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London, England, 1848-10-26 00:00:00

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LONDON. THURSDAY. OCT. 26,

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WHATEVER punishment society may award to him
who sheds blood for money, for revenge, or for ambi-
tion, it is certain that treason, especially if crushed
early and prevented of its effects, is not a crime
henceforth to be punished by either the headsman or
the hangman. Decapitation, drawing, and quartering,
formed the salutary lesson which the last century in-
variably gave to rebellion ; but such risk, if it awed
the craven, served but as excitement to the man of
spirit, and certaioly shed an interest upon him and
his designs more pernicious to the governing autho-
rities, than the vindictive power of the law could ooun-

=balance.
We have endeavoured to remedy this by statute,
have successfully condemned young regicides to the
whip instead of the wheel; and, by putting traitors
into the same category with burglars. have sonaht to
take the gilding ad political crime. If this mode
of treatment be wise, it would be advisable to coe-
d= the trial, as well as award the punishment,
alter the same rule, and not do, as has been
dons at Clonmel—allow the accused to come forth,
arrayed in all the dignity and interest of men
whose lives were actually threatened, whilst, in
reality, they knew as well as the government that
not • hair of their head would be touched.
In and out of court every well-informed person had
this conviction; and yet the prisoners were allowed to
parade in the character of men who had given up
their lives for their opinions and for their country's
cause. Tho advocate perorated, as if he were plead-
ing for his client's life. The judge sentenced with
equal solemnity. The condemned took advantage of,
it to play their tragedy sirs, and talk of early graves
and sacrifice at their country's altar. Nay, Messrs.
O'Bate,s and NizAteuv.a seised the occasion to brave
the law which awed
.them, and to address a
" Go and do thou likewise" to the multitude—heroic
enough, if they were really marching to
death, but a cowardly insult to justice,
when they knew their future execution to be a farce.
All this strikes as a perversion and degradation of
justice—a depriving it alike of dignity, of wholesome-
, asso, and of terror, end even placing its humanity in
tie light of something forotd—as an idle and imbe-
cile surrendering of arms to treason. We do not,
ladled, blame the government, English or Irish, for
this: it is the consequence of the present state of
tsserition in all that concerns penality, and which
renders the law powerless to deter or to prevent.
In fact, the conviction and punishment of the culprits
have been as badly managed as their rebellion. Their
wholesim waste become heroes, and at u httle personal
risk as possible. They have been fully gratified in the
heroism, and have been allowed to make themselves
some amends for the ridiculous figures which they
all cut in the field, by tho dignified and stilted atti-
tude which they were enabled to assume in the court
of justice. The Irish public, too, with portentous
ignorance and most innocent gullibility, is worshipping
these same Brummagem heroes, at the very moment
when all Europe has met up its eyes and hands in un-
utterable contempt at the position into which these same
heroes have brought the Irish, as a people pretending
to form a separate nation, yet without the display of
any of the qualities for vindicating or asserting such a
right, either in the council or the field.
In passing this judgment, however natural, Europe
does injustice to the Irish. There are no braver race
of men on the face of the earth ; and if they have
not displayed that bravery, at a time when Germans
and Poles, and French and Italians, have shown how
common and universal a quality it is for • people to
be brave to recklessnees, it is that,in reality, -the Irish
have not that cause for defying the force and autho-
rity of government, that the people in foreign coun-
tries have bad. Were the people of these foreign
lands, in which the mob has triumphed over the sol-
diery, possessed of full liberty of expressing opinions,
and of hearing themexpressed,electoral franchises, open
and fair justice, and constitutional means for pressing
and conquering. any right, of which they may deem ,
themselves deprived, the consciousness of being pos.
smog of such moral power would have unnerved
I said incapacitated them from that blind zeal which at
ease appals to arms, and knows no alternative in
the mode of venting discontent save fighting.
U w Lek through the whole series of popular
hriveroctioas on the continent, we shall find all
mated by' one common feature,—there was no
leader. It is impossible to point out a chief, or &source
of
those insurrections. Popular impatience lwg
gathered, heaped, and confined, exploded of itself
Ike gun cotton, from a little extra.presaure. The
Emoluments of the respective countries were all to
Wale • they it was, and they alone, who created the'
sentiment, and provoked it to break forth witheat the
least Revision. In Ireland it was precisely the nvensti
there it was all leadership and no insurrection,
merit was substituted far grievance, and prophecy foe
calculation. And publicity was over all. Not only
complaints, but the grossest outrage that petulance
could devise, might be and was daily flung in the face
of the Queen's representative. And consviracy,
when it was resorted to, was tolerated almost in the
public streets. Now rebellion, we need not say, is a'
volatile spirit, which evaporates in the light and air.
And insurrection, therefore, we should say, was an utter
impossiblnility in the present state of England and Ire.
Fortunate that it should be so ; for, as we before
observed, the law has lost its deterring influence.
Loyalty is no longer a religion, for failing in which
• man may be immolated, as for impiety. Loyalty is
now a rational sentiment ; the denial or casting off
of which, by a native of these realms, is awe of
absurdity and insanity, rather than anything more
heinous. The folly outweighs the crime. And
the sentiment' excited by either Mr. CUITEY,
or Mr. Matiorizn, is heavy with contempt, not
vindictiveness. Treaeon,in fact, has become, like a host
of other very serious crimes and offences, one that society
meat take upon itself to judge and proscribe, the
law being powerless to cope with it. Like atheism,
it is =rely perverse, contemptible, and irrational;
and, like atheism, it will grow in these countries more
and mare impsssible, and harmless, and visionary,
being merely a state of political lunacy or hallucina-
tion, for which the doom will be not the scaffold, but
Bedlam.

