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

BOON TO JAMAICA AND DEMERARA.
"TIE COLONIAL FIBRE COMPAA Y. "

TO THE EDITOR 01 411111 SVI.

Sin,--I beg to point out the strange statements con-
cerning the above Company which have been made by
the Times and the Morning Herald, and by the Com-
pany's advertisement, and to make some observations
thereon ; as well as upon the hardship of the position
in which the West India Colonies (including the Wind-
ward and Leeward Islands and Trinidad) are placed
that are excluded by the charter, and, as it seems, by
the operations of the Company, from the opportunity of
deriving benefits similar to those proposed to be con-
ferred on Jamaica and Demerara. By Demerara, as
commonly used by the colonists and by persona In Eng-
lat.d, I mean the whole of British Guiana.
The Times of the 14th inst., in its article on the money
market, although it does not disguise that the Company
confines itself to Jamaica and Demerara, talks about "a

hope that the project will give an impulse to a revival of
prosperity in the West Indies." How the Company is to

benefit the islands at a distance from Jamaica and Deme

rare—and with which Islands it is not to have any deal-
icgs—l cannot devise I 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 its City
Article, remarks, "That the 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 Wal-
den ; and that if," &c.., it needs not to be demonstrated
that the benefit to the mother country will not be less in
degree than to her ill-used and most unjustly treated de-
pendencies." All this might have been very true had
the Company included the whole of the East Indies.
Neither the Times nor the Herald can perceive any
injustice or hardship arising from this Company to th.
West India Colonies, excluded from its benefits to be be-
stowed solelyon Jamaica and Demerara. These two posses.
sions of the Crown are treated by these journals as compos-
ing the West Indies. Previously to the year 1854, whilst
residing in the West Indies, I have on many occasions
oonversed with the planters and other persons interested
in their prosperity as to the prospect which was then
held out to them of the plantain and their other fibres
coming into usa in this country for the manufacture of
cordage, ho., and throughout these islands the colonists I
have for several years past been looking forward to the •
happy day of its realisation. What, however, I will ask,
is the good of this company to any part of the West
Indies except Jamaica and Demerara ? If the benefi-, is
to stop here the rest of these possessions will not only be
greatly disappointed, but wilt complain of the partiality
exhibited in the selection of those two places.
I must not omit to call attention to the company's
title and the advertisement before alluded to. The

forintr ought to be "Tile Jamaica and British Guiana
Fibre Company," and then no one would be misied.
The text of the lattsr does not state that the compaus
applie;, only to Jamaica and Demerara, but is calculated
t., lead the public to suppose that it is a General
Company, embracing those of our possessions where the
fibres required are produced.—l remain, &c.,
FRANCIS JACKSON.
Mayfield Place, Orpington, Kent,
May 29.