The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-10 00:00:00

LAT'E6T NE WB.

MADRID, MAY 9.

The Correspondencia Autografa of to-day says :
" Spain has at present entered into no engagement
in reference to the annexation of San Domingo.
Slavery, however, is not to be introduced. The
legislation will be the same as that now valid in
the Antilles."

MESSINA, MAY 6 (via Marseilles).
No popular rising has taken place, although one
was expected.
Great uneasiness, however, prevails here.
The troops are encamped outside the town for
fear of being taken by surprise.

NAPLES, MAY 8.

Yesterday about 200 Bourbon soldiers were de-
feated by :the National Guard at a village near

Capua:

They are now surrounded at Caserta Vecchia
and Marroni by the National Guard and a detach-
ment of Bersaglieri.

SERAIEVO, MAY 9.

The town of Niksich hts been supplied with pro-
visions according to the arrangements made be-
tween the foreign consult and the Christian inha-
bitants. The Porte has agreed that the European
commission shall proceed to the Herzegovina.

INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS.
MALTA, MAY, 8, 9.25 P.M.

The Peninsular and Oziental Company's steamer,
with the above mails, has arrived here from
Alexandria.

SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 10.

The Ellora, with the hetvy portion of the Bom•
bay and Mediterranean mails, arrived off Hurst
Castle at 11.15 a.m.

COTTON IN AND FROM JAMAICA,

The Rev. Mr. Fletcher, a missionary in Jamaica
connected with the London Missionary Society,
has written a letter to Mr. Hayward of Man-
chester, dated Chapelton (Clarendon), March 9,
1861, in which he states as follows : _ .

" You and the cotton supply friends will I doubt
not be gratified to hear that I have now beside me
three bags of what I think you would call a beau-
tiful cotton (a sample of which I herewith send
you) grown from the seeds I brought out with me
only six months ago.
" Although I am a minister of the Gospel who
had ,not bestowed an hour's thought on cotton
cultivation till I met you in Manchester, not a year
ago, I think I could now grow cotton as well as any
American slaveholder. It is the simplest thing
imaginable in this colony, at any rate ; a delicate
London lady could manage the whole affair.
Scratch the grass off the surface of your garden
with a nice hoe • make a hole with your walking;
stick, or the heel of your boot ; deposit the seed,'*
and in three or four months your wife and little
ones, basket in hand, will start out to the' pick.
ing ' with as much delight as ever an English
mother and her little daughters went t 3 gather
roses or gooseberries. My dear boy, who is not
three years of age, is a capital picker.
" The cotton while flowering and blowing is
quite an ornament about our premises—in fact, a
beautiful flower garden with every variety of tint.
To-day the flowers are snow white, to-morrow they
are pink, next day red, and so forth. I wish I
could prevail on 50,000 British families to come to
Jamaica to grow this beautiful and valuable
plant."
This is the very thing which has been so long
wanted in countries hitherto desolated by slavery,
namely, the encouragement and example to the
labouring classes of the white man and his family.
It is evident that Mr. Fletcher does not think that
there is anything degrading in useful labour, and he
brings up his family to delight in it. So long as
everything in the shape of labour was forced from
the black man by the terror of the lash, it could not
be otherwise than ill and reluctantly performed.
Mr. Fletcher has seta noble example to his brother
ministers and their families, and from the general
adoption of this plan we anticipate a rapid improve-
ment in the quality as well as quantity of cotton
k thence supplied, as well as a return of general pro-
sperity to the people.
But this is not all ; the last packet brought to the
Jamaica Cotton Company 40 samples of very su-
perior cotton, picked from stray trees, on different
estates in the eastern part of the island. Four of
these samples, the largest and best, were sent by
ladies, who desire to show how well adapted the
climate and soil of their beautiful, but too long ne-
glected, island is to the production of the finest de-
scription of cotton. If, three years ago, the gentle-
men of Manchester could have been induced to fol-
low the example of their intelligent and public-
spirited citizens, Messrs. Thomas Bazley, M.P., and
Thomas Clegg, and to have co-operated with emi-
nent capitalists and experienced men in setting on
foot an example of successful cultivation of cot-
ton, which would no doubt have been followed out
by West Indian proprietors in general, they might
by this time have had a million bales of cotton
every year from the West Indies. It is not too
late, however, even now, if they can spare a little
time for reflection.

* Whether this superficial mode of culture would be
found to answer in the dry or the very wet seasons, or whe-
ther the level lands near Chapelton are adapted for European
settlers, is yet undetermined. nit the elevated mountains
ichfitnheatcoctottot4na
will pay for good drainage and deep
has been grown, are, there can bo
doubt no
ipn wh
; or
ploughing.