The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-26 00:00:00

Avcr.tga Amount.
Wilts and Dorset Banking. Corr.par, Salisbury 62,685
West Riding Union Banking C,onipauy, llud-
derstield
Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company,
Whitchurch
Worcester City and County Banking Company,
Worcester. . . , 6,975
York Union Banking Company, York 65,37:3
York Gt 7 and County Bankiw'r o:mpany, York 89.251
Yorkshire Banking- Company,Leolsi
P. DEANS, Registrai el Bank Returns.
Stamps and Taxes, De: ember 19, 1846.

6,581 i

BRITISH GUIANA. .
(From the Colonial Gazette.)
An address, of which the following is a copy, was
presented to Mr. Young, the Government Secretary of
British Guiana, on his recent departure from the colony
for this country. The address describes Mr. Young to
have been the confidential officer of successive " Admi-
nistrations"—meaning those of Governor Light, the
present Governor, and of his predecessor, the late Sir
Carmichael Smyth. These periods include the abolition
of slavery, the apprenticeship, entire emancipation, and
the enactment of the local civil list : settlements of the
highest itnpor anee, peculiarly- susceptible of exciting
political strife and animosity-4s, indeed, they did
actually produce contests of great local magnitude, as
well as of embarrassment to the Home Government. It
is therefore highly creditable to all parties—to Governor
Light, to his secretary, and to the inhabitants—that after
the lapse of time, from 1834 V 1846, the services of a
confidential officer of the L';cal Government during the
whole of this eventful period should be acknowledged
by the colonists in the terms of the farewell address to
Mr. Young. The address is also of interest as containing
a brief but specific enumeration of the claims of British
Guiana on the mother country, arising out of the recent
withdrawal of protection on colonial sugar, and the
consequent competition with slave grown foreign pro•
duce. I hese claims resolve themselves in substance,
into-Ist. More copious emigration from Africa ; 2d.
Equalisation of the duty on' British colonial rum as
compared with British spirits ; 3d. No protection to
British refiners as against British colonial refiners. In
short, the colonists claim the practical extension of free-
trade principles to the colonies.

The address was forwarded to Mr. Young with the
following letter from Mr. Rose, an elective member of
the Court of Policy:—
" Georgetown, Demerara, Oct. 19, 1846.
"My dear Sir,—l have been requested by the elective
members of the Court of Policy, of the Combined Court,
of the College of Electors, and other inhabitants of
Georgetown, to present you with the accompanying ad
dress. It has been my lot to be opposed to you in local
politics perhaps more than any other individual in the
colony ; it is a consolation to me to be able to record
that our polical strife never interrupted our social inter-
course ; the causes which gave rise to our differences of
opinion on local measures have long since passed away,
and it affords me great pleasure to bear testimony to
your unwearied zeal in the discharge of the various pub-
lic duties you have been called on to perform. I can
confidently assert that her Majesty has few servants in
her colonial possessions who possess your ability, and
none of greater powers of mind or more conciliatory
manners.—Wishing you a pleasant voyage, I remain,
my dear Sir, yours sincerely,

" PETER ROSE.
" To the ion. 11. E. F. Young, Government
Secretary."
"Georgetown, Demerara, Oct. 19, 1816.
"TO THE HON. H. E. F. YOUNG, GOVERNMENT SECRETARY.

" Sir,—We, the undersigned elective members of the
Court of Policy, of the Combined Court, of the College
of Electors, and other inhabitants of Georgetown,
having heard with regret that the colony is about to be
temporarily deprived of your services, desire to convey
to you a record of the public esteem which you have
acquired during your long residerce among us in an
official capacity, a record which would have been more
numerously subscribed had the public generally had any
intimation of your intended departure from the colony.
The length of time which embraces the period of your
official employment has been such as, perhaps unavoid-
ably, to preclude anything, like a constant coincidence of
opinion or action between us and the successive Local
Administrations of n hieh you have been the confidential
officer. On one point, however, we can proclaim a uni-
versal assent, viz., that of ) our zeal, diligence, and com-
petency for the offices (many of them purely honorary,
but not on that account the less laborious) which you
have usefully filled in this colony. We trust that your
official knowledge and your local experience may sub-
serve the interests of Guiana during your visit to Eng-
land. The lapse of years has produced many new
vicissitudes of immense moment to the colony. Our
precarious condition is a matter of notoriety,
"In our present arduous struggle to regain and exceed
our former capacity as an exporting and useful depen-
dency of the empire, not only are the advancing civilisa-
tion and welfare of our own population at hazardous
stake, but in our fate is involved also a weighty influ-
ence over the destinies of foreign neighbouring posses-
sions which have not yet entered on the same trying
ordeal.

