The Express.
London, England, 1848-07-04 00:00:00

CAPE OF, GOOD HOPE.

We have Graham's Town papers to the 6th, and
Cape Town papers to the 13th, of May.
Her Majesty's ship Fox, having on board the
Marquis and Marchioness of Tweeddale, arrived at
Simon's Bay from Madras, on the 11th of May.
There is no news of importance.
WEST INDIA MAIL

By the arrival of the steamer Teviot at Southamp-
ton, we have accounts from the West Indies, with
dates from Jamaica to the ith ult. The Teviot has
brought 240,000 dollars, silver bars included, on mer-
chants' account ; 109,005 dollars in gold dust and
bars; 182,563 dollars in doubloons; 250/. British
coin; 5001. precious stones; besides a miscellaneous
cargo, and sixty passengers.
Great depression was felt generally in all the colo-
nies, especially in Demerara.
Large quantities of rain had fallen in Jamaica,which,
'though useful to the sugar plantations, had
been very disastrous in another way. The quantity
which had fallen had caused inundations and led to
great destruction of stock and property of
all kinds. The rivers rose to a great
height, carrying down in their course to the sea
large trunks of trees and dead animals. The
damage to the railway is stated to have been very
serious. Large portions of the embankment, near the
Hunt's Bay station, had been carried away, with the
sleepers and rails, and other parts had been loosened
and sunk. It would take at least a month to make
the line passable for locomotives.
The state of Hayti does not seem to have improved.
On the 7th ult., upwards of a thousand blacks had
risen, and attacked the town of Jacmel, and set fire
to it in several places. By the help of the soldiers,
'.owever, the town was saved from being burnt ;
but the blacks were still in force, and other attacks
were expected. The British consul there had written
to Jamaica for assistance. a protect English subjects,
and H.M.S. Vixen wee expected.

Cream Deeordoee's Alereate letelliffnerr.)
JAMAICA.-Bince our last issue the is'and has been
visited by moot plentiful showers of rain. Never, knee the year
1838, have the May seasons been sobountifully lavirlied on the colony,
and never were its inhshitsusts leas able to derive advantages
from them. At another timi the regular ins,,
whtch,
for no long a period, have withheld their cheering in-
fluenee, would have been gladly hailed as the harbingers of a
more prosperous future; but at the present moment they only
eerie to make more galling and exasperating the injustice of the
British government, which renders almost nugatory the blown*. of
Providence. It is indeed • distressing subject for coneaderation that,
had the smallest patio* of that justice whi:h is our due been con.
ceded to us by the Home government last year, or even at the com-
mencement
of the present parliament, the agricultural interest might
have been led by the advent of the season to look forward to a
successful result to the industry they are anxious to exercise, instead
of being compelled as they now are in many inflames to forego even a
trial. The general resolution throughout the Wand was to put in no
pTanta after August —in some cases planters have, as they exprem. it,
"been tempted by the seasons," but these examples, we regret to
say, are very few indeed.
With respect to business in Kingston, we are again obliged to report
that there is rot the slightest improvement noticeable in any of our
sank causes of complaint. Purchases are in most instances still con-
fined to parcels merely sufficient for immediate consumption. There
continues to be a general absence of. conAdence, sad the money mar-
ket remains in the deplorably narrowed state noticed in our last 'Nue.
Bresdstufbs generally are scarce, and prices have risen, but, owing
to the late rains, there will doubtless be a great abundance of ground
provielons, which should guard shippers agiinst excessive coasign-
manta.
MCMANUS on Lonnos.—Colonial Bank, 90 days, I per rest• prem.;
ditto 60 days, 4 per cent. premium. Jamaica Bank, 90 days, e per
cent. premium; ditto, 60 days, I per
,cent. premium. Pbteteee' Beek,
90 days. 4 per oent. premium: ditto 60 days, 1 per east premium.
Commitemiat Bills, not under 11 per cent premium, 30 days.

Sir T. Fremantle, Chairman of the Customs, Mr. J.
Wood, Chairman of the FaXIW, and Mr. Prosily, Secretary
to the Board of Bgsp and Taxes, had interviews with the
Chancellor of the yesterday.