Tax letter from New Brunswick, which we pub-
naked yesterday, challenges serious attention. From
the way in winch it came into our hands, we can only
say that its bona' Au character, and the respectability
of the source whence it emanates, are vouched for in
a manner that commands our entire belief. The
purely historical style adopted by the author leaves
us in doubt u to the extent to which he sympathises
and coincides in opinion with his fellow colonist.
But after all deductions made, there stands the letter,
• genuine picture of the actual state of public feeling
in New Brunswick, and of the impressions there pre-
valent respecting the state of public feeling in the
sister colonies of the North American group.
Comparing the statements of this letter with the
information we receive from other sources in British
North America, we are convinced, that, as a represen-
tenon of the prevailing temper in New Brunswick, it
is literally true ; that u a representation of the pre-
vailing temper in the neighbouring provisoes it is less
ex•et ; but that on the whole it approaches sufficiently
near to the truth, to ruder attention to its warnings,
on the part of those upon whom devolves the manage-
ment of public affairs in this country, urgent and in-
enjoynsable. To use the writer's own words :" To
free trade England mut relinquish the idea of
possessing colonies, unless they are managed in a man-
ner as widely different as possible from the existing
system." The monopoly of the British market for
their produce, was a bribe that induced a majority of

one West Indian and North American colonists to
seilselt to a system of government always inefficient
ege pod, often grossly oppressive; that bribe being
I up. augeantinued, there remains only. one means of
l 'sledging their allegianes—the adoption of such a
system of administration as will make thempractl-
so
y feel they are better off than say change in their
motions to the parent state can make them.
We have said that in so far u public feeling in
New Brunswick is concerned, we are convinced that
the write?* statements are literally true. Canada and
Nova Saida are looking hopefully for wardto the advent
of entirely unrestricted commerce, and are urging its
acceleration. Canada and Nova Scotia are situated on
I great highways of trade; population hes iu them de-
veloped itself by a natural process, and has attained
a degree of density which imperatively demands an
extension of the sphere of their industrial enterprise.
Every part of these provinces is or may easily be
brought within reach of some centre of industrial
enterprise so situated that it only need to be left to
its own exertions to mooted. But the settlement of
New Brunswick has in a great measure been accele-
rated by artificial means. The province is an out-of-
the-way corner, to which in the natural course
of events on7y a scattering and backwoods population
could yet have reached, either coming northwards
from New England or southwards from the gulf and
river of St. Lawrence. It was originally settled by
emigrant loyalists from the United States driven
thither by the pressure of war, not in a speculative
search after profit. Its population was prematurely
increased by the protection awarded to its timber and
ships in the British market. It has been created by
our protective system ; it would not have been so po-
pulate or wealthy but for our protective system ; that
system being in the process of abolishment, it
must shrink back within the limits it could
have attained in a natural state of affairs,
and re-commence its growth from that point. In
these circumstances, nothing more natural than a
large emigration from New Brunswick to fields of
greater ..tent fertility, and eiteeted on the highways
not on the byways of natural spontaneous migra-
tion. In these circumstances, nothing more natural
than that those who have been enabled by our pro-
tective system to attain to a sickly hot-house show of
prosperity, should be discontented when the shelter
under which they have budded and blossomed is
withdrawn. The tradition that the colony was
founded as a place of refuge for those who had lost all
in the United States on account of their loyalty to the
British crown, naturally prompts the thought—" if we
are not to continue to receive payment for the sacrifices
our predecessors made, we may as well reconcile
ourselves to that flourishing people from whom, in the
enthusiasm of their loyalty, they withdrew." The
hankering after annexation to the United States
which is beginning to show itself in New Brunswick
does not begin with a liberal party like the liberal
rties in Canada and Nova Scotia, to whom such a
leaning has been sometimes imputed, but with the
very class which was ultra-loyal so long as its loyalty
was paid for by a monopoly of the British market far
their produce. We do not blame them for their
change of sentiment—it is natural in them who
are guided more by ivipulso than reflec-
tion. But wo see clearly the erroneous nature
of their calculations. Incorporation with the
United States would not make St. John's a Bos-
ton, nor arre,t the tendency of the population to
continue to migrate westward, until the naturally
more fertile and accessible regions of the Americas
continent become so filled up, that New Brunswick
becomes the most eligible field on it for colonisation.
The disposition to transfer their allegiance from Great
Britain to the United States, which has its growth in
the effects of the transition from restricted to free-
