The Express.
London, England, 1850-11-11 00:00:00

WEST INDIA MAIL.

The royal West-India mail packet Dee, Captain
Allan, from the West Indies, 8c , arrived at SJuth-
ampton last night, and landed her mails under the
charge of Lieutenant Jelin Hay, R.N., Admiralty
agent. Her dates are: La Cwt.'s, Sept. 22; Panama,
Oct. 6; Vera Cruz, Bth ; Chagres, 10th ; Trinidad,
I Ith ; Carthagena and Demerara, 12th; Barbadccs
and Grenada, 14th ; Jamaica and Martinique, 15th;
Porto Rico 19:h; St. Thomas',', 200). There are no
mails from the Pacific, as they are nut due by
the ship having Southampton on the 2nd of
any month. She brings 280,480 dollars from Vela
Cruz and Chagrse; 30,000 dollars of which are on
account of Mexic in dividend. The Dee was detained
at St. Therese., waiting for the Gulf mail, and also by
head winds on her homeward voyage. At Grey
Town sickness was very prevalent, particularly
amongst the crews of the English min of war there.
At Chapel the a ckness was not an bad. At Port
Royal, Jamaica, the cholera was still v.ry bad, ar •
raeng about ten fatal cases daily. At Kingston there
had been a few apes. The Northern Likud., Barb--
does, and British Guiana, were generally healthy.
The weather favourable; the crop; are said to be in
exoellent condi•ion. The Dee brie,:s no mails from
Tampico, the Clyde not having been able to communi-
cate in consequence of a " norther." The purser of
that packet was tt on shore from the same cense.
Some better regulation appears to be necessity
in reference to the embarkation of the Tampico
mails, or it must frequently happen that none
will be forthcoming. The time allowed for stop-
ping off the bar of that place is 31 days, and it often
happens that, at the expiration of this period, a
norther comes on, and prevents communication with
the packet ; and as she cannot (by the new roster)
afford to waste a single hour, the mail must, under
-"onmetancee, be left behind, unless the gc-

vernment directs that a mail be in readiness for em-
barkation on all occasions of communication with the

ship.
A large number of passergers from California em-
barked on board the Dee at Grey Town, haring
landed at Realejo, which is on the way from San
Francisco to Panama; their route to Grey Town was
across the Lake Nicaragua, which is described 93
pleasant and reasonable as to charges, although a
more circuitous route than by the isthmus. There
were many other passengers expected by the same
road; and it seems far from unlikely that this routs
will be soon a popular one; the thicg most to be
desired in reference thereto is the certainty of a
steamer to take them on board on their arrivrl at
Grey Town; considering that ten days and a half are
consumed by the royal mail packets waiting at Grey
Town and Casgres, it is worthy of consideration
whether it would not be a source of emolument to
the company if their ships were to occupy this time
in conveying these passengers to Jamaica, as them is
more than a sufficient number of days given to retain
to Chagres to embark mails and specie.

The all.pervadiog topic in British Guiana (says the Co-
lonist of Oat. 11) is reform. No matter whether the denies
spring from a rational conviction that, without it, all other
remedies for our de'perate condition will be iliug, or
whether it arise fr..m a fretful impatience under galling in-
flictions and calamities, but so it is ; nothing will now sa-
tisfy the people of this great province but extensive organic
changes in the mode of our government and legislation.
They have become unutterably disgusted at the unreason-
able continuance of the fag end of alavibh institutions, aid
are possessed with an ardent I,nging for the purer atmos-
phere of British liberty, and the wholesome miluences of
constitutional self-government,

In ear packet summary of the 27th September, we men-
tioned that, in consequence of Governor Bsrkly having an-
nounced that, with the sanction of Earl Gray, he intended
to bring forward a measure for improving the College of
litesers, that most obnoxious of all our institutions, and
that, if " unainimouely recommended " to do so by the
court, he would take upon himself the salmis resporsibili.y
of sanding home for c msideration some other equally ob-
jectionable and delusive schemes for altering, without amend-
ing, our miserable mockery of an independent legislature—
= address to the people had been drawn op by the Reform
Association, denouncing such proposal as ansalting end in-
jurious, and calling upon the community to sign a memorial
to the Court of Polies, spinet any legislation on the subject
of constitutional reform until the curt should be prepared to
vote for an elective c,uncil and Rouse of Assembly, bated
on a full, free, and direct popular representation.
The eloquent and indignant denouncement, by the Re-
form Collusive*, of the government scheme, found a ready
response from the people, and in the course of a few days the
memorial received about four thouseni signatures. Owing
to the court reurmbling on the 30th ult., and it being con-
sidered important not to lose an hour in giving expression to
the popular feeling, the m morial presented on that day had
only some 2,500 names attached, the remaining signatures
were received subsequently.
The provost•nitnhe! his bad another battue of sugar
estates ; no leas than four fine plantations having been sold
at execution sale in one week. The, were all the property
of the late eminent firm of Laing, Brothers, in Berbice, in
which county they are all situate, end they were all bought
by the mortgagees, Resin. Coven and Co., London, at the
following prices —Pin. Mara, 20,000 dole.; Pin. Ma Re-
trait', 17,000 dolt.; Pls. limythfield, 16,1100 dole.; Pin.
Friends, 15,000 dole. Another estate, belonging to the same
firm, Pio. Sobiepinood, pertly in plainteins, was bought by
Mr. James Laing for 1,260 dole.

The .Royal Cicada (George Town, Demerara) says :

The events of the last fortnight being but of little interest
to any one oat of British Guiana, we may condense .our
usual" review " into the narrowest compass.
The Court of Policy is at present in non-senion. There is,
therefore, nothing stirring in our political world. The court
brake up on the Bth instant with a discussion characterised
by considerable ability, on a resolution moved by the Bon.
Richard Haynes, calling on she Court to affirm the prayer of
satyytiitirrefrfoorm.ar o
In f the inhabitants is4l:eavrour
louttiownhastil
petition, however were very summarily dispensed of by
the court. Nobody: there could be found to support
Mr. Haynes' resolution but the seconder. The matter
was get rid of thus: An amendment, moved by the
lion. George Booker, and seconded by the ILa.
Samuel Bean, was put to the vote and carried, we might
almost say unanimously. At all events, It was carried by a
majority of the elective members, and with not a dissentient
voice frees the official section of the court. The amendment,
among other things, very properly gave the petitionen to
understand that if they thought proper to approach the
court with their petitions about " reform," du y most es-
plain themselves clearly and fully, and candidly 84 forth its
detail their definition of the term "reform ;" in other word.,
that they must let the Court of Policy know when they see
pleased to address it, what it is they really want and roam.
The duties of a member of the Court of Policy are haress4ll
enough ; but it is no part of Wee duties to bee solver of
riddles, and to be gueuing what the particular objects of as!
indefinite petitioners may be. The court, having thht
thrown out the petition and the resolution, adjourned to the
28th instant, for the transaction of the public business of
the colour, the presence of the Chief Justice and the At-
sessions
rn•General being required in the meantime at the oast
of the supreme courts of justice to be held in Bethke,
and to be opened on the 18th inst.
vieTwliferowmeatkpeenireinerarcei.thheunbethenul.
us., thit•wduatebeofforeoutrulut,tarati,
notwithstanding a few claps of thunder have been heard,
and a few drops of rain been felt within the last few days
The Demerara river is full of shipping, and freights were
never lower. So much for the repeal of the Narigat:oa
Laws. Produce, however, comes slowly to market.

[For Nuaketa no lan pip.]