The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-10 00:00:00

WOOLWICH GARRISON.

On Saturday Lieutenant-Colonel Grant, Captain and
Brevet Major Vaughan, Second Captain Hornsby, and
company, marched down from the Royal Artillery Barracks,
preceded by their excellent band, playing martial airs, to
the Royal Arsenal, and embarked on board the Royal So-
vereign transport, bound for Barbadoes, where Colonel
Grant will relieve Lieutenant-Colonel Story, commanding
the Royal Artillery in that island. This company has
been expected to be countermanded and sent to Canada,
and it yet remains doubtful whether those orders will not
be telegraphed to them before they leave the British coast.
Captain Evans, Second Captain Ashburne, and company,
embarked also at the same time for Island Bridge, Dublin,
and the Sovereign transport will there take on board other
drafts for corps in the West Indies.
The infantry of the Royal Artillery at Woolwich were
assembled into a single battalion on their regimental parade,
and the band having played the national anthem while the
troops gave a general salute and formed column, headed by
the Commandant of the Garrison (pro tem.), Major-General
Peter Fyers, C. 8., attended by Brigade-Major Cuppage,
Major Romer, Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General,
and a numerous and brilliant staff of officers. They
then marched out into the adjacent country in accord-
ance with the orders recently promulgated by the Master-
Gevaeral, in order to inure them to the necessary exer-
cise which they may shortly expect to experience on fo-
reign service. The men were in heavy marching order, and
appeared much fatigued on their return, owing to the state
of the roads.

Lieutenant-General Lord Bloomfield, G.C.8., G.C.H. ,
is dail-y expected from his seat in Ireland, after three months'
leav of absence, to take the command of the garrison.
Rifle Brigade, second battalion, received orders on Fri-
flay to complete the deficiencies in their companies up to
.one hundred rank and file ; and accordingly eight recruiting
parties have been dispersed over the manufacturing towns,
in addition to those already on that service.

CONSEQUENCES OF INTOXICATION.—On Thurs-
day an inquest was held in Essex-street, Whitechapel, on
the body of Bartholomew Carey. It appeared by the evi-
dence adduced, that the deceased, who had for years ob-
tained a miserable existence by cadging and selling matches,
got drunk on the previous evening, and was carried home
by two men to the miserable hovel where he used to sleep.
About two o'clock the following morning he was seized
with a fit, and in a few minutes was a corpse. A verdict of
" Natural Death" was returned, but the majority of the jury
were of opinion that his decease was accelerated by his fre-
quent use of ardent spirits.
A short time ago a bitch, belonging to Mr. Thomas
Bootliis, innkeeper, Guisbrough, whilst ranging about in the
wood's near that town, caught a young rabbit, which she
carefully carried to her master in her mouth unhurt. The
bitch had recently had pups, which were removed from her,
when she immediately commenced sucklinf; the rabbit, and,
strange to say, they are now (though of quite opposite na-
tures) living together in peace and harmony.

LONDON :
MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 10, 1838

In The Sun of this day will be found two highly
interesting communication, addressed respectively to
Lords MELBOURNE end JOHN RUSSELL, by Cap-
tain ST. CLAIR and Admiral NAPIER, relative to
the necessity of an immediate Reform in the British
Navy. No branch of the public service has been
more neglected than this, though none has contributed
so highly to the glory of England ; and it is therefore
with pleasure we find veterans who have braved the
dangers of the " battle and the breeze" for the best part
of a life spent in the service of their country, take the
lead in the suggestion of plans of improvement which,
to be truly valuable, must originate with men familiar
with all the practical details of the Naval Service. The
right arm of England is, and must be, from her geo-
graphical position, her fleet. With a good Naval
force, we may safely defy the worst that such enemies
as our prosperity abroad, and our free institutions at
home, may raise against us. In the language of
SHAKSPEARE in King John—

" England never did (nor never shall)
Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror,
But when it first did help to wound itself.
Come the three corners of the world in arms
And we shall shock them !"

