The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-29 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The Money Market continues to present little
alteration of importance. There is more money on
offer, but capitalists are still reluctant to take bills
under the official minimum, except in cases where
the paper has a short time to run, and is of a first-
class character.

The share list of the Bank of Turkey closed yes-
terday evening, and it is understood that the appli-
cations are numerous. The Continental subscrip-
tion remains open till Saturday next.
Mr. Thomas Gooch, of the firm of Gooch and
Cousens, has been elected director of the Bank of
London, in the room of his father, lately deceased ;
and Mr. Falconer Larkworthy, managing director
of the Bank of New Zealand, has also been elected
to fill the vacancy in the board caused by the re-
tirement of Mr. J. E. Anderdon.
It is notified that the certificates of the 'shares of
the new issue of the Credit Foncier. and Mobilier
of England can now be obtained at the Company's
offices in exchange for the letters of allotment and
banker's receipt.

Reuter's Telegram Company have given notice
that they have opened a branch office at Alex-
andria (Egypt).
There was a withdrawal from the Bank yesterday
of £78,000 in bar gold.

Two O'CLOCK.
According to Reuter's telegram the 3 per Cent.
French Rentes were quoted at 68f. 45c.
When the markets closed yesterday afternoon
most of the Stock Exchange securities exhibited de-
pression. Consols were 4 per Cent. lower, and to-day
there is a recovery of *, the latest prices being 891
for transfer, and less the dividend, 87i 88, for the
Bth proximo. There has not been mucli animation,
the attention of the members and their clients being
principally directed to the settlement of the account
in Foreign Bonds and all descriptions of Railway
Shares. They are especially busy with some of the
miscellaneous descriptions, in which during the fort-
night large transactions have been entered into; the
results on the whole are likely to prove satisfactory. In
the absence of dealings, Exchequer Bills are at nominal
prices, and the same remark is applicable to Indian
Government Securities, the only bargain at present
recorded being in the 5 per Cents., at 105 show-
ing firmness. The New Threes and Reduced
Annuities are marked a little flatter.

In the Foreign Stock department quotations have
continued steady. Turkish Consolides are 48 i;
Mexican, 25f k ; ditto, New, 248 f ; Greek, 17 k ;
Spanish Passive, 281 29; the Certificates, 158 f ;
Italian, 638 648 ; the Confederate Loan, 8 10 ; and
Brazilian Scrip, 2k 4 prem. Turkish 6 per Cents.,
1858, 75 ; ditto, 1862, 74 f ; ditto 5 per Cents.,
1865, 458 44 ; and Egyptian 7 per Cents., 1864,
91.8 92k.

Bank and Miscellaneous Shares remain inactive.
London and country at 79i ; Oriental Bank at 51
International Financial at 6 I and Overend, Gur-
ney, and Co. at 22 Bank of Turkey shares are
quoted 2/ prem. ; Public Works Company
at 4 41 prem. ; the Anglo-Swedish Steel and Iron
Company, 21 3 prem. The Credit Foncier and
Mobilier of England (old) shares, 4/ 4I prem.
ex all ; and the new issue, 4i 41 prem. ; the St.
Saviour's Wharf Company (Limited) shares, 1 11
prem. ; the American Oil Wells Trading Company,
21 21 prem.

American Securities have indicated firmness.
United States Government 5-20 Bonds are 641
Erie shares, 574 s ; and Illinois, 831 k.
Business in the Railway Share Market has been
rather dull, the dealers and speculators having been
engaged with the settlement of the account. Prices
generally are firm, and North Western have im-
proved 55., Great Eastern, Lancashire and York-
shire, and North British, each 10s., and Metropoli-
tan, £l.

