The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-10-28

DISSATISFACTION TOWARDS THE HOME GOVERNMENT.
From the jamaica Despatch Oct Goth.
There are few people who think VI the past
Of Jan and the other islands la the Carb
bean Sea After the abolition Of the save trade the
value Of the existing slaves increased materially the
nun bers could only be incT sased kept up By
the fertility Of the and the pains bestowed by
them. well by their masters aud mstresses the
nsnts But the Tact we are 90 speak OF is that ia.
msica had immense resource Ia the possession %
these slaves which is not only nov utterly lost Of
course, but never even thought Of apparently. For
easy calculation, no matter whether strictly
rect let us tsss the slave population at three hun
died thousand, and let us value them At fifty pounds
head the sum Of their worth would be fifteen mil
Hons. Any person possessing tweHty or thirty OF
make good deficiencies Ia culture buildings or to
pay legacy, or for any purpose, carried hrs title
signify whether half of these fifteen millions were
rortgsged not they sti here responsible for
the leans advanced on them and employed accordingly
20 work cut principal and iuteren; besides if mors-
gagged. the mortgage could raise the money on them
and the money must have been worked out ihere-it
could not he worked out in Aincng Lane aud Leaden-
hall Market Let our readers contemplate these facts
and consider what vast resource ths-the com.
mand OF hiteen millions OF uneXceptouabse security,
equivalent 70 bank notes aud convertible into them,
without any depreciation Of the capital ot any post
bty q Sc being applied clsewhsre than in jamaica
The Engh-h People Ut v q 60 mincs the mat.
ter. destroyed this capital in moment in the
tvinblirs 81 an eye. Net quicker did Bclshszzars
throne p under him than the pita Of Jamaica
FROM the planters The.day after the emancipation,
We had nothing ttguratvey speaking % raise money
email amount bot there has long since been an end
Of that In fact the capital auuihiated aud we,
none Of us and perhaps, least Of all the colonial
ONCE. thought q this important and fatal
snuihilation, tud never dreamed Of raising some
equivalent TO sounterbalauce sad loss Sir Il.
Peel said shOud have protection. but that
promise has been thrown 90 the winds Our Ministers
would have done well TO have instantly enforced
the tlavc treatiesto have instantly excluded slave
sugarto have introduced twenty or thirty thousand
Africans annually. and more II demauded-to have
given premiums on new a. well as old staples aud to
have lent funds to enable " 90 use capabilities
They not only did not DO this but they did the con.
tsty ia every respect They not ouy gould not send
us AffcanF except By half dozens but they would not
let us send Ourselves 90 Africa although the minis
tsrs had seventeen eighteen stipendaries here
lair rlsy They equsIi,sd their duties aud opened
their porte for the admission Of slave thereby
doing that for Cuba and Brazil which they omitted 10
Do Tor Cuba slSays and hss ~ course nov the
spne sort Of capital that we had In slavery times.
equally convertible into dollars aud bank notes
and the 81 our ministry have doubted
the value OF their capital very considerably aug.
msnted u The ministry OH not do thi- intent onaly
that g. intending 60 promote the Interests Of Cube.
they knew nothing about the mater Ignorance. a.
Or Johnson sod Or, according to Goblet, beastlr
ignorance" Is al the excuse they had TO Offer fr
their proceedings beyond the passion for popular ia
the cate raecufa 20 power and wealth. VIII any
on believe that they infatuated ~ 60 think thai
they have done we'll and deserved well u Jama'cs
aud that they ere in the right course aud that they
cannot SEQ the estates aud penns tuyrbling doRn in
their Islands like card housest LOtd Grey hnds
although We cannot,
"IIireeif 10 be q rsrvcilous proper man"
cert of kpif. grinder ,ho has brought all our noses
10 his arindstoAe, and ttI holds them there But II
late to remedy part Of our evils, " hal
sn tfFeient, enlightened, humane, and cOnsdsrate
colonial government, anxi0cs well as wiliing 90
better the condition Of the eoloniss much might BE-
eth Effected not we fear with Earl Grey and his at
juncts including Lord John Russell ls q possible 20
CINE a more srechsd and ooStemptibie set Of poli-
teens for every COED rurPoee than the gentlemen nov
IN DoVniug stfCef nositve imbeciss ignorant where
not miscLisrous. but miscbtsVeus per iga0Taitians
they lifted to preside the colonies Of
The British empire than Jack Cade or MassaDieo,
scgbery or Neigss. They still think o. nothing be
yons extsciing TIE toms duties from eoxar; she
waits, vitIes, neccssi'os, hopes, efforts, aud the