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which would leave a remuneration for the planter.
They (the labourers) are .also somewhat capricious in
their selection of work, preferring only such as billing
pastures and building stone walls—to that most essen-
tial required by the planters, of cleaning and picking
their coffee. They are unwilling to engage in either,
until the former is so heavy as to endanger the pro-
ductiveness of the trees, and the latter until it is in a
state not only injurious to their future yielding, but at
the risk of a great portion of their present fruit falling
to the ground, placing tile planter_in the dilemma.. of
either cultivating his estate at a price ruinous to his
interest, or compelling him altogether to abandon its

cultivation.
" This, Mr. Editor, is an unhappy state of things—
one which cannot long exist without its baneful effects
being felt by both the employer and the employed;
and, in my humble opinion, it owes its origin to two
main causes : the one, to those liberal gentlemen who
have taken upon themselves the se/passumed character
(but with very little pretension to it) of being the
friends and advisers of the negroes, but who, in reality,
have only occasioned distrust and dissatisfaction in
their minds ; the other, to the privilege that has been
given them in the temporary occupation of their
houses and grounds, for the latter of which, I believe,
almost by general and tacit consent in this parish, no
charge has been made, from the most humane and
conciliatory motives."
On the state of public credit in the island of Ja-
maica we have the following remarks in the Dispatch
of Nov. 1. :—" When an evil is foreseen, it is wisdom
to apply ourselves to meet it ; to check, or at all events
to mitigate or alleviate its horrors. The state of the
public credit of the island calls for the most serious
attention ; it was never more jeopardized than at the
present moment. We are assailed from without by
an adversary powerful and strong, without any previ-
ous intimation of the hostile act, to throw us on our
guard; and the blow is about to fall on us unprepared.
Our adversary is our unnatural parent—Great Britain!,
who, as we shall elsewhere show, has assumed a stretch
of power in relation to the interrial legislation of the
Island never previously attempted. It is a blow aimed
at the destruction of the freedom and usefulness of our
Local Parliament. It is, perhaps, the mere courier or
forerunner of what a Whig Ministry, pretended friends
of freedom, ate preparing to attempt. That a deter-
mined constitutional stand is necessary to be taken by
the popular branch of the Parliament of Jamaica, to
assist and protect her independence, is now apparent
to all reflecting persons; and the utmost coolness
should be displayed, while the greatest talent of the
House should be exercised to guard us against the im-
pending dangers that surround us. Senators of Ja-
maica! arouse your energies; but, in doing so, take
care you run not from one extreme to the other. It
is constitutional to withhold the supplies. Our ances-
tors did so successfully, when their privileges were
merely threatened; and they declined, in some ex-
treme cases, to transact business AT ALL with the Go-
vernment, until full redress was given fur wrongs
committed on their undoubted and sole rights. We
are now somewhat differently situated.
"If the present Parliament of Great Britain is more
gifted than those of former times, and undertakes to
superlegislate for your country, let them have all the
honour to themselves; and as the bright page of his-
tory will hand down to posterity this wise assumption
of power, let the same page also contain the informa-
tion, that the wealth of Britain kept pace with the
wisdom of its Parliament; and that it paid the whole
expenses of the government of its colony of Jamaica
out of the general revenues of the empire.
"The principle of representation and taxation is
universally admitted as an axiom in legislation, and
you need not dread that the Parliament of Britain will
attempt to tax your constituents. Uphold the public
credit, and you will return the confidence of all classes
of the united community of Jamaica; trifle with it,
and you will lose your privileges, and seal the ruin of

your country."

