writing from London, on the
19th inst., "Our scheme embraces more than meets the eye, and to
illustrate this, I send a map (with prospectus) of the proposed
estate, by which you will see that we reckon on obtaining cotton
by free labor and by mechanical agency from Jamaica, at a price
so far below that at which it can be produced by slave labor,
that if we succeed, we shall put an end to the whole system, as
no one will be able to afford to carry it on in competition with
free labor." * * * "Jamaica is much nearer and easier of
access for fugitives from Cuba and Porto Rico, than Canada is to
Georgia, Virginia, or Louisiana. If, therefore, we can offer
them an asylum and profitable employment on the estate, we shall
open up a new Underground Rail Road, or rather enable the slaves
to escape from Cuba by getting into a boat, and in one night
finding their way to freedom." * * * "There is no doubt they
could do this at much less risk than slaves now incur, in order
to obtain liberty in America."

The proposed estate in Jamaica consists of about one thousand
acres, and the shares in this company are L10 each, L1 only to
be called up immediately, the rest by instalments. The liability
is limited. Full information may be obtained by addressing
Stephen Bourne, Esq., 55 Charing Cross, London, or the Secretary
of the "Jamaica Cotton-growing Company," C. W. Streatfield, Esq.
We rejoice to see that this new company is being supported not
only by benevolent philanthropists and capitalists in London,
but by experienced Manchester manufacturers; among the rest by
the excellent Thomas Clegg, so well known for his persevering
efforts in West Africa, and by Thomas Bazley, M.P. for
Manchester, and a most extensive cotton spinner. Their mills
would alone, consume the cotton grown on three such estates as
that which it is proposed to cultivate. There is abundant room,
therefore, for cultivation of cotton by the emancipated
freeholders.

Communications have also reached us from Demerara. Charles
Rattray, a valuable Scotch missionary in that colony, was in
England last spring, and went back to his adopted country with
his mind full fraught with the importance of cotton growing
within its borders. He happened to have small samples of
Demerara cotton with him. These were shown to cotto