... WEST INDIES. The Lieutenant-Governor of Demerara has issued an ordinance allowing the importation of free negroes, 'which, it is expected, will prove of essential senice the planters, more particularly as the emigration from Madeira and Tenerilfe has ...

... WEST INDIES. The first accounts received from the West Indies since the arrival thereof the resolution of the House of Commons respecting the slavery question are favourable. Papers from Jamaica the 20th, state that the satisfaction of that island in ...

... WEST INDIES. Demeraba. —By the Christian, Captain Mercer, arrived on Friday, and the Casket, Captain Brown, .arrived Sunday from learn that the yellow fever has been making fearful ravages among the Europeans in the colony, and especially among: the crews ...

... WEST INDIES. By the last arrivals from the West Indies leant that in addition to Nevis, Tortola, and Montserrat, the Legislatures of Barbadoes, St. Vincent’s, and St. Christopher’s have agreed to the measures recommended to them by the Government for ...

... WEST INDIES. Despatches have been received the Colonial Office from the islands of Trinidad, Dominica, Bar- Imdoes, Vincent, Grenada, and Tobago. The accounts from these islands state that a struggle for wages between the labourers and the planters was ...

... WEST INDIES, The lirilish Guiana Gazette, of October 9, gome important proclamation;! of Colonel Light, the governor, with reference to the agricultural labourers jn that colony. Premiums arc offered for the procuration of labourers inured to tropical ...

... WEST INDIES. The yellow fever is said, in a recent letter from Guadaloupe, to making dreadful havoc in that co lony, where the Ist regiment of marines is stated to have lost five captains, two lieutenants, three sublieutenants, an adjutant, and four ...

... WEST INDIES. Letters from Demerara of the 26th of May speak in more favourable terms of the state of affairs there. It is mentioned that in all probability there would be the largest coffee crop this year that had been witnessed for the last twenty years ...

... WEST INDIES. have been favoured with Antigua journals the 11th ult. They contain intelligence of which that Island may well proud .*—“ The great act unrestricted freedom to the slaves in tins Island, and its dependencies, passed both Houses of legislature ...

... WEST INDIES. We arc sorry to observe from Antigua and other papers that the Island of St Martin's mi Herod fully as much from the hurricane the neighbouring islands. Both the French and Dutch quarters were wasted, that there was no prospect of a crop ...

... WEST INDIES. private advices fiom Martinique that attempt had been made by a party of free coloured persons (Mulattoes) to excite the slaves of that island to rebellion, and had even proceeded so far as set fire to estates, several of which were destroyed ...

... West Indies. The Tyrian ha% arrived at Falmouth, bringing the West Indiv mail. We copy t!::: fo!lowMg extracts from the received:* ( From a Jamaica paper of Mc 2514 of ..1*211.4.) We have seen a gvntleninii, just arrived from the county;, uhu states that ...