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As far as I could see or hear, the execution of the Orders in Council had created no permanent disturbance, and the planters themselves were willing to confess that a great deal of causeless violence had been displayed upon the occasion. The market on Sunday morning is allowed till half-past nine or ten, at which time the place is cleared. This measure at first excited great opposition, but it is now not thought of, or only remembered to be applauded. The institution of Banks for Petty Savings does not seem to be a wise plan of going to work in a society like this; the object should rather be to induce an appetite for comforts of dress and food which can only be purchased by the product of some labor*. I would rather that a negro spent a dollar in buying a new hat than that he should lay it up in the bank. With the new hat he will purchase or acquire a perception of, and craving for, new comforts and new conveniences; he will be more and more loth to part with what has either gratified his vanity or contributed to his ease, and the pain of losing will be in just proportion to the pleasure of possessing the article. When this pain begins to be felt constantly, the great difficulty will be surmounted; * One of Berkeley's queries with reference to the Irish is,— Whether the creating of wants be not the likeliest way to produce industry in a people? A n d whether, if our peasantry were accustomed to eat beef and wear shoes, they would not be more industrious ?'