The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-12 00:00:00

JAMAICA IN 1848.

( From the 'John Lull.)
It was upon a first of August that England, in her
generosity, gave freedom to her negroes. The day is a
blessed one in the calendar of the Black, The glorious
anniversary has never once passed in ,Jamaica without
finding the liberated man happier than he had been
during all the months and days preceding it. A fortnight
before its .Mvent, the approach of the precious day was
already,idisible in the accelerated movements and happier
toueof the labourer's spirits. The interval was a jocund
one; every negro, however poor, laid in his little stockfor -
the auspicious day, and gratitude overflowed in virtuous,
merriment. The scene and the actor are no longer the-
same; both are bctiumked by the cold cloud.tbat passes
over them. "In 18.15," dismally writes-an authority on
the spot, "KO ONE CAN AFFORD TO BE HAPPY." Sad
and bitter words, unnatural, and unacceptable to the ear
of God.

The first of August, 1848, differed in no respect. we
are told, from the day that went before and the day that
followed it : yet its gloom was intolerable. For the first
time silu hypocrisy and falsehood of the great gift was
suspected. The day reminded the sable sons of the for-
mer benevolence of their rulers ; it also brought more
poignantly home the melancholy reflection that -Christian
England has become the great nourisher of slavery, and
that their own tenure of freedom has, by England's act.
lost the value of a solitary year's purchase. To save
pence, Great Britain has perpetuated the tortures of.-the
African. The dark labourers in the distant isles were.
conscious of the dreadful fact, and meeting their brethren,
refused to rejoice. The fiat had gone forth. The accu-
mulated sufferings of negro slaves had already been com-
municated. Cuba was alive with shrieksi and red with
blood. "In 1848, NO ONE COULD, AFFORD TO BR_
HAPPY."

But more than this ! Ruin has taken possession of the-
British West Indies. Jemaim is prostrate ; business in
that island is at an end ; the population is starving.
Negroes thrown out of employment, in order to live have
taken to the trade of fruit selling. The market, debiged
with fruit, yields no return to the sellers. Those who
should be purchasers, not of their fruit, but of their ho.
nest labour, bewildered and dismayed, think less of
England than of the United States; and to think of the
stars and stripes, is to seal the doom of those who till
now have thanked Heaven on their knees for the blissful
first of August. Can we wonder that "in 1818," and
on the island of Jamaica, "so ONE CAN AFFORD TO BE.
HAPPY ?"

LATEST INTELLMENCE.
(ny EXPRESS.):

LONDON CORN MARKET.—YESTERDAY.
The supply of Wheat this morning by land-carriage samples
from Essex was good ; that from Kent was but moderate. The
condition of a large portion of the Essex white Whrat was supe-
rior to that of last week, which eiabled factors to obtain fully the
rates of Monday last. Inferior runs were a heavy sale at that
day's quotations. In free foreign Wheat the transactions were
limited to the ackal wants of the millers, who had to pay the
extreme value of last week. Very little business was done in
bonded or floating cargoes. Barley sold on about the same
terms as last week. The fresh arrivals of Oats have been un-
important in amount, and the trade ruled dull at previous
prices. Beans and Peas were unaltered in value. The top
price of town-made Flour remains nominally the same as last
quoted ; but ship and country marks were difficult of disposal,
with the turn in price in favour of the buyer.

smmin CAVTI.F. MARKET.—YESTERDAY.
For Beef perhaps our top quotation is rather more freely
given for the best qualities. There area few more Sheep, but
the average quality not so good; trade is exceedingly dull, and
late prices with difficulty suppnrted, except a few choicest de-
scriptions. Calves are rather dearer, the supply being shorter.
Good Pigs are in demand at higher prices.

OUTRAGES IN TIPPERARY.—On the 30th ult., Capt.
Scully, rattive of the M.P. for Tipperary, and of the
Mr. Scully who was shot soale, years since near Cashel,
together with M. James Scully, Lis son, and a servant
named Carroll, drove twenty-five head of cattle into a
farm, the property of the late Mr. E. Scully. The pos-
session of this farm was in dispute, and a ease-taker, who
held it for the other claimant, attempting to prevent the-
entrance of the cattle, was fired at, wounded, and his life
is despaired of. Informations have been taken against
all the above-named parties.
Tuu CURRENCY IN CnneA.--China has but one coin
peculiar to herself, which is totally inadequate, not only
foryaercantile purposes, but for domestic accommodation.
This is a copper one called "cash," which is a circular
piece of money about the size of our farthine, and of half •
its weight, and therefore about half its thickness. In the
centre is a square hole, for the convenience of stringing
them together, and on the coin certain characters are in-
scribed in relief. Incredible as it may appear, there are
an immense quantity of spnrioes " cash" in circulation.
These coin are strung together in Hundreds, and com-
monly twenty in each hundred are bad. When a shop-
keeper is asked why he mixes this had coin, which he will
not receive back main, he nnswere, be does not know, but
it is " China custom." I have heard of one place in the..
interior of China where there are none but. spurious cash
in circulation.—Dublin University Magazine.
DernecraTioN ALLOWANCE.—CawAin Iluish has ad-
dres3ed a lone and very able letter to the directors of the.
" the present
eilZiltoiloinhonfd theirrN (rei)enarks on the na -
ptuerre,.maizdptrwecte(7,stii ofitt:;-g oe
gtrl,:,.-lptreit;riaartiim aklli*liowv,alnedeeg.e"
fbiome
rail-
way statistics, have coniele:ed fee the neressity of a very
large annual allowance for d.,preeiation of stork; and this
assumed expense, and otli equally unfounded suppositi-
tious statements respecting the extent and character of
wear and tear of tails and road, have tended to induce a.
feeling of dist; list in the stnbility of payment of good or
moderate dividends to ailway proprietors. The report of
Captain Iluish will dispel all, and for ever, the doubts
that exist respecting the loss annually snstained from wear
and tear of stock., Fie shows by clear and unquf stionable
statements the! the toss :s e7norrativ,ay and
that the. dividends of the London and North-Western
Company are upt lilsely to be sensibly diminished by one
of the severalioreratioos whirl, the public are accustomed
to hear are slowly but surely destroying railway property._