CHINESE LABOURERS.
No. 33.
282
PAPERS RELATIVE TO EMIGRATION OF
modifications which you suggest might be made in the notice issued by you on the 27th October last, respecting the regulations under which contracts may be entered into with such of the Chinese labourers as may be willing to emigrate from the British settlements in the Straits of Malacca to the West Indies.
I have, &c.
(Signed) JAMES STEPHEN.
The Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners.
&c.
&c.
&c.
No. 33.
THE WEST INDIES FROM THE 1ST AUGUST, 1834.
287
returns relating to immigration, I have the honour to inform your Excellency that the same is inapplicable to this colony, inasmuch as there has been no immigration, nor any expenditure for that purpose.
(Signed)
His Excellency the Governor-in-Chief of the
Windward Islands,
(No. 13.)
ST. VINCENT.
No. 3.
I have, &c. C. J. DOYLE, Lieutenant-Governor. (True copy.)
T. F. PILGRIM, Acting Private Secretary.
No. 34.
No. 35.
242
GRENADA.
ST. VINCENT.
No. 3.
COPY of a LETTER from JAS. STEPHEN, Esq. to J. EMERSON TENNENT, Esq. Sir,
Downing-street, November 29, 1843. WITH reference to my letter of the 27th ultimo, I am directed by Lord Stanley to transmit to you an amended notice which has been published, with his Lordship's sanction, by the Land and Emigration Commissioners, with respect to the terms under which contracts may be entered into with such Chinese labourers as may be willing to emigrate from the British settlements in the Straits of Malacca to the West Indies, and I am to request that you will move the Commissioners of the Affairs of India to issue instructions to the authorities in the Straits of Malacca accordingly.
J. Emerson Tennent, Esq.
&c.
&c.
&c.
(Signed)
No. 34.
I have, &c. JAMES STEPHEN.
Copy of a DESPATCH from Lord STANLEY to Governor Sir H. MACLEOD. Sir,
Downing-street, November 30, 1843. WITH reference to my Despatch of the 27th ultimo, I now transmit to you, for your information and guidance, an amended notice which has been published with my sanction by the Land and Emigration Commissioners, with respect to the terms under which contracts may be entered into with the Chinese labourers desirous of emigrating from the British settlements in the Straits of Malacca to the West Indies.
Governor Sir H. MacLeod,
&c. &c. &c.
Trinidad.
I have, &c. (Signed)
STANLEY.
[Similar Despatches addressed to the Governors of Jamaica and British Guiana.]
My Lord,
Copy of a DESPATCH from Governor Sir C. E. GREY to Lord STANLEY. Government House, Barbados,
April 19, 1843. WITH reference to your Lordship's Circular Despatch of the 28th February, enclosing an Address of the House of Commons, dated the 6th February, 1843, "For Returns of the Numbers of Immigrants into the British West India Colonies and British Guiana, from the 1st day of August, 1834, to the latest period the same can be made up; and of all votes of money for purposes of Immigration, and annual expenditure of the same for the like period," I have the honour of forwarding to your Lordship the accompanying copy of a letter from the Lieutenant-Governor of St. Vincent, and a return, signed by his Excellency.
I have, &c. (Signed) CHARLES EDWARD GREY,
The Right Hon. Lord Stanley,
&c. &c.
&c.
(No. 113.)
Enclosure in No. 3.
Governor,
Sir,
I HAVE had the honour to receive your Excellency's circular Despatch of the 8th of April, 1843, No. 122, with Lord Stanley's circular letter, and the resolution of the House of Commons enclosed, and in reply I beg leave to forward to your Excellency the accompanying return of the number of immigrants into St. Vincent, and the amount of money voted here for the purpose of immigration from the 1st August, 1834, to this day's date.
I have, &c.
Government House, St. Vincent, April 17, 1843.
(Signed)
The Right Hon, the Governor-General,
&c.
&c.
&c.
(True copy.)
R. DOHERTY, Lieutenant-Governor.
17 April, 1843.
No. 113. Return.
17 April, 1843.
Encl. in No. 3.
No. 35.
COPY of a LETTER from R. F. DAVIS, Esq., to G, W. HOPE, Esq.
37, Fenchurch-street, London, December 14, 1843.
Sir,
I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your favour of the 30th ultimo, in reply to a letter which I had the pleasure of addressing to you on the 7th of that month.
I regret much again intruding upon your valuable time, and must plead as my apology the fear that, from my lack of clearness of expression, my letter above alluded to has been somewhat misunderstood.
It was not my intention to solicit at Lord Stanley's hands an increase of the bounty which his Lordship had fixed to be paid upon the importation of Chinese labourers from the Straits of Malacca into the West Indies, but rather to submit for his Lordship's consideration the propriety of allowing labourers, if so disposed, to receive aid in the East from parties who may be inclined to grant it.
Experience teaches, that labourers going from Sincapore to the Mauritius require, over and above their passage money, an advance of 15 or 18 dollars to enable them to provide clothing, &c., for the voyage.
If for the short voyage of 30 days, within the Tropics, from Sincapore to the Mauritius, 15 or 18 dollars are required, I beg most respectfully to submit that, for the long passage of 100 days to Jamaica, passing through two zones, and in most cases rounding the Cape of Good Hope during winter, where extra and warm clothing, useless in the West Indies, will be needed, 25 dollars advance to the emigrant will be no immoderate sum.
T. F. Pilgrim, Acting Private Secretary,
Sub-Enclosure in No. 3.
RETURN of the Number of Immigrants into the Island of St. Vincent, and of the amount of Money voted there for the purposes of Immigration, from the 1st of August, 1834, to the 17th of April,
1843.
Number of Immigrants. Amount of Money voted. Annual Expenditure of Money voted. One hundred and thirty-six (136). Two thousand five hundred pounds sterling (2500£) No part has yet been expended.St. Vincent, April 17, 1843,
(No. 27.)
ST. LUCIA.
My Lord,
No. 4.
Copy of a DESPATCH from Governor Sir C. E. GREY to Lord STANLEY. Government House, Barbados,
June 15, 1843. WITH reference to your Lordship's circular Despatch of 20th February, enclosing an address of the House of Commons, dated 6th February, 1843, “ For
Sub-Encl. in No. 3.
ST. LUCIA.
No. 4.