The Express.
London, England, 1848-12-22 00:00:00

WEST INDIA MAIL.

The Royal West India mail packet Great Western,
Captain Clark, from the West Indies, arrived at
Southampton, this moraine, and landed her mails,
milder the charge of Lieut. T. Cull, R. N., admiralty
Meat.
Her dates were, Vera Crus, Nov. 16; Tampico, 13;
Havana, 27th; Hoodlum, 1 lth ; Jamaica, 21st; St.
Jago de Cuba, 18th; Demerara, 19th; Trinidad, 19th;
Barbadoes, 28th; An' us, 30th; Martinique 30th;
Grenada, 30th; Porto Rim, 25th; St. Thomas, Ist.
Deo.; Bermuda, 7th.
Mr. Glees, consul at Tampico, died there on the
12th Nov., after suffering amputation of his leg one
west prior.
The yellow fever had been very fatal of late at Ber-
-1 beffsee, especially among the troops. Lieut. Roar, of
the 66th Beg., his son (an ensign in the same regi-
ment), also his wife and daughter, bad all died,
within ten days of each other.
H.M. brig Hound was at Vera Cruz on the 16th
Nov. ; H.M. ships Wellesley, Scourge, and Kite, at
Bermuda, 7th Deo., all well.
Moder-General Banbury, they newly-appointed
commander of the forms, bad arrived at Jamaica, in
the steamer Tay, from England.
The disagreement between the governor and the
Legislative Assembly was not abated. On the 15th
a message was received by the Assembly
from Sir Charles Grey, to the effect that he had re-
ceived a despatch from the colonial secretary, with a
oopy of a memorial which bad been transmitted
b him to her Majesty in January last,
by nineteen members of the com-
ers of public accounts, in respect to
some contemplated alteration in the office of receiver-
general, and praying that no renewal of the patent
of that office should be nude, and to which his excel-
lency had added the information that Mr. Barclay
Neilsen provisionally appointed to the office. In an-
swer to which the Colonial Secretary declared that the
mode of making up the piddle amounts ander the
aebrofdhe island was anomalous, and that they
should be audited by an officer of the crown; and in
the event of that alteration being made, her majesty's
government would not object to any reduction being
made in the salary of the receive general, leaving him
sufficient to support the efficiency of his office; and
that the governor had not received any intimation of
a new appointment having been made, and, therefore,
Mr. Barclay. still continued provisionally to fill the
office of receiver-general.
Next day, two resolutions were agreed to, to the
effect:

-fiat It was the sole right of the house to originate and
deal with all measures appertaining to the raising or granting
of money; and to interelere therewith in imp manner, either
In respect to the 000ditioas, limitations, or applications, is •
breach of the undoubted priviliget of the house. That his
excellency the governor's melange of the 2nd November
instant, was a breach of privileges of this house.
The result of this was that, at the next Fitting a
message was received from Sir C. Grey, expreestog
his regret that his recent communication should have
been considered a breach of privilege; and to Lanes
the honourable house that nothing had been further
from his intention.

00)fitleliCIAL.
FILIIMITS.-88gar to London, 31. to 31. 61. per Mo. Rum
to bmass. 4d. per polka. Pimento to Lcadon, 4d. to Id. per lb.
Esexamosa on toonoo.—Orioalal Bask, 00 dap, 13 per odd. pre-
miss; Jumada Beak, 00 days, 13 per nut premium ; 60 dap, 11
per east premien ; Commlnarled bilis, 30 days, If per teat. pre-
mium, payable lamed&