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

HURRICANE IN THE WEST INDIES.

ERUPTION OF A VOLCANO LN MARTINIQUE.

The Royal West India mail-packet Dee, Captain
Allan, from the West Indies, &c., arrived at South-
ampton this morning, and landed her mails under
the charge of Lieut. T. Strover, R.N., Admiral*
agent, Dates of sailing*: I.vra Cruz, August 1;
Tampico, 4; Chagres, 9; Carthagena, 11; Jamaica,
14; Demerara, 11; Trinidad, 11 ; Barbadoes, 13;
Antigua, 14 ; Martinique, 13 ; Grenada, 11; Polio
Rico, 18; St. Thomas's, 20; La Guayra, 12.
Amongst the cargo is specie to the value 6f
1,535,495 dollars, of which 45,261 dollars aro on
account of Mexican dividends, and 1,490,234 dollars
on merchants* account. In addition to this she brings
Gold from California, value 154,274 dollars; from
Panama, 285,244 dollars ; from Santa Martha,
18,214 dollars; from Grey Town, 1,274 dollars; from
Carthagena, 10,486 dollars; from St. Thomas,
4,706 dollars: the total value being 1,940,222 dollars,
or rbout 390,0001. sterling.
On the 18th, the island of St. Thomas expo•
rieneed the tail of a hurricane. It commenced
.at daylight, and from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. it
blew with terrific fury from N.E. to S.E. by
E., doing great damage to the wharf under the
town. One schooner was capsized at her anchors,
two or three vessels went on shore, and others drove
with both anchors down. The strength of the hur-
ricane passed to tho southward of St. Thomas. The
next mail will bring probably disastrous accounts.
The I)ee andDerwent were in port in St. Thomas's
during the gale. The Great Western was about
sixty miles to the westward of St. Thomas, and en-
countered the gale fur fourteen hours. She did not
sustain any damage beyond the loss of her sails.
The Dee was detained three days at St. Thomas's,
waiting for the Mexican steamer.

JAMAICA.
From this island the dates are but two days later
than those received rid New York. In Savannah-ha.
Mar, where there had been nearly 400 deaths from
cholera, although the violenco of the disease had
greatly abated, there were still a few isolated cases.
Several cases of cholera had broken out at New-
castle among the troops. Whether any of them had
proved fatal was not known.
The Morning Journal announces the decease of
Robert Smith, Esq., senior magistrate for the parish
of St. Andrew for a number of years.
At the meeting of the Commissioners of Publie
Accounts, which took place in Kingston, on the 7th
August, the following Customs return, showing the
staple exports of this island between the roth day of
April and the sth day of July, 1834 was laid before
the board:

From Kingston and Old Harbour.-2,235 hogsheads, 260
tierces, and 404 barrels sugar; 1,071 puncheons, 28 Mids.,
and 11 casks rum ; 1G bags pimento; 718 bags ginger;
1,012,5021 b.

Port Morant and Morant Bay.-1,619 lthds., 282 tres.,
and 818 bets. sugar ; 406 puncheons rum.
Port Mari.. and Anaotto ISay.-439 blids., 12 tree., and
56 bets. sugar ; 119 puns. rum • 2 bags pimento.
Falmouth Rio Bum), St. inn's.-3,573 hhils., 539 trim,
and IGO brls. sugar; 1,240 puns., 1 hhd., and 6 casks runt;
2,297 bags pimento; 11G casks and 1,197 bags ginger;
581,48911)s. coffee.

Montego Bay anti Rio Bueno.-3,527 hhds., 6.37 trcs., and
320 brlr. sugar; 1,483 pu6s. rum; 659 bags pimento ; 34
casks and 995 bags ginger: 100,1:41bs. coffee.
Savannah-la-Mar, Black River, and Alligator Pond.-
2,120 Mitts., 281 tres., and 56 brig. sugar; 5,012 puns.
17 bhds., and 17 casks tuna; 141 bags pimento; 883 cask;
and 1 bag ginger; 3,9'_'olbs. coffee.
TO'fAL Exronva.—Sugar, 13,513 hhds., 2,014 ;res., and
1,80.5 brio.; rum, 5,012 puns., 16 Mids., and 17 casks;
pimento, 3,115 bags; ginger, 1,683 casks, and 3,211 bags:
colree, 1,608,5531b5.

At the same meeting the following statement,
showing the amount of duties collected by the of.
ficers of her Majesty's customs at the several ports
in the island, and paid over to the colonial treasurer,
to the quarter ending sth July, 1851, was also laid
before the commissioners:

Island Mt
ittt VO. c. 31

T.thalledue" Total.
sod fees.
E v. d .6 s. d.
2,991 4 0+30,415 10 5
417 1 6 850 3 4
10 If 3 28 0 10
542 11 5 1,469 16 7
912 11 4 6,003 7 8
3u5 11 4 3,277 19 10
254 19 G 1.151 1$ 7
5,119 5 413,146 17 3

liingetnn ARII Oil Harbor.
Port Moe :int and Ntoraitt
Port Ant min .

