The Sun.
London, England, 1833-09-27 00:00:00

FREE LABOUR IN JAMAICA.

An article entitled " Prospects of Jamaica" appears in
the Courant of the sth ult., containing some official
returns and calculations, the object of which is to show
that there will be a considerable balance in favour of the
colony under the free labour system. The calculations
appear to be curious in themselves, and the putting them
forth at this time is not a little remarkable, in showing
the altered state of feeling in the island since the Govern-
ment propositions have become known. The following are
the tables referred to:—

Currency.
90,758 hhds. of sugar, of 15 £ s. d £ a. d.
cwt. each, at 15/. each
31,969 puns. of rum, of 110 gal-
lons each, at 71 223,783 0 0
15,000 tierces of coffee, at 201 300,000 0 0
25,000 bags of pimento, 11. Iss 43,750 0 0
6,1,00 tons of wood, at 31 lB,OOO 0 0
Ginger, and other small arti-
cles, valued at 15,000 0 0

Sterling... 1,961,903 0 oor 2,746,661 4 0
To which sum must be added
sugar and rum for island
consumption, and exporta-
tion to North America,
stock supplied, planters, &c.
&c,, valued at 450,000 0 0

Total proceeds 3,196,664 4
Deduct
A decrease of 23 per cent., in
production, caused by one-
fourth of the negro's time
being taken from the culti-
vator, is 799,166 1 0
The expense of maintenance
of '7.15,000 apprentices, esti-
mated at 9/., currency, per
head, is 2,4 75,000/., which,
including all charges of cul-
tivation, say supplies im-
ported from Great Britain
1,000,0001. .....
Island contingencies, esti-
mated at 1,075,000 0 0

Sterling.— 3,274,166 1 0
But as the contingencies ac-
crued in the island are
drawn for, and admitting
that a premium of 17 y¢ per
cent. be obtained on the said
sum of 1,075,0001. is

Thus showing a balance in
favour of the island, 0f.., B'',6ol 10 7
The following will be the re-
sult of the tree labour sys-
tem, supposing always that
an equal return will be
made, say
Against these proceeds the following charges
must be calculated :
Wages of 99,000 able labourers
at 9.0/. each per annum...." 1,800,000 0 0
Ditto, 60,000 adults, at SI. each
per annum
Taxes, salaries, stock, imple-
ments of cultivation, lum.
ber, staves, hoops,wharfage,
&c., estimated at 1,575,000 0 0

Sterling... 3,855,000 0 0
Deduct
Rent of negro grounds, &c.. 1
estimated at about 70,000
fami!ies, at about Si. per
annum each....Z350,000 0 0
872,021 5 6 2,982,978 14 6
Premium at I'N per cent. on ,

- Valance of contingencies to
be drawn tor, say 3,50,00 g
currency £522,021 5 6
Baiance in favour of the island
under the free labour system 213,685 9 6

SUICIDE OF AN ENGlNEER.—Yesterday
an inquest was held at the Royal Fort, Grange-road, Ber-
mondsey, on the body of James Ward, engineer. The
deceased, who was in the employ of Messrs. Dunkin and
Weston, the civil engineers, recently commenced a life of
dissipation, and neglected his family. His mother, hearing
of this, repaired to his lodgings one ❑ight, and pointed out
to him the consequences of such conduct. He seemed
somewhat penitent ; but the next morning he was found
lying dead in bed, with a laudanum bottle near him.
Verdict—Temporary Insanity.
THE MURDER AT LOUGHBOROUGH.—
The two men taken into custody some time ago, for the
murder of Elizabeth Thurman, a girl about 11 years of
age, but against whom the Grand Jury threw out the bill
at the last assizes, have again been apprehended on the
evidence of a female, who has since stated she Saw the
deed counnitted.--Leicester Herald.

COURT CIRCUL AR.

The Duke and Duchess of CUMBERLAND went to
Windsor yesterday, and returned in the evening to their
residence at Kew, where their R•.yal Highnesses entertained
a select prrty at dinne-.
The Prussian and Belgic Ministers, and General GOB
LET, the Belgic Special Minister, had interviews yesterday
afternoon with Viscount PALMERSTON, at the Foreign-
office.

111. DEDEL, the Dutch Special Minister, accompanied
by his brother, visited some of the Foreign Ministers
yesterday.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and
Duchess of Cumberland, and Prince George, are ex-
pected to leave town on Tuesday next.

The Countess of Antrim will give a petite
soiree this evening.

