The Express.
London, England, 1847-11-09 00:00:00

CANARY ISLANDS.—The political chief of the
Canary Islands has ordered that all articles coming from the
island called Great Canary, shall be aebjected to a quarantine
of live days, in consequence el an epidemic climate having
broken out. Measures has. also been taken at Cadiz to
prevent the disease from entering Spain, and a medical corn-
ISIUSSOIS has been sent to examine into ft. Earnest hopes are
expressed that it may not turn eat to be the yellow fever.

COLONIAL.
WEST INDIES.—TRINIDAD. The Port of
Spain Gazette of Oct. 1, contains a petition to parliament •
from the inhabitants of this island. It is • temperate, ratio-
cinative, and able document. The prayer of the petition is
al follows :
1, That Means for the suppreerion of the slave-trade now
exidleg bitemin huts Meimers goveinnsent and other countries be
mine satinest, mad that tome new and rigorous commure
he the delesdee sad non of sea Mem as have
u idmiselipluiredneedforeign filientrim —2. That
es m indimeMidike mans of reducing the met of production,
your eselthern elate be allowed esembieted moms to
the omit of Atm end to all ether Owes whence they
may obta treeb silkier to their hes Manilas population.--
3. 'That you in
r pettelemes (daimon Belli* egkiesles he bare the West
India Wwies emeldered and treated se Miedmil plea Mahe Britt b
empire, and, therelhee,ewAtled thew dude predate introduced rota
the market& of nand semispla the same Nene as the agricul-
tural produce el ter ewe eseatises w time q remene to be rativi
from roger *meld be laded emiladeely upon Wet produced by dare
labour, which yam poldiewe essesea, ea the seam of jasike and
morality, ought sat It= lathe esegeMilagery as that mode by
wee labour. 4. TIM seven es seem be permitted to be
used lathe hreweetes sad Melleries of the United Kingdom. 5. That
the dm* behoves rum and British spirits should be
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In a previous number of the Gazette it is stated :
Copies of this Weldon have been forwarded to all the other colonies,
end their lebehimats invited to m.ke a simultaneous effort sou to
maks ma stimdminis cell for relief before the imperial legislature. We
trend Yfs mersweet will he fully carried out, and that the new Howe
of Ommem, at as early day, wig find tbeenowlves obliged to decide on
the Important question--Are our sugar colooles to be raved or
deadened !
GUIANA.—It will be seen from the following ex-
tract from the Royal Gazette that in this colony the project
of a congress; from all the islands at St. Thomas has met
with a favourable reception
British GuLaw at List has, like the surrounding colonies, taken the
alarm. The sugar bill is to be denounced ; parliament to be ap-
proached with remonstrances; and the convention of delegate. at rat.
Thomas to be sanctioned and supported. This is as it should be.
On Friday, the 24th nit , • preliminary meeting of the most influen-
tial gentlemen in the colony won held in thin city, at wnich it was re-
solved to call together—that rare event in the quiet tenor of our ex-
istence -a general meeting of the inhabitants, for the jin.c of pre-
paring a petition to the British parliament sett', g forth our griev-
ances and praying for retires.. la common with the other colo-
nies, we bare remised an invitation from the Comber of
Commerce In Jamaica to send two delegates to meet the
delegates selected by the different British possessions in
the Vint Indies at the foreign island of Bt. Thomas, sad
that as early as possible. Right heartily will this 'when,ou be re-
Fpantled to; and recreant would be the colony that should bark in this
emergency, and mar the union of the Moat es. The object of the
emigre., which will assemble at it. Thom., must be to all, we
should think, roe-evident. In the Jamaica circular. it is stated to be
„in order to resolve on such a combined movement in support of the
declining interest of thew important eutectics, as may carry with it
all the weight and importance due to the property and intelligence of
her Majesty's subject. in the West Indies." This language ie
com-
prehemive enough to imply any specific measure., whivh may be
deemed expedient for seeming our interring and which may he corn-
atible with the weight which "property" wries with it, and the de-
mands on which "inn Iligence" insksta. Detail. must be len
to the delegates, to the fultire, and to the chapter of acci-
dents. But the main object is explicit and obvious. The grand object
of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce, and of all strong-minded and
sensible colonists—all but the wavering and the insipid—is to organise
on the neutral ground of tit. 'Thomas • great West Indian Confederacy,
armed with full powers of deliberation, correspondence, and resolu-
tion, in all that may concern our joint intense.. Before busbiess can
be attended to, the organisation, the ruler of proceeding and adjourn-
ment, and the duration of this body, mustbe determined. We inistake
the temper of the times and of the free-traders in Europe, if work for
more than one IDDital be not carved out for the delegates, who, we
suspect will fi.d it recces/try to adj urn front time to tune. Better,
infinitely better, that no convention at ill take plate, thee that it
should be dissolved after making some partial and unsustained demon.
titration, or one moment before Tatham.* be granted to these injured
colonies. . . .