The Foreign and Colonial lines are also a shade
firmer. Grand Trunk of Canada have advanced to
30,/, and Great Indian Peninsula to 105.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
8 per Cent. Consols
Do. Account, Dec. 7 BB
3 per Cent. Reduced B7l 1 1
New 3 per CeAt B7l 1 1
New 3* per Cent. Jan. 1894 —
Do. 5 per Cent. Jan. 1873 —
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire sth Jan., 1880
Do. for 30 yrs, expire sth AprillBBs —
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug., 1908
March June
Exchequer Bills, £1,000,3 & per Cent. dim 9 5 dis
Do. £5OO — 17
Do £lOO and £2OO
Bank of England Stock, 5 per Cent
Do Account ' —
INDIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
Indian Stock, 14 per Cent., AprillB74 —
Do Account
Do. 5 per Cent. July, 1870
Do. Account
Do. 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888
Do. Certificates —
Do. Enfaced Paper 4 per Cent —
Do. 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872
Do. 5+ per Cent., May 1879 —
Do. 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866 —
Do. Bonds, £l,OOO l9 pm
Do. under £l,OOO —
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1859 —
Brazilian 5 per Cent —
Do. 4* per Cent., 1852-58-60
Do. 1863
Do. 1865 74-6*
Do. Scrip, £25 paid
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
Do 1 per Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.)
Chilian 6 per Cent —
Do. 3 per Cent
Colombian 6 per Cent. —
Cuba, 6 per Cent.
Danish 3 per Cent., 1825 —
Do. 4 per Cent., 1863 —
Do. 5 per Cent., 1773-77, £25 paid —
Danubian Principalities
Equador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
Do., Provisional Land Warrant
Egyptian 7 per Cent —
Do., Second issue 92*
Do £lOO Bonds 931.
Do. 1864 92*
Do £lOO Bonds
:creek 5 per Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons
Do. Account
Do. Coupons
Do Account
4uatemala 5 per Cent.
Do £B6 paid
Do. 1839 and 1850 —
Malian 5 per Cent, 1865
Do. Account
Do. Maremmana Railway —
1)0 1865
Do Scrip, £671 paid
Do 5 per Cent., 1864 _
Uexican 3 per Cent
Do. Account
Do 1864 24*
Do 5 per Cent. Anglo-French
Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c
'eruvian 4* per Cent
Do. Account
Do Scrip, £45 paid, paid in Bonds
Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) — .
Do 41 per Cent., 1862
Do Account —
ortuguese 3 per Cent, 1853
Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6O, '62, '3, 46
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'llssian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St. 9O
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33 41 per Cent., 1860
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r'irlian 5 per Cent
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EXCHEQUER CHAMBER.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Goulbourn.)
IN RE HENRI DRAYTON.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

SHARE MARKETS,—This Day. I LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day•

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
(Before the Lord Chief Justice and a Special Jury.)
THE QUEEN V. CORBETT -THE SHENANDOAH.

This was an indictment preferred by the Crown against
the defendant, the master of the Sea King (s), afterwards
called the Shenandoah, Confederate schooner, for a breach
of the Foreign Enlistment Act, in causing the vessel to be
sold to the Confederate States of America, and inducing
men to serve on board the ship in hostilities against the
Federal States of America, with whom her Majesty the
Queen was on terms of peace.

The Solicitor-General stated the case for the prosecu-
tion. The Sea King shipped a crew in London for a
voyage to Bombay, and on clearing the Channel she shaped
her course for Madeira, and there met the Laurel steamer.
Both ships proceeded to the Desertas Islands, where the
Sea King received her guns and ammunition from the
Laurel, and it was alleged that the defendant fdideavourecl
to persuade some of the hands to serve on board the Sea
King, which was afterwards called the Shenan-
doah, which wao to be employed as a Confederate
schooner. The learned gentleman then proceeded to detail
the facts of the case, and called several witnesses who swore
that the defendant advised them to join the Shenandoah
and the Confederate service, which would prove highly
advantageous to them. The men were narrowly cross-
examined by Mr. E. James in order to show that it was
the Confederate captain of the Laurel and not Corbett who
advised the men to join the ship which was to act against
merchant men, and not to take part in any fighting.
The case wilt not conclude to-day.

COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordina] y and a Special Jury.)
MILNE V. MILNE.

This was a suit instituted by Ada Caroline Milne for
judicial separation from her husband, on the ground of
cruelty.

