Accounts to the 17th December have been received from Demerara.
The Globe says, that at that time " The Negroes still remained in a state ef idleness ; every kind of produce was advancing in price, and the colony was in a very distressing state. The conduct of the Lieutenant-Governor was the subject of much animadversion, and a memorial on the subject had been prepared and signed by upwards of eleven hundred of the Colonists. The memorialists state their firm conviction, that the colony can never know peace, nor enjoy the benevolent intentions of his Majesty's Government, while it remains under the course of policy adopted by his Excellency Sir James Carmichael Smyth ; they therefore solicit attention to the document accompanying the memorial, and pray that their grievances may be redressed ere the system of misgovernment shall have involved all in ruin."
Again we beg our readers to remember, that the Spectator always spoke of the Emancipation Act as of an experiment the result of which was very doubtful. We never joined in the premature pasins that were sung on the passing of the measure.
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