West India Emancipation

Sunday last was the anniversary of the successfu! experiment in Jamaica, Barbadoesand the oüier West Inciia lslahds ofBritain, gradunlly to raise the African race to the level of freemcn, teaching Üsem meanwhile how best to fulfil the new fluties that woulJ devolvc on their novel rank, so that thcy might become happier and better than when held in ignornnce.and drgraded as chatlel slaves. Educntion has alreauy made 1 hein more moral, more pious ; more ndusrious, in man}' casos, nnd infinitely more useful members of society. The local Governments have no desire to expatríate thcm - on the contra ry, they purchase plots of ground, build farrmng villages, cultivóte their lands carofully, hirc out iheïr serices to the nrarest planters whcn wan!ed, enjoy equal 'politica! privileges vvith the whitesj nnd are daily proving themspIvcs more -and more worlhy of their righfs. Blan of talent, tliough black as jet, aro freqiienlly ailvnntageously employed in siaiions under Government and the emancipated African gives daily proofs that he can tae ten-fo!d bt'tter care of himself, than ever the slaveholder couid for hún ; he lives in a botter d-elling, is miicli belter ft'd and clad,has discarded concubinage for tho sacred ri;e of marrifgp, rcsidrs in the midst of his famüy in hisovvn home, on his ownfreehold; reverenccs the Sa'obalh, and is respocted, ennoblecí, and very grateTul lo his benefactors. - iV. Y. Trihmr. The trustees orSaratoga villnge charged Torn Thurnb S'Oö per d.iy for license lo exhibit liimself therr; Tom cleclined taldng the " permii," and wrote.to the trustees that their conduct satisfied him they were smaller thnn himself, and he would not compete with them. Thatnaughty Turk, the Sultan of Torkey, has sent one thotimnd powsda (■Y'' OOn)to the sufTering I riit.