To recover the ground which we have lost, we
must bestow our first attention upon the Reform of
our Naval service. We must repair the injuries which
our veteran Tars have sustained, for no other reason
than that they were more familiar with grappling with
an enemy than with treading the mazes of a Palace. It
is high time to take such measures as shall render the
Naval service rather an object of ambition than of
terror to young men with clear heads and stout hearts,
but without the shadow of a friend within the charmed
circle of the aristocracy to whisper their merits in the
ear of a First Lord of the Admiralty. In the Navy, es-
pecially, merit should be the only sure passport to
promotion ; and once establish this principle, and
it will be unnecessary to legislate in order to put an
end for ever to the detestable practices of impress.
ment. Having opened our columns to the publi•
cation of all interesting details upon this great
national question, we beg to state that no
party considerations shall influence us in the
insertion of any documents which may be ad-
dressed to us with a view to place the present
position of our Navy in a clearer light. The
state of our Navy has nothing to do with Whig,
Tory, or Radical struggles for political pre-
eminence. This is essentially a British, and not
a party question ; and as to the abuses which
may be proved to exist in the administration
of this most important branch of the public service,
they may be laid at the door of every British Cabinet
for the last hundred and fifty years—even when our
Naval power was at the highest. All that British
valour has done, it would do again under any
system ; but with an improved Naval adminis-
tration, it could be made to accomplish ten
times as much, without half the expense in the
way of human suffering, from compulsory service and
blighted prospects. Henceforth we shall pay much
more attention to this subject, without suffering it to
get entangled in the meshes of faction.

The Spectator of yesterday, in a long article on the
Corn-laws, has the following passage:—

The time for action has arrived—when good wheat costs
80s. to 85s. a quarter, and there is no probability of a reduc-
tion in price. But we do not see anything like a general
movement in the country for the repeal of the Corn-laws. In
Birmingham, indeed, it hasheen resolved to postpone agitation
on that subject till Universal Suffrage shall have been achieved!
Some wise men whom the Birmingham Radicals follow, have
adopted the principle, that such " small matters" as the Corn-
laws can well wait for adjustm, nt till they have carried Univer-
sal Suffrage. flad they not better leave principle out of the
question, as well as common sense ? Whatever may be thought
of it in Birmingham just now, where, we understand, there is a
temporary flush of prosperity, the more rational persuasion in
other parts of the country is, that though Universal Suffrage
is likely at some time or other to be carried, that time will
not be soon ; whereas the abolition of the Corn-laws is a prac-
tical question, which might perhaps be carried even next ses-
sion. To postpone the accomplishment of a great good until
some other more comprehensive benefit can be obtained, is the
reverse of practical wisdom. The chance—a hopeless chance
—of fJrcing the Charter from the middle classes so early, say,
as seven years hence, is a poor apology and recompense for
semi. starvation now, and the progressive decline of trade with
foreign countries.
There is a probability that, with earnest efforts, the corn
monopoly may be overthrown, even in the approaching Session.
We rubbed our eyes when we read this, because we
remembered the conduct of our Contemporary three
short months ago. If we now advert to that, and to
our own conduct in relation to the subject, it is not
for the sake of self-laudation, but to give a little in-
struction to those w ho teach others, sometimes in no
gentle terms, and to justify ourselves to those who
branded The Sun as forsaking the cause of the people,
who burnt it, and sent us its ashes, because we advised
them three months ago not to submit to " semi-star-
vation," "for the hopeless chance of forcing the Charter
from the middle classes seven years hence." Having
placed this paragraph of our Contemporary before our
readers, we must remind them, that on the 10th of
September we had to defend ourselves against the
Spectator's calumnious assertion, that the Ministerial
Press was attempting to divert the attention of the
working classes from political chancres to the over-
throw of the Corn-laws." " The fact is," said our
Whigs
throw thete
h Anti-Corn-law
. C"
Contemporary, " tlatiotnlgie
irliteesppeeraotpeleas
a tub to
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Tae wery
repelledatn the charge for ourselves ; but if
the Spectator ever had the candour to retract it, and
ever told its readers that the demand for the repeal

