The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-11 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 11.

TasNiis to the Southampton seam packets, a
voyage to the West Indies is now a matter of easy
accomplishment. You can go and come in six weeks,
and see every island en passant. Ur.fortunately,
iiurneying in the West Indies, after your arrival
there, is pretty much the same sort of affair it
ever was. You arrive, for examp!e, at Port ltiyal,
with a dozen letters of introduction from Mincing.
lane and Diwning-street. At Kingston you are re-
ceived with open arms by the hospitable merchants,
and stuffed upon turtle steaks and 'haddocks to your
heart's °patent. You run over to Spanish Town to
present your letters to the Governor, who makes a
Government-house dinner, and, it may be, a ball for
your amusement. But you are anxious to be up the
country. The friends to whom you are consigned are
nosily desirous to facilitate your progress. They pro-
vide you with horses, boys, and sumpter mules, and
send you on your journey; one of the mist intelligent
of them accompanying you, as your route is
" all upon the way to hie estate." On your
progress you are received with open arms. You
are taken by the most picturesque route through
St. Thomas-ice-the-Vale to S. Anne's and Trelawny ;
are well primed upon the road about the "distresses"
of the country, and are told, over the best Madeira
after dinner, of the " ruin" brought upon the island
by emancipation and the sugar duties. You are in-
vited to go a few miles out of your way to see •
" thrown-up" plantation, and are asked to guess how
many millions it produced Mr. BECKPORD, and bow
many hundreds it sold for last week. You hear also a
great deal of St. Domingo and something about Cubs,
and you believe the information must be all authentic
because the islands are so near,—not knowing that
your infirmsnt gleaned " facts" from a Kingston
newspaper, in which they were reprinted from some
journal of equal veracity at home. And so you
Igo on, " examining," as you believe, " all the
island," but in fact seeing only just so much of it
as suits the purposes of your companion ;—"judging,"
as you fancy, "for yourself," but in truth having
all your opinions implanted by your island
friends. If you return to England unconvinced that
Jamaica is rained ; that emancipation is amine; that
free trade Is a robber; ; that the negroes are irre-
claimable; and that the f'iture hope of the country
consists in a return to the lash of the slave-driver,
and a prohibitory duty upon every sugar bat Ja-
make sugar ;—if you leave the island, we sa7, with
any °the. views than these, why you have visited it
very little to the purpose, or at least verflittle to that
purpose which your island friends intended.
Wean sorry to find from Mr. STANLEY'S pamphlet
that his visit to Jamaica has been just of this descrip-
tion. He has seen the show places of the island to
as much and no better purpose than the majority
of young gentlemen who spend a few weeks' holiday
within the tropics under the same favourable cir-
cumstances. The planters have found him as pliable,
as they could possibly have wished. He has become,
in a marvellously short time, a thorough brother of
their craft. If the trade of politics failed, Mr. STAN-
LEY might set up as a planting attorney next week,
with a stock in trade, in the shape of strong opinions,
quite equal to the most bigoted amongst them. In
the absence of a prohibitory duty in favour of Jamaica
sugar, Mr. STANLEY is dready entirely convinced
that a restoration of slavery and the slave trade is
the only means of saving the West Indies. He should
oertainly have obtained a seat in tho island legisla-
ture : he would have done credit, to it.

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To any one conversant with the subject, it is
obvious, from Mr. STANLEY'S pamphlet, that he
never thought of examining or Inquiring further than
just so far as the planting interest have prompted
' him, He went the length, and he takes great credit
for it, of making some extracts from the accounts of
certain sugar estates, which showed upon the face of
the boob, unimocessful cultivation. He was entirely
satisfied with the accuracy of those accounts, but
he never thought of inquiring mot: minutely into the
circumstances under which they were made ap. He
found large items entered as paid for " labour." It never
occurred to him to examine how much of this
!about might have been dispensed with by the appli-
cation of mechanical improve cents. He found consi-
derable sums entered for purchases of" stock " (cattle).
He does not appear to have Italia whether, under an
improved system, these cattle might not be dispensed
with, or if those absolutely needed might not have