The Queen's Advocate, Mr. Karslake, and Dr. Wamby,
appeared for the petitioner, and Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., and
Dr. Spinks for the respondent.

In opening the case, the Queen's:Advocate said—The par-
ties to this cause were married in the month of March,
1864, and the cohabitation continued about seven months.
The petitioner was a lady of fortune, and, previous to her
marriage, the daughter of a widow named Liebert, resident
in Warwickshire, the respondent being the son of a solici-
tor in Manckester. The parties had formed an attachment
when the petitioner was only 18 years of age ; and the
father of the respondent being averse to the match, he (re-
spondent) went to sea, and remained absent for four or five
years. On his return he again sought out the lady, and
after some time renewed his suit and met with
success, for the parties were eventually married,
the lady having a fortune of- £14,000. The respon-
dent was of an idle disposition, and after the marriage
they went to reside at Folkestone, and from' thence they
went to Paris, where the respondent followed his own in-
clinations and desires, without the slightest regard to the
feelings of his wife, who was then in a very delicate state
of health, and required more than ordinary care and
attention. On the lady somewhat recovering her health
they returned to England, and went for some time to
the house of the respondent's father, at Blackpool,
in Lancashire. The conduct of the petitioner became
harsh and careless, and the cruelty was continued in vari-
ous ways, until at length he actually horsewhipped his
wife in the public road, and was guilty of such other acts
that the lady had no alternative but to seek the protection
of the Court, and pray for a dissolution of her marriage.
Evidence having been given to prove the marriage,
Thomas Howsman said he was a farmer, living at Black-
pool, and in August, 1864, he and two of his friends were
engaged haymaking in a field near the high road. They
heard the screams of a female, and on leaving the field in
which they were occupied and coming to the road they
saw a phaeton, the door of which was open, and the legs
of a lady were hanging out. They afterwards became
aware that she was trying to get out, in which she
ultimately succeeded, and then the respondent, who was in
the phaeton, drove after her and seizing the carriage whip
lashed her with it very violently. She got over the fencing
out of his reach, and positively refused to enter the
vehicle again, upon which the respondent drove away. He
followed the lady to Blackpool, and then identified her as
the person he had seen horsewhipped.
Mr. Milne's maid proved some other acts of violence and
ill-treatment at Blackpool.

Mrs. Milne, the petitioner, was then called, and repeated
in evidence the facts spoken to by her counsel in his open-
ing speech. She said she had suffered very severely in
health from the cruelty and violence of her husband, and
that after the violent assault she suffered from the hands
of her husband, on the occasion of his horsewhipping her
in the public road, ,she separated from him, and had not
since cohabited with him.

Mr. Coleridge, for the respondent, said that, owing to
the interference of some mutual friends, he was happy to
say that an arrangement had been come to, which would
render further occupation of the time of the court unne-
cessary, and all further opposition to the prayer of the
petitioner would be withdrawn. He hoped his lordship
would consent to the case terminating on these grounds.
The Judge Ordinary said he thought it was a judicious
course to pursue, especially when it would prevent the
parties to the suit being brought again in contact, even
for a short time, in that court, which could only be pro-
ductive of painful feelings on both sides. He
also thought that it was exceedingly wise to
prove just enough to bear out the allegations in the
petition without, as in many instances was the case in
that Court, going at length into a variety of matters that
only elaborated whilst strengthening the case. They
heard it as evidence that the respondent had threatened
his wife with violence, and that on one occasion
he had been guilty of the unmanly and cowardly conduct
of seizing the carriage whip and beating his wife in the
public road. The jury, however, would say what they
thought of the matter.
A verdict that the respondent had treated his wife with
cruelty was unanimously returned, and
The Court gave a decree nisi.

O'BIALL.EY IRWIN V. SIR G. GREY-PETITION OP RIGHT.

The Judges, sitting in Error, this morning hoard the ar-
guments'in this case, which were supported by the peti-
tioner in person.

The court decided against the plaintiff, and affirmed the
judgment in the former trial.

street, Southwark, and his clothes were so old and dirty
that he could not obtain work anywhere. All the pri-
soners (viva voce) said they would work if any one would
employ them.

