PETITION FROM A CONVERT TO THE JAMAICA BILL.
WHAT the Radicals would have proceeded to do next, had the Ministers stuck to office, we cannot precisely declare. Some say one thing, some another. Some say, that Mr. THOMAS SLINGSBY DUNCOMBE was to have presented the following petition in the House on Tuesday last, but that the determination of the Minis- ters becoming known in the afternoon, he suppressed it as unneces- sary ; so that it remained unused, like Times reserved arrow— that was to have killed the tyrant. We don't suppose it would have killed the tyrant, but we are very happy to publish it, as an interesting specimen of the past potential * in politics. It seems to proceed from a convert to the Jamaica Bill.
• We have a right to our tenses and moods as well as the Globe; from which we extract the following, for the edification of the reader, requesting him, if he can, to enlighten us on the abstruse grammatical point seemingly in- volved in the sentence. It is from a Jamaica leader in the number of that paper for 2d May- " There is no hope of justice being done by those who, with a blindness to the future indicative of their intellectual and moral unfitness," &c. We have not our Syntax at hand, but we thought •" unfitness " was a noun, and could have no future indicative. We never urged any thing in praise of the Jamaica planters, but this "blindness to the fhture indicative of their unfitness" is such an elaborate charge against that bo'dy that, before we admit it, we must at least understand what it means.
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