trade, will pass mercy, unless misgovernment
strengthen and perpetuate it.
With regard to the rest of our North Amerisaa
provinces, we are assured that no such spirit of waver-
ing allegiance at this moment exists in any of them ;
but we can see influences at work, which, unless these
colonies are well and wisely governed, may ere long
generate sui h a spirit in all of them.
In Prince Edward'eleland this danger has its source
in economical causes. The letter to which we have
been adverting states that a member of the execu-
tive council of that island has proceeded to Washing-
ton to endeavour to make arrangements for attracting
American citizens and capital to prosecute their mast
fisheries. " The man who, two years ago, would
have dared to propose what Prince Edward's Island
now offers, would have been flayed alive." What
has caused this change of sentiment ? The
conviction of the islanders that they have
not themselves sufficient capital to prosecute
the fisheries with advantage, and their failure
to attract it from England. What has ince-
pacitated them to accumulate such capital by their
own exertions or to Focure it from England ? The
impediments opposed to the profitable exertion of in-
dustry—the state of vassalage and serfdom in which
the colonists are kept by the land tenures introduced
and maintained there by the imperial government.
When the island was originally acquired by this
country it was parcelled out among some seventeen
proprietors—favourites or tools of the ministers of the
day—and is still held by their absentee heirs.
None of these have made any great exertions
to develop the resources of the colony, and
most of them have made none at all. They
are rank dogs in the manger, who cannot turn
what they have got to profitable account, and will
not allow others to do so. And not only is their in-
fluence felt as an ups tree, blasting the industry
beneath its shade, but as is state engine to uphold the
government in all mismanagement and abuse. This
state of affairs was proclaimed in the reports of Lord
DURHAM, and remains yet unredreesed. Prince Ed-
ward's Island, naturally the most fertile and not the
least accessible of our North American territories, is
at this moment the poorest and most oppressed. Who,
then, will wonder, if this state of affairs continues, to
see its inhabitants anxious to secede from a govern-
meat which will not allow them to prosper, and
become incorporated into a state where enterprise and
industry are free and prosperous?
The influences in Canada and Nova Bootie are dif-
ferent, and have not yet begun to
.germinate. Mere
physical and animal prosperity is insufficient to sa-
tisfy men. It is often sillily wondered at that great re-
volutions are effected by people and classes who have
less to complain of than their ancestors. The truth
in that classes and races bound down by. poverty are
incapable of struggling for redress ; it is only those
who have attained to some degree of prospenty and
freedom who are capable of more. And it is a law of
nature that those who have attained to some degree
of either should seek for more. The people of Canada
and Nova Scotia have obtained the privilege of self-
government in their local affairs : the exercise of this
privilege will develops their political tales% sod
with them the irresistible craving to minim dem
Circumstances have compelled them to mese into
negotiations with their neighbours of the Megrim
Union for the arrangement of their foreign trade.
They are passing through a practical school in which
they cannot fail to learn the whole trade of stetes-
manship. They see close to their own doors a people
speaking the same language, animated by the same
sentiments, and guided by the same morality as them-
selves, who are free to cultivate the whole field of
political action. Whatever may be their sentiments
now, they will not long remain satisfied without an
equally wide scope to their intellectual capacities. If
these provinces are to remaia long an integral part
of the British empire, some constitution—some nexus
between the colonies and the old country—intuit be de-
vised which will admit of free play being given to
mach a natural and laudable ambition. The colonists
must be placed in • condition to develop all their
moral and intellectual capacities. They must be
made participants in all the privileges of full citizen-
ship. The lesson which the people of Europe are
now reading to their kings must be laid to heart by
the composite English government with respect to
its colonies. The same progress in civilisation
which prompts Germane and Italians to aim at con-
stitutional participation in the power of their kings
will prompt our colonists to aim at constitutional par-
ticipation in the power of England's crown, lords,
and commons.
In a mere commercial point of view, it is indifferent
to us whether the colonies remain part of the empire
or not. The United States are better customers than
the thirteen colonies were, and when our system of
colonial government is taken into account, better in
all probability than they would have been allowed to
become. But there are other considerations which
render it desirable that the provinces now annexed to
the British crown should continue to be mom closely
allied to this nation than to any other. The move-
ment now in progress towards an extensivarystematio
emigration alone renders it of importance that intend-
ing emigrants should have it in their power to avail

