The Express.
London, England, 1850-08-13 00:00:00

had eau, greatly to nide*. But we
I:7:te it is sot the won of the notice to &Walsh
trithos edvaniages et merit Mimi to *to pee.
t ror. Heaves loom, the Mate Oise little
•• fur them otherwise : it would be washy
4: to withdraw the privilege afforded to thee:
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tee. -

Tug West liaise plasters me jelain, thiseik Mr.
Resit (sod thoeglars be Gee their seareeideet
maid sot have a more istlesatial, or a
„forehie expositat of their selenium), that,
tbr< siraLawed to ester Memo . mamma sally
tfri,,,„ immigrants; tied thaw short a teem
with that class of easkided sad aatiatorei
domge' d sot pairaZdas. ,Thri thsrefera, ask
:&°' be boned to their Boa
the inim gram*
rs f„ in-e• years; that being, an a paw*
"":•,iod requisite toild remoosesties to the
no.
mg 1-" ti duo wow Oolomial 011ie. Waves
tii ores, replies that it has no maildeam in kaki
• atria's; that if see year's Goateed be
labourer, he is sera to tesiew
b„,h,•0l . .
hi:a it° be tot, us oonuessese ethic two yeses
1' forced by sash nesse as will be*tly
on Fel b
L. by the people of this truantry. Whireispon
F,▪ dint very emphatically exclaim," Fish, pasha
Eeg"rl4/Ithe
.casi
tfr s brought to the West Wise are
fret 4 regard from slavery at the exposes of the
count 7, then to be restored to health,
rove end activity, afterwards to be Ms&
order sad of eye:emetic bakery at the east
to " '.
colomists, sad entvequestly to be thread
of . •
•ral 'acuity, to work or oat as snits their
61,:lity to exist in comparative
• '
rtv.tioa not to be maintained by saw
miserisbc and ass whit* we presses*, would
Exeter-ballitself. So if the ern
roo
"isP thus then weal& we think, be small
•
es..l 1a dtalirg with it. African immigrants are
~.„,,swed ire the West Indies because their intro-
-I,;.!ipa, whilst intended to belied% the stionies, is also
irmmd to benefit themselves; sad the mode by
reciprocity et benefit is to be intemkaastd
hy the eutestatic sad esetineses ladsetry et the
leirl!uerjaseed labourer. Theyare,thee, jam mach
imam! in rrovisg remunerative labourers to their
or'tre as the colonies are Wettish's!. And to allow
;
',raw uto whet Exeter-hall will do, or any, or
pea tbitt, to stand in the way of Rang their lay,
miurerstiva is to defeat the very ablaut of their
x wt : and quite unworthy of any orgaaisation
rt.:trier io all itself a goverawisot
ikt %Er proposition that it reepdres a three years'
rz.nte! to pay a planter for petting life and health
ir.!o r: immigrant, sad teaching him bow to ass a
mr, is. on the other hand, a startling demand. It
mg, to foci:did is justice sad ea feats; for the raw
Africa to. for European or iadostrial purpose", a
on Widen child ; but it is a proposition to be
Fred by experience ; and experiesos could scarcely
• iti.iayisg down any gems& rule applicable to
a...ms•grants ea each a subject. If so ; t one clam
cf Agiers,ts ma be profitably prepared to work is
ws: or eighties soothe as independent labourers,
t compel them to serve on lower tense
= the market rate of wages for double that time,
a ObTiaaesi and indisputably to enable their ear
}Tr to &prier them of part of the results of their
• to which they are honestly entitled; it is, and
:3: be, corfiscation of their property to some exteat.
Firm. unless Mr. BIINAL and his Friends as make
s much stronger tress than that which In ad-
moil the other night, his request to have all me-
ttin er coded from one to three years is, as a general
• asdmi,sible.

