The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-07-10 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We cannot insert the note respecting an alleged assault in
I)uke•street.
WC received the note of " A Churchman" at too late a
period to allow us to act upon his suggestion to-day. It
will do on Friday.

'Ube tiberpoot

TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 10, 1838,

ta' The Publication of the STANDARD commenced this
morning at 5 o'clock.

JAMAICA.—The New York Courier and Enquirer
' "Of the 25th ult., which we,have received by the Great
Western, has the. following impottant intelligence
from-Jamaica, which is quite confirmatory of the anti.
cipatiOni expressed in the last adyices received direct
from the West Indies :
"JAMAICA.—We have received files of Jamaica pa-
- pets by the ship John W. Cater, Captain Mead, to
the 6th June. Their contents are not unimportant.
It "will be recollected that in August next, by an act of
the British Parliament, all house servants in the Bri-
tish Colonies were to be emancipated, but the servi•
tude of field labourers was to be continued some years
longer. We learned by our last advices from Eng-
land Ohm an attempt to carry a bill through the House
of Commons, providing for the emancipation of the
whole at once, had failed ; yet, not Withstanding, it
now appears, a general abolition of negro servitude
is about to take place. • The spirit of resistance in the
planters seems to have been entirely subdued by the
stmt
untiring fanaticism of their countrymen inEnaland.
a:A We shall now see what will become of these colonies,
.mice so highly valued by Great Britain, that the Cap-
• sture of a West Indian island from an enemy set- the
treet", of London in a blaze of illumination,
and was
rewarded by the highest honours to the officer who
made it. We venture to predict that gradually they
will dwindle into perfect insignificance,—that they
will Cease to produce more than is necessary to keep
alive a miserable population of lazy negroes, and that
the contrast in their future state will be as great as
that of St. Domingo at the present hour, compared
with what it was under the reign of Louis XVJ."
The Jamaica despatch introduces the following
speech from the Governor, with some remarks, which

we annex :

(From the Jamaica Despatch of June 6.)
Ministers, in their places, have opposed the measure of
Fabolitinth And y-et his Excellency is commanded to wrest
it from the hands of the colonial legislature, under threat that
cultivation must cease. Is this not a violation of the com-
pact? - - •

- - -
However, the legislature of Jamaica is prepared to grant
entire and unqualified emancipation. But the Governor has
no right to claim, in behalf of the government, an account
of any pacific measures that have been adopted; oecause the
apprentices have rested in sober hope relying upon the gene-
rosity of the planters; for if they had been the Devils incar-
nate, represented by the lying Loci, Focos and spies of this
country, and the Sturges and Sligos of Great Britain, they,
the pprenticev; would have been runnintz riot in licentious-
ness, revolt, and carnage. Notwithstanding the parliamen-
tary interference—the firebrand speeches of Lord Broughatn
—the constant agitation of the abolition party, striving to
excite the worst passions of human nature—still the forbear-
ance of the planters prevails, and peace and tranquillity
reigns triumphant.