Our readers are aware that since Jamaica has been governed
by Sir J. P. Grant,—that is, by an Anglo-Indian trained rather to govern than to talk,---the insolvent colony has become solvent, its last balance-sheet showing a realized surplus of 150,000 a year ; that order has become as secure as in England, and that trade has revived ; but they are probably not aware that the auction value of
sugar estates has doubled, that the consumptive New Englanders are beginning to resort to the island for its enchanting climate, and that the Government hopes yet to attract English settlers. Colonists in the Australian sense are not wanted, but land is plentiful, the island can grow anything, and young men with two. or three thousand pounds would find that coffee, tea, or cinchona-- planting pays as growing wheat never will.
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