The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-03 00:00:00

WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC

MAILS.

The Royal West India steamer Great Western,
Captain IA arrived at Southampton yesterday,
and landtd her mails from the West Indies and the
Pacific, under the charge of Lieut. Davies, R.N.,
Admiralty agent. Her dates are : Parma, April
25; Chsgres, 29; Carthagens, May 1 ; Jamaica, 8;
Demerara and Berbice, 5; Puerto Cabel.o, 3 ; Le Jaao
de Cub 9; La Gusyra, 7; Jacmel, 11 : I'or o Rico,
13; Tobago, 6; Trinidad, 7 ; Barbadoes, 10; Grenada
and St. Vincent, 8; Martinique, Antigua, Montserrat,
aedGuadaloupe, 11 ; Dominica, Nevis, And St Kitt's,
12; Tortola, 13 ; St. Thoma-'s, 15; S inta Martha,
1 ; Fayal, 27 ; C quimbo, March 31 ; Valparaiso, 30;
Cobigi,,, April 3; I-ley, 6; Visca, 8; Callao, 13;
Frayta, 16 ; Guayaquil, 18; Bueuventura, 21; San
Francisco, March 30; Mazatlan, 9. The Great
Western brings 74 passengers, and the freight con-
sists of the following items, viz. :—gold, 10 055 cc ;
pearls, 300 ; gold coin, 42,998 oz.; silver coin, 77.521
dollars value ; piatina, 1,375 dollars value ; brokenl
silver, 1,245 I Z. ; silver ornaments, 100 dollars value ;
in all 1,128,498 dollars value. See also brin_s 20
tierces of coffee, 68 bags of sarsaparill,, 100 Mies of
arrowroot, 123 barrels and 12 cases of giner, 8
barrels and 6 cases of suoeadees, and 48 packages of
sundries.

Her Majesty's ship Asia, Admiral Horuby, com-
mander-in-chief in the Pacific, was en route to Val-
paraiso from Central America. The Champion was
at tillayaquil; the Da vela was at Callao ; the Gorgon
was in the Straits of Magellan, to tow the Enterprise
and Navigator; the Imaum was at Jamaica; the
Trincomalee and Trent mail packet were at Kingston;
the Persian left Jacmel on the 21st April far St.
Domingo, and her return wee expected ; the
Severn was in the Mexican Gulf; the Midway wu
between Bermuda and St. 'homer ; the Conway was
gone to Demerara ; the Dee was en route to Jamaica ;
the Eagle and Larne were at St. Tuuma•; her
Majesty's ships Arrogant and Stromboli were passed
by the Great Western off Portland, in the British
Channel.
The American sloops of war Albany and German.
town, and steamer Vixen, were at Port-au-Prince,
claiming 600,000 dollars from the ILitien govern-
ment for some old affair of Caris,oplie. All quiet in
the island.

The Spanish Count de Mingol had called at Porto
Rico on the s!ti May, in a Spanish nears- t-war
steamer, bound to the Havannah. He had with him
a general officer, a naval deg officer, a brigadier of
engineers, and one of the heads of the financial de-
partment. It was supposed that he wipi going to
make a thorough examination into the state of Cobs.
After his departure from Cuba he was bound on a
mission to the Unitcd States.

On the 23rd March a band of (70sta Wet natives
came down the river San Juan to att.it k Ortitowth
They were overpowered, and 15 severely dogged. On
the morning that the Great Western kit Oreytown,
Mr. Green, vice-consul at that place, sent an official
letter to the commanding officer 01 her Mijesty's ship
Plumper, which was lying off the place, requesting ho
would remain until relieved, as a great force we. ex-
pected fro-n the interior to attack Or, stoa n.
The Jamaica crop fur this year will emote t to
about 40,000 tone. fne planters complain of drought
f.r the last three months, which will injurious to
le- forthcoming crop. liarbadui a tak.UT t lir nerve as
J mains. S.. Vincent shout 6,0(10 hogsheads. A:
Grenada, about 6,000 hogsheads. No rain nad fallen
for the last ten weeks.

At Cu* the crops are one-third less than asst year;
continued droughts ; young crops star ing much ;
deaths inoreaming daily from choh•ra. According to
the last amounts 80 per diem wore dying in and near
the city.
I'•irto Rico this year's et... 0 will run ,unt to
125,11410 hopliesds, and it would live tun u t.d to
190,000 hogsheads, if the weather had been favour-
able.

