This circumstance of itself ought to operate as a powerful inducement to those parishes in which no Banks are yet established to be up and doing.

We have got some _five_ or _six_ of them fairly underweigh, as Jack would say, and hope the remainder will speedily trip their anchors and follow." We believe banks were not known in the West Indies before the 1st of August 1834.

Says the Spanishtown Telegraph of May 1st, 1837, "_Banks, Steam-Companies, Rail-Roads, Charity Schools_, etc., seem all to have remained dormant until the time arrived when Jamaica was to be _enveloped in smoke_! No man thought of hazarding his capital in an extensive banking establishment until Jamaica's ruin, by the introduction of freedom, had been accomplished!" And it was not till after the 1st of August, 1838, that Jamaica had either savings banks or savings.

These institutions for the industrious classes came only with their manhood.

But why came they at all, if Emancipated industry is, or is likely to be, unsuccessful ?--In Barbados we notice the same forwardness in founding monied institutions.