Count Donhoff, the Prussian Secretary of
Legation, is shortly expected in town, from Berlin.

The Earl and Countess of Jersey's departure
is still unsettled. All that is determined upon is, to pay
a visit to the Prince Talleyrand, at his marine villa in
France, in the first instance.

Lord and Lady Lyndhurst and family are
about to pay a short visit to the Continent. They were to
have embarked at Brighton for Dieppe the day before
yesterday. His Lordship intends to remain in France
until his judicial duties call him back to London.
The Earl of Albemarle will give a grand
entertainment this day, at the Stud House, Hampton
Court, to the King and Queen. The fruit on the table
is a present from the Duke of Norfolk; it was brought
from the matchless gardens of Arundel Castle.
We are informed that Colonel Evans's visit to
Portugal is not in any way connected with the affairs of
that country. He is gone to Lisbon on an invitation sect to
him by Admiral Napier, to spend two or three weeks
there. The Colonel and the Gallant Napier are intimate
friends.

Dr. Lushington has given it as his opinion,
that missionary meetings, held in churches without au-
thority from the Crown or the Diocesan, are illegal.

The assertion that Lady Wellesley will not
accompany the Marquis to Ireland is altogether false. She
comes to this city to be, even in the opinion of her hus-
h ind's calumniators, the grace and ornament of the Vice-
regal Court.—Dublin Evening Post.
SMALL DONATIONS.—In a collection at the
door of Salisbury Cathedral for the benefit of the county
infirmary, amounting to between 601. and '701., there
were no less than thirty-two farthings.

J. Burrell, Esq., of the Northern Circuit, has
been appointed a Police Magistrate at Queen-squire, in
the room of the late G. W. Marriott, EQq.

The Rev. Thomas Page, M.A. of Oxford,
has been appointed Minister of St. Paul's, Cheltenham, in
the room of the Rev. Sir Henry Thompson, Bart., re-
signed. Patron, the Rev. F. Close, M. A.

The Chief Judge of the Court of Bankruptcy
and his Deputy Registrar and Usher ate returned to town
to resume their official duties.

The Sheriffs elect will give their grand inau-
guration dinner on Monday next, at the London Tavern.

That part of the British Museum which has
been shut during the month will be re-opened on Wed-
nesday next for the admission of the public.

The magnificent domains at Beau Dessert,
we hear, are to be sold.

The Magistrate who is a dealer in black dia-
monds seems to have considered that committing an
assault in a police office was only carrying coals to
Newcastle.

KEAN.—Oxberry used to assert that Kean's
first display in public, after his infantine performances at
Drury lane, was at Bartholomew fair, where be represented
a monkey.

We understand that Mr. F. B. Titular, the
late manager of the Queen's, and Mr. Davidge, have en-
gaged Miss Ju:ien Dunbar, who became so great a fa-
vourite at the Queen's and City Theatres a short time
since.

bliss Shirreff is returned to town after a most
successful debut at Cork. Her benefit was a bumper, and
she received some handsome presents from several respect-
able families. We understand she is engaged at Covent-
garden theatre at a liberal salary.

Lieut.-Colonel Clayton, M.l'., and Benjamin
Hawes, Esq., 751. P., waited on Lord Palmerston yester-
day, to pi esent a memorial from the British residents at
Boulogne, representing the inhumanity of the French sa-
natot y laws, and requesting his Lordship's interference, as
the lives of British subjects may be lost by the execution
of these laws iR all cases of shipwreck.

Lord Crofton, who is about to marry a
daughter of the Marquis of Anglesea, is son of the late
Sir Edward Crofton, Bart., whnse death, under melan-
choly circumstances, occurred in 1816, and whose large
estates and mansion at Mote, in the county of Roscommon,
he inherited. In 1817 he succeeded his grandmother as
heir-apparent to the Irish Barony. Lord Crofton is i❑
his 27th year. He was for some time a Captain in the
7th Hussars, and is nephew of the Earl of Galloway and
the Countess of Enniskillen.

Considerable uneasiness has been created in
the various branches of the Paget family by the reported
death of Lord William Paget, at Vera Cruz, who is stated
iu a Jamaica paper to have been shot by a sentinel.
From inquiries we have made, we believe the report
admits of considerable doubt, but the next arrival from
that quarter must he awaited with considerable anxiety by
the numerous relaives of the family. The melancholy
death of Mr. Rowcroft, the British Consul, some years
ago, is brought to mind by this report.

