It appears that the Gover...
It appears that the Governor of Barbadoes has founid it necessary to rebuke the tardiness of the Island Le- gislature, in effecting (according to the desire of Parlia- ment) a reform of the slave laws. The Barbadoes As- sembly are aware, that failing their discharge of this im- portant duty, the Imperial Parliament stands pledged to undertake it for them. They had better, then, we should suppose, put their owII hands to the work, anl finish it. rhere seems, too, the less rational motive for delay on the part of this Assembly, because the Goyernor bears ho- nourable evidenec to the kindness, lenity, and liberality, with which the slaves as a body are trtated, throughout the island, and to the consequent happinhess which is diffused among them. If suCh, then, be the voluntary dis. position of the master, and sucl the practical comfort of the slave, where can be the objection to proclaim by law, that which usage ha3 already consecrated? Sir HUDSON LowE is said, in the WVest India papers, to have refused the goveinment of Autigua-not, of course, on account of a reduction of the salary.