The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-30 00:00:00

BOON TO .TAVAICA AND DEVERARA.-
" TEE COLONIAL FIBRE VOMPAIV Y. "

- TO vam•nraTon,or THR SUL' •
Sip,--I beg punt opt the strange statements c.-. 41-
c.rning the 'ab,ve C inpaoy which have been made by
ihe gmzeiand tL, Morning Herald, 'and by the Com-
:paq's --advertiierneut; and to; make some observations
thereon ;as well up,,n • the hardship of the position
in which. the West /rid ia; Oolonies (including; the Wind-
ward and Leeward I ial;ds and Trinidad) are placed
that are excluded by-the charter, and, as: it seems, by
the operations ot the Company, from the, opportunity of
deriving benefits 'similar to those proposed to be cur,
I.reed on, Jathaica ani Demerara. By. Demerara, as
cOmmonlyu.sed bithe'o,)lonists and by pers,,na in Eng
lard, I mean the whole of titishGuiana.
The Times of the 14th init., in AS article on. the money

naarket, although it does not disguise that -the Company
°mulles itself to Jamaica and Damerar%, talks about "a
hope,that the proj et will give an impulse to a reviral of
pi4slerity in the West Indies." How to Company is t
benefit-the islands at a distance from Jamaica and Demo.
rara—and with which iglands it is not to have any deal-
cannot devise ! If such a hope had • been held
out in reference to Jamaica and Demerara this would
have been in perfect keeping.

The Morning Herald of the same day, in itg City

Article, remarks, "Thit objects of the company are

considered of vast importance to the West India Colonies
is evidenced by the ready adhesion of the Governors of
Jamaica and British Guiana and Lord Howard de Wa',.
den ; and that if," &c:, it needs not to be demonstrate
that the benefit to the mother country will not be less in

degree than to her it used and most unjustly treated de-
pendencies." All this might have been very true hid
the Company inclutled tAe whole. of Vie East Indies.
, Neither tbe Times nor the Herald can peroeive any

ijusticp or hardship arising from this Company to it

\Veit India Colonies, excluded from its benefits to be
stowedsolelyOn Jamaica Ind Demerara. These two posses-
sions of the Crown aka treated by these j ournals as coropos;
ing the West Indies. Previously -to the year 1854, whilst
reqding in.the West Indies, I have -on- Many occasions
conversed wit 4 the planters and other persons interested
in their prosperity as to the prospect which was thee
held out
_to them of the plantain and their other fibres
'coping into usa in this country for the manufaCture of
cordage, &c., and throughout these islands the colonists
have for several years past been looking forseard to the

happy day of its realisation. What, however; I will a4l
is,the good of this eysipanY to any part of the Wept
Indies except JaAmica and Pecnerara ? If the, benefit it

to stop here the rest of these possessions Will not only he
greatly di,apriinte,i, butwili complain of the partiality
exhibited in the selection of thos:e two places.
I must not omit to call ;Mention to tbR compan3',

ti!le and the advertisement before alludel to, The
f,rmer ought t,) be "The-Jamaica and British Guiana
Fibre Company," and the❑ no one would latl
The text of the latter dues not, rase that the con,p AI

iipphes nWy to Jainaiga and DAnerara, but is ea-foul:v.,
t.) lea" the public to suppose that it iA a General C
Company, embracing those; ot our possessions where th
fibres required are produced. =I

_ FRANCIi JACKSON.
Mayfield Place, Orpington, Kona,
May 28.

EXIIIMPION OF THE A lIT Ti:EASU2 E
We TOE UNITED KIN GI.O.

-The conternplated• Fine Arts Exhibition in M,u.
cheater in 1857 is exciting the. liveliest inteize
throughout the country. The following letter ha

been received by the executive committee, an.
numerous promises of co-operation• anti suppoi
have been made by the leading collectors an(
possessors of ancient and modern pictures ant
4,atuary

" Carlton-gardens, May 22.
" Sir,—l observe in the public papers of this more in
an announcement of the determination cf the inhabitants
of Manchester to.holdian exhibition of tie art trea.ur.
ofthe United :Kingdom in the course of the ensuing yeas
aecompans€d with a list of cmitriliutors to the neceesaly
guarantee fund.
"If the a.fidision of my name as a contributor to the
amount of 1,0001. to this guarantee fund writ he s.ccepfab'e
to the other subscriberFrit.-will be a gratification to Ili,
to be associated with them on this occasion.
" No man ctn have better reason than I have to be
well asisnred that whatever purpose the inhabitants of
Manchester - deliberately undertake they will carry out.
efficiently upnn their own responsibility and with their
own reennrees ; and that they will repudiate, rather than
welcome, the exsraneous aid of strangers, But I true:

,hey will not, think that this principle is in any degre:
7i4)latqd by peribiling me to to operate with them in the
,resent undertaking, a I can sate;y asiure them that no•
,liong could be snore painful to me than the suPposition
,hat the varied associations by which have thr ,ugh

life befli counceted with the town of Manchester are now
A:t..gether dia,.,olved.—l have tha honour to he, Sir,

yout:- f3ithfill servant,

" OVERSTON E.

'The Mayor of Manchester, &c."