•
The lady of Sir William Rae, the newly-
elected M.P. for the county of Bute, in the place of Capt.
Charles Stuart (nephew to Lord Stuart de Rothsay), is in
the enjoyment of a pension on the English Civil List, of
6601. per annum, which she has received since the Right
Hon. Baronet retired from the office of Lord Advocate of
Scotland, in Nov., 1830. The reason assigned for making
ow this warrant of pension was, that Sir William lost his
practice, that he gave up the office of Sheriff Depute,
worth 6001. a year, and that as a seat in Parliament is
essential to the Lord Advocate fir the time being, he was
put to considerable expense in procuring it.

An order has been made by the Board of
Customs fur the discharge of the I.d Hunter, who was
sentenced to serve for five years on board a King's ship
for endeavouring to bring on shore a few cheroots from
the Lotus East Indianian.

THE MINISTERS.—Most of the Ministers
of the Cabinet are now at extreme points of the empire ;
and two of them, namely Lord Auckland and Mr. C.
Grant, are tnaking a tour on the Continent ; the list
mentioned Right Hon. Gentleman is at present at Brus-
sels. Lord John Russell is gone to Ireland on official
business, relating, we believe, to reductions in his de-
partmen'. Sir James Graham and his colleagues have
taken their departure from Milford Haven for the Cove
of Cork. Viscount Altborp is visiting his :'o►k•hire
est ate, Wiseton, near Doncaster, bequeathed to him by the
late Lady Althorp (before her marriage Miss Acklani);
thence he proceeds to Althorp Park, to be ready fur phea-
sant shooting. The E irl of Ripon is expected at Wrist,
the seat of Earl de Grey, to be present at the nupti Ils of
Lady Anne de Grey with Viscount Furdwich. The Duke
of Richmond, Viscounts Melbourne and Palmerston, and
Mr. Secretary Stanley, who arrived yesterday, are ill
town. Earl Grey remains at Hosvick Hall in Northum-
berland.

Mr. Littleton, the Irish Secretary, is in the
43d year of his age. lie is the only so❑ of Culone'
Moreton Walhouse, of Hatherton, in Staffordshire, and at
the exact age of 21 succeeded his grand uncle, Sir Edward
Littleton, Bart., in his large property in that county, and
also to its representation in Parliament. Mr. Littleton
soon after married Miss Welles ey, the daughter of the
Marquis and of the late Marchioness Wellesley. By her
he has one son, now at Christ Church : and his second
daughter was united last year to Lord Newark, the eldest
son of the Earl Manvers. Mr. Littleton is a gentleman of
highly estimable private character, and is equally beloved
in private life as he is respected in public. As a country
gentleman he has uniformly obtained the good opinion and
affection of his neighbours, and is ever active in furthering
the prosperity of those who seek his assistance. Mr. Lit-
tleton is a keen sportsman, and was a few years since the
master of a pack of stag-hounds which were considered the
best and swiftest in England.
According to a letter from Dr. Clot-Bey, the
Viceroy of Egypt has called him to Alexandria, to or-
ganise the sanatory service of his navy. This service is to
be separated from that of the army. A Board of Health
and a School of Medicine for the navy will be established in
that town, upon the French system, which is to be strictly
followed. The young Egyptians who have been edu-

I cated in Prance are being gradually appointed to places in
public establ shinvnts ; the Sheik Refill], Professor at the
School of Artillery at Tourah ; Ahmed Youssouf, one of
those who studied chymistry, is placed at the Mint ;
Artyn.Effendi and E,tefan Effendi, who studied almini •
stration in France, are attached to the War Department,
where their knowledge and talents are appreciated. Those
who studied agriculture have been sent to the Garden of
Chobra, where they will be able to apply and develop
their knowledge. A new Treatise on Anatomy, and a
Guide fur military surgeons,have been translated into Arabic
and printed, and two other works are to be published
very shortly.

Marshal Maison has returned to Paris from
the north, where he bad been despatched to watch over
the movements of the Sovereigns He had, it is affirmed,
several long private interviews with the King of Prussia,
in the course of which the admission was made by that
Monarch that he considered a Congress at this time most
inopportune, and more likely to stir up political discontent
than to quiet it, and that he wholly disapproved of the
proceeding, to which he yielded solely at the repeated and
pressing instances of the Emperor of Russia. There is a
very firm conviction, therefore, in the best political circles
in Paris, that the King of Prussia will not lend his aid
to any of the wild ambitious projects of the Autocrat.

The line of level of the road from Brighton
to Shoreham was taken last week for the purpose of form-
ing a railroad.