of the Corn-laws was not a cry got up to serve
the purposes of the Whigs, its candour has escaped
our notice. Acting in conjunction with the Spectator
at that time, the Chartists published placards which
we censured, calling nr. :lie people not to attend to the
" Corn-law agitation, which was only a trick of the
Whigs." Our Contemporary, by then discountenanc-
ing, checked the Corn-law agitation and strengthened
the Chartists in their determination to discounte-
nance it as a " trick of the Whigs." He
then did what he now sneers at as contrary to
" principle" and common sense, and, let us add
what he then knew to be wrong. To promulgate
a charge that the cry for the Repeal of the Corn-laws
was got up to serve the Whigs, and never to retract
it ; to cry down an agitation which the Spectator now
acknowledges to be proper, for the mere purpose of
damaging the Whigs, was, our Contemporary must
give us leave to say, the very rabidness of faction.
We are glad, in our own justification, to have the
Spectator's present certificate to the propriety of pre-
ferring. as we have done, the agitation of the Corn-
laws to the pursuits of the Chartists. At least it
ought to convince them that we were actuated by no
improper motives in the advice which we gave; and that
that which is prudent now was discreet in September.
In fact, if the Spectator, and those Journals which
follow its lead, had not opposed the Corn-law agita-
tion in September, and if the Chartists had followed
our advice, there would have been every probability
that this next session would have seen an end to the
Devil's laws, and the commencement of the most
memorable improvement in legislation that ever was
made in England. At present our fears preponderate
over our hopes. As the Spectator says, " the great
merchants and manufacturers have stood aloof," be-
cause they know that the effect of the abolition of the
Corn-laws would be to lower the price of all their
property. Every day those laws arc submitted
to, the stronger become the interests bound up
with them, and when th.e property classes fancy
there is danger they would rather, we are afraid,
see the people exposed to a Hindostan famine than
risk the fall in value of their beloved wealth. Go on
with the Corn-laws the nation cannot ; and how to
abolish them with the least injury to any class—for
they cannot he abolished without inflicting sonic in-
jury—is the practical question which the public is re-
quired to solve.
Having pointed out one grievous error in our Con-
temporary, we must also state that he is as little jus •
tied in applying the epithet " lying" to the remarks of
the Ministerial Papers on the question of the Exchange,
as to call the Corn-law agitation a tub thrown out to
the whale. We have stated facts on this subject, not
falsities ; and our statement does not differ in sub-
stance from that of our Contemporary, except that he
leaves out of view the increase which would accrue to
the fund for the payment of the Professors of Gresham
College by the enlargement and improvement of the
site of the Exchange. That expected increase, no
doubt, induced the Gresham Committee to acquiesce
in the City's application to Parliament ; and if it suffer
a little disappointment, it had better, as the Spectator
advises, rebuild the Exchange, without any reference
to the expenditure of 150,0001. of the public money
for a new site. We must further add, that, from any
thing we have seen, the epithet " impudent," applied
by our Contemporary to Mr. RICE for his demand, is
as little justified by circumstances as the epithet
" lying," applied to the Ministerial Journals, or as the
assertion that the Corn-law agitation is a " scheme
of the Whigs."

The official account of the suppression of the late
rebellious movement in the Canadas, published in our
columns of this day, confirms the statements which ap-
peared in The Sun of Saturday, extracted from the Ame-
rican journals brought by the Great Western. There is
an end of hostilities for the present ; and if the United
States authorities do their duty, as recommended by
President VAN BUREN in his excellent proclamation,
the Loyalists may dismiss all apprehensions of further
mischief. It is now notorious that the rebels are in
themselves a mere handful of refugees, and that under
the name of suppressing an insurrection in the Ca-
nadas, the British troops have been engaged in re-
pelling an invasion of our territory by bands of
armed ruffians, the subjects of a State in strict alliance
with us. This is not to be endured ; and we are
happy to see that the United States' Executive re-
gards the conduct of these brigands in the same light
that we do. As to the meetings of the " Sympa-
thisers," in New York and elsewhere, the following
remarks upon them, from the New York Times of the
20th ult., may be taken as a fair sample of the light
in which they are viewed by the respectable Press in
every part of the Union :
We regret exceedingly to see these meetings in our city; they
endanger the peace of two great nations. We do not doubt
that the general feeling of Great Britain and the United
States is mutually friendly and kind, but there are some old
unsettled scores between them as nations, and there are very
many individual animosities, some of them most rancorous,
add to this the great number of people in both nations whose
chief delight and thrift is in war and revolution, and the num-
ber ready to fan the embers will be considerable on both sides.
and we must not forget that both Governments are measurably
guided and controlled in ►heir policy by the will and the influence
of the people. It is the professed genius and duty of our Govern-
ment to be ruled by public opinion, and we know that the
British Ministry watch the indices of public opinion almost
as carefully as our own, and further, no race of men on
earth are so sensitive of their honour, or so restive under real
or supposed injuries as the Anglo-Saxons. Let us, then, be-
ware of the incipient movements in this dangerous business.
We are now obviously entering on a career of national pros-
perity Every branch of industry, agriculture, commerce,
manufactures—is rapidly rising from the late prostration.
Let us not blight this goodly prospect in the bud; let us
avoid and suppress the remotest provocatiohs to a war; and,
in order to do so effectually, we must avoid and suppress the
causes of excitement. Let every man suppress the excite-
ment of his own breast, and make it his duty to assuage it in
the breasts of his acquaintances, wherever he finds it. We
repeat, these sympathy meetings are very dangerous.

