The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-21 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

WEST INDIES.—ARRIVAL OP THE ROYAL
MAIL.—The steamer Avon, Capt. Norton, arrived at South-
ampton on the 19th inst. Her dates are—Demerara, Aug.
18; Trinidul, 20th ; Jamaica, 23rd ; Barbadoes, 24th ; Gre-
nada, 2.5 th; St. Thomas, 30t1; Fayal, Sept. 13 ; La Guayas,
Au. IN. The early part of the present season in the West
Indies was the driest and hottest ever known. Latterly,
however, so much rain has fallen, that the planters have
almost fancied it injurious. Among the passengers by the
Avon is Dr. Kelley, whose zeal for the propagation of his
religious opinions in Madeira has created notoriety, and given
great offence to the Portuguese authorities there. The
Avon brought home 5,147 dollars, 151. British coin, 68
bales of tobacco, 60 tierces of coffee, and 119 bales of sarsa
Feral*
CANADA.—SUFFERING. OS BOARD AN EMIGRANT
YeseEL A CASE FOR THE COLONIAL LAND AND EMIGRA-
TION CUMMIsSIONERS.—The Montreal Herald contains a
horrible account of the sufferings of some Irish emigrants,
on board a ship called the Elizabeth and Sarah, which lett
Efilala on the 26th May last. The Herald says:

We tind that the Elizabeth and Sarah, is a vessel of 320 tone burden,
bet tit,:t she is only 1,520 feet superficial measurement, and was,
therefore, only entitled by law to carry 155 adult passengers, instead
of which she had 211-46 beyond her complement. 11cr lot 01 passen-
gers certitied by the proper .uMeer at littlala, contained 2.52 names,
while by an error in the addition she appeared to have only 212, and
bad in reality 276 souls on board, beelike the crew. she had only
8,700 gallon; of water on board at starting, and in leaky and inside.
cient casks ; whereas, the law requires that she should be provided
with 52 gallons for each adult passenger, or 12,572 gallons. The law
obliges the issue, per day, to each adult passenger, of I lb. of bread•stuf
—one half in biscuit. This WAS entirely imprecated, or, at all events,
not one pound was issued during the voyage, end the poor emigrants
were kit entirely dependent upon their own stores. As we have
mentioned, the mister was the ask owner of the vessel, and, we
understand, received from the ship-broker 15e. sterling for each pas.
meager he took, which will account for his crowding his ship in the
way he Mil. The condition of the Elizabeth and Sarah, on her arrival
at braise Isle. after a passage of 72 days, may be conceived by the
fart, that of 70 cases cat fever among the survivors on board, seven
died in hospital and although the crew were then comparatively
healthy, their employment in cleaning the ship consigned the majo-
rity of.them to the Fever-ward. There was no convenience for the
pammwers on board, and the state of the vessel has been mentioned
to es as being horrible and disgusting beyond the power of language
to describe.

A letter, with the signatures of John Laval (late of the
pariah of Kilmore). John Stephens (late of the parish of
Westport), James Joyce (late of the parish of Lanmore, Co.
Mayo), details at length the sufferings of themselves and
their fellow-emigrant*. They were tint beguiled to Killala
by the first of May, when they found the vessel had not yet
r.rrived there, and they were obliged to return—nut to their
homes, for they had been sold—to beg a scanty shelter from
former neighbours. They were next informed that if they
were not ready by the 14th of May they would ilirfeit their
deposits. This time they found the vessel in port, but far
from ready fur eta ; so that they had to lino on their little
means till the 26th of May, rendering many of them penni-
less at their departure. The rest of the horrible tale may be '
told in their own simple fashion :

