The Express.
London, England, 1859-06-16 00:00:00

WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC
MAILS.

The Royal West India Mail packet La Plata
arrived at Southampton yesterday, bringing 258
passengers, and specie consisting of 2,052,324
dollars' value in silver, and 594,099 dollars' value
iu gold. Her data are—Oreytown, May 17
Panama, 27; Demerara, 26 ; Jamaica, 27 ; Barba-
does, 27; St. Thomas, June 1.
At Demerara the Combined Court had closed its
annual session. The estimated expenditure for the
current year is 1,261,304.26 doh. ; and the Ways
and Means are estimated at 1,252,298.84 dole.
The only alteration in the tariff of import duties Is
the reduction of the duty on matches to 1 dollar
per
Theoss. weather during the fortnight has been wet,
with intervals of sunshine. The cane plants are
thriving under its genial influence. Tne exports
since the last mail have been 1,341 hhde., 96 tree.,
77 brie.; rum, 463 puns., 7 brim. ; timber, 30,402 ft.
charcoal, 670 brie. ; cocoanuts, 6,400. Trade con.
donee to be very dull.
At Jamaica, notwithstanding • few partial rains,
and every appearance of heavy weather, the May
seasons had not yet set in. The heat was most
oppressive, and there was a good deal of sickness
about—fever, ague, and colds. Business had been
very dull during the last fortnight ; the banks had
been exceedingly stringent, particularly so since the
arrival of the last English mail, and transactions
had been restricted in consequence.
Exchanges on London :—Colonial Bank : 90 days,
per cent. prem. ; 60 days, 1 per cent. prem.; 30
days, 1j per cent. prem. Jamaica Bank: 90 days,
*
per cent. prem.; 60 days, 1 per cent. prem.; 30
ys, 1 j per cent. prem. Commissariat, 30 days, I
per cent. prem. Merchants' bills, par.
In Antigua the weather was very dry, and the
beat intolerable. Planters were hurrying on mann-
' factoring operations as rapidly as possible.

TEE MURDER AT BT. PANCRAB.-CORONEEB

111Q086T.-1271118 DAY.)

This morning Mr. Wakley, the coroner for West
Middlesex, opened an inquiry into the circumstances
attesdiog the deaths of Klizebeth Cruft and her two &H-
-iker, the children having been murdered by their mother
who afterwards committed suicide. The inquiry took place
at the King's Heed Hotel, Swinton-street, and crested great

A jury having been sworn, proceeded to view the bodice,
which presented a very distressing appearance.
The Coroner said he thought it very essential that the
head of Mrs. Croft should be carefully examined by a com-
petent person, before they proceeded with their inquiry into
this distreesieg case. By that means they would probably
be able to 'holstein the mate of mind of the unfortunate tro-
ller when she committed this dreadful deed.

The jury at ono, wonted to the suggestion of the coroner,
sad a post mortent examination was ordered.
The inquiry was then adjourned until Saturday next.

CALEDONIAN FANCY DRESS BALL.—The follow-
fag ladies patrolmen. of this ball met in committee at Willis's
xima on Tuesday last:—The Detainee of Atholl, the
Duchess of Roxbnrghe, the Lady Susan Grant Suttie, the
Countess of Campeedown, the Lady Anne Mackenzie, the
Hon. Mrs. Hay Drummond, and Mn.g Macleod of Macleod,
Toe question of (easy dram quadrilles was dismissed at some
Isar b, sod ultimately the Duchene of Itoxburghe, the Lady
Acme Mackenzie, and the Hon. Mn. Hay Drummond =der-
to.dt to form "sets." The demand for vouchers has already
been unusually pressing, and a very full attendance of the
aristocracy is confidently anticipated.
"It is with much pleasure," says the Edinburgh
Aspens, "we observe that the Prim* of Wales purposes to
nide in Ediuburgb for several weeks, in pursuance of study,
preparatory to going to Oxford in October. To what @lndio
his royal highness will direct his attention, who will be his
preoeptirs, it is of course not in oar power tosay. Thus murk,
however —that dwelling in the Palace of Holyrood, with lbs
',Meg back' of the Old Town, picturesque, smoke-wreathed,
lifting itaislf up before biro in finitude fringes to the sky;
with Arthur's Seat, and the Crap, and the summer sea De-
-1 hind; and, more then all, with the historic shadows d
valour, and beauty, and ulna which haunt his temporary
home, our future king will be surrounded with sesociatiose
and iodinates of a moat powerful kind, and more calculated
to touch fine Junco' the imagin►tive soul of youth, than
any that brighten or sadden the stately universities, 'Ming
on the banks of the Isis and the Cam."

