The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-04-10 00:00:00

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of troci444lW, 1r 4nown and prove 4 ta bo 10114011110 t wild yet
110 ittej have been, or can effectually be taken, to prevent It.
With cher countries possessing the same opportunities, and
freed bin the present restrictions, the sugars Of the British
West idles, we advisedly say, would at once and for ever be
shut at from the only mart where they could effect a sale.
The erouragement to foreign sugars, by the withdrawal of '
the mtecting duties, and the immense quantities which
wouldhen flow in, necessarily glutting the markets, would
reducdhe price of that article to an ebb at which its cultiva-
tion itthese colonies must inevitably cease to be profitable.
conseqently, ruin—unmitigated and universal ruin must
ensue. For where the staple produce of a country suddenly
ceases,especially one situated like Jamaica, there is no time,
no cap:al, no enterprise, no opportunity even, to attempt
divertig her resourses into other channels ;—a few may lin-
ger on,vho have not energy enough to carry them elsewhere ;
—but, ,e warn the country—its agricultural and commercial
prosperty will be gone for ever ! Surely, under these seri-
ously inportant circumstances, it behoves every man to unite
heart ad hand in praying the Brigish legislature to beware
how the heap coals of fire, not only upon our, but their own
heads, 17 thus entertaining, even for one moment, a measure
so replee with mischief and desolation to their West Indian
possessies. Let them remember, moreover, lest selfish con-
sideraticis should have greater weight—the lasting obloquy
which wuld thereby attach to their name, for having thus
fatally stuck on the head every further hope of emanicipation
to the slues of other countries, by the warning which will
have hen sufficiently afforded them here.

" Butisay these popular advocates of this measure : If the
colonies ire no longer able to supply our markets with the
necessary quantity of sugar, and therefore it is absolutely
necessary to look elsewhere for it." Admirable presump-
tion ! Aid so, it is now found out for the first time, that
the colonis have really fallen off in their exports of sugar,
notwithstanding the oft-reiterated assertions both in parlia-
ment and rut of it, as well in the public prints as in public
speeches—that the emancipation of the negroes in these
colonies, and its attendant evils, had not deteriorated pro-
perty, and had not injured the planters ! What have they
to say fol themselves—thus convicted even by their own
lips of the nost foul and long-persisted in iniquity, of having
knowingly and wilfully perverted truth, and asserted false-
hoods, so hng as they answered a particular purpose :
while they now, with other motives, equally culpable,
admit that they have been liars, that they may there-
upon hinge the plea of dealing that last and finishing
stroke to cur existence ! We may search the annals of
public crint from end to end, but we must search in vain to
find an insance of greater turpitude, or more unmitigated
viilany that this !—Yes, reader, it is too true ;—by arts and
interferenos,slanderings and persecutions, they have managed
to reduce he exportations of this island alone, upwards of
20,000 hogsheads, and every other colony in proportion, so
that, as wears by the latest prices current for the city of
London, a published in our last, the arrivals in that port
alone in on, year have been reduced to the enormous extent
of nearly 0,000 hogsheads, or upwards of eighty-nine mil-
lions of pcands—and because of this deficiency, these very
persons wio are the cause of all, are now the first to cry out,
and to demand, in consequence, the admission of other sugars
on any terns, and at any sacrifice ! We trust, however,
there is stil sufficient honour in the British nation, to pre•
vent any stch gross act of injustice and oppression."

We aro sorry to learn from the Jamaica Standard,
that incenliarism is becoming exceedingly prevalent in
the island This is a feature of fearful import to the
prospetity of the colony, and one that strongly argues
the necesity of an active and well-organised police,
for the protection of life and property.
The Governor was making a tour through the
island, am was every where received with the greatest
enthusiasn. Most of the addresses presented to him
complain of the depressed state of agriculture. These
complainfl elicited from Sir Charles Metcalfe distinct
assurances of his determination to do all in his power
to remedy existing grievances, and to promote the
general prosperity of the island.