The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-20 00:00:00

TIM BLA VI TRADE IN CUBA.

A correspondent at the New York nmes writes
the following:
" Havannah, Sept. 23.
" The topic of conversation in all circles of society just
now, is the slave trade, and the probable multi of the open
vlolatka of treaty stipulations with the English government.
Last Monday we received information by the telegraph that
• large American ship, loaded with Atrium, had been cap-
tured by • Spanith solar Rya the port of Carders. Aa it
le well known that a large number of expeditions have been
fitted out for the oast, the sews did not canoe the slightest
surgefor—the more so, as the trade has been winked at by
the Captain -General and his immediate Odom It seem.
that the American benne had got ashore in endeavour-
ing to navigate through the Keys, and vas aocidentally
discovered by the Spanish war schooner. A large part of
the cargo had been landed before her capture. During
the purge, anall-pox of the most virulent nature bad
broken out among the unfortunate wretches, and carried off
great numbers. It is reported here that the vessel was
laid out in the port of New York, and sailed from there
to the Clara B. Williams. She is now in Car-
=li Quarantine, waiting for orders from the Captain
General. As this vermeil had on board seine four hundred
Ivey she will prove • valuable wise to the commander and
mew of the lucky cruiser.
" Another landing of • more daring character, and pro-
bably unequalled in the =rude of the slave trade, was effected
in the vayport of Havana& on the night of the 17th, by the
=schooner Villanueva, Captain N—, alias Manuel
(I give you the sodrawa ea a means of Concha's
finding out the owners). It seems that the schooner had ban
cruising of the offing for several days, and after being foiled in
her attempts to effect the diaerobarkation near Matanzas, was
ordered by her owners to proceed to Havannah on the
night in question, anchor off the Punta Castle, where every-
thing would be in readiness to harry up the business. In-
deed, so well prepared was anything, that nothing was
known of the matter until after seven o'clock the next morn-
ing. She came to anchor about half-past 12, and by two
o'clock had landed about 380 nerves, all of which were put
into carriages, and driven to different parts of the country,
some passing in front of General Couclaa's country residence.
It I. only natural to suppose that the owners of these
moat be "infer°. yor , certain " and that officersm/r°l7,
government were fully cognisant of the fact. Otherwise, how
can it be supposed that such a body of men could pew through
the heart of the city without being perceived by
the watchman sad different military poets 7 It is
seated, and not without plausible ground, that
the officer on guard at the Punta Castle, and the
wakftneen, were bribed. I has been told that the officer at
the prison guard wee arrested as an accomplice in the affair.
The whole thing la shameful from beginning to end, and de-
monetnthe completely that the government is rotten; and,
as a ceptaintricral would not suffer himeell to be oompro-
mised l for it is only natural to suppose that he, or the
civil , been handsomely recompensed for allow-
ing the hailing to take place at the mouth of the harbour,
and under the noes al her British Majesty's consul-general.
A sailor belonging to the schooner has been arrested, in
whose pocket was found a draft on a certain Senor Mums,
of Rigla, who was arrested, but released after giving secu-
rity tot his appearance at court when called upon. Several
suspicious vowels have been frequently telegraphed from the
More, bet they have never entered. They are evidently a
part of the African squadron that is daily arriving on our
coasts. Two or three smart Yankee sloops could make •
good haul just now in these waters of our renegade country-
men who have oaken • command in this fleet."

EXPERT CAPTURE OT HOUSEBREAKERS.—Yes-
Imlay (Sunday) evening, throes* the ezertione of
the criminal ocer, three women and twelve man were sp.
pell on suspicion of being concerned in the robbery of
trom a pawnbroker's shop in Aberdeen in the early
&e month. Three mm, named Campbell, Thom-
eine, end Williamson were taken into custody at Aberdeen
whoa the robbery was discovered, but there being
insam-
chmt evidence against them, the first was sent to Edinburgh,
whin there was another charm against him, whilst the
ether two were acquitted. They alai, it seems, rime to
Edinburgh, where the polios authorities kept en eye
cm their movements. On Saturday, Ill`Levie heard

