The Express.
London, England, 1853-05-31 00:00:00

WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC

MAILS.

We add the following to our news received seater
day by the La Plata:

THE YELLOW FEVER.
Yellow fever was very bad at lrinidad ; there were
upwards of 70 deaths. Capt. Doraville, the collector
of Customs, is one of them. At St. Vincent there are
still some cases. Dominica is also very bad; the;
Governor's wife is dead, and many others. The
troops aro all encamped out of town and ail well. At
Jamaica it is very bad, particularly amongst the
shipping. The Royal mail steamer Medway left her
captain and purser and several men behind at Kings-
ton very ill, and on her arrival at St. Thomas, several
of her crew were still suffering. Mr. Mlles, purser
of the Eagle, died of yellow fever on the 12th inst.,
off Demerara. La I'lata lost two men at. St. Thomas,
and there were twenty-two deaths out of ninety
cases at the hospital. All the other islands are toler-
ably healthy.
The Morning Journal, a Jamaica paper published
at Kingston on May 11, says:
We are informed on credible aathority that the yellow
fever is now raging in the Public Hoepital to en alarming
extent, the daily average admission being six or eight.
The stages of this disease are so varied that the medical
gentlemen of the institution have to be in attendance
almost hourly on the parties afflicted with it. It is said
that ao means are left untried by them to restore to health
those who are labouring under this paioful sickness. In
several cases they have succeeded; but in many others the
disease has proved fatal. The persons who are now suffer-
mg under this disease are nearly all seamen. The yellow
fever has, we regret to say, broken out on board the mill
steamer Medway, now is port, and two cases ended fatally
yesterday, one of the victims being the fourth engineer.

BRITISH GUIANA.

The Royal Gazelle, in its review for home readers,
writes as follows :

Simultaneously with the sailing of the last mail, the coon•
trg was visited with a happy change of weather. Soft
rains benignly fell in great abundance to cheer the heart of
the planter, and to save from ruin a very large proportion
of the cane crop, which a continuance of dry weather
would have lost to the year'. exports. The weather has
since been excessively hot ; but the discomfort is patiently
borne, seeing that it is just what was wanted fur the cultiva-
tion. 'reticle, already dull, has not improved during the
fortnight, and every article alike of necessity and
hung is still scarce and dear ; shippers, proha-
bly, waiting the promulgation of the tax ordi-
nance, which has now, however, been published. In
a political sense nothing has been stirring,—in fact,
it may now be said there is among us no polities.
The time has been a good deal occupied in preparations for
toe departure of the Governor, who goes by the mail to
join his family in England on a short leave of absence.
The administration of the government will be assumed by
the H 0,,. William Walker, the Government Secretary,
who will to-morrow be sworn in as Lieutenant•Guernor..
The change will make no change of policy. Mr. Walker
has been the able and efficient coadjutor of the Governor
in every measure of practical improvement, and he is not
unaccustomed to the reins, having already ;.loverned here
with lamb judgment and in troublesome times. We are
glad to say that yellow fever has disappeared altogether
from among us, there not being a ease even in the hospital.
Small-pox still continues, but in a mild form.

PANAMA.

May 8.
zx VIANISITU.

IstrosTATlox OF

Dols. e.
April 27. Froa San Francisco lB,OOO 0
May 3. Ditto ditto

Gold dust for Unita! States 2,2913,961 11
May 3. From San Francisco 321,038 59
4. From Peru and Chili

Oold and silver bullion and
coin for England
6. Exports from Panama by
local merchants

Per R. M. S. P. Co.'s steamer
Dye
The first section of the railway bridge across the
Chagres river has been carried away, when nearly
finished, by a flood of the river, and great fears are
entertained that the bridge cannot be placed before
next January, unless we have favourable weather in
June.

The railroad company are working on the Panama
side of the river, and we feel confident every nerve
is being strained by them to get the works finished,
and we believe that passengers and goods will be
conveyed from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and vice
versa, by the end of 1854.
The health of Panama is good, tholgh the wet
season has set in. Business is excessively dull in all
branches.

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The steamers to and from California now leave
and arrive once a week, with passengers and mails,
from and for the Atlantic States.

Political affairs are in a quiet state.
Admiral Blanco proceeds to England per Dee and
Plata, having been appointed Chilian minister pleni-
potentiary at Paris. The admiral is accompanied by
his family.
On the 4th inst., the Pacific Steam Navigation
Company's steamer Santiago. Captain Robert Joy,
arrived in port from Valparaiso, Callao, &c., with
the usual nails. Her dates are Valparaiso, April 14 ;
Callao, 25. The Santiago brings 29 passengers and
159,826 dole. in silver, on British account.
The silver mimes of Copiapo are yielding largely.

SAN FRANCISCO, APRIL 16.
The only items worth noticing are the total loss of
the steamer (United States) S. B. Lewis, on her
voyage from San Juan del Sur to San Francisco,
which happened on the Bth inst, about three miles
north of Bolinu Bay, in a fog ; passengers. and crew,
NS in number, safely landed. This vessel is reported
not seaworthy before her departure from San Jun.
Au explosion took place on board of the river
steamer Jenny Lind on the 11th inst., by which
eighteen lives were lost and thirty persona were
severely scalded.
The mining accounts are very favourable, and rich
deposits are daily discovered.
Ship Helen McOaw, at this port, March 31, from
Ns* York, reports having taken di on the 29th the
crew and allows of the barque defile°, from Ban
Francisco to Panama, water-logged, about 37 N. Ist
and 124.20 lon.
PERU AND BOLIVIA.
CALLAO, APRIL 26.
Hostilities have not yet commenced between thus
republics, but there is no doubt they soon will. The
Peruvian chargé d'affaires to Bolivia and vice-consul
at La Paz had been forcibly expelled, under the
.Lhsi.ge of plotting against the government of

A movement in favour of (lacers' Santa Crea was
to have taken place in Ls Paz on the 21st of March,
but it was discovered by a sergeant to the govern-
ment, from whom he received 6,000 dollars for his,
treachery.
Colonel J. A. Lloyd, her Majesty's chargé d'affaires
to Bolivia, was at Lima.

-41.EPARAISO, APRIL 16.
We have very little newv; in oar political world
things are quiet.
Flour has a decided downward tendency.
C
scarce ; price 22 dole. per 1001 be. on board. Copper
scarce; Scotch and Welsh 15 do's. to 20 dole.
Freights : Copper ore to Swansea 41. 15s. to 51. per
too, for A 1 ships; saltpetre, 41. to 51. Ex-
change on England, 49d. to 490. for 60 and 90
day bills. Bar silver, 9 dole. 25c. per mark of 8 oz.
span ; very plentiful, but few sales made on account
of price. !Wines: The copper mines of Coquimbo and
Copiapo, as also those of silver belonging to the
latter place, are yielding abundantly.
Her Majesty's ship Amphitrite has sailed for the
Sandwich Islands ; the Portland for Pitcairn's
Island, with Rev. Mr. Nobbe; and the Trincomalee
for the coast.