... WEST INDIES. The Legislatures of all the British Slave Colonies are rapidly progressing in the formation of laws to meet the approaching change of their slaves into apprentices. The people of Antigua have taken a different view on this important subject ...

... WEST INDIES. frona the We,t taken a whole, do ___ .y M,pect to crops and the weather. Jama wa * ell as any the islands, but it cur kk!' ven the marked difference of the temperature or distant parishes, and the absence rain quar while another abundant ...

... WEST INDIES. Tie latest advices from Cyprus to the appearance of locusts in tlult Wand. Consideraule bands of tbese destructive insects were creating great damage ■among the crops. This visitation in the early season ia much deplored. The accounts from ...

... THE WEST INDIES. [From The Bristol Mirror A Correspondent has favoured us with the lowing extract of a letter from one of the Leew» Islands, dated the 11th of May last I herewith inclose you a bill lading for five beads of sugar, made by the free Africans ...

... WEST INDIES, Major John Macphail, Lieutenant-Governor of Antigua and Dominica, ai rived at Grenada the 3rd August from the latter island, and was sworn in as administrator of the general government of the Leeward Islands during the absence of Sir W. Colebrook ...

... THE WEST INDIES. The advices the West India mail are not of importance, except in so far as regards the particulars of the hurricance at The state of the weather 'at Montego-bay and Cuba had also caused damage to the shipping. In the majority of the West ...

... WEST INDIES. Lord Mulgrave, in his speech to the Legislative Assembly of Jamaica, said, with reference to the preservation of the peace under the excitement of the modification of slavery :— In furtherance of wbich object I have availed myself of ail ...

... WEST INDIES. By the Lyra packet the usual supplies of papers hare been received from the West Indies. From Jamaica the dates are to the 3rd of Norember. On the 27th of October the Governor opened the session of the House of Assembly. He commenced with ...

... THE WEST INDIES AND MEXICO. Southampton, March 26. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Dee, Willi Allan, commander, arrived last night at S , the Mexican, New Orleans, and Briti-h and Foreign Went Mails. The Dee has brought further autheutic accounts ...

... THE EARTHQUKAE IN THE WEST INDIES. FALMOUTH, Sunday, Mabch, 19. ARRIVAL OF THE WRST INVIA MAILS. The Royal mail steamer Tay. Hayden commander, arrived *b>s morning with the Went India mails. The intelligence brought by the Tay (which vessel started for ...

... EARTHQUAKE IN THE WEST INDIES. The Falmouth mail enabled as on Monday last, com* muuicate to the inhabitants of Taunton, the occurrence of the dreadful event of an earthquake in the West Indies. The chief scenes of this frightful erent were the Islaud* ...

... EARTHQUAKE IN THE WEST INDIES. the 29th of August an earthquake was felt in several of the West Indian islands, including St. Vincent's, Grenada, Trinidad, and British Guiana. The Trinidad paper says: ''We would record the occurrence of one of the severest ...