Mr. Jenkins on Friday week raised a debate on Barbadoes,
which was made unimportant on Tuesday by Lord Carnarvon's statement, but we cannot pass over one singular remark from Mr. Lowther. Mr. Pope Hennessy finds that in this island the habit of building houses for labourers has fallen into disuse. The labourers build their own housr_ L their employers' land, but are liable to ejectment at four weeks' notice. The Governor therefore proposes that the notice should be longer. The Under-Secretary for the Colonies, however, finding that the English notice to cottagers is about a week or a fortnight, does not see why a Barbadoes labourer should have longer notice. That is to say, he thinks it \ just that an employer dissatisfied with his labourer should turn him out of his own houss and give it to somebody else at a month's notice. Mr. Lowther will say the negro in aware of his
liability, but what is that to the purpose? So is a Pruesian aware of his liability to conseriptioni but that does not lighten his haver- sack. If the negro does not build, he gets no work; if he geta no work, he starves.
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