, 1876-10-18

" p0oPi0 uGlc W SEE dny way out OF
the dilemma, and one Of the objects of
His EXcellency's mission was to represent
the state of things, as it actually
was, before His Majesty's Government,
and to seek to obtain for the island that
assistance without which it could ne4
have been kept alive until the time when
the expected change for the better could
be made. And the Governor was sue
cesstul in his efforts. Not only are those
directly interested in Estates aware of
the success that has attended his unremit-
ting and answering exertions to obtain
pecunlary means to meet the unavoidable
expenses OF the island in the most essen
tlal branch of economy, but the whole
COMMUNICATIVE, taxpayers, trades
men, aye, the very paupers, all have
experienced the result of it, for thew
have thereby, aud thereby only, been
secured that which they would o4her-
wise have tailed to obtain.-Ohioials,
except indeed, perhaps, those who by spe-
ciat patents We're secured their official in
come by his Majesty's grace, would have
received no salary tax payers, Of whom
nIhe-1enths are IN arrears, in many cases
Tor years, would have seen their proper
ties put to the hammer and sold for what
they would bring, which under the cir
cumStahces would have been absolute
tlhe8 IN those comparatively few cases
where purchasers could be found trades
men would have been without their Gus
tomary earnings the sick and poor would
have had to be left des 'itute, for want of
public means to administer to them.
Gloomy as this picture is, there is no
~exaggeration in it, for it has been demon
Strated as plainly and conclusiveIy
as hard figures can do it, that the
Treasury had not oue dollar ~of its
own, but is encumbered with debts,
ana IL had no prospects Of gaining the
necessary revenue from the ordinary
sources, taxation. Nor is this state Of
things the result Of ma. administration or
lack OF economy, but it is clearly and
manly the result of an unprecedented
and protractod series of unfavourable cir.
cumStances, principally bad weather and
low prices. SOme-we do not believe many
might be inclined to suppose that, under
such circumstances, aid would have come
even without His Excellency's presence and
personal representations at home, but to US
and to all others who have carefully follow
ed the utterances and position of the Home
Government as they change their compo-
nent elements, and of the Diet, in the
view OF West India affairs held by the
most Influential party at least, it appears
very unlikely that, without the exertions
of His ExceIlency, first verbally land we
oil know that verbal representations go
farther than those of stiff stereotype dis
patches), laying bare all the naked facts of
the case to individuals, those in favour Of,
or needless Of, as we'll as those, perhaps,
predisposed against dealing with our Co.
lonlal matters, nearly always disagreesble
in general, and tedious in detail, and next
in achieving combinations to realize the
conditions for effeeting an amelioration Of
our manufacture. We say, then, that we
doubt very much that without His Excel
lency's presence just then and there with
his plans and combinations for the future,
would any material assistance to US have
been obtained. There are, however, those
who claim that the Home Government, or
rather the Mothercountry is in duty bound
to assist US, when, by the force OF untow-
ard events, we cannot meet our " ex-
penses, for-so they argue-it can never
be admissible to single out our little COM
munity from the rest Of the State, and