Things In Jamaica

We have just read part of the speech of [Governor] Sir Charles Metcalfe a tho opening of the legislativa awssion iQ Jamaica. He tells ua, tbat "the relation between tho employers and the laborer appear to have arranged themselreson the natural basis of mutual (hat "the want of continuous labor is still com plained of in some riislricts, but nol sa generally as before; "that this 3 ovving to tha fact that the population, for such a country is"scanty;" [sparse we would eay in this country,] and that "the laboring class su;. port themselves in a great measure by the cultivution of their owngrounds;" that by the establishment of emull frceholds- thoihe clearance and cultivation of land hitherto or for a long time, waste; are making continua! and rnpid stridesj that, the ease iudopendence, and other advantagw enjoyed by the laboring populatioa are net surpussed by those of ihe same clase in any country on the face of ihe earth;" and that, "íhe general good conduct andorderly habits of the people, and thoir improved feelingtowards their employers are jusl grounds for unqualified cnngratulation.'v Sir Chartes Metcnlf also refers,atsoine length, to the fact that Commissionm have been deputed to this eountry,to Great Britain and Sierra Leonero rnake arrange ments for the imporlalion of laborers into Jamaica. We do not gather from hi$ ppeech, that any importations, under the arrangements alluded to, had been made from this country. He epeaks discourage ingly, we think, of importations of laborers from Britain, and judging from thedeaths that had alrcady laken place among those that had arrived, and tho discontent that prevniled among tho survivore, he,SirCh. M. "thought it right so far as depended on [me] him, to restrain the indiscriminote importation of EuropeBn emigrante." We learn. from him, that "the eraigration of free Africans from Sierra Leone promiees to be highly beneficial." What a practical commentary have we here on the stupid, the suicidal scherae(in a pulitico - economjcal point of view) of Liberian colonization. The British West Indies that need labor not a bit more tban three fourths of öur own country do, are ransacking every quarter of the globe for labor; giv ing the most extravagant price for it, and acknowledging aiter maay experimcnts, that laborers brought up in Southren Gountries are greatly tobepreferred in the W. I. - whilst we, apparently wnh the Bimplicity of a flock of half- rown jftckdaw, are, at great cost, urging the exportation from amngst us of that very class of people sodesirable to the Brit ish nossessions, and who are taken, emphaticaily 6peaking, from the laboring class in our country. The whole scheme of Liberian colonization would be characterised as one of unmitigated folly, wereit not relicved by the unchnstian and grossly wicked prejudice in which itoriginatedand by which it is yet, though in a warning manner we believe, carried on. We have neither time nor room now to expoee the sham statesraanship, which sees without attempt to counteract it, the wholo African race, fnlling under the entire oontrol and influence of the most powerful nation in the world. When wc look at our insanity as a people ort any thing connected with the colored race, we alraost feel as npplicable to ourselves: "Quera deus vult perderé, prius dementat"Whom God intends to destroy, he firstde prives of their sensea.