At Guadeloupe the drop will amount to 25,00
barrels of I,OOOIM, weight each.
At Martinique about 30,000 barrels. There had
been a great drought both at Martinique and Guada-
loupe.
Mr. M'Phersoo, late Provident of Council a, To.
Wbeg% died oil the 19th May, on board the Greet
estern._ _

A Dutch brig of war culled at Porto Rico on the
sth May. The object of her calling was not knutte.
The cholera had broken out at Bogota.
JAMAlOA.—Kimoirrotr, MAY B.—The copit)tpt
atone* which tell here, and indeed along the whole acme.
ward repo, have hem most welcome. A meeting,
lag chiefly of Pienelpated labourer', was held an *eying
or
two apo at Brown's Town, d by the het
Alsuander, of the Anti-Slaver/ Society. 8. se, .more
fro* a paper published by Mr. Thomas Carlyle, in more
Afagazins, matted much mirth among the black amdienee
and the hearty laughter at the absurdities it contained Pats
serious con.radienies oat of the queetion. Mr. illearore, of
Burtekteple, has pirated about thirty armee with the ~tam plant.
Cordoodee Monthly Intelligencer thee charaeterine the
state of the market:
" No change accomplish* has occurred since the despatch
of the last mall. Holders of bread Eufli evince a
to meet the trade on lower tenni. Small parcel" of kilt:.
mom flour are moved at 31.. 64. to 32e. The market is Ea.
soalply heavy. We learn that the northeide is overetoeked
with the article, and that shipments thence are likely to be
made coastwise. Rum is worth le. 94. to 2e. per oil% et
in quality, *oval to 3s. 8d to 84 6d, for home use and, r the
old duty, and 81. 9d. to 4e. under the new duty we, cub,
in operatioa on the 28th ult. ; an alditinnal 61. per
ie pueblo under it. In height. there is little left to be Cll.,
the principal portion of the vessels in harbour having ta.ca tah.n up previous to our last issue. Nothing hes cats
reached us.

"EXCILLMORS—OteLonion: Jamaica and CAonial Sankt,
90 days, i per cent. prem. ; 60 days, 1 per cent. prett
days, 16 per cant. pram. Merchants' bills on New Toil' we
taken at 2 to 26 per cent. prem , 60 days' eight
" The brig John Cunningham arrived here (mai Glum.,
May 1, and the be quiz Nerio, from Newport, April 2.;. The
ship Robinson sailed for Breeze,. April .9; the burps
Hi,Histhbu.ry, for London, April 26 ; and the brig 11.irry
Abu or Liverpool, May 3. The Albion and Ttame. for
London, and the Laura, Swan, John Horrockr, and &illy,
for Liverpool, are loading at Kingston."
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ANTIGUA.—A smart shock of earthquake, which
however was unattended by serious damage, was experiemed
on the 6th ult.

DEMBILARA.—Advices from Demerara Ire
mired by the Great Western to the s:h May, but there le
little to notice of public or general interest for th• la-t
night in that colony. A general dent...Raba and elk m pre_
vatted among all classes of the inhabitants. The wea•h-r
had proved rather more favourable for several den,
was known the unusually heavy weather in March and
April had seriously injured the crop on the ground, ah,..0
was likely to prove very deficient. Sevens e••ato,r z
Fann, Success, Lowlands, Dodsfour, Mainstay, If.,cuur.w..,
and Sophlenburg, have been advertised at once for Site ~y
execution. _ _

The works on the East Coast Railway are proot
highly satisfactory meaner; the lice is now cornrili-ti-1
as Vigilance, 10f miles from Georgetown. The
resulting from this important no&rtaking are
ing more apparent. Should capitalists ie Gr-at
cid* on giving proper encouragemi•at to the re-es,a-
of cotton cultivation in British Guiana, this rctl,ear
even yet he extended to Berbice, an idea at cue time
dazed chimerical.

