The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-28 00:00:00

The monopoly which the West Indies have so long and
so disadvantageously enjoyed, both to the United King-
dom and to themselves, has had the effect of causing the
planters to disregard the cultivation orcotton, and hence
their had position in comparison with the United States.
The East Indies is too far off, and the voyage, therefore,
too expensive to enable our shipowners to car' sugar as
ballast, at a nominal freight, from India to England.
The West Indies, however, are, or may be, made
valuable eolonies, and the "tiers of land therein will
awake teem their slumbers, see their present prop r
position„ and act consistently to themselves and to the
mother country. They have at present many advan-
tages by steam, a civilised population, a cleaned country
under a regularly settled Government, &cc., the happy
position of their black population will naturally, the
perhaps slowly, induce Africans and coloured men from
p all (o
rters in their vicinity to make our West India
cokanies a refuge and a home. It seems to me th.it the
system of emigration adopted for supplying of labourers
to the West Indies from Africa and from India is bad
and vibious; the proportion of females to mules is ex-
tremely so, and especially so from the East ladies. The
races never did yet harmonise er amalgamate: and a
Ilindoo Coolie Omits of nothing when he has no wife or
home, but getting hack to the Emit Indies ; whereas, if
young men and their wives were brought over from Ilin-
&sten to Demur oat or the West Indies they would settle,
colonise in villages by thetwelves, and increase an-
nually in numbers. Chinamen would do the same, if a
phiet were made that every man must bring his wife
with him. Ile (maid not, it is true, bring a Chire:e
wife of pure blood, but he would have no difficulty in
obtaining a Malay wife, ani right nice annum they are,
and very thrifty and cleanly, though the Malay MUM be
otherwise. It is not over creditably to Great Britain to
draw so large a number of the labourers for the W. at
India colonies from the captured slavers, no doubt,
though there be, that the pour mitered nezroes will be
ultimately benefited thereby. The West !fictions will
but deceive themselves if they believe in the delusion
and art thereon, that the consumers of West India
produce (for they pay the piper) will long submit to
pay the expense transporting to and (rum the coast
of Africa to the %Vest Indies, and to and
from India to the West Indies. Male la-
bourers, fur the sole purpose of tilling by a bad
system their West Lelia e:aates. If they mean to make
the meet of their peseta b• carting Garr, they would act
whiely by being up and tieing, and using every effort
while they yet enjoy the power, of inducing young
echipt. r. of Africans, of Hill-coolies in couples, and of
young Chinamen and their Malay wives (each male with
a female and children, it' they have them), to emigrate
and to firmly settle with their families in the West
Indies. It may, purhapi, be too much to believe that
the late British slaveholder has already changed his
opinion, thit " it is cheaper to buy lehourers than to
breed them." But be this as it may, it is now, or ought
to hs, out of his power " to buy lashed of breeding;"
and if he be still mfatalted enough to dream of acting
on that exploded opinion, find as far as in him lit do
act thereon, he must prepare hitnielf at an early period
to see his estates pass into the hands of others more
worthy than he, %oho will do the needful justice to him-
self and his country, and this toe, to witness this loss of
his property by circumstances which %sill then be out of
his peer to control. Contracts I see have been entered
Into by the owners of estates in the Malacca Straits
settlements with gongs of Chinamen, as hereby the China-
men are to cultivate those sugar (astes, and cure the
sugar fit for exporting to Europe (the latter finding im-
plemeets and r materials for agriculture and curing),
and the sugaJs so cured fit for shipping, &c., to be deli-
vered to the owner of the estate, at the rate of Spanish
dollar per picul, ;11. per 133 l-3lbs., the China•
men to get his remuneration for his labour and capital
eihpleyed by his gang out of the price he receives for
his • ugars. This is a species of farming; and perhaps
this h is so far frightened the West Indians out of their
proprhey, as to ccuso them to fore. Sir Robert Peel to
deals . cruelly with those young, but still the first, of
our free-trade settlements and self-supporting settle-
ments —Sihgapere, Malacca, province Wellesley, and
Penang at lea,t. Th. Mosquito shore, Natal, and the
north half of New Holland, may all be made sugar-
produeing colonies; but the white men is required to
direct and superintend his black brother in the operation
of Whig° and curing. IL W.