The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-06 00:00:00

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larently able report to the House of Assembly on the finan
ial state of the colony. The report would not be uninte
'esting to many of our readers, but we fear we shall not hay
'Dace for it. It might be retnarl‘ed. however, that t"

nittee discovered nothing in the position, circumstances, or
3rospects of the colony, to induce them to recommend any
the revenue of the present year

td the expenditure at £BO,OOO,

was computed at £91,000

a loan to the mole-head—an erection in progress of comple-
tion, and deemed essential, not only for the protection of the
city of Bridgetown against the inroads of the sea, but also for
the facility of transporting goods to and from vessels.

AFRICAN EMIGRATION TO THE WEST INDIES

ocanley has, it is understood, resolved to give the
•ecommendatioris of the committees of the House of Com-
mons on the West Indies and West Africa a fair trial, so far
• A cn,.a in those colonies is concerned.

,office is thus- holding out a helping hand to
nese suffering possessions, and endeavouring to place them
in a position to compete with the slave-grown produce of
Cuba and Brazil. In the perfect success of this attempt are
involved not only the prosperity of the British West Indies,
but tile extinction of slavery in foreign sugar countries, the
suppression of the slave trade, and the civilisation of Africa.
It is by making free labour in the tropics cheaper than slave
labour that these inestimable results are to be produced, and
the readiest mode of arriving at the possession of an agency
thus pregnant with good is to make free labour plentiful and
the cost of living cheap. The Colonial Customs Act of last
session, and the removal of the prohibition on trade between
our West Indian Colonies and Hayti, are likely to reduce
the price of provisions; and the adoption of a scheme of
emigration from Africa to the West Indies, will, it is to be
hoped, render in course of time labour plentiful.
Hitherto the insignificant emigration which has flowed
from Sierra Leone to Guiana, Trinidad and Jamaica has
been superintended by the colonial authorities ; and though
it has on the whole been well condocted, such emigration is
a matter at once so delicate and so important, that to be
carried on with that eautipn and skill which our efforts for
the suppression of the slave trade, our national reputation,
and the easily-excited prejudices of the natives demand,
and on a scale commensurate with the wants of the colonies,
wtheereinotbevrvioeunstlioy indispensable.na Lord Stanley has therefore,
authority of the imperial government
we learn, resolved that the emigration shall be under the
direct management of the Colonial-office. The funds neces-
sary to defray the expenses will be voted by the colonial
councils, and be applied for the object for
which they
were granted by the home government; ships
legislltures and
and despatched under the command of
to. the coast of Africa, and will convey such
will be chartered by the Colonial-office on account of the
various colonies,
proper officers
natives as of their own free accord and without any fervid
inducements or over-charged solicitations shall desire to
migrate to the West Indies. The perfect free will of the
be protected in the colonies, their reception

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emigrants '1

will be provide('
their return to Africa secured when they shall desire to leave.
That many emigrants will in the first instance bp willing to
experienced cehaving resided a few years in the West
the benefits and comforts of civiliza-
tion Africa, seems unlikely ; but with the assistance in
those
ePturn to instruct their countrymen, it can
Africa of
there,
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scarcely be doubted that a large and increasing stream of
emigration will be established between Africa and the West

Indies.
irrfectly spontaneous, and that the ser-
The great difficulties of the subject are that the emigra-
tion should not be
vitude of the immigrants should, by the colonial laws of
master and servant, partake . in any degree of compulsory
labour. The former will be overcome by the conduct of the
emigration being in the hands of Government officers; the
latter must be provided for by the colonial legislatures re.
vising the laws in question and taking care to provide against
even the shadow of such an evil. Much of the success of
the experiment about to be made depends on the treatment
which the immigrants will receive in the colonies : and it
cannot be too strongly
.impressed on the planters that one
harsh and bad master in a colony will be almost enough to
ruin the plan adopted for their benefit. The opponents of
the measure are ournerous, active, and not very scrupulous,
and no opportunity will be lost to deprecate its adoption in
England or endanger its success either in the colonies or
Africa ; let the planters then be on their guard. The receipt
of Fupplies of labour ougnt not moreover to render them in-
sensible to the great advantages of improved cultivation, and
of the substitution, by every means which energy and
can devise, of mechanical for huan bour ; the
in-
general use of the plough and the working tm
hemill by ma-
chinery must not be neglected when wages are cheaper and
the cost of provisions less.—Morning Herald.

AIRS OF THE LEVANT

Intelligence has been received from Alexandria and Con-
stantinople to the 17th instant. The most important infor-
mation is that the Syrian negotiations have been satisfactorily
brought to a close, by the reluctant acquiescence pf the Porte
in the suggestion of her best friends. A new pashalic will
be formed, extending along the coast from Tripoli to Acre,
and the pasha of that division, resident at Beyrout or Sidon,
will be vested with suzerian authority. The Turkish troops
will be drawn front Lebanon, and the Arnaut irregular forces
recalled from Syria. The treaty of Gulliarie will form the
acknowledged basis of administration. Redschid Pacha has
been recalled from Paris by a sudden inundate, and Nafi
Effendi has been appointed to succeed him.

Tiq; TcA TRADE, Jan. 2.—The tea market opens this
year under steadier auspices, and with a prospect of offering
a safer employment for capital, though, as there will be less
liability of loss, there will also be fewer chances of making
large sums by u lucky hit. One thing is certain, however,
and that is, that a bona fide quiet trade is better for the ma-
jority of the dealers than one of a fluctuating and dangerous
character. The deliveries last week were only 403,800 lbs.
To-day the market was firm.

STRANGE PREJUDICE,—The Memorial de Rouen, in
speaking of a man being found grievously wounded on the
high road, in a neighbouring commune, apparently from the
wheel of a waggon having passed over his lower jaw, laments
that an old prejudice should still be so strong amongst the
peasantry as to prevent them from rendering aid to a
wounded man unless the authorities be present. In the pre-
sent case the dying
man was left struggling on the high road
for half an hour, and when medical assistance was at last
brought by the Mayor, it was found to Come too late, as the
man died immediately after the arrival of the surgeon.
CHARGE OF POISONING 'IHE LATE SIR R. T. RICKETTS.
—We some time since mentioned that Mr. Newton, the son.
in-law of the late Admiral Ricketts, had applied to one of
the county coroners to order the exhumation of the corpse
of the deceased baronet, for the purpose of holding an in-
quest to inquire into the cause of death. As no sufficient
ground was stated for such a request, and as it appeared
only to be made for the purpose of annoyance to the family,
the coroner very properly declined to become a party to such
a proceeding. Mr. Newton, however, does not appear to be
very easily turned away from his purpose ; for we find, that
at his instance John Cooke, the late Sir Robert's valet, was
apprehended at Chipping Campdeu, and lodged in the Chel-
tenham police-station, ender the following information :
" For that he, the said John Cooke (well knowing that some
person or
Persons unknown to the said witness did, on or
about the 18th day of August last, at Cheltenham, in the
county of Gloucester aforesaid, feloniously poison and slay
Sir Robert Tristram Ricketts, of the Elms, in the said
county, baronet, lately deceased, did, to wit, on the 23d day
of December instant, at Chipping Campden, in the county
aforesaid, feloniously encourage, support, and maintain the
said person or persons so as aforesaid unknown to the said
deponent; he, the said ,John Cooke, then and there well
knowing the said nerson or persons as aforesa

1, unknown
to the said witness to have committed the felony aforesaid,
in and by concealing their said felony, against the peace of
our Sovereign
Lady the Queen, her crown and dignity, and
against the form of the statute in that case made and pro-
vided." On Monday the accused was brought up before
the magistrates at the Cheltenham public office, and the in-
formation having been read over, Mr. Overbury asked who
was the complainant ! No answer was returned, though the
question was repeated three times, and the prisoner was
thereupon ordered to be discharged. Mr. Newton then rose,
and said he was the complainant in this case, and demanded
that it should be proceeded with. The magistrates said he
ought to have stated this before, and, as the man had been
discharged, Mr. _Newton must procure a fresh information if
he intended to proceed further in the matte!. The accused
then left the ofilee.-6/oucesfer Journal.