New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-04-10
From the West Indies.

We have received files of Jamaica papers the 22d ult
The Kingston Journal has the following items of Island
news:
The Dominica Coont contrast he present with the
past remarks 1t will not require any vast Of
intelligence discover that the of prosperity
the year 1852 will bear untavorabe aspect when
compared with 1851 1t matters not to what branch
of our industrial economy turn attention. must
be satisfied that the reaction long predicted has at
commenced we believe in the history of Dominica.
times of general depression be discovered
staple productions of our country have fallen so much in
value in the home market that it is not to be wondered
at that branch of trade should feel the effects at
the present market prices of sugars they wexcept
fvorably situated estatesscarcey pay the cost of ro
ducton and hence the planter feels the PINCH and that
| too most severely.
| The Antigua papers announce the death of Dr. Mus
grave the Public Treasurer of that island The Times
states that he was one of its most eminent public men
He appointed Treasurer of the Colony in the year
1926 which Office he filled up to the time of his death
although the practical Of the Office dur
ing much Of that time assigned to Others yet in his
official capacity, both at home and in England he rem
dered valuable service to his country
The Saint Lucia Palladium mentions that petitions to
both Houses Of Parliament had been prepared by some Of
the leading propretors of the island and in course
of receiving the signatures Of the inhabitants with the
object of putting stop farther reductions in the duty
sugar. the production of slave labor This is step
which, it observes ought to have the universal coopera
ton of people interested in the welfare of the colony On
the opening of Parliament the sugar duties will be among
the first of the trading questions considered and the
unanimous voice of the West Indies against the effects of
of the act of 1S46-ake runous and degrading to tho
these parts-can not but add weight to the arguments
which friends at home prepared to urge for the
amelioraton of our circumstances Every in the
island should sign these Petitions and the they
are sent the better Delay is peculiarly dan
gerous
From Montserrat we learn that Mr.. Edward Dacres
Baynes we-known to many in this island, having been
stipendary magistrate in it for years is to be
ceeded in the presidency of that island by Capt Booth
In Demprara the petitions to the two Houses paria
for the enforcement of the treaties with Spain and
Brazil and for stopping the further reduction the u
ties upon slave produce have been numerously signed
and forwarded early to the friends of the col
ony in the mother country. The petitioners among
| other things, say
That your petitioners have with great concern
the which slave labor sugar taken into con
sumption in the British markets under the operation of
the aforesaid Act whilst is notorious that the increase
of production in those countries carrying on the slave
trade has been cccasioned mainly by the augmentation
their slave population in violation of existing treaties
whereby the slave have been able to place the
British planters to disadvantage who view with dsmay
their only staple uppaned by the foreign sugar planter
cultivatng and manufacturing his produce rates in
compatible with production by free labor within the tro
pics"