The return of the Great Western to Bristol, and
the arrival of the Liverpool at New York, have put an
end to the misgivings on the subject of steam naviga-
tion across the Atlantic, to which the first unsuccessful
effort of the Liverpool bad naturally given rise. So
great were those misgivings at New York, we are in-
formed, in consequence of the non-arrival of the Li-
verpool, that several persons who had taken berths in
the Great Western declared off, and paid the forfeit-
money rather than venture in a steam-ship. The at-
testation, therefore, to her good qualities as a sea-
boat, and to the care and attention of her commander'
which we publish to-day, comes very appropriately to
confirm the good opinion which must be the conse-
quence of her two safe and speedy voyages. Both on
her outward and her homeward passage, this vessel
experienced gales almost as heavy, amounting, in fact,
to hurricanes, as are ever encountered, and her com-
plete success is the crowning triumph of steam naviga-
tion. The practicability of crossing the ocean in
all seasons by the help of paddles, is now fully
established by the care of the enterprizing Company
which first undertook to send a steamer to New
York, and the skill of the accomplished com-
mander they have employed. Through his in-
strumentality, says a Correspondent, the Company
has conferred a lasting benefit oft the public, and no
small honour on the nation. We trace in the gift of
the hatters of Berwick of a very best beaver, of their
own manufacture, to GRACE DARLING, the exist-
ence in the people of a most healthy, generous, moral
spirit, and we anticipate from its existence that the
public will step to, ward to bestow sonic reward on
Captain HosKixr, and commemorate the peacefu,

triumph which he has achieved. Peace has her vic-
tories as well as war, and his stitcess is one of them.

We rejoice to find that the conduct of those among
the advocates of the " People's Charter," who have
been lately recommending an appeal to physical force,
in order to attain the accomplishment of their political
purposes, is viewed in its true light, and repro-
bated with just severity, by the better disposed
and more enlightened portion of the Char-
tists. The latter clearly see that the public mind
has taken the alarm at the daring avowal of a
course of proceeding, the first effect of which, were it
successful, would be to cover the land with bloodshed,
and the final consequence to estabish the jointlreign of
anarchy and, tyranny. They perceive also that, as the
natural result of this alarm, all the rest of the com-
munity will make common cause against the Chartists,
who, so far from advancing either their own prin-
ciples, or the general cause of freedom, will
soon find that both have been retarded by
their mischievous fully. Wisely, therefore, have the mo-
derate Chartists acted in publicly branding with their
reprobation, all attempts, either by word or deed, to
incite the Working Classes to the employment of any
other than moral means, in their agitation for the
Reform of the Constitution.

The Rev. Mr. BREWSTER, of Paisley—the gentle-
man who was punished by his Co7Presbyters for dining
with Mr. O'CoNNELL—has taken an active part in this
laudable endeavour to bring the Chartists round to a
better way of thinking and acting. The Reverend Gen-
tleman, at a meeting of the Paisley Political Union,
about a month ago, moved a series of stringent Reso-
lutions, deprecating inflammatory language, and other
violent proceedings at public meetings, the effect of
which has been to elicit from the other Associations a
similar expression of their sentiments. At a meet-
ing held on the Calton-hill at Edinburgh, on Wed-
nesday last, attended, we believe, by delegates from al-
most all the Associations, Mr. BREWSTER in the
Chair, among other resolutions the following, of which
every good man, and every friend of peace, we should
have thought, must approve, was passed :
" That this meeting most decidedly and unequivocally
condemn the conduct of all those who have used such
language, as both illegal in itself, and as highly injurious to
the people's cause; and that we expressly repudiate and re-
nounce all connection with such individuals, and with all who
approve of their conduct; and will not in any respect recognise
them, or co-operate with them, either directly or indirectly,
either personally or by deputy, as associates or allies in
this movement, till they have retracted the language and
disowned the principles they have inculcated or approved of,
in reference to physical force ; until they have given ample
and satisfactory assurance to the people in Scotland, whose
general sentiments we now represent, that they will abstain
from such conduct in future ; and we, in our own name and in
the name of our constituents, disclaim all connexion with that
very small portion of our countrymen who have not yet seen
it to be their duty to co-operate with us in the objects of the
present meeting, as expressed in this and the foregoing resolu-
tions."