e. We were given to understand that each berth wan to be occupied
nut to ecce d
R 11; after we h:‘,Tidd nagged, however. It number I:::ftninrd't7:l7 we numbered
2so weals, and that, in.tead of there being forty-seven bertha, as there
ribald have been for this number of persons, there were hut thirty-
pix in all, four of whack were afterwards occupied by the crew; ro
that there remained but thirty-two for the auxoninaudestion of the
pignengem, which being totally insufficient fur our number, many of
us
were obliged to deep on the floor. Two quart+ of water per day
was the me,: allowed to each pawenger ; nor was bread or oatmeal
Veer served out to its, as +fated an our manage tickets; and which, by
law, the master was bound to have given us. After having been out
da 21 the master informed to that we were on the Bunks of New-
.l,; whereupon many of the mementoes wanted their pro-
visions, believing that they were close to port. We did not reach
Newfoundland for 24 days after thin, and instead of finding ourselves
on the south side we were on the north. We had to make the circuit
of the island of Newfoandlauul to gain the Gulf of St. Lawrence, but
before doing thin the mate, J. Tindal, (the captain being nick and
unable to attend to his duties) ran us ashore ou the Inland of St.
Peter, to the south of Newfoundland, thinking at the time It wan
St. Paul's Island. We were then in a meet deplorable date, living upon
abort allowance, and many of us without any. Our pittance of water
Was both gluey and putrid; disease and penlilence Melee nut among
us, and carried of many of our fellow paeseengern in its iron grasp. In
thin state of thing+ we AUeeeeftell in getting utf the reef, luckily without
mush injury. (tear captain, who for many days past hail torn at death',
done, now breathed his last, and several more of the pamengervi
Ilkewine yielded up their studs to him who created therm Their beefiest
were, of course, iannitaliately committed to tho deep; but the mate. as
if to add Molar nireety, notwithstanding our most urgent request to the
contrary, prnhte.l in keening the body of the Captain. Fur thirteen
long dove :at the end of which time we reached Basque Inland), the
body 4.1. y upon the quarfte-deek In a most horrid disgusting mate of
derignpositnin, thereby engendering the pestilence among on to a
fearful extent, in so much that twenty-two routs had by this time
perished. hliortly after leaving the reef of Bt. Peter'n Island, we tell
in with a re swl, and it was with the attmod difficulty that we induced
the mate to heave-to, in the hopes of obtaining a fee& supply of water
and pa (widens, both of which be got, and sold the hitter to us at must
etorhilont prices; a few day+ alter thin we met with another vessel,
but the cruel mate would not heave-to—no, the unfeeling man con-
lambed hie course, notadthntanding the heart-rending thee of men,
women, and children. who clung to his knees in the agony of their
despair. At Basque Island we received ninth attention from a Mr.
Webb, mate of the Liverpool, wrecked eat that Island, and whose
disintenstel kindness., while it never can be forgotten by tie, we
would wish to be particolarlv noticed, on it might be wrvice. I
able to him in obtaining his pmenotinn, which he well de-
series There, Sir, we would have laid till our ship had berme a
charnel Manse, and we had no longer hen numbered analog the living,
bad it not been for the promptitude and decision of the government
emigrant agent here in tleepatehing u otenn,hout to our s....ietunee;
for this act he will ever have our moot carne-t prayer., rising to the
Merry-seat of God, beseeching biro that he will far ever bless both him
and his. On the 72ne1 clay after our &Torture from Killiala, we
dropped anchor at Geese Isle, w here we were kindly and hospitably
treated to Dr. !knights, the niedleal superintendent, as also by Mr.
Cullingford, who wan in charge of the sick; here seven more of our
fellow peeeeneere ellen. and many still remain there in a s cry preea -
limas state.--Quelge, 22nd Aug.

The Montreal paper ealls on the home government to
punish the guilty parties, by whose heartless cupidity so
many lives were sacrificed ; since the death of the master,
A. Simpson, who was also sole owner, debars the authorities
at Montreal from inflicting upouhim the legal penalties they
otherwise would.

NEW SOUTH WALES. —MURDER OF Bisnor
EPALLE.—A meeting ha• been held at Sydney, for the pur-
pose of erecting a monument, by public subscription, to the
memory of this prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, who
was nyissacred by the Ravage natives of the island of Isabel,
or 'ruble, one of the new Hebridean group, on the 16th
December last. Considerably more than 1001. was subscribed
at the meeting, and the memorial will probably be the
addition of an orator• to the Roman Catholic cathedral of
Sydney. Dean M•Encroe gave the following account of the
bishop's death :

