The Express.
London, England, 1849-12-04 00:00:00

HAYTI.

We hive received the following from our corres-
pondent:
PORT-AU-PRINCE, OCT. 8.
I have to announce to you the closing of the five
following ports against all exportation :—Mitaguane,
L'Ance, d'Usinsult, St. Marc, Port de Paix, and
Again ; thirty day. is all the notice given. Such
huty legislation cannot fail to prove very embarras-
sing to merchants, u it does not give them time to
inform their correspondents in Europe. Thus a vessel
may be chartered for one of these ports, which, on
its arrival may be found shut. The reason assipood
for this step is the facility these small ports afford for

DELAY OF THE OUTWARD BOUND INDIAN
MAIL-ACCIDENT TO THE MEDUSA.

The outward-bound Indian Mail, which left London
on the a ning of the 24th, only reached Marseilles on the
27th of Nov. at eight o'clock. At halt•past nine all the des-
patches were placed on board her Majesty's steamer, Medusa,
Lieut. Commander Bathurst.
Owing to the stormy north-westerly winds, which have
been raging in the Oulph of Lyons with a fury hordly ever
restenbasd in the Mediterranean, the Commander of the
Medusa thought it prudent not to set sail
thenutil the follow-
ing siornin„r, when the Medusa, wi mails and 17
wagers, endeavoured to get out of the harbour. the wind
blowing violently from the NNW. At the mouth of the
harbour the steamer would not answer to her helm, owing
to the wind catching her on the bow. The common :er
ordered the engine. to be stopped, hoping to back her into
the port again, but her head continued to go off. The
engines, at length, were stopped, but not before the Me-
dia% had touched the shore and broke her rudder. Un-
able in this condition to continue her route, the MOW? re-
entered the harbour.
The injury sustained by the Medusa will p her front
carrying the mails to Malta, and they ate now lying on booed
of her at Idaneilla. Should the Media, hourly expected,
arrive, she will, after loading,proceied on the Ist of December
with the main ; should she not reach here in time, the mails
will be put on bard the French steamer Leonidas, which
milt as the afternoon of the Ist for Malts.
The Leonidas is the slowest vessel out of Mantilla, and it
is ace likely she will reach Malta before the 6th. The ques-
tion is, aad it it very serious, will the Peninsular boat wait
at Malta toe the Marseilles mail, uncertain whet it may ar-
rive ? The palomino will either go by the Medina or Leo-
nidaa, whichever steamer sails first.

TOL COLLISION AT WOODIIOUSZ JUNCTION.—
Thomas Owea, of New Holland, an ursine driver in the
service of the Manchester, Sheffield, and Liacoinebire Rail-
way Company, was on Friday examined on a charge of
cawing • collssiou on the company's lies at the Woodhouse
Jenctioi, near Sheffield. The risikadaat's head bore the
mark of • frightful wound, received at the time of the
ident, and be was suffering from other iojerios inflicted
cathe nom occasion which bad rendered him very lame.
For the prosecution it was stated that the defendant was the
driver of • goods train; and it was one of the regulations of
the company, end perfectly uaderstood by every engine
driver, that a goods train should not travel at • greater
speed than fineen miles an hour. This person on the
occasion in question was travelling at about forty
miles an hour. It was also • regulation that no
driver of any train should pas' • jucetion at • greater rate
than eight miles en hour; but he was actually approach-
ing the junction (Woodhouse Junctioa) from Sheffield at
about forty miles an hou-. Them is • " distance damn.
signal "on the Sheffield side, which a mu coming from
burn Id may see when he is three gamins of a mill off the
junction ; and there being a contractors' ballast-train in the
way at th, junction, the signal man stationed there turned
ea the distance danger signal by means of a wire, in order to
give warning of the obstruction. Some miatitse after that
the signal men saw • train approaohing at • very rapid rate,
about forty miles an hour. The defeadant, who was driving
the urge, then reversed his engine. The Whin train was
still in the way i end the defendant, seeing that • collision
we. iaevitable, jumped off the cosine, end in so doing Le
was very much hurt. A collision occurred, which seriously
wounded end endangered the lives of several men, and
demigod property to the extent of not less than 1,0001.
Evideece 'levier been taken, the prisoner we. fined 101. or
two mouths imprisonment.
A BUSDZR.—Two young gentlemen met, a few
Malaga ego, at the hones of an acquaintance, some young
Win, for one of whom both gentlemen entertained tender
tailings. In a spirit of frolic ens of the young ladies blew
oat the lamp, and our two friends, thinking it a favourable
moment to make known the stets of their feelings to the
fair object of their regard, moved seats at the same instant,
and placed themselves (as they supposed) by the lady's side ;
but abs bad also moved, and the gentlemen were in reality
next each other. As oar friends could not whisper without
betraying whereabouts, they both gently took, as they
thought, the soft little hand of the charmer, and when, after
"hoe they ventured to give a tender pressure, each was
enraptured to fled it returned with an uhmiatakenble
"Pit'''. It may well be imagined that the moments flew
rapidly in this silent interchange of mutual affection. But
the reel, wondering at the unusual silence of
attla‘mutimnen
One of them "aimlessly slipped out, and sud
with a bah—there sat our friends most lovingly
_1111661._
each other's kends, and supreme delight WM., la
be imagined,
Their consternation cad the ecstasy of the Wks may
'1" but not deeeribed. Both ratlines bate',
and one was afterwards hoard to say that he " tbmielbt,
all the while Miss hand felt rather bard.“—'Lliverr""
Tima.