The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-20 00:00:00

LAND.

In eply to r. C. ANSTEY
Mr.r HAWESM stated that the, Colonial-office .•4d
ceived no further information on this subject. cue
Mr. ANSTEY gave notice that on the first
night he should bring the whole subject under t'
h
si deration ot the House . Yi6i°
Mr. HUME wished to know whether anifr:is
had been made for the administration of jOtle"
colony ? et °'
Mr. HAWES said he was not able to 613511
question.

WEST INDIA QUESTION. tuoti);
Mr. HAWES then proceeded to address the 1-fiebl
the West India question. He understood that tuercor
Lord the Member for King's Lynn on Friday
his Noble Friend the Secretary for the Colonies liclertea
ing withheld from the West India Committee a,„wa t,P;
dispatch, and he had taken the trouble to firing u'r ro'
original dispatch to show the Noble Lord the Iggu]tied4ii;
King's Lynn that he was mistaken. Now °I) -1:90;
patch there was a memorandum in his Noble faro try
handwriting, representing it to be his opiniol3
dispatch ought to be laid before the Cominitletecil
was not aware until Saturday that the ""1,,C0',0
of his Noble Friend to forward the- dispatch t°
mittee had been neglected. The omission, boyies,
had ascertained occurred in the hurry of busivmeriers
when the House considered the immense a- A°o '
business carried on at the Colonial-office, 11e„ef,00,
that the House would admit that the oinissi°'3leovo;
so highly reprehensible as the Noble Lord th
leFys al(
for Kings' Lynn represented it to be. t bitliP•
the intention of his Noble Friend or No A
to withold any information of any importalle° -
House or the Committee.
MR. HUME'S MOTION. bstllle
t
Mr. FREWEN said, as it had been reportedAol e t
debate on the West India colonies would not —00,,,0,11'
evening, he wished to know whether the 11°114h;
(Mr. Hume) intended to press his motion vg•-c
tice
o
on the paper for to-morrow. inter' .
Mr. HUME replied that it was certainly h 1 see
to proceed with the motion of which he had p°s.'
and that nothing on his part would lead
ponement.

