The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-03-25

The Crescent City brings us adyices from Kings
ton, Jamaica, to the 18th inst Our correspondents
letter gives all the news:-
OUR JAMAICA CORRESPONDENTS.
KINGSTON, Jamaca) March IA, 1851.
Since my last communication, nothing of great
importance has transpired here The local Legisla-
ture is still in session; and the business of the coun-
try far, is progressing favorably, though slowly
The Assembly had come to a resolution, as wrote
you in my last, to meet on Thursdays and Fridays
as the principal days for legislation, devotng the
other days the week to committee business. They
have, however, since revoked the resolution, and
now meet as heretofore, every day. By meeting
daily, it is to be hoped, the business will be gone
through in a shorter time. The question of add
ditional taxation, was still engrossng the attention
of the House-it being imperatively necessary to
impose further tax on our already overtaxed COM
munity to defray the large Island debt. There has
been further reduction proposed Of future Cover
nors' salares-the sum which the Assembly is in
clncd to fix being Co, 800 which, with 81 800 from
the council fund, will make an aggregate sum ol
$4,000 Whether this will become q law, | aim not
now in position to say. The want flabor is still
felt throughout the Island, especially in the country
parishes; and emigration from the United States,
is still warmly supported by the pressya being the
description oflabor best suited for this Island. The
rreguarity of the English steamers in the trans
mission of European mails, is becoming almost pro-
verbal, ana is SUBJECT Of much dssatisfac-
ton in commercial circles. The last mail
for this Island due since the 9Th in
slant, and at the moment of my writing this,
she has just been sgnalised; her news, how
ever, has been superseded mainly by the arrival OF
the Crescent City. The cholera has not yetentrely
disappeared from the island; it is still lingering in
some of the interior parishes, though its ravages are
not so dreadful, and il generally appears in less
viruent form than Mt its advent. Two physicians
Of great repute and proficiency have arrived here,
being dispatched from England by the home gov
ing this awful pestilence. One of them, Dr. Mil
roy, had published, for general information,
very valuable sugestions-the effect of his long
pcrience-on the means most likely to avoid aud
ameliorate the disease. The St Dayids rioters are
still in custody, awaiting their trial.
The Legislature has enacted, recently, a bill to
exempt all vessels trading to this Island from places
within the tropic Of Cancer, from paying lighthouse
and tonnage dues.
large crop is on the ground, but the want OF
available labor will tend III incalcuablc degree,
to the loss Of a material portion Of il.
Our market is rather fairly stocked with all des
criptons Of provisions, and the demand is pretty
actively sustained.
The weather has, for several weeks past, been
rather stormy; but, within few days, change has
taken place, and We have had few genial showers,
accompanied by mild southwesterly breczes. Tho
health Of the metropolis is, generally speaking,
such as we may congratulate ourselves on.
The Crescent City will leave at o'clock; must
therefore, bring my correspondence to u close.