21 JULY 1838, Page 2

From accounts dated the 9th of June, received from Jamaica.

there was no doubt that a bill would be passed by the Legislature of that island for the abolition of the Apprenticeship on the Is of August. A measure for that purpose had been sent up by the House of Assembly to the Council ; who altered it and returned it to the Assembly. No further progress had been made when the last packet left Jamaica. An abolition act had been passed ia Grenada ; and the example would be speedily followed in $t, Lucia, Trinidad, and the Bahamas.