Glasgow Courier. — 1848-05-25 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

HOUSE OF COMMONS, MONDAY, MAY 22. After the presentation of petitions on a variety of questions, one engine and one wheel, the intermediate shaft of the port{ Sir DE LACY EVANS wished to put a question to the hon. engine having broken, member for Montrose with reference to the motion of which he The latest dates brought by the Avon are—Vera Cruz, April had given notice for to-morrow, That pis House, as at present 19; Tampico, 13; Havana, 27; Honduras, 11; Jamaica, 22; St. constituted, does not fairly represent the property or the industry Jags de Cuba, 19; Demerary, 19; Trinidad, 21; Barbadoes, 29; of the country, whence has arisen great and increasing discontent Grenada, 28; St. Kitts, May l; Nevis, 1; Porto-Rico, I; St. in the minds of a large portion of the people; that with a view to Thomas, 2; Bermuda, 7; Ship Island (New-Orleans), April 21; amend the national representation, leave be given to bring in bills Nassau, 29; Tortola May 2; Antigua, 1; St. Vincent, April 30; for the purpose of providing that the elective franchise shalt be St. Lucia, 80: and 'Montserrat, May 1. The vessel brings on so extended as to include householders; that votes shall be taken freight 812,272 dollars on merchants' account; nil for the dive- by ballot; that the duration of Parliaments shall not exceed three dends. years • and that the apportionment of members to population shall 'the Avon brings dates from the city of Mexico to the 14th of be made more equal." The House would see that the hon. memApril, and from Vera Cruz to the 16th. The intelligence from her for Montrose had put his motion in four different forms. the city of Mexico is of no decisive character. There is most He (Sir De Lacy Evans) had voted for each of those motions for disastrous intelligence from the peninsula of Yucatan. The us- many years in the form in which lie proposed them. Now he would the Indians of that province had risen against the whites, and, put the question to the hon. member, whether it would not be by the last accounts, were destroying with unrelenting ferocity better to bring forward the subject in four separate motions, as the "hole white population, man, woniau, and child. There were thereby there would be a much better discussion on each of several persons killed; and it is their determination to murder them. What he was anxious to know was, whether the lion, mum. every one whom they may encounter. The total number who have her for Montrose would consent to separate his motion into four risen is said to be about 30,000. instead of one? There ia no improvement in the state of Jamaica since the sail- Mr. HUMS had well considered the motion, and he was coning of the latest packet. Distress is general, but especially vinced that no reform in the representation of the country would amongst the planters; and unless something is done to place the take place, unless the four points in his motion were carried; he cultivation of sugar on a more satisfactory and remunerative foot- could not alter the course he had chalked out for himself. If the ing, the ruin of the proprietors appears to be almost inevitable. House would accord to him, as it often did to other members, per On the 20th ultinio a large public meeting had been held at mission to bring in a bill on each of the subjects involved in his Kingston, to take into consideration the deplorable state of desti- motion, that would enable hon. members to discuss the question tutiou to which a large portion of the inhabitants are reduced, fully. when nearly 4000 persons assembled. The speakers all teseieed that,. unless a speedy alteration took place in the mode of conducting colonial affairs, such distress and misery as now exist must necessarily soon lead to the utter extinction of property, and even life itself. Several strong resolutions, expressive of these sentiments, were unanimously adopted.