T.,e,Constantinople, journ4hi, stato that the Turkish
G-•• vernment had juit opened a credit of 150,0001. tf,
Aal. Pacha f)r the grand ball. which he gave in Lund,3l
on Tuesday.
THE PEACE riEJOICINGS,—LIVERPOOL, MAY 28.--
returned soldiers frim the Crimes, in this town,
will be treats A by the Mayor (Mr, John Stewart.) to
hot dinner of roast beef and plum-pnddiog,a pint of &r,
slid a shilling each.
WHOLESALE POISONING BY STRYCHNINE.—A. wealthy
young farmer in a. parish near Prediton having, in corn-
won with many.of his neighbours, suff?rad much frrim
'llie,ra4ageS of rooks (which have a• rculiir relish for
.whist just sown as well as for.gru,b,s), purchased a large
quantity of strychnine about five or six weeks since,_
which having di-salved, he steeped several bushels of
late spring whet in the liquid, aud.then•sowed it in one
f his fields, which in a few days may be said to have_
been'perfeet!y blackened. with the dead bodies of th,:
rei,ir "caw caws," several bushels of them having baen
collected.

REVOLUTIONISTS IN FgANOS. The revolutionary
movement le Fra;:ce has two great centres, which are
perfectly distinct and independent of each other... They
,re sontettinee opposed; but often act in - junction, ac-
centing to circumstances. The one has always had its
priocipal Neat in Paris, where projects arid systems are
devised ; the head-quarters of the other are at Lyons.
mbera the Magi of the people is more easily and more
surely acted upon. In fact, Paris is, in the revolutionary
scheme,, the head that plans—Lyons the arm that is ex
pected to execute. In the associations of Lyons may be
found men of nearly all political coloure-red, white,
blue, and black ; and, so
.far front being . exclusive on
account of diffeteut shades of opinion, they seek, on the
contrary, to draw within their sphere all the elements of
discoutent that are to be found in the surrounding. pro
vinces.—Times Correspondent.
A. WIFIL-POISONER .Purusium.—A Duteb journal
contains the following singular account of the escape
of a woman of Zevenhuizen from being poisoned
by her husband, and of the prompt chastisement
of the latter. A. man whose name is not gives, availed '
him Self of the opportunity of his wife's quitting the
'dining table for some domestic purpose, and rapidly
mixed"poison in the plate of soup which she had corn-
ecieeeed eating. At the moment the wife returned and
resealed herself, the husband rose and quitted the apart-
, merit under ,pretext of having forgotten something ne-
cessary. The wife, upon this, was about to recommence
eating, but, on so doing, she discovered a spider on her
plate, and having great repugnance to these insects, she
changed her plate for that of her husband, who returned
immediately after„ sat himself down, and seeing that
his wife had nearly finished her portion, ate from the
. plate before him. In . the course of a few hours he be-
gan to feel the effects Mettle poison, and, although medi-
cal aid 'was instantly called in, died, confessing that be
wnejastly punished for his own intended grime.,,
Tau SCOTCH LAW OF MABRIAGE.—On Friday a mate
risge was performed here before a justice of the peace.
A eornplair•t, was brought at the instance of the justice
of peace fiscal, that a seaman and a girl residing in
Rrpework-street had been living as man and wife with-
out being lawfully married, and. had thus committed a
clandeseine marriege, an offence proper to be brought-
before the Court, and praying for a fine to be imposed.
The parties having appeared and admitted the facts, the
sitting justice fined them in 2s. 6ii. and costs, 2/. 10s.
The flue is to be paid to the poor of the mid. parish of
Gieenock, within which the Sheriff Cerk'r office, where
the case waietried, is supposed to be. The proceedings
:tesCribe,l have the' effect of 'constituting a legal inete
tinge, and were a lopted because the seaman was to pro-
ceed to sea on that day.—Greenock Advertiser.
lONIAN BANK.—Ye4eiday the annual meeting of the
pn,prittoesof this bank was he'd at their offices, 6, Win-
chester:::treet, Oel Broatisstreet ; Mr. J. Ranking in the
chair. The Sece.tery having read the notice convenim;
the meeting, Mr. o:iver Ferree, remarking on thepsil-
city of the atten 'aece of proprietors, explained than the
day of the meeting had, in terms of the charter, been
fixed on before it became known on what day the peace
rejoicings were to take place. It was, he thougtit,
owing to both having fallen on the sane day that so
.few Were present ; and as th,3y had importatit busieee:+
to transact he would move that the meeting he adj iurned
to the 12,.h of June. Sir A. Geeen seconded the reso!u-
boo, o bleb W3.' uaanjuv-msly agreed to. The meeting
the?! separattd.
Tali WINE DUTIES. —ln consegnence of the length of
the debate on Tues lay eyeing on
,Mr. Miall's motion,
Mr. Oliveira was obliged to postpone his motion f ,t- a
reduction of the wine duties till the first open day, 24th
June. The hon. gentlemen has, added materially to his
committee both in eel out of ParliaMent .; and he had
for 'presentation several petitions, amongst them one
signed by 7,000 persons in the Staffordshire Potteries,
where thie international question has been taken up
wi'h much energy. Mr. o!iveira's proposition for a re"
flee lee is understood to be prospective and gradual in
its operationeso as to coin: r,e3 the athaategee of allow-
ing the duty-paid stock to have tie command. of the
mar et, before any great reduction takes place;- and t,
pennie of increased produee to meet the demand that
may take lilacs under a low. -r duty. We feel assured
that a question involving snob ieeportent intereeteeand
ti 'which the bon: trierrilier fir Pentefi act, ha devoted so
much study, will be fairly discussed whenever it is
I brought before the house.