The Express.
London, England, 1847-11-12 00:00:00

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The malls for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madera, Cadiz, and Gibraltar
will be made up on the moron, of the 17th November.
The West lodis Mails, excluding Bermuda, Nassau, Havann
Honduras, New Orleans, Vera Crux, Tampico, and Porto Rico, and
including thou for Jsemel, Carthogens, Santa Martha, Chagree,
Panama, West Coast of South Americo, and St. Juao-de-Nioaragua,
will be made up on the morning of the 17th 1214.
The roads for British North America, Bermuda, end UM Ihntal
Rotas, will be made up on the reran, of the lath November.
The overbuild mails for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lowan Islands,
Zrt, Aden, Ceylon. India, ffoag.Kong, and China, re Southampton.
made up on the morning of the 25th November.
The overland elated mans, ens Marseille', to Um hiediterranson.
Egypt, Men, Ceylon, Win, Hoag Kong, no., will be made up on the
evening of 24th Nov.
The malls for New South Wales, Ten Diemen'. land, and Noili
Emend will be made open the evening of the 70th November.
The mails for the Brasil; the River Kota, Monte Video, Perms.
onto. Bab* Madeira, and Buenos Ayres, will be made up on the
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LONDON, FRIDAY, NOV. 12.
E published last evening a despatch, addressed
by Earl GREY to the Governor of Jamaica, which
has been communicated to the West India Asso-
ciation. It would, probably, have been more sa-
tisfactory to that body, before the late extensive
failures among the West India merchants, and the
wide-spread embarrassment and apprehension they
have occasioned, than it can now be expected
to prove. It is characterised by a tone of kindness
and candour, to which they have been too little Locus-
' tamed. But this they cannot be expected to appre-
ciate so warmly at the moment when the entire ruin
which they have for years been warning successive
cabinets was being brought upon them by the mea-
sures of government, seems to be realised. The
exigencies of the moment appear to require still more
vigorous, comprehensive, and uncompromising mea-
sures than Earl GREY'S despatch gives promise of.
We are anxious to speak on this important subject
with all the earnestness it deserves, and at the same
time with that absence of passion and exaggeration
which befits men who, though advocates of equal
jmtice to all races, feel that the cause of the negro
las been too often advocated in a spirit of intolerant
end dogmatic ignorance, and who, though fully alive
to the injustice of which our tropical colonists have
teen made the victims, retain unshaken their faith
in the doctrines of free trade, and see that the West
Indians must look mainly to their own exertions for
the re-establishment of their prosperity.
It is to be feared that years of misrepresentation
have left misconceptions on the public mind—leas
lively and exaggerated, perhaps, than they once were,
but, from their very dulness and torpidity, more
difficult to remove—respecting the character and
position of our fellow-subjects resident in and con-
nected with the West Indies. If a generation, which
has now almost entirely passed away from this
mortal stage, virulently resisted negro emancipation.
it was the necessary result of their social position
—a position in which they had been placed by
the legislation of the mother country—legislation is
which they had no voice, and which had in view less
the promotion of their interests than of merchants
and manufacturers at home. If the West Indians,
formerly to a man, and still in a great majority,
have been opposed to the adoption of • free-
trade policy, how long is it since the free-
traders have become a majority here at home
If they have erred in judgment, they have erred in
common with the British public of past years, and no
more odium ought to attach to them than to any
other section of that public. As to the foul mper-
sions of their personal characters, which fanaticism
invented and ignorance diffused, we will amt cevivo-
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of
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Indians; we merely ask to have it remembered that
in all their characteristics they are Englishmen hie
ourselves, and that, in a season of general suffering,
their case deserves even more same Medics the&

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