The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-15 00:00:00

COTTON IN THE WEST LNDIES.

Tht st.bjcct growing cotton it. Jamaican occupy-
ing ••ten i s. u• the col •t.irte ..nd tb.• pa. us of that tsLtatl.
L. spe.k.s.g of this matter the Colonial Standard, of Um 13th
1. km. saber, sale as fallow
. . . . .

Where are we to look for c. ton ? nit is beginning to
be • q testi it easier asked than answered among the men of
Matette-•e., wt.° are Doe Otto . de:endent on the
lliatiod States I r that commodity; and may begin to think
that it I. tint- to consider wt.t t. ey shou:d do if, from any
are, ..het cautery should MU, t. famish 'sufficient supply,
wheat is not in likely to he the ease In every few ]cam.
Linha-to the have turned their ey et to laJia only, as likely
.0 furnish wenty be shoe iu he future supply [rem the
States Ind • seems to have as yet b. en onsieb red the only
enentry in which cotton is itte.igenou, to the so.l, from whence
as unlimited supoly could be ructrtd, if the cost of carriage
were not so enormous for the want . f roads, principally, over
which so bulky an article as cotton v.,' be carried. The
East Innis Comp.ty have b-en festering its cul'iva'ion for
some time, but are about to abandun it partially alter the
present year ; therefore, males the manufacturen set shout
sullies ion on their own ace:tun., no cotton fit for the finer
sorts of fabrics can be procured from 'actin. Ws, therefore,
hail with great pleasure the manila:lon of a desire to culti-
vate cotton in this country, which we are quite certain can
be done to • much great pr-fit than in aty part of the States.
We have been toed that there is cotton now growing within
five miles of this city, wh.ch was oily pleated in August
the lateral branches of which ore said to be larger and
stronger than the main •tern ever becomes in the most &-
Toured of the southern states. Add to this that it is peren-
nial here, but requires replanting teary year there. We
have seen in the hands of Mr. McOescby some stems sod,
pods ot cotton picked in the ne.ghbourho)d ot Mobile, sad
along with it • sam.tle, picked at random, from an old tree
in St. Andrew's We have tamely inspected both, and to
the beet o' our judgment the S.. Andrew's sample is very
much the best, b mg a mach purer white, as well as finer in
texture and longer in staple than the American, though,
perhaps, not quite so strong. Strange to say, too, the Ame-
rican cotton which Mr. McGee by brought over teems exestly
the sum. variety se the indigenoto cotton which grows wad
about the road sides here, and lives fen eight or ten years at
least without any cultivation whatever; in fact, we believe
the tree from which the sample of native cotton to which
we allude was pulled is fully that age, and has now a circum-
ference of fifteen and tbree-quarter inches in the man stem'
_,
it is growing clew to a fence near a gate, and has never had
the slightest care bestowed upon it. Such being the 0/114
then, there is surely great inducement for parties who have
the means to cultivate this great article of commerce ; It is
far from an expensive cultivation, and requires no exit
buildings for its collection or preservation. The prim
thing, we believe, is to pick it clean, and pack it dry, w
would be a natter of easy accomplishment, on the south side
of this island, at all events, where there are some 150,4100
acres of land well adapted for cotton cultivation. With all
these favouring cireumstances, however, we mach fear that
there are but very few of our planters who have means sell.
Giant to enter Into that or any other new system of mildest-
tlem. We are led to expect the advent of certain Amesieen
capitalists, who, it is said, will enter largely into mining sod
cotton growing speculations. Let them come, in God's name;
there is ample room and verge enough' for hundreds, aye
thousand!, and locations will cot be wanting, tither llay
or hire, in any part of the tenantry.
"It is, we fur, needless for us to call the attention of the
Manchester manufacturen to Jamaica as a field for the sup-

gdy aftmassi swirly rarskint and inexhanstible.fhey
My it Is of so or to sand spot• to purchase cotton at
Busboy, bees... there an so roads by which it can be
Merced to that part ; and for that reason the cost of carriers
Is.. the interi:r is much greater than the original wet of
posiusion ; but they say if the company will make roads,
sad thus render the cost of cotton at the shipping port a•
cheap r at New Orleans, the western manufacturers of Man.
rester will soon have agents th, re, just as the wool mer-
chants of Wakefield and Leeds have in every district of How-
land. Now, here all these objections are 'lardy obviated
Al far as the south aids of the island is concerned, we ban
suflicieatly convenient roads ro carry any quantity of prod's,
of any kind that an be grown upon it, to eummodirs and
secure shipping places, without any heavy expense. The
Manchester men have heretofore done us great injury, and
owe us in consequence some reparation, which they will per.
haps give if they find that their own barter will be promoted
thereby. Bat we do not put much faith in the idea of (At-
taining aid from that quarter. We whir look with hops to
the advent of the American gentlemen who are said to be
about commencing both mining end cotton growing on a
lute scale, with capital entirely their own. From the •we
look for an example of that so ahead energy of which ma.
fortune and
and
poverty have for the time deprived
ourselves, and if they will, as we think likely, bring with
them a number of intellig at ores black rd coloured people
from the SAW, the ,sample of these may b.. am much Mi.
vise to the indolent and idle among our own population. as
the capital and earner of their employ.,. will undoubt-
edly rooms to the scmanuity is general."

THE SUDDEN DEATH OF • CLERGYMAN.—Mr.
Daher held an libitum yesterday r. the Blue Last tavern,
Skoreditch, on the body of the Rev. Speocer Thornton, who
expire(' in the street oa Saturday nuirniog, the particulars
of which appeared in the &press of yesterday. Atter
hearing the evidence th« jag retarned a verdict of "
by the visitation of God."
THE TRANSIT TRADE WITH AMERICA.—Tite steam
ship Commodore, arrived at the pe.rt of Liverpool, from
Hem, has brought the Inuit number of 442 paeksges of
silks, ite., as a portion of her serge, which are intended to
be shipped for the United States of America. These larger
arrival of Fres& menulactures is trmssibs to the United
States ars is need scarcely be said, owing to the facilities
sow afforded by the removal of the restrictions by the A 1110•
riesia_government for the importation of forolga goods into
the United Bfatsu gods In British ships.