The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-04 00:00:00

TO THE ASSEMBLY.

" Gentlemen of 'the Council, Mr. Speaker, and Gentle-
men of the Assembly—l avail myself of the earliest period
which the termination of the elections would admit to call
you together, being well aware of the great mass of busi-
ness which it will be necessary that you should dispose of
during the present session. It will be my duty hereafter to
make you separate communications upon several points.
The most important, however, and those which I would
suggest as requiring your more immediate attention, I will
now briefly allude to.

" The Act in aid of the Abolition Law, and the Police
13i11, will expire at the end of this year. I recommend
to your earliest consideration.
" It being of the utmost importance to the success of
the system, which the law declares shall prevail, that it
should be made equal in duration! with the apprenticeship,
as the Act in aid was passed tor the particular purpose of
remedying the deficiences in the original colonial law, and
as it has been found, practically speaking, to be adequate
to the purpose for which it was intended, I must express a
hope that you will renew it without any alteration, except
as to duration.
" The British Government does not attach less impor-

tance to the renewal, for the same period, of the Police
Bill. I will cause to be laid before you documents show-
ing the essential service that force has rendered to the co-
lony, in the enforement of industry ; at the same time it is
my duty to state to you, that, had I been able to hold out
the inducement of a longer, certain period of service, I
could have procured from England a number of sufficient
experienced non-commissioned officers, already acquainted
with that description of service. To the want of a number
of that class, I attribute certain irregularies in the indivi-
dual behaviour 'of the men; but am gratified in having it in
my power to say, that no charge affecting their conduct, as
a body, has, as yet, been made to me.
"I cannot avoid impressing on you in the most urgent man-
ner, the necessity of establishing a greater number of Courts
of Assize than have been heretofore necessary : the experience
of near two years, which I have passed on the Island, con-
firms me in the idea, which I formed immediately after my
arrival here—the change in the condition of the labouring
pdpulation, effected by the Abolition Law, would occasion
a necessity for increased facilities in the administration of
justice. Representations to this effect have been made to
me by the higivt legal authority in this Island, when con-
veying to me type-presentment of the Grand Jury, at the
late Supreme Court on the subject : the state in which the
civil business, which ought then to have been disposed of,
was left, would, were it necessary, afford abundant argu-
ments in favour of this measure. An Act for the regula-
tion of emigration on certain principles, which will ensure
their just rights to both employers and emigrants, I would
suggest as being highly desirable. There are, besides se-
veral alterations in the Clergy Act, and others of minor im-
portance, which I shall take a future opportunity of re-
commending to your attention.
" Mr. Speaker, and Gentlemen of the Assembly,—l am
confident you will furnish the supplies which may be consi-
dered as necessary for the service of the Colony. Such
part of the expenditure as is under my control, shall be, as
it has been, administered with the utmost attention to
economy.

" Gentlemen of the Council,—lt affords me great plea-
sure to be able to inform you, that bbere has been a gradual
but marked decrease of the number of complaints made to
the Special INlagistrats, during the-last six months. I hope
that through the blessing of Providence the favourable ex-
pectations as to the state of the Crops for next year, which
I have formed from the reports,•as welt as privete indivi-
duals, may be realized. In point of tranquillity lam gra.
tified in being able to state, there appears to be nothing left
to be desired."
The following is the Address of the touncil to his Ex-
cellency's Speech.

" We, his Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Coun-
cil of Jamaica, beg leave to offer to your Excellency our
thanks for your Speech at the -4ening of the Session.
" We fully appreciate the importance of the several sub-
jects particularly alluded to by your Excellency as requiring
our immediate attention ; and we assure your Excellency
that those subjects, and such other communications as your
Excellency may be pleased to make to us, shall receive the
most careful consideration.

" We thank your Excellency for your, suggestions with
respect to the Act in aid of the Abolition Law and the
Police Bill : we are fully convinced of the necessity of esta-
blishing a greater number of Courts of Assize."