It was a measure of mere convenience and interest."-- _A Moravian Missionary_.
The following testimony is extracted from a letter addressed to us by a highly respectable merchant of St.John's--a gentleman of long experience on the island, and now agent for several estates.
"Emancipation was an act of mere policy, adopted as _the safest and most economic_ measure." Our last item of testimony under this head is from a written statement by the Hon.

N.Nugent, speaker of the assembly, at the time of emancipation.

His remarks on this subject, although long, we are sure will be read with interest.

Alluding to the adoption of immediate emancipation in preference to the apprenticeship, he observes:-- "The reasons and considerations which led to this step were various, of course impressing the minds of different individuals in different degrees.

As slave emancipation could not be averted, and must inevitably take place very shortly, it was better to meet the crisis at once, than to have it hanging over our heads for six years, with all its harassing doubts and anxieties; better to give an air of grace to that which would be ultimately unavoidable; the slaves should rather have a motive of gratitude and kind reciprocation, than to feel, on being declared free, that their emancipation could neither be withheld nor retarded by their owners.