Richmond Enquirer

The bill in relation to the emancipation of the slaves in the British Colonies having passed the House of Commons, has been carried up to the House of Lords. Though its fate will not be finally settled until it has passed the latter body, the monied interests are already full of speculations as to the means by which the twenty millions are to be raised, that is to be given to the planters as an indemnity. No settled plan seems, however, as yet formed on this point. The mortgagees of West India estates and the absentee planters residing in England, seem satisfied with the bill as it has passed the House of Commons. It is very doubtful, however, whether it will be received with the same cordiality in the West Indies; for the resident planters do not simply complain of losing the value of their slaves, but allege that by emancipation they will lose the working power. Free labor they look upon as a dream -

The claim of the planters is thus illustrated by a London Journal :

"If all the farming implements of a dependent country were destroyed by some superior legislature, without the possibility of replacing them, the agriculturists might not be fairly compensated if their compensation were estimated by the selling price of ploughs, carts, and harrows before the general destruction.'

We believe that the whole scheme will miscarry, and that the Colonies will be in a flame after their twenty millions have been squeezed from the people of England.— N. Y. Paper.