The mere impulse given to the value of property in this island by emancipation, is a thing as notorious _here_, as the _fact_ of emancipation.
But, are not crimes more frequent than before?
I have now before me a Barbados newspaper, printed two weeks since, in which the fact is stated, that in _all_ the county prisons, among a population of 80,000, only _two_ prisoners were confined for any cause whatever! "But," says a believer in the necessity of Colonization, "how will you _get rid_ of the negroes ?" I answer by adverting to the spectacle which is now witnessed in _all_ the Islands of the former proprietors of slaves, now _employers_ of _free_ laborers, using every endeavor to _prevent_ emigration.

Trinidad, Demerara, and Berbice, _want_ laborers.

The former has passed a law to pay the passage money of any laborer who comes to the Island, leaving him free to choose him employment.

Demerara and Berbize have sent Emigration agents to this and other islands, to induce the laborers to join those colonies, offering high wages, good treatment, &c.

On the other hand, Barbados, Grenada, St.Vincent, and all the old and populous islands, individually and collectively, by legislative resolves, legal enactments, &c.