The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-07-20
New, from the n. ,,,.n west Indies.

terday, from Kingston, JAM, furnishes us with
files Of the Journal published at that place, to the
3)ih June.
General Paez, formerly President of the Repub-
lie of Venezuela, and recently commander of
faction opposed to Monagas the present leader of
the government had arrived at Kingston, it is said,
on his way to England.
The distressed state of agriculture and financial
affairs, occupies the attention of the papers and
leaiing persons in the colony.
Disable cton In many parts Of the colonies, exists
| among the working classes, caused either from
bad management, or from the inability OF the
| IliI ar to remunerate them tor services.
At Hanover and Montego Bay, the feeling OF dis
content among this class, assumed very serious
turn, causing much uneasness to the inhabitants.
! From every British dependency through the
West India Islands, the accounts confirm the state
ments we have already published in regard to the
distressed condition OF their public, as well as IN
dividua, affairs. Every colonial government, as
far as we can learn, is balkrupt-thelr treasures
empty and their revenues far too limited sustain
the common wants of the officers of justice.
We have made few extracts from the papers
published at Kingston and through the Islands
From the Kingston Journal June 2Sl
The Manchester resolutions, which We publish to-
day. as indication Of public feeling, are more i'm
portant than any thing which has yet proceeded from
| the many public meetings which have been held
throughout the island. Come what may from Eng
| land, protection protection, jamaica cannot
hope to get without domestic reform. Better would
it be surrender constitution altogether better
to abolish the farce Of popular
than to possess the former with advantages
and to enjoy the latter without the pr viege of self
taxation.
But what is the Legislature to do when it assem-
bles? We told to retrench. Retrenchment can
only be prospective and If to judge from the
silence that is maintained, the past must right itself
There is something more, however. No protection
protection must be conceded by the home governments
the revenue is for the support Of island nstitu
selves unless they choose The sooner it is ascertain
ed whether there to be protection and such protec
ton shall satisfy the party the better because it
to be upheld not If the protection is deemed in
sufficient it is to be hoped the question will actually
be raised and decided, whether there shall be any
venue. The majority will carry out their threat, and
then We shall see what the government will do. In
these dull times an outbreak a small way, sort Of
passive revolution, will tend to amuse or to divert
mems minds from more disagreeable and gloomy SUBJ
jects. ~
His Excellency the Governor having yielded ut
length not to the solicitations of the Inhabitants, but
tiyes of the people to be assembled Thursday
the Sd of August for the consideration of state Of
things in with Jamaica unparalleled in the
history of the island.
For the first time in the history of the island two
distinct and strongly antagonstic parties are ranged
against each other in the popular branch Of legs
! lature.
The fatal resolutions which the House persuaded
to affirm last have involved Jamaica in her pre-
sent difficulty. The House knew ought to have
known, that the country reduced to state of unpar
alleed restitution and poverty by the ruinous policy
of the government, incapable Of yielding the
venue set down in the ways and means"-a revenue
not accommodated in the smallest degree to the i'm
poyerished condition of the inhabitants but framed
upon a scale of extravaganza which even prosperity
would notustify and which, in point offac was three
times as large as when Jamaica exported 9OOOO hogs
heads of sugar
The House, abundantly generous upon paper. pledg,
ed itself to give for twelve months, without
considering for a moment whether that revenue could
be realized in doing so it committed double wrong.
1t delay this crisis until period when can be sim
ply productive inconvenience without ministering
it might have done to the public good; and In the
next place. it pledged the country to impossible ty
and oppressed he people with amount of taxation
which they cannot support.
The Trin,dadian of recent date, speaking of
the affairs of that colony, SAYS
"Hcr treasury is worse than empty containing obi-
cations and demands, instead of bullion and bonds
her local perplexed and powerless the
result of previous insensate legislation and prese
incapacity her staple products at alarming
discount in the British market her laborers and
merchants the sinews of her strength and the expo
ners of her wealth. are at best i'll remu and in
many irreguarly paid, if paid at all and as
necessary consequence, her mercantile interests in
ruinous state public confidence, there is none, and
distress is abroad
(From the Kingston Journal
The Dominica Treasury is like our own-empty.
The calculations in this and in other colonies to wind
ward, have proved incorrect The depression in trade
from which The mother country suffered, and continues
to suffer has seriously affected the colonies-and not
the British colonies only, but the foreign also
Embarrassment public and private, is the order of the
day and viii require some considerable portion Of
time yet to overcome it.
Our Barbados papers reach to the eth of June in
slant The most important item of intelligence in
them is the loss Of the 'retrenchment billn ia the
Hcuse o: Assembly the 9th of June afcer lengthy
discussion The bill had been read first and second
time and committed. In the committee three propo-
stons made respecting the amount OF reduction,
viz 20 Is, and 10 per cent all salaries and fees
No division appears to have taken place on the first
proposition the cond lost voting for and
twelve against it. The blank filled at ten per cent?
/ A proposition made that the bill should be
nua one, which was lost On motion the that the bill
do pass, division took place, when there appeared in
favor Of it, IL aganstt Il The loss of the measure
is attributable to its having beenmade permanent
Next in Importance is the anticipated retirement of
Col Reid from the government Of the Windward
Islands Thepapers without single exception express
their regret this Giro umstance, and speak in the
highest terms Of the governor
Inc man to whom we referred yesterday, as having
bee placed in custody of the police, charged, his
confession, with having committed several muir
ders and robberies, examined by Doctors McFa-
Scott during the evening but have not yet
ascertaned the result their investigation into the
of his mind His is Bernard Meyers, native
Of London he was cook and steward OF the brig Blue
Bell. now in harbor
The prisoner kept regular account in a log book
in which Ire confesses himself the perperator of less
than thirteen murders and large number Of robberies
in New Orleans, Houston, CTexas) and other places.
lie details each of them with degree of unconcern
tUat is truly surprisipg at time he is engaged in
IA regular system of purchasing and passing spurious
bank notes at another he is at the gaming table, win
ming large sums Of money, and afterward waylaying
hofe who he happens to know possessed Of money
and numbering and rining their pockets of whatever is
contained in them he tells Of a bridegroom he muir
dered for going to marry girl he (the prsoner had
loved If he is in his proper senses, and all he has
written be true he is of the luckiest fellows
have heard Of for evading the ends Of justice
he has all along done.
LATER FROM HAvANA.-By the arrival of the bark
Rapid, from Havana, we are in receipt of files
OF the Diario dc Ia Marina, Dio,io dc Ia Habana,
and Eoc6f1 re In H1b1ud TO the Sth inst, From
them we extract the following items of news:
The Spanish frigate Colon arrived at Havana on
the 10Th June from Cadz, having on board Don