The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-12-27 00:00:00

Onintigration, many of which are of a very interest-
` ing character. We have inserted several of them in
another column, and recommend them to the especial
attention of our readers. The introduction of German
immigrants into the colony is very strongly recom-
mended by the Chronicle of October 25.
A correspondent of the Chronicle announces the fol-
lowing as the principl.es on which he is willing to con-
tract for a supply of from three to seven thousand ef-
fective field labourers :—They are not to be bound to
enter into any term of service—they will not be allowed
to go to any estate that is not provided with
lodges and land—they are to receive the same wages as
other labourers for seven and a half hours' labour—
they are to have medical attendance, medicine, house
room, and a suit of clothes each per annum, provided
they remain twelve months on the property—and they
are to be conveyed to the colony without any charge

for passage money.
Another correspondent suggests the propriety of pro-
curing emigrants from Lower Egypt, the population of
which country -are said to be extremely well adapted
for the climate of British Guiana. There are many
difficulties to be overcome before this plan could be put
into execution. We perfectly agree with the editor of
the Chronicle in the opinion that the Hill Coolies are
the best qualified for discharing the duties of field la-
bourers in the colony. On this subject we have the
following testimony from the Rev. Mr. Lugar, Rector
of Georgetown, who, from his long residence in India,
is entitled«to give his opinions with confidence. He
says—" I have had 'an oppOrtunity of-Observing during
my professional avocations. the condition of health of
each of the races of labourers imported into this coun-
try. The people of the Azores, Madeira, Malta, Ire-
land, Germany, 'West and East Indies, have all come
under my observation ; and although I consider an in-
flux of labourers from-either of These countries condu-
cive to the well being of. British Guiana, I know of no
population so happily constituted for our field work, as
the Hill Coolies. While all others require some time
to acclimatize before becoming effective labourers, the
Hindoo, born and bred in a climate even more trying
than this, seems ready formed and modelled for our
peculiar wants. The unfortunate Belle Vue affair, has
at least done this much for the colony : it has demon-
strated that constitutionally the pl indoo is better adapted
for the climate and soil of British Guiana,.than any race
that has yet made it a home, with the exception per-
haps of the Aboriginal Indian. The experiment by
which this was known took place in the Colonial
Hospital, the whole progress of which I have witnessed."
With this incontrovertible evidence before us we
hope that the people of this country will perceive the
wisdom cf transferring the famine-struck inhabitants
of India to the fertile colony of British Guiana.

We have received our files of the Jamaica Royal
Gazette and Standard to the 21st ultimo, inclusive.
Neither the Dispatch nor the Jamaica Gazette have
reached our office. Our own paper is duly forwarded
to the office of these papers at Kingston ; we cannot,
therefore, account for the frequent disappointments
which we experience in the non-receipt of the above

papers.
We are exceedingly rejoiced to find that the new
Governor, Sir Charles Metcalfe, continues to be popu-
lar; but we regret to find that the accounts from this
important co!ony are not, generally, of so favourable a
character. The deficiency in the produce, during the
last year, is truly alarming. A return of the exports,
made up to the loth day of October, in the years
1838 and 1839, had been sent down to the House of
Assembly, in a message from his Excellency the Go-
vernor, from which it appears that the deficiency in
the staples of the island had been, the last year, equal
to one third of the total exports of the preceding year.
This return, against which there can be no cavil,
inasmuch as it is drawn exclusively from official
sources, proves the utter absurdity of the confident
assertions indulged in by those who have persisted in
denying that there has been any deficiency in the pro-
ducts of the island. We subjoin a summary of the
particulars contained in this return :

Sugar—lB3B
1839

63,028 hhds. 9245 trs.
44,893 6113

3376 bls.
1866