This bankrupt, who is the celebrated baritone, was de-
scribed as a vocalist, of 41, Great Ormond-street, Blooms-
bury, and to-day he came up to pass his last examination
and for the order of discharge. The accounts show debts
£555, with a deficiency of £385. The detailed accounts
have already been published, together with the causes of
the failure, and, in the absence of opposition, it was under-
stood that the order would be granted.

Wedding, the superintendent of labour in the Ratcliff
poor-house, said the prisoners had a bath, a loaf of bread
each for supper, a basin of gruel this morning, and a bed,
and the return they made for this hospitality was to tear
up their clothes and put the ratepayers to the expense of
canvas suits.

Mr. Paget said the offence had become so common that
he should visit all these cases with severity. The humanity
of the Legislature had compelled the parochial authorities
to provide casual wards for the houseless poor, that no one
should perish in the streets, and the boon should be re-
ceived with gratitude by the class for whom it was pro-
vided. He could not look upon the prisoners offence
lightly. He sentenced them each to be imprisoned for one
month, and kept to hard labour.

ASSAULT AT SEA.-Mr. Gomm, clerk to Mr. Hodgson,
solicitor, came before Mr. Paget, at twelve o'clock, and
said he was instructed to offer bail for Captain Henry
Holvine, the master of the ship Ellen Constance, lying in
the Victoria Dock, who was charged with assaulting John
Williams, late steward of the vessel, and putting him in
irons three times at sea.

Mr. Paget said that Mr. Bowdler, the second clerk, was
engaged in copying the minutes of evidence taken yester-
day, and the case could not be heard until they were
finished. Inquiries must be made as to the sufficiency
of the bail. He should require two substantial house-
holders in £250 each, to become surety for the prisoners
appearance at the sessions.

Mr. Gomm handed to the magistrate the names of the
proposed sureties, and Howland, 89 H, an officer of the
court, was deputed to make inquiries.

HEALTH OF LONDON.

(From the Registrar-General's Weekly Report.)

In the week that ended on Saturday, Nov. 25, the
births registered in London and ten other large
towns of the United Kingdom were 3,839 ; the
deaths registered, 3,149. The annual rate of mor-
tality was 29 per 1,000 persons living.
In London the births of 957 boys and 969 girls,
in all 1,926 children, were registered in the week.
In the corresponding weeks of ten years, 1855-64,
the average number, corrected for increase of popu-
lation, was 1,958.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

THE OUTCASTS IN HYDE-PARK —Maria Costin, Sarah
Waring, Louisa Stebbings, and Amelia Triggers, young
women, described as having "no homes," were charged
before Mr. Tyrwhitt with being found in the cleaning
shed of the Magazine Barracks, Hyde-park, supposed for
the purpose of committing a felony.
When the prisoners were searched at the station all the
property found upon them was four combs and two six-
pences.

The deaths registered in London during the week
were 1,471. It was the 47th week of the year, and
the average number of deaths for that week is, with
a correction for increase of population, 1,564. The
actual number is less than the estimated mortality
by 93.

There were 13 deaths from small-pox. The regis-
trar of Spitalfields returns two deaths from that dis-
ease; and the medical attendant of one of these cases,
which occurred at 10, King-street, reports that the
disease prevails exceedingly in the neighbourhood.
The mortality from diarrhon continues slowly to
decrease. The deaths from it in the last three weeks
were 37, 32, and 28. No deaths were referred to
cholera. Typhus has increased, and the deaths from
it last week rose to 81.

The widow of a farmer is stated to have died on
the 19th inst. in Plough-lane, Battersea, at the age
of 100 years.
The following five fatal cases of horse and car-
riage accidents were registered in the week :—At

Hyde-park a medical practitioner, aged 69, knocked
down by a Hansom cab ; died on Nov. 14 in St.
George's Hospital. On Holborn-hill, the wife of a
wood sawyer, aged 38, injured by a an wheel; died
on Nov. 14 in St. Bartholomew's Hospital. The son
of a foreman at iron works, aged 13, run over ; died
on Nov. 13 at 15, Ferry-street, Poplar. A shoe -
maker, aged 85, run over by an omnibus ; died on
Nov. 16 in University College Hospital. A cab-
man, aged 33, rupture of liver by a fall from a cab
whilst drunk; died on Nov. 20 in University Col-
lege Hospital.

