, 1865-04-04
BARBADOS.

sugar has been made. The exports to
the end of the week, including two yes
sells which will fill up tomorrow. reach
abont 5000 hhds. Sugar, and 1000 pun
cheons Mo.asses. There WAS a shower
last night, and the clouds make for rain,
which is much wanted after the dry Wta-
they of the last six weeks, We hear on
the whole good accounts Of the sugar
made both in respect of quality and the
Weld per acre. The latter 10 This parish
is said to be on an average of 2 hllds.
per acre, and the sugar of an excellent
quality. The young canes look we, IN
spite Of the dry weather. There Fave
been several fires, rs might he expected
at such a season, with cane trash ready
to ignite on every side,-amougst others
at Hampton, st. Philip, where a field OF
canes took fire from a spark from the
Boiling House chialney, and at BemtlryS,
in the same neighborhoOd, where he COW
house, in the MiIl-yard, and field OF
canes adjoining, were burnt from the
same cause. Provisions are abundant
and cheap, and employment easy to be
had the laboring people are working
cheerfuIIY, and theIe is nothing TO feed
the morbid anxiety Of the grumbIers,
and those who are always looking at the
worst side Of things. The market price
of Sugar is quoted at from So to $3l per
hundred, and MoIasses 16c.
There have been some arrivals OF
Bread-stuffs from the States, and Salt
Fish (much wanted previously from the
British Provinces within the last week.
We are glad to observe an increase in the
trade with the latter, especially with No
va Scotia, owing, no doubt, to the AmerI-
can war and the high Tariff in the States,
which might be considerably added to
with benefit, we believe, TO our fellow
Colonists as well as ourselves.
The House of Assembly is to meet on
Tuesday next, the only subjects before
it being a Bill to fix the salaries of the
Provost Marchal and Prothonotary, and
another to grant the Speaker an annual
allowance for the maintenance Of the
Chair. With regard to the former it has
been objected, the present Provost Mar
shall was appointed, without any know
ledge on his part of the intention of the
Legislature to reduce the emoIuments Of
the Office. although notice had been CIV
en- IN the OFullaTy way iIVuSh VIC cO-
vernon to the Colonial Oaire,) to pat the
Office on the same footing with other
public offices, and to give the Provost
Marshal a fixed salary, the fees being
paid over into the Treasury. After the
decision come to at the last meeting, the
natural course to follow would be TO con-
fine the Bill to the Pfothonotary, and
leave the Provost Marshal to be dealt
with hereafter; but the feeling out of
doors is against making any distinction
between the two offices, the arguments
applying to both equally, for fixing the
salaries of the officers and paying the
fees into the Treasury.
The subscription to the expense OF
erecting the Jet Fountain has nearly
reached the amount Of the estimate
1900, and a very handsome aud appro
pirate model has been selected by the
Committee so that before the end of the
year we may expect to have the Foun-
tain at play in Broad Street, much to the
qualification of everybody.
The Revd. DR.. McClain and daughter
from Washington are on a visit to Barba-
dos. the Doctor on a mission from the