The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-14 00:00:00

JAMAICA.

Tna NEW TARIFP.—The bill for re-enacting the
import duties, which had been three weeks in abey-
ance, was read a third time in the House et Assembly
and passed on the 19th of October. It received the
governor's assent on the afternoon of the 20th, and i•
consequently now the law of the land. It contains a
clause giving retrospective effect to the act, and or-
daining that the dues shall be levied on all goods
landed since the sth of October. Some alterations
have been made in the tariff: the duty on pork has
been raised from 16s. to 20s. per barrel; manufactured
tobacco is subjected to a somewhat higher rate than
formerly, while the dnty on the unman u fact ured article
is reduced. The ad valorem duty on dry goods has
been raised to 4 per cent. ; no drawback allowed. We
have not received a copy of the tariff as it ultimately
passed; but the Kingston Intelligencer of the 20,h
Oat. publishes the following comparative table of the
rates in the bill as it passed the second reading, and
those under Unexpired act:
Proreeddul Duty under
under New Bill. Expired Act.
Dent. parl4 and keigues Ela. per WI. 16e. per bbL
wend et blank
Ctettleloa. per head 4,4 per bead
Clem les.:per ewe. is. per cwt.
DreP
Gaines ........ loa. per bbL Se. per bbl.
y. 2.. per bbl. 4e. per bbL
Trumell nab ...... £6 per tent. 2 per cent.
11!1- ll per cent
.2t. per cwt.

Solt . .... ld:per IliW. IlLjaiwt.

Brialy
Kura. gia, dud rebirkey ed. Pee gallon ed. per "anon
All other spirits add cordials l9e. per gaU. ee. pet gallon
Refined sugar
Tobeecomenneeetund. an ',styled,
valae_
•30 per cent. 39 per cent.
. .. _ .

And further per pound weight 6d:
Tunoce. unisannhotured, on every
Hoe. pow l5 per cent. sit per cent.

Se
ilptispnr =tom* teed :or
total purposes, plate.avgwelein."*".ad / I:dripe7w2ackammatt.• 2 per
cent.
sold and raver it
tem elect; jewlikrY
Os ell other Isteis. or netri 5,1). cent.
dilmals.big, as. 211a15d03..m.
et=011...., ki
orth- rawbsek 2 per ant.
3 per seat.
Ezeopt mks, mob. ko,diestorste,
bon draw* lee.
tortoise ..hell, raw
hemp

The bill to re-establish the police force had also
passed the assembly.
Jamaica had been visited by some tine rains, which
had materially improved the prospects of the
planters.
TRINIDAD.

Tau Rtors.—The Jarnaiiabespakh of the 20th
of October publishes the following rauml of Trinidad
news :—lt appears to come down to a later period
than the intelligence received by the last West India
packet, but as no date is given this cannot be posi-
tively affirmed. It leads however to the inference
that at the time of the latest advices the public
I temper in Trinidad was still unsettled.
Law and ender have been for the last two days in
abeyance. government house has been pelt. d by a
mob; its windows broken, and stones and brickbats
burled at the council whilst assembled in the
discharge of its legislative duty. The police, in
exerting themselves to maintain order, have been
stoned, cruelly beaten, and overpowered, so ea to
necessitate the calling out of the military The
military have also been stoned, and forced to fire
is self-defence. Two deaths and one or two gun-
shot wounds have been the consequence. The go-
vernment buildings have been converted into a
temporary barrack, and are at this moment occupied
by the 88th, by the company of the 2nd West India
Regiment stationed here, by the artillery detachment,

and by the men of her Majesty's sloop Scorpion, now
in harbour. Upwards of 300 special constables have
been sworn in, and a volunteer horse patrol formed,l
at least seventy strong. On the other hand the mob,
Sadie, the force in town ton strong for them, has .e
sent off a portion of their numbers to the eastward,
to burn and lay waste the sugar estates in that direc-
tion. The m-gale-houses of Dinsley, Mscoys, and
El Dorado estates have been already tired and burnt
to the ground. Such is the state of things at the
moment we write. The immediate and ostensible
object originally brought forward as the cause of the
outbreak was the regulations recently passed for the
government of the Royal Gaol of Port of Spain.

HAYTI.

The Jamaica Journal of 20th October publishes
lists of the ministers appointed, and of the princes
and nobles created by " Faustin the First," Emperor
of Hayti, late President Soulcuque.

CANADA.

Oar dates by the Niagara are from Montreal to the
27th and from Toronto to the 24th of October.

The future seat of government having been settled
for the present, the departments were already en route
for Toronto. It is stated that the meeting of the
Executive Council, at which it was resolved -o make
Toronto the seat of government, was held at Drum-
, moadville, a village near Niagara. Only six ministers
are understood to have been present, and of these two
voted for Toronto, two for Kingston, and two for
Montreal ; Lord Elgin deciding by his cabling vote in
favour of Toronto. His lordship is r: porte dto have
assigned as his reason that Lady Elgin had expressed
a determination never to enter Montreal atter th-
unmanly treatment she herself, as well as her
husband, had expe'ienced there. There is also a re-
port that Lord Elgin had written to Commissary
General Felder, to withhold the government adver-
tisements from the (tory) Courier and Herald, on ac-
orn:it of their annexationi•t priuciples, but that that
officer had refused to obey.
Turee of the Lower Canada members of the minis-
try— Messrs. Viger, Vache, and Leslie—hied resigned
and no has than eigh'een French members of the
legislature are said to have threatened to go into
opposition.
Annexation did not app:ar to be making mach
way. An attempt to get up an annexation meeting
at Quebec had proved a failure. The partisans of the
movement calculated upon an increase of adherents,
in consequence of the selection of Toronto for the seat
of government, in Kingston, Ilamilton, and Bytown,
each of which had laid claim to that honour.

The league had ben called together, to meet at
Toronto on the Ist Nt.v.mber next, to take into con-
sideration matters of importance. The plan proposed
to be pursued by the league was as follows :—Every
branch of the league, in all the constituencies in
Canada, is to agitate in its respective location, so as
to induce its repreiientative is the provincial parlia-
ment to vets for the introduction of a bill Bather:sing
the assembling together of the people of Canada, by
means of delegates, in convention, for the purpose of
determining on what changes in the constitution are
necessiry ; and having dune so, a measure in accord-
ance with their views is to be brought into parlia-
ment, and, when carried, sent home for considi ration
to England. It is for this purpose that the conven-
tion ot delegates ot the British American league was
to meet. A union of the North American provinces
will also be considered.

Lord Elgin was in the neighbourhood of the Falls,
leading a retired and domestic life. The rumour of
his going home ere long had been renewed.
A report was in circulation that the tranefer of the
beat of government to Toronto was intended to be
merely a temporary arrangement, that at the end of
the present parliamentary term (a year and a half
hence) Quebec was to become the capital of Canada,
and that orders had already been issued to procure
estimates for the erection of parliamentary bushings
in that city. The Ifalifax Morning Chronicle says
that the Canadian government have decided to hold
parliameLts alternately at Toronto and Quebec.