The previous accounts of the favourable reception in the West
Intr.= Colonies of the new legislative measure for the extinction of slavery, are fully confirmed ; and, in fact, the general satisfaction on the oc- casion seems for the moment to have completely extinguished the violent party-spirit which before raged, and which must have given, at Jamaica particularly, much annoyance to the Government. On the part of the Legislature of Tlarbadoes, the best disposition is manifested to co- operate with the Government at home in giving due effect to the reso- lutions of Parliament, both in regard to the manumission of the slaver, and the distribution of the compensation money.—Times. The Earl of Mulgrave had summoned the Jamaica Assembly to meet on the 27th August, for the despatch of business.