The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-29 00:00:00

THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS

SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNLWAT.
The Royal Mail steam-ship Shannon' Captain
Abbott, with the above mails, arrived here this
evening. She left St. Thomas on the 14th instant.
She brings 162 passengers, 1,862,384 dots. in specie,
and 1,960 packages of cargo.

Intelligence from Carthagena states that General
Mosquera bad obtained a decisive triumph over the
Centralist army, and bad occupied the city of
Bogota, destroying entirely the entrenched army
which defended it. Generale Rapine, Poeada, and
Paris were taken prisoners ; Marino Oapina and
the ex-President were also prisoners.

The British ship Lord Hungerford foundered at
sea on the lat of June. The crew were saved. The
British ship Santiago had been in collision with
another vessel off Cape Horn. After calling at the
Malvanaa Islands abe sailed for England to repair
damages, her bow compartment being full of
water.

There is nothing new from Chili. The commer-
cial crisis continued.

lu Bolivia the friends of General Pelzu express
dissatisf►ction with the government of General
Adis.. The army was being increased.
No news of interest from Peru.
Two shocks of earthquake were experienced at
Panama on th;sth.

The exports of saltpetre from Iquique since
January Wt amount to upwanlii of 616,0 W
quintals

At Valparaiso exchange on London, !XI days, was
quoted 44} ; Paris, 455.
Hamburg, no transactions. Bar silver, 15.75
par mare ; copper, 17 dole. 50c. per 100 lbs.

At Demerara the weather was wet. A dry season
was anxiously looked fur by the planters. Two
ships had arrived with immigrants from China.
Produce was scarce. Shipping abundant. The
Guiana Bank had declared a dividend for the half-
year at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum.
The crop at Barbadoes was nearly finished. It
was expected to reach 110,000 Ithds. of sugar.
Exchange, 30 days, 490 dole.
The news from Trinidad is unimportant. The
Jamaica Legislature had been prorogued pro forma
until September. The anniversary of the emanci-
pation was being celebrated peaceably and quietly.
The question of cotton-growing was being practi-
cally tested and its cultivation spiritedly taken up.
Bubiness was excessively dull. The demand
for imports was limited. The quarterly re-
turn of revenue is 4,5501. lees than last
quarter. The coffee crop was nearly closed,
but the supply in the market was limited.
Inferior, 425. to 445. ; mountain, 48s. to 50s. Pi-
mento : None at market; the coming crop is small.
Sugar sales at 15e. to 18s. ; inferior, 12s. to 14e.
Freights scares. American gold scarce ; the banks
demand per cent. above the island standard
value. Exchange on London, 90 days, per cent.
prem.; n 0 days, 1 ; 30 days,

SCIILESWIG-HOLSTEIN.

A letter from Holstein, in the Augsburg Gazette,

At a banquet at which the King of Denmark was present
at Sonderburg, his Majesty declared that be considered that
town as one of the most important points of his kingdom,
and that lie was detennined to defend tt to the last extre-
mity against any enemy coming from the South. This is
the brat time that the King has personally made any allu-
sion whatever to an eventual attack on the part of Grammy
against Schleswig.