The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-10 00:00:00

WEST INDIES AND MEXICO.

Tbs. Royal West India mail steamer Sever*, Capt.
Viacom, arrive d at Southampton yesterdav, and
landed her mails under the charge of LitUt. I. J.
Wilkinson, 11.5., Admiralty agent. An accident
happened to the machinery of the Severn on the 4th
last., which took 32 hours to repair. The dates of her
mails arc. as follows :—Vero Cruz, Feb. 8; Tampico,
4 ; chapel', 9; Carthagena,ll • Jamaiea,l4; Deme-
rara, 11; Trinidad, 13; Barham's, 10; Antigua, 1.5;
Martinique, Ili; Gn•nailn, 14; Porto Rico, 18; St.
Thomas, 19; La Guayra, 11 ; Santa Martha, 29;
Grey Town, 3; Guadaloupe, 17; St. Vincent, 15; St.
Lucia, 17; San Francisco, 15; Panama, Feb. 8. The
cargo of the Severn consisted of specie and precious
atoms to the value of 1,618,11148 dollars, 51,000 of
which is on amount of Mexican dividends; 1,043,510
was in burs and dollar+, 521,328 in gold dust
and coined gold; Odin& to the value of 1,750
dollars; pearls, 13,000 dollars value. The
panieulars of the specie, &c., are as follows :—From
ampico, speeie and bullion on merehants account,
511,012 dohs., and for dividenaj 18,000 dots.; from
Vert ('nu., on merchants accounts, 760,676 dots.; for
dividends, 33.1881 dols. Flom the Pacific ports, bul-
lion and gold dust, 215,877 dolt. From California,
276,085 dols. From Carthagtoa, 121,490 dots. From
Jamaica. 20,331 dohs. From other ports of the West
Indies. 72,377 dohs. The Sevein also brought home
12 packages for the great Exhibition, and 51 pack-
ages of samples. The isissengers by the Severn
were 63 in number. Amongst them were Captain
Mann, R.E., and family ; and Assistant ('ommissary
Ocnerul Graham, Inuit Grenada; Lieutenant Tyler,
XL. from St. Lucia; Assistant Surgeon Tepee ;
Lieutenant Grey, It.A. ; Lieutenunt-Colonel Wright.
ILK, and lady ; Lieutenant Deng, H.S.; and lie.
Beveridge, from Jamaica; and Dr. Crow, from
Barhadoes.

From the Mexican Gulf we learn that the specie
for Tampico, expected down there the latter part of
January, had nut arrivill when the Great Vs (stern
called off that port on the 4th of February lust,
owing to a slight disturbance in the interior, hut
then all was quiet, awl it was expected that the
specie hv the Ouiductor would reach Tampico and
be minty to he shipped by the time the Great
Western returned off the bar the beginning of March.
The Conductor. for Vera Crux. arrived at that city on
the fish of February, and all the specie for the Mexi-
can dividends and on an relant account fur England
was uhileptil by the Great Western.
Dr. Beveridge, whew mime is in the passengers'
list, is the gentleman whose humane and zealous
exertions in Jamaica, when the cholera first broke
out there, were mentioned in the 11,presa in
December last, when that gentleman arrived in this
country. and also that he volunteered to go out with
the melioiJ staff that was sent out by the govern-
ment on the 2nd January last. Dr. Ili•veridw states
that Kingston, Spanish Town, and Port Royal are
entirely free from cholera, and in all the other dis-
tricts it is on the decline. with this exception, that in
those places that had previously suffered much a few
cases had again pn seated themselves. The Jamaica
Mawhartl mention 4 its reappearance in seve-
ral parts of St. Mary and St. Ann. Westmoreland
has still issuped, but it is feared that it will not long
do so.

We learn from the roost% rakes (says the Jamaica
Monis!, Joret."ol of the 13th ult.) that death has been very
active in the country distriets of the perish of St. James,
the noortolite in No. 11 district being fearful to montem-
plot, At Spring Garden, the week rooting 7th Fehniary,
the deaths had been 6: Tower 11111, 3; Belmont, 4 ; and
Unity Ball, 3; while there were no less than :o2 mows under
treatment. There is Mai no cholera in Savanna-la-War.
Dr. Milroy 11.1 arrived in that town, was introduced too the
Board of Health at its last meeting, and alto r stating his
opinion. ro spelling v. ntilation and the nemosary attention
to tleasolioloss. a rote of thaisks was Risen to hint fur his
attowolaisee and the suggestions he had mule to the hoard.
The disease is still hanging about Lunn, and the number
of death.% has been it. great us 337, toeing more than one-
third of the population, whir, we believe was 1,1199 souls.
Taking alas a citric of three miles of Lama, them
have been more than CAO persons .wept ooff. From the
Leeward districts the accounts were becoming more gloomy
every day. We an sorry to my that the drowse has
made its reappearance in the vicinity of Oehoo Bins, in St.
Ann's. From the 29th January to the 31st hst. there were
12 death.: and from Sunday, the 9th, to Tuesday, the I lth,
there wens hee more, four of whieli took place at the Bogs/
and one at Ilelinont. Among them, we are sorry to state,
wan Mr. Archibald bl•Dermott, overseer of the Warw. The
Oelieo Rios district was quite destitute of medital aid.
"Since the departure of Dr. Seechi " (writes a come-
apndent`, .` whose so mires were much apprielated, and
through at many lives were preserved, we hart been
bereft of that medical attendance whie-h we should have in
these times. of affliction and distress. If ever a Lard of
health .tamed a. committing an injustice, the St.
Atm's board is mrtainly guilty of the charge, for having
dispensed with the survives of Dr. Sect-hi, which were use-
ful angl 1.1111% ...NI at all times. Dr. Bailey has loosen
amongst us, hut we fear the extent of the St. Ann's Bay
district will not enable him to give that attention which is
intrrisil GUIANA.
The Royal Gmelle soya:

