The Express.
London, England, 1850-02-02 00:00:00

WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC

MAILS.

Tao Royal West India mail packet Melway, Cap-
tain Wm. Symonds, from the Wert Indic., &c., ar-
rived at Smthampton this morniag, and landed her
mails under the charge of Lieut. T. &men, R.N.,
Admiralty agent. Her dates are ;—Chogres, Deo.
29; Certßagsna, Jan. 1 ; Jamaica, 7; St. Jago de
Cube, 8; Latium*, 4 ; Trinidad, 6 ; Barbadoes, 9 ;
Antigua, 11; Martinique, 10; Grenada, 8; Porto Rico,
12; St. Thomas, 15; La Guayra, 6. Raja], no cum-
munkatior, from bad weather.

Amongst the freight on bard are 587,778 dollars
on merchants' account; 749,684 dollars in gold dust ;
5,4221. British coin ; and 461,874 dollars in silver.
At Jamaica the holidays have passed off quietly.
the legislative session has nearly terminated, and
the bill for imposing a duty on rum and other spirits
manufactured and consumed in the colony has been
Famed without the clause appropriating the proceedsto
the payment of the clergy. A bill is now bifore the
Assembly to appoint commi‘sioners in England and
Jamaica to raise a loan to pay off the island certifi-
cates which will soon become due. The general re-
venue bill to pay for parochial undertaking*, public
demands, and annuitants, is likely to cots* some dis-
laension between the Assembly and the Council on ac-
count of the proposed payments extending over two
years. Boluses was very dall. Sugar had declined,
and the quotations were 181. to 19s. per 1001 be.
Freights were dull. Pimento, 3;cl. per lb.; Jamaica
logwood, 38s. to 405.; St. Do:dngo, 42e. Rum,
2s. 91. per gallon. The Clyde arrived at Jamaica on
the tad of January, and sailed next day for Savannah.

A correspondent at Trinidad writes as trllows
TRINIDAD, JAN. 6.
Our prospects are looking a little brighter than a
few months ago. The weather has been very fa-
vourable, yet the crops on many estates will not be
sr liege as they should, owing to the determination
last year to cut all the canes, without looking to the
ensuing crop.
The criminal sessions have terminated, being the
first held before our newly-appointed chief judge,
his Honour George Knox. From the sentences
pissed, we may expect he does not intend to be so
indulgent as his predeeeeror. The jury called to try
the rioters of the Ist October last c.uld not agree on
their verdict, in consequence of which a second jury
was emparaolled, who found the prisoners guilty.
i The sentences pa sed were imprisonment and hard
labour for terms varying from 6 to 12 months.
It was expected there would have been some dis-
turbance, and every thing was prepared to meet it ;
however, nothing transpired more than hints that
they intended only to wait for the dry season to set
in, when the sugar estates will be set fire to, though
it Is hoped sumcient proof has beim given that the
government will not be trifled with.
The 88th regiment have left this for Barbadoes,
being relieved by the 72nd regiment, who are to make
this their head-quarters.
Troops are still stationed in the towns of San For-
nando and St. J.rteph.
A severe kind of small pock has appeared here ; it
ihas hoe ever, as yet been cenfined to the negro popu-
lation, principally among the African; every core
has been Liken to prevent its extending to the coolie 4
as, from their diet and habits, it would prove very
fatal.

At Greytown, residents remain undisturbed, but
were auziously waitirg the arrival of a vessel of war
to protect their proptrzy in anticipation of a move-
ment from the interior.

A special courier, with important despatches to
Lord Palmerston, from her Majesty's charge d'affaires
at Bogota, and which should have been put on board
the Medway at Carthegens, bad not been heard of,
although the Medway waited 10 hours beyond her
appointed time. He is supposed to have Ikea drowned
in crossing the river Magdalene.
Advice' from Valparaiso, to the 30th November,
state that business was very dull, prices of the chief
articles of consumption having been barely
.main-
tallied. Importations from all quarters of the world
were pouring in on a scale entirely disproportioned
to the wants of the market. Exchange on Inadon
was 45 to 453. News had been received in
Valpiraiso of the rising of the Indians in the south,
menacing Valdivia aid the adjacent provinces. Se-
Hues difficulties were apprehended, and the Chili=
government had ordered troops to proceed to the
south to put down the insurrection if possible.
At Santiago the minister of justice had resigned,
and the minister of finance contemplated a similar
deli); the revenue of Chili there was a deficiency of
5,000,00() dollars.

Bof ins was threatened with new disturbances. In
Oruro and other places insurrections had occurred.
An earthquake had occurred at Coquimbo on the
20th November, which did considerable damage to
property.
At Chagres four steamers bad arrived in Bve days
from the United States, with five hundred and fifty
rs for California, while at Panama twelve
.a
hundredliee persons were waiting to proceed to the
diggings.
At California sickness prevailed. Two hundred
and fifty vessels were at San Francisco. It is reported
that important and interesting disooveries have been
made at the diggings. Gold ham been found imbedded
in the rocks in the mounAnces neon.
We have dates from ummeresa up to the fourth of
January. Owing to the Pkerables Bill, the members
of the Assembly are advocates et moderate measures.
They have reduced the Add atheism 28 per cent.
compared with 1847. It tree set known when the
mail left if the old tariff of tans*. would be imposed.
At Montserrat small pox was nob&

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