The Express.
London, England, 1857-07-04 00:00:00

THE BOARD OF HEALTH,

Mr. PALK eked If it was the intentional the government
to brines any bill to remedy the debits proved before
adect camnietes of the present Board of Health? The go•
velment Mil attempted to make the Baud of Health •
="hay, but -having bees defeated in their design,
I ielethed • continuance bill, end they had given •
speak pledge that they would this maks bring hi • lOW
we to emend the evila which were admitted to (slat in the
meant constitution of the board. The bill before pediment
profeemd to treader the powers of the Board of Heath to
the Privy Council, sad to save the musky 3,0001.. year ;
but it was, in feet, to perpetuate the defects of the net of
1848. He (Mr. Pak) therefon, to know whether
It we. the intention of the government to redeem the 'Midge
by WOW of which they bad obtained the roma of *slut,
or whether the promises then made by them wee. MOW for
the papas of gaiamg time
to, G. GREY woad not be then sednea into a damask
of the merits of the question, es the bill which be bad intro-
duced on the Raped stood for that night He could only
say with rasa to the questioned the hcm. gentleman, that
a bill was prepared materially as and emending the sot
of 1848, and that he hoped it would akin the aemaks of
perthanent.
IMMIGRATION TO BRITISH GUIANA.
Mr. T. BARING, who bad ihsa month to Pena s Yeti-
lion from British Gam thamelgalen "Mee libitum,
but who deckled to maths altentlen des gresminent to the
subject by maths • asiniss et the Pasant of the Board of
Trade, need than the add Meth hut • seen rempictobto
and taniniel reemithe ball bees len se Gomm Town,
]!gnaws., to tre tar essallsranea the eupph of labour
giro the watt of the eslay; that • imitation to petition
yeeliman as the ealllen was marthil visalmously et that
est est he lad been OMAN/ with the pementa-
fling thst paths. lb bad rain uedertakes to=tt
IN beamstidrM set a' breseptilln with
bean it seised se wiry emplaints este the Win the
sameadel yitheyerlds esamtry upon the
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to stmelbseid r Ibis all homdbly to the yawn di of
Wass Thee yen's, lesethver, Meted bids ssil ewer
Seams Y emandsa with the anew es ma se with ele
monby, lona demand Is hie . BMW* the
immenes standualles et bra • atieumni, sad
which anima the stiestima sad 44 the bass.
sot sot airy hr bb es war No es l 6
country st the prispenty et the alubth avian
',how mamas which, like the (nay to =e'
(Inca maths elidi entered largely Ws the net,
the populate' of this country ; nor to thaw the
of proving the advantages of free blew my tar he
the production of these article.. Bent Ones tomptemi
an extent of 70,000 square mike, and titsdned spew* of
60,000,000 acres of the most fertile land ; it bad an emellent
internal comsm-' br means of its large river; and It
..est. Moreover, it we within •

bade great extent of see oo _ _
month or six melte mil oot this country ; thirster* lnc
moat favourable positkon or supplying it with produce. Of
this immense surface, however, there were only some 09,000
acres under cultivation, because of the deficiency of labour,
although the soil and climate were calculated to grow cotton sa
well es sugar, and notwithstanding the cotton from that
quarter had obtained& medal at the Great Exhibition. Of the
population of 90,000, about one-fourth only were labourers,
and there wore about 20,000 Portuguese. The practical
problem to be endued, tamoolge, was how labour was to be
furnished to a ochry so rich In all other advantages, without
interfering with the obligations des to humanity. Unfor-
tunately it was only natives of Akita, of India, or of China,
who could cultivate the soil fa the climate at that colony ;
and the complaint dohs petitions. was that they were ham-
pered in obtaining a supply of Magi from each of these
BOUM@ by the micas masassary mai:doss that bad bees
imposed upon the Immigretion of labourite, Ho (Yr. Bering)
woo quite ready to admit that to °bilis a supply from Africa
might wally lead to a rosiest of this 'gasoline wars and
cruel Urbarities which hid so sigebed sad outraged hu-
manity ; and he fox one would most selmmily protest against
the re-establishment of the dave.trada in say form what-
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ever, or under any poseible modification. The petitioners
prayed that they might bo permitted to import labour
from say quarter of the world where a lintish consul
resided. In India, however there was the greatest
restriction imposed upon emigration. Only 350 coolies
were allowed to leave in our ehlpa, however large
that chip might be ; and the Gnat Eastern, which could
convey 10,000, would be confined to the smaller number,
if she sailed trom Calcutta. The math of this restriction
was, that an inferior class of ships wen taken up for the
emigration of coolies ; and he (Mr. Baring) had been in-
formed that the mortality and disease on beard French emi-
grant ships of a large aka, with a greater number of labour-
ers on board, was coasidembly lees than In lititieh chips of a
smaller rapacity, which the restriction in question
into the Wade. That was the tint clog to the supply of -
hour for the colcmies. The next wee the demo making It
emnpuleory on the colonies to send back the labourer at
their own expos when hie term of five or ten years had
expired. The 000 lie was not allowed to step ; he was not
permitted to take an equivalent in money, but he was
obliged to go back, and the colony had to pay the cost of his
transport. What the colonists wished was that the 000 lie
should be suffered to make his own bargain, for which hews
perfectly competent; and they objected to being shackled
with these restrictions. The principle that ought to be
adopted in this caw am the same as had been adopted
In commercial mattes—that of absolute freedom, so
far /A SW compatible with what was due to humanity. The
principle acted upon wee, on the contrary, almost prohibi-
tion. The rsult was, that from 1848 to 1854. 22.000
labourers had been imported into the colony, of which
10,000 only were coolies, the remainder being from Madeira
and Sierra Loons. These labourers were all in better circum-
stance, in the colony than they could be at home ; for they
were able sometimes to earn as much as a shilliug tut hour,
but they could constantly obtain from 2s. 6d. to 3s. wire on
short time each day. In 1834, an ordinance weadumeed by
the Indian government by which, uncles the plea
tug hardship to the labourer, the emigration of Coot:" WI
virtually suspended ; sad now there were no longer any
mane of obtaining labour for British Guinea fromlndia.
But then It might -be mid that China wee was to the colo-
nists. There wee, however, a virtual prohibition of Masse
labour during the last few yen not co the ground °finger-
!national polity, ace because thee/Awry as a olio, was not
ieduatrious and useful labouries, new bemuse they would not
mew the paws for width any wore =pima, nee