Letters from the seat of war in Spain represent General
MAROTO in high fatour with Don CARLOS : he is very active, while VAN IIALaN, who commands the Queen's troops, is suspected of treachery in consequence of his supineness. A new change in the Spanish Ministry is rumoured. Late accounts from Jamaica speak dolefully of the Planters' prospects. In various districts, the coffee was ripening fast and falling from the trees, yet the Negroes could not be induced by the offer of high wages to gather it. "One splendid property', which formerly produced 1,000 tons of sugar per annum, was oij,, expected to yield 200 tons this year, although 1,400 free Negroes were employed upon it instead of 700 slaves. The Negroes re- fused to pay rent for their cottages and provision-grounds, and some were ejected ; but they threatened to burn the tenements from which they had been dislodged, and they were provided by the Baptist Missionaries with other dwellings and gardens. At a meeting of Planters in Cornwall district, it was resolved that no expectation existed of prevailing upon the Negroes to work for hire, as long as they were "allowed to possess and cultivate the large tracts of land" now in their holding "as provision-grounds;” from which, with little labour, they procured a plentiful supply of all they needed.
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