-Accounts have been received from Jamaica to the 20th of
June. The planters and slaveholders generally were excessively alarmed and exasperated upon receiving intelligence of the first edition of Mr. STANLEY'S emancipation project, by which they were to be de- prived of their slaves without any compensation, except the loan of fifteen millions for twelve years, to be returned out of the wages paid by the planters to the slaves. When this news arrived, a public meeting was held, and the following memorial was drawn up and subscribed.
" We claim from the general Government security from future interference with our slaves. We claim that sectarian missionaries shall be left to the opera- tion of those laws which govern the other subjects of his Majesty. We ask for such alterations in the revenue acts as shall revive our prosperity; and, should compensation also be refused, we finally and humbly require that the island of Jamaica be separated from the parent country, and that, being also absolved from the allegiance to the British crown, she be free either to assume indepen- dence, or to unite herself to some state by whom she will be cherished and pro- tected, and not insulted and plundered."
We know of no state which would consider a union with Jamaica desirable. After• all, she is best off as she is. When the news of the conversion of the loan of fifteen into a grant of twenty millions reaches the island, her fiery inhabitants will, we trust, become more calm and less ridiculous.
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