A. regard. local affair., the chief intire.t of the fart fort-
night has e.ntnd in certain pmsetuti 111 l of the lire•. in-
Mitutrd on behalf of the go.. rument in our Supreme
Criminall'ourt. One of then• trial. on Sationhay last,
the Sth inst., in u verdict of o Not guilty," soil the iiercond
I. going on at thi. moment. It appear. that what gave
to thew proceedings was the appearance of a
libel upon our worthy and excellent governor, on two
several oteu.ions some months ago ill the m•we-

paper of this city, upon the subject of certain tenders for
the supple of forage. saddlery, and other things of that na-
ture Mr the use Or the pt,liee form. It seem. that for many
year* the contractors bad been the firm of Thomas and Co.,
of this colon), and that they hail given gnat satisfaction
fur the p.!...1 quality of the strtielve furnished by them,
and the faithfulness with which they had executed their
contracts. In laal they tendered *pin ; Stl did several
other houses; but the tender of ThOMLI4 and 'n. was
ameptell, us being comsidered the best fur the public se r-
ice. It aas stated, however, in the Co/oting that it aus
not the Ina est tero ter ; and that in getting the contract
they hail been unduly favoured. The offensive way iu
which this was stated, and the attack made at the same
time upon his excellency the governor, seemed to the law
ohm's .O the t row n to demand a proacention of the paper.
lbw, %cr. all over the world we believe, juries um rather
tender in dealing with the press; and hence, no doubt, as
well as from the impression made on the court by an
eloquent address from the counsel for the defence, Mr. J. E.
!total. the verdict of acquittal. Some account of these
proceedings a ill be found in our present files.
The halt-warty meeting of the British Guiana Bank was
held 1111 tile .30th ultimo. The report (of the directors, we
are glad to sae, in of a highly encouraging nature. The
direetors dee Lire that they Its& forward to "a progressive
rt turn to former status of the colonial productions as being
within the range of hopeful anticipation, through the
means ot steady remunerative prices, a moderate but con-
tinuous immigration of agricultural labourers, isonomi-
cally and judiciously conducted, and, concurrently there-
with the utmost ossible restriction. if not the en-
tire extinction of, the foreign African slave trade."
When one considers how inseparably all lunking, as
well as commereial operations in an essentially agri-
cultural country like this, are connected with the
present and prospective well-being of the soil, these
remarks of the direct,,,, will nut be deemed by any
means irrele•ant to the subject in hand—the state of
the bunk itself for the preceding Ida mouths. That the
transactions of the bank fur that period were advantage-
ously carried on will be evident when we mention that the
statement laid °ter by the directors exhibited the large
balance in its favour of 170.791 do's. : composed of
113,•25ti lob. tithe., amount of reserved fund, and
117,:ina doh.. Ifits. net profit of the half-year: and that, after
declaring a divide el at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum in
favour of the sharehohlt re, and which required gli,raf
Yak., the sum of ;XI lob. 94k. was carried over in further
augmentation of the re-screed profits of the corporation.
On the nth instant an election took place for the county
of Ilemerant to till a vacancy in the College of Financial
lit presentative* occasioned by the retirement of William
1/avison, Esq. ; when J. 'f. Gilbert, Esq., barrister-at-law,
was elected without opposition.
The meeting of the l'ombined Conti for the Present year
is fixed for the :-Xlth instant, between which time and the
present the Court of l'olicy will be busily entrants' in pre-
paring the estimate. It as generally suppoaed. bowel er.
is well ittfonued circles, that there will be little. if ant'.
viation in the ensuing session from the steady. and jutri-
fi..ll,l course pursued by the Combined Court in the last.
There Selltet reason, therefore, to believe that fur another
twelvemonth, at all o vents. the financial position of British
Guiana will he .satisfactory, the more especially, as in all
the principal branches of the public revenue the marks of a
healthy and elastic haul system arc apparent.
In the course of the fortnight we bare had an addition to
our population by the arrival of 120 Portuguese from Ma-
deira in the vessel Haas A 11113.1. We may now be looking
moot for an arrival of l'unlies.

The v. -.Our during du. fortnight has been exactly such
a. the plotters desire .4 this wawa of the year. With ix-
eadtnial sunshine and tine breezes we have had copious
showers of rain, of which the young ranee wen• moth in
amd. All ia quirt in the rural districts, and the public
health coalitions good.
W IND 11',UID ISLANDS.

'flu• cholera has not appeared in any of the Wind-
ward Islands with the exception of the 13 cases in
the garrison of Barbuthwv, only 2 of which proved
fatal. All these casts were sporadic ; such cases
take place annuallv in the months of October and
Noveniber, ininwigutelv atter the rainy 10.116011. The
troops generally in the Windward and Leeward
Islands have been remarkably healthy during the