, 1874-05-06

way, and by the immense cotton,croP turned
out by the freedmen last year in the southern
States, where the crops of cane, rice and corn
are all said also to have taken a great extern
sion. There is not the least doubt we shall
witness the same activity among the small
working proprietOrs land the creole gangs en-
ployed by them), contributories to the future
central mills. This class has long thirsted for
the opportunity in Trinidad, and Governor
DEs VGux testif9s to its anxiety to supply
the mill in Grand ul-de-Sac. We have at
last a great mill, a very complete establish
ment, but it is scarcely a central mill proper,
in the sense we mean it; that is for general
purposes, inasmuch as its powers vii for some
years, if not always, be taxed to work up the
canes of the neighboring estates belonging to
the same great company that has erected the
Usine. A great mil building was erected a
year before in South Naparima, on a similarly
great scale, but its works are as yet, we be-
lieve, confined to the common process. Other
large mills, some with vacuum pan, have been
erected in other quarters and with powerful en-
gines, but none WI think with the advanced ap-
nliances Of the 81. Madelaine or with the in
~fention of grinding canes for strange growers.
A Central Factory of the true kind and as a
distinct and Independent industry, is therefore
non existent here as yet, as throughout the
British Sugar Colonies and the ST. Lucia
mill, 50 wisely, SO providently promoted by
Gov. Dies VGUx, will be the firSt example Of
the kind in the Bri ish dominions. On looking
two or three days ago over the documents
we received last mail from St. Lucia, we were
so impressed with the practical value of the
Governors letter to the Grown Agents that we
decided on giving it entire; it would lose by
condensing. Every sentence deserves con-
sidering. A perusAl of this letter Ito which we
crave an earnest attention)-does much to re-
move the surprise evoked by the action Of
the Colonial department in sanctiOning the
giving of a guarantee by the Colonill govern
ment of st. Lucia to a private manufacturing
undertaking and not only in the granting of a
guarantee-whiOh is limited to a payment Of
6oIo for a couple of years SO as to allow time
for the erection Of the factory and getting it
fully to work, but in allowing that govern
ment to become q shareholder in the concern
TO the amount of one-fourth of the capital, and
have a share in the working of it through the
medium of two official directors, the ordinary
shareholders being represented by three more
-ViscOunt Walden of Chiselhurst, Quintin
Hogg Esq. (of Bosanquet Curtis & Co.. and
Fras. J. Johnston Esq. director of the Lon
don Joint Stock Bank This is truly an ex-
traorJinary step, to be justified only by a very
exceptional and temporary state of things, one
Of which we firmly trust the success of this
strange essui will etflce the opprobrium from
these fair islands. For its success will open to
our sugar interest a food Of light in economies,
will awaken London capital, and remove the
necessity for any farther such abnormal re8pon-
sibility. The administrator of the Govern
ment in St. Lloia is to be one of the official
Directors, the resident one; and one of the
Grown Agents, the London one.
We cannot too strongly on every ground,
wish the greatest success to this singuIarly
constituted but m 1st promising adyanturo-for
the sake of the neighbouring Colony and its
bold Legislation, for the credit of Governor
Des Veux, and through the success of st.
Lucia for our sake and that of o;her colonies
to whom the new system offers lch manifold
blessings,--as a Furnishing proprietary, a
prosperous and easy contributory, and a large
well-doing, contented creole peasantry in the
employment of both, all united by a common
interest and that interest secured on what
appears, as far as human foresight may reach,
to be a sound permanent basis.