An arrival from the West Indies brings favourable news to
the latter end of August. The Globe states, that "A slight ebullition, which had taken place at Dominic; had entirely sub- sided; and at St. Lucia there neither had been nor was then the smallest indi- cation of any bad feeling on the part of the Negroes. In St. Chrisuapher's, where the greatest degree of disturbance and alarm had existed, and mammal Jaw had, been resorted to, the riots had been put down, and peace restored; though not without making 'gime examples of the ringleaders. This suppression of the resistance met with at St. Christopher's, had had the effect of preserving order in Nevis and Montserrat." - In Antigua, it will be remembered, the intervening period of apprenticeship was dispensed with; and the accounts from that colony are the moat satisfactory of any that have been received. After a few days' of festivity, the Negroes. set cheerfully to work for wages; though there had boon something like a dispo- sition at first manifested to strike for higher pay.
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