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Government. The deputation accordingly waited upon 
Sir J. CARMICHAEL Smyth on the 7th August, who in 
his reply to their address observed : 
The moderation and temper with which the decision of the Imperial 
Parliament, with respect to the important change in the state of the 
Labouring class, has been received in British Guiana by the great body 
of the landed proprietors, must for ever redound to their credit, and 
cannot fail to be highly acceptable to His Majesty, His Ministers, and 
the Mother Country at large. The line of conduft thus judiciously 
adopted, removes all ground of latent hostility, all feelings of 
asperity, from the minds of the working population. I trust, and 
hope, that when the Master and the Slave assume their new rela- 
tive situations, when the moment does arrive that the Landlord and 
the Tenant, the Owner of the soil and the Labourer, have to enter 
upon their several duties — that, on the one side as there will be no ill- 
will towards their late slaves, so, on the other, there will be no wilful 
negligence, or insulting language or conduct, towards their late masters. 
On the 5th September, 1833, ^ ne Agricultural Society 
offered a premium of Fifty Pounds Sterling to the person 
who, within three months should submit "the most 
approved method, in point of economy in its cost and 
utility in its effect, of constructing, a Moveable Rail- 
way and Trucks, for the purpose of carrying the Canes 
from the Fields to the Punts ; and proving to the satis- 
faction of a Committee to be named by this Society, that 
such Railway and Trucks have been employed in such 
service so as to occasion a saving of labour to an extent 
to render it worthy of general adoption." Subsequently 
the period allowed for the competition was extended to 
December 31st, 1833. The period was further extended 
for six months from the istjune, 1834, in consequence 
of only one model having been submitted "the original 
of which was known to be in operation," and "because 
the model was not accompanied by any documents or 