WEST INDIAN DISTRESS tbst
re
On the motion of Lord JOHN RUSSE.,,P."',e resol(i
Speaker do now leave the Chair and the in°l/;feich,iis
itself into a Committee upon the resoluti°l39 iS
proposed on Friday last, with respect to di‘tre-
West Indies, isec
Mr. E. ELLICE rose and said, the deeelY,i/Itt I,llbe
interest with which the affairs of the "; )10
colonies was viewed throughout the country
some apology for his opposing the motion of to oblgy
Friend, in order that they might endeavour elpioS4
from her Majesty's Government some further ;
to
tion of the views they entertained with respec
be
present state of those colonies. )100 0
Sir J. PAKINGTON interrupted the -won' cod
for the purpose of asking him whether or not eicaroe,
give him permission, before he proceeded an %ice.,
to move the amendment of which he had given no pff.o
Mr. ELLICE said his particular object wsseo,
vent the Hon. Gentleman moving his emenclnifor,
his (Mr. Ellice's) opinion the question now beoirler;
House had been too much narrowed, and he °old( v
that there were graver and more serious o°,e
Lions which must yet be brought under niseP,i,
lie view before the question could be dig° e0(1;y
There could be no doubt of the ruinoq, coi
Lion and distressed state of the West low of die'e
nies at the present moment. An extentd ie
eijir
tress and ruin existed in them unparallele red
history of any country. Now, what was the Gafer,;;,
proposed by the Noble Lord at the head of the iclfro
went? The Noble Lord's remedy was an eaP.%;oei
He proposed to lend 500,0001. to the colonies• poi
would venture to say that 500,0001 was never
to be lent for a more useless purpose' or on a 13/°oohhe
stable security.—(Hear, hear.) But what 11e•li 1,
them to regard was, the probable temper in rihic ,11"
project of the Government would be receiveo,le
0";
West
Indies. What feelings would it not excifillollcrf
blishments in Jamaica, in British Guiana, and ela,leisseli
could, of course, no longer be maintained after
arrived. They would be thrown up. The ownher;rotli;
be engulphed in a common ruin. Under sue t prorof
stances, let him ask what did the Governillerje,ee dl
to do? It such were the effect of these reso1111'" elre,,°e
did his Noble Friend propose to do? As thing; 91,viet
stood, what was the position of public affaill-CoPY
ttra? The Council there had appealed to Woe Or,
Government for a reduction of 05 per cent. resldr
ties of the officials of the colony, on the ye,/ 001;10
able plea that with reduced means they conk, ripeoso
tain their former expenditure. Earl Grey r9„01 leit
listen to this appeal. What was the consennent;;;ol
the colony had refused any further supPliesois So°ol/
grievances were redressed.—(Hear, hear.) etedV
Friend might rely upon it that a similar ask' vot
very speedily be presented by all our other so tbecor
colonies.—(llear, hear.) For the last two Yekets °oe)
penses of Jamaica had come out of the rcti for, c of:
merchants, but this could not continuee-ck
The total expense of the government of darl63-000ParY
peered, was 300,00/. per annum, of which 3
in the collection of the reveaue alone—(Fie'423,o°,`;oll3
while 55,000/. was spent in civil salarie!a `,;01f1
judicial, and 30,000/. in ecclesiastical. 191 •eure
Friend imagine that this enormous eaPendi loalgt.3 be
be much longer borne by the impoverished 1,0 0(
(Hear, hear)—and if he did not suppose this, ajorPie)
~e c ~
intend to keep up the establishments of 5,,/,,,r, 41.;
did he intend to keep the colony at all?---(7.500Food
He wholly objected to the proposed grant °the 01.,1
even supposing the colonists would take egerfrtli:j
which he did not believe they would, he
principle involved as altogether unsound'
moment, numbers of the less favourshtir
estates in our West India colonies 're..,:ef, o.lj
abandoned, and the cultivation of a great tti Q'
was on the point of being given up. —(l9 del° of ,‘
just possible that by the application rvithen
some judicious remedy, by the better adjuslll3,4o()Oe;
demand and supply of labour, the estates n° all Oti,
given up might yet be retained in cultivaneo; isoei
coloured population be saved from involveywooCiq
ruin which had fallen upon the white, but d° Or' er
might, the present proprietors were alln°ste,rbilleAfejs4ll.
retrievably ruined.—(Hear, hear.) His *Jorrt'e ivf;
in the course of his speech on Friday had, ,re
theory prevalent at the Colonial-office, /v11:001001
pression seemed to be that the West India Pi.sot
Of
a reckless improvident race, who knew n011'1,100(3 Of
business, which the Colonial-office itself was yeleti tie
petent to conduct—(Hear, hear)—his Noble„d bra"'
echoed the cry that the West India planters Tried:or:
ruin upon upon their own heads by their ell bole'
The investigations of the recent Committeevic
had at once shown that the nostrums of t".o6lolei
office were wholly inapplicable, and that thf ieo
diens, so far from being chargeable with reolecoo ei‘
fulness, had applied the utmost care, and, of 40
management to the attempted preservatl°_„eofe`vo Oft
property.— (Hear, hear.) Every new 113;feer°d tl/Srs
in cultivation, every new machine had heehooe I.t
adopted, but to no effect, and the evidence 5 deepero,
many of these unfortunate men, driven wag, reel!
our own colonies, had transferred their
oener Pot Pi'',
skill, and their machines, to Cuba and I",,ect Aco
colonies, which held out to them some Perr°:riefoorotnr
existence.—(Hear, hear.) Already we poi) .1 I"
the proportion of the white to the coloured , so
in our West India colonies had been reduce I',loll
cent., and this small number was becos3_lrsol.,:o et,
smaller, by the withdrawal, in utter despair:orue I,ift Doi
families. Unless some very decided step be jzo
the way of relief, there would, ere long, hearV,
population at all left in the colonies—(Hear, re ar
the whole of the little trade that ff.did nd to
there, falling into ita natural ohlaulGit 1/.°l'