INDIA.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

We have received our despatches in anticipe.. .
the Overland Mail from India. The dates are : hoc
bay, May 1, and Calcutta, April 20. The f
is the summary of the Bombay Ti,,,es:
The approach of the monsoon now begins to be_
in on the usual days of mail despatch : on the pr
sent occasion, the Ist has bee., substituted for :he
3rd; on the next and the following we Ethel'. bye the
II th and the 25th instead of the 17th May a.l .-d
of June; and thenceforth till Septemoer we sheet
have only one Bombay despatch monthly. The past
fortnight has been in a great measure tewsiess, the
local press having been chiefly occupied by the ,1:,.
suasion of the question of the most eligible lice 1.- s
railway. Public opinion, both at home and here, s -
to becoming round to the views of Colonel Gran:.
the Poona line is the beet. So far from the 1.
of Director having, as is averred, neglected t: •
duty in the matter, so far back as 1812, before :
public thought of railways here at all, they de .:rid
the services of Mr. Vignolies, as commissioner, :o
inquire into the railway capabilities and proepec:s
of India. The supreme government have a:
length passed an act enabling the managers of coin
riiy schools to appren ice the children under their
charge, and magistrates of police to bind those
that fall into their hendo to ...urn trades and pro-
fessions ; the latter clause has been introdu.ed by ill-
gestion from Bombay, where sch.ole of industry have
long been in prepara:ion for the reception of the cle,‘-
titute, and fur the instruction in the improved prac-
tice of the arts and handicrafts of all who care to re-
sort to them. Gaveremeni, for the past eight years.
have been spending thousands of rupees monthly is
endeavouring to instruct cotton cultivator* in cleaning
and picking cotton, by sending teachers to the
districts; the Bombay pia i is to open a school fir
all comers, and hundreds on hundreds are expectol
to resort to it, some having been here sire dv, alai
many having applied. The proposed plan bear. t-.e
same relation to the existing one as parochial sch ws
at home would do to the plan of sencieg teachers
to every hamlet and glen—incurring a thouseed
times the cost, and offering tot one huiaireilt
part of the returns. In January the C 'or:: of
Directors granted a superintendent fur to
schools—all they have for a long time past
waiting for ; the moment the Baud of Conirol _
their sanction, the schools wiU be iveted. weary,
material, ground, tools, and work having ii.riady been
secured.—Tne Affrettite chiefs, lately ance, tee us en
the Peshawur frontier, have, of their owe a cord.
gone in to Colonel Lawrence to /ark far
terms. They disowned a.l knowledge of the
murders lately committed, but so little doubt
was entertained of their comp:icity, that they were
told that they must wait tor en answer tilt the
wishes of the Governor-General weir k
Charles Napier is said to be desirous of stied:r.;
the new tite.h. or Goorkaha (Nepaul ulgolactiers) to
Peshawur, where they arc likely to do good ser%lee•
D.:st Mahomed is said to be doing everytho e
his power to provoke and annoy us—his latest a
being the interruption of some rafts of wood thiat-
ing down the Cebool river to Peshawur for hu.,,1.
ing purposes.—The commissioner in Selo& rese!lid
Sukkur on the 15th April ; his stay woad.
it was expected, be but short. Dr. Doe had rtselled
Kurrachee and relieved Dr. Scott of the du.:es of
superintending-surgeon, and the latter gen:email
has returned to the presidency and reimin.d hie
former berth of Secretary to the Medical Il•erti.
Oude has of late been more than ueual.y dis u had.
and in an encounter betwixt a patty el our troops
and those of a refractory zemindar, Leu:eha:.:
Elderton, 10th Bengal Native Infantry, loft his
life. The Oude force originally sent Okt 146",..•
these malcontents was riirdsed ; so strooat "
the position taken up by the enemy that tot It ai•
cleat, Colonel Sleeman, called in Inc a-siat ince car
10th N. 1., with a couple of guns. Tzar detsehine t.
which was under charge of Cap:aiii W ifs. 1.. woo ers
the 29,h March defeated, with the. how of a nun!
losing one European officer, and seventy-five rank and
file being killed or woe ded. On the Ist -
ther gun was sent out, and euveess seems at ling
have crowned our efforts, though no details an. gm
The Governor-General left Calcutta en the I t

AI:EZ

Ktred

was expected at Henan' about the '33rd nit., , n
to Simla. Sir C. Napier has reached the laver piece.
Lord Falkland left Bombay fur Mahabuleletwar on
the 18th ; and Sir F. l'errv, chief justice. return' d
to the presidency on the 23rJ. S:ortne of t ade
lightning, and hail arebeginningtom.ke th, it appe‘r-
am* all over the country, an,k at IbruNky the ue.t.l.er
has b. en hot and damp, which predicts rain to be
rear at hand.

Casualties by death in :hr armies of Indut, repoft.d
sines the departure of the mail ou the Ilith of Avid:
H. ":"TROOPS.—Lieutenant J. H. C. Loll, 64rh teos, at
era. rn the Lsth Jiptuary.
BOMPAY.—eaptaln A N. Aitchee n. 3th N. 1., at C
on let April.
MADOULll.—Lieuttinsatt N. W. Urquhart, 6th N. 1., el
IThariwer, on the 13th April
Bandar..—Aisist...Sowan E. Elite, at Calculi.. 1
Ant ; Amin -Sure. W. Veal at Umbais. on OW
Lllll.-001 C. N. T. Oltilirld.o .Coth CaTalry.
lon the 16th April ; Ciril Assist.-Sung M. Nottelt, Ealri Hu"
w establishment, at bliworie, oaths %OM Apfg.