OMNIPOTENCE OF THE REFORMED
HOUSE OF ComstoNs.—An Act of Parliament passed on
the 14th of August last, enacts that its provisions shall
take effect from and after the Ist of April next preceding.
Wednesday Jacques Bory, the noted Chouan
Chief, distinguished by the title of the Capitaine Noir,
was executed at Parthenay, Deux Sevres, for the murder
Of M. Ravin, Mayor of Lhoumoy.

At all times it is individuals (says Goethe),
and not the age, which have influenced knowledge. It
was his age which poisoned Socrates, his age which con-
demned Huss to the stake. Ages have always been alike.

A watchman, of the name of Sparks, was
nearly beaten to death with a poker by four young
men at Birmingham, on Saturday.— Wolverhampton
Ci~ronicle.

The Bermuda Gazette notices the death, at
sea, on board a vessel bound to those Islands, of the Hon.
Thomas Frankland, member of the Court of Policy of

Demerara.

According to accounts from Valenciennes,
the harvest in that neighbourhood has been so abundant
that, with the corn previously in btore, there is sufficient
provision for the population of that patt of the country
for three years.

We are happy to learn by further arrivals
from Davis' Straits that the whale fishing continues to be
uncommonly successful. As yet we have only heard of
one loss this season, namely, the Ingria, of Hull.—
Glasgow Courier.

The number of dairy cows kept in Cheshire
is calculated at about 92,000 ; and averaging the quan-
tity of cheese made annually from each cow at 21 cwt., it
will appear that the amazing quantity of 11,500 tons of
cheese are made every year in that county.

Upwards of 400 votes have been objected to
in Southampton, the whole of them Reformers. Sub-
scriptions have been entered into to provide them with
competent professional assistance.—Salisbury Journal.
At the Court of Revising Barristers for Lan-
caster, held on Thursday last at the Town Hall, the
following numbers were settled by the Barrister as the
electors for Members of Parliament for Lancaster, viz ,
freemen resident within seve❑ miles of the Town 11 11,
95S ; ten pound occupiers, 254 ; total, I,2l2.—Lan-
caster Gazette.

If it were generally known (says Count
Rumford) how little trouble and bow little expense are
required to do much good, the heartfelt satisfaction which
arises from relieving the wants and promo►ing the hap•
piness of our fellow-creatures is so great, that I am per-
suaded acts of the most essential charity would be much
more frequent, and the mass of misery among mankind
would be consequently much lessened.

TUSCANY SHEEP.—On the 9th August, a
ewe, at Crawfurd Priory, of the Tuscany breed, had one
lamb. She had twin lambs last spring, and was one of
two imported from Italy about three years ago by the
Right Hon. Lady Mary Lindsay Crawford. They have
had lambs regularly twice a year since. Their great
fecundity, and the fineness of their fleeces, render this
kind of sheep an object of great importance to the agri•
culturist.—Fifeshire Journal.
A NEGRO FANCY BALL IN JAMAICA.—
A free Black Fancy Ball took place on Thursday night
last at Mr. Morrell's Long-room in Church-street, King-
ston. Carriages, chaises, &c., began to arrive about nine
o'clock, and the assemblage, about ten, struck us as ex-
ceedingly pleasing and picturesque. There were Spanish
Dons and Djnnas, Italian Princes and Princesses, French
Counts and Countesses, Naval and Military Officers
represented to the life, and with all the grace and
elegance of the Almack-school. The representatives of
the Countess of .Mulgrave and Lady Rowe sustained
their characters with dignity,. The person who
was specially invited to represent Lord Mulgrave was
absent through indisposition. The ladies' dresses were
rich, fanciful, and beautiful. The group looked like the
sons and daughters of jollity and revelry, and gave de-
lightful specimens that they were the children of harmony
too. A splendid supper was served up at about three
o'clock in the morning, and imthing could exceed the
gallantry of the gentlemen during the entire night. All
was pleasure to the brim, and all was joy and delight.
he dancing was kept up till a late hour, and the daugh-
ters of Terpsichore resembled so many sylvan Goddesses,
tripping it along on " light fantastic toe.—Jamaica
Dispatch, Aug. 3. _ _

