The punishment for burglary, and other high offences, is solitary confinement in chains, or transportation for life to Botany Bay.
Such are the main features in the statutes, regulating the freedom of the emancipated population of Antigua.

It will be seen that there is no enactment which materially modifies, or unduly restrains, the liberty of the subject.

There are no secret reservations or postscript provisoes, which nullify the boon of freedom.

Not only is slavery utterly abolished, but all its appendages are scattered to the winds; and a system of impartial laws secures justice to all, of every color and condition.
The measure of success which has crowned the experiment of emancipation in Antigua--an experiment tried under so many adverse circumstances, and with comparatively few local advantages--is highly encouraging to slaveholders in our country.

It must be evident that the balance of advantages between the situation of Antigua and that of the South, _is decidedly in favor of the latter_.