II .1: it, on the coat/try by one year's esubs the
:lea is many out of pocket, it *jut se undeniable
is! coders:ion of his property Is to some extent
ri:j on ; a .d he has u strong a claim to have that
pc 'stop to u the immigrant has. The rept:atlas
c he ...Lite of contract is, therefore, it seems to us,
m for special, not general, consideration. And it
v A only be right and proper for the Colonial-
c_ e to assent to powers being confided to the proper
s; norities to extend the contract beyond a year,
• is can be established that from the incompetence
i:::s Immigrant, the short period has been tinprofit-
nse to the employer.
Eby, however, u it is to lay down and enforce
;coal priuciples of this sort, there lions danger to
▪ guided against in their practical application of
znet.e importance ; it is to give ao e a
.3 the planters to rely too mach mr sereresierman
.i3.ur—on unskilled labour. To economise henna
4:itir—to rain the skill of the labourer—to substi-
:-..e wherever it be possible animal or meehanical
Lucy for mere human force—these ars the duties of
:-cry one interested in production in the West Indies.
.any are, however, duties sadly neglected; ocea-
soUly from pecuniary inability; but even more
%lately from want of enterprise, from the lingering
prejoo.ctt in favour of brute force, which have tided
over film rlavery to a state of freedom, and from the
tersequences of absenteeism. Now to encourage the
unties to rely too much on immigratioo; to wait until
Mnos furnishes them with abundant supplies of un-
il...ed untutored labour; and to prolong the contract
'Armed with these immigrants; is oily toconfirta that
bid and defective system of cultivation from which,
sore than anything else, our West Indian colonies
:.w solar.

Ltbour is a want of these colonies, but it is not the
▪ perhaps not the cniet, want. Skill, scisace, en-
:twine, prudence, economy, and honesty are quits as
r.eb in demand. Give them labour by all fair and
?Alibis means. But don't teach them to rely alta-
r or or i.ritcipally on labour. As with the Romans,
▪ eith the West Indians—" The fault, dear Brutus, is
with the stars but with ourselves, that we are
•.;..," The slave trade gave ttem no per-
:Lest enduring profit—slavery gave them none;
1-sta, millions sterling scarcely benefite
*:tx ; is spite of protection, they yearly sank
taper
sad deeper into the slough of despond ;
Lc had they a qualified, slave trade again
wir"TOW. their complaints would not be miti-
t. Society itself is principally at fault in the
L.t. Indies; it 'mods recoastitutioe, regeneration.
locumberrd &twee Bill, if it introduced new
a. 5. Cemats, would be worth half a million of
k!..ia batwing.

Cake, is brash,
in the Southern States of the
Ixtrime reputt::r, are men fall of energy, activity,
teerseinitiee, and skill—men resolved to succeed—
tat vas won't fail. In the British West Indies, on
vetrary, are men lifeless, inactive, without
itervcit hos! resolution, prepared for, almost inviting
X.tre lad disaster,—men who won't assist them-
it:ts. These men persuade themselves that labour,
E...!issal supplies of labour, woad restore them to
PApesity.
hey eaw4cl have fair play in all things that they
tem seceseaer for their prosperity, and mare ente-
ral if tse Itikg on which they at present build
"Pw Ibt slut al, but a reed.

bENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.

TiA Wowing letter (referring to no ocearrenee
tett •
"017 brelly maimed) is from oar own oorreepon-

RENDSBORG, AVOCIIT 7.
l'°"birtry of the artillery hare blew up at a
R''* t`. twelve this monism tad seventy person
L" "ed by the explosion. No we at preeeot
ware the ease 01 the egefectime t we are therefore
YL"."I7 fn wpprss either that it was a mere sad-
t an est of sell devotedness ea the part of the
.1.4" Pitmen. The shock was terrific, and felt by
tholetcy the whole town. Every window was of
tvrres bbun, std every rod more ye loos
LA teat reserehloo a rain, and the streets aturxti
Ta. drat Whet et the explosion
-"" uo.rer-al paaie, he la every street persons
"plke 'warded, last where I was standing at
ra a bores was struck dead, a soldier
%waded ir, the face, sad the arm of a poor child
`dais M. 'the bombs sad shrapeets flow in all
"wrrti,s.• hst if the momentary panic was natural
lb. slirsowsible not to admire the ease with which
14Issrple rrcrrered their composure, displaying •
4lrtas and clump which has been strengthened
rimy trial& The lab:matory was still on
"".Ib*rellare blow teem in great danger, and had
tt.ir minutia taken tire the whole town would car-
-11.117 hiTe he's blown op. For all this no one fled
imut the huger which might have overwhelmed all
,a" , "s'otobt, as the con'tary, every one hastened
' I mi
of peril to rend. r whet aid theht.
N" I,k g
firs. rea.completely y
sodtrampututy everywhere
exii.gtale.ed