Alexandria Gazette

From the West Indies.—We are in possession of a file of the St. Lucia Gazette to the 9th of July, which also contains advices from Antigua of a late date. It seems, however, as if the people of the West Indies could think of nothing, and write of nothing, but the (now past) emancipation of the blacks. It is very evident, notwithstanding their efforts to conceal it, that very serious apprehensions are entertained. A motion had been made in the Assembly of Antigua to proclaim martial law, for a limited time before and after the first of August, with a view of "preserving undisturbed the tranquility of the island." The motion however was lost, and the Editor asks, in relation to the blacks, what Mrs. Croaker did, in respect to threats against her husband—"Can any thing be more absurd than to double our distress by our apprehensions?"—N. Y. Com.