Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-02-26

wages he can earn by working Could the West India plan
prosper under such system Of things And will it be
believed that in the year 1916 wo thousand recapured
groes appentced to deness want and vice in Sierra
Leone and but three hundred have reached West India
colonies Meantime the planters have been forced in de-
SPAR accept CooIie immigration which, from the physi
cal debility and peculiar habits Of that people, and from the
expense Of bringing them from such distant point has
proved complete failure Il easy foresee that,
under this SYSTEM the time could not be very remote when
capital would cease to flow towards the old sugar colonies
That time has come and large investments have been made
both India and the Mauus where the abundance Of labor
more than compensated for higher cights and inferior
SOIL If these ne colonies have succeeded their mshap
has not benefited the old All appear to be fast APP
preaching ruin, and this ruin caused say the
opponents Of free ade by the admission of the cheap slave
grown sugars Of Brazil and Cuba upon the terms the
sugars Of the free British colonies in the East and West In
dies. That the sugar Of Brazil and Cuba are flour
shngs proved by the fact that the machinery principally used
in its manufacture, and exported from England to Cuba has
increased in amount of value from 1907 in lS45
Ell 644 in months Of s47 whilst that sent to Brazil
has increased from En- 100 in ls45 to f35, 1913 in ls47
The exports the British colonies has poporonay de-
cined
The question which the British Government has solve is,
what the to be adopted dreadful
ing colonies being nothing less than the Of all connected
with them The advocate Of protection says Support your
free made sugar by taxing all that is made by Stare To-
Dor y but this would be abandonment of the free trade doc
rne far relates to article of home produce and if
it be found to fail in instance, what is prevent its fail
ing in second and in third This will be hard
for Lord Joas RUSSELL give his to- but many we'll
informed think he will be compelled adopt it others
say that the only policy which the West India plan
tiers can adopt frankly and once identify themselves
with the great public interests The way do this is they
say acquesce without further struggle in the system Of free
trade claiming removal of all mpedmens the
immigration aboers Of tropical into the colonies
the abolition of the navigation laws the equalization of all
duties corresponding products Of the mother country and
the colonies and any other reform that may be required TO
place these OUTLYING portions Of the empire footing of
entire equality with Great Britain and Ireland
The Examiner proposes that the evil shall be averted
and present inconvenience removed by the importation of
negroes that the emigration OF the natives from Africa should
be free and unshacked that Of Irshmen from Ireland
the cost Of their transport to be betrayed by the service OF
apprenticeship He recommends that the further employment
OF the bockadng squadron the of Africa be dispensed
WITH and that the money uselessy spent in keeping it
there be employed in removing Africans theWest Indies
This amount about 93OO 900 per annum, would fl0 per
head transport thirty thousand persons and this he thinks
would go far towards removing existing evils and averng inn
pending Whatever be DONE and something mus be
done, the subject which may materially affect the ine
of the sugaproducng portions Of your Union have
therefore stated the whole matter great perhaps weasome
length. i
DO not wish to do the Quarterly Review" any injustice,
and perhaps little strong my last letter my
remarks upon the article headed Plus TX contained in the
last number Of that very able journal The article appears
upon second perusa be liberal than its first rapid
reading gave impression that it At all events
the next article Ministerial Measures contains sentiments
for which should not have examined its pages with any
peciaon Of finding them there Take the following the
reviewers opinion about establishing diplomatic relations with
the Pope The word communion, and the corresponding
expression of being reconcled the See Of Rome which
quoted by Lord PALnERsroN the 10th Of December
in reply Sir RoBERr IssLrs, causing doubt respecting
the legality of establishing diplomatic relations with the Pope,
held by the reviewer as obviously meaning nothing but
religious communion and religious reconcilement We our
selves know Of nothing interfere with diplomatic COM
municaion Rome" The statutes EIiz. c. i, and Is
Ez s. the reviewer calls obsolete" "On what plea, =
he adds pretend to exclude sovereign of Rome
from the Congress Of European Powers We ready
battle for him agans, Bonaparte and had small
share in restoring him 10 the throne Of which the King Of
Rome had dspossessed him and yet will not hold dpo-
matte intercourse with him." The reviewer recommends
"the Government to conclude such diplomatic arrangement
with the Pope independent sovereign should have with
another Il pretty certain that such arrangement will
be proposed after the meeting Of Parliament and the
suggestion hailed good omen coming from the quar-
! ter whence have quoted it.
The financial pressure existing in the United States which
the last two three arrivals have made acquainted WITH
has excited good deal Of surprise the public mind Those
however whose knowledge Of business enabled them TO look
little inohe matter easily understand the which have
led this PRESSURE and anticipate that the difficulties will not
be Of long continuance Such persons hold that very short
time will in all probability, be sufficient place the exchange
between the two counties in favorable position for the
United States and doubt that with the
Of the shipments Of the cotton crop the trade be-
the countries will portion of its
| vigor, il not its full extent.
The frequent calls Of your Treasury for "hard
ney must have had their effect upon your fiscal affairs Has
your Cabinet yet discovered that army the midst Of
hostile country is hobby which may be very glorious ride
but which at least is very expensive
Again. look a, the history of the trade between the United
States and Great Britain during Is47. It indeed sats
cal curiosity. The theory has been confirmed which held that
whether in exchange for grain to famine to
equip feet there country which does prefer adj
Just the by equivalent exchange produce goods
than by the precious metals We took immense amount
Of your breadsu during the past year. and what did you