The Glasgow Association, however, we are told has
protested against the resolution.

The Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday, with
advices from Madrid of the Ist inst., have been received
this morning. The little news they bring is satisfactory.
Extracts from them will be found in another column.

News from China, via New York, has reached us
to the 21st of July, says the Chronicle, and will be found
interesting. It appears that Captain Elliott, the British
superintendent, had declared his intention to resist the edict
from Pekin for the expulsion of foreign merchants, and a
very angry correspondence has taken place between him
and the Viceroy. Captain Elliott, in fact, had struck his
flag and returned to Macao, refusing to communicate
with the viceroy unless allowed to do so directly, while
the latter would only hold intercourse with him
through the Hong merchants. In the last document
of the Viceroy he expressed himself very angrily, and
said, " the vain aspirations of Captain Elliot dis-
played a vanity somewhat like that of a craw-fish
brandishing his claws as if they were battle axes." Sir
F. Maitland, the Admiral commanding the East India
station, had arrived at Tongkoo Bay on board the
Wellesley, 74 guns ; but had been prohibited by an order
from the Viceroy, from landing at Macao. It was under-
stood, however, that he did not intend to pay attention to
this prohibition. The Government were still carrying on
their measures against the opium trade, as well as the
exportation of silver. The Free Press of July 2, con-
tains a long and very curious report on these subjects,
recommending that smokers of opium should be punished
with death, and that other severe measures should be
adopted to suppress the practice. A number of iEsop's
fables have been translated into the Chinese, and had found
favour in the eyes of the celestial people. Contrary to
all law, usage, and custom, a foreigner had opened a
shop in Old China-street, which is beyond the factories,
the locality for strangers. This had thrown the Hong
merchants into a desperate state of anger, but the offender
declared he would run the risk of having his house and goods
seized.—[Our Contemporary, however, has forgotten to
add the moral to his fable. Admiral Maitland means to
land at Macao in spite of the Government ; and a foreigner,
probably an Englishman had opened a shop contrary to all
the laws, usages, and customs of the Celestial empire. As
the English act so to other nations, perhaps some of them
may be induced to follow the example. We can point out
a capital opening. Corn is some 70 per cent. cheaper in
various parts of the neighbouring Continent than here ; and
we would recommend some German or Dutchman to esta-
blish a shop for the sale of bread or corn at the mouth of
the Thames, and import it at all times in spite of the Cus-
toms and the Coast Guard. Whatever may be the laws,
usages, and customs of the landlords and their agents
the law-makers and the Custom-house officers, we will
answer that any Dutchman or German making the experi-
ment would receive a great deal of popular support. If he
were to fix his shop in a manufacturing neighbourhood the
bulk of the people would aid him in setting the law and the
landlords at defiance. We hear a great deal about preserv-
ing the supremacy of the law, though how it is to be pre-
served when it justly excites the indignation of two-thirds of
the population, will be difficult to explain.]
Little doubt exists in the best informed circles,
that an augmentation of the rank and file of the army will
take place. The best reason assigned for the non-issue of
the order—which, we hear, was contemplated some time
ago—is, that the recruiting service has not yet been able
to complete the number of men voted by Parliament ; and
that, until that number shall have been raised, the order
will be held back. Some years ago, when men were has-
tily required to complete the two additional companies in the
infantry regiments, the bounty was, for a limited time, in-
creased to 41., and the standard was lowered. We have at
all times urged the necessity of raising the bounty, which at
present does not suffice to equip the recruit with his regi-
mental necessaries ; the result of which is, that the young
soldier is made wretched and discontented on his first
entry into the service, by being placed under stoppages,
to liquidate the debt he owes to his Captain ; and all
this at a time when his drill is severe and irksome, and
when some small balance of pay over the amount of mere
subsistence is more than ever required to reconcile him to a
new mode of life, in which the wholesome restraints of a
Spartan discipline must be at first almost disgusting, how-
ever easy and even agreeable a soldier's life may be after
habit has become a second nature. In the best spirit, and
with a sincere desire to see the humblest soldier that swells
the numbers of the British army as contented and comfort-
able as this great nation can and ought to make its devoted
defenders, we have at this favourable time ventured to re-
cal to the recollection of the Secretary at War, and of the
military authorities, a precedent for an increased bounty,
and endeavoured to draw their humane attention to the
straitened condition of the young soldier enlisted under the
Present parsimonious system.—Naval and Military Gazette.
It is very generally rumoured that two regiments
will proceed direct to India, and that the drafts for all the
regiments already serving in that country will be embarked
atc an early period. The recruiting for all the corps in the
East Indies is carrying on with great exertion in every dis-
trict in the United Kingdom ; but as yet, we regret. to
learn, without corresponding success. On inquiry, we are
informed, that nearly 1,800 men are still wanting to com-
plete the regiments in India, and that even this number is
very far under the real number required, as a very large
proportion of invalids from Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay
have, by this time been embarked for discharge in this
country, though they are borne on the strength of their
respective regiments. We have little doubt that, with the
urgents demands for men in Canada and India, Govern-
ment will ere long find the absolute necessity of calling out
the English Militia to a considerable extent.---Naval and
Military Gazette.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 8.-2,000
American and 1,000 Maranhams were parted with late
yesterday evening, but the sales were not reported until the
morning. A large quantity of Cotton changed hands to-day.
~000 bags American were purchased on speculation, and
the total sales amount to 8,000 bags, for which full prices
were obtained.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEW.

