The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-21 00:00:00

ESTATES AT %YORK

John's Hall, Worcester; Retirement, Fairfield; Catherine
Mount, Rouge; Catherine Hall, Providence.
The apprentices on these properties are working away
cheerfully without knowing what remuneration they shall
receive. On the following properties the men have refused
to work for less than ls. Bd. per day; some stand out for
2s. fid.; Potosi, Sutherland; Flamstead, Newman, Hull;
Spring Mount, Latrum; Wiltiainsfield, Logan ; Kirkpatrick,
Leyden; Moir Park, Glasgow; Unity flail, Porto Bello.
(Front the Jamaica papers of the 1-Ith of August.)
The all-engrossing subject at the present moment is the
hire demanded by the labouring population, and their re-
fusal in some pats of the island to ►esume their labour except
on exotbitant terms; the excitement continues, and we ►e-
gret to perceive that one of the journals of this city is dis-
posed to create alarm in the mother country, by the doleful
tales which it puts forth, and the uncheering prospects it
holds forth to the proprietors ofJamaica property.
The post has arrived and brought us intelligence from
various parts of the island of the manner in which the Ist of
August has passed off. As was expected, all was quiet and
peaceable, and there was less of noisy mirth than might have
been anticipated on such an occasion.
We learn from a geutie►aan who has returned from Man-
chester and Clarendon, that in the former parish the appren-
tices refused to labour for less than 2s. Gd, per day, and that
the fields are foul, and the coffee fast ripening; the prospects
of the planters are therefore gloomy. From Clarendon the
intelligence is gratifying; the people are reasonable, and ac-
cept terms.
The excitement and rejoicing consequent upon the arrival
of the great day—the day of freedom—are over, and we begin
to experience the languor and lassitude which generally fol-
low in their trains.
The Jamaica Despatch says,
. _

Every fresh account from the country is unsatisfactory. A
gentleman just returned from the country has supplied us with
most unfavourable reports. In Manchester scarcely a soul
had returned to field-labour, awl in Clarendon, although the
head cattlemen had been offered twenty pounds a-year, their
houses, grounds, medical attendance, and promised four as-
sistants, which offer they had accepted, still they had left the
properties, and have not since shown their faces. In the latter
parish the coffee-fields were in twins, the berries dropping
on the ground, and the pimento ready for gathering, but no
hands could be procured to reap the harvest.
Sr. MARY'S.—(Extriiet from a letter to a merchant.)—The
holidays have passed over with extreme quiet and order.
have not heard of any rioting. 1 have forty people at work,
and all the rest promise to be out on Monday. I give 2s. 61.
per day for able hands, getting 55., or two clays' labour for
houses, gat dens, and medical attendance. Ido not know a
single other estate where they have turned out yet, and I
have made very general inquiries.

A correspondent of the same paper Mites thus :

Though long prior to the Ist of August we had our mis-
givings respecting the practicability of conducting estates
under free labour, still we had hopes that the negroes, after
enjoying a holiday of a few days, would le-commence their
work for reasonable wages, but in this, I regret to say, ~Ne
have been grievously disappointed; for so far from meeting
the liberal offers of their former toasters, they maintain a
dogged sullenness of disposition—making no' reply to our
offers, or giving any indication of a desire to work. Nothing
but ruin to the proprietois can be the consequence in the
north side, from Mauchioneal to Rio Ilueno, in which exten-
sive district, the canes are absolutely rotting in the fields—
allthe planters would give high wages that this cnip might be
saved, but to continue cultivation at such rates as we would
give for three mouths, for this special purpose, is absolutely
impossible. Many estates, as is well known, were doing
little more than paying their contingencies under the old
system—affording, a bale subsistence to the proprietors—how
then are properties, making one hundred to one hundred and
fifty hogsheads of sugar, to pay money wages to the extent
of 1:1,5-00 to £2,500 per annum, and large estates will be as
high as £5,000? It is utterly impossible, and the conse-
quences must be, that many properties will be thrown out of
cultivation, and the proprietors for ever ruined.

The following is from the West Indian, Barbadoes
paper, of August 2:—
The conduct of the new "free men" yesterday, we rejoice
to say, was most gratifying. The churches and places of
worship throughout the island were thronged by them at an
early hour, and many could not obtain admission, although
every accommodation Which could be offered them was placed
at their disposal. The sermon, a most excellent one, at the
Cathedral, was preached by the Lord Bishop. His Excel-
lency the Governor and suite attended divine service at the
Cathedral—on his arrival and departure receiving the usual
compliments from the flank companies of the Royal Regi-
ment.
(From the Barbadoes Papers of the 7th of Aug. to the 13th.)
"No intelligence has reached us from the country since
our last, bad or indifferent. With regaid to the condition of
the estates, we have for some ;ime been hearing of the
wretched state of many of them, from the continued indispo-
sition of the negroes during several months to labour. A
lamentable prospect awaits us, if this be the fact. Every ne-
cessary of life is already dear in town, and we may look fur
worse things ere long."

The length of our present article precludes us from
noticing several other interesting topics connected
with the present prospects of the West Indies. We
shall recur to the subject.

