The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-19 00:00:00

WEST INDIA MAIL

As intimated in our yesterday's impression the
Royal Mail Steam Packet Severn, Captain Wil-
liam Vincent, arrived at Southampton yeiverday
morning, and landed him mails under the oharg• of
Lieut. John Kiddie, RN., Admiralty agent. During
the two first days after leaving Bermuda (sth and
6.h inst.) the Severn encountered east winds with
a heavy sea; from the 7th to ;he l3th the wind was
from the soath.west and the weather thick.

Tne dates received by the Severn are :—Jacmel,
May 12; Tampico, May 18; Havannah, May 27 : La
Gusyra, May 22; Jamaica, May 23; Demerara, May
18; Tobagi, May 20; Trinidad, May 21; Grenada.
May 23; IBarbadoes, May 27; Nassau, May 29; St.
Thomas, May 31; Bermuda, June 6.
The Severn brings bullion and specie to the value
'of 553,281 dollars from the Gulf, and 70,846 from
the Wanda. The rest of her freight consists of 213
bales cochineal, 1,081 bales tobacco, 55 ceses cigars.
4 cases Vanilla, 3 bales jalap, 87 cases pine apples, 8
tattles', and about 80 parcels.
The news from Mexico and Havannah have been
anticipated by the intelligence received riii United
States. A correspondent writes that at St. Jago de
Cuba an attack was apprehended from an expedition
of Americans from Chagres, and that troops had been
in consequence concentrated in the vicinity of that
city.
JAMAICA.

There are no political news. Messrs. Alexander
and Candler, of the Society of Friends, were organ-
ising branch :Intl-slavery societies in the nortneru
parishes. The Morning Journal soya: " To the forma-
tion of these societies no objection exists ; the worthy
individuals named have only to prop se to form them,
and they are formed. We are all anti•slavery now,
and all anxious that it should be put down wherever
it exists." The proposal to abolish all import duties
was being pretty keenly disease:4 is the island
pspers.
Oa the subject of coign cultivation the Despatch
observes:

The cultivation of ootton continues to he urged on the
attention of our fellow colonist, ; hit we are not yet enabled
to state with what particular resulis. From ell that we can
gather, the island is even much better adapted for the pur-
pose than the most sanguine advocate has supposed it to be.
In additina to the facts which have been so repeatedly
pressed on the attention of our readers, that the lightness
of the labour required is a great recommendation, that
that tho soil is everywhere adapted for the eiliivation of
one kind or another of the aricle, and that the
climate is such that we might expect two crops, while in the
Southern titates the plasters get only one in the year, u we
have no frost to interfere with our now see
it announced, as a contemporary has also observed, in the
N ego Yet k Morning Star, of the 2nd inst..nt, that a field of
ten acres planted in this (send had produced 630 pounds,
while the averare crop in America is 300 pounds. We have
had no orortunity of ascertaining the particulars of this
case, but it appears to be generally understood as correctly
stated. If so, with so many and such very grist advantages
as we should possess with this addition, via ought to be well
armed against any difficulty which might ari:e from the oc-
casio:ial uncertainty of our seasons, which same more astute
then enterprising parties have suggested as : k .ly to interfere
with the undertaking.

A return hid been presented to the Commissioners
on Accounts, by the Receiver-General, of the receipts
and expenditure of the public revenue, for the six
months ending the 5:11 of April. They showed the
total receipts, from October 11, 1819, to April 5,
1850 (including 15,7504 Exchequer b Ile issued) to
have been 123,7981. 16e. Id. ; the receip•e for the cor-
responding period of 1848.9 (including 5,2004 Island
notes issutd) 115,1861. 4s. Id., being a decrease in
1830 of 1,3874 80. But, adding the difference
between the Exchequer bills item dis 1849-50, and
the Island notes issued in 1848 9, the rail decrease
will be found to be 12,9371.8 e. The payments during
the six months ended se.h April, 1850, amounted to
121,936/. 16s. 3d ; these during the correspending
six mouths of 1618-9 to 121,9491. ; being a decrease
of 211.35. 9d. The import duties rtceived daring the
sx months ended 5.h April, 1849, sin .unted to
56,871/. 19s. 71.; the amount me:red during the
c.nreeponding period of 1849.59 was 65,7051. Bs. s
being an increase of 8,8331. Bs. 51

The 21Iornino Journal of 22nd May states tha—
n, weather, which has been exceedicgly dry, bee change:l
in mouse distr.ets, and the May seasur, which are Mt., have
partially set iv. We trust they will Donn income as general
as they are uei.erally desired. The deed of etv Icra, which
was reported to be prevalent ic Cuba, has passed away—sad
.rc have toeongratulate ourselves, and to be tbaukful, that
we h,ve as yet altogether eses2ed the: scourge as well as the
small pox. The ialand is hea'thy.

BRITISH GUIANA.
The following summary of news is abridged from
The Colonial of 17th May :
We turn with pleasure to record the syiterna i; and earnest
determination which Is being evinced amongst (mule.' for
pursuing to 1 sueceuful issue that tot,l ehate,e, or reform, in
our legislative institutions so indi.penssloy requisite to the
altered contition of the country, and which has been so long
called for in the most marked manner by what may be em-
phatically celled the public opinion of .hc colo. y—not here
and there • few individuals, but the great mass or the people,
headed by the wealth and intelligence of the c mum:atty.
lhe c:modttee of the British Guiana Reform Association aro
steadily maturing their plans, are organi.leg lical commit.
tees, gathering " the sinews of war," and tzkieg miasures
for &ling up that portion of our ligielature eubject
to popular influence with good men and true,
who will persevere unflinchingly till they compel
the ministry to yield content to the wit..es of an
united, peaceable, and intelligent p2cplo. The Colonial
Society 01 London may rest assured that British Gu,saa wia
not be backward in lending such aid as s'..• can give, in
breaking down the intolerable thraldom of the Colonial-
office, and relieving British citizens, wh,r,ver located, from
the galling tyranny and unjust caprices or scl:IM English
Since our last scarcely anything has been dcne in our
legislature, owing to the Chid Justice and the Atterney-
G:nersl being enraged in the Supreme Civil Court; but
the public mind is considerably excite. an th. subject of
improving the administration 01 justice by the establishment
of district (seize courts, to be presided over by our three
judges in rotation; which, besides finding useful occupation
for those high foncionaries, who "ay.:been nerft .fore little
better than semi-sinecuriste, and en.thling us to disnense
with those hybrid officials who bear with Us the name of
sheriffs, will also give us the inestimable advantage of fre-
quent, cheap, and easily accessible courts of low, beyond the
reach of euspicion, and wholly independent of petty local
influences—the bane of obscure and irroionsible tribunals
such in at present exist.
With regard "o " the state of the country " question, the
agricultural prospect', the continued we: weather is fast
occasioning affairs to assume • grave aspect. The great
fallii g off in the crop of last year is beiog continued this
*ear, end if the present weather contithes much longer, why
Good help us ! for many of our proprietors will be bq -ad the
reach of man's assistance.