We trust if the new Government comes in in December
it will
publish an official account of all that its nominee has effected in Jamaica. The island seems ever since the arrival of Sir John Peter Grant to have sunk into profound quiet, and on October 3 be was able to make a most gratifying announcement to the Magistrates of St. Mary. The old disease of the island, "constant, large, and increasing annual deficits, "has been-cured. The revenue at last balances the expenditure, and Jamaica is solvent. By what rigorous economy, by what sleepless vigilance, by what inattention to private interests the Governor has effected this reform, the Colonial Office must know, but does not say. If he has only reformed the administration of justice as he has the finances, Sir J. P. Grant has shown himself as great an administrator as his admirers have believed him to be.
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