, 1881-08-24

sugar pTOOuC6u. luz pldDtcI III DdIUSuOt
as everybody knows, would gladly increase
the area OF his fields tomorrow were il
humanity possible, and his great object is
not to decrease his production n, but to gel
as large o quantity as he possibly can.
We are careful to point out this fact
because the..unfounded argument Of friends,
however well-meaning, tend to weaken
a cause, when it can be shewn by an
adversary that they axe capable otdisproof.
Barbados is producing now pretty rearly
double the crop which it was pronounced
at the time of the Emancipation TO be i'm.
possible to reach-that is to say, she has
pretty nearly doubled her production
within the past forty years, and we see no
reason to believe that the limits Of produc-
ton are reached if the planter continues
to avail himself Of the resources which
science, and q knowledge of fertilizers,
place within his reach. This, added TO
Improvements in the quality Of his manu-.
f%acture, are two points on which he muss
rely ia fighting the battle for existence with
his Continental opponents. This is a
point on which many OF our friends in
England who speak with authority on the
question, now insist, and we must own
our own conviction that there ia force IN
the reasoning. 1t Is quite true that small
properties Of a hundred acres, or even less
as ls commonly the case in Barbados,
cannot possibly bear The outlay for
machinery for sugar manufacture at a
higher class than the ordinary Muscovado,
but We do not see that The cooperation OF
a number of such properties in one district
could not carry out this object, and that
q system of Central Factories should not
supefsede the present system, which
combines the planter ard manufactured
in one and the same person.
Eve are sorry to report that there is no
abatement of the prevailing fever. For
some days considerable anxiety has been
felt for the safety Of Mrs. Robinson, the
wife of His Excellency the Governor, aud
we are sorry to say that up to The time we
write, the report is not favourable. Lieut..
lie Blanc, of the 4th Regiment, died
recently, and to-day Deputy Assistant
C~ommissary General Cousins, Of the Com
mlssariat aud Transport Staff. Mr.. Cousins
only arrived by the Male on 3ist uItimo,
from England, & as we Learn, tovk cold in
the first instance from imprudentIy bath
ing after a heating walk. We have also
to record the death Of Colonel Donald
Fraser, Royal Engineers: but we learn.
from good authority, that the death Ct
Colonel Fraser was net attributed in the
Medic9l Report to Yellow Fever but 10
q chronic disorder from which he was for
years o sufferer. The Colonel was geuer-
ally esteemed, both in Military and Civil
circles, and as he has acted on two occa-
sions as Administrator, the Commelclal
Body paid his memory the respect Of
half masting the flag at the Commercial
Hall on the day OF the funeral.
We are in a position to state that there
had up to Friday been some difference Of
opinion on the question of removing the
Troops to Gun hill, but on that day active
preparations were made ior encamping at
that out Station. Without entering into
any controversy on the question. we can
state that there has certainly rot been
anything like thirteen deaths from yellow
Fever in the Garrison.
THE irish CENSTS.