Colour-sergeant Garton, of the Grenadier Guards, said
that about one o'clock that morning he went into the clean-
ing shed of the Magazine Barracks, and found the four
prisoners there—three asleep under the table, and one in
the corner of the room. They said they had get into the
room out of the wet.

In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt the sergeant said that wome-
times there were articles of clothing in the place, but at
present only gas pipes were deposited there. The pri-
soners must have got in through the windows.
Costin said she had nowhere to go, and was obliged to
get out of the wet.
Park-constable Lippett, No. 31, said he was called to the
barracks, and the prisoners given into his custody, and he
took them to the station.

in reply to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the constable said that three
of the prisoners had been about the park for some time for
the purpose of prostitution. He had taken Triggers to the
workhouse twice, and yesterday morning, seeing her under
a tree soaking wet, he asked her to go to the workhouse,
but she would not.

The annual rate of mortality last week was 25
per 1,000 in London, 35 in Edinburgh, and 25 in
Dublin ; 41 in Liverpool, 41 in Manchester, 40 in
Salford, 22 in Birmingham, 28 in Leeds, 28 in Bris-
tol, 28 in Hull, and 33 in Glasgow. The rate in
Vienna was 25 per 1,000 during the week ending
the 18th inst., when the temperature was 10.3 deg.
Fahrenheit lower than in the same week in London,
where the rate was 26 per 1,000.
In Liverpool the births in the week were 353, the
deaths 374 ; in Manchester the births 204, the deaths
278 ; in Salford the births 88, the deaths 84 ; in
Birmingham the births 235, the deaths 139 ; in
Leeds the births 250, the deaths 121 ; in Bristol
the births 101, the deaths 87 ; in Hull the births
69, the deaths 56 ; in Edinburgh the births 127,
the deaths 118 ; in Glasgow the births 333, the
deaths 267 ; and in Dublin the births 153, the
deaths 154. There were 268 deaths in Vienna dur-
ing the week ending the 18th inst.
SOUTHADIPTON.—Among the population of this
borough (estimated to the middle of the present
year at 53,001) 27 deaths were registered during
the week ending last Saturday ; of these 4 were
again referred to scarlatina ; no death resulted from
cholera. The annual rate of mortality during the
week was 27 per 1,000 persons living.
MANCHESTER.—The high rates of mortality which
have occurred in the city of Manchester and borough
of Salford during the last few weeks have been
caused by an epidemic of typhus and typhoid fever,
which has been fatal there, especially in the work-
houses.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said that why the prisoners were not in a
workhouse no human being but themselves could tell.
There was no necessity whatever for their being about the
park, especially during such weather as the present. It
was shown that Triggers, when she was admitted, would
not stop. Had they been refused admission he (Mr. Tyr-
whitt) would have interfered, but that did not appear tobe
the case. The prisoners had no right to be where they
were found, but he did not believe they had any intention
of committing a felony, and should therefore discharge
them. If, however, they were brought before him as dis-
orderly prostitutes, they would be committed for a month
each.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.257 in
The barometer pressure was 29.99 in. on the morn-
ing of Sunday, and fell to 28.82 in. on Wednesday.
The mean temperature of the air in the week was
50.6 deg., which is 9.3 deg. above the average of the
same week in 50 years (as determined by Mr.
Glaisher). The mean daily temperature was above
the average every day, and the excess was always
9 deg., or near that amount. The diurnal range was
also remarkably uniform, but it differed little from
10 deg. throughout the week. The difference be-
tween the mean dew-point temperature and air
temperature was 3.8 deg. The mean degree of
humidity of the air was 87, complete saturation
being represented by 100. The wind blew from
S.W. and S.S.W. ; on Saturday it changed to S.S.E.
It blew occasionally in heavy squalls. The amount
of rain was 0.98 in., most of which fell on the first
four days. The barometer at Liverpool fell to 28.31
in. at 11h. 30m. a.m. on Wednesday.
With the exception of the water supplied by the
Lambeth Company all the waters exhibited this
month a marked increase in the total amount of
solid impurity. The organic and other volatile
matters and the amount of oxygen required for the
oxidation of the organic matter have increased in a
still more striking manner in the case of the waters
of the East London and of those companies which
draw their supplies from the Thames. The quantity
of oxygen required to oxidise the organic matter
varies from twice up to four times the amount re-
quired in October. The waters of the Chelsea,
Lambeth, Southwark, and East London Companies
were turbid when drawn from the companies'
mains.

