The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-09-09

We have received files Of the Kingston Ga
Despatch and Advatissr, by the Empire City, te
the 10Th ult. fr. eg.
The weather, at Kingston, (Ja.), has been un.
usually warm for several days. Preceding the
10Th of August, the Island of Jamaica was very
healthy. -.. I.l
A meeting of gentlemen anxious to promote the
culture of cotton in the British West Indies, was
held in Kingston, Jamaica, on the 10Th of last
month. The whole subject of cotton growing
was debated, and estimates submitted of the ex-
penses and profit that would arise from it, Seve-
raj letters were read from property owners In the
Island, Offering to give, in one instance, thou
SAND acres OF land free of rent for three years. to
the JOINT stock company, which il was proposed to
folm for growing cotton. Samples Of Jam aca
cotton had bee sent to Liverpool recently, for the
Inspection OF persons engaged in the trade, who
represented that il worth from eight to eight
and half pence per pound. The meeting passed
the following resolutions
Resolved That the sum proposed to be raised be in.
creased to $4,000 In proportion OF not less than EOS
Resolved, That committee be appointed to solicit
subscriptions
Resolved That the committee be requested to report
to the next meeting whether it win be advisable
to expend the whole raised in the cultivation of
cotton by the subscribers to make advances to
small proprietors who may be engaged in cotton cu
uyation and also to report on the eligibility of stu
alton for carrying out the operations of the company
Sir Robert Bowcher Clarke, the Chief Justice of
Justice of st. Lucia; the Hon. ]. G.. p Atthill is
TO be the resident Puisne Judge; the Hon Louis La
Gaze, the Attorney General, in the room of Mr..
Atthill; and the Hon. Cyprien Mallet Paret, the
Solicitor General of the latter colony.
The appointment of the Hon. James Scotland,
late Solicitor General at Antigua, to be the Chief
Justice of 81. Kits, has been confirmed.
Accounts from Martinique state that serious in
jury had been done TO the shipping of that island
by the gale in the early part of July, and that a
government steamer had been despatched in quest
OF missing vessels.
The Governor of Jamaica has recognised J. w.
Fraser, Esq, vice Consul for the United States
of America at Savanna la Mar in that Island.
The Kingston DAILY Aduertiser says
Since the departure Of the last mail for Great Bril-
tain this island has been very generally visited by
pious showers OF rain attended in several districts by
thunder and vivid lightning. Some slight injury to
property has occurred the north side of the island
Emperor Soulouque, of Hayti, according to ac-
counts received by the packet, was not to receive
his imperial crown until the end Of the year, or
ly in January. The ceremony was to have taken
place on the 2Sth of August but is delayed until
the course of erection in the palace yard, and in
which the important event is to take place
new plan of curing and improving sugar by
centrifugal force is now in operation in Barbados
The gain to the planter is represented to be from
twenty TO thirty per cent. The Barbados Globe
says
Mr. Drumm repeatedly placed in his cylinder uncer-
tain quantities of what could not certainly be called
sugar" for the samples experimental on were fer
moasses and yet In the short space of minutes,
the result produced quantitity of sugar OF
excellent quality and appearance quite free from
asses and with the grain uninured by the operation