New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-06-05

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Advertiser the latest date being the 7th instant.
They reached the island per last British mail
| steamer, via st, Thomas.
There is, II | mistake not, pretty little quarrel
| arisen between the Government Of Queen Victoria
and her loving subjects OF Jamaica, that may at no
distant day lead to severance of the bond that
sunites the two.
The subject matter of dispute has been the post.
Office. The Government OF Queen Victoria has
forced npon Jamaica the management Of her own
post.oflice, much against the desire Of the people,
as expressed by their representatives in tile popu-
lar branch of the Legislature.
4 The House Of Assembly, it appears, anxious as
far as WAS consistent with their duty to the people
whom they represented had passed bill Of q
temporary character inaugaratng the measure Tor
which they had been especially called together.
The Governor thereupon informed them that
HI instructions were, not to assent to any bill Of
less than whole years direction Under these
4 circumstances, and with threat held out to them
sthat their mails would be thrown into the mud
j at the { Royal Mail Companys wharf, 7 suppose
the Assembly passed such bill as met the wishes
i of the Imperial Government What could
the Assembly do I" asks the Jamaica Tribune and
i adds, !. Here are onr wings clipped, and we are
told to ay.''
j The Assembly, however, did not submit to all
this in silence. After the committee had returned
from taking over the cngrossed bill to the Lesisla
| tive Council, (the Upper House Of the Jamaica
| Legislature, all of whose members are appointed
to their seat by the Governor, himself appointed
BY the British Crown) Mr.. Jackson, young law
yer of talent, moved the following resolution
The House having had its attention called by his
day, to the instructions sent out for his guidance,
under the Sign Manual of her most gracious Ma
jesty, by which his Excellency is prohibited from
asserting to a bill having shorter duration than
one whole year, considered it conducive to the
public requirements this particular occasion to
recede from the terms of their address, and to pass
bill for the management Of the postofice in con-
isformity with such directions. But the House
thinks it proper to record its determination in fu-
ture not to be controlled in its legislation by in
structions by which it cannot constitutionaly be
affected on bound.
The last sentence of the above resolution was
lstrenuously opposed by Honorable Members, sup
porters of the Government, when Mr.. Lewis, the
gentleman alluded to in my letter of the 9Th inst.
as having been removed from two or three public
offices of no great value, because he had in his
place in the House of Assembly voted against q
measure introduced by the Government offered the
following substitute for the last sentence of the
above resolution: & But that the course pursued
BY the House shall not be taken as precedent for
| the FUTURE This amendment was agreed to, and
by the unanimous consent of the House, upon mo-
ton Of Mr.. Osborn, it was agreed the resolution
should appear on the minutes of the House, as hay
ing been passed before the bill was sent over to
the Legislative Council.
But there is another matter that has arisen from
which infer the Imperial Government has little
desire longer to continue the connection that now
exists between Great Britain and her West Indian
Colonies. That having sucked, as it were, all the
juice out Of the orange, shells anxious to get rid
of il.
The Jamaica Tribune Of l4th ult. says:
II is not long since our attention had been called
to certain correspondence that passed between
the Colonial Secretary and one Of the other colo
MES, in which it was proposed by the Imperial
Government that the expense Of that military force
required not alone for the preservation Of internal
quietude, but also to preserve the colonies to the
British Grown from foreign aggression, should be
betrayed by the colonies respectively
Were this done, Jamaica and the other British
West Indian colonies would soon be overruu with
| saucy soldiery, who would usurp all power, all
| place, all profit. But no! / know the Jamaican
people too well let this be attempted, and it will
be found they will snap the pack-thread assunder
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| like parent.
Some excitement had been oceasioned by the
return to Mentezo Bay Of Capt. Braley, master Of
the British schooner Alice Rogers, who had q
short time previously taken away from that port
black man and two black boys, one Of whom he
had put upon the vessels articles at the nominal
wages Of one shilling a month.
That Capt. Braley had offered the two boys fol
sale at Hampden. The report at Mentezo Bay
/ was that Capt. Bradley had sold into slavery the
/ two black boys, and that the American authorities
had sent him back to Jamaica to be dealt with &C
eording to British law
One half the town. we are told, was mad, the
/ lower orders--prineipaly concentrating to the
wharf where the vessel in which Capt. Bradley hat
j returned was moored, half wild with passion ant
eager to wreak vengeance, etc., etc.
| do not find however, that any legal proceed
ings had been taken there against Capt. Bradley
although no doubt exists of his having done all hi
was accused of.
The Philadelphia Enquirer alluded to all the cir
| cumstances Of the arrival of the Alice Rogers ii
| Hampton Roads, and of the attempt to sell thu
| boys to citizen Of Hampton.
The question of the removal from two or tllre,
| small offices Of Mr.. Andrew III. Lewis, by the Gov
ernor, because he lMr, IL had felt it his duty il
his place in the Assembly to vote against
measure introduced by the Government is ais
very ably dealt with by the editor of the Jam
| aica Tribune and Daily Advertiser but have NJ
space for lengthy extracts, and therefore on
send you the concluding sentence of his article
1t reads as follows:
/ Do away with the humhug Of an Assembly, an
let US no longer see the common sense OF English
lead