themselves of those colonising grounds which are
nearest to us without forfeiting their character of
British citizens.

Toe poor Quadrant ! Has no one a kind word to
say for it before it goes?
se law as tt has been with us,
wish Joys Is it has seta with as.
Shall we part front ft without a friendly word—a sad,
or at least a respectful farewell ?
There are many among us old enough to remember
what the space, now covered by the Quadrant, was
before the Prince Regent and the Prince of Archi-
tects invaded it. The narrow streets, the wretched
hovels, the dens of infamy (we may almost say) that
stood upon its site—who did not rejoice in their de-
struction ? There sprang upon that place the finest
street in Europe,and the largest colonnade. A diversity
of opinion may exist as to the merits of the work in
detail, but there can be none as to its effect us a whole.
The Quadrant has been one of the features of London;
not a foreigner but asked for it; not a print shop
abroad but would display in its window an engraving
of it, good, bad or indifferent, under the attractive
though over-comprehensive title of t' La Mlle de
Londres."
One of our national characteristics is to affect a de-
preciation of things in whic,i we really feel a pride.
An Englishman lining an officer of the "Garde
Nationa:e" would probably shrug up his shoulders as
he passed the County Fire Office, whilst inwardly
elated at the evident pleasure the scene before him
excited in his companion. On the whole, however,
the feeling of Londoners has been by no means gene-
rally unfavourable to the Quadrant: certainly the
opinion of country cousins has strongly and almost in-
variably impoorted it.
It may be asked why, with such opinions preva-
lent, is the Quadrant condemned and sacrificed?
The answer is afforded—it is the way all answers arc
afforded now-a-days—by a parliamentary paper. It
bears upon its title the usual stamp and impress of a
job." Fere signora. Heading Office of Woods
and Forests." Signature : "A. MTLNE, Commis-
sioner."
Some time ago certain of the shopkeepers under
the Quadrant-48 or 49 of the entire number—took
it into their heads that they did not come up to the
mark of their brethren in Waterloo-place and Picca-
dilly. To " keep a shop in the Quadrant" they voted
low ; and because rents were less expensive there than
elsewhere they felt themselves aggrieved. So, as all
angry people mast have some object on which to visit
their wrath, these Quadrant residents visited it upon

