New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-10-07
WEST INDIES.

By she Cherokee we haze later advces from tina
West Indies.
The latest date from Kiogs.on, JAM is Sept.
os. We gather from our flies shc following itens
OF news:
The STANDARD contains correspondence which
baslately psased between number of Kingston
merchants engaged ia the Export Teado with the
Spanish Main and the Directors of the Pacific Mali
Steamship Company in Nss York, soliciting them
10 afford 20 Jamaica those means Of communication
with the Maln, which have been uowAtransably
taken from them by the r. NJ Steam Company
In support of the assertion that mutual oeneht
would ensue from the proposed arrangement, tho
merchants make those statements
First-As to speoie-ths amount Chiefly IN
dou6Ioops) shipped annually from Carihagena and
Santa Martha for merchants account here hss aV.
eraged $4,000 to $4,000 per trip AT freight Of
Second Goods have been carried at Is I'd ster-
ling per cubic toot'
amounted to about 40 per annum, paying $40 pas
sage money from Carthasena, and SOD from o&nS&
Martha
This ia without reckoning anything for pasSen'
gers, specie and light freight booked for ether places
IN addition TO jamaica.
The reply Of Mesara. Howlaud & Aspinwal, adj
dressed TO Messrs. Wright Armstrong Y Co. dated
Aug. III gives 1mAli encouragement IOr any UGs
parture from the present routine.
TIE Kingston Journal OF subsequent date an
noupoea the fact that Messrs. Howard & Son, own
ore of the Empire City and " Crescent City"
intend placing 8 steamer Of 200 tuns ns regular
PACKET between Kingston and New f0rk, ony, for
passengers, freight, &c.
The Cotton experiment ia fairly under way. Tho
amount deemed necessary fl000l has been sub
acribed, and the premiaaties have been agreed
upon Committee has been appointed to man.
age the affair." and plsce sas been recommended
for the experiment Attention Is 10 be directed OK
clusvely TO the cultivation Of one property.
The Queation of Education In Jamaica, 1t 10 sup"
posed will of necessity again force itself upon the
consideration of the House OF Assembly a. It's ne1t
meeting In connection with this snbieos, the
Kingston Journal publishes a copy OF dlspascn
which was forwarded to Lord Elgin, during Ms ad'
minstraton OF the affairs OF Jamaica by Earl Grey.
Earl Gray concludes his dispatch In relation 70
The subject in the following language: To whatever
extent the schools might succeed, or al IN bearing
| their own expenses cannot but indulge the hope
that the Legislatures OF the Colonisn will aoknowl.
edge the paramount importance Of causing Rnch
schools TO be established, ard @li make such pro.
visions az may be required for the purp0se. and
if 1t were necessary 10 raise money by new i'm
post, should not object, on the part of thu Crown
to a tax falling directly upon tha people 81 larges
provided the proceeds were made exclusively ap.
pcabe to the education of their chiIdssni nor,
should indeed be ayerse to any well conSidered
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not exceeding apeciisd age, to send ouch children
to school, under penalty for neglecilng TO do so,
unless for cause shown,) and to pay specified
sum for their schooling The choice OF the school
should be left, Of course to the parents, provided
only 1t were certified by some pubic f1nc,ionary, 10
be appointed for the purpose or by a0me Minister
Of tho Gospel, to be achool Ompeten!ly conducted.
Demarara.
The news from Demarara is confined 10 two or
three items, the most important OF which Ia tho de-
termination come to by the Court OF Policy to re-
new the importation Of Coolies. Both the pRpers,
and 1t would seem grsa. N ajonty OF the inhabit.
ants disapproye of the scheme, and condemn the
expenditure Of the public money for this purpose.
In the Demerara Court OF Policy several dsp atom.
es from the Secretary Of State for the Colonies were
read. Theae had reference TO the all engrossing,
and, in that colony, the allimportan. question Of
! immigration 1t appears from them that MesRs.
Hyde, Hodge Co. the parties who have engaged
to furnish transport to the Government for the cap
| tured Africans from st. Helena TO the West IndieR,
are also willing to make arrangements for proour.
ing African emlgrants, and conveying them to such
colonies az may desire them, certain condltion9.
They require the Government in the frs. instance
to permit or to sanction their making arrangements
with such Africans as may be DESTROYS of migrating
to the colonies, and entering into contracts with
them for service Of FIVE years. The Africans 40
engaged are, on their arrival In the colonies, to be
handed over to the persons with whom the Rgents
of Measrs, HYDE Hodge & Co. have entered into
engagements for their service, or be at liberty To
register themselves for i've years aervce with
employers chosen by themselvsa. In the one case
Hyde, Hodge & Co. guarantee to them a Feturn
passage to Africa, in the other they expect the col
ony to assume this responsibility. In either case
the Africans are TO be permitted to abandon the
claim for the return passage, uponreceyinga boun.
ty Of one pound sterling per head.
The weather in Demarara had been most pfopi-
tious for the planters.
Trinidad.
The Heformers OF Trinidad are divided into two
sectons or bodies, one OF which IL In favor OF an
addition 70 the present Legislative Council, Ia the
members of which are nominated by the Crown
Of certain number Of Elective Members, the other
Of A House of Assembly and Council On the model
OF the Constitution recommended for the Cape of
| Good Hope. The one parry prefers single Cham-
bar, partly nomlnasiye and partly elective the
other, two Chambers
British silver having bean introduced into grini'
dad atihe instance it IL said of the Colonial Bank
by the Government the public appear determined
TO protect Themselves against that establishments,
and resolution has been moved and carried in ths
Board OF Council to the efecs-"th il is ezpedi.,
emf thai an ordinance be framed fo- the purpose o,
limiting the tender Of British silver eaTon nSl 10
one single payment to the sum OF torEy su, bsve
The copper coins OF the United kiogao 10 iodISiS.
been declared legal tender In Triniosa % sbe Coo
uas to the extent Of toar ps1ss2 si1St renee the
na Tf bese 10 'nI Of the 'd
| part Of dollar. -, ~ .be goth August, in
/ 20 DAYS from Sierra Leone, VIZ of small poz on
+: :; {: %
Sulsry weather ess~~oerienoed at Pors OF Spain,
is said to have t Seen was attended with
anu I'd damage 10 ploPefEs
st. AIMS.
o;.,.n,o erop In 81 AIMS has tina year far
the ! iaIJ IN the yield Usually obtained by the
ans Of that description Of spces In tina. par