The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-23 00:00:00

TRINIDAD.

The Colonial Secretary gave notice of a motion, at
• sitting of the Board of Council ou the 17th of De-
cember, far a vote of 1001., for providing specimens of
the various productions of the colony, to be forwarded
to the Exhibition of 1831.
ST. LUCIA.

The governor presented his address to the Legisla-
tive Council at Castries on the 18th of December. In
it he congratulated :he members on the attainment of
the privil, ge of self-government engrafted on their
constitution. He laid before them communications
from the government at home in reference to African
immigration—in furtherance of provision for the
moral and social improvement of the blacks. He in-
vited tbeir attention to an amendment of the law for
promoting African immigration, which would expli-
citiy declare that the maintenance of all establish-
ments required for the benefit of captured Africans
must form the fist charge upon the revenue derived
from the stamp duties and taxes leviable under that
ordinance—a provision, the justice of which could'
hardly be questioned when it was remembered that
those imposts would virtually and ultimately fall
capon tie Africans themselves. Tile inadequate
amount of provision far popular education would
render it necessary to make express stipula-
tions that each employer should be bound, whether
the agreement be for six or five dais' labour in the
week, to allow to every captured African in hisservioe
who shall henceforth migrate to the colony a certain
number erf hours on every Saturday fur purposes of
education. Upon the immigrant also, it would be
compulsory, us a condition on his part of his contract
with his employer, to attend such school as the Lieu-
tanant-Governor might direct. An ordinance would
be submitted for the promotion of measures tending
to prevent the appearance or spread of cholera. The
address concluded by saying :

Saving be. n iodated to enter with u ninth minuteness
as the materiels at my command would admit of into an
examination of ,14 present state and prospect of sugar
cultivation, as affected by the coat of labour and the price
of produce, and of our relative position in this respect with
countries where production is 'utilized by the slave trade,
the con,lutious t" which I have been led are so much more
encouraging and satieLctury than I had conceived possible,
that I cannot deny coys,ll gratiliiation of commutaes-
tioß them to the Board, and I accordingly lay upon the
table, fur the parallel of honourable members, cvies of
the reports upon this subject which I have addressed to
toe governor in chief.

A deficit in the treuary is noticed in a minute ap-
pended to the address, from which the following is
an extract :

The estimate of the probable revenue from duties for the
year 18-50, under the plan submitted by the lieutenant-
governor to the council fur adoption, was 3,6001. ; the amount
collected and doe under the plan determined on by the
council, as calculated to meet that utilise:et, is 1,4(01., of
which 1371. 10s. is still outstanding. There remains, there-
fore, a dtticieuay el 2,0601 The other sources of revenue
have proved, upon the whole, as productive u they were esti
mated to be. The debt of the colony, at the dome of the
Icor, will be about 2,0001. A portion of the loan (to the
amount of 1,6001.) obtainid from the Colonial Bank, lox the
purpose of meeting the deficiency discovered in 1849, and a
further sum of 1,0001. on account of the arrears of that year,
have, however, been defrayed out of the revenue of the
present year, leaving this satisfactory r.sult, that, had the
financial year commenced free of debt, the revenue, notwith-
stendina the failure of the still tax, would have been more
than sufficient to meet our ex,ienclitute.

Barbados.. and Antigua furnish an item of news.
At the former island active steps were bring taken to
prevent the appearance of cholera, and at the latter
the board of health refused to enforce quarantine as
Bermuda had done.
The island of St. Kitts had been favoured with
abut.dapce of rain.

In Dominica he tvy rains had fallen, and in conse-
quence the river lt,seau, having been swollen by the
numerous rivulets created by the rain descending
from the sides of the mountains, ruse to an unparal-
leled height, and did a great deal of damage to the
town. Very considerable injury had been sustained
by the (states in the interior and along the sea-coast
of the leeward part of the island.
. . . . _

All the winevrard West India islands had adopted
sanitary measures, in anticipation of the approach of
' cholera,

HAYTI.

The following aopeare in the Jamaica Morning
Journal of Decealber 27 :

Information Lai reached St. Thomas that Soulongue,
having acccmplished the preparations which he deemed
necessary for en attack upon the ll.ireinicans, had been
somewhat surd. d at the decisive stand taken by (as It Is re.
ported) the tempo consuls, who had not oaly expressed their
disapproval, but threatened to oppose biro vie et ormis in the
prosecution of hs hostile plans. The French, it is said, show
a di• position to play a prominent part in the matter, it there
be foo,,ttsion for the imsals received is St. Titoraes, that
tithe steamer Elsa, which had arrived there. was the bearer of
despatches to the admiral at Guadeloupe, demanding a nasal
force to enable the French consul to uphold the threats made
by him to his sable Majesty.