the Colomuide.
It is a highly moral age. The Quadrant's (residents
were annoyed that a class of people of somewhat
indifferent morality frequented that part of the town.
What crowded street do they not frequent ? But it is
strange and singular that blame should be laid on
the Quadrant, as if it were the sole occasion of all the
licentiousness. Instead of joining an Association for
the Prevention of Vice, or the Society for the Protem
tion of Females, the gentlemen in question formed
themselves into a committee to procure the destruction
of the Colonnade.
The Quadrant Removal Committee vetitioned the
authorities, and were, of course, pooh-pooh'd. It is
the fate of all reformers, great and small, at the com-
mencement of their labours. We are so accustomed
to it in England now, that we do not care for such
early discouragement'. The Quadrant Removal
Committee, for example, only saw in the " pooh-
pooh" of my Lords Commissioners of Woods and
Forests additional reasons for exertion. It is evi-
dent that the committee knew what they were
about. There was some one among them who
judged exactly how my lords might best be hit. In-
stead of advising them to go direct to Whitehall-
place, he recommended a reference to an architect.
An architect's representaVon, particularly " the ar-
chitect's" representation, the 1.14 cf Works are
always disposed to listen to.
On the 31st of October, 1846—it is remarkable that
all the important letters of the Woods and Forests an
dated when parliament is not sitting—Mr. Commis-
s!oner MILNE addressed a polite communication to
the 32 lessees of the crown in that part of Regent-
street, informing them that 47 of the occupying tenants
of their houses had suggested the expediency of re-
moving the Quadrant, and of " substituting an eleva-
tion " (here " the " architect peeped out) " which
would materially improve its appearance and add to
its respectability." " The" architect had evi-
dently advised that the existing elevation
was not a moral elevation—a most important archi-
tectural decision. " If, therefore," said Mr.
MILNE, "there shall appear to be a general concur-
rence, the crown will take every proper means for
the protection of the interest of the crown lessees."
Who could doubt the " general concurrence" of the
awn lessees in so desirable an object as securing
protection for once for their own important interests?
They were all unanimous as to that. Regarding the'
removal of the Quadrant they were less so. For the
most part they were indifferent. No. 1 had no per-
sonal interest in the matter, and only wished to avoid
being put to expense : No. 2 unhesitatingly con-
sented, if the commissioners were disposed to under-
take the work themselves : Nom 7 and 12 wished to
be put to no cost : No. 17 was doubtful as to
the desirability of removal: No. 22 was rather
for than against it: Nos. 24, 25, and 26, left the
matter to the commissioners, and No.. 27, 28, and 29
declared they had no interest in the affair either way.
The remainder wrote pretty much in the same style,
except two, who were decidedly opposed. These
happen to be parties whose opinions are entitled to
great weight. Messrs. Swat and EDGAR, the largest
householders in the Quadrant, expressed themselves
convinced of the great advantage accruing from it to
the trading interest of the place. Mr. MicuELL, an
old resident in Regent-street, described it as " a
highly ornamental structure, giving distinction and
prommency.to this part of the metropolis," and de-
clared that in wet weather his receipts were better in
proportion than in the open front of the street, whilst
in summer his goods were less injured by the scorch-
ing heat of the sun.
The " architect is not, however, a person to be
easily got rid of. A moral elevation of his design was
not to be sneered at. Lord CARLISLE, good, kind-
hearted, easy man, was soon won by each a novelty in
architecture. After wavering for some time—saying
" No " very determinedly one week, and " Yes " very
blandly another—he at last gave way, and just be-
fore the close of the session introduced " A Bill to
provide for the Removal of the Quadrant."
The only question was the cost. This is always an
easy matter with an architect. The old materials in
the present instance were valuable. The new design
would not be expensive. Any small remaining charge
—may, for example, 8,0001.—" not to exceed B,tr"
—might be raised by rats upon the residents in the
Quadrant, who were all to be so greatly benefited.
"Nothing could be fairer." So said Lord CARLISLE.
The bill pulsed quietly—very quietly—on the eve of
prorogation, and the Quadrant was doomed. Alas !
poor Quadrant!
De mortal nil, 4c. After all, was the Quadrant
so very bad? Was it worse than its neighbours ?
Was it half as immoral as Waterloo-place, or the ar-
eas in Oxford-sheet, or any part of the Strand, or,
indeed, any other great thoroughfare you may be
pleased to select? Or will the street be any better
when it is removed? Is it quite beyond doubt that
" the moral elevation " will have the desired effect—
that perfect propriety will be established when the
" ornamental embellishments" are substituted ?
For our own parts, we have more faith in an extra-
officer of the A division than in the efficacy of all the
designs that could be produced from the portfolio of
" the" moral architect. Covered footpath" are not,
that we know of, special haunts of vice. In every
continental capital there are colonnades of some sort,
and so far from being condemned by shopkeepers,
they are universally selected as the best ramble spots
in which to vend their wares. Why not in London ?
There must be something more than the cause
ascribed to account for the evils of which the Quad-
rant residents complain.
It is too late, we suppose, to save the Quadrant.
Still none of the pillars are yet down, and it might
be worth a sacrifice to retain them instead of selling
them as is proposed for the purposes of a rail
viaduct. The moral architect cannot, with all _
skill, conquer the obvious difficulty that the houses
were built to harmonise with a portico. Were the
pavement improved, and skylights substituted for the
lath and plaster covering, the place might be ren-
dered highly attractive. At present we discover no-
thing in the alterations to induce the belief that there
will be any compensation for the loss of the Quadrant
in the additional adornments of the fapade. Instead
of a " Quadrant " we are likely to have a crooked
sheet. As for the embellishments, as far as we can
judge, they seem paltry enough. The new mouldings

