The Express.
London, England, 1858-05-04 00:00:00

LATEST TELEGRAM VIA HALIFAX.

NEW YORK, Arai. 22.

Cotton has been very active to-day. Sales reach-
ing 10,000 bales at advance of to I. Market
closes buoyantly at 12tc. for middling uplands.
Breadstuff@ dull, and tending downward ; bet Indian
Corn is steady, and provisions generally buoyant
and advancing. Stock market to-day Ku been
steady. Neil Brothers quote middling Uplands at
121 to in this market, with an animated demand,
and their advice. from the South also report a brisk
business at 3 per cent. advance sines the arrival of
the Arago.
NEW ORLEANS, APRIL 12.

The news from England has caused our cotton
markets to advance le. to fc., and middling is now
quoted at llfc. to lljc. The sales yesterday and
to-day amount to 23,000 bales.

THE WEST INDIA MAILS.

6OUTHAMPTON, TIMBAL
The Orinoco arrived here this morning with the
West India mail. She left St. Thomas on the 16th
alt. Amongst her /iassengers was the Ron. Mr.
Pakenhant. from Mexico. She brings in her cargo
318,623 dole. in silver, and 435,173 dole. in gold.
The British ship Washington, from Cardiff, has
been wrecked on the coast of P•tagonia. The crew
(twenty-three in number) climbed on the rocks and
were saved. Their ship went to pieces. With these
pieces they built a sloop in thirty-eight days, and
arrived safely in her at Valparaiso, a distance of
1,200 miles.
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Her Majesty's ship Jasper has captured a Spanish
ship fitted up for the slave trade. This ship was
800 tons burden, capable of carrying 1,200 slaves,
and had on board 4,000 doubloons.

The yellow fever is raging on board the British
mail-packet Clyde, at St. Thomas.
The crew of the United States man-of-war Sus-
quehanna, struck down with yellow fever, have bean
taken into the British hospital in Jamaica.

Jamaica is healthy, but the thsr is unpropitious
!or tillage. Trade was dull and the money market
stringent. The question of immigration, in OM-
flexion with colonisation, is engaging the serious
attention of the Jamaica press, on account of the
policy of the Southern States of America, who are
compelling their free black and coloured population
to migrate to countries beyond the slave-holding
states.

DEMERARA.

The Court of Policy in Demerara is seeking to
get an emigration agent for British Guiana ap-
pointed at Bombay. the wecher has been favoura-
ble for the growing crops, and the canes are thriving
well.

ANTIGUA.

All is quiet in Antigus,thUnegro riots having
been suppressed. Fourteen of the rioters were
killed by the fire of the police. A special commis-
lion was to try the eaptired revolters. The inten-
tion of the insurrectionists was to murder the white

population and establish a negro government.

MEXICO.
Mexico is in a state of anarchy. Several parties
were striving for power. Vera Cruz still holds
out for Commie= Tampico pronounces for
Banta Am and the church, and is Meek,
stled by General Garges. He has pommies
of the bar in the harbour and is !greying port dare.
He forcibly removed some officers of a different
faction from an American schooner, the master of
which protested against his conduct. He ales
captured about a doses of Santa Anna's geserals as
board the British mail packet., and took all their

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money and papers. With the money so obtained it
is expected he will buy over the garrison of
Tempo°.
PERU AND CHILL

The revolutionary army in Peru has been over-
thrown. Vivanco has escaped into Bolivia. A man-
guinary engagement took place between the govern.
meat and revolutionary troops, which ended in a
dreadful loss of life. Castilla has triumphed.
In Chili there was considerable, excitenumt about
the forthcoming. elections. The conservatives and
liberals have pined their influence to oppose the
government.
CENTRAL AMERICA.
New Granada is seeking annexation with the
United States.

The revolution in Venezuela is headed by men who
are seeking to establish a democratic republican go-
vernment, instead of the present oligarchical one.
Parr has nothing to do with the movement.