The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-24 00:00:00

LATER FROM JAMAICA.

We have received the Morning Despatch, published
at Kingston, Jamaica, of Oct. 2, 10 days later than
the d►te of the journals brought by the Severn.
In the Council Chamber, on Sept. 28 and Oct.l, the
Police Bill was proceeded with.
The following address, in reply to the speech of his
excellency the governor, was, on Oct. 1, presented by
the Council :

THE lIUNHILE ADMIRER 01, THE COUNCIL.
May it pleats your Excellency,—We thank your excel-
lency few the speech with which you have been pleased to
open the seniors.
We regret with your excellency that so much precious
time in this year and in the last has been commend in a
struggle for retrenchment, and that the discussion of such •
measure so long excluded almost all the other public business
of the colony. Whatever may be the sentiments of all par-
ties in this matter—but of those sentiments the council know
nothing—we beg to assure your excellency that whenever any
bill comet before us which has for its object a fair and con-
siderate abatement of the fixed charges on the revenue, it
shall receive our anxious attention, and be dinpued of on •
careful consideration of the public interests, and a just regard
to the rights of individuala.
We arc aware that on Tuesday the inland will be without
the principal portion of a revenue, and without a police, and
that the parishes are without the means of raising tens to
satisfy the claims upon them. We know that the legislature
the power to apply prompt and appropriate remedies to
theta defects, and we can with sincerity state that all neceo
wry and usual measures to provide these remedies, will re-
ceive from us a willing and immediate concurrence.
We hope your excellency will not find that you have made
an unsuccessful appeal to the gond sense and good feeling
of the legislature, tor we assure your exc. Ilene; that we are
prepared to unite in a reasonable and right course of action.
To which his excellency was pleased to make the
following answer :
Gentlemen of the Couneil,—Your assurance of a willing
concurrence in all reasonable and right measures greatly en-
courages and confirms the hope I have formed that the dif-
ferences and difficulties of the colonial legislature may be
approaching their terminations.

The disputes pending between the House of As-
sembly and the other branches of the legislature have
caused a temporary suspension of the import duty.
In the absence, therefore, of any tariff (the old bill
having expired on the let Oct.), all goods, wares, and
merchandise are entitled to enter free of island duty.
" That this state of things will cause shippers abroad
to be more liberal than usual in their supplies we
(De Cordova 's Intellegeneer) have no reason to doubt.
But as it comes peculiarly within the province of this
paper to state all those facts which bear upon the
present case, we must, without further apology,
solicit the attention of our readers for a few moments
which will be devoted to that purpose. Shipments
to this country have not lately been made with that
degree of prudence which the altered circumstances
of the colony so much demand ; but our friends
abroad will find it advantageous to be most circumspect
in such shipments, as to what will be the effect of
the present absence here of a commercial tariff.
Owing to the unsettled state of the country, and the
uncertainty which exists regarding the future con-
duct of the legislature in so far as the Import Bill is
concerned, the market is completely stationary."