A Bank is there proposed, with a capital of L200,000.

More than this, the all absorbing subject in all the West India papers at the present moment is that of the _currency_.

Why such anxiety to provide the means of paying for labor which is to become valueless?
Why such keenness for a good circulating medium if they are to have nothing to sell?
The complaints about the old fashioned coinage we venture to assort have since the first of August occupied five times as much space in the colonial papers, we might probably say in each and every one of them, as those of the non-working of the freemen.

The inference is irresistible.

_The white colonists take it for granted that industry is to thrive_.
It may be proper to remark that the late refusal of the Jamaica legislature to fulfil its appropriate functions has no connection with the working of freedom, any further than it may have been a struggle to get rid in some measure of the surveillance of the mother country in order to coerce the labourer so far as possible by vagrant laws, &c.