Accounts to the 26th of August have been received from
Jamaica. It is stated in the West Indian, published at Spanish Town in that island, that the Planters have " served notices of ejectment on almost the entire mass of the labouring population, nearly 300.000 souls;" that the proceeding is declared to be fraught with injustice, destructive of the proprietors' best inte- rests, and " nothing short of absolute insanity." The IVesl Indian is a paper devoted to the improvement of the Black popu- lation; and it never encouraged the Apprentices in unreasonable demands, but recommended order and submission to the laws.
In several islands, but especially in Jamaica, Trinidad, and Bar- badoes, the difficulty about the rate of wages continued, and the Negroes refused to work. Mr. KNIBB, the Baptist minister, had made inflammatory harangues to the Blacks. He had boasted that he could command the aid of ten thousand armed Negroes ; and he appeared before the Magistrates at Falmouth, at the head of a considerable body, to complain of a threatening letter he had received. A report having been spread that he was murdered, a mob of Negroes assembled in Trelawney parish, swearing that they would revenge him, by murdering " all the Buckras," and ravaging the estates. " Now," they cried, "the Buckras shall see St. Domingo." The Governor went into the disturbed dis- tricts, and with difficulty appeased the rioters. Many hundreds of Negroes had " squatted " in retired vallies and places where ex- istence could be sustained with the least labour. Altogether, the accounts are unsatisfactory from the Islands. In Guiana, affairs continued to wear a more favourable aspect.
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