The New York herald., 1851-07-01

0nions-say 250OOO lbs. at 2s. 8d.......... 3125
Potatoes-say QUO bbls.. Observation-Disclosures. 1900
- 1925
Total value of the produce raised this season. $50 S2
We are indebted to the 81. Lucia Palladium of the
oOth ultmo, for the subjoined particulars of the
earthquakes which have lately been experienced at
Guadaloupe. The following is a translation from a
newspaper printed at Point -Pitre-
euADALoUPE.
This day, 10Th of May, 1851, Point a. Pitre has
had to undergo another severe trial. At sixteenl
minutes after nine in the morning violent shock
q 9arthqS'gs was felt its oscillations being from
noise like that of thunder. Its duration was oi
aboat one second. 1t were impossible to describe
the impression made on he population BY. this
shock, recalling, as it did, that Of the 9Th Of Feb
ruaTy, 1913. Fortunately, at Point-a- Pitre, we
have no serious damage to deplore from it; our
wooden buildings having withstood the shock
not one having fallen. At O'Clock in the morn
ing, there was slight shock and at 55 minutes past
another was felt; and then ut 5j minutes past TO-
u fourth shock, accompanied with noise strong
enough to create deep anxiety. In a moment, the
whole town was on the alert; and after the prncipa
shock, atfoty minutes past nine the cry Of fire
heard, the shops were Immediately closed, and the
people thronged in the direction Of the alarm. For
tunately there was nothing of consequence. A coal
pot overturned by the shock, had communicated
fire 10 some pieces of wood in house in the Rue d.
Arbaud, near the Tabanon wharf, but it was dis
covered in time and extinguished. We repeat
then, that for this time Point a. Pitre has escaped
free. Heaven grant that we may not have to record
some heavy disaster as having befallen either our
wretched plantations, in the height Of crop, or
our sister colony Of M irthique, or some Of our |
neighbors, the British Danish and Spanish colonies
L. S.-Since the foregoing written Il p. NJ
some fresh shocks, of considerable violence, have
sueceeded-one at 81 minutes past l, another at IS
minutes past z.
We learn that sc veral estates at Petit Bourg,
Goyaye, ste. Marie, and Capcsterre, have incurred
a good deal of damage. 1t is added, that the new
bridge at Capesterre has suffered much injury and
"A house a he Abymes n been thrOw
The following additiona par rticulars are extracted
from aprvate lctter:-
PoINT-A-PTRE, '95l.
The earth continued to quake, 'ss, 1s~,.s
violence, up to half past sever
the 18th instant. IL is unnecessa,
the CONSERVATION into which til
you may more easily imagine it
had to take refuge on board Oft,
they passed the day and night, until oscillatons
bees me less violent, and more distant from ano
ther. We thank Providence that our town has been
spared. There have been, however, some walls
cracked, particularly those of the jail
sTRINAM.
[From the Dcmersra Royal 3azette May 81
BY the Curacoauaar We have received Surnam
papers TO the 23d instant. They contain some i'm
poItant government regulations for carrying into
effect the royal order Of the 9th February last res
pectng the slaves. These regulations, which for N
an entire new slave code, are too lengthy for to
60 through the whole Of them at present. Wemay
safely say, however, that they appear to be one
great step more made by the government Of tho
ever they may be received by the planters, that
they evince much socitude for the Improvement of
the lot Of the slaves. In dehung the amount of la
Dor to be rendered by the slaves plantations, the
principle adhered to in these regulations is not to
state the number Of hours daily during which the
slave shall be found to work, but the amount Of
work which he shall give his master daily. In this
respect the Dutch government seem to have taken
leaf out of our book. The principle, there, upor
which slavery in Surinam may now be considered to-
rest is that Of compulsory task-work.