of the windows appear in the be spick-span Combo;
well style, and ahead make cs wish, despite his
faults, for " one more hose of JOIIN NASH."

GERMANY.

AUSTRIA.—The dates from Vienna are to the 19th,
In the evening sitting of the Diet on the 18th,
tichinelka stated that he had received information to
the effect that the Hungarian army, on the grounder a
decision of the Diet of Hungary itself, had refrained
from entering on the Austrian territory. Ile added
that it was doubtful whether this resolution on the
part of the Hungarian Diet was the result of the
recent interview of the Hungarian deputation with
Count Auersperg, or of the alleged menaces of Russia.
These remarks of Schuselka were followed by deep
and significant silence.
It appears that the Hungarians are dissatisfied
with the Austrian Diet, hence their withdrawal
from, or rather their objection to enter upon, the Au-
trim territory. On the other side, the Vienna National
Guards are beginning to call the Diet itself to account,
and it is not unlikely that Messenhauser will place
himself at the head of the movement.
The Breslauer leitang says that Jellachich wee
I drawing nearer to the frontiers of Styria. But,
I according to other smuts. the Viennese, up to the
date and hour at which the foregoing information
left Vienna, were completely ignorant of the state of
laffairs in the vicinity of their city.
The same paper also says, that the members
of the deputation appointed by the left of the Frank-
fort Assembly to proceed to Vienna, in order to ex-
press sympathy with the Viennese, have not only
accomplished tie object of their mie.ion, but have
gone one step further, and have taken up arms for
the good cause." Oa the 17th they made their ap-
pear ance, amidst enthusiastic cheers, in the hall
of the academy, where (Robert Blum par-
ticularly) they declared that the cause of Vienna
was the cause of Germany, and that Vienna
must conquer ; otherwise the entire population (et
Germany) must rise up to a man. In all parts of Ger-
many there existed the same f cling in favour of the
" good came." At the conclusion of their speeches
they were invested (after the manner of the old
knights) with the insignia of the Academic legion.
Wherever the imperial troops have temporarily
gained the upper hand, they have disarmed the
national guards.
PRUSSlA.—Accounts from Berlin to the 22nd
contain a report that on the morning of that day Gm
Pfuel had tendered his resignation, and that cf his col-
leagues, to the king. His majesty requested the
general to withdraw his resignation, but was met with
a politivo refusal.
FRANKFOR'f.—Dates from this city to Oct. 21,
state that the state of siege in wLicli the city was
placed shortly after the recent insurrection was this
day raised by proclamation.
The remains of the unfortunate Prince Lichnowaki
have been conveyed rid Breslau and Itatibor, to the
family seat, the Chiteau of Graetz, near Troppan,
where they will be interred.
BAVARIA.—Dates from Munich to Oct. 20 state
that the riots were renewed on the 18th, and during
several hours the populace very freely indulged in
their love of mischief and plunder. A rich brewer,
however, made a very determined resistance
with the aid of his men, who killed one of their
assailants and wounded many others. 'fl.e crowd
at last forced an entrance, and in a few minutes suc-
ceeded in destroying several thousands of pounds
worth of valuable property. Towards the afternoon
martial law was proclaimed, and the rioters were

