"Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica).

A SIX MONTHS' TOUR IN ANTIGUA, BARBADOES, AND JAMAICA IN THE YEAR 1837.

JAMAICA.

Hastily touching at some of the other British islands, they made Antigua, Barbadoes, and Jamaica, successively the objects of their deliberate and laborious studyas fairly presenting the three grand phases of the "experiment"Antigua, exemplifying immediate unrestricted abolition; Barbadoes, the best working of the apprenticeship, and Jamaica the worst.

Hastily touching at some of the other British islands, they made Antigua, Barbadoes, and Jamaica, successively the objects of their deliberate and laborious studyas fairly presenting the three grand phases of the "experiment"Antigua, exemplifying immediate unrestricted abolition; Barbadoes, the best working of the apprenticeship, and Jamaica the worst.

In Antigua and Barbadoes, manager is the word in general use, in Jamaica it is overseerboth meaning the practical conductor or immediate superintendent of an estate.

Owing to the proportion of proprietors resident in the Island, there is an accumulation of talent, intelligence and refinement, greater, perhaps, than in any English colony, excepting Jamaica.

I am convinced there never was any serious alarm about the consequences of immediate emancipation among those who were acquainted with the peasantry of Jamaica.

Henry Anderson, Esq., of Kingston, the Solicitor-General for Jamaica.

Kingston, Jamaica, 24th April, 1837.

* * VALUATIONS OF APPRENTICES IN JAMAICA.

A GENERAL RETURN OF EXPORTS From the island of Jamaica, for 53 years, ending 31st December, 1836copied from the Journals of the House.

The happiness and prosperity of the inhabitants of Jamaica are not contingent, nor need they be, upon the number of hogsheads of sugar annually exported from her shores.

"When it was understood that the island of Jamaica and the other British West Indian colonies were to undergo the blessed transition from slavery to freedom, it was the hourly cry of the pro-slavery party and press, that the ruin of Jamaica would, as a natural consequence, follow liberty!

Commerce, said they, will cease; hordes of barbarians will come upon us and drive us from our own properties; agriculture will be completely paralyzed; and Jamaica, in the space of a few short months, will be seen buried in ashesirretrievably ruined.

What in the name of conscience, can be the use of steam-vessels when Jamaica's ruin is so fast approaching?

But it was said that there was a difference between the cases of Antigua and other colonies, such as Jamaica, and it was urged that while the negroes of the former, from the smallness and barrenness of the place, would be forced into work, that in the latter they would run away, and take refuge in the woods.

Crops in Jamaica.

Insurrection not feared in Antigua; nor in Barbadoes; nor in Jamaica.

Opposition to slavery in Jamaica.

Sabbath in Antigua; in Barbadoes; in Jamaica.

Wesleyans in Antigua. " in Barbadoes. " in Jamaica.

The debates which took place in the legislatures of both Barbados and Jamaica, are full of similar testimony, uttered by men every way qualified to bear witness, and under influences which relieve their testimony from every taint of suspicion.

In the legislature of Jamaica, on the question of a Committee to bring in a Bill, Mr. GOOD remarked, "He could say that the negroes from their general good conduct were deserving of the boon.

High wind In Jamaica.