niE SRN', LONDON: WEDNESDAYrEVENING,' NOVEMBER 29, lEEE.

Dr. Underhill on Jamaica.

At a meeting held on Monday night in the Bap-
tist Chapel, Maidstone, Dr. Underhill delivered an
address on the subject of Jamaica, in which he en-
tered at length into the facts connected with the
recent outbreak in that island. The Rev. H. H.
Dobney presided, and having made a few opening
remarks he briefly introduced
Dr. UNPERHILL, who was warmly greeted by the
meeting, which was very numerous. Silence being
restored, he said—Mr. Chairman, and ladies and
gentlemen, I certainly should not feel myself justi-
fied in keeping the whole time of the meeting with
the concerns of Jamaica were it not for the pecu-
liarity of the circumstances in which I feel myself
placed. It would indeed be my duty, as the re-
presentative of the Baptist Missionary Society, to
carry your, minds to other parts of the earth ; and
certainly, when invited a few weeks ago, I did not
expect to meet you under the special circumstances
of this evening. But I feel lam justified in taking
up those points for the reasons I have stated--those
points, in order to elucidate some of the difficulties,
the perplexities, and some of the facts of this most
lamentable and painful event which has just
occurred in the island of Jamaica. The past
week, to me, has been one of great anxiety and
labour and fatigue, as my own mind has not cleared
its way to the conclusion to which this great event
must lead. We have not received any very authentic
account of the origin of the rebellion, and we can
only come to the remotest conclusion by a compari-
son of statements. Dr. Underhill then proceeded to
narrate the events in the order in which they oc-
curred. He then proceeded to say : You cannot
read these despatches as to the suppression without
being struck at the tone and the temper of the man
who put it down. It has been remarked how those
English officers seem to gloat with savage delight
over the way in which it was quelled. There are
some instances so extraordinarily singular, and so
strangely painful, that I cannot wonder that Eng-
lish people throughout the land have risen up with
unanimous voice to condemn the men who have the
heart to perpetrate such deeds as were taken in re-
taliation. Having shown the acts of the rebellion
and the methods taken, the Governor of Jamaica
enters up the causes and origin of this terrible
event. He began by telling us that there was no
assignable cause ; and in the speech he made at
Kingston before he left he said there was no
organisation in the rebellion. And yet he says
this rebellion is clue to a letter which I
wrote nine months ago to the Colonial Sec-
retary. I do not profess to reconcile the two
statements. (The speaker here repeated the
circumstances under which that letter was written,
and stated that Gordon was a native of Glasgow,
born of a mulatto mother, a man of good education
and considerable station, who took an active interest
in the welfare of the black people. He then pro-
ceeded to speak of the condition of the island.] The
produce of the island is not so large as it was three
years ago. Droughts have prevailed, especially last
year ; and when there is a great extent of distress
there is always a great amount of dissatisfaction
and discontent. Besides that there is a great want
of employment in the island. There are about 300
sugar estates in the island ; and taking the
average number of persons employed on these
estates, they do not exceed 30,000 ; another
30,000 in the coffee plantations, and about the
same number for other occupations, and we have
a total of about 90,000 or 100,000. But what is
to become of those other 350,000 people? Unless
they have other sources of livelihood they must
go away. As regards the outcry that there is
a want of labour in Jamaica, it is an utterly
' false thing. There is a want of continuous labour.
It has been said that the negro will not work
more than five days in the week. Now that is due
to the planters. When the negro was a slave, and
the planters seized the whole labour of the man, he
gave him Sunday and then the Saturday to work on
the little plot of land which he appropriated to him,
and so made him work only one or two days to feed
himself. You can understand that when they became
free they took care to keep the Saturday and the
Sunday. It has long been the law not to work on
Saturday—it is the great market day of the island.
You see on Saturday hundreds and thousands pro-
ceeding to the markets of the island, partly to dis-
pose of their own produce and partly to purchase
the things they need. Now, the reason why they
do not work continuously is because they do not
have continuous labour to do. This is just the
thing the planter does not do. There is so much
labour unemployed that the planter can get
labour any time he wants it, and so if
a shower of rain comes he dismisses his men.
One planter said he employed during the crop
time about 200 hands, but in the hot months less
than 200. Now, these people who were unem-
ployed took land themselves, and cultivated it, and
when the crop time of the planter comes, the crop
time of the men comes also. Therefore, it is evident
that the planter cannot have hands simply because
he does not take the means of securing continuous
labour by employing them all the year round. It
is a matter of political economy that the supply of
labour, as of everything else, depends upon the de-
mand ; and it is a fact that, since slavery, wages in
Jamaica have gone down, and were never lower in
the island than at this moment, and people cannot
live on the wages that they get. You can't live on
a shilling a day in Jamaica. If they can only
work half of the year, that reduces it practically
to 6d. These wages do not always get fairly
and honourably paid. There is one very singu-
lar passage of the despatch. It there states
that one of the men having an estate in this
very Morant Bay district, immediately he heard
of the outbreak sent up the wages of the
people, for it is a habit by many planters to keep
back the wages of the people, and a great amount
of dissatisfaction arises among them from the fact
that they are not regularly, constantly, and fairly
paid. So, to escape the consequence of his own
neglect, we have seen that he hastens to pay them
that they may not express their discontent by
destroying the crops of their employer. There is
one more feature I will refer to. It is said that the
negroes have equal privileges with the white man.
A £6 freehold entitles the black man to vote ; but
until last year there was an obstacle in the way of
the negro exercising that privilege. His name
must be registered. He must pay 10s. every
year ; and we know how a fee of only ls. precluded
people from exercising the privilege in our own coun-
try only a few years ago. That fee of 10s. is the key
which explains why out of 441,000 people only 2,000
are voters to supply the Assembly with its forty-
seven members. To show that they do not possess
political privileges we have only to go back to last
year, when it was enacted that not only must they
have the £6 franchise, but must pay yearly 20s. or
30s. for having their name kept on the register.
That House of Assembly was one of the bad fea-
tures mentioned in their despatches by the Gover-
nors of Jamaica. A large proportion of them are