WEST INDIA MAIL.
We yesterday, in part of our issue, announced the
arrival of the royal mail packet Trent, Car. Norton,
at Southampton. The gale which detained the Treat in
the Gulf of Mexico lasted about 29 hours, and overtook
her between Tampico and Vera Cruz. Ste rode it
out outside of the latter anchorage. Cotsiderable
damage was done to American shipping in the Gulf
of Florida by the previous gale.
The latest dates brought by the Trent are :
Vera Cruz, Sept. 20 ; Tampico, 13 ; Havana, 30; Hon-
duras, 11; Jamaica, 22; St. Jaz° de Cuba, 19; Deme-
rara, 19; Trinidad, 21; Barbadoes, 28 ; Grenada, 23;
St. Kitt's, 30 ; Nevis, 30 ; St. Thomas, Oct. 1 ; Ber-
muda, 10; Ship Island (New Orleans), Sept. 26;
Nassau, Oct. 3 ; Tortola, Sept. 30 ; Antigua, 30
St. Vincent, 23; St. Lucia, 29 ; Montserrat, 30.
Thirty-nine passengers have come home in the
Trent. She brings 1,272,343 dollars from Mexico
(1,243,205 on account of merchants, and 29,138 of
dividends) ; 16 oz. 5 dwt. 8 gr. gold and 34 oz. gold
dust; 2191. 14s. 61. British coin; 1,318 oz. silver;
10,025 francs; 365 serous cochineal; bales tobacco
and 49 cases cigars ; and 4 bage of coffee.
The reports from the West India islands are gene-
rally favourable. In Demerara the weather has been
very favourable, and it was expected that the crops
will this season be better than for the last three years.
About 50,000 hogsheads is stated as the p-obable ship-
ment of the colony. Sir William Colebrook landed
at Barbadoes on the 7th of September, and was im-
mediately installed as Governor-General and Com-
mander-in-Chief of the Windward and Carribean
Wand. Should the weather continue favourable, the
crops in this island would, it was thought, equal those
of last year.
The intelligence from Berbice is of a more cheer-
ful character. The quarrel over the civil list appears
to have subsided, arid planters had come to a better
understanding with their labourers, so that the crop,
for which the weather was stated to be highly favour-
able, was being rapidly got in.
From one of the Berbice papers we gather that the
Dutch government has resolved upon following the ex-
ample of the English and French governments by
emancipating the slaves in Surinam ; but, instead of
compensation to the proprietors, the slaves are to re-
main indentured labourers for a period of 12 years,
and to work without pay.
From Martinique we learn that tranquillity appears
to be in course of re-establishment on a solid basis.
The commissary-general had received orders from
home to promulgate laws against vagabondage, and
the most energetic measures had been prescribed to
the governor in case of further disorder. Some
negroes, who, a few days after the Saturnalia of St.
Pierre, under cover of the amneey, bad ordered one
of the inhabitants to q.iit his house in twenty-four
hours, under pain of death, had been arrested and
condemned at the assizes to five years' imprisonment.
JAMAICA.—Sir Charles Grey was expected to be
able to return from his country residence to Spanish
Town on the 27th September. At the: sitting of the
House of Assembly on the 20th, a message was
brought by the Governor's secretary, intimating that
his Excellency acceded to the request of the house to
be allowed to adjourn to Nov. 24. The house so-
cordingly, at its rising, adjourned till that day. The
committee appointed to report on several public docu-
ments which had emanated from the governor, con-
taining grave charges against the Assembly, had not
reported up to the time when this adjournment took
place. Dr. Spalding gave notice of his intention to
move certain resolutions on the subject when the house
efaanxl:FatieohynteiidnoVigntracturefianr a
committee to inquire and 1,6-
met again, and &hoof his intention to move for a c.om-
mittee to take into consideration the conduct of =in-
ters and the under officers in the Colonial-office in
respect of certain matters relating to the colony.
Mr. Jordan gave notice of a motion for a
committee to inquire and report to the house what
redaction can be made in the public expenditure
iviocafebtwiathttelorefffides:inicryg. oaof
resblerneurgare-
burdens should be transferred from the parishes to
of
the general taxation. From the smallness of the
t the
nm: island,e: le lti:l:the house what farther items of parochial
minority of the advocates of extreme measures in the
house, and the dolorous wailinga of their organs in
the island press, we should entertain no doubt .of a
satisfactory settlement of the grievances and dumon-
tents of this colony, had we the slightest degree of
swap confidence in the common sense of the governor.
his

COLONIAL.
the
MAURITIUS.—In the Cape of Good Hope papa%
received yesterday, we find the fbllowino remarkable docu-
ment, under the healing Declaration of the principles of
the lieuritian press ' :
God and my right.
Union ls strength.
The existing circumstanoes dea mand, on the part of the colonW
press, a declaration of its principles. The voices of a few individusloot
r
drawee to the colony, calumniously mart that the press (Ices n
give utterance to the public opinion, and endeavours to lead it satrap
The journalists, trsternally united in one and the same opinion, mum.