The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-15 00:00:00

THE WEST INDIA MAILS.

The Royal Mail Company's steamship Tasma-
nian, with the above mails, arrived at Southamp-
ton yesterday. She brings 66 passengers, 697,165
dollars in specie, and 1,163 packages of cargo,
chiefly consisting of bark, rubber, cocoa, and
cochineal.
The Tasmanian left St. Thomas on the Ist Oct.,
and experienced heavy rains during six days.
A hurricane visited the West India Islands on
the 29th Sept. The West India and Pacific Navi-
gation Company's wharf at St. Thomas was cut
through by a coal ship and demolished. Several
ships went ashore. The St. Thomas dock escaped
injury.
Her Majesty's ship Buzzard left for England on
the 28th ult.
Yellow fever and smallpox still lingered at St.
Thomas. Two cases of yellow fever occurred on
board the Tasmanina, both proving fatal.
Nothing had been done at Jamaica towards the
inauguration of the new government. The Military
Commission had arrived out. Fine weather pre-
vailed, but business was dull. The coffee crop was
expected to be scarce. Exchange, 90 days, 2 per
cent.
At Grenada the cocoa picking had commenced,
and the prospects were cheering. The corn crop
was abundant and trade was dull.
Guadaloupe continued healthy.
At Barbadoes the weather was fine and planta-
tion prospects were encouraging, but dysentery
and fever prevailed.
At Demerara the weather was fine, but trade waa
dull. Tonnage was abundant, and freights were
declining. Sugar, 15d. to 18d.
The other islands were healthy.
Senor Perez had been proclaimed President of
Chili. The country still demanded the vigorous
prosecution of the war against Spain. Powerful
batteries, which will be defended with 150 cannons,
were being erected at Valparaiso. The freight en-
gagements at Valparaiso were extensive. Ex-
change on London, 45d. to 450. ; on Paris, 70 to
75. Bar silver, per mare, 10.50 do's.
In Peru business continued active, and the cot-

ton growing was inadaing. •
It was expected that Colonel Prado would be
elected President. Free trade was to be esta-
blished, and a postaltreaty concluded between Peru
and Chili.
The Tasmanian b ' only the West Indian and
Pacific, not the A • mails.

A legal case, bearing on the principles likely to
guide the French government in the illegal extra-
dition of Lamirande from Canada, was tried at
Lyons a few days ago. Two Frenchmen were
arrested in Switzerland on a charge of forgery
committed in France, and were given up to the
French authorities. The charge of forgery being •
found unsustainable was abandoned, but the men
were tried, and found guilty of embezzlement—an •
offence not within the Swiss extradition treaty.
The court declared that the right of the prisoners
to obtain a reversal of their extradition could not
be taken notice of by a court of justice in France.
The judges, however, speaking of a " right " of the
prisoners which the court had no jurisdiction to
recognise, seem to infer that the executive will
put,sui the matter right, and restore the men (a
present though they may be) to
the country from whose territorial protec-
tion they were abstracted under false pre-
tences. This may be a precedent in the come of -
Lamirande if it shall be made out beyond con-
tradiction that he was wrongfully given up to
French justice. There is, however, a distinction
between the two cases. France may well say that,
though she does not think it politic to carry into
effect slaw against a prisoner only brought within her
jurisdiction by a mistaken accusation, she is not
bound to renounce the jurisdiction which she has
acquired by the mistake, however induced,
of a foreign judge. It is in the point of
view of the pending question between France
and England in the matter of extradition (apart
from the particular case in Canada) that the Swiss
precedent is interesting. If, contrary to the antici-
pations of the Lyons judges, the men wrongfully
brought p prisoners from Switzerland be not
set at liberty, it will be made to appear that the
suspicions of several English members of parlia-
ment were just, that the French government is
capable of claiming the operation of the extradition
treaty for one offence, and trying a man, when it
has got him, for another, and then it will be im-
possible that the new extradition treaty with
France, voted only for a year, can be renewed
without alteration ; otherwise French political re-
fugees would never be safe.
The Avenir National says of the King of Hol-
land's manifesto .
This royal manifesto contains no arguments that have
not been refuted twenty times over. Our correspondent
tells us that publio opinion has been deeply moved by its
publication. Although in a quiet town like the Ragas
the emotion may only find vent in words, it is to be
feared that in Amsterdam and Rotterdam discontent may
take the form of action. Our correspondent's letter con-
cludes :—The situation is serious, and our institutions
are imperilled.
M. Duruy and General Niel have gone to swell
the congress of ministers and high officials at
Biarritz.
The Liberti says : " People speak less than they
did yesterday of the probability of M. Fonld's re-
signation."
The Bourse is again heavy. Rente fell 30c. for
cash, and 10c. for account, closing at 68.70 and
I 68.80 ; Italian, 10c. In Mobilier and Credit Fon-
', cier there was scarcely any change.
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