that they had gone off by early Gin to Aberdeen
sad Inspecting that their object wee to get the booty sad
Wise it to E&nburzh, he watched at the railway Malice for
their return. Failing to meet with them there, it occurred
to M'Levie to visit a house in Chapel-street, kept by a card-
sheerer named William Fenn. which he thought would be •
likely resort of such characters. With three other detectives,
he accordingly whited the house bet night, and came upon
both Thome= and Williamson mated comfortably at a cosily
dinner. A small travelling-bag which wax is the room as
found to contain 17 gold watcher', 23 silver watches, 177
tinge, 19 elver guard-chahm, 8 silver Albert chains, 3 gold
Albert chains, and 4 gold grade, being the plater part of
the goods stolen from the Aberdare pawnbroker. TU two
men were at once appvelmaded, as were alao thirteen other
persona, including Flinn, who was found in another room.—
EdiebergA Erpress.
ROBBERY BY A MILITIAMAN.—As Miss Smith,
daughter of Mr. Laurence Smelt, of the Wellington Inn,
Doncaster, was retiring to her bedroom on Friday night
she discovered • militiaman deliberately helping him-
self to all the valuable articles in the roes, such ss
rings.
vratehguards, brooches, bracelets, &were
gold, and had been collected into a handkerchief by the
thief ready for taking away. Miss Smith seized him by
the arm and demanded to know what he was dohs g there,
when the thief struck her a violent blow an the bead and
ran downstairs. An alarm was promptly raised, but he
effected hie escape. He succeeded en taking away with him
the sovereigns, a five-shilling piece, 17s. 6d. in silver, two
gold rings, end some penny, twopenny, and fourpenny
pieces. One of the latter coins was remarkable from batwing
a figure of 4 on the reverse side, instead of the figure of
Britannia. There was also • shilling of the reign of Eliza-
beth, with a cross on the back and a hole through it, and a
spade ace guinea.
ESCAPE FROM GAOL..—On Friday night last a lad
named Grieves, *bent 18 years of age, made • daring escac
from Stamford geol. Shortly after dusk he wee placed
his cell for the night, and upon the governor of the gaol
taking has rounds previoua to retiring to rest he discovered
the cell door open, and the prisoner gone. Upon examination
it was ascertained that Grieves commenced his escape by
mounting some palisades; thence, by an Unmet superhuman
effort, he reached the governor's sitting-room window, which
was barred, and scaled the wall until he came to a bcd-reem
window, when he managed to gain the roof. He creased the
roof to the opposite side of the gaol, and after descending a
spout, alighted in the street. he walls of the prison are
fully 40 feet high, and some surprise is expressed at his escape.
Information of the circumstance was immediately given to
the police, and the boy was captured the following morning
by the governor about three miles from Stamford, while wait-
ing to see an elder brother to obtain a change of clothing.
About five weeks since Grieves made his escape from the same
gaol by climbing up • spout, and with the aid of • nail in the
wall succeeded in reaching the tope of some homes, which he
traversed, and finally alighted by means of a spout into agen-
tlentan'm garden. Ten days elapsed before be was captured
on that occasion. Grieves is undergoing 18 months' imprison-
ment for a larceny.
THE HIGH PRICE OF MEAT.—The manner in
which meat has reached its present price appears to be aa
follows: Seven years ago the markets were almost glutted
with stock of all kinds, and the prices the breeders then ob-
tained were probably too low, considering that theutl.7ye
had risk of • failure of the green crops. They then to
diminish the supply by breeding fewer bead of cattle, et as
might be expected they want into the other extreme, so that
in • year or two catUe became memo, and prices rose 25 per
cent. They have remained at that height ever since, m
spite of the largely increased importatioos from the Conti-
nent, and although the breMers are now rearing at
least as many head as they did when 'prma were at the
the lowest. This state of things would be inexplicable, if it
were not for the operations of • clam of middlemen. These
men, it is understood, are chiefly Jews ((we allude particu-
larly to the London market), who, acting together, and
having the oommend of enormous oWtel, ere
,able to buy up
large numbers of cattle from the bra derv. m anticipation,
and me thus in a position ao to regulate the markets aa to
ensure a constant demand. The corporation of London have
attempted to Zeck the practices of the middlemen, by framing
a bye-law, among others, for the regulation of the cattle
market, to the 'Seat that no re-sale of cattle shall teke place
on the same day. kw is, however, constantly evaded,
and of Doane cannot ranch the more important operations of
, the oontoderaq.—Yastioh &lune.