The Express.
London, England, 1850-12-13 00:00:00

WEST NDIA MAIL.

The Royal Mail Steam-packet Clyde arrived yes-
terday at Southampton, at 6 p.m., and landed her
mails under the charge Of Lieut. South, R.N., Admi-

ralty agent.
The dates received by the Clyde are :—Vera Cruz
Nev. 7 ; Tampico, Nov. 4 • Chagres, Nov. 9 ; La
Guayra, Nov. 9; Jamaica, Nov.i 14; Demerara, Nov.
11 ; Trinidad, Nov. 12; Grenada, Nov. 11; Barbados,
Nov. 13 ; Antigua, Nov. 14 ; Martinique, Nov. 14 ;
Porto Rico, Nov. 13; St. Thomas, Nov. 20.
The freight on board the Clyde consists of :
Specie to the value of 2,018,000 dollars, of which
70,000 are on account of Mexican dividend', and
300,000 in gold dust from Chagres, and 284 baiea of',
cochineal.
Among the passengers on board the Clyde are :
Mr. and Mrs. Barkhead, from Mexico ; Sir John
Larquetby, two sons, two daughters, and secretary,
from Mexico, and Mr. Lomer ; Capt. and Mrs. Bing-
ham, Mr. and Mrs. Wise, Mr. Smith, and Mr. Gold-
smith, from Jamaica; Mr. Justice Downie, Mr. Kerr,
Major Goodenough, Mr. Wany, Lieut. Reece, Ensign
Si m monde, from Barbadoes ; Capt. Reaterich, late of the
Eagle ; Captain and Mrs. Zunbye, from St. Thomas ;
Mrs. Wilson, Mr. Cameron, and Mr. Kelly, from the
Pacific ; one invalid seaman, and 10 deck passenger".
When the Clyde left th. Great Western and Eagle
were at St. Thomas ; the Conway at the Havannah ;
the Dirwent at Barbadoes; the Avon at Chagres ; the
packet which tailed from Southampton on the 2nd
of November had not reached St. Thomas, being a day
overdue.
The Clyde bad very fine weather from the Gulf
and St. Thomas, till the 4th inst. ; her subsequent
passage was stormy, from the eastward.
The Mexican news has been anticipated by the
arrivals vid New York.
JAMAICA.

The ravages of the cholera in this colony are truly
appalling. The disease, after causing numerous
deaths iu Kingston, Spanish Town, Port Royal, St.
Andrews, and St. Thomas in the East, was stealthily
making its way through the country parishes. In
Kingston the deaths were believed to average 100 a
day ; the Board of Health had ceased to make returns.
At 9 a.m. of Tuesday, November 12, 39 corpses
were awaiting interment at the protestant bury-'I
ing ground en the west end of the town. In
Spanish Town there were 60 deaths on Monday, the
Ilth of November. At Port Royal 243 pereuns had
been carried off. In St. Andrew's enough of coffins
could not be obtained to meet the demand. Fatal
oases had occurred in St. Ann's, St. Dorothy, and Port-
land; from St. James and St. Mary the reports were
contradictory. Trelawoey was still unvisited, and
due precautions were being taken.
The authorities in Kingston appear to have lost
their heads. There had been no meeting of the
Board of Health from Monday the 11 th until
Thursday the 14th of November, and it was expected
that it would cease to act altogether. A meeting of
the Common Council was held on Wednesday, the
13th November, to devise means for raising 1.0001.
for the alleviation of the distress of the poor suffering
from cholera. The governor had caused the following
circular to be issued :
Secretary's °Moe, King's Haase, Nov. 7, 1860.
Sir,—ln the general sporehension which prevails of the
cholera spreading throughout the Wand, the governor thimble
it may be useful to inform you that in this quarter ex-
perience has shows it to be most important to attend I.
two matters at the olden: ?asst, the interment of the dead;
and secondly, the supply of medicinal.
2. Any accumulation of unburied corpses. to not only most
dangerous, as creating a focus of contagion, but it deters
labourers from undertaking the work of digging graves In
the neighbourhood of the place where the accumulation hos
occurred.
3. With a view to the preventioa of these evil sour ]
querns, the clergy of the established church and other
ministers of religion ought at once to aunt to the later- I
meets being made in unconsecrated ground, and separate
bodice of labourers ought to be hind to dig pits or trenches
in different places, so se to keep always Sky or a hundred
graves open and readyi beforehand.
4 Convicts under sentence of hard labour may be em-
ployed in this way ; but no tone or threat Is to be seed for
the purpose of compelling them to do any work which
manifestly or really would expose them to contagion or in-
fection.
6. The stock of useful medicine which le on hand in each
parish ought to be ascertained, and all possible means should
be adopted without delay for securing and keeping up an
adequate supply.
I neve the knout° be, Sir, your obedient humbleservent,
PLLORTY, See
Thee following pararaph is from the (Kingston)
Horsing Juurnal of the 14th November :
We learn that the last English packet which left this pars
positively refired to take say passengers from this island in
coaseqmess of the prerelease of the cholera in it. This is, to
ase the limonite of a soatessporarg of old, se it should be.
We are only sorry these whose butane it is to see that no
non eater cur gores bola places where this devastating
epidemic appeared bed more fully does their duty ; some
four or Ine **emend of ear fellow-mesterei would most
probably have been in the land of the living this day. A
mainher.of the Assembly has intimated hie intention of in.
atheneum inquiry into all the eirearestancee connected
with the arrival of ramebie the per% of this island from
places in which cholera prevailed Ths public will look
for the result of this inquiry with eagerness. Justice la due
to the parties who are apposed to be euthr of neglect of
duty, or to the public' themselves to sae that alone who re
mire their pay do their duty.
BRITISH Gt/lANA.
A meeting of the Rehm Aserciatlon was held in
George Town on the 9th of November. Mr. Rose
took the chair. Four resolutions were adopted:—
That the existing institutions were unsuitable to the
condition of the °okay ; that an elective legislative
council and house of assembly ought to be substituted
for them; that petitions to this effect should be
approved by the meting, and transmitted to the
Qoeen and lses of Parliament; that Lord Stanley
should be requested to present the 'petition to the
Lords, and Mr. Hums that to the Commons. The
proceedings of the meeting, which was numerously