At the time the mail was despatched the weather was
favourable. The following account of an expedition of the
governor is from the journal 'bore quoted :
IDs excellency the governor has oven, ter the course of the fortnight,
on a tour op the Kahaicony river, which his excellency visited to a
cimaiderable dl.itance born its mouth. The klahaicony tin in the
eastern district of the county of Demerara, at a iliataoce of about
f',',ll:2,l:7:err;o""*"rtion onf-thTher'e up ar farms e
along
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settlement. and schools. Theme latter, it is understood. the governor
visited. Among others who attended his excellency was tir.
an,y
lately appointed the medical oominisaioner for inspecting d
reporting upon the condition of the hospitals on estates. Some instruc-
tions from the government have, within the last two or three days,
been published for the guidance of the doctor in his new duties, and
have appeared in our columns. Among other rules, it I. laid down
that every possible information concerning Use canuition of the dif-
ferent kmds of immigrant', who become inmates of the hospital;
shall be obtained by the medical oonionsaioner from the managers
and others in charge of the estates. There is no other mode of en-
forcing the production of thin species of testimony, except by Inter-
dicting those plantations on which it is refused from allotments of
immigrants by the Immigration Agent-General ; and the recusants
are accordingly the atoned with a stoppage of the supplies of labourer.
in ease they continue uncommunicative. But there is little fear on
this score It is the intercat of the planters that the government
should clearly understand the position of thi mwelves and the people
tinder them ; and, we are persuaded, that a NU conf.ssion will show
that in a majority of instance', everything which the, memo of the
owners permit Is done far the invalids on the estate.
WiND WARD IS LANDS. BARBADOEX. The
official Glade states in its number of 7th October last :

We fear much that the rumours that are atioat of Governor Reld's
ultimate retirement from ilibs es/nmsad are too true. We understand
that her Majewy's government have salted his excellency to recon-
sider the determination which be expressed to them some menthe
ago—not to eery° with Jude Reddie or Mr. Athill--and that tine re-
quest het been accompanied with very flattering marks of the confi-
dence and esteem of the monster ; but we learn with regret that the
governor has not felt himself at liberty to change his resolution, under
miming circumstanees. The whole question will probably assume a
new aspect on the arrival of the packet--for we are told that Lieut.-
Colonel Torrens, the late Lieutenant-Governor of St. Lucia, was met
on the 30th of August In Liverpool, where he bad just landed from
the Hibernia steamer; having, on hearing of Mr. ReddicAs reinatate-
mcnt, requested and obtained leave of absence to pronredto Ergland,
for the purpose of demanding from lord Grey the grounds upon
which his ((blow( Torrene) veracity bad been impeached, an I Ma
statement set at naught by Dr. ltobineon'a assertions. The affaD,
therefore, cannot rest where It does; and we shall look with interest
for the intelligence concerning it, which, In all probability, (hemming
packet will convey.

AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE.—Later accounts from
America are now daily expected with great interest. The
packet ships of she 16th and 21st ult. from New York are
now out respectively 22 and 17 days; and the French mail
steamer from that city will shortly be due at Cherbourg.
She would leave New York on the 2.5 th ult., and is now out,
therefore, about 13 days. A ruu of 16 days will be a credit-
able performance for one of that line of vessels. The Boston
steamship Cambria may be looked for on Saturday. A
remittance of 28,000 f. was received in anticipation of the
forthcoming dividend on the bonds of the state of Maryland
by the last steamer.—Lirerpool Albion.