The West Indies

The statement in the Britiuh Parliament with respect 'o the condition of the emancipated Islands, corresponds with that we published a few weeks since. Lord Stanley said thcre was a great improvement in the moral and social con dilion of the negroes, they were saving money and buying land, and this ciratmstance renderec Inbnr scarce for the large planters, and raised the the price of wages, so that the large capitaliats, the monopoly of gentlemen, could not prosper. And at this all our American democracy is terribly grieved and scandalized. The remedy to which the aristocracy are constanily goading the govcrninent, nnd in which half a milUpn of dollars lu've already been thrown away, is immigration. It is curious that twocontiguouscountries sliould have gpent a inillion each, the one to expel and the other to import the same de6cription of laborers, and yet both so signally failed. The rea6on is. that they nre both eellishly and by unprincipled and inhuman means, fighting against the "idinanci'sof Hcaven. Let the speculators, the monopolizer8o( the lund in the West Ind:cs, take the consequencesof their grasping, andshare the fate of the speculators and monopólizera oi land in the United States, and let the industrious laborar', in both countries, be protected in the fruits of his toil, and both countries will prosper. Tin: Jamaica papera are as diligent as possible to answer the false accounts of their c.-ndition, with which mercenaiy shipniasters are confinualy furnislnrig the newepapers of tlfe Souiliern States. The Morning Journal, the leading business paper at Kingston, says, "There has been nc cojnplaint against the laborers for ome time wst," and confidently appeals to time, the only irbiter, to determine "wbether the British Weet [iida Islands are going n ruin, or recovcring rom the eilcctsof the great chnnge which bas taten place." A meeting of planters in thewui. noi iong eince. put forth a statement, rbat "Jamaióü is a country, notwithstanding all lier oimer prospcrity and splendor. as yet imperfecty oponed and ctiitivated. In addition to upwards of 2,000.000 of virgin woodland; vvherc the ound of tiie oxe was r.ever heard, it possesses very ariety and conibination of soil, and every raodification of climate- and ihere are but few ugar, or cofiee properties in the island, which. with capitn!, skill. and enterpnze, aided by aii xuberant population. tfaot cotild net be renovacr!, anti tuir crojjs raised and extended f rom beoiíd v''ai, thc.ij eren ware in the most active petoda of slnrr.ry." lt is obvious. that n a country not only pasng (ïom slavery to liberty. but where the land s passing from non-resident prltprietoid of plsn'aons into tlio-e of email freeholders to be culiiated by the hands of owners, neither the imount of wport nor ilie gondition ol me ,miiining larcc landh fklers isnn index öl the pros perouscondnion and prospects oí' the country ii. self One evidence of prosperity is, that wiili a (.imin shcd xport, thcre ie an increna'ed iiupon. bi tense it shows ihat thu prolils oí li.b.-r are now expended at home. The increasing valuo of I;uid, the impiovement in the towns, the roads. the uwellings. the schools and churches, are .acts which csnnot be explained away. In a word. ii our American slnvehol riere stukc thcircase upon the fmlure and ruin of the Bruish West Indies in consequencc of emancipntion, they will, in a few years be met witli evidence so overwhelniing os lo covipcl their asaent to the existence ot general prosperity and improvcment. The follwing tetn wjjj B]iOW the advancement that is made in another and moro important aspect of social elevation: A Colored Judge.- Mr. Athill, a gentleman ot Atrrcan ú 'scent, has been appointed Chief Baron of F.xchcquer in the Island of Antigua. On me occasion of this appoinimenr, the Antigua UwaW expressea itself 13 follows: "We are too well pleased with theappointment announccd in last ruesday'a Register to allow it to pass".muuigjYJug.u ourunquatinea assem. Vvlieiher wc view it as a valuable precedent, orns the rneanu oradmiesion to one o f the highust colonial tules of a highly respected memberof the class' to which we belong, we unhcsitaiinnly pronouncc it to be the most important appoimment tliat haa yet been made by the Lieutenant Governor durmg his administration of the general