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

A correspondent of the same paper «•rites thus

Though long prior to the Ist of . August we had our inis
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 reaso able wages, but in this, I regret to say, we
have been grievously disappointed; for so far from meeting
the Itberal offers of their former masters, they maintain a
dogged sullenness of disposition—making no reply to our
offers, or giving any indication of a desire to %yolk. Nothing
but ruin to the proprietors can be the consequence in the
north side, from Manchioneal to Rio Bueno, iu which exten-
sive district. the canes are absolutely rotting in the fields—
allthe planters would give high wages that this crop ;night 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 bate 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 SOO to £2,500 per annum; and large estates will be as
high as £,000? It is utterly impossible, and the conse-
quenres must be, that loany properties will be thrown out of
cultivation. and the proprietors for ever tuined.

The following is from tile West Indian, Barbadoes
paper, of August 2:—
The conduct of the new "free men" yesterday, we rejoice
to say, was most gratiting. The chinches and places of
worship throughout the island were thronged by them at au
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 depai lure receiviin, 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 intellioence has reached us from the cottony since
out last, bad or indifferent. With regaid to the condition of
the estates, we have E r some :toe been hear.ng,
wretched state of inei 11 thpni. Ira ti
n the cootioed indispo-
sition of the negroes during severat months of the
wretchedto labour. A
lamentable prospect awaits its, !I* this be the fart. FAety ne-
cessary of life is already dear in town, and we may look for
Worse things ere long."

The len,!th of our present article precludes us front
noticing several other interesting topics connected
with the present prospects of the %Vest Indies. We
shall recur to the subject.

POPISH TYRANNY IN NEWFOUNDLAND.—In another
column will .he 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 tt it hout a feeling 'of irrepres..
sible disgust at the abominable conduct of the mis-
creants who hate 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 guiltr ought to be introduced to the notice of the
House of 'Commons as soon as it meets, and the per-
petraors of thesemonstrons 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 glazing and villanous a
character to be suffered to pass off quietly. Is jt not
a scandalous affront to the Sovereign of these realms,
that the Clef 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 Deum ? What will our countrymen say when
they learn that these blasphemous wretches cursed
their Protestant fellow-subjects from 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 Newfoundland 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 House 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 peifmmed her devotions in
the chapel, they have poured out the grossest abuse, and
i I
condemned,rl will
oy has had its
r other
upon last Sunday, when information had been received that
some
the chief justice would not again return to this calmly,
Father Troy observed at first mass:—
" I have ordered a Te Deem after each of the masses tore.
joint n
in
notdh
ethanks
prayer,f fori;
rt
wremoval,istr of
f B
i
d and
shamefully condemned. Every
evz)laye(t)tly;nroert(:uu
scourge from Heaven, the
pestilence, but we had worse than all ; we had Boulton, the
greatest of all pestilences. That is the reason we shall !Jaye
the hymn of thanksgiving for the removal of the greatest of
scourges. Now," observed Troy, " let him go to the Canadasi
that he helped to set in a blaze!"
Father Walsh, at secon mass, gave a lengthy discourse
on the same subjert, in language the most coarse and vulgar;
and, as it would appear, delighted in doing so, as Mrs. Buul-
tim was present. He concluded his " sermon" with the ful-
towing pious and holy praer:—
" May the curse of God and the congregation pursue and
attend (Judge Boulion) to his last moments!! May the
vengeance
himeao c
e of heaven fall on the devoted head of that wretch,
who sent some before their Maker before their time, and who
robbed you of your wages, and whocij would rub y•.,u of your
h'e
lives if he could! !"
Mrs. Boulton' well accustomed to similar language from
the same altar, left the chapel and stepped into her carriage,
when, feeling
and'jilir'elin persecutedi gitiignanthuteand, addressed the mull quite
around her, observing, that Mr. Bonito)) had been a much
injured man, and ihat he had honestly administered the laws
of his country as he was tem:: to thlaot. ira
linn was
evidently making some impression upon her hearers, whet,
he
ple, "Are you tistenmiig
F ether Walsh coming from the and dir,ueliiiilittisitvieg,%rhltiii7t
people were attentively listeniug to that lady, he peremptorily
l divine, one Cunisuius, ,lieu
p
iiiiijaeidele,firce(eei(et)l(ahse carriage away, u
tt Id her to be 'one, .raking
the
it is
)
ing
drive her a y." Mrs. Bimini)) said, laNno),ll):iiengnhult
finished I will go. Edward (addressing her coachman), do
net Stir until I order you."
" You are addressed by a minister of the living God,"
Walsh. No," said Mrs. Bouhon,
A minister of the living God would not do as you have done
this morning— desm rated the altar dedicated to
invoking; maaledietious yam the head of my innoreut t
)Usy the curses }ou call down noon him nut f.rll p
on your
owo guilty self. I out about to take my departure from you
all, to go to nay friends, where I can find i
of the name, who will be glad to receive we with (Teo arm;
and will not insult either me or my husband, like the Ca-
tholic clergy of St. John's, Newfoundland."

Mrs. Boriaton 4aving thus nobly spoken, drove off. Manv
of her audi►ors had weited 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!
M 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 mass the Te Deum will he sung.in thanksgiving for
the removal of Judge Boulton from this. I presume," said
this stranger, "that many of you will not he sorry for it."
Here is a specimen of Popery rampant and triumph-
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 .Pandemonium like Newfoundland. Wl:en
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

...very one who wishes well to the interests of the
Established Church, and aho is Emmons to promote the
-pirittml welfare of his fellow suljects; w hen
it is considered that the w hig radical ministers of the
lay, in deference to the comma/11s of their Popish
'tasters, ha% e diminished the grunt to the clergy of the
church in the Cunadas to the amount of MI ee thousand
pounds. • We trust that Briti•li generosity will more
Ilan suppl% the tit ticiency thus created, and pro% isle
for out fellow.sulijects in those ethnics the blessing of
an adequate supply of Christian pastors.