POPISH TYRANNY IN NEWFOUNDLAND.—In another
column will be found the details of an atrocious system
of persecution adopted by the Papist rabble of the
Newfoundland House of Assembly. It is impossible
to peruse these accounts without a feeling of irrepres-
sible disgust at the abominable conduct of the mis-
creants who have been suffered, for so long a period,
to insult and trample upon the Protestant population
of that colony. The unprecedented acts of oppres-
sion and injustice of which these Popish despots have
been guilty ought to be introduced to the notice of the
House of Commons as soon as it meets, and the per-
petraors of these monstrous deeds of persecution should
be visited with condign punishment. The atrocities
detailed in the acounts which we have last received
from that colony are of too glaring and villanous a
character to be suffered to pass off quietly. is it not
a scandalous affront to the Sovereign of these realms,
that the Chief Justice—the representative of her Ma-
jesty on the bench—should be dismissed from his office
for doing his duty faithfully and conscientiously—dis-
missed without trial, and at the mandate of a set of
raffish and seditious Popish priests ? Is it not a shame
that one of her Majesty's subjects should be deprived
of his liberty for merely attempting to vindicate his
character ? What will the Protestants of England
say when they learn that the Popish priests, who are
paid by the colonial authorities, actually celebrated
their factious triumph over the Protestant interest by
aTe Deana ? What will our countrymen say when
they learn that these blasphemous wretches cursed
their Protestant fellow-subjects front the altar? What
will be thought of the condition of Newfoundland,
when it is known that a judge was openly assaulted,
and, with the sheriff; dragged to the common gaol for
issuing a writ of habeas corpus, and a warrant in favour
of the liberty of the subject ? Is this a state of things
that ought to be any longer tolerated ?
In addition to the details furnished in another co-
lumn, we find the following in a Newfoandland paper
of the 24th of August:—
The Chief Justice of this colony is now and has been for
some months past in England for the purpose of answering
the infamous charges which the Ilouse of Assembly of New-
foundland has dared to prefer against him; but what has
been the conduct of the pries.s Sunday after Sunday with re-
spect to that individual who stands so high in the estimation
of all the respectable inhabitants. In the presence of his
amiable wife, who has regularly pet fottued her devotions in
the chapel, they have poured out the grossest abuse, and
upon last Sunday, when information bud been received that
the chief justice would not again return to this colony,
Father Troy observed at first mass:—
" I have ordered a Te- Deum after each of the masses tore.
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shamefully condemned. Every other country has had its
scourge from Heaven, the cholera morbus, or some other
pestilence, but we had worse than all ; we had Boulton, the
greatest of all pestileuces. That is the reason we shall have
the hymn of thanksgiving for the removal of the greatest of
scourges. Now," observed Troy, "let him go to the Canadas,
that he helped to set in a blaze!"
Father Walsh, at second mass, gave a lengthy discourse
on the same subject, in language the most coarse and vulgar;
and, as it would appear, delighted in doing so, as Mrs. Boul-
ton was present. He concluded his " sermon" with the fol-
lowing pious and holy prayer:—
" May the curse of God and the congregation pursue and
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lady, he
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who sent some before their Maker before their time, and who
robbed von of your wages, and who would rob you of yout
lives if he could! !"
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injured
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the people, " Are you listening to that
intended divine, one Cummins, then came running from the
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drive her away." Mrs. Boohoo said, " No, when I have
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but that.
" You are addressed by a minister of the living God,"
said Walsh.
A minister of the living God would not do as you have done
this morning—desecrated the altar dedicated to that God, in
invoking maledictions on the head of inv innocent husband.
May the curses you call down upon him not fall upon your
own guilty self. lam about. to take my departure from you
all, to go to my friends, where I can find clergyanen worthy
of the name, who will be glad to receive me with open arms,
and will not insult either me or my husband, like the Ca-
tholic clergy of St. John's, Newfoundland."
Mrs. Boulton having thus nobly spoken, drove oft Many
of her auditors had melted into tears.
Father Walsh, after Mrs. Boulton's departure, again issued
from the "Palace" with a stick in his hand, exclaiming,
" It's well she went!"
At third mass, Father Morris, who but a few days ago ar-
rived from Halifax, and who was a perfect stranger to this
community, said—
" After 'miss the Te Deuna will be sung in thanksgiving fur
the removal of Judge Boutton from this. I presume," said
this stranger, "that many of you will not be sorry for it."
Here is a specimen of Popery rampant and trimaph-
ing over Protestantism. Such scenes as these would
be also of daily occurrence in Ireland, if the Popish
priests dared to offer such insults to the Protestants.
It is fear alone that prevents Ireland from becoming
another Pandenzoniunz like Newfoundland. When
will the Protestants of this country awake to a sense
of the dangers by which they are surrounded ? When
will they unite as one man to resist the tyrannical
encroachments of the Church of Rome upon their
liberties ?

THE CHURCH IN CANADA.—In our last we published
a very interesting address from the Rev. William Bett-
ridge, on behalf of the Protestant population of the
Canadas. The statement of facts contained in that
document is entitled to the serious consideration of