PROTESTANT ASCENDANCY.—It is quite obvious to

the most superficial observer of passing events, that
the political aspect of this great nation, at the present
moment, is big with circumstances of the most por-
tentous importance; and that the drowsy " Palinu-
rus," who sits nodding at the helm of affairs, must
speedily relax his grasp of a post which, procured on
such base, unprincipled, and unconstitutional terms,
he has with so much treachery, treason, and turpitude,
adhered to and degraded. •

Every loyal subject and sincere lover of his country
must observe, with apprehension and alarm, the fear-
ful blows which England, the once proud arbitress of
the world, is every day submitting to from every blus-
tering bully, Larbarian, savage, or supercilious priest-
ly bigot who may think fit to display his cairage by a
kick at the head of our national Lion, sick;' alas 1 and
no wonder, with the unsavoury and nauseous garbage
which " liberalism" has, with bestial. cruelty, been
thrusting down his throat. But are such occurrences
only to be looked at to be patiently endued ? Are
not you, and we, and every honestindividual Protestant
in the British empire members component of this ma-
jestic Lion, which cowardice, insolence, and Popish
priestly intolerance are so unceremoniously and cruelly
buffeting ?—and how long are we to endure all this?
An opportunity will, at no very distant period, be
afforded the Protestants of this country to free them-
selves from the incubus that paralyzes their energies.

When Popery was rampant in the land, the high and
holy cause of Protestantism triumphed over that dam-
nable heresy, and introduced blessings unknown to
any nation yielding obedience to the despotism eman-
ating from Rome. Our rulers, in latter years, appear
to have forgotten this fact, and act as though a victo-
rious foe were, with forced marches, bearing down
upon us as a retreating, and disheartened, and insig-
nificant band. Position after position has been yielded
by them, and Popery, with characteristic penetration
and alacrity, has resolutely seized on them as they
have been vacated, and converted thein into so many
points from whence to hurl ruin and disgrace upon our
retiring columns. In proof of this, we need only di
rect the attention of our readers to the cesion of

what was termed " Catholic Emancipation,",which, so
far from satisfying Popery, has only excited her thirst
and strengthened her hands more fiercely and more
forcibly, and with more implacable hate, to war against
the settled and time-approved institutions of our Pro-

testant realm. Look, we say again, at the national
system of education, which, in this land in which Pro-
testantism is, happily, the established religion, liberal-
ism has planted in Ireland. The Bible is excluded
from them, so as not to offend the prejudices of the
Popish superstition ; but Protestantism is compelled
to endure the introduction into them of the Romish
mass-book, with all its attendant coadjutors, or--to
quit them. The fable of the hedgehog and the snakes
is lucidly borne out in the case in point : after admit-
ting the half starved and famishing wretch under the
same cover with our Protestant children (to whom this
prickly beast very soon, fearing any annoyance and
inconvenience,) coolly and insolently tells them that
if they are not comfortable in their present situation
they are at liberty to quit it, but he is perfectly at ease

where he is. Thus these schools, nicknamed " na-
tional," instead of being the means of affordingsound

scriptural knowledge indiscriminately to all sects, have
been monopolised by Popery, and converted into so
many hotbeds for the propagation of her fearful, here-
tical, and idolatrous superstition. For the fact is no-
torious (and the experiment made in this town by the
Corporation is corroborative of it) that no scripturally
minded Protestant parent will allow his children to
breathe an atmosphere so pollutedmonks, and friars,
and jesuits principally (in Iceland) being the esta-
blished dispensers of the national humbug. Here
then we have the children of parents who profess the
national religion of the country virtually excluded
from the benefit of a national system of education,
which ought to be in consonance with the established
religion of the country. The Protestant population
in Ireland and.in this town pay for such a system, but
they are cajoled and swindled out of it, and are neces.
sitated to build other schools rather than allow their
children to come in contact with "the unclean thing"
cherished in liberal, national, and corporation schools.
And what is the lesson that such dear-bought expe-
rience ought to teach Protestants ? We will tell them.
First,—it ought to teach • them to watch closely the
measures of government, be that governnient consi-
dered (as was the Duke of Wellington's) friendly or
(as is the present) hostile to the Protestant institutions
of the country, and speak out, so that they must 5e
heard and attended to, should those measures be such
as to endanger any Protestant right or institution.