s• On the morning that the melancholy circumstance occurred, hie
lordatup, tiecompanied by the Rev. Mr. I'rentont, the Rae. Mr. (
raine, and two lac brotheth, put off front the vessel in the but, with
the second mass and four seamen, in order to find a place to fora a
settlement; they had been live day. making excurviona for the 'same
purpose. Whet' the boot left the cenSCi, the summit mate inquired
from tun lontylitp to which place they should go, and wait directed to
proceed to the " unfriendly tribe," a name which the inhabitmts of
that part of rouble had got on board the cruel, from all the natives
who had previouely visited the miasionarits has ing told them that if
they went there tb'y would be killed; but in consequence of the dif-
ferent tribes being at war with each other, little attention
was paid to this statement. AA the party appromhed
the beach, they observed a number of objects on the
ialsad, apparently motionless arid scarcely distinguLahable front
the ground; they, at length, observed n convenient and pi oiler place
fax landing, and a. they approached the sbore some of the party Paid
the objects they saw acre pie:a, and others mid they were not men
but gay stone+. .1s the bolt conic nearer to the shore then observed
a hole of about a hundred nativett, acme of whom left the teach and
went into the bush apparently afraid. Signs were made to them not
to he afraid, and an old man with long white hair, in a Mate of trepi-
dation, went alongside :md examined the boot very minutely, no
doubt to:.-certain w hethr r there were any arm in it. Ile had two
mam-mt es in hi, hand which he gave to the second mate, who pre-
sented him in niturn w:th a piece of iron. The party then left the
but, tan seamen remaining with it, and the natives attempted to
pull it on the beach. Contrary to their uaual custom the seamen
were unarmed, sits tog they were ashamed to go armed while
the 11,1 top and the priest.; were unarmed. His lordship,
with the nee. Mr. Chihraine, one lay brother, and a sea-
man, walked on on • side ; the Rev. Mr. Fremont, the other lay
brother, the second mate, and the other seaman, on the other side.
tile. Fremont, by sigma, asked the nation, where their house,. were,
but merited no answer. Ile then naked who was their chief, when a
wed number of them proudly titling tip their beads intimated that
they were chiefs. One of the lay Mother. he sign+ intimated to one
of them, that the club he held in hi. hand Was, a very line one, to
which he in the same manner haughtily answered that it was. .‘ boy,
apparently about thirteen years obi, ohaerved the ring on the bishopie
firmer, and offered him two mangroves for it ; his lordship merely
smiled, and the seamen observed that they Oct a great value upon
thew mangroves. One of the lay brothers saw an axe in the
hands of one of the aativea, which be pointed out to Mr. Chau-
taine, who said that he had elan seen one. These tam were not
nn the short handles they a:wally are, but had handles four or
live feet :ong, and the axe. themselves were very bright. Mr. Chalk
mine directed his lonlyhip'a attention to the circumatance, and Paid
tie natives appeared to be ready to attack them. lie said that was
true, and asked if the aailorn were armed. He then began to return
towards the boat, hut it waa ton late, as he had scarcely taken two steps
rhea the native came behind him with an axe, which he raised with
both hands, and struck the bishop a violent blow on the bead. His
lordship raised both his hands to hi+ head and cried out. AU the
natives then yelled, and attacked each of the party individually. The
whites were soon smaratcd and could not help each other; the only
thine they couhl do was to try to reach the boat • on theirflight thither
Mr. Fremont received two rota on the head, and the second node one;
Mr. Chauraine remsived a blow on the head, and another on the
but not severe. A pistol watt fired from the hoot, and an the
name. except three ran off into the bush. These three were trying to
"frit, the bishop of his c10th..., when Mr. Chauraine seised a cutlas*
and ran to protect his lordship; as he laid his hand upon him a
market wit,. bird, and the native. ran off yelling. Mr. Chauraine
tarred the body tome distance, but being unable to carry it far, he
tilled for assistance, but to no purpose; and he called again, when
Mr. Fremont anti one of the lay brothers went to his aroatanee and
tamed the bishop to the boat, the nativea shouting fiercely and
'tmariling all the time. Ilia lordship mil insensible and bleeding
;Lamely from the wounds ; when he was washed and hie head
s".'"ls four large wound+, each three inches in length, were dirk
earrild- His lordship lived for three days and a half, during the
who'd of which time he remained irmensible, and departed this life at
f quarter to one on the fourth day."

INFANTICIDE IN Is Bradley, of Ellich-
re!, states in a paper read before the Bombay Geographical
''etY, that the Klaonds of the districts of l'ondacole,
Gulodye, and Bori, annually destroy above one thousand
female children.
FoaEW.tRYED, FOREARMED.-TIIE TURNIP DIB-
- portends a season of severe trial to stock-
`"Vers, and the farmers whose culture depends on feeding-
'l4°ev. The threatened disease in the turnips, even should
It turn out not to be serious, will, we hope, direct the atten-
t2a of farmers to the use of auxiliaries, linseed, for instance.
1" ought also to be a memorial to the Queen, from every
market in the kingdom, praying that the duties on imported
Min should be suspended bi an order in council. The far-
m" has a strong and pressing interest in striking off the
remnant of duty, which is now enhancing the price of every
kind of stock provender.—The Economist.