... WEST INDIES, The latest accounts from Cuba inform us that 800 slaves were imprisoned at Matanzas ; that 100 had been shot, and that a still more serious conspiracy had broken out. Good Friday was arranged for a rising, and all the whites were to have ...

... WEST INDIES. Serious disturbanees have occurred at Dominica, caused by the black population becoming alarmed at the taking of the census on the 3d of June, which they conceived to be preliminary to the re-establishment of slavery. Having collected in ...

... WEST INDIES. From Jamaica the accounts are to the 7th June, from which we learn that the island had been favored with a season of remarkable prosperity. The Indian Coolies were affording the utmost satisfaction to their employers by their peaceable and ...

... WEST INDIES, Letters from Havannah state that there have been negro insurrections on six estates at Cardenas, Cuba. Many lives were lost, but the Governiment suppresses all the particulars. A private letter says that the. insurrection ‘is a concerted ...

... WEST INDIES, In Dominica, there has been a serious insurrection among the negroes on the leeward side of the island. It broke out in violeut resistance offered to the enumerators employed to take the census. The negroes had somehow got it into their heads ...

... WEST INDIES. The Spanish part of Hayti is in open insurrection, the population having taken up arms to effect a forcible scparation. Three vessels recently landed 700 fugitives at Jacmel from the city of St. Domingo; and a greater number will evacuate ...

... WEST INDIES. The sugar crop throughout the West Indies has been most abundant, but there is a great falling-off in the coffee crop. The Hill Coolies work well in all weathers, and continue to give great satisfaction. ...

... WEST INDIES. General O'Donnell has issued a proclamation, declaring that after the Ist of January next all vessels arriving in Cuba with slaves on board will be confiscated. This step has undoubtedly been taken in consequence of the peremptory demand ...

... WEST INDIES. A gentleman recently arrived from Havana states, that he had it from undonbted authority that one thousand slaves have been recently flogged to death in the neighbourhood of Havana, because they would not swear to facts touching the insurrection ...

... WEST INDIES. Advices from Dominica, to the 22d June, state that the insurrection had been quelled, and the operation of martial law suspended. The Governor bad issued a proclaimation and amnesty to all, with the exception of the ringleaders, ninety of ...

... WEST INDIES. Hayri.—Revolution has been followed by general anarchy : the successor of Boyer has been superseded by Guerrier, an old general of Christophe. A general named Acaau has felt indignant at this having taken place without his being cousulted ...

... WEST INDIES. The New Orleans Bee has news from Havannah to the 23d ultimo. The Captain-General has been severely blamed for the severity displayed by him in suppressing the revolts. Already, more than 200 ringleaders have been executed ; and there are ...