placemen, and they all hold office under Govern-
ment. They are planters generally, and have
planters' interests at heart—just the same as in
England, where men brought up for poaching stand
but little chance of leniency from a game-preserving
bench of magistrates. There are three classes of
black men in the island : those who work on the
sugar estates, who are generally the most weak,
licentious, and dissolute people in the neighbourhood.
Another class may be called idle; they have grown up
since freedom—children, they are, of parents who died
in cholera. Even if they come to work, they can't
earn enough ; their
work is not sufficiently remune-
rative to make it worth a man's while to work.
There is another class who do not reside on the
sugar estates. They live on the mountains, and are
assiduous, diligent, and industrious. From their
labour comes all the coffee, and pimento and ginger
are nearly all their producing. They are a numerous
class, comprising between 30,000 and4o,ooo. These
are the men you hear little of—perhaps nothing at
all—for they live apart. Among these people is
growing up a large body of well-to-do peasantry.
'Though they do not possess riches they are well off.
There is much done to repress their energies by the
white man, who generally eyes the black with dis-
favour. (Having expressed an opinion that the
Governor of Jamaica would meet with his deserts,
and that a commission of English gentlemen should
be sent to Jamaica, the speaker resumed his seat
amidst much applause.)
The meeting was shortly afterwards brought to a
close.