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

respondent on whom we can rely, respecting the propertie,
in the nei,,ho.urhood ul Mont,go Bay,. It would app.-a, in.
the greater number or the negroes have not let iesume
their work in consequence, no doubt, of the ideas cramme
into their heads by the dining religious agitators -of thd
district.

ESTATES AT WORK

John's Hall, Worcester; Itelireinew.,Fairfield; Catherin
Mount, Bouge; Catherine Hall, Providence.

The apprentices on these properties are mit king away
cheerfully without knowing what remuneration they shati
ceceive. On the following properties the men have refuse,.
to work for less than Is 841. per day; some stand out fo,
25.6,1.; Potosi, Sutherland; Flatnstead Nets man, Hull;
spring Mount, La, rum ; Logan; Kirkpatrick
Leyden; Moir Park, Glasgow; Unity flat', Porto Bello.
(From the Jamaica papers of the 14111 of August.)
The all-engrossing subject at the present moinent is llt
hire demanded by the Immuring population, and their re-
fosal in some parts of the island to tesume their labour except
on exothitant terms; the excitement continues, and we to
grit to perceive that one of the journals or 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 ofJaminca property.
The post has arrived and brought us intelligence ftom
various parts of the island of the manner in which the Ist of
August has passed off. As was expected, ail was quiet and
peaceable, and there was less of noisy mil th than might have
been anticipated on such an occasion.
We learn from a gentleman who has returned from Man-
chester and Clarendon, that in the former parish the appren-
tices refused to labour for less than 2s. 641. 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 arriva
of t he great day—the day of freedom—are over, and we hegit
to experience the languor and lassitude which generally for
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, and 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 ruins, the berries dropping
on the ground, and the pimento ready for gathering, but no
hands could be procured to reap the harvest.

Sr. M ri es: —( Extract from a letter to a merchant.)—The
holidays have passed over with extreme quiet and order. I
have not heard of any rioting. I have forty people at work,
and all the rest promise to be out on Monday. I ;give 2s. 6,1
per day for able hands, getting 55., or two days' labour for
houses, gardens, and medical attendance. Ido not know a
single other estate where they have turned out yet, and I
have made very general inquiries.