The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-04-14 00:00:00

tity of work, and that others are found quite- capable of
doing even three times as much ! " Need we," adds he,
" a more sufficient proof of the ultimate superiority of the
new system ?"

(From the Jamaica Standard of Feb. 19.)
Resuming our remarks upon the important subject of im-
migration, we now turn to our enterprising neighbours,—
the proprietors and planters of British Guiana. Here we
find that, on the 13th December last, u public meeting was
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held in Georgetown, at which the proposals for establishing
an emigr.ation society were fully discussed, and an agent ad-

pointed in the 'Cuffed States to carry their purposes into
execution. From the documents laid before this meeting ,
we glean the important intelligence, that there are upwards
of 400,000 free people of colour in America, to the major
part of whom the opportunities of emigration would be con-
sidered a " great boon ;"—that of these there are upwards of
53,000 in the state of Maryland alone, 20,1100 of whom are in
the city of Baltimore, one half at least agriculturists by trade,
and who, in consequence of the want of employment and al-
most destitution during the winter, wordc most gladly avail
themselves of any fair scheme of emigration which might be
proposed to them. Already many of them had eagerly ,
availed themselves of the offer held out by the Trinidad
agent, and they now only waited equally liberal terms, and
the opportunities of conveyance, to bestow their services
upon the planters of British Guiana. These terms it would
appear were simply—to " pay
_their passage money, and fur-
nish supplies for the voyage," after which they should be
free to choose their own employers. Mr. Carberry, their
Baltimore agent, and himself a considerable proprietor in
Guiana, ha accordingly seen and conversed with various
portions of these coloured people, of different religious sects,
who all expressed themselves gratified with the statements
which he had given them, and held out every promise of
finding him as many emigrants as he would know what to do
with : the people themselves were overjoyed at the idea of
being relieved from their " grievous civil disabilities," joined
to the equally odious " tyranny and prejudice" under which
they one and all labour in that free and liberal country ;
while no party in the state, either colonizationists or aboli-
tionists, seemed to entertain the slightest objection to the
scheme--nay, adds Mr. Carberry in one of his letters upon
this subject—" Extensive emigration to the West Indies
would meet with warm support from the southern slave-
holder,
because it would tend to enhance the value of slaves,
by withdrawing the cheapest description of labour from the
market, and because he considers the presence of a free co-
loured population not likely to increase the contentment, the
industry, or the subordination of his slaves."
Here, then on every hand encouragement appears held out
to the enterprising, to obtain almost whatever number they
choose, of able, willing, and industrious people, at the small-
est possible expense,--an opportunity and advantage which,
we trust, will not be lost sight of by the Jamaica planters.
According to the terms entered into both by those of Trini-
dad and Demerara, we should imagine, that for the small suns
of six or eight dollars per head, as many emigrants might be
obtained in the course of a year or two; under this scheme as
might yet replenish every estate in the island. All that is
wanted to. begin with, is an active and trustworthy agent in
the United States, who may either be appointed there, or
sent from this country, as may be convenient. To effect this,.
let a society be formed, and subscriptions raised, to cover
the necessary expenses of chartering a vessel, and providing
provisions for the voyage ; and we entertain not a doubt,
judging from the success and prospects of success attending
similar efforts elsewhere, that for every thousand pounds thus
raised and expended, some three or four hundred effective la-
bourers will be obtained—not only acquainted with the cul-
tivation of sugar, but congenial with the climate, and accus-
tomed to the habits of the country. If these are not advan-
tages in favour of this scheme over all others which have yet
been brought before the notice of the Jamaica public, we
know not what can be considered so. We remind our read-
ers, that Trinidad and Demerara have already begun to avail
themselves of the opportunity, and we do trust, although
other schemes possessing none of these advantages may have
proved far from satisfactory in their results, that Jamaica will
not, therefore, be deterred from standing forward in the com-
petition, and proving to the American labourer the superior
advantages of her climate and institutions over either of

her competitors.
We hope to see a meeting shortly called, to take this sub-
ject into consideration ; meantime we shall be happy—as we
cannot find room at present for the publication of the docu-
ments in question—to submit them to the perusal of any of
our friends who may favour us with a call.

(From the Jamaica Royal Gazette)
This subject, which to us West Indians is of so much im-
portance, has received the warmest support of one of the
most respectable British journals, the Liverpool Standard.
In reference to the public meeting lately held in Demerara,
for the purpose of giving expression to the general feeling in
favour of immediate measures being taken for the promotion
of immigration into that colony, the editor the paper above-
named gives his opinion :—" We heartily rejoice to find that
the respectable colonists have taken this subject, in hand in
good earnest. We anticipate the greater: advantages from
the proposed movement on their part, responded to, as that
movement will be, by the mercantile community in Great
Britain. The question must be forced upo the early atten-
tion of parliament, especially after the publication of Lord
Nonnanby's despatch to Governor Light." On a subject
involving, as it does, the future welfare of all our colonies,
we fearlessly assert that the legislature of Jamaica is bound
to support the application to parliament, atd in their memo-
rial show, in the fullest and most evident wanner, the effect
of this valuable scheme. Properly speaking, we have no
manufactories—the capitalists are generally agriculturists—
the failure of agriculture would, therefore, :rievitably involve
the failure of every other interest. It is undeniable, that
" if sugar, cotton, coffee, and other valuable staples be not
raised in the colony, the merchant will ge: no sale for his
wares, or the artizan for his handicraft." We do hope, how-
ever, by timely and judicious manoeuverirg, to render the
well-known conciliatory disposition of the West Indians the
means of inducing the assistance of the dominant party in
Great Britain. We have made the most self-denying sacri-
fices; it is, therefore, fair to expect, and, what is of greater
consequence, to receive the support of the imperial govern-
ment, towards developing the ample resoures of these colo-
nies.
A late Grenada paper states, that a cargo of -immigrants
from Switzerland had arrived in Trinidad, amounting to 800,
consisting of agricultural labourers, earpelters, and other
tradesmen. So, the people of Trinidad are alive to their own
interests, as they ought to be,—and why sliculd it not be the
same in Jamaica? Slaving immigrants frOrn Europe and
America, flowing as it were, into Trinidad, that colony will
reap a golden harvest, whilst the soil of other Islands will be
as unproductive as the.D.eserts of. Arabia.
What is this Island about, arid when will the proprietary
open their eyes to the conviction of truth? Our peasantry
are more inclined to indulge in the bliss of indolence, than to
engage in the labour of industry. But allowing that they are
otherwise, we have not in point of numbers more than enough
for the cultivation of sugar, coffee, cotton, and Pimento.—
Consequently how can we reasonably talk of the introduction
and management of the mores multzsantis, of the cultivation
of the spices of the East, and other items bi equal value ? To
do more than we are now doing, immigration, to a proper ex-
tent, must be encouraged and then, and oily then, can we
hope fully to " develope the riches of this tine Island."—
Let us emulate other countries by zeal, energy, and activity,
and not sleepily think that we can go " onwinds," by supine-
ness or indifference.