law of congress referred to.—Hose. M. MORRIS, P M.
lw.tructions.—All letters, or other mailable matter,
coming into the United States from foreign countries, or
going out of the United States to other countries, are re-
quired to be sent through the post-office at the place of de-
parture or arrival. The postage. to be charged on all letters
going out of the United States to, or through the kingdom of
Great Britain or its colonies, or coming from, or through, the
kingdom of Great Britain or its colonies, into the United States,
by any foreign packet-ship or other vessel, will be as follows,
the rootage(' on the outgoing letters, or other mailable matter,
to be prepaid : Oa each letter, not exceeding half an ounce
in weight, conveyed between the two countries by a foreign
packet. 24 cents ; and for each additional half-ounce or frac-
tion under, an additional postage of 24 cents; and if con-
veyed between the two countries by any foreign private ship
or vessel, when weighing halt an ounce or under, the postage
will be 16 cents ; and for each additional hall ounce or frac-
tion under, an additional postage of 16 cents each. News-
papers will be chargeable with postage of 4 cents; each sheet
of other prinled matter will be rated as a newspaper. Any
violations of the law will be reported with the evidence to
the district attorney for prosecution.
(Signed) C. JowNeos, P.M. General."

BELGIUM.—BaussELs, JUL'r 19.—The Motaiteur
of this day contains two decrees. By the first, M. Frere
Orban, Minister of Public Weeks, is appointed Minister of
Finance ; and by the second, M. A. Rolin, advocate, and
communal councillor of Ghent, is named Minister of Public
Works, in the room of M. FrereOrban, Minister of Finance.
RUSSIA.—THE Cnowta.-00 the 9th inst. there
were 3,977 cases of cholera in St. Petersburg. In the pre-
vious day 574 had died, and 170 had been cured. In Jassy,
the deaths through cholera are in the propirtion of Ito 4, !
with respect to the cures ; in Bucharest Ito 3. The cholera •
has broken out in Finland, in the district of Salmi. Out of
13 cases 8 had terminated fatally. The epidemy has also
manifested itself in Ketholm.
TURKEY.—QUARANTINE IN THE LEVANT.—The
Superintendent-General of Public Health, of the Ottoman
empire, has decided that after the 31st of July only the •
sanitary officers of Salonica, the Dardanelles, Smyrna, Bey-
rout, Tripoli, Barbary, and the islands of Cyprus and Crete,
shall have authority to compel vessels subject to them to per-
form quarantine, whatever be the destination of these vessels.
Other officers shall be permitted to impose quarantine only
on those vessels which are destined for oae of the points of
their respective conscriptions. The Ottoman government
has decreed that all for. ign vessels coming from Greece, in
Turkey, and carrying bills of health, and delivered by the
Greek authorities, shall have these bills countersigned either
by their own consuls in Greece, or by a foreign consul, or by
the Ottoman consul. In default of the compliance wi h
this formality, the said yowls shall be subject to a quaran-
tine of 21 days on their arrival at the Turkish ports.
CUBA.—Intelligence from Ilarannah, oil New
York, reaches to the -23rd of June. All the necessary mate-
ria's for the construction of en electric telegraph between
Ravannah and Matanzas had been completed in the first-
named city, and the line was immediately to be established ;
snd also along all the railroad lines on the island. It is
stated that a revolution very formidably organised was about
to break out in Cuba. The movement was thoroughly re-
public,n (slave' excepted), and it was understood that Luba
would strike for ind, pendence. The President of the United
States had ordered (so it is said) the Golf squadron to
repair to the ports of Cuba and Porto Rico, for the pro-
tection of American interests. The news of the revolt of
the negroes in Martinique had caused the governor of Porto
Rico to issue a very strong manifesto against any negro de-
monstrations, punishing a blow against a white man with
death, and very slight offences with the lash or years of im-
prisonment. The disaffected whites complain that, in so
doing, he has usurped despotically all the powers of the go-
vernment in his own person ; in short, it is thought that
some pretext will be found fora rebellion io Porto Rico.—
From Porto Rico we obtain the following account of the
markets on the 101 of June : The demand for sups con-
tinues slack; sales, however, are continually being made to
the vessels loading. The following prices are paid : 17 to 18
rials per quintal for ordinary kinds, and for some as high as
20 rials has been given. The next news from Europe, it is
expected, will give an impulse to the sugar market.
VENEZUELA.—lntelligenee from Porto Cabello
is not later than that previously received, viz., the 10th of
June; but some further particulars are given. We have
stated that Maracaibo, the last foothold of the friendsof the •
constitution, was taken possession of by a division of General
Monagas's army on the 30th of May. It appears that the
, squadron of the Maracaibo people retired towards the castle
, near the bar, with several hundred of the most active oppo-
nents of the tyranny of Monegas on board. The castle, it
was understood, yet remained in the hands of the opposition.
• If the information communicated by the so-called govern-
meat party can be relied on it would seem to be absolutely
• imoossible for Gen, Para and other real friends of the constitu-
tion to succeed in their patriotic endeavours to re-establish it,
at least for the present. Business continued dull. Coffee at
6 dole. to G dols. per quintal, and few purchasers even at
these low pries. Indigo : none in the market. Miles, Cc.
, per lb., in limited demand. Cotton nominal; Sc. per lb.
i Cocoa rom 15 dots. to 19 dole. per 110 lbs., according to qua-
- lite. American flour is now selling at 17 doll. 50c. to
, 18 dole. per barrel, cash.