The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-27 00:00:00

THE WEST INDIA, PACIFIC, MEXICAN, AND

AUSTRALIAN MAILS.

)N, Barr. 27.

The Royal Mail Steampacket Company's ship
Douro, with the above mails, has arrived here.
She brings 184,015 dole. in gold, 2,465,862 dols.
in silver, pearls to the value of 1,750 dols., platina
value 1,904 dots., jewellery value 320 dols., 250
dols. in notes, and 1,281 packages in cargo. The
Douro also brings 223 passengers, including 109
discharged soldiers of the late Emperor Maxi-
milian, and four Austrian officers. Her dates
are :—VeraCruz, Sept. 1 ; Havanna,6th ; Jamaica,
9th ; Porto Rico, 11th ; Demerara, 7th ; Trinidad,
Bth ; Barbadoes, 10th; Grenada and St. Vincent,
9th ; French Islands, 11th ; Antigua and St.
Kitt's, 12th ; and St. Thomas, 13th.
The Douro experienced throughout the voyage
fine faverable weather, with easterly winds.
The barometer stood remarkably high on
the 24th inst., making 30.5 in lat. 46.36. N.
long. 17.27 W. On Sept. 23rd she passed the Bri-
tish ship Frenchman, from California to Cork, 82
days out ; all well ; and on the 25th the British
ship (H M M W), new code.
On the 26th Sept. the Douro signalled the Dunbar
Castle from Sydney to London.
At Barbadoes the agricultural prospects were
cheering, fine rains having fallen.
5001. from the public chest has been sent to St.
Kitts for the relief of the sufferers by the late fire.
A further grant of 5001. has been proposed.
The British gunboat Niobe, from Bermuda, has
arrived at Health Island. Exchange per 100/., 90
days, buying at 4821, and selling at 487 i.
At Grenada the subject of immigration was still
under discussion. The shipment of produce was
nearly completed. The island was healthy and the
weather hot. The British frigate Doris had arrived.
At Martinique heavy weather had prevailed and
much rain had fallen. The rivers had overflowed
the banks, doing some damage. The cocoa estates
wore reported to have been much damaged, one
plantation being completely inundated and the
stock drowned. The island was healthy.
At Antigua business was dull. lives are enter-
tained of a large crop at the coming soason.

At Trinidad the weather was favourable for the
ensuing crop, but very hot. Dysentery still pre-
vailed.

Guadeloupe was healthy.
It was reported that everything was quiet at
Saint Domingo.
The news from the other Wanda was unimportant.
News from Guatemala reports the outbreak of a
revolution at Altos, which was suppressed. The
chiefs were captured.

In Nicaragua the cholera had considerably di-
minished in some districts, but in others the num-
ber of victims was very great. In the depart_
ment of Clienteles especially its ravages were dik
freezing•
News from Bogota says that Mosquera was still
a prisoner, and that the accusations against him
had been presented to the Senate.
The insurrection in Boyaca had been suppressed.
Peace prevailed throughout the country.

AMERICA.

CROOKRAVKN, S. 27, &40 4.w.

The Cunard steamer Persia, from New York, is
now passing Browhead signal station. She will
probably arrive at Queenstown about noon. Letters
will reach London at 6.25 p.m. to-morrow (Satur-
day).

SOUTHAMPTON, BUT. 27.

The American Steamship Company's steamer
Atlantic, from New York, passed the Needles at
8.35 a.m. to-day.

The Figaro announces that Princees de Metter
rah, wife of the Austrian ambassador, is about to bring an
action for libel against the Courier Franca* for associat-
ing her name offensively with La Female Benoitms, a piece
now acting at the Vaudeville.

Ono of the youngest members of the Academy
of Sciences, M. Foucault, has just been struck by
PanaYsiL

The Emperor and Empress, on Sunday, took a
walk through the streets of Biarritz in the midst of so
great a crowd that at one moment there was some difficulty
in advancing. The next day his Majesty went to Port
Vieux to see the works of improvement going on there.

The Temps of Venice, of the 23rd, publishes the
following :—"Laat night, on one of the public buildings
and at other points of the city might be read the sub.
joined words posted up in large characters :—' Give
unto Cower that which is Qesar's. Rome the capital of
Italy ! Long live Victor Emmanuel.'

The Papal Nuncio in Paris proceeded two days
ago to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to express to the
Emperor Napoleon, through the medium of the Marquis de
Mouatier, the gratitude of the Holy See on the occasion of
Garibaldi's arrest. The Pontifical government acknow.
ledges that the successful measures by which the projected
expedition against the Roman States has been stopped
short are due to the inlluenoe of the French cabinet.

People are prospecting in all directions in the
neighbourhood of Coinhere in search of diamonds. A
number of those precious stones have already been found,
some of them of considerable value. The first diamond
was picked up by a little girl at Hopetown. liar father is
a labourer, on the farm of Mr. Schalk van Niekerk. She
took the diamond to her mother, and the latter thinking
it only a pretty stone returned it to the child to play with.
Niekerk happened to see it glitter offered to buy it of the
girl, but she gave it to him, saying, laughingly, who ever
heard of selling a stone. He took it, and it proved to he
a diamond worth 5001. Garneta have just been found in
considerable numbers at the Cape. The copper miners in
Amapoudaland are meeting with much encouragement.
Oil stones have just been found in the Canubie river.
Amber has also been found in the Colesberg district, also
formations containing phosphorus and quicksilver. It is
also reported on good authority that some gentlemen in
seeking for diamonds have come upon a lode of silver and
lead see.—Rape of Oood hope paper.