" It was positively stated to-day in the Hall," says
the Dublin Freeman of last evening, " that Judge Plenket,
the second judge of the Court of Bankruptcy, sent in his re-
signation on Saturday to Lord Bglintonn, but that his excel-
lency declined to receive it, and intimated to the learned
judge that it should be dealt with by his successor in the
office of viceroy. Amongst the other on dits is the Holl—
and they were very numerous—was one that Master Lyle
was about to ?feign." _ _

A meeting will be held of the members of the
Hon. Societies of the loner acd Middle Temple on Wednes-
day, in the hall of the Middle Temple, et 4 o'clock pre-
cisely, for the purioss of teking into coosideration the pro-
peaty of forming a voluntese rifle Corp..

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Tug NEW INCUMBENT AT PADDINGTON.--We
have to announce the appointment by the Bishop of London
of the Rev. Corson Boyd, Incumbent of Christ Church, to
the valuable and important living of Paddington. Tha con-
gregation of Christ Church, and the inhabitcnts of Chel-
tenham generally, whilst rejoicing to find PO good a
man has been raised to • post for which he is
ay eminently fitted, canna but feel that the re-
mo•ol of Mr. Boyd from Cheltenham, will be a
serious and luting lows to the town and neighbourhood. We
have not heard when Cason Boyd leaves his present minis-
tetict charge, but alter sevens en yeare. earnest and indefati-
gable pinkest cue over a large cooperation like that of
Christ Church, the porting tetween miniver and yeople will
be a severe trial. We understand that a meeting of the con-
. revokes of Christ Church will be shortly cony. wet by the
churchwardens, fur the purpose of malting the a icisi coot-
' sourication to the members.— CheltenAain Examiner.

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A CONSERVATIVE BANQUET.—A banquet Was to
be given to Sir Allan McNab at Brighton lest week, sad
'may preload's° wee made to make the affair a great suc-
cess. Uot.rtnnately, however, the hero of the banquet him-
wit wee not present, sod a note was read by the chairman to
the disioneohite supportera of the honoctrahebarcast, stating
his 'Debility, from illness, to atten4. This announcement
oasts dismal gloom over the party. The dinner was die-
patched almost in silence. A few vet tomta end compli-
ments wore pulsed, end the meeting diep reed.— 11%st Stosez
Gazelle.

Tne Peosracrs or THE SEBSION.—The prospects
d the session are not very "levant to tb..t numerous clam of
legislators who wish to combine pleasure with beldame, who
have doges in the country as well at io town, and who hold
th.t there is a seven for all things, from law-making to
promo-obtrudes. The new writs cannot he moved till the
end it is even doub ful whether Li...it Palmerston or say
one who has tutored into the present arrangements will
be in a condition to address the house tosutorrow. U
this be the OW, the house cannot meet for serious business
till the 28th, whoa there will remain 'either more nor lees
than just one month of the usual parliamentary season. Is
that period the estimates have to be moved, debated, and
passed ; the defences of the country hare to be provided for
Pufficieitly for um to sleep in our beds till November, and a tax
I mud which shall cony no throne h they.) .r. The country id
not in a humour for borrowing, evils with Mont loug expected
Annuities felling in next year. It will ratter be taxed than
borrow w.th Consols at 93. Here is a great deal to be dons
b .fore August. Fortunate, too, may the country esteem it-
self if, as the summer goes on, it does not Bud fresh reason,
fur pre; aratit.n. Tte new Chancellor of she Exchequer will
find it ready to carry him through with sny resionable
flusncial measurer' and he wilt be better able thln any other
wan to ob. Hill the ready concurrence of pelisment, because
be will not have for his antagonist the Hight Hon. W. E.
Gledrime I tom

Toe HI3IALAYA.—The repairs of the screw steam
troogsbip Nevalay., Commatider John Strewth', are
progrthatog exp ditiowly in Nu. 1 dock, Keyhama
Plymouth, and it is expected that she will be
ready to loan, the yard by the end of the week.
: About nine months sWee elm received • cost of Peacock
: and Buchan's composition, which seems to have contributed
in surest degree to the rapidly of her movement.. On the
voyage to and from the Cape of Good Hope 59 days only
i ewe occupied at ma. Gibes the splkest on of the compost-
tiers the Himalaya has traversed 26,000 older, sad the wolve-
rines at Kayhatu see well wtisfied with the result. tonally
with such an sou not of service a cost is given every
six months. In the prevent ewe, no: withamodieg the
lengthened interval, the plates nod rivet heads continue in
fiebelVatiOtl, and the bottom preieot. • very
smooth sppearther. Wing meiely covered with a dark thin
slimy aubstanoe. It 6,, how, ver, remarkable that grass his
grown on the " prrsrute" 1 tot of the screw, on • portion of
the radder, and tho-e part. of the bow and water Use
where the composition seems to have been robbed of, sad
that encouragement has bee thus given to vegetation by
the exposure of the order coating of rid lead. To prevent
■ repetition of this evil, red had • ill not be wed now, but
two wale of the conipointion will be applied, the under one
direct against the bottom. The Himalaya is tc:eiving 1,000
taus of owls is dock.