" We confidently claim the fulfilment of those expec-
tations which the Home Government has recently re-
iterated of relief to our pressing needs ; our confidence
rests on the growing opinion of the British public that
hitherto the West Indies have not had fair play, and
that the policy adopted towards them has been one of
bungling, vexatious, and unjust restraint. We ask for
a wiser, more efficacious, and more economical applica-
tion of the funds of the British Treasury to the suppres-
sion of the slave-trade ; exchanging the enormous cost
of an imperfect or mischievous blockade of the coast of
Africa for the lesser expense of supplanting slavery
within the African continent by well-regulated and co-
pious emigration from thence to all colonies where free-
dom prevails.

" We ask that British plantation produce be admitted
into breweries and distilleries in Great Britain on the
same terms as British grain is admitted into them at
home ; and that no higher duties be levied in Great
Britain on produce refined in the colonies than on pro-
duce refined in Great Britain ; and that the duty on rum
be equalised.
"To whatever degree these, our just and reasonable
claims, can be furthered by your support in England,
you will have added to your own claims on our hiE,,h
estimation of your public services to this colony ; with
which it may be said, on acccunt of your highly re-
spected father's services, you are hereditarily as well as
personally connected.
" Wishing you every prosperity, we subscribe our-
selves your most obedient humb'e servants."
(Here follow the signatures.)

"Kingston, Demerara, Oct. 20, 1846.
" My dear Sir,—The frank and friendly, but too
flattering, manner in which you have expressed yourself
towards me in your note, enclosing the numerously-
signed address of the inhabitants of Georgetown, has,
if possible, enhanced the gratification with which I have
received so handsome a testimonial—my sense of which
I have endeavoured to convey to them, collectively, in
the enclesed reply.
" Very sincerely yours, " H. E. F. YOUNG.
" To the llon. Peter Rose."
" Kingston, Demerara, Oct. 20, 1846.
" Gentlemen,—l hasten to assure you that lam very
gratefully sensible of the honour which you have paid to
me in your kind and flattering letter of this date. In
the subordinate situation to which my. official duties are
restricted, it would be manifestly improper for me to
presume, without authority, to advert to the important
topics of public policy which are embraced in your let-
ter. I can only say that on any occasion when, without
presumption, it may be in my power to urge on the con-
sideration of her Majesty's Government the immense
capabilities and the inadequate development of the re-
sources of this noble province, the perseverance, enter-
prise, and activity of its intelligent inhabitants, under
critical and discouraging circumstances, I shall
with pleasure do my utmost to make these
facts better known and appreciated, especially
the wants and wishes of the proprietary body :
being well aware that in thus acting I shall be
humbly adopting that spirit of zeal for the welfare •of the
colony which has ever characterised the conduct of my
immediate chief, Governor Light, in necessary obedience
to whom every word and act of my tificial career, during
his administration, have been guided and regulated. With
renewed assurances of the pride and pleasure with which
I have received your letter, and requesting that you will
be so obliging as to make my feelings known to the other
gentlemen who have signed it in common with yourselves,
I have the honour to subscribe myself,
"Your very faithful and obliged servant,
" 11. E. F. YOUNG.
"To the Hon. P. Rose, J. Croal, Jas. Stuart. and J.
Jones; Wm. Davison, C. Simson, J. Alexander, J.
Lane, W. B. Ferguson, C. Conyers, A. Wishart, and
M. Steele, Esqs."