In the year 1781, St. Eustache, Surinam, Essequibo, and Demerara, were taken by British valor; and in the following year several of the Dutch colonies in the East, well fortified but ill defended, also fell into the hands of England.

Under pretence that hands were wanted to cultivate their estates, the Demerara planters had obtained permission to import what they termed, with a delicacy borrowed from the vocabulary of the African Slave Trade, "labourers" from Asia and from Africa east of the Cape, and to make them Indentured Apprentices for a term of years.

It was in reply to an attack made upon the management of his father's estates in the treatment of slaves in Demerara.

We ought to have passed it by sunrise on the 16th, and by the afternoon reached St. Thomas's, where our pleasant party would burst like a shell in all directions, and scatter its fragments about all coasts and islesfrom Demerara to Panama, from Mexico to the Bahamas.

The Tropical Fiber Company have sent these machines to Demerara, also to Java and other places, with the design of spinning the fiber of the edible banana, and also to utilize some portions of the plant as materials in the manufacture of paper.

[Footnote 227: Trinidad, St. Lucia, and Demerara were the only British islands which had not separate Legislatures.]

This privilege has been lately tested by the emigration of some of the negroes to Demerara.

It is true, much was said about the emigration to Demerara, but the facts in this case only serve to confirm the testimony already quoted.

" We made some inquiries of Dr. Bell concerning the results of abolition in Demerara.

No fears are entertained that Demerara will be ruined after 1840.

The planters of Demerara are making arrangements for cultivating sugar on a larger scale than ever before.

We have omitted to notice the transportation of slaves to Trinidad, Berbice, and Demerara, which was made an open traffic until prohibited in 1827, and was afterwards continued with but little abatement by evasions of the law.

Demerara, Apprenticeship in.

It is true, much was said about the emigration to Demerara, but the facts in this case only serve to confirm the testimony already quoted.

Trinidad, Demerara, and Berbice, want laborers.

" The Governor of Demerara is HENRY LIGHT, Esq., a gentlemen who seems strongly inclined to court the old slavery party and determined to shew his want of affinity to the abolitionists.

The same is notoriously true of Demerara, and Berbice.

In Demerara, the sugar produce sank from 104,000,000 lbs.

The writer has been recently informed that a similar custom prevailed in Demerara.

Passing by the lesser excitements of Barbadoes and Demerara, we come to the great rising in Jamaica in 1832.

This improved process is now in complete and successful operation on eight estates in Demerara.

It was not till February 1849, that Dr. Hugh Rodie and Mr. Lachie of Demerara forwarded seeds of the plant to Sir W.T. Hooker in vials of pure water.

DEMERARA, a division of British Guiana; takes its name from the river, which is 200 m. long, and falls into the Atlantic at Georgetown.

GEORGETOWN: 1 (53), capital of British Guiana, at the mouth of the Demerara River; is the see of an Anglican bishop; is neatly laid out, and has some handsome buildings, but is considered unhealthy; the staple industries are sugar and coffee.

BRITISH GUIANA (278) is the most westerly, and borders on Venezuela; area, 88,650 sq. m., divided into Berbice, Demerara, and Essequibo; GEORGETOWN (q. v.) is the capital.