CITY (THIS DAY), TWELVE O'f:LOCA.
Posted at the North and South American Coffee-house.
Extract of tr. letter from Montreal, Nov. 19:—
" Sir John Colhurne has strength enough for any thing
which can be brought against him in this provincd. Two
additiOnal regiments, 11th and 23d, are on their way by water
from Halifa* for Quebec. The volunteers hate turned out
well, and we can spate a few more regiments from this for
the Upper Province. There are about 800 prisoners in Mon-
treal gaol, nearly all of whom were taken in arms. Their trial
by Court-martial will take place on Tuesday next.
A. Stewart, Esq., the present Solicitor-General, has
been sent for from Quebec, to assist in the trial.
There is no doubt that many will be executed. I
heard him say yesterday that Sir John Colborne should
hang ten or twelve leading rebels in each rebel parish.
This, he said, was the only way to put the rebellion down,
otherwise we should have a rebellion every winter—that they
should be hung in the parishes in which they had stirred up
rebellion---nnd their bodies should remain hanging as an ex-
ample to others. This is the only way to do with the Cana-
dians ; they have no moral principle.
"The prisoners in gaol arc living in affluence, allowed candle-
light all night, and many of them sit up all night playing cards."
Arrivals this morning—Two French, two Ostend and Dutch
mails, also a mail from Jamaica.
The Magnet sailed on the Ist November ; Barbadoes, 3d
November ; St. Thomas's, 11th November,
(By the mail from Jamaica. )
MEETING OF THE ASSEMBLY OF JAMAICA,

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20.
Shortly after three o'clock, this afternoon, the Speaker took
he chair, and informed the House that it had met agreeably
_o his Excellency the Governor's Proclamation, when his Ex-
cellency was pleased to deliver the following
SPEECH.

" Gentlemen of the Co;nciT,Vr.Speaker. and Gentlemen of
the House of Assembly—The most important in the annals
of Colonial history has taken place since 1 last had the plea-
sure of meeting the Legislature of the Island, and I em happy
in being able to declare that the conduct of the labouring
population, who were then the objects of your liberal and en-
lightened policy, entitles them to the highest praise, and
amply proves how well they have deserved the boon of freedom.
" It was not to be expected, that the total extinction of the
apprenticeship law would be followed by an instantaneous re.
turn to active labour ; but feeling, as I do, the deepest interest
in the successful result of the great measure now in progress,
I sincerely congratulate you and the country at large on the
improvement which is daily taking place, in the resumption of
industrious habits, and I trust there is every prospect of agri-
cultural prosperity.
" Many important subjects consequent upon the altered con-
dition of society will, I hope, receive your early and serious
consideration.
" Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly,—
I shall lose no time in laying before you various despatches
from her Majesty's Government.
" I beg to a,snre you of my cordial co-operation in all
measures which may tend to improve the laws, to give security
to property, to protect the just rights of the peasantry, and en-
sure peace and happiness to all classes of her Majesty's
subjr cts. "
Barbadoes Papers to the Ist of November, which do not
contain any news of importance, have been received
We have received St. John's, N. 8., Papers to the 9th of
November (unimportant).
We have received Trinidad Papers to the 31st of October.
On a perusal of our Barbadoes file we find little of interest
to our readers. The peasantry seem to work better and more
continually.
ST. Lu.clA.—The Palladium of the 6th says,—" Bad news
for the country; the labourers have struck work on several
estates."