Barbadoes papers received...
Barbad-oc7 p3perS recei,ved yestertay are full of the pro- on e W.'est India question uvhich took- place in &nr-ent about the middle of March. The spirit of the. ._ is not yet (if we_mayjudge-by -their nelvspa : .....a. pers) prepared to rece!ve contenely the propos5iions of the Government, or eordially to cQOperate in the tneaisure5 prescri edby it, i r6du 'gr:dj' ttl tha-Ago ia the re- lation'of whiteitan.hnd->x^wfegro, neat&eiceptlohhas been taken -to thc speee-vith ishic'i Ir',At iriim introduced eh_mibJect to-the-House oP-( otiihfon 'inso ch for the poliev which it recommended, as for the jokes indulged in by the Right HMon. Gehtlemab.' iCer:tinly, 'on this point weymay be .suffered'ol rbmark, ihat mnaking every allowanec (anid weare dispo$ed-to make 1thefdlltst allowanee) for the feari and distresses'of the.West Indian 'body,, the .domi- neering langnage employedi,by the gentlemen of Jamaica particularly, who threatened .England with something like a revolt of her colonies 'if she persistsd in.meddling withi the condition of the slaves, thig language could have been ;inet by onl one o'two answers: there wasno alternative but to rebuke it severely, or good-humouredly'to laugh at it. Mr. CAN.NI?G chose the second method, and in our opinion he -as right; since it was the mildeest treatment he could exercise towards men carried by a mornentary paroxysmn of irritation to the entertainment of designs, or, More properly speaking, to the use of language, (for it could bc -nothing more), which their better judginent and returning self-possession wvould soon enable them to dis- avowv' as equally unprovoked and unprofitable. The Bar- badoes Editor feels some alarm at xvhat be calls " the good c uiderstandinig betwcen the Wrest India body xe6i- t teng in London, and the Saints," wlich lihe seems to tegard as a CC very ominous" circumstance. lVe are, on- the olher hawl, truly rejoiced to hear that suchl a eorsummqtion has been effected; for really, consi- tcring the violence of the above parties in their previous hosti Ity towards eaclh other, we hiad been used to think, that so far as the slave question wvent, there *vas' very little, if any, understanding, to be boasted of betwveen them. Wis&onm here, as in most-cases, lies equidistant from the ex-remes of enthHsiasm and of selfisiness. The state of tile world generally makes it impossible- that the bondage of the Nfegro can cxist to its actual extent, or 'in its present form, for ever; but surely the Negro must, by very dif- ferent mneans -from that of sudden emancipation, .be rendered more liko the rest of the world, beforc he can be fitted to enjoy it.