The daily crescent., 1848-09-21


By the arrival Yesterday of the British schooner
Planet, Capt Daley, we have received Kingston
papers to the 26h ut, from which we take the fol-
lowing:
GA detachment of the Kingston police was yes
terday placed under orders TO proceed without
delay to the disturbed district in ST. Marys, and
we understand that company OF the I'd West India
regiment has been also ordered on the same duty.
The Kingston Dispatch of the 26th ult, says that
the Assembly had adopted, on the evening of the
Goth, a memorial to the Viceroy, showing the cause
of dissatisfaction
"We feel deeply aggrieved by a charge which
has been made in circular which issued from the
Kings House on the 10th day of July last, directed
to the Custodes of the respective Parishes, IN which
were the following words: The Governor has not
seen any evidence of a conspiracy or combination,
of any sort amongst the negroes, and the greatest
evil which his Excellency has found TO be in actual
existence is the alarm which has been prevalent
amongst some of the white and colOred classes and
a feeling, which appears TO be growing stronger
among them, that the emancipation from slavery
ought to have been made by slow gradatlons, and
that even now it might not be too late to retrace
our steps.' We firmly believe, with your Excel
lency, that there is no evidence of conspiracy or
combination of anV Sort amongst the negroes, but
we feel deeply Inundated by the statement made
by your Excellency, that, besides alarm being the
greatest existing evil prevalent amongst some OI the
white and colOred classes, your Excellency has
found feeling to be in actual existence amongst
those classes not only that emancipation from sla
| very ought 10 have been made by slow gradations,
but thai even now might not be too late to retrace
our steps We deem this to be grave, serious and
alarming assertion. We, one and all of us, solemn
| Iv declare we never heard of such feeling exist
| ing, and we approach your Exceency with con-
fidence when we solicit permission to see the evil
deuce upon which the statement Is founded
The Dispatch, in referring to Sir Charles Gray''
| reply to the memorial, says:
His Excellency declines tn make good hi
charges there is but one necessary inference, ant
his Excellency having placed himself in so equivo
| cal position must be prepared to abide the issue
| We cannot doubt the course that the House vii
take in vindcation of its own honor and that OF 1t
constituents. The following resolution was adopt
ed at meeting Of the Assembly on the 25th ult -
| "That with this conviction the House deem l
| incumbent to call upon the Home Government Il
relieve the colony from the maintenance OF tn
! Executive and Judi eial Establishments, and OF In
sttutons for the detection and punishment OF crime
| seThat this House deem it necessary to decar
the inability of this colony TO raise the customar
amount for the year l849 and their determination
to raise no supplies beyond provision tor the pub
lie debt (unless they are enabled to make adequat
retrenchment in the expenditure of the lsland.')
We also learn that the Kingston police had bee
defeated by the blacks at St. Mary's, and that tn
ID Regiment had been ordered on Immediately.