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WEST DfEs.---On the iss of August

 will commence the grand experiment of re- leasing the black population of the entire

 British islands from slavery. The result

 of few years will go far to testfh experi- ment of their capacity for self government and seif-reiance. ii IS our earnest hone that 1t may be successful, for although the beneficial results of the St. Domingo eman- cipations are worse than doubtful. it does not follow as a certain consequence that they may not be more delicious in the Brit l ish islands.

 The qualifications of the British act of parliament, for the liberation of slaves, we are not particularly informed of. One of tits provisions, however, seems to be, that during the period of their apprenticeship or seni-servitnde, the power of infiicting cor iporeai punishment upon them is taken away 1 from masters and conferred upon iile Irlaqis- trates. In reference to this subject, the Barbadian of the 29th utifno remarks "Near as the st of August is, we think that proprietors would rejoice at this plan being at once the law-but with the slaves generally we apprehend the alteration Is un- palatable. They seem to dread this change of authority. We have heard of one res-. peetahle proprietor having explained to the slaves under lis charge the approaching change efssgys.e;;''i;; and on his proposing to them to give up at once the power Of punish ing them himself,and referring them, when they one and all expressed their aversionto being complained of before a magistrate, and begged him to continue to exercise his own authority, and contiue to punish them in his own way. if they offended. The time is coming when justice, tardy justice, will he done 10 the general character of the slave proprietors."