The Express.
London, England, 1862-07-19 00:00:00

COTTON IN JAMAICA.

TO TRI EDITOR OF TER EXPRISS.

firn,—Fourtsee tags of cotton grown by theJamaioaCotton
Com yin Jamaica hare been sold by Menem.. Stead
1, and Mews. B. Smith and Sons, at
Manctheeteri,tter. 13d. and 2s. 3d. par lb., and • bag of each
is now being spun by Messrs. Dobson and Barlow in the
western annex of the International Exhibition. It ia,
therefor*, no longer a question whether good cotton can or
cannot be procured from our own colonies, Jamaica antoopt
them.

We have received from our agent the pay list for last
year, and from it I find that from 70 to 76 people have been
coceiently employed at wages less than half the cost of slave-
labour. The latter is shown by to American lecturer to be
M. per annum. The wages paid by our agent is is. per
day, and leas in lame cases, and the instances are rare in
which the same people do not work for four and five days in
the week at the: rate. Saturday is always in the West
Indies the market day for all classes of the people.
It is much to be lamented that when the Doke of New-
castle was entreated by a most intelligent and respectable
deputation of members of parliament and other gentlemen
to appoint a commission to examine into the cooditios ef
our West Indian colonial, and report the same to
ment and parliament, he did no comply. I t inrvln
would have been seen that the disposal of the mown lands
to cotton growers, as is proposed and has been agreed an in
India, and the application of the Drainage Act, which has
beau ao helpful to our landowners, would have led to the
cultivation of an immense quantity of superior cotton in
Jamaica, where, to my knowledge, thousands of women and
children, who could do it easily, would have been delighted
to earn money by eotton picking, beitag compelled to bay
small patches of land in order to live. The pay list referred
to and also an enumeration of the various fields now in
cultivation for cotton on our estate at Hainan, may be
seen at this office frees the to four any day.-1 am4c,
63, Charing-mess, July 17. STEPHEN BOURNE.

MMAPOLITAN Boa2D 01 WORM —At the
weekly reset* at the board yeeterday, fitter the tnweeetiet
et ease beekbres at m pebile laterest. It war alltort. re
stollen et Mr. Rebastlitylar, thet the bawd, et itssisbrigfie
Ibel Mow, &mai adjoin he Is weeks.

The brothers eauret are two little French boys, I.
eight awl sine years old ; the elder, Emile, • violinist ; the
younger, Auguste, • pianist. They bad a =Ain.% on
Thursday at Collard's Rooms, and surprised the audience
(not so large uit ought to hare been) by the wooderful pre.
coat, of their talent. The young violinist was perhaps the
more remarkable of the two. His command of the bow,
fine quality of tau perfect intonation, and freedom of
illocution would have done no discredit to a bearded vit.-
time ; and there we. a grace and intelligence about his
whole performance which were exceedingly interesting.
He played both on the violin and the viola ; and his manner
of handling the latter unwieldy instrument (which looked
as big as himself) was really a curiosity. His younger
brother possum similar qualities, and gives similar pro-
mice These children, in short, seem to be juvenile
Joachim and Hanes ; and, if they go on as they have
begun, will assuredly make a noise in the world. We
heartily reoommend them to the attention of our inimical
readers.

Their concert wee very nicely got up. They bad the sit•
@Wanes of the ruing young singer, Kim Robertins Rends,.
sos, who san4Romani's "Samba's font," end Gounod's
" Basseuse," anu ingly ,• and of fine. °wore, who sang
the Iles air. 'Pensm aDa trio.," and two romansol
Ascher and Verdi, with egad.

m4RAtios ellainoll' bit EMOTH owirciarr.
Tide lady gave a mon* concert yesterday at the fish-
oww-equiree Hems, whisk wu attended by a numerous sad
*pat audience ; for, though she seldom appears is
public, she seems to be well known in oar fashiomable circles.
And she b well deserving of favour, being a highly accost-
piWasd singer. Her voice is a full and deep contralto, with
• dimilility and lightness which contralto voices seldom
*sem ; sad she is evidently a genuine disciple of
the pars Dallas siebool, which flourished when
Rossini was is his zenith. Her performances
yesterday consisted almost wholly of Roesini's music ;—thri
great Ddr of Amos, from Semi rassicie ; the romans%
Amiga al * d'as malice," from Otdlo ; the finale, " Non
pii siesta," of the Cearrodola ; and the evading, " Del
*oar," from the Cerra Lesiva; all widish she sang, not only
with Mahe grace and niimmont. but with a degree of
essay and feeling which berisionsi much dramatic as well
as vocal talent. The coats* was agreeably varied by per-
formances on pianoforte by Herr Amber' ne the harp by
Super Belied* and on the harmonium by Herr Engel.