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LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 2.

Tin Duke of NEWCASTLE'S statement of minis-
terial intentions about Jamaica affords another very
satisfactory indication of the progress which sound
views of Colonial policy have made in Downing.

street. It is now about twelve years since Jamaica on Thursday, which might be commented upon in
under Sir LIONEL SMITH was in much the same future ages as a sign of the times. Mr. W. BROWN
" fix" that Jamaica is at present under Sir CHARLES begged to ask Lord JOHN RUSSELL whether any
GREY. On both occasions the House of Assembly arrangement had been made, and if so, what that
had quarrelled with the Governor, legislation was at arrangement was, for the admission of goods from
a standstill, and society, to all appearance, in jeo- this country into France, for the Industrial Exhibi-
pardy. In 1)CI9, Lord GLEN ELO, then Colonial Seers- tion of all Nations in 1855 ; and whether the French
tart', had, however, no other or better remedy than Government had been informed that the ortielco sent
the suspension of a constitution which had endured for would be solely from the result of private enterprise,
more than two hundred years ; and free government without pecuniary aid from this Government ? In
in Jamaica was then only saved by a ministerial other words, Mr. Bnows wanted to know whether the
crisis in England. Times have since changed, and French Custom-houses would consent to a relaxation
men and ministers with them. Now the Duke of of any of the regulations which tend to keep
NEm CAsTLE rejects the suggestion, which would France in precisely the same state as if manufactur-
save him personally a world of trouble,—that Par- ing England had never existed, or as if England had
liament should interfere with the ancient rights of never emerged from the state in which Mutat
the colony—refuses to attempt its government by THE CONQUEROR found it. This question, we said,
the plenary authority of the Crown, and proposes to is a sign of the times. No such question could have
increase rather than diminish the legitimate power been asked in the days of SOLOMON or AUGUSTUS. The
of the House of Assembly : that house, on its part, Jewish king would never have come down to posterity
renouncing attributes inconsistent with modern par- es the incarnation of worldly wisdom, had he
liamcntary practice. shut out the gold of Ophir by a cordon of Custom-
The first question in this Jamaica dispute issimply houses. AUGUsTeS would never have kept his place
how to carry out a retrenchment that all men (but in history had ho condemned the Senators of Rome
Earl GREY) deem necessary and proper. First of to live upon the products of the adjacent countries.
all, the Duke of NEWCASTLE withdraws a Governor We doubt whether a single Emperor of Rome would
who, the longer he remained, got deeper and deeper I have dared to lay a prohibitory duty on Kentish
into hot water, and who at last saw only one way of oysters. The oyster-eating public would have been
escape, and that was "to put down " his opponents. too much for him. Ancient Judea and ancient Rome
The Duke of NEWCASTLE has, however, preferred were only too glad to avail themselves of the cepa-
the simpler alternative of putting down one man bilities of other lands to enrich their own. The
rather than many; and recalls an official instead of moderns, like MoLIERE'S Physician in spite
overthrowing a constitution. Having withdrawn an of himself," have changed all that. They
unsuccessful Governor, he next gives Jamaica have in times past laid down the maxim, that the
a skilful, temperate, judicious, conciliatory, and only way to be rich, is to spend no money with your
successful Governor, Mr. DARKLY. And this new neighbours, and they act upon the maxim, by throw-
official at once recommends himself to the colony ing every possible difficulty in the way of your know-
by voluntarily and spontaneously proposing a reducing what your neighbour has to sell. Let no pa-
tion of his own salary to the extent that the House of triode Frenchman think that we are alluding to him
Assembly wishes to lower salaries generally. In Sir as the type of the modern world. We have just as
CHARLES GREY'S successor Jamaica has, then, at all many sins to answer for as our competitors. We