4th._ FIRST OF AUGUST.
"It gives us great pleasure to state that, so far as our information from the country extends, this day was observed in a manner highly creditable to our brethren.

We never ourselves anticipated any riotings or disorder on the part of the emancipated.

A little exhilaration begetting a shout or two, would not have surprised us; but even this, we are happy to say, made no part of their manifestation of joy.

The day was spent in quiet piety! In heartfelt, soul overflowing gratitude to their heavenly Father, whose divine agency had raised up friends in their necessity, and brought their great tribulation to an end, they crowded at an early hour to the several churches and chapels, in which their numbers could scarcely find turning room, and then quietly and devoutly poured forth their souls in prayer and praise and thanksgiving! No revellings, no riotings, no drunkenness, desecrated this day.

We have heard from five parishes, and in none of the five have we heard of a single convivial meeting.