. . ...
It appears by letters recei d thi
from Paris that the expected reduction of the French army
ve s morning
will not, after all, take place during the present year. The
account of the affair now given is this:—There had oc.
curred, as is well known, during the last session, great dif-
ferences of opinion in the French Cabinet, the inconve-
niences of which, however, were prevented from tecoming
manifest by the personal influence and good management
of the King. One of the points in contest among the
Ministers was, whether the usual supplementary votes of
credit should be asked for from the Chamber of Deputies,
which some of them were averse to, because they believed
that an improper use world be made of them by other
members of the Cabinet ; and accordingly, when the war
estimates were veLed, some promise was made that such
credit would not he requited, but, on the contrary, that
considerable reductions would be made in the expenditure
of the War Department. Marshal Soult, however, the
head of that department, instead of facilitating such reduc-
tions, pressed for more money, and the usual application
of the supplementary votes of credit. This was at first
strongly resisted, particularly by M. Hamann, the Minister
of Finance, who urged his pledge to the Chamber, and
refused any additicual supply. After a severe contest,
however, the Marshal carried his point ; it was decided
that an Ordonnance Royale should be published legulating
rn ntih:
e with
highly
the extra credit, and consequently that no reduction of the
army or of its expenditure should take place in the present
year.LONGEVITY.—There is at present residing
in Cochran-street, in Glasgow, a woman who has attained
the surprising age of 107 years. Her maiden name is
Elizabeth Moore, but she is better known as ..Granny
M`Donald" in the neighbourhood in which she resides.
This relic (if a former century is a curiosity worth visit-
ing, having a never failing fund of anecdote and stories of
other times--" tales of the deeds of other years," with
which to amuse the visiter, many of them mixed with
strange infusions of the superstitious notions of her early
fife. Like all other ancit nt Scottish dames, the rebellion
of 1745 is an interminable topic of conversation with her,
and she describes with great animation the appearance of
the young Pretender, with whom she had an interview
when she resided in the south of Scotland, on occasion of
presenting him with some dainty provision of her own
cooking, which seems to have been given rather as a peace-
offering than out of any particular love for his cause. The
whole matrons of the district had vied with each other in
loading his table as heavily, and with as many delicacies
as possible, during his stay among them ; and the subject
of this notice, then a very young woman, newly eared to
the ladyship of a Maybole feu, was not, according to her
own statement, behind in her efforts to please the Prince.
G
Al'Donald has had a family of 15 children, all of
whom,
two husbands, have long ago gone before ber
into ta
dark and narrow house. At one time she had
been
respectable circumstances, and from her
conversation it is still evident that she must have been a
woman of more than ordinary intelligence. For many
years, however, she has lived in a state of deep poverty,
entirely dependent upon the support of the charitable and
humane. She is still able to walk out when assisted, and
occasionally visits in this way her benevolent friends. Her
hearing is as quick as ever it was. Her appearance is
always cleanly and neat, and an air of respectability is
thrown around her, seldom observable in persons in the
situation she now occupies.--Glasgow Argus.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S.

A very slack attendance yesterday, and only two horses
bieked fur the Derby. The following were the prices
oiLred or taken :

DERBY, 1834.
14 to 1 agst Mr. Watt's Bubastes (taken)
16 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's Olympic (offered)
16 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Guardian (offered)
20 to 1 agst Mr. Chifney's Emiliana's dam colt (taken)
20 to 1 agst Captain Gardnor's Comet (offered)
20 to 1 agst Mr. Walker's Delirium (25 to ltaken)
GRAND DUKE MICHAEL STAKES,
5 to 4 on Lord Orford's Clearwell (taken)

. .
This race willbe run at Newmarket on Monday next.
NEWMARKET ST. LEGER (NEXT WEEK).
The Duke of Rutland's Shylock was backed at 6 to 1.

LINCOLN RACES, SEPT. 25.
His Majesty's plate of 100 guineas. Heats 2 miles.
Mr. Sowerby's Volage 6 yrs.
Mt. Powlett's b. f. The Mystery 3 yrs 2 2
Mr. Walker's Volume 4 yrs.
Mr. Wilson's Vesta 3 yrs.
The Macaroni Stakes of 10 sues. each fur hunters,
(5 sulks.) Heats 2 miles.
Mr. Pelham's b. g. Jerry 6 yrs 1 1
Mr. Platel's b. g. Ultimus, aged

HASTINGS AND ST. LEONARD'S.
THURSDAY.-The Town Plate of 501. Heats twice
round, and a distance.
Mr. Christian's Metheglin
Mr. Theobald's b.m. Gretna Green 2 1 2
Mr. W. Day's br.th. Donegani 5 3 3
Mr. Coleman's b.m. Landrail 3 4 dr.
Lord Louth's br. h. Barabbas 4 dis.