The martial law, which is to keep:the protecting soldiery in good order, cannot be applied to the traders, and the settlers and peasantry from Sierra Leone and the West Indies. Is it possible that the plan is to invest the Missionaries formally with a superintending political ch

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- 2 . 6-q slavery, the negro was supported by provisions raised on the estates: it has been the crafty policy of the planters, to discourage and oppose provision .cultivation as much as possible Why they adopted this policy, and how they accomplished their object, it would take

The grand jury for the present term, previous to their discharge on Saturday, made the following just presentment connected with the numerous indictments which were preferred against the overseer of Molynes estate, upon testimony which has subsequently been discovered to be fals

By a correspondent of the Barbados Liberal. Sir,—Having been favoured with notes of the evidence taken before W. B. Wolseley, Esq., and Capt. Coleman at Belle Vue, on the treatment the Hill Coolies have received on that Estate, since their arrival in this Colony, I forward the s

connected with the proceedings not reported in the Gazette, to which I must call your attention. First, The Court was composed of the same gentlemen who conducted the examination at plantation Belle Vue, assisted by one Special Justice Mare, a gentleman of whom I have heard some

We are - asked by our friends in England, if there be any truth in the statements advanced by the: planters, that the negros will do no work,, except for the most exhorbitant wag - es? We have no hesitation in giving the:statement the most unqualified contradiction. The first po

MR. SCOBLE ON THE IMMIGRATION SCHEME. • Demerary, 6 April, 1839. IT is impossible for me to give you any idea of the excitement that exists here, at the present time, on the subject of Immigration. It is considered the " unum necessarium," the panacea for all the evils which aff