Poet Marla and Annotta Bay
lattnter It. LUG-Homo, ant
St. Allll'll tt ty
Montego Bay and Lynes
Say.tnna-In.atar,lllackalver.
and Alligator Pad ......
Total .......

S 4. 4
27,420 2 5
433 I 10

5,000 IG
2,072 3 0

896 19 1

In.n7un

Gran sm.untof duty'slmports, under 14th
Vic. e. 31 _ . _

Le. amount of drawback min.& expoetedl966 9 1
Le. AUonance on goods dau.geL...

Nctt amount of imports for quarter.

Z 37,7111111

986 9 2

G,771 9 9

BRITISH GUIANA.

The Royal Gazelle says
since the Dith ult., the date of our last " Review," tho
colony has been tranquil, if not prosperous. The Court of
Policy has held one or two sittings, and at present stands
adjourned to Tuesday next. Several measures have been
advanced a stage; but no business of any great importance
has been brought to a final close.
.

On the 30tCult. the British Guiana Bank held its usual
half-yearly meeting, when u highly satisfactory statement
from the directors was laid over, and unanimously approved
of. The report of the directors, together with a summary
of the proceedings at the meeting, will be found in our
number of the 21st. The off:sirs of thiscorpomtiun continue
to be in a flourishing condition. Thu nett profits during
the six months ending the 30th of last month amounted
to 29,800 doll. 87c. Out of this amount 20,152 dull. 53c.
were appropriated to the payment of a dividend of two
per cent. for the half-year among the shareholders. The
remainder, or 9,648 doll. 24c., was carried over in
accumulation of the reserved fund belonging to the
bank, and consisting at present of 160,181 dull. 9Gc. The
directors in their report take an encouraging view of the
agricultural and commercial state of the colony, and allude
to several recent instances within the range of their own
experience to show that a marked change for the better
has already taken place in landed property iu this colony.
" Of those plantations," nay the directors, " whose culti-
vation had been wholly or partially abandoned, a few have
already been again brought into productive working, and
some others arc now in a course of progressive ameliora-
tion." This must be a cheering announcement to such of
our absentee friends as are connected with estates in British
Guiana, and is entitled to the greatest weight, as emanating
from a body of gentlemen of great intelligence and Ideal
experience, and possessing excellent opportunities for
arriving at a correct knowledge on this subject.
On the sth instant our planters received a welcome rein-
forcement to the labour force of the colony in the arrival of
the vessel William Gibson from Calcutta with 224 coolies
on board. While on the subject of coolies immigration we
may remark that our readers will find, in our number of the
2nd instant, an abstract of a very interesting letter which
was read in the Court of Policy ou the 28th, preceding from
Mr. J. I'. White, the joint immigration agent for British
Guiana and Trinidad at Calcutta, addressed to his excel-
lency the governor. Mr. White reports, among other
things, that the coolies who had gone back to India from
this colony in the Lucknow, and who had carried with them
from two to three thousand pounds sterling, had expressed
themselves highly satisfied with this country. Mr. White
seemed to be under the impression mat many of them
would agree, when the excitement naturally attendant on
their return home had subsided, to enter into fresh
contracts to labour in this country. In the course of
the discussion that took place in the court on the reading of
Mr. White's letter, his excellency the governor remarked
that, large as had been the amount of money taken back to
India by the people who went in the Lucknow, the amount
of property which the emigrants who sailed the other day
for India in the Zenohia took with them was much larger;
the sum of 20,000 doh. having been delivered into the cus-
tody of the captain, while at least holies much more, as his
excellency believed, remained in the possession of the people
themselves. These are gratifying facts, and show that,
whatever may have been the advantage to the colony of
coolie immigration, it has been at all events productive of
great pecuniary advantage the coolies themselves.
In consequence of the insolvency of Mr. Alexander Duff,
the vessels either partly or entirely owned by that gentle-
man were brought to public sale on the bth inst., by order
of the Administrator-General of Demerara and Essequebo,
u representative of the estate and effects of Mr. Duff, for
the benefit of his creditors.

We may here also mention, that the railway shares be-
longing to the estate of Mr. Duff realised very high prices
on being brought to the hammer.
A bill, prepared by Dr. Gavin, medical inspector of the
West Indies, and haying for its object the improvement of
the public health, has already been laid before the Court of
Policy, and read the first arta second times. This measure
has been ordered by the court to be published for genera
information, prior to the court going into committee upon
it, and is accordingly given at length in 'supplement to our
present impression.
During the last fortnight the weather, though rather un-
settled, has still, generally speaking, been dry and hot, and
favourable to sugar making. Must of the estates, therefore,
in the districts adjacent to town have been taking advantage
of the change of season to realise their crops. With the
exception of a troublesome, though not dangerous, influ-
enn, the health of the colony continues tolerably good,
considering that we have now entered not only on the crop-
time of the planters, but that of the doctors, August being
usually a sickly as well u sugar-making month. ,