GRENADA.

“GRENADA—­The Gazette expresses its gratification at being able to record, that the accounts which have been received from several parts of the country, are of a satisfactory nature.  On many of the properties the peasantry have, during the week, evinced a disposition to resume their several accustomed avocations, at the rates, and on the terms proposed by the directors of the respective estates, to which they were formerly belonging; and very little desire to change their residence has been manifested.  One of our correspondents writes, that ’already, by a conciliatory method, and holding out the stimulus of extra pay, in proportion to the quantity of work performed beyond that allowed to them, he had, ’succeeded in obtaining, for three days, double the former average of work, rendered by the labors during the days of slavery; and this, too, by four o’clock, at which hour it seems, they are now wishful of ceasing to work, and to enable them to do so, they work continuously from the time they return from their breakfast.’”

“It is one decided opinion, the paper named says, that in a very short time the cultivation of the cane still be generally resumed, and all things continue to progress to the mutual satisfaction of both employer and laborer.  We shall feel indebted to our friends for such information, as it may be in their power to afford us on this important subject, as it will tend to their advantage equally with that of their laborers, from the same being made public.  We would wish also that permission be given as to mention the names of the properties on which matters have assumed a favorable aspect.”

Jamaica Morning Journal of Oct. 2.

GRENADA.—­According to the Free Press, it would appear that ’the proprietors and managers of several estates in Duquesne Valley, and elsewhere, their patience being worn out, and seeing the cultivation of their estates going to ruin, determined to put the law into operation, by compelling, after allowing twenty-three or twenty-four days of idleness, the people either to work or to leave the estates.  They resisted; the aid of the magistrates and of the constabulary force was called in, but without effect, and actual violence was, we learn, used towards those who came to enforce the law.  Advices were immediately sent down to the Executive, despatched by a gentleman of the Troop, who reached town about half past five o’clock on Saturday morning last.  We believe a Privy Council was summoned, and during the day, Capt.  Clarke of the 1st West-India Regiment, and Government Secretary, Lieut.  Mould of the Royal Engineers, and Lieut.  Costabodie of the 70th, together with twenty men of the 70th, and 20 of the 1st West India, embarked, to be conveyed by water to the scene of insubordination.’

“’We have not learnt the reception this force met with, from the laborers, but the results of the visit paid them were, that yesterday, there were at work, on four estates, none:  on eleven others, 287 in all, and on another all except three, who are in the hands of the magistrates.  On one of the above properties, the great gang was, on Friday last, represented in the cane-piece by one old woman!’”