IT is highly gratifying to find, on the best authority, that in Bermuda the lately emancipated class have conducted themselves with such propriety as to merit the public testimony of the legislature to that effect. The lion. H. G. Hunt (acting Governor and CG•mmanderin-Chief), o

May 29, 1838 "Gentlemen,—' grieve to say that I have no more congratulations to offer you upon the proceedings in the Commons House of Parliament; upon divisions from which above fifty of your professing friends absented themselves; upon debates in which the advocates of justice

ANOTHER PRO-SLAVERY GAG IN CONGRESS. Our servants at Washington have again dared to deny us the right of petition, by the passage of a resolution similar to that of Dec. 21, 1837. It was introduced, together with four others by way of preamble, by Mr. Atherton, of New Hampshire,

Lord said, that seeing his noble friend; the Secretary for the Colonies, in his place, he wished to ask whether any satisfactory information had been received respecting an end to slavery in the Mauritius. Lord . GLENELG said, in answer to the question of his"nohle friend, that

QUESTION. OPINION. Whether there be any act That there is not any act by whereby they may be de- which the labouring tenants barred from receiving their are debarred from receiving relations and friends at their their relations and friends at residences, or whereby these their r

In a dispatch of 12th November last, Lord Glenelg directed the Governor-general to advise the Lieutenant-governor of Grenada to "refer to his legal advisers for an answer to the question, under what law the magistrates of that colony claim the right of summary. ejectment :" the

"Lord Brougham's speech on the slave trade, and the hardships endured bythe apprentices in the British colonies, in spite of the twenty millions paid to the planters to bribe them, as we thought, into humanity, was certainly one of the most splendid bursts of eloquence ever hear

District B.—Special Justice, Joseph Hamilton. Dec. 19.—George Edwards, apprentice, charged by 11. Coul, with "stealing trash ! " Magistrate's sentence: "Seven days' confinement, and hard labour !" _ "Who steals my purse, steals trash!" but our readers must not suppose that the t

MR. ABBOTT'S SECOND - LETTER TO R. B'ER;. NAL, ESQ., M.P. St. Ann's Bay, April 29, 1839. Sra,—Justice to myself, to you, and W the prisoners, your late apprentices on Richmond Estate, demands that should again address you on the subject matter of my letter to you, which appeared

Varitamentarp REPORTS OF STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATES IN JAMAICA. St. Elizabeth's, 24 Feb. 1839. Stn,-That the first fruit of the free system should have been a contest between the employer and the labourer respecting the rate of wages, could excite no surprise. In both parties the el