Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1839-05-31

May. r.
The JAMAICA BILL.--Sons very able and sharp
debating took place this question the House Of
Commons; and when the vote was taken on the 9th
of May, it stood thus
For the Bill, 2s4
Against it, 2s9
The debate was opened by Mr.. Maclean, who con-
trasted the course now adopted with the policy pur-
and showed that in this measure, as in the India Bill
OF the Wings under George Ill, the real object was
to seize upon the colonial patronage and power.
Sir +. Wilmot hoped the House would not allow
the masters to continue the negroes in slavery under
the mask Of freedom. To prevent such an evil he
should vote for this bill, though he had every wish
to displace the present Ministers.
Mr.. Grote said he could in the bill prospect
Of bensft the blacks and many tokens of severity
to the whites The great desideratum was TO induce
among the negroes Oblivion OF the past and patience
under the present. The constituency was but small
body yet, bat every year charging it. The
supporters of the bill themselves treated the
assigned by Government with inst contempt; but if
the bill could not stand its preamble, it ought not
to stand at all This was called suspension, butfit
took effect, man would ever see a revival. The
movement on behalf of this bill was only exagge-
ted anti-savery feeling kept alive after its egiti-
mate purposes had all been fulfilled and really the
Government, instead of trying to put the Assembly
into favorable temper for legislation, had done all
in its power to exasperate them, both in substance
and in manner.
Mr.. Ooulburn, in a speech of great ability, oppo-
sed the bill, which, he observed, of its supper
tiers had defended ON the grounds assumed by its in
PRODUCERS. 1t would be bad omen for the cause Of
liberty in Maryland and Virginia, if the precedent for
negro emancipation to carry political disfran-
colony whose laws had been disallOwed; the same
fate had befalen the saveaws of almost all the leg
islativc colonies, and was Government prepared to
include them also in their proposal for superseding
an assembly by a councilf But the slave laws Of
those colonies wnich are regulated by councils had
been little satisfactory the slave laws Of the
Legislatures Of the IL laws so passed BY councils,
only one had been allowed.
Mr.. O'Connell took this distinction between Ja-
maca and the other legislative colonies, that the 9TH
theirs had not abdicated their functions. Another
already, and Jamaica had done nothing He then
read variety of extracts from evidence detailing
the cruelties committed in some of the prisons Of
Jamaica.
Mr.. Gladstone followed. why, asked he, when it
is obvious that the measure, even if il obtain
jorty, can gain support strong enough to pass
into law, it is thus pressed and the differences
of opinion in En- gland thus exhibited to Jamaical-
He showed that the Assembly had not, as had been
alledged, either stopped the supplies or demanded
the repeal of the prison law, and complained Of the
heat and hurry of the legislation against jamaica
compared with the forbearance of the Government to
Canada after stoppage of the supplies for four
eessive years
Sir $. Washington spoke in declamatory and
preamble (Which, after ALL is the real substance of
the whole discussion) almost entirely aside and ar
gued for the bill upon the anti-savery ground. He
indicated at length what no one denies the trans
cendental power of Parliament colonial legsla-
ton admonshed the house that il sibls to
retreat with safety national honor; and protest
ed, that If Ministers should be overthrown by the
result of that nights division, they would fall in
great cause, and only the expected detection Of
a knot of Liberals, who misunderstood the real OBJ
jects and value of political constitutions.
Lord Stanley said the persons who now desired to
suspend the Assembly for term of years in order to
mature the negroes for fran chse, the very
who on all former occasions had represented the
groes already ripe for all the enoymens of civil
liberty; and the liberal party, the exclusive lovers
OF freedom, were new in arms to suspend free
stitution, and to suspend it on false pretensions.
Lord j. Russell closed the debate with a short
summary ofthe arguments for the bill, and de- lama
ton az ainst the ssccders who he apprehended
aboat to desert him
And if his reproaches were not very just, his APP
prehensions were; for the House divided in favor
Of the bill, 49, against it, 2S9; leaving to the Minis
tiers majority of-fve!
The London Sun, OF the I'd Of May, says that the
following gentlemen are to be raised Immediately 10
the peerage Lord Talbot de Malahide, Sir John
Stanley, Mr. Villiers Stuart, MIR. Chandos Leigh,
Mr. Beilby Thomson, Mr.. Charles Brownlow, Mr..
Ridley Colborne, and Mr.. Arthur French.
The marriage Of the Hon. Henry Fitzroy TO Miss
Rothschiid, took place on the seth April The mar.
riage was private and the bride was not given away
There was report in London the lst Of May
that the Anglo-lndian forces had been defeated in
Cubal, and II had not been officially contradieted.
The Duke Of Newcastle has been dismissed from
the lord-lieutenaney Of Nottnghamshire. He il one
Of the bitterest Tories in the whole kingdom. The
Of the Dukes dismissal his refusal 10 re-
commend gentleman for the rnagstracy. solely on
the grosna that he dissenter. Earl Spencer is
spoken of a likely to be the Dske's successor.
The Imperial (Jont Stock) Banking Com pany at
Manchester stopped payment on the Both Of April
This bank commenced business In December, 1886
with eight branches.
The trial Of the soi-disdnt Earl OF Sterling COM
menced at Edinburgh on the 10Th Of April. Sixty
witness were in attendance.
The great Missionary Society in England has had
its annual meeting Its report very like Ours the
total receipts for the year S420000; the expen
diture S500,000; leaving deficiency Of $780, 600
The subscriptions to TO the centenary fund exceed
ed 81 ,0e0,00o
The receipts OF the Bible Society last year were
600; the expenditure $50, 000; leaving def
cheney Of Sl0000 900 bibles were circulated
and there is now wanted 10000 bibles for the Bur-
mese, who now learning TO read
SrEAn FROM GLASGOW TO New YoRK.--A Joint
stock company is now forming in Glasgow for carry.
ing passengers and merchandise between the Clyde
and New York, by means Of an iron steamship, Of
great power and capacity, TO sail at the rate Of at
least, sixteen miles hour, thereby making pas
sage in about ten days, thus enabling this vessel to
make nearly a monthly voyage TO America. The
capital is to be ESQ, 000,-G Glasgow Chronicle.
The Hirfg-ninih child Of WIN. Sianit, Of Caddagh,
Ireland was baptized by the Rev. M, Fahv in tho