The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-03-13 00:00:00

FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 13, 1835.

By the Phcenix, Captain HA.RTLEY, which arrived on
Vednesday, we have files of Demerara papers to the
19th January. These still continue to represent the
fliancipated negroes as being much excited, insubori-
%late, and indolent to a high degree. The Guiana
Chronicle, of ,the 21st January, gives the following in
illustration of what is daily occurring. The present,
however, relates to only one estate:—

"There were six women and three men sent to gaol by S.
W. Gordon, Esq., chairman district C, on the Ist October fast,
to await their trial at the Supreme Court, for conspiring toge-
ther to -resist the beirtemtee of the District Court Lela at planta-
tion Great Diamond, on the 16th September last—not remain-
itg in the field 7% hours according to law—refusing to be put
in the stocks when so sentenced by the court—and setting at
defiance the authority of the managers, overseers, drivers, con-
stables, and every one in authority over 'them on the estate.
They were kept in gaol from. the Ist 'October to the Ilth
January, when they made their appearance on the estate in
great glee. Consequently, the estate has suffered a loss of 792
working days. The reason they were released -is not known,
as they brought no letter with them. The rest of the gang,
since the Ist August. have not one day performed the quantity
of work they ought to have done; and, in August, September,
October, and part of November, they did not perform one-half.
consequently, it is thought, the example now set them—viz.,
releasing the above-mentioned people without being brought to
trial—will make them worse than ever.—Plantation Garden of
Eden, Jan. 12, 1833.
"Since writing the above, part of the gang have struck work,
in the middle of the day, declaring they would work no longer,
although under a regular agreement to work their extra hours
for hire, the contraethaving been drawn and signed in presence
of one of the special justices of the peace. The rest of the gang
have not performed one half of their usual work. This is the
beginning, and God knows what they will do next. It is ex-
pected, in a day or two, they will be doing what they think
proper."

The same able and uncompromising journal, in refer.
ence to other properties, proceeds to say :

"On another estate on the same hank of the river—the Farm—
twenty-three people are, and hive been for some time, absent
from their employment and the property, while the remainder
of the gang who have not absconded are in the most unsettled
and refractory state.
"We were. likewise to-day informed by a magistrate, who sat
on the bench at the District Court held on Monday last at plan-
tation Montrose, that, so far from any improvement in the con-
Al:ret of • the negroes being evinced, the cases were much more
numerous than at the last sitting of the court, and were of a
darker character, being principally for combination and a most
determined hefusal to obey the signals for the hours of labour.
Twenty-oue culprits were sentenced to the treadmill frOm two
eitates alone.
" In addition to this, twenty negroes attached to the Little
Diamond:--the most incorrigible vagabonds—escaped that pu-
nishment which, no doubt, the court would owe awarded to
their crimes owing to some slight informality in their commit-
reent by the special justice; and it is to a similar cause, we appre-
bend, that the unexpected return of the Garden-of Eden negroes,
tie spoken of in the inanagees account, is to be attributed.
These irregularities in the required local forms are deeply tube
regretted; they rob justice of her due, while they produce the
very worst possible effect upon the mind of the negro, and, at
the same time, sets a most baneful example to all his associates.
Ile will not he induced to believe, that it was a pure accident
or inattention that saved his back from the lash, or his feet from
the treadmill; nor will his narrow cseape from the tender-mer-
cies of the law Act,on him as a salutary warning to check his
future conduct ; but he immediately supposes, that he owes. his
redemption from punishment to inability on the part of the
judges to inflict it. " Baekra no able to punish aw•wee !" • the
trimilphant scoundiel will vociferate on his return to his de-
lighted ; •arftl;.th.ey being nowise loth to oelieveldin, the
baneful infection soon spreads over the whole estate, while like-
" Rise neighbouring properties become imbued with the -same
erroneous ideas, and rebellion and disorder are speedily gene-
rated. We trust, however, that this case will act as a strong
caution to our special justices to be more guarded in future, and
(hat it will not again be our duty to record cases where the
;guilty have thus evaded justice to their own future detriment.,
.and manifeStly to the immediate and serious injury of the cotn-
oninity at large."

. The governor, fur reasons best known. to himself, had
declined to.publish the answers to his monthly circulars,

addressed to the stipendiary magistrates. The govern-
ment journal, however, represents them tobe favourable.
If so, why are they not published ? The-Chronicle takes

'op the subject as follows:
" His excellency informs us Olathe has received and carefully
examined the reptirts from the twelve juisicial districts for the
xnontli of December, end that they are of a highly satisfactory.
manure, depicting, as they do, the colony to be in a "state of
'PEllnefr tranquillau." Win", we would ask, are we not, on
this occasion, as on the last, furnished with the reports, to let
4.hein speak for themselves ? We admit that it is an unpleasant
4hing to have these reports directly Contradicted by the evidence
44 the gaol returns; and we must say that it does not increase
-our reliance on their trutb, when baif the colony are ready to
testify to their falsehood—as occurred with the November re-
. ort s—nevenheless, open dealing demanded that we should
have been favoured with a sight of these es well as their prede-
cessors. We are obliged, therefore, to suppose that there were
certain reasons which rendered it convenient to withhold them.
" His excellency next desires his congratulations to all inter-
ested in the colony for the happy state of present affairs, and for
the brightness of their future plospects.
Are these congratulations, we would ask, addressed to those
.planters who have now.raN TtiOu.sAND ACREj,i or canes rotting
011 their fields from want of labour, owing to the disobedience
.t 441 insubordination of the negroes to take them off!' Or are
these congratulations addressed to those starving orphans and
widows whose sole support formerly existed in the services of
'one or two negroes, but who now are left to pine in destitution
and want because they can receive no labour from their depend-
ants, owing to the very salutary measures of our executive?
Nay, rather should we think that these grattilatory expressions
are addressed m the (tatters of Brazil, or the merchants of the
east—who, in the prospects of our ruin, and the desolation of
the West Indian colonies, may see much cause of rejoicing, as
Improving their gains."

We have received several files Or New York papers,
reaching to the 19th February. They are filled with
4ifitnasiOns on the French question, and it is manifest
tiAlt preparations of a warlike nature are going on. The