A curious letter appeared in the Cheltenham Examiner of Wed-
nesday, from a Mr. Macdougall, pointing out how high negro gentlemen have actually risen in Jamaica. In the Legislative Council there are several men of colour, among them the Hon. Richard IIill, one of its ablest members. One-third of the Assembly were men of colour, the leaders, Mr. Jordan and Mr. Osborne, among them. On the bench of the Supreme Court Mr. Moncrieff, the ablest of the judges, is a black man. The Attorney-General, Mr. Heslop, who was consulted by Mr. Eyre in the case of Mr. Gordon, is, says Mr. Macdougall, a man of colour, and Mr. Nairn, chief of the police, is a black man. So Mr. Macdougall denies strenuously that the negroes have not been gaining rapidly in social status since the date of emancipation. For the rest, Mr. Macdougall thinks well of the Maroons, and maintains they are not savages. He is quite in favour of the massacre as essential to " the security of capital " in Jamaica—capital, which he regards as the great civilizing agency ;—and he thinks evidently that justice and